Social and cultural anthropology Books

Book SynopsisWhat makes someone willing to die, not for a nation, but for a language? In the 1950s and 1960s, southern India saw a wave of dramatic suicides in the name of the Telugu language. This title traces the colonial-era changes in knowledge and practice linked to language that lay behind these events.Trade Review[O]riginal and persuasive . . . This lucid and engaging work will appeal to South Asianists as well as to other scholars interested in the history of language and literacy.Dec. 2009 -- Mary Hancock * University of California, Santa Barbara *[M]akes a brilliant intervention in the study of language and modernity by critically interrogating the concept of the 'mother tongue' . . . brims with interesting and provocative ideas that extend beyond its immediate focus. . . .a fascinating and ambitious project.Vol. 82, No. 4, 2009 -- Amanda Weidman * Bryn Mawr College *Mitchell's study successfully demonstrates that 'The story of colonial encounters with language in Southern India includes the story of efforts to bring very different sensibilities regarding language into a single frame of discourse'. While colonial restructuring of language contributed significantly to the making of the mother tongues, the fact remains that the resurgence of regional languages and the demand for linguistic states in South India served a powerful impulse—cultural unification and political empowerment of people scattered among arbitrary administrative divisions.Nov 2011 * Journal of Asian Studies *The study subtly identies links that all too often appear lost in the haze of un-critical activism. For that reason, along with its readable and forceful prose, this book makes a lasting contribution to knowledge and offers a valuable addition to any reading list on modern South Asian history. * South Asia Research *The aim of 'Language, Emotion, and Politics in South India' is to show how the specific history of Telugu-language politics can shed new light on general questions of importance to researchers in a variety of fields who are concerned to understand "the processes that have led speakers of particular languages to see themselves as having a separate history, literature, politics, and identity". . . [An] ambitious and creative work.Feb 2010 * Cultural Anthropology - AAA *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on Transliteration and Spelling Introduction: A New Emotional Commitment to Language1. From Language of the Land to Language of the People: Geography, Language, and Community in Southern India2. Making a Subject of Language3. Making the Local Foreign: Shared Language and History in Southern India4. From Pandit to Primer: Pedagogy and Its Mediums5. From the Art of Memory to the Art of Translation: Making Languages Parallel6. Martyrs in the Name of Language? Death and the Making of Linguistic PassionConclusion: Language as a New Foundational CategoryNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisRenowned for its mud-brick architecture, monumental mosque, and merchant-traders' houses, Djenne remains one of Africa's most distinctive cities. This title describes the raising of a mud-brick house and explores the technical, social, and magical processes involved in making buildings and renewing the urban environment of Djenne.Trade ReviewTalk about hands-on ethnography! To learn construction processes, Marchand (Univ. of London) apprenticed himself to masons working on buildings in Djenné, the UNESCO World Heritage Site along the Niger River in Mali. The Great Mosque of Djenné may be the world's largest mud structure and is among the world's greatest architectural accomplishments. Djenné has been a crossroads for millennia and remains so today, as sleek Italianate balustrades and satellite dishes vie for space with sensuous, seemingly organic, earthen dwellings. Wishing to understand builders as social subjects rather than buildings as cultural objects, Marchand exchanged his own work for the teaching he received, as accommodated by local paradigms of practice-based technology transfer. Through endless hours of tedious toil making mud bricks, toting loads, and assiduously following the instructions of masons higher in the hierarchy, Marchand acquired practical skills that transcend media and method to include oaths, magic, and the fervent prayers of his Muslim colleagues. Personalities loom large in such hard work, as do stunning expertise and the masons' passion for their craft. Like Marchand, readers share this passion, inspired by magnificent photos of men doing the work they love. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries. -- ChoiceA. F. Roberts, University of California, Los Angeles, April 2010"The author provides a fascinating close-up view of indvidual decision-making processes, as well as a step-by-step description of the various building stages." —Western Folklore, Vol. 70.1, 2011"Offers a compelling narrative which leads the reader—following the author's experiences—through all stages of construction, and it provides rich and comprehensive portraits of the masons who execute the building process and who are the producers and keepers of Djenné's unique architectural style." —Geert Mommersteeg, University of Utrecht"Because of its breadth, this book is a valuable resource to architects, anthropologists, conservationists, development experts, and cultural tourists interested in Mali’s architecture and society." —Kathleen Louw, University of California Los Angeles, African Studies Quarterly, Vol. 11.2-3 Spring 2010"It is a tribute to his skills as an author that the text is not only informative in a scholarly sense but also immensely enjoyable to read.... With this book Marchand has produced a valuable contribution to anthropology and architectural history. The material is thought provoking, accessible, and a joy to read." —Buildings & Landscapes"... an important contribution to the increasing interest in the study of earthen architecture and the people who inhabit them... The complex and vast number of topics [the author] attempts to distill... are worthy of a dissertation in and of themselves, but [the author] synthesizes them lucidly." —Museum Anthropology Review, Spring-Fall 2011"An elegantly written and important anthropological study of indigenous knowledge, building practices, and social relationships among contemporary Djenné masons in Mali." —Mary Jo Arnoldi, Smithsonian Institution"Here is a book that puts the work back into fieldwork with the dirt left under the fingernails. to learn about construction processes, Trevor Marchand apprenticed himself to the masons in Djenné exchanging his labor for learning.... Over and above the book's considerable substantive and theoretical strengths, the unusually accessible exposition of this intercultural dynamic will make it well worth teaching." —Allen F. Roberts, UCLA, AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW, Vol.53.1 April 2010"One reads the The Masons of Djenné... as instantiating the qualitities of careful but sure-footed construction and artistry that its author seeks to describe in this vivid portrayal of a community of Mailian masons." —AfricaTable of ContentsContents<\>AcknowledgmentsA Note on LanguageIntroduction: The Field and the WorkPart 1. Elementary Lessons in the Art of Building 1. Back to Work 2. Staking a Claim 3. Magic and Mortar 4. Conflict and ResolutionPart 2. Portraits of Life and Work in Djenné 5. Master and Apprentice 6. The Michelangelo of Djenné 7. Vulnerable Craftsmen 8. Cat Heads and Mud Miters 9. Yappi's Confession 10. Finishing OffEpilogue: Continuity and ChangeGlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisUrban youth and popular cultural practices in East AfricaTrade ReviewContemporary pop culture in Arusha, Tanzania's third-largest city, is the often-fuzzy focus of this urban ethnography. Weiss (College of William and Mary; The Making and Unmaking of the Haya Lived World, CH, Nov'96, 34-1630), an experienced and knowledgeable student of the country in the grasp of economic liberalization and globalization, tries his hand at deciphering the meaning of local culture. His selected topics are the now ubiquitous barbershops, hairstyles, gangsta rap, modes of local transport, and clothing, fashion, and media, both indigenous and imported. In a stretch, he also attempts to relate these concerns to gender relations among the young. With little in the way of evidence, the author offers explanations for these vivid cultural expressions with an emphasis on 'feelings' linked to the overall 'sensations' of inclusion and exclusion in everyday life. The discourse is often insightful but, perhaps inevitably, almost as inchoate as the subject matter itself. Summing Up: Recommended. Faculty. — Choice -- W. Arens * Choice *Brad Weiss's ethnography makes a valuable contribution to the body of scholarship that documents and discusses the parts that neoliberal economic policies . . . play in creating gaps between the aspirations of youth and economic realities in Africa. * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *. . . an important ethnography for interpreting the intersection of youth, masculinity, and popular culture. . . . Street Dreams provides a useful means to understand globalization and neoliberalism, particularly as it affects young men in Africa's informal economies.Vol. 52.3 Dec. 2009 -- Alex Perullo * Bryant University *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Popular Practices and Neoliberal Dilemmas in Arusha1. Themes and Theories: Popular Culture in Africa and Elsewhere2. Enacting the Invincible: Youthful Performance in TownPortraits 1: Bad Boyz Barbers3. Thug Realism: Inhabiting Spaces of Masculine FantasyPortraits 2: Aspiration4. The Barber in Pain: Consciousness, Affliction, and AlterityPortraits 3: Uncertain Prospects5. Gender (In)Visible: Contests of Style6. Learning from Your Surroundings: Watching Television and Social Participation7. Chronic Mobb Asks a Blessing: Apocalyptic Hip Hop and the Global CrisisConclusionNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe politics of visual representation and transnational interactionTrade Review"... a compelling and rare ethnographic portrait of a historically determined out-of-the-way place revealing postmodern conditions of globalizing capital undergoing locally situated revisions—in this case, toward a 'market economy with social orientation.' Fascinating and a must for all readers interested in the present and the past as it is constituted in memory.... Essential." —Choice"Anthropologist Schwenkel (Univ. of California, Riverside) addresses perhaps one of the most compelling transnational events in history. For one nation, the event was crucial as a foundation from which to challenge the great meta-narratives of modern times; from the perspective of another nation, it validated a version of modernity thickly embedded in local experiences of colonialism. Whether it is the 'Vietnam' War or the 'American' War, Schwenkel illustrates the continuing aftereffects of these histories as living memories in the ethnographic present of Vietnam. Fieldwork takes place in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City as well as Hue and Vinh cities. This multi-sited ethnography includes experiences of mobility back and forth between Vietnam and the US that generates this transnational ethnography of knowledge production and memory-making "undergoing globalizing conditions." The final result is a compelling and rare ethnographic portrait of a historically determined out-of-the-way place revealing postmodern conditions of globalizing capital undergoing locally situated revisions--in this case, toward a 'market economy with social orientation.' Fascinating and a must for all readers interested in the present and the past as it is constituted in memory. Summing Up: Essential. All levels/libraries. -- Choice" —S. Ferzacca, University of Lethbridge, May 2010"A significant achievement, and one that does much to demonstrate the complexity of sites of war memory.... [Offers insights] that have an eerie resonance for today's political debates over the purpose and legitimacy of U.S. actions in the Middle East." —Geoffrey White, University of Hawaii"This book provides a great healing and revealing experience for any survivor or student of the Vietnam era." —On Point"[This book] makes a compelling, significant, and long-overdue contribution to a growing body of recent scholarship that is interrogating the Vietnam War—or American War—in increasingly innovative and complicated ways.... It is essential reading, and it is difficult to imagine teaching a course on the legacy of U.S. involvement in Indochina without including it." —H-1960s"The American War in Contemporary Vietnam is essential reading for anyone teaching or wanting to understand Vietnam today and would be useful in teaching seminars or upper-level courses on Vietnam, Asia, memory, and history, as well as discussions of ethnographic methodology" —American Ethnologist"Schwenkel's rich empirical data offer a Vietnamese present that is as much haunted by the future as the past.... [She] has provided a compelling portrait of contemporary Vietnam and an important tool to interrogate the forces that shape transnational memory projects, conditioning contests over what counts as, and who can speak, the truth." —South East Asia Research"In the depth of its research, the originality of its arguments, and the lucidity of its prose, Christina Schwenkel's engaging new book makes an outstanding contribution to the recent literature on transnational remembrance, whether in Vietnam or elsewhere.... [T]his is a work that deserves a wide readership within and outside of the academy." —H-Diplo"This is a lucid, original, and extremely well-written book, further enriched by its manyarresting illustrations of Vietnam’s remarkable memorializing aesthetics. What Schwenkel has achieved is both a sophisticated addition to our rapidly growing ethnographic literature on ‘late-socialist’ Vietnam and a major contribution to the anthropology of memory, globalization, and postcolonial cultural power relations." —Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute"The study of memory has been a common pursuit of historians of war and its aftermath, but Christina Schwenkel’s insightful and brilliantly written ethnography of the visual, political and semiotic processes that shape memory in Vietnam offers a new and transnational dimension to the field. Going far beyond the simple dichotomy of looking at 'both sides' of the war, her study of the commemorative concerns of both Americans and Vietnamese reveals the deep ambivalence over their 'shared history' and offers a profound window onto the present contemporary Vietnamese reality." —Nora A. Taylor, Alsdorf Professor of South and Southeast Asian Art, School of the Art Institute of Chicago"With its wide-ranging fieldwork and deft integration of insights from the literature on the politics and dynamics of memory, The American War in Contemporary Vietnam will be an important source for scholars of memory, war, tourism, and visual representation. It will also spark classroom discussion of how contemporary economic and political circumstances shape the lessons we take from the past." —American Anthropologist, Vol. 112, No. 4, December 2010"Scholars of monuments, of museums, of photography and remembrance, and in other fields will find much of value here, including scholars and fields far removed from the Vietnamese context." —Journal of Asian StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on Use of DiacriticsList of Abbreviations Introduction: Remembering (in) Vietnam Part 1. Reconciliatory Projects1. Return to Vietnam: Redemption, Reconciliation, and Salvation2. Exhibiting War, Reconciling Pasts: Photojournalism and Divergent Visual HistoriesPart 2. Memorial Landscapes3. Commodified Memories and Embodied Experiences of War4. Monumentalizing War: Toward a New Aesthetics of MemoryPart 3. Incommensurable Pasts5. Contested Truths: Museums and Regimes of Representation andObjectivity 6. Tortured Bodies and the Neoliberal Politics of Historical Unaccountability Conclusion: Empires of Memory and Knowledge Production NotesWorks CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisOpening the subject of subaltern genocide for exploration by scholars of genocide, ethnic conflict, and human rights, this title explores genocide's sociological, anthropological, psychological, symbolic, and normative dimensions.Trade Review"The study of comparative genocide is one of the most important of our era. By focusing on acts of genocide (or near genocide) committed by oppressed people (or people who imagine themselves to be oppressed), this book sheds light on an important dimension of the problem." —Roger Smith, College of William and MaryTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Symbolism and Subalternity: The 1680 Pueblo Revolt of New Mexico and the 1780-82 Andean Great Rebellion Nicholas Robins2. On the Genocidal Aspect of Certain Subaltern Uprisings: A Research Note Adam Jones3. Ethical Cleansing? The Expulsion of Germans from Central Europe during and after World War Two Eric Langenbacher4. Oppression and Vengeance in the Cambodian Genocide Alexander Laban Hinton5. Genocide in Self-Defense? Serbian Victimization and Historical Justifications for War, 1980-2000 David B. MacDonald6. The Imaginary in Rwanda's Pre-Genocidal Media Christopher C. Taylor7. Genocide, Humiliation, and Inferiority: An Interdisciplinary Perspective Evelin Gerda Lindner8. Subaltern Genocide and Evolutionary Theory E.O. Smith9. Subaltern Strands of the Genocidal Continuum Adam JonesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe cultural politics of censorship, from colonial paintings to onscreen kisses and nuclear secretsTrade Review"[T]his insightful volume on a neglected topic shows that means and modes of censorship have kept pace with the mediums of communication, on grounds not dissimilar to the justification offered during the Raj." —Contemporary South Asia"Censorship in South Asia traces the genealogy of censorship through time to reveal its ever-contested presence in Indian cinema and beyond." —Maria Khan, Feminist Review"This is an exciting and innovative volume that will become the standard reference in the field for some time to come." —Thomas Blom Hansen, author of The Saffron Wave: Democracy and Hindu Nationalism in Modern India"The contributors to this volume investigate a wide range of cultural regulation, from cinema to painting, blasphemy to official secrecy and even advertising to nuclear culture. The essays enlighten readers and provide better understanding of the concept of censorship." —South Asia Research"[The] compelling volume Censorship in South Asia steps away from the media spectacle and, with great insight and precision, places such contemporary cases of public agitation and regulation in their regional and historical context. To do so, the editors... expand the idea of censorship beyond juridical repression exercised in the quiet of the state's backrooms and instead place it within a larger domain of ‘cultural regulation’." —South AsiaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Between Sedition and Seduction: Thinking Censorship in South AsiaWilliam Mazzarella and Raminder Kaur2. Iatrogenic Religion and PoliticsChristopher Pinney3. Making Sense of the Cinema in Late Colonial IndiaWilliam Mazzarella4. The Limits of Decency and the Decency of Limits: Censorship and the Bombay Film IndustryTejaswini Ganti5. Anxiety, Failure, and Censorship in Indian AdvertisingAngad Chowdhry6. Nuclear RevelationsRaminder Kaur7. Specters of Macaulay: Blasphemy, the Indian Penal Code, and Pakistan's Postcolonial PredicamentAsad Ali Ahmed8. After the Massacre: Secrecy, Disbelief, and the Public Sphere in NepalGenevieve LakierList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisFood and social transformation in eastern Europe and the former Soviet UnionTrade ReviewFood and Everyday Life in the Post-Socialist World is a significant contribution to the field of food studies and to the anthropology of post-socialism. * Anthropology of East Europe Review *No advanced students or scholars of the social sciences concerned with globalizing topics and post-socialist states should miss the opportunity to examine this book. . . . We are fortunate to have such a worthy contribution to food studies and Eurasian anthropology.Vol. 70.2, April 2011 * The Russian Review *By illuminating the ways in which people previously living under state socialism have variously responded to new food markets and regulatory regimes, this volume constitutes an important contribution to post-socialist studies and to the anthropology of food.#16 2010 -- Jakob A. Klein * School of Oriental andAfrican Studies *The authors of Food and Everyday Life provide a text that is rich in historical and cultural context and that examines the interactions of the regular people of the old Soviet states in ways that are convincing, thorough, and otherwise mind-blowing. Winter/Spring 2010 * Counterpoise *[This] book is thought-provoking, a pleasure to read, and an important contribution to studies of the globalization of postsocialist states and to food studies. 47.1 2013 * Canadian-American Slavic Studies *Taking us from Moscow coffeehouses to the practice of pickling vegetables in the kitchens of urban Sofia, the authors each employ the ethnography of the mundane to question not only ideal-type models of 'transition', but also the hegemony of novel, neoliberal forms of governance. This is anthropology at its best, combining the rich, 'thick description' of the everyday concerns of ordinary citizens with a rigorous treatment of issues of power, policy and social inequality. * Slavonica *[E]ach essay in this collection is exceptionally well written and thoroughly researched. In its unique look at how food practices have reflected and responded to the transition from the socialist past to the capitalist present, this collection provides a valuable contribution to the ongoing academic debates about the Europeanization and globalization of the countries of the former Soviet bloc. * Slavic and East European Journal *Table of ContentsForeword / Marion NestleAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Food and Everyday Life after State Socialism / Melissa L. Caldwell1. From Canned Food to Canny Consumers: Cultural Competence in the Age of Mechanical Production / Yuson Jung2. The Tale of the Toxic Paprika: The Hungarian Taste of Euro-Globalization / Zsuzsa Gille3. Self-Made Women: Informal Dairy Markets in Europeanizing Lithuania / Diana Mincyte4. Tempest in a Coffee Pot: Brewing Incivility in Russia's Public Sphere / Melissa L. Caldwell5. The Geopolitics of Taste: The "Euro" and "Soviet" Sausage Industries in Lithuania / Neringa Klumbyte6. A Celebration of Masterstvo: Professional Cooking, Culinary Art, and Cultural Production in Russia / Stas Shectman7. The Social and Gendered Lives of Vodka in Rural Siberia / Katherine MetzoAfterword. Turnips and Mangos: Power and the Edible State in Eastern Europe / Elizabeth C. DunnList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisPathbreaking studies of the postsocialist transitionTrade Review[Berdahl's] work reinforces the importance of European ethnography and acts as a critical resource on the study of borders, cultural change and social belonging. . . Berdahl's essays are well crafted, infused with feeling, dotted with specific examples, and evoke larger theoretical questions, not just about Eastern Germany, but about understandings of self, memory and belonging. Her writing manages to capture fleeting moments and movements in postsocialist Germany, and the book is both informative and a joy to read. 28. 1 2010 * ANTHROPOLOGY E EUROPE REVIEW *Scholars interested in meaning, memory, consumption and representation of the East German past will greatly benefit from reading this thoughtful volume. 29.2 2011 * German History *As a posthumous publication and deserved labour of love, this compilation understandably has some repetitions and loose ends, but also highly suggestive arguments that remain ours to pursue. It is a pleasure to follow Berdahl's lines of thought and growth as a scholar, her consummate fieldwork and writing. * Anthropological Notebooks *This highly readable book spans a full life of research and offers researchers and students alike an opportunity to continue the discussions which Berdahl pioneered as the historical events themselves were taking place. * German Studies Review *This collection is an excellent introduction to Daphne Berdahl's generous and insightful ethnography... [R]eaders will be rewarded by her perceptive research, skillful prose, and humanizing insights.April, 2011 * H-SAE *Table of ContentsPreface by Michael HerzfeldAcknowledgmentsIntroduction by Matti BunzlPart 1. Washington, D.C. 1. Voices at the Wall: Discourses of Self, History, and National Identity at the Vietnam Veterans MemorialPart 2. Kella 2. Consumer Rites: The Politics of Consumption in Re-Unified Germany 3. "(N)Ostalgie" for the Present: Memory, Longing, and East German Things 4. "Go, Trabi, Go!": Reflections on a Car and Its Symbolization over Time 5. Mixed Devotions: Religion, Friendship, and Fieldwork in Postsocialist East GermanyPart 3. Leipzig 6. The Spirit of Capitalism and the Boundaries of Citizenship in Post-Wall Germany 7. Local Hero, National Crook: "Doc" Schneider and the Spectacle of Finance Capital 8. Expressions of Experience and Experiences of Expression: Museum Re-Presentations of GDR History 9. Goodbye Lenin, Aufwiedersehen GDR: On the Social Life of SocialismNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe island of Corsica has long been a popular destination for travelers in search of the European exotic, but it has also been a focus of French concerns about national unity and identity. Corsica is part of a vibrant Franco-Mediterranean social universe. This study of a Corsican village explores nationalism, language, kinship, and place.Trade ReviewIn Corsican Fragments, Matei Candea takes the theoretical problematic of difference to motivate a set of ethnographic questions and challenges related to both the context of life in a village on the island and the process of fieldwork and 'enfielding' of the author. . . 20.1 Feb. 2012 * Social Anthropology *It is hard to let go of this book, if only because its structure will lead many readers from the very last page back to the beginning again to contemplate anew what they have just read. * H-France *[A] stimulating and eloquently written book that highlights, with subtle examples, the complex interplay between fixity and fluidity in discourses and practices of identification. * Anthropos *Corsica has long been a destination of otherness . . . anthropologists in search of cultural difference within a perceived European tradition. Matei Candea presents this book situated in Corsica as an exploration of anthropological ways of coming to grips with the fragmentary knowledge gained from fieldwork in a region long preoccupied with its disputed identities.March 2014 * American Anthropologist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrologue: Roadmap1. Arbitrary Location2. Mystery3. Place4. Things5. People6. Languages7. Knowing8. Anonymous IntroductionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisAn anthology that provides a view of the lives of ordinary citizens in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. It explores key themes in understanding the region, including gender, caste, class, religion, globalization, economic liberalization, nationalism, and emerging modernities.Trade ReviewEveryday Life in South Asia . . . is extremely accessible and has plenty to offer as introductory material for a wide range of topics. * New Asia Books *[T]he book offers keenly observed ethnographic snapshots, theorized by the authors and contextualized by the engaging section introductions. Indeed, the varied, rich, and sensitive portrayal of the ordinary (and extraordinary) lives of South Asians of vastly diverse backgrounds is just one of the volume's many strengths. * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Richly informative but accessible and user friendly for classroom use. . . . This excellent volume of essays belongs in many places—on the shelves of specialists and non-specialists alike. * Journal of Asian Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on TransliterationIntroductionMapI. The Family and the Life Course Introduction1. One Straw from a Broom Cannot Sweep: The Ideology and Practice of the Joint Family in Rural North India Susan S. Wadley2. Allah Gives Both Boys and Girls Patricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery3. "Out Here in Kathmandu": Youth and the Contradictions of Modernity in Urban Nepal Mark Liechty4. Rethinking Courtship, Marriage and Divorce in an Indian Call Center Cari Costanzo Kapur5. Love and Aging in Bengali Families Sarah LambII. GendersIntroduction6. New Light in the House: Schooling Girls in Rural North India Ann Grodzins Gold7. Offstage with Special Drama Actresses in Tamilnadu, South India: Roadwork Susan Seizer8. Breadwinners No More: Identities in Flux Michele Ruth Gamburd9. Life on the Margins: A Hijra's Story Serena Nanda10. Crossing "Lines" of Difference: Transnational Movements and Sexual Subjectivities in Hyderabad, India Gayatri ReddyIII. Caste, Class and CommunityIntroduction 11. Seven Prevalent Misconceptions about India's Caste System12. God-Chariots in a Garden of Castes: Hierarchy and Festival in a Hindu City Steven M. Parish13. High and Low Castes in Karani Viramma, with Josiane Racine and Jean Luc Racine14. Weakness, Worry Illness, and Poverty in the Slums of Dhaka Sabina Faiz Rashid 15. Anjali's Alliance: Class Mobility in Urban India Sara Dickey16. Recasting the Secular: Religion and Education in Kerala, India Ritty LukoseIV. Practicing ReligionIntroduction17. The Hindu Gods in a South Indian Village Diane P. Mines18. The Feast of Love McKim Marriott19. The Delusion of Gender and Renunciation in Buddhist Kashmir Kim Gutschow20. Muslim Village Intellectuals: The Life of the Mind in Northern Pakistan Magnus Marsden21. In Friendship: A Father, a Daughter and a Jinn Naveeda Khan22. Vernacular Islam at a Healing Crossroads in Hyderabad Joyce Burkhalter FlueckigerV. Nation-making Introduction23. Voices from the Partition Urvashi Butalia24. A Day in the Life Laura Ring25. Living and Dying for Mother India: Hindu Nationalist Female Renouncers and Sacred Duty Kalyani Devaki Menon26. Political Praise in Tamil Newspapers: The Poetry and Iconography of Democratic Power Bernard Bate27. Mala's Dream: Economic Policies, National Debates, and Sri Lankan Garment Workers Caitrin Lynch28. Interviews with High School Students in Eastern Sri Lanka Margaret TrawickVI. Globalization, Public Culture and the South Asian DiasporaIntroduction29. Cinema in the Countryside: Popular Tamil Film and the Remaking of Rural Life Anand Pandian30. Dangerous Desires: Erotics, Public Culture, and Identity in Late-Twentieth-Century India Purnima Mankekar31. A Diaspora Ramayana in Southall Paula Richman32. British Sikh Lives, Lived in Translation Kathleen Hall33. Examining the "Global" Indian Middle Class: Gender and Culture in the Silicon Valley/Bangalore Circuit Smitha Radhakrishnan34. Placing Lives through Stories: Second Generation South Asian Americans Kirin Narayan35. Unexpected Destinations E. Valentine DanielReferencesContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisThe people of Quirpini, a rural community in the Bolivian Andes, are in constant motion. They visit each other's houses, work in their fields, go to nearby towns for school, market, or official transactions, and travel to Buenos Aires for wage labour. This work argues that by their travels, they play a role in shaping the places they move through.Trade Review... an important contribution to the existing bibliography on the politics of movement.May 4, 2011 * Journal of Folklore Research *[O]ffers a nuanced portrait of life in rural Chuquisaca during the 1990s, which sheds light on the dynamic and multi-scalar processes that go into the making of a place. The book contributes to the . . . literature on the social construction of place . . . .Oct. 2013 * Bulletin of Latin American Research *[A] groundbreaking book . . . Rockefeller's in-depth descriptions and theoretically savvy analysis guide the reader through the process by which space and place [are] constituted.79.1 2014 * Rural Sociology *Starting from Quirpini is a beautifully crafted, accomplished text that is essential reading for those interested in migration, transnationalism, Andean ethnography, and the anthropology of space. * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *[T]his is an important book that should be widely read by scholars of the Andes and of migration, as well as those interested in the construction of places and borders. * American Anthropologist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPart 1. Inscriptions Introduction: Disorientations 1. Places and History in and about QuirpiniPart 2. Facets of a Place 2. Bicycles and Houses 3. The Geography of Planting Corn 4. Carnival and the Spatial Practice of CommunityPart 3. From Quirpini 5. Ethnic Politics and the Control of Movement 6. Placing Bolivia in Quirpini: Civic Ritual and the Power of Context 7. Where Do You Go When You Go to Buenos Aires?Conclusion: Coming Back to QuirpiniGlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe social dynamics of global polio eradicationTrade ReviewThe Politics of Polio in Northern Nigeria is a detailed examination of efforts being made to eradicate polio in an area in which polio is endemic and that in 2006 had the largest number of naturally occurring (wild) polio cases in the world. The author painstakingly examines the failure to eradicate the disease after more than a decade of trying. The book traces the influence of the country's social and historical contexts on the politics affecting polio vaccination. The book is interesting and shows insight into the effects of the country's culture on the slow acceptance of polio vaccine. Chapter 1, 'Introduction: Protesting Polio,' begins with a story about a father, his child with polio, and how a bias against Western medicine (in favor of a traditional healer) affects the child's disease. Although the chapter discusses the epidemiology of polio, it also stresses the importance of religion in determining attitudes toward the polio vaccine. The population of Northern Nigeria is divided between Muslim and Christian groups. Among the Muslims, there is distrust of the vaccine, often manifesting as fear of contamination with human immunodeficiency virus or other diseases. I was puzzled by the title of this chapter until the end, when the author explains that the religious affiliations of many Nigerians cause them to 'protest' the polio vaccine by not allowing their children to take it. In chapter 2, the author compares the course of smallpox eradication in Northern Nigeria with that of polio. The smallpox program succeeded in 3 years, apparently because smallpox was 'widely recognized as a dangerous disease,' while relatively few individuals have had experience with paralytic polio, experiencing it most commonly as a cold or fever. Chapter 3 chronicles the course of the Polio Eradication Initiative. Chapter 4 delves deeper into the philosophy of many Northern Nigerian Muslim parents toward immunization. For some who do not want to expose their healthy infants to the vaccine, prayer is enough. Apparently in this context, Kariya Allah, which translates into 'natural immunity,' can be interpreted as the natural protection provided by Allah, rather than the response of the immune system after being exposed to a virus. It is not surprising that the next logical step is for each political party (Muslim or Christian) to try to sway interpretation of what a vaccine is. I found chapter 5 to be the most interesting, because it discusses cultural mores and begins to dissect the social roles of persons with polio. It details the perception and treatment of those who have been paralyzed by polio in Northern Nigeria, with attitudes toward physical disability largely affected by ethnic context. According to the author, among the Yoruba society (Christians), disabled persons are kept at home because of fear for the family's reputation. Among those from the Hausa society (Muslims), disability is thought given by God and not socially stigmatizing. In fact, because good fortune is also given by God, people are encouraged to share their good fortune with those unable to work because of disability. Alms giving during Ramadan (zakkat) is one of the 5 primary obligations of Islam. As a result, begging has apparently been considered a vocation, with expectations that paralyzed boys would earn a living through begging, returning home to sleep at night. With improvements in the education system, however, begging is coming to be considered shameful, and educated persons with polio now look for other ways to support themselves. New international initiatives concerned with the rights of disabled persons to receive training and assistance are also affecting change. Chapter 6 compares the attempts to eradicate polio in Northern Nigeria with that in Northeastern Ghana, where Muslims actively participated in the eradication effort. Chapter 7, 'The Ethics of Eradication,' examines the cases for individual as well as public health viewpoints concerning vaccination choices. This chapter seems self-evident in light of the previous chapters. It would have benefited from some quantitative information regarding polio in Northern Nigeria and some speculation about appropriate future steps. Overall, The Politics of Polio in Northern Nigeria takes an interesting look at a public health issue from a sociological and cultural aspect. It contains important insight into the Northern Nigerian culture. However, it requires some determination to finish; the prose is dry and reads like a dissertation. The book is peppered throughout with individual cases, which makes it a little more colorful, and the photographs in the middle are visually engaging. Author Information 1. Author Affiliation: Dr Chang is Contributing Editor, JAMA (tina.chang@jama-archives.org). -- Dr Chang * JAMA JRNL AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSN *[P]rovides an insightful analysis and a detailed historical background of the controversial campaign to eradicate polio in northern Nigeria. . . . Recommended. * Choice *[T]his book provides a strong, comprehensive analysis of opposition to polio vaccination in northern Nigeria and provides fodder for the continuing debates about vertical, directed programs, eradication, and 'broad-based health projects' . . . worldwide. * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Introduction: Protesting Polio2. Smallpox and Polio Histories3. Politics and Polio in Nigeria4. Islam and Immunization in Northern Nigeria5. Polio, Disability, and Begging6. Polio in Northern Nigeria and Northeastern Ghana7. The Ethics of EradicationEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisMuslim-Christian co-existence through public artTrade ReviewVolk presents a wonderful narrative of key turning points in the history of modern Lebanon. . . . [A] rigorous study and a pleasure to read. * H-net Reviews *Volk's argument is relevant, interesting and worthy of praise and follow-up: thinking about Lebanese society outside confessional boxes is tragically relevant in times of sectarian warfare in Syria and beyond.40.3 2013 * British Jrnl Middle Eastern Studies *Volk's identification of subjacent gender and class issues in memorialization points the way to fertile ground for future scholarship. ... Would memorials commemorating the contributions of women or the working-class bring into question the status quo by relativizing the power of elite males? These are not questions that Memorials and Martyrs foregrounds but the book makes it much easier and more plausible to ask them. The next time somebody asks what good scholarship can do for civil society, I'll try to remember this. * Journal of Arabic Literature *Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsNote on Transliteration of ArabicIntroduction1. The Politics of Memory in Lebanon: Sectarianism, Memorials, and Martyrdom2. Sculpting Independence: Competing Ceremonies and Mutilated Faces (1915-1957)3. Remembering Civil Wars: Fearless Faces and Wounded Bodies (1958-1995)4. Reconstructing while Re-destructing Lebanon: Dismembered Bodies and National Unity (1996-2003)5. Revisiting Independence and Mobilizing Resistance: Assassinations, Massacres, and Divided Memory-Scapes (2004-2006)6. Memorial Politics and National Imaginings: Possibilities and LimitsAppendix: Important DatesNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisDisabled persons' struggles for rights and recognitionTrade ReviewThis ethnography is quite accessible and would be appropriate for courses in applied, medical, and development anthropology, anthropology of globalization and cultural change, as well as to historians of disability, and gender studies scholars and students. * Anthropology of East Europe Review *Crafted with an interdisciplinary audience in mind, [this] volume will be of interest to historians of disability, Europe, and the Soviet Union, as well as to cultural and medical anthropologists. Written with accessibility in mind, Phillips weaves theoretical concerns into narrative accounts and historical and ethnographic detail. May 2011 * H-Disability *[This] entire study is a much-needed and welcome addition to the postsocialist literature and would fit well in anthropology, as well as interdisciplinary, courses on Russian and Eastern European studies. * somatosphere.net *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Living Disability and Mobilizing Citizenship in Postsocialism1. A Parallel World2. Out of History3. Disability Rights and Disability Wrongs4. Regeneration5. Disability, Gender, and Sexuality in the Era of "Posts"ConclusionAppendix I: Notes on Terminology and MethodsAppendix II: List of Abbreviations NotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe dynamism and creativity of African fashionTrade Review[A]s a scholarly text Contemporary African Fashion provides an important interdisciplinary analysis of a subject relevant to art historians, fashion historians, anthropologists, and historians alike. It would fit well within graduate-level reading lists for courses in African art history and histories of fashion. * caa.reviews *Contemporary African Fashion is beautifully designed and graced with compelling photos. . . . Together, the essays reinforce the idea of ever-evolving tradition and cultural interaction, and the great importance of personal appearance on the African continent. While the composite picture that emerges is informative, it is the richness of the specific stories that make this anthology compelling. April 27, 2011 * Journal of Folklore Research *[This is] a richly documented, well-argued, thought-provoking and beautifully illustrated study of contemporary African fashion. * de Arte *The book is beautifully designed and features high-quality photographs illustrating the various topics addressed. The chapters are kept to a comfortable length, which makes the volume also a suitable tool for teaching. * African Arts *Table of ContentsForeword by Joanne B. EicherAcknowledgmentsIntroduction / Suzanne Gott and Kristyne LoughranPart 1. Fashion within the African Continent 1. The Ghanaian Kaba: Fashion That Sustains Culture / Suzanne Gott 2. The Visual City: Tailors, Creativity, and Urban Life in Dakar, Senegal / Joanna Grabski 3. Secondhand Clothing and Fashion in Africa / Karen Tranberg Hansen 4. Fashion, Not Weather: A Rural Primer of Style / Elisabeth L. Cameron 5. Contemporary Wedding Fashions in Lagos, Nigeria / Elisha P. RennePart 2. African Fashion Designers 6. African Fashion: Design, Identity, and History / Victoria L. Rovine 7. Using the Past to Sculpt the Costume of the Future: An Interview with Kandioura Coulibaly / Janet Goldner 8. Intersecting Creativities: Oumou Sy's Costumes in the Dakar Landscape / Hudita Nura Mustafa 9. From Cemetery to Runway: Dress and Identity in Highland Madagascar / Rebecca L. GreenPart 3. African Fashion in the Diaspora 10. La Sape Exposed! High Fashion among Lower-Class Congolese Youth: From Colonial Modernity to Global Cosmopolitanism / Didier Gondola 11. Have Cloth—Will Travel / Kristyne Loughran 12. Dressing Somali (Some Assembly Required) / Heather Marie Akou 13. Translating African Textiles into U.S. Fashion Design: Brenda Winstead and Damali Afrikan Wear / Leslie W. RabineFurther ReadingsList of Contributing AuthorsIndex

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Book SynopsisMumming and modernity in rural BulgariaTrade ReviewGerald Creed's Masquerade and Postsocialism: Ritual and Cultural Dispossession in Bulgaria is an empirically rich and theoretically sophisticated analysis of the postsocialist condition in rural Bulgaria. Using the Bulgarian ritual of mumming as a window onto the lived experiences of ordinary men and women, Creed masterfully explores a variety of scholarly themes. * Aspasia *Gerald Creed has produced an unusually perceptive account of the cultural dynamics of post-Communist development in Bulgaria. His efforts not only illuminate the patterns and practices of Postsocialism, but his investigation also endeavors to radically alter the dominant frameworks within which debates on East European transitions tend to be positioned. * SLAVIC AND EAST EUROPEAN JOURNAL *Masquerade and Postsocialism is a valuable book for the general eloquence of its arguments, its solid engagement with ritual as well as its discussion of broader ideological frameworks of postsocialism, nationalism and modernity. It is a theoretically rich work, ethnographically thorough and thought provoking. * Social Anthropology *Creed's book is both ethnographically rich and theoretically significant. Moreover, it is a deeply humane book, an homage to the resilience and resourcefulness of the Bulgarian peasants whom Creed has made it his life's work to understand. Accessible to a broad audience, it is must reading for anyone interested in the costs of the 'revolutions' of 1989. * Slavic Review *Masquerade represents an important theoretical and rich ethnographic contribution to studies of postsocialist Eastern Europe with far-reaching import and application for folklorists, anthropologists, and other scholars whose work is located at the intersection of culture, postcolonialism, and postsocialism.Jan 2014 * Journal of Folklore Research *Masquerade and Postsocialism would be of interest to anyone in globalization or development studies, as well as European studies. Creed's emphasis on the role of ritual and performance broadens the audience. . . Creed demonstrates that ritual, a long-standing topic of anthropology, not only serves as a useful site of analysis but can also challenge teleological ideals of Western modernity. Fall 2012 * ANTHROPOLOGY E EUROPE REVIEW *Gerald W. Creed's Masquerade and Postsocialism is a masterful analysis of key social themes as gender and sexuality, civil society and democracy, community and ethnicity. The book provides a vivid analysis of a ritual performance as a source of meaningful knowledge about people's lives. * Journal of American Folklore *[A] brilliant scholar's masterpiece. * AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST *Masquerade and Postsocialism was an exhilarating read that offered much inspiration on the relevance of anthropological insights into larger social problems and critique of hegemonic models for political and economic reforms. Clearly and accessibly written, I [Yuson Jung] strongly recommend this book for both introductory and advanced level courses * American Ethnologist *[A]n empirically rich and theoretically sophisticated analysis of the postsocialist condition in rural Bulgaria. * Anthropos *Masquerade and Postsocialism is written with great sympathy for the people it describes and bears the marks of a work matured by decades of fieldwork. * Jrnl Royal Anthropological Inst JRAI *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Cultural Dispossession1. A Mumming Season2. Gender and Sexuality3. Civil Society and Democracy4. Autonomy and Community5. Ethnicity and NationalismConclusion: Modernity in DragNotesWorks CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisConstructing intimacy in SM play and beyondTrade ReviewPlaying on the Edge. . . is an exciting sociological contribution to academic explorations of SM, providing an empirically rich window into a rarely seen SM community. * Sexualities *Staci Newmahr's exploration of the public SM scene is interesting, thoughtprovoking, and in some cases, challenging. Her involvement in the field and her willingness to share at least the surface details of her experience are extraordinary. Moreover, her commitment to understanding the community of public SM players with rigor, intellectual honesty, and sensitivity is the hallmark of a great ethnography. * Symbolic Interaction *Playing on the Edge is a well written, well supported, clear, easily accessed, and comprehendible yet theoretically rich delineation of a (supposedly deviant) community. In simple terms, this is a very good book and a first-class example of what ethnographic research can and should look like. * Criminal Justice Review *[A] ground-breaking book . . . . captivating and ethnographically dense. * Ethnos *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart 1: People 1. Defiance: Bodies, Minds, and Marginality 2. Geeks and Freaks: Marginal Identity and CommunityPart 2: Play 3. Tipping the Scales: Striving for Imbalance 4. Fringe Benefits: The Rewards of SM Play 5. Badasses, Servants, and Martyrs: Gender PerformancesPart 3: Edges 6. Reconcilable Differences: Pain, Eroticism, and Violence 7. Collaborating the Edge: Feminism and Edgework 8. "What It Is That We Do": Intimate EdgeworkConcluding Notes: Erotic Subjectivity and the Construction of the FieldGlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisGlobal goods, class, and identity in urban EgyptTrade ReviewConnected in Cairo provides scholars and students of globalization, class, and modernity with a timely and much needed glimpse of the struggles, negotiations, and challenges that face elite men and women in their attempts to materialize specific tastes, visions, and ways of being. * Middle East Journal *There is much to this study that is enlightening. Peterson relates his points at the pace of an experienced lecturer cognizant of the degree to which his readers, especially undergraduates, require a steady dose of repetition. This would be an enjoyable book to teach, theoretically sophisticated, albeit a bit jargon-laden, but accessible. * Intnl. Journal of African Historical Studies *Starting from phenomena that are readily apparent to anyone visiting Cairo, Mark Allen Peterson applies an anthropologist's eye to scout out their dual link to globalism and contemporary Egyptain identity. His analysis is not restricted to the Internet and social media, but covers a range of commodities and activities. August 29, 2011 * The Jordan Times *[B]ecause of its clear writing and broad engagement with globalization, Peterson's book should appeal to a far-reaching audience including anthropologists, sociologists, geographers, and students of interdisciplinary, cultural, or gender studies. * International Journal of Middle East Studies *Overall, this book makes an important contribution to the growing literature on affluent class formations in the region and their particular role as mediators of both the discourses and the material circulation characteristic of globalization. It also brings a fresh perspectiveto discussions of mass media in the Middle East. * Sociology of Islam *Connected in Cairo is not simply a surface examination tossed from an ivory tower in the clouds like so many recent news reports. Peterson explores multiple stratum of Egyptian society, from the cab drivers, to the half-Egyptians, to the college students paying thousands of pounds in tuition, to lovers of popular religious preacher Amr Khaled. * Egypt Daily News *[T]he argument . . . is laid out here in a style so clear and unaffected that it might serve as a model for good academic writing...I would recommend the book for any general course in Middle East studies, anthropology, media studies, or globalization. * Contemporary Islam *This book is . . . a valuable contribution for scholars in a variety of social sciences who have taken the wave of revolutions in the Arab world as their subject matter, and for those who will be paying close attention to how these elites in Cairo and elsewhere respond to existential threats to their structural privileges. * Anthropological Quarterly *Peterson offers a deeply engaging and timely analysis of the complex socio-cultural, religious and economic trajectories that have shaped young upper-class Egyptians in the decade prior to the 2011 uprising. . . . Peterson makes a unique and insightful contribution to Arab cultural studies and anthropology. * Anthropological Notebooks *Connected in Cairo provides an accessible and instructive reading of the everyday construction and negotiation of what is oftentimes glossed as globalization, and will be of value to students and academics interested in the importance of social imagination in the making of local worlds in global times. * Journal of African History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on Transliteration1. Toward an Anthropology of Connections2. Making Kids Modern: Agency and Identity in Arabic Children's Magazines3. Pokémon Panics: Class Play in the Private Schools4. Talk Like an Egyptian: Negotiating Identity at the American University in Cairo5. Coffee Shops and Gender in Translocal Spaces6. The Global and the Multilocal: Development, Enterprise, and Culture BrokersEpilogueDramatis PersonaeNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisHarassment at work as a public health and labour issueTrade ReviewMolé's exploration of mobbing in Italy is both informative and insightful. She offers readers in the United States insight into an entirely different way of interpreting many of the detrimental workplace changes that they, too, have experienced. * American Journal of Sociology *This detailed and critical ethnography of neoliberalizing processes . . . will be of deep interest to scholars of labor and gender, the state, neoliberalism, and medical anthropology. * Anthropology of Work *Recommended. Labor studies collections at graduate and research levels. * Choice *Molé's book is an ethnographically sound and theoretically sophisticated contribution to the understanding of how neoliberal policies are experienced and embodied in Southern Europe, and also of how such policies are conceptualized in medical and legal terms. As such, it is recommended for those interested in the anthropology of Italy, for medical and legal anthropologists, and for students of labor relations. * American Ethnologist *What does neoliberalism feel like? . . . Anyone interested in the social life of the precariat . . . should read Noelle Molé's Labor Disorders. This superb ethnography astonishes on many fronts and is a unique contribution to our understanding of what it means to live and breathe under a hyper-flexibilized labor regime. * Council for European Studies *Labor Disorders is essential research for anyone interested in what happens to worker subjectivities under the neoliberal hegemony. * Work, Employment, and Society *[A] rich case study of the articulation between the state, global capitalism, and the medicalized body. . . .The study is topically relevant, theoretically sophisticated, and methodologically sound.Sept. 2014 * MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL Quarterly *In an admirably rigorous and thoughtful ethnography, Noelle J. Molé unpacks the crisis and contradictions of workplace mobbing in Italy. . . . Molé has not only impressively detailed a phenomenon of the Italian workplace, she has also elucidated many fascinating aspects of Italian society without resorting to stereotypes or misrepresentations, which has been noted as a problem in Mediterranean studies of the past. * Contemporary Sociology *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Toward Neoliberalism2. The Politics of Precariousness 3. Existential Damages 4. Feminizing the Inflexible5. Living It on the Skin6. The Sex of Mobbing7. Project Well-Being NotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisCurrency and culture in a European border zoneTrade ReviewPeebles adopts an anthropological approach to the question of how the roll-out of the euro has influenced the emergence of transnational regions in Europe, such as the Oresund region encompassing Copenhagen, Denmark, and Malmo, Sweden. * Survival *Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction1. Imagining Utopia, Constructing Øresund: From the Nation-State to the Region2. The Arts of 'Scientific' Money: Monetary Policy as Moral Policy3. Receipts and Deceits: Currency Regulation, Black Markets and Borders4. The Mark of Money: Regulating the Flow of Subjects5. Indebted CommunitiesNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe peoples and cultures of Southeast AsiaTrade ReviewThe pages [of Everyday Life in Southeast Asia] are packed with useful insight that can infuse the travelers [sic] journey (particularly if they explore areas off the beaten track) with an enlightening understanding of deeply rooted traditions still practiced throughout South East Asia. . . . [I]t is highly readable in both a casual and on-the-go context, and contains facts that will challenge the reader to re-assess their own cultural practices and observe those of others in a new light. * ExpatGoMalaysia.com *This book offers an exceedingly rich conucopia of stories, themes, and analytical insights into contemporary southeast Asia. Moreover, it is a pleasure to read. Many edited collections in the social sciences aim ar at least claim to appeal to an audience beyond specialists. Everyday Life in Southeast Asia is one of the rare collections compiled and written by academics that should indeed speak to a broad audience as an introduction to the societies and peoples of one of the world's most richly diverse regions. Specialists, too, will take pleasure and find insights in this book. * Sojourn *One of the main contributions of this volume is its ability to unite extremely disparate topics under clearly defined theoretical themes. As such, it makes a wonderful textbook, not just for anthropology students, but also for those taking courses in the sociology, history and politics of South East Asia. * South East Asia Research *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on TransliterationMapsIntroduction: Southeast Asia and Everyday LifePart 1. Fluid Personhood: Conceptualizing Identities 1. Living in Indonesia without a Please or Thanks: Cultural Translations of Reciprocity and Respect / Lorraine V. Aragon 2. Toba Batak Selves: Personal, Spiritual, Collective / Andrew Causey 3. Poverty and Merit: Mobile Persons in Laos / Holly High 4. A Question of Identity: Different Ways of Being Malay and Muslim in Malaysia / Judith NagataPart 2. Family, Households, and Livelihoods 5. Maling: A Hanunóo Girl from the Philippines / Harold C. Conklin 6. Marriage and Opium in a Lisu Village in Northern Thailand / Kathleen Gillogly 7. Merit and Power in the Thai Social Order / Lucien M. Hanks, Jr.Part 3. Crafting the Nation-State 8. Recording Tradition and Measuring Progress in the Ethnic Minority Highlands of Thailand / Hjorleifur Jonsson 9. Everyday Life and the Management of Cultural Complexity in Contemporary Singapore / John Clammer 10. Youth Culture and Fading Memories of War in Hanoi, Vietnam / Christina SchwenkelPart 4. World Religions in Everyday Life: Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, and Christianity 11. The Ordination of a Tree: The Buddhist Ecology Movement in Thailand / Susan M. Darlington 12. Javanese Women and the Veil / Nancy Smith-Hefner 13. Everyday Catholicism: Expanding the Sacred Sphere in the Philippines / Katharine L. WiegelePart 5. Communicating Ideas: Popular Culture, Arts, and Entertainment 14. Cultivating "Community" in an Indonesian Era of Conflict: Toraja Artistic Strategies for Promoting Peace / Kathleen M. Adams 15. The Fall of Thai Rocky / Pattana Kitiarsa 16. Everyday Life as Art: Thai Artists and the Aesthetics of Shopping, Eating, Protesting, and Having Fun / Sandra Cate 17. Eating Lunch and Recreating the Universe: Food and Cosmology in Hoi An, Vietnam / Nir AvieliPart 6. War and Recovery 18. Living with the War Dead in Contemporary Vietnam / Shaun Kingsley Malarney 19. Producing the People: Exchange Obligations and Popular Nationalism / Elizabeth G. Traube 20. The Question of Collaborators: Moral Order and Community in the Aftermath of the Khmer Rouge / Eve Monique ZuckerPart 7. Global Processes and Shifting Ecological Relations 21. When the Mountains No Longer Mean Home / Chris Lyttleton 22. "They Do Not Like to Be Confined and Told What To Do": Schooling Malaysian Indigenes / Robert Knox Dentan, Anthony (Bah Tony) Williams-Hunt, and Juli Edo 23. Narratives of Agency: Sex Work in Indonesia's Borderlands / Michele Ford and Lenore Lyons 24. Just below the Surface: Environmental Destruction and Loss of Livelihood on an Indonesian Atoll / Gene AmmarellReferencesSelected Film ResourcesContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisAn introduction to the ethnography of college lifeTrade Review"A fascinating, surprising, and intriguing look at pervasive house signs in a Midwestern U.S. college town, this book will delight college students, appeal to those who teach them, and engage those who study them across several disciplines. It is a skillful analysis of contemporary material culture, its playfulness, creativity, and ambiguities. It is also a vivid example of the multiple ways in which people engage with signs (visual or verbal)--from assuming that they have obvious meanings to privileging particular interpretations ,and even to denying that signs have any meaning at all." —Virginia Dominguez, University of Illinois"LaDousa makes excellent use of the formal interviews collected by his students to show that house signs are indeed a serious subject. In doing so he has provided us with a valuable text for introducing students to the field of linguistic anthropology and the process of collecting and analyzing data about textual practices in everyday life." —Journal of Linguistic Anthropology"LaDousa presents weighty matters with intelligence and nuance, and yet always clearly, and with a wealth of data that generates a multitude of 'aha' moments." —James Collins, University at Albany, SUNY"A very lively read, one of those rare books that brings a sophisticated interpretive perspective together with ethnographic materials that are engaging, thought-provoking, and, for many of us and especially for our students, both experience-near and surprising. Good to read and think with, and likely to become, quite deservedly, a classic for undergraduate teaching." —Don Brenneis, University of California, Santa CruzTable of ContentsIntroduction "The Ivy League": House Signs and Their Display1. "Bed, Booze, and Beyond": History and Ethnography of Collegiate Fun2. "Witty House Name": The Textual Lives of House Signs3. "Inn Pursuit"… of Christ: The Unevenness of Agency4. "Ghetto Fabulous" and "Plantation": Racial Difference in a Space of Fun5. "Hot Box," "Box Office," and "Fill Her Up": Reflections on Gender and SexualityConclusion "Where the Sidewalk Ends": Remarks on Cultural Production and EthnographyNotes References Index

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Book SynopsisDetails local discourse in the global discussion of human rightsTrade ReviewA valuable addition to any collection on human rights or media studies. . . . Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. * Choice *This book will certainly inspire anthropologists working on popular culture. And, because of its thorough theoretical discussions and claims, the monograph will help us not only to disentangle the complexity of Africa's public culture, but it will push us to reflect on methodological and epistemological traditions within the discipline. * Research in African Literatures *Englund offers a richly textured, descriptive account of knowledge production on air. Although the main aim of Englund's book is to add to ongoing debates on liberalism and human rights, it offers a number of other important contributions to both media anthropology and MCCS. The book's focus on an African language medium . . . , its detailed analysis of both the media production and consumption process . . . and its descriptive rather than normative method result in a fresh approach to media and communication in Africa, an approach that will hopefully provoke similarly oriented studies in the near future. * Journal of Southern African Studies *Harri Englund's [title] is a humble yet potent book, one that does not proclaim its intentions but allows them to seep into you gradually and indirectly. The slow progression of this book is the result of Englund's laudable strategy to derive the theoretical significance of his arguments from the particulars of his ethnography . . . .August 2013 * American Ethnologist *Harri Englund's latest book is a challenging synthesis of theory and ethnography . . . Anyone interested in African media and politics . . . will want to read this serious work for the originality both of its case study of a single long-running programme, and of its construction through a variety of questions . . . .August 2013 * Africa *[E]thnographic analysis of radio is relatively underrepresented in the anthropology of media as well as in anthropology of human rights. Englund's book is a welcome addition to both of these growing fields, and will be of use to any critics of liberalism.Nov. 2014 * PoLAR *Harri Englund reveals broadcasters' everyday struggles with state-sponsored biases and a listening public with strong views and a critical ear. This fresh look at African-language media shows how Africans effectively confront inequality, exploitation, and poverty.Feb. 2014 * Allegra *All will find in this book, much that is familiar but set in new contexts, some to dispute or qualify, but considerable to generate conversation and enhance understanding. It is a thoughtful and fascinating work that urges us to be aware of different media, their reception and uses, and the myriad ways in which they speak to and about our worlds. * Intl. Journal African Historical Studies *Scholars interested in internationalizing media and journalism history will find this book a challenging provocation as Englund makes a compelling case for the need for more studies of media production and reception in the global South . . . April 2013 * Jhistory *Human rights and African Airwaves is a must read for students and scholars of Africa, human rights, and media studies. . . . At its best, the book is a fierce, grounded commentary—through the lens of a radio program—of the rich imaginations, powerful insights, and wry critiques of everyday Malawians as they try to live their lives as moral beings in the face of poverty, corruption, and injustice.The author's intellectual rigor and analysis provide strong support for his arguments, which may be contentious to some but demonstrate the value of anthropological methods in investigating society. . . . A valuable addition to any collection on human rights or media studies. . . . Highly recommended. * Journal of African History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart 1. Human Rights, African Alternatives 1. Rights and Wrongs on the Radio 2. Obligations to Dogs: Between Liberal and Illiberal Analytics 3. Against the Occult: Journalists and Scholars in Search of AlternativesPart 2. The Ethos of Equality 4. A Nameless Genre: Newsreading as Storytelling 5. Inequality Is Old News: Editors as Authors 6. Stories Become Persons: Producing Knowledge about InjusticePart 3. The Aesthetic of Claims 7. Cries and Whispers: Shaming without Naming 8. Christian Critics: An Illiberal Public? 9. Beyond the Parity PrincipleAppendix 1. Presidential NewsAppendix 2. Graveyard VisitAppendix 3. Drunken ChildrenAppendix 4. Giant RatAppendix 5. Reclaiming VirginityAppendix 6. The Truth about PorridgeAppendix 7. "Makiyolobasi Must Stop Bewitching at Night"NotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisDocuments how re-visiting fieldwork sites shapes anthropologists' interpretationsTrade ReviewOverall, this is a great collection of essays that hang together well and — for once! — address the common theme that the edited volume is ostensibly about. At the same time, each is strong enough that it could be read separately. If you are interested in the topic or the contributors, it is definitely worth picking up. * savageminds.org *This is an important book because we need a disciplinary conversation about our myths. . . . [I]s more always better? Are there limits to the value of returns to the field? What are the costs and who will bear them? Returns to the Field has done us the valuable service of allowing this conversation to begin. * Social Anthropology *[V]aluable insights can be gained by returning to the field—whether physically or intellectually—to reflect upon the inevitable shifts in the researcher's intellectual transformation, disciplinary trends, and even popular understandings of key events and narratives that have been documented. Summer/Fall 2014 * Oral History Review *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction \ Signe Howell and Aud TallePart 1. Change and Continuity in Long-term Perspective 1. Forty-five Years with the Kayapo \ Terence Turner 2. "Soon we will be spending all our time at funerals": Yolngu Mortuary Rituals in an Epoch of Constant Change \ Frances Morphy and Howard Morphy 3. Returns to the Maasai: Long-term Fieldwork and the Production of Anthropological Knowledge \ Aud Talle 4. Contingency, Collaboration, and the Unimagined over Thirty-five Years of Ethnography \ David Holmberg 5. Nostalgia and Neocolonialism \ Peter MetcalfPart 2. Expansion in Time, Expansion in Space 6. Cumulative Understandings: Experiences from the Study of Two Southeast Asian Societies \ Signe Howell 7. Repeated Returns and Special Friends: From Mythic Encounter to Shared History \ Piers Vitebsky 8. Compressed Globalization and Expanding Desires in Marovo Lagoon, Solomon Islands \ Edvard Hviding 9. Widening the Net: Returns to the Field and Regional Understanding \ Alan BarnardAfterword: Reflecting on Returns to the Field \ Bruce KnauftList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisUtopian imagination and community experiments as forces for changeTrade ReviewAnthropologist Carspecken . . . offers an extraordinarily captivating and challenging book based on a year and a half of reflective research in the 109-acre intentional community of Lothlorien. . . . Essential. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsA Note on Names1. "That Dose of Unreality": An Introduction to Lothlorien Nature Sanctuary2. "Dream Flowers": Fiction and Utopian Imagination in Neo-Paganism and Alternative Communities3. Faerie and Avalon: Reimagining Nature4. "A Loose-Knit Anarchy": Reimagining Organization5. "The Land of Misfit Toys": Reimagining Community and Freedom6. "Something Mystical and Fine": Reimagining Ritual and Spiritual Experience7. "A Gypsy Community": Cycling, Learning, and Moving On8. "A Spontaneous Social Experiment"NotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisDetails cosmopolitanism and Jewish identity on IstanbulTrade ReviewThe book provides much important information and analysis on important issues regarding contemporary Turkish Jews, though some of the theoretical parts might be of more interest to anthropologists. The study is an important contribution to our knowledge of Jewish life in the 21st century Middle East in general and Turkey in particular, and is of relevance as well for those interested in minority and culture studies. * AJL Reviews *Brink-Danan's volume offers a complex and thought-provoking portrait of Jewish life in twenty-first-century Turkey through the compelling lens of linguistic anthropology. It not only elucidates multiple facets of a Jewish community generally overlooked by scholars, but also encourages us to rethink the nature of 'cosmopolitanism,' 'tolerance,' and minority politics more broadly through the example of Turkey. * H-Judaic H-Net *Brink-Danan . . . ventures beyond the bland and the predictable and produces a thought-provoking book about an intriguing Jewish community in a fascinating Muslim country. * The Canadian Jewish News *[A] marvelously provocative book . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *[A]n outstanding study . . . . [I]t solves the riddles of Turkish Jewish culture by offering a critical contribution to the discussion of cosmopolitanism. * Comparative Studies in Society and History *Marcy Brink-Danan's study offers a rare and insightful view of the multilayered dynamics between and profiles of individuals peopling Istanbul's Jewish community. Jewish Life in 21st-Century Turkey is at once an important ethnographic investigation and a sociolinguistic analysis. As such, it stands apart from other studies of Turkey's contemporary Jews. * Slavic Review *Table of ContentsPreface: The Ends and Beginnings of 1992Acknowledgements Introduction1. Tolerance, Difference, and Citizenship2. Cosmopolitan Signs: Names as Foreign and Local3. The Limits of Cosmopolitanism4. Performing Difference: Turkish Jews on The National Stage5. Intimate Negotiations: Turkish Jews Between Stages6. The One Who Writes Difference: Inside SecrecyConclusionNotesReferences Index

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Book SynopsisReflections on politics, loss and reconciliation in Europe and the Middle EastTrade ReviewLoss is a fundamental human condition that often leads both individuals and groups to seek redress in the form of violence . . . This book focuses on the redress of political crime in Germany and Lebanon, extending its analysis to questions of accountability and democratization in the United States and elsewhere. Feb. 2014 * Allegra *John Borneman's book provides a series of thoughtful and wide-ranging reflections on ethics and politics, drawing on scholarship in anthropology, social and political theory, and psychoanalysis, as well as extensive ethnographic fieldwork. . . . Expansive in scope, each essay is clearly written and insightful, and will appeal to a wide range of scholars concerned with issues of memory, accountability, democratization, and international geopolitics, as well as the histories and politics of Europe and the Middle East. * Intl Jrnl Middle East Studies *[T]his is an engaging, often idiosyncratic, and consistently provocative collection of essays. * PoLAR *[This]book . . . is highly relevant to a number of regional and investigative arenas, including psychological and political anthropology, as well as history, gender, and the study of violence, trauma, and reconciliation. In also seeking to bring classic anthropology into conversation with critical forms of contemporaneous anthropology, the book also serves as an example for the continuing relevance of anthropology in public and international debates. * American Ethnologist *Borneman has produced an important book, and his discussion of modes of accountability and their significance in assessing and comparing political crimes and their ongoing memory is very useful. * H-Memory *Table of ContentsPreface: Political Crime and the Memory of LossI. Accountability1. Modes of Accountability: Events of Closure, Rites of Repetition2. On Money and the Memory of Loss3. Public Apologies, Dignity, and Performative Redress4. Reconciliation after Ethnic Cleansing: Listening, Retribution, and Affiliation5. The State of War Crimes following the Israeli-Hezbollah War6. Terror, Compassion, and the Limits of Identification: Counter-Transference and Rites of Commemoration in LebanonII. Regime Change, Occupation, Democratization7. Responsibility after Military Intervention: What is Regime Change? What is Occupation?8. Does the United States want Democratization in Iraq? Anthropological Reflections on the Export of Political Form9. The External Ascription of Defeat and Collective PunishmentIII. An Anthropology of Democratic Authority10. What do Election Rituals Mean? Representation, Sacrifice, and Cynical Reason11. Politics without a Head: Is the Love Parade a New Form of Political Identification? (with Stefan Senders)12. Is the United States Europe's Other? On the Relations of Americans, Europeans, Jews, Arabs, MuslimsNotesReferences

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Book SynopsisStudies secularism and religiosity in Russia, past and presentTrade ReviewDrawing upon the material on a particular Russian region, the Republic of Marii El (the former Mariiskaia Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic), from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century, the author traces the intricate relationship of religion and secularism in Soviet and post-Soviet times.49.1 2015 * Canadian-American Slavic Studies *Highly recommend[ed]. * H-Soz-u-Kult *[Sony Lûrman's] objective of the study is to compare methods to promote atheist and religious ideas in the Soviet and post-Soviet periods, respectively. Although the content of the teaching of religion [is] the opposite of atheistic propaganda, according to the author, there are similarities in terms of audience and methods . . . .1 2014 * Laboratorium *[This book] greatly enhances our understanding of the post-Soviet revival of religion.June 2013 * REVIEW OF POLITICS *Each chapter traces a concept, an 'elective affinity,' through rich descriptions of how that concept is instantiated in practice across time and across a multireligious social field. The result is new and productive lens through which to understand the relationship between religion and communism. * Anthropos *Highly recommend[ed].April 2014 * H-Soz-u-Kult *Secularism Soviet Style is an attractively written and thought-provoking book that deserves to be read not only by regional specialists but by scholars of religion and secularism more generally. * Slavic Review *Luerhmann's ethnography makes an important contribution to studies about the nature of and the relationships between secular and religious movements in Russia. At the same time, its impact will extend beyond studies of religion to shed critical light on processes of knowledge formation and knowledge transmission. In many ways, because Luerhmann does such a good job of attending to and unpacking Russian styles of persuasion, it will be of tremendous value to schlars working on a wide range of topics, from political ideology to forms of aesthetics and representation to institutions and bureaucracies, not just in Russia but across the former Soviet Union. * The Russian Review *Luehrmann's book is well written and excellently researched. It provides much-needed understanding of the late-Soviet atheist endeavors. Importantly, by showing how Soviet secularism diverged from liberal projects, it makes a valuable contribution to conceptualizations of secularism. * PoLAR *Luehrmann's book is a fascinating anthropological inquiry into the every-day lives of post-communist citizens that focuses especially on four religious groups: Orthodox,Protestant-Lutherans, Evangelical (especially Pentecostal and Charismatic) and Traditional Mari Religion (Chimarij) and the way these religious groups appropriate the secular mobilization and didactic techniques that were forged during the Soviet period. * Anthropology of East Europe Review *This is a fascinating probe into the complex world of a country attempting to remove religion and god from society in order to modernize, but finding that atheism is not synonymous with modernization, and that religion has deep roots and an extraordinary ability to adapt to changing circumstances. . . . Recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsNote on Translation, Transliteration, and NamesIntroduction: Atheism, Secularity, and Postsecular ReligionI. Affinities1. Neighbors and Comrades: Secularizing the Mari Country2. "Go teach:" Methods of ChangeII. Promises3. Church Closings and Sermon Circuits4. Marginal LessonsIII. Fissures5. Visual Aid6. The Soul and the SpiritIV. Rhythms7. Lifelong LearningConclusion: Affinity and DiscernmentGlossaryNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisDeals with gender, religion and the new urban economyTrade ReviewSchulz's book is a solid ethnographic work that makes a significant contribution to the literature on Islam in Africa, and on the effects of media technologies on local peoples' lives both on and beyond the continent. * Intl Jrnl African Historical Studies *Muslims and New Media in West Africa makes a major contribution to the anthropological study of Islam as well as the study of Islam in West Africa. It adds to our knowledge of everyday practices of Islam as well as how these ordinary practices play into the creation of religious authorities. * Journal of Relgion in Africa *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsOverture1. "Our Nation's Authentic Traditions": Law Reform and Controversies over the Common Good, 1999–20062. Times of Hardship: Gender Relations in a Changing Urban Economy3. Family Conflicts: Domestic Life Revisited by Media Practices4. Practicing Humanity: Social Institutions of Islamic Moral Renewal5. Alasira, the Path to God6. "Proper Believers": Mass-mediated Constructions of Moral Community7. Consuming Baraka, Debating Virtue: New Forms of Mass-mediated ReligiosityEpilogueNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisRethinking globalisation through musicTrade Review[O]ne of the great strengths of this collection is its ambiguous location of a music often situated rather schematically in a given historical and cultural matrix. Recognition of the political ambiguities makes a welcome shift from some of the more strident positions that have been taken up in public and even scholarly discourse surrounding World Music. . . . The value of this collection extends far beyond World Music. * Journal of World Popular Music *[C]ontains many valuable case studies of musical encounters demonstrating the ways music-making both structures and yet provides space for human agency. * Music & Letters *Music and Globalization is a responsible interdisciplinary endeavor characterized by the presentation of serious engagements with music and complex ethnography. Most of the authors address critical issues proposed by postcolonial/subaltern theory and critical political economy with notable courage. * Research in African Literatures *Music and Globalization productively contributes to over two decades of scholarship in the anthropology of music and in ethnomusicology . . . It is a rich collection and deserves attention from specialists and nonspecialists alike; it will be useful in both graduate and undergraduate curriculums across multiple disciplines (anthropology, ethnomusicology, critical music studies, and media studies). * American Ethnologist *'Music and Globalization' includes stimulating contributions, such as Barbara Browning's discussion of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti and Gilberto Gil in relation to metaphoric and literal forms of 'infectiousness'; Richard Shain's examination of Laba Sosseh's project of Cubanising African popular music; and Daniel Noveck's pondering of beliefs mediated through the place of the violin in the lives of Ramámuri people in southern Chihuahua.June 2012 -- Julian Cowley * The Wire *Table of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Rethinking Globalization through Music / Bob W. WhitePart 1. Structured Encounters 1. The Musical Heritage of Slavery: From Creolization to "World Music" / Denis-Constant Martin 2. My Life in the Bush of Ghosts: "World Music" and the Commodification of Religious Experience / Steven Feld 3. A Place in the World: Globalization, Music, and Cultural Identity in Contemporary Vanuatu / Philip Hayward 4. Musicality and Environmentalism in the Rediscovery of Eldorado: An Anthropology of the Raoni-Sting Encounter / Rafael José de Menezes BastosPart 2. Mediated Encounters 5. "Beautiful Blue": Rarámuri Violin Music in a Cross-Border Space / Daniel Noveck 6. World Music Producers and the Cuban Frontier / Ariana Hernandez-Reguant 7. Trovador of the Black Atlantic: Laba Sosseh and the Africanization of Afro-Cuban Music / Richard M. ShainPart 3. Imagined Encounters 8. Slave Ship on the Infosea: Contaminating the System of Circulation / Barbara Browning 9. World Music Today / Timothy D. Taylor 10. The Promise of World Music: Strategies for Non-Essentialist Listening / Bob W. WhiteIndexContributors

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Book SynopsisPerformer-centred studies of folk artistsTrade Review[This] volume is a significant contribution to the field as well as a useful tool for teaching and research. * Journal of American Folklore *This book is strongly recommended to anyone interested in vernacular traditions and their re-creation in the individual imagination * Journal of Folklore Research *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Individual and TraditionRay Cashman, Tom Mould, and Pravina ShuklaEntering Tradition: Kim Ellington, Catawba Valley PotterCharles G. ZugDelight in Skill: The Stone Carvers' ArtMarjorie HuntThe "Talking Machine Story Teller": Cal Stewart and the Remediation of StorytellingRichard BaumanChief Ovia Idah: Bricoleur of Benin City and a Star for All TimesPhilip M. PeekPlace Matters: A Wooden Boat Builder in the Twenty-First CenturyMaggie HoltzbergA Backdoor into PerformanceTom MouldThe Maintenance of Heritage: Kersti Jobs-Björklöf and Swedish Folk CostumePravina ShuklaThe World of Ogre-Tile Makers: The Onihyaku Line in Hekinan, JapanTakashi TakaharaBringing Them Back: Wanda Aragon and the Revival of Historic Pottery Designs at AcomaKaren M. DuffyArtistic Courage in Small Groups: Identity, Intermediality, and Indian CountryMichael Robert EvansNavigating the Legends of Treasure Island: Narrative, Maps, and the MaterialGreg KelleyFluid Identities: Madame d'Aulnoy, Mother Bunch, and Fairy-Tale HistoryJennifer SchackerCounting the Stars: The Study of Creativity on a Human Scale, or How a Bunch of Cajun and German Farmers and Fabricators in Louisiana Invented a Traditional Amphibious BoatJohn LaudunOn Middle-Range Structures in Heroic EpicWilliam HansenThe Role of Tradition in the Individual: At Work in Donegal with Packy Jim McGrathRay CashmanCustomizing Myth: The Personal in the PublicJohn Holmes McDowellDavid Drake: Potter, Poet, RebelJohn Michael VlachThe Mother's Voice: An Analysis of the Content of Turkish LullabiesIlhan BaşgözContested Performance and Joke AestheticsElliott OringVernacular Interpretation in a Public Folklore Event: Listening to the Call of Florida Fiddlers, ThreeGregory HansenGeorgia Decoy Maker Ernie Mills: A Folk Artist Defines His WorkJohn A. BurrisonRapid TransportationLee HaringWorking Through Tradition: Rug Farming In AnatoliaGeorge JevremovićA Few of My Favorite Things about North Carolina PotteryMark HewittThat's Where I Came In: Henry and His TeachersRobert CochranAt the Black Pig's Dyke and Other Writing: Crossing Borders of Art and TraditionVincent WoodsA Folklorist's Work: Henry Glassie's Life in the FieldRay Cashman, Tom Mould, and Pravina ShuklaAcknowledgmentsTabula GratulatoriaContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisDetails folklore and identity in Northern IrelandTrade Review[A] compelling book. * AMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST *[S]tudents will find it immensely useful in providing them with concepts and terminology which will broaden their vision and sharpen their research and analytical skills. A beautifully written, shapely book, it is a pleasure to read. And it is packed with brilliant new ideas and observations about storytelling, people, community, and life. * Béaloideas: The Journal of the Folklore of Ireland Society *Intelligent, eminently readable, highly personal without being self-indulgent . . . a model for responsible, highly skilled, humanistic field research.Autumn 2009 * New Hibernia Review *[P]rovides a powerful demonstration of the social role and function of folklore . . . [and] deserves a much wider readership among those involved in the study of conflict resolution or of Irish history more generally.December 2010 * Folklore *An intriguing read for those interested in folklore, ethnography, and the role of stories in shaping a community. . . . Recommended.July 2009 * Choice *Storytelling on the Northern Irish Border has broad, multi-disciplinary appeal and is a worthy contribution to any folkloristic, anthropological, or celtic Studies library. Although the book assumes a significant level of folkloristic knowledge, it is accessible and does not exclude a non-academic audience. * Journal of American Folklore *[A] compelling book.November 2013 * AMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST *Table of ContentsPreface: The Road to BallymonganAcknowledgments1. Goals and Orientations2. Aghyaran: A Sense of Place and History3. Ceilis as Storytelling Contexts4. Wakes as Storytelling Contexts5. Local Character Anecdotes6. The Wider Range of Storytelling Genres7. Anecdotes and the Literary Character8. Anecdotes and the Local Character9. Anecdote Cycles and Personality Traits10. Patterns and Implications11. Storytelling, Commemoration, and IdentityNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe challenges of technology are analyzed by philosophers and social scientists.Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsI. Technology as Ideology 1. Subversive Rationalization: Technology, Power, and Democracy/Andrew Feenberg 2. New Science, New Nature: The Habermas-Marcuse Debate Revisited/Steven Vogel 3. On the Notion of Technology as Ideology/Robert B. PippinII. Technology and the Moral Order 4. Citizen Virtues in a Technological Order/Langdon Winner 5. The Moral Significance of the Material Culture/Albert BorgmannIII. The Question of Heidegger 6. Heidegger on Gaining a Free Relation to Technology/Hubert L. Dreyfus 7. Heidegger and the Design of Computer Systems/Terry Winograd 8. Heidegger on Technology and Democracy/Tom RockmoreIV. Media Theories: The Politics of Seeing 9. Image Technologies and Traditional Culture/Don Ihde 10. Technology and the Civil Epistemology of Drmocracy/Yaron EzrahiV. Feminist Perspectives: Knowledge and Bodies 11. Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective/Donna Haraway 12. Knowledge, Bodies, and Values: Reproductive Technologies and Their Scientific Context/Helen E. LonginoVI. Eccentric Positions 13. Sade, the Mechanization of the Libertine Body, and the Crisis of Reason/Marcel Henaff 14. The Archimedean Point and Eccentricity: Hannah Arendt's Philosophy of Science and Technology/Pieter TijmesVII. The Human and the Non-Human 15. Gilbert Simondon's Plea for a Philosophy of Technology/Paul Dumouchel 16. A Door Must Either Be Open or Shut: A Little Philosophy of Techniques/Bruno LatourContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisDevelops a theory of governance for multiethnic states in crisis in the context of international change.Trade Review"[A]n important contribution to scholarship... rigorous and intelligible." Patrick James, University of MissouriTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPart One. Theoretical Framework1. Introduction2. Debating State Governance3. A Theory of Debating State GovernancePart Two. Case Studies4. Yugoslavia and the Emerging Cold War, 1947-535. Yugoslavia and the Waning Cold War, 1987-916. Lebanon, the Cold War Penetration, and the Rise of Nasserism, 1957-587. Lebanon and the Metamorphosis of Arab-Israeli Relations, 1973-75Part Three. Conclusions8. Summary, Alternative Explanations, and ImplicationsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis is a good book, with a masterful balance of common sense and sophisticated social analysis that does not let relevance be defined by academic discourse only.May 2008 -- Judit Bodnar * American Journal of Sociology *Gille's book is a fascinating analysis of environmental policies and the politics of waste, as well a study of socialism through its relationships with what is usually considered as a byproduct of production and/or consumption. Year XV.2 2009 -- Barbara Potrata * Leeds Institute of Health Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Was State Socialism Wasteful?2. Toward a Social Theory of WastePart 1. Discipline and Recycle (1948–1974)3. Metallic Socialism4. The Primitive Accumulation of Waste in Metallic SocialismPart 2. Reform and Reduce (1975–1984)5. The Efficiency Model6. The Limits of EfficiencyPart 3. Privatize and Incinerate (1985–present)7. The Chemical Model8. "Building a Castle out of Shit": The Wastelands of the New Europe9. ConclusionNotesSources and ReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisArgues that any exploration of the social uses to which cinema is put in a place like India can only make sense if it transforms our understanding of cinema itself. This work examines three moments of crisis for the Indian State in which cinema played a central role.Trade ReviewBy analyzing theories of spectatorship, Rajadhyaksha defines the aesthetic that is Bollywood. . . . Recommended.May 2010 * Choice *Table of Contents1. IntroductionPART I: THE 'CINEMA-EFFECT' OUTSIDE THE CINEMA: 'BOLLYWOOD' AND THE PERFORMING CITIZEN2. 'Bollywood' 2004: The Globalized Freak Show of what was Cinema3. When Was Bollywood?4. The 'Cinema-Effect': Cultural Rights Vs. The Production Of Authenticity5. Social Lineages of the Cinema-Effect: Demonstrating Spectatorial AbilityAfterword: Bollywood And The Cinema-Effect: A Concluding NotePART II: ADMINISTERING THE SYMBOLS OF AUTHENTICITY-PRODUCTION: THE CINEMA-EFFECT AND THE STATE - AND REVISITING A 1990s CONTROVERSY6. Administering The Symbols Of Authenticity-Production7. 'You Can See Without Looking': The Cinematic 'Author' and Freedom Of Expression in the Cinema8. 'People-Nation' And Spectatorial Rights: The Political 'Authenticity-Effect', the Shiv Sena and a Very Bombay HistoryPART III: 1970S QUESTIONS: THE CINEMA-EFFECT, THE NATIONAL SYMBOLIC AND THE AVANT-GARDE9. The Nation Detours10. The Indian Emergency11. The Problem, and a 'Coproduction Of Modernities'12. 'Taking' The Shot': Alternative Beginnings To The Mechanism13. The Practice: Two Films And A Painting (1): Bhupen Khakhar's List14. The Practice: Two Films And A Painting (2): Mani Kaul And The 'Cinematic Object' - Uski Roti15. The Practice: Two Films And A Painting (3): Gautam Ghose's Maabhoomi, Territorial Realism And The 'Narrator'

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Book SynopsisMuslim-Christian co-existence through public artTrade ReviewVolk presents a wonderful narrative of key turning points in the history of modern Lebanon. . . . [A] rigorous study and a pleasure to read. * H-net Reviews *Volk's argument is relevant, interesting and worthy of praise and follow-up: thinking about Lebanese society outside confessional boxes is tragically relevant in times of sectarian warfare in Syria and beyond.40.3 2013 * British Jrnl Middle Eastern Studies *Volk's identification of subjacent gender and class issues in memorialization points the way to fertile ground for future scholarship. ... Would memorials commemorating the contributions of women or the working-class bring into question the status quo by relativizing the power of elite males? These are not questions that Memorials and Martyrs foregrounds but the book makes it much easier and more plausible to ask them. The next time somebody asks what good scholarship can do for civil society, I'll try to remember this. * Journal of Arabic Literature *Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsNote on Transliteration of ArabicIntroduction1. The Politics of Memory in Lebanon: Sectarianism, Memorials, and Martyrdom2. Sculpting Independence: Competing Ceremonies and Mutilated Faces (1915-1957)3. Remembering Civil Wars: Fearless Faces and Wounded Bodies (1958-1995)4. Reconstructing while Re-destructing Lebanon: Dismembered Bodies and National Unity (1996-2003)5. Revisiting Independence and Mobilizing Resistance: Assassinations, Massacres, and Divided Memory-Scapes (2004-2006)6. Memorial Politics and National Imaginings: Possibilities and LimitsAppendix: Important DatesNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisDetails cosmopolitanism and Jewish identity on IstanbulTrade ReviewThe book provides much important information and analysis on important issues regarding contemporary Turkish Jews, though some of the theoretical parts might be of more interest to anthropologists. The study is an important contribution to our knowledge of Jewish life in the 21st century Middle East in general and Turkey in particular, and is of relevance as well for those interested in minority and culture studies. * AJL Reviews *Brink-Danan's volume offers a complex and thought-provoking portrait of Jewish life in twenty-first-century Turkey through the compelling lens of linguistic anthropology. It not only elucidates multiple facets of a Jewish community generally overlooked by scholars, but also encourages us to rethink the nature of 'cosmopolitanism,' 'tolerance,' and minority politics more broadly through the example of Turkey. * H-Judaic H-Net *Brink-Danan . . . ventures beyond the bland and the predictable and produces a thought-provoking book about an intriguing Jewish community in a fascinating Muslim country. * The Canadian Jewish News *[A] marvelously provocative book . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *[A]n outstanding study . . . . [I]t solves the riddles of Turkish Jewish culture by offering a critical contribution to the discussion of cosmopolitanism. * Comparative Studies in Society and History *Marcy Brink-Danan's study offers a rare and insightful view of the multilayered dynamics between and profiles of individuals peopling Istanbul's Jewish community. Jewish Life in 21st-Century Turkey is at once an important ethnographic investigation and a sociolinguistic analysis. As such, it stands apart from other studies of Turkey's contemporary Jews. * Slavic Review *Table of ContentsPreface: The Ends and Beginnings of 1992Acknowledgements Introduction1. Tolerance, Difference, and Citizenship2. Cosmopolitan Signs: Names as Foreign and Local3. The Limits of Cosmopolitanism4. Performing Difference: Turkish Jews on The National Stage5. Intimate Negotiations: Turkish Jews Between Stages6. The One Who Writes Difference: Inside SecrecyConclusionNotesReferences Index

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Book SynopsisDiscusses Africa and medicine in a globalised worldTrade ReviewThis skillfully edited collection clears a path for further new and exciting work around topics of mobility, transnational health, and global healing. * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *For medical anthropologists who work in Africa, the Dilger, Kanye, and Langwick volume is almost obligatory, and reading it will likely lead to a pleasant afternoon filled with recognizable names and debates.57.3 Dec. 2014 * African Studies Review *Medicine, Mobility and Power in Global Africa is a welcome addition to a growing body of scholarship examining postcolonial medicine, health, and healing in Africa. * Journal of African History *Table of ContentsHansjörg Dilger, Abdoulaye Kane, and Stacey A. Langwick Introduction Part 1. Scale as an Effect of Power1. The Choreography of Global Subjection: The Traditional Birth Attendant in Contemporary Configurations of World Health Stacey A. Langwick 2. Targeting the Empowered Individual: Transnational Policy-Making, the Global Economy of Aid and the Limitations of 'Biopower' in Tanzania Hansjörg Dilger3. Health Security on the Move. Biobureaucracy, Solidarity and the Transfer of Health Insurance to Senegal Angelika Wolf4. Afri-global Medicine: New Perspectives on Epidemics, Drugs, Wars, Migrations, and Healing-rituals John Janzen5. AIDS Policies for Markets and Warriors: Dispossession, Capital, and Pharmaceuticals in Nigeria Kristin PetersonPart 2. Alternative Forms of Globality6. Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Mali and Togo: Circulating Knowledge, Mobile Technology, Transnational Efforts Viola Hörbst7. Flows of Medicine, Healers, Health Professionals, and Patients between Home and Host Countries Abdoulaye Kane8. Public Health or Public Threat? Polio Eradication Campaigns, Islamic Revival, and the Materialization of State Power in Niger Adeline Masquelier9. School of Deliverance: Healing, Exorcism and Male Spirit Possession in the Ghanaian Presbyterian Diaspora Adam MohrPart 3. Moving through the Gaps10. It's Just Like the Internet: Transnational Healing Practices between Somaliland and the Somali Diaspora Marja Tiilikainen11. Mobility and Connectedness: Chinese Medical Doctors in Kenya Elisabeth Hsu12. Guinean Migrant Traditional Healers in the Global Market Clara CarvalhoContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisThe concept of political culture is youngborn from the need to explain the dramatic sociological and political changes that occurred in Europe both during and after the Second World War. The practice of examining the culture of political parties in depth through an ethnographic field study of a country's social structure is, so far, a neglected one.Larissa Adler Lomnitz and Ana Melnick rectify the lack of attention to this area with respect to Chile in Chile's Political Culture and Parties: An Anthropological Explanation. This volume examines Chile's political culture by considering its origin and the persistence of its grammar, which the authors define as the ability of each member of society to function within social categories and rules. This grammar, they believe, is what gives character to national culture.Lomnitz and Melnick argue that political parties in Chile are a conglomeration of horizontal networks of friends. Class is perfectly established within CTrade Review“Chile’s Political Culture and Parties is a seminal, scholarly, original, and highly recommended reading for students of Chile’s history, politics, and contemporary culture.” —Reviewer’s Bookwatch“[A]n excellent comprehensive study.... A useful addition to Chilean history and politics with some original and novel interpretations.” —Choice“Lomnitz and Melnick have made an important contribution to the study of political culture, and they have shed new light on the cultural dimensions of party organizations. Their book should be highly recommended to scholars with an interest in these topics.”—Canadian Journal of Political Science“In this interesting book on Chilean political culture, Lomnitz and Melnick present an anthropological model for understanding the workings of political parties.”—Journal of Anthropological Research

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Book SynopsisWhen Latinos in the United States was first published in 1986, it was hailed as a triumph by the National Catholic Reporter, inspiring by the journal American Studies, and was named an Outstanding Academic Book of the Year by Choice. The book was widely adopted in Latino and ethnic studies classes at colleges and universities throughout the country. Now, in the second edition, David Abalos updates his pioneering application of the transformation theory to key aspects of Latino politics, history, and culture. He draws on examples from everyday human encounters to address specific concerns of both Latino individuals and groups. Among the issues addressed are: the need to maintain Latino family heritage while allowing each member to develop the autonomy necessary to interact both within the family and within American society; the importance of avoiding assimilation; the necessity for Latinos to develop the skills and competence that allow them to entTrade Review"Latinos in the United States has become a classic work that has shaped Latino Studies for over the past decade. In this revised and expanded edition, David T. Abalos remains our introspective and thoughtful teacher who guides us all toward the deepest source of our being in order for us to become whole people as we actively work to transform our nation into a loving and more compassionate multicultural America." —Alberto Lopez Pulido, University of San Diego“David T. Abalos' work is an extraordinarily rich meditation on the most pertinent aspects of the Latino reality today that goes beyond a merely competent social science analysis of America's largest minority. Abalos integrates solid sociology, politics, anthropology and psychology into an inspiring vision demonstrating where Latinos could be going if the right choices are made. He takes the profoundly spiritual/religious, even mystical dynamics of Latino culture seriously and shows how the Latino future has everything to do with the recognition and renewal of that innate spirituality. This drama will define not only tomorrow's Latinos but all Americans as well, as the latinoization of the U.S.A. advances. Here is a scholar who wisely goes beyond the Academy's crusty secularism to embrace the sacred.” —Allan Figueroa Deck, S.J., Loyola Institute for Spirituality"Professor Abalos is able to bring his original analysis into contemporary issues with the same clarity and depth he offered in his first edition of this book. . . instead of providing us a sociological perspective or a political or theological perspective in the traditional compartmentalized model of academia he provides us with a textured holistic representation of this segment of humanity we call Latinos. . . . This is an important and original contribution to knowledge in the field of Latino Studies. It is based on an urgently needed synthesis of a growing body of work done on Latinos that needs to be re-framed and connected to other mainstream sources in sociology, psychology, theology, and political science." —Victor M. Rodriguez, California State University, Long Beach“I hope this revised version will find a ready audience so that Abalos’s theory of transformation can receive the thorough discussion it deserves in the circles of Hispanic theology and Hispanic theological education. . . . This work should be required reading in courses in Latino/a studies and ethnic studies. It also fits well in certain political science courses. Professors teaching religion and religious studies will use the work. The addition of the final chapter extends the readership of the book to include persons involved in the educational attainment of Latinos/as in the U.S. Beyond the traditional classroom, the work will find a ready audience among community organizers and persons involved in social transformation.” —Paul Barton, Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest“Abalos examines contemporary issues faced by Latinos in the US-family, politics in the community, education, mafle-female relations, and racism-from the perspective of the theory of transformation. Through this exploration the author offers readers-Latinos in particular-ways to become more whole people actively working to transform the nation into a more compassionate multicultural America.” —Research Book News“Readers should see this historically situated text as personal ruminations and exhortations from an academic elder and mentor of East Coast Latino/a students—an impassioned plea to his young charges at that time not to forsake their unique identity, culture, religion, and spirituality for the seductive lure of capitalist materialism. Hopefully, today's young Latino/a college students will resonate with this still worthwhile message of self-empowerment and transformation.” —Choice

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Book SynopsisAn analysis of the Brazilian illegal gambling game in terms of its rituals and symbols and its contribution to Latin American culture.Trade Review"This book is fascinating and marked by a richness of detail that keeps a reader's attention. It constitutes an important contribution to the understanding of Brazilian and Latin American culture." —Thomas E. Skidmore, Brown University"For years, anthropologists have been interested in jogo de bicho as a key Brazilian institution. We now have an English translation uniting Roberto DaMatta's theoretical acumen and knowledge of Brazil with Elena Soarez's field work. In Eagles, Donkeys, and Butterflies, they combine a stunningly effective analysis of the game in terms of rituals and symbols with an enlightening analysis of the structural and symbolic significance of the animals and the numbers associated with them. This is a welcome addition to the literature on the game's cultural meaning and its place in the context of Brazilian society." —Conrad P. Kottak, University of Michigan“DaMatta and Soárez have performed a valuable service to the field of Brazilian studies. . . The book’s essayistic sections make it a useful window on one dimension of the twentieth-century Brazilian anthropological imagination as it explores how the European anthropology of ‘savages’ can be applied to their own modern, urban society. Thus this book is a study of totemism as a concept in itself as much as it is a book about the elusive and omnipresent animal game.” —Journal of Latin American Studies

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Book SynopsisVisions of Community in the Pre-Modern World contains original essays by five leading scholars in the fields of history, art history, and literature on the ways in which communities were imagined and built between the eleventh and sixteenth centuries. These essays, which function as case studies, range geographically from Europe to Africa, the Near East to regions of Latin America. While acknowledging major factors that affect communitysuch as religious belief, imperial expansion, and warfarethese studies focus on precise examples and moments in the pre-modern world.Giles Constable discusses the ways in which monastic vows of service to God served as the basis for communities of monks in Europe in the Middle Ages. Anthony Cutler explores the means by which Byzantine and Islamic communities were created and maintained through the use of visual and textual signs. Annabel Patterson draws on visual images and representations to explore how endangered Catholic communitiesTrade Review“The essays in Visions of Community offer beautifully nuanced analyses of the ways in which various types of institutional and social identifications intersected and supplemented one another in the premodern period.” —The Sixteenth Century Journal“The admirable objectives and themes announced in Howe’s introduction are met and illuminated. The malleable device of studying communities historically ways is done in model ways here.” —Renaissance Quarterly“Visions of Community in the Pre-Modern World is an enjoyable read.” —HISTORY: Reviews of New Books“... Fascinating and provocative....” —Utopian Studies“The five contributors to this book reveal the inherent complexity and variety of communities in the pre-modern world. They offer an argument against sweeping generalizations about the ways in which humans form themselves into groups, and encourage further scholarly research into the ways in which communities are formed and shaped.” —Ethical Perspectives

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Book SynopsisVisions of Community in the Pre-Modern World contains original essays by five leading scholars in the fields of history, art history, and literature on the ways in which communities were imagined and built between the eleventh and sixteenth centuries. These essays, which function as case studies, range geographically from Europe to Africa, the Near East to regions of Latin America. While acknowledging major factors that affect communitysuch as religious belief, imperial expansion, and warfarethese studies focus on precise examples and moments in the pre-modern world.Giles Constable discusses the ways in which monastic vows of service to God served as the basis for communities of monks in Europe in the Middle Ages. Anthony Cutler explores the means by which Byzantine and Islamic communities were created and maintained through the use of visual and textual signs. Annabel Patterson draws on visual images and representations to explore how endangered Catholic communitiesTrade Review“The essays in Visions of Community offer beautifully nuanced analyses of the ways in which various types of institutional and social identifications intersected and supplemented one another in the premodern period.” —The Sixteenth Century Journal“The admirable objectives and themes announced in Howe’s introduction are met and illuminated. The malleable device of studying communities historically ways is done in model ways here.” —Renaissance Quarterly“Visions of Community in the Pre-Modern World is an enjoyable read.” —HISTORY: Reviews of New Books“... Fascinating and provocative....” —Utopian Studies“The five contributors to this book reveal the inherent complexity and variety of communities in the pre-modern world. They offer an argument against sweeping generalizations about the ways in which humans form themselves into groups, and encourage further scholarly research into the ways in which communities are formed and shaped.” —Ethical Perspectives

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Indonesian Pluralities does a remarkable job providing a broad range of case studies from areas that have been so important for religious pluralism in Indonesia. This is a stimulating, intellectually rich, and coherent volume." —James B. Hoesterey, author of Rebranding Islam"This edited volume provides a well-rounded discussion of contemporary Indonesian pluralities from a variety of perspectives....Highly suitable for those seeking an overview of Indonesian pluralities, the associated lived realities, and their various challenges."—Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Indonesian Pluralities does a remarkable job providing a broad range of case studies from areas that have been so important for religious pluralism in Indonesia. This is a stimulating, intellectually rich, and coherent volume." —James B. Hoesterey, author of Rebranding Islam"This edited volume provides a well-rounded discussion of contemporary Indonesian pluralities from a variety of perspectives....Highly suitable for those seeking an overview of Indonesian pluralities, the associated lived realities, and their various challenges."—Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde

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