Social and cultural anthropology Books
University of Notre Dame Press The Picaresque and the Writing Life in Mexico
Book SynopsisTrade Review“This is by far the best piece of scholarship I have read on the subject of the Mexican picaresque, and that includes the book I wrote on the subject. It includes brilliant re-evaluations of many classic picaresque narratives from Mexico but also includes equally brilliant analyses of more recent narratives.” —Timothy G. Compton, author of Mexican Picaresque Narratives"This smart, spirited book is more than a monograph with one bright idea. Readers across fields in the humanities will find leads and provocations informed by big thinkers beyond the inevitable Ångel Rama. . . . The book is rich in ideas about how literature is produced and about picaresque narratives as ‘fictions of liberation from the labor process’ that are yet basically conservative in outlook." —Hispanic American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Genealogies 2. Value 3. Colonialism 4. Bodies Epilogue: National Literatures, Global Contexts
£45.00
University of Notre Dame Press Drug Lords Cowboys and Desperadoes
Book SynopsisDrug Lords, Cowboys, and Desperadoes examines how historical archetypes in violent narratives on the Mexican American frontier have resulted in political discourse that feeds back into real violence.The drug battles, outlaw culture, and violence that permeate the U.S.-Mexican frontier serve as scenery and motivation for a wide swath of North American culture. In this innovative study, Rafael Acosta Morales ties the pride that many communities felt for heroic tales of banditry and rebels to the darker repercussions of the violence inflicted by the representatives of the law or the state. Narratives on bandits, cowboys, and desperadoes promise redistribution, regeneration, and community, but they often bring about the very opposite of those goals. This paradox is at the heart of Acosta Morales's book.Drug Lords, Cowboys, and Desperadoes examines the relationship between affect, narrative, and violence surrounding three historical archetypessocial banTrade Review“Drug Lords, Cowboys, and Desperadoes is a theoretically engaged tour-de-force that offers new interpretations of classic and subcultural texts depicting the borderlands.” —Jason Ruiz, author of Americans in the Treasure House“Drug Lords, Cowboys, and Desperadoes touches on very important themes for the recent political and social conditions of Mexico. It also calls attention to the discourses that historically have produced a sense of entitlement and racial superiority in the U.S. and the manner in which these have manifested themselves against the other, specifically, against Mexicans.” —Fernando Fabio Sánchez, author of Artful AssassinsTable of ContentsIntroduction. Affective Assemblages: People And The Stories We Love 1. Drug Lords: Capital And Social Banditry 2: Cowboys: Weaponized Trauma 3. Desperadoes: Illegal Representativity Afterword. To Dream The Stories Untold
£40.50
University of Notre Dame Press Integral Human Development
Book SynopsisTrade Review“The wide range of authors and the variety of approaches, from analysis of literature and critique of limitations of one or another position, to reports on actual development work in different parts of the world, make it a rich compendium contributing to an important conversation between Catholic social teaching and the capability approach.” —Patrick Riordan, S.J., author of Recovering Common Goods"This is a book to borrow and relish. ...It wrestles thoughtfully with an issue that should concern us all in a pluralistic world that faces very serious, human-induced, global challenges." — Church TimesTable of ContentsIntroduction by Séverine Deneulin and Clemens Sedmak Part 1. Foundations 1. The anthropologies of CST and CA by Amy Daughton 2. Orthodox personhood: Clarifying the anthropological presuppositions of human development by Dana Bates 3. Freedom and agency: A conceptual exploration within CST and CA by Lori Keleher 4. Dignity and community in CA and CST by Joshua Schulz 5. Persistent gender inequality: Why CST needs CA by Katie Dunne 6. Integral ecology: Autonomy, the common inheritance of the earth and creation theology by Cathriona Russell 7. Caring for the earth: Challenges for CST and CA by Clemens Sedmak Part 2. Common Ground for Action 8. Development as freedom together: Human dignity and human rights in CST and CA by Meghan Clark 9. Encounter and agency: An account of a grassroots organization in Uganda by Ilaria Schnyder von Wartensee and Elizabeth Hlabse 10. Agency, power and ecological conversion: The case of the Conflict-Free Technology campaign by Guillermo Otano Jiménez 11. Integral human development: A role for children’s savings accounts? by James P. Bailey 12. Preferential option for the poor and solidarity in practice: A Salzburg initiative to combat child poverty in Romania by Helmut P. Gaisbauer 13. Combining CST and CA to promote integral human development by Séverine Deneulin and Augusto Zampini-Davies Conclusion by Clemens Sedmak and Séverine Deneulin
£48.60
University of Notre Dame Press Public Works
Book SynopsisIn Public Works: Infrastructure, Irish Modernism, and the Postcolonial, Michael Rubenstein documents the relationship between Irish modernism and a restricted segment of the material culture of the modern state known colloquially as public utilities or water, gas, and electricity. The water tap, the toilet, the gas jet, and the electrical light switch: these are all sites, in Irish modernism, of unexpected literary and linguistic intensities that burst through the routines of everyday life, defamiliarizing and reconceptualizing that which we might not normally consider worthy of literary attention. Such public utilitiesmaterial networks of power and provision, submission and entitlementare taken up in Irish modernism not only as a nexus of anxieties about modern life, but also as a focal point for the hopes held out for the postcolonial Irish Free State. Public utilities figure a normative and utopian standard of modernity and modernization; they embody in Irish modernism andTrade Review“. . . one of the most original and important contributions to Irish studies, and to a number of other fields as well, that has been written by a young scholar in recent years. It will be an important and much discussed book. It participates in, and outlines the future of, significant new directions in areas such as Irish Studies, modernist studies, postcolonial studies, and the study of the relations among technology, materiality, and culture.” —Marjorie Howes, Boston College“Can you imagine a Joycean appeal for the payment of taxes? If you do not find it easy, you may be ready to take in the superb literary flair and pitch-perfect sense of present urgencies that puts Public Works at the sharpest edge of new scholarship. Michael Rubenstein makes a tiger’s leap into the recent past, when the intimacy of the home had not yet learned to take for granted its connection to networks of electricity, gas, and water. He has written the book on the very hot topic of infrastructure, and he’s done so while also figuring out a new direction for postcolonial studies. You will never be able to read Ulysses the same way again.” —Bruce Robbins, Columbia University“Michael Rubenstein’s Public Works asks us to look at a new dimension of a specifically Irish modernism when he argues for the vital importance of infrastructure, specifically electricity, water, and gas. Following the lead of Bruce Robbins, Michael Bérubé, and others, Rubenstein frames his argument within ‘a Benjaminian, redemptionist, weak-messianic story about the development of public utilities as the development of a common good.’” —James Joyce Quarterly“Michael Rubenstein’s wonderfully clear, engaging, smart, and witty new book . . . deals primarily with the history, politics, and legacy of the Irish Free State by looking at large-scale municipal projects. . . . There is much to admire in this book: unique readings of canonical texts; fresh connections between painting, literature, engineering, politics, and economics; and . . . a keen sense of the key questions of our contemporary moment: namely, the usefulness and value of government.” —James Joyce Literary Supplement". . . this brilliant book offers riches in abundance not only for scholars in Irish studies but for anyone concerned with literature and culture as they function in the world today. It is theoretically rigorous, intellectually wide-ranging, and never less than a pleasure to read." —Contemporary Literature“Public Works: Infrastructure, Irish Modernism, and the Postcolonial offers an innovative take on the multiple functions of public utilities in literary discourses, with an emphasis on those that consider the effects of modernization in Ireland. Michael Rubenstein’s approach brings to the fore the previously understudied subjects of water, gas, and electricity as agents in the development of the Irish Free State between 1922 and 1940.” —New Hibernia Review“Public Works is a refreshing addition to both modernist and postcolonial studies, and one that is almost certainly indicative of a new kind of scholarship in both fields. By taking the somewhat counterintuitive approach of linking works of engineering to works of literature, Rubenstein has produced a truly interdisciplinary study that provides valuable insights into some of Ireland’s most important literary figures.” —Modern Fiction Studies“In terms of its imaginative research, its theoretical risk-taking, and its startlingly original views of Irish modernity, Michael Rubenstein deserves to be included on this short list of infrastructure must-reads.” —Irish University Review“Public Works received the Modernist Studies Association Book Prize in 2011 and the Rhodes Prize for Best Book in Irish Literature from the American Conference for Irish Studies in 2010, and it will certainly influence subsequent work in both fields through its well-honed examination of the connections between public utilities and Irish modernism. Among its many accomplishments, Public Works provides new readings of well-tread modernist texts.” —E3W Review of Books“Rubenstein proceeds from an expressive homology between the production of two modern epics, Ulysses and public infrastructure in postcolonial Ireland—‘one a milestone of literary modernism and the other a milestone of technological modernization.’” —Years Work in English Studies
£70.55
Pennsylvania State University Press Chinese Christians in America
Book SynopsisThis case study reveals the role of religion in the lives of Chinese Christians in the US. Christianity is the most practiced religion among the Chinese in America; this book explores the subject from the inside, revealing how Chinese people construct and reconstruct their identities.Trade Review“Yang’s contribution documents how Christianity in general and Chinese churches in particular have integrally influenced the identity formation of Chinese immigrants. Furthermore, Yang’s book suggests that Chinese evangelical Christians (as well as other recent immigrants) are the ones responsible for sustaining America’s religiosity. Scholars interested in tapping into this religious pulse will find Yang’s book not just useful but indispensable. Yang’s Chinese Christians in America marks an important break from traditional congregational studies of Christian churches in America. He explores how religion influences and shaped the multiple identities of Chinese immigrants.”—Michael H. Truong Contemporary Sociology“In the final analysis . . . this study is a welcome contribution to the discourse of religion in modern, cosmopolitan societies, which may well come to be regarded as a standard work in its field.”—Lars Peter Laamann Religious Studies Review“Yang’s contribution documents how Christianity in general and Chinese churches in particular have integrally influenced the identity formation of Chinese immigrants. Furthermore, Yang’s book suggests that Chinese evangelical Christians (as well as other recent immigrants) are the ones responsible for sustaining America’s religiosity. Scholars interested in tapping into this religious pulse will find Yang’s book not just useful but indispensable.”—Michael H. Truong Contemporary Sociology“Yang’s Chinese Christians in America marks an important break from traditional congregational studies of Christian churches in America. He explores how religion influences and shapes the multiple identities of Chinese immigrants.”—Michael H. Truong Contemporary Sociology
£31.46
University of Texas Press The Devil and the Land of the Holy Cross
Book SynopsisOriginally published in Brazil as O Diabo e a Terra de Santa Cruz, this translation from the Portuguese analyzes the nature of popular religion and the ways it was transferred to the New World in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.Trade Review" ... engaging in its breadth and well as in its scope."--Jrnl of Latin American Studies, February 2005Table of Contents Preface to the English Edition Preface to the First Edition Acknowledgments Translator's Note Part I. A Wealth of Impieties: The Colony's Lot 1. The New World between God and the Devil 2. Popular Religiosity in the Colony Part II. Sorcery, Magical Practices, and Daily Life 3. Material Survival 4. The Onset of Conflict 5. Maintaining Bonds of Affection 6. Communicating with the Supernatural Part III. Culture, Imagination, and Everyday Life 7. Intertwined Discourses 8. Remarkable Stories: Where Their Roads Led Conclusion. Sabbats and Calundus Appendix: Tables Notes Glossary Sources and Bibliography Index
£26.09
University of Texas Press Reading Palestine Printing and Literacy 19001948
Book SynopsisAddressing an exciting aspect of Middle Eastern history as well as the power of the printed word itself, Reading Palestine describes how the sudden rise of literacy in Palestine intensified the role of literacy in every sphere of community life.Trade Review"Superb... Ayalon's work is not a fresh look at an old topic, but is a successful innovative product portraying how and when Palestinians used and read printed texts and the pace with which those texts influenced multiple aspects of Arab society in Palestine. It is masterfully presented." Kenneth W. Stein, William E. Schatten Professor of Contemporary Middle Eastern History and Israeli Studies, Emory UniversityTable of Contents Preface Introduction Palestine in the First Half of the Twentieth Century Recapturing Past Reading Chapter 1. Literacy and Education Education: Phases of Development The Impact of Education: Profile of the "Literate" Community Chapter 2. Texts: Imported, Produced, Viewed Traditional Stocks: The Augury of Change Impact of the Neighborhood Local Production Texts in the Public Domain Chapter 3. Texts Accessed and Afforded Conduits of Dissemination Buying One's Own Book Accessing without Buying: Libraries, Clubs, Reading Rooms Accessing without Buying: Open Public Places Chapter 4. Individual Reading Individual Reading: Past Legacy Mutala`ah in Twentieth-Century Palestine: The Comfort of Home Private Reading in Public Chapter 5. Collective Reading The Old, Familiar Conduits Vocal Reading: Bridging across Illiteracy Vocal Reading: The Extra Benefit of the Collective Experience Conclusion Notes Sources Index
£18.99
University of Texas Press Remembering the Hacienda
Book SynopsisA pathfinding study of how indigenous peasants experienced, responded to, and remember the often-harsh conditions of servitude in Ecuador's haciendas.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Part One: Introduction 1. Introduction 2. A History of Pangor and Monjas Corral Part Two: Society and Resistance 3. Hacienda Society and the Base of the Triangle 4. Saint Rose's Blessings 5. Reciprocity and Resistance Part Three: Respect and Authority 6. Disobedience and Respect: Two Accounts 7. Respect, Authority, and Discipline Part Four: The Legacy of the Hacienda 8. The Demise of the Hacienda 9. Liberation Theology and Ethnic Resurgence Notes Bibliography Index
£25.19
University of Texas Press Ethnographic Film Revised Edition
Book SynopsisA new, thoroughly updated edition of a classic volume on visual anthropology.Trade ReviewFrom reviews of the first edition: "Ethnographic Film can rightly be considered a film primer for anthropologists." Choice "This is an interesting and useful book about what it means to be ethnographic and how this might affect ethnographic filmmaking for the better. It obviously belongs in all departments of anthropology, and most ethnographic filmmakers will want to read it." EthnohistoryTable of Contents Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction Toward a Definition: The Nature of the Category "Ethnographic Film" The Nature of Ethnography The Differing Natures of Ethnography and Film "Truth" in Film and Ethnography 2. A History of Ethnographic Film Background Factors Prehistory: The Explorers Grass Scripted Fictional Films Bateson and Mead in Bali and New Guinea Jean Rouch John Marshall Robert Gardner Timothy Asch University of California American Indian Series The Netsilik Eskimo Project Australia The Natives' View Institutionalization of Ethnographic Film 3. The Attributes of Ethnographic Film The Attributes Additional Principles The Attributes as Dimensions 4. Making Ethnographic Film The Ethics of Ethnographic Filmmaking An Ethnographic Film Must Be Based on Ethnographic Understanding An Ethnographic Film Must Exploit the Visual Potential of Film Whole Bodies, Whole Interactions, and Whole People in Whole Acts Division of Labor The Meaning of Real Collaboration An Ethnographic Film Cannot Stand by Itself Ethnographic Films from Research Footage Preservation of the Film Record 5. The Use of Ethnographic Films in Teaching Films and Background Reading Strategies Appendix: A Brief Descriptive Catalog of Films Bibliography Index
£15.19
University of Texas Press The Projects Gang and NonGang Families in East
Book SynopsisA closer look into the reality of life in an East Los Angeles housing project where gangs have a longstanding presence.Table of Contents Foreword by Tom Weisner Preface Chapter One. Introduction Chapter Two. Rationale and Methods Chapter Three. A History of the Cuatro Flats Barrio Gang Chapter Four. The Gang Subculture: Change and Continuity Chapter Five. The Pico Gardens Clique Chapter Six. A Gang Life Chapter Seven. Cholas in the World of Gangs Chapter Eight. Why Children Either Avoid or Affiliate with Gangs Chapter Nine. Families Not Involved with Gangs Chapter Ten. A Closer Look at Gang-Affiliated Families Chapter Eleven. Gang Prevention and Intervention Strategies over Time Chapter Twelve. Conclusion and Recommendations References Index
£17.99
University of Texas Press The Shamans Mirror
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive study of one of the world’s great indigenous arts explores issues surrounding dreams and visions, ranging from what shamanic vision is to how artists use vision and how they perceive the soul in relation to their art.Table of Contents Foreword by Peter T. Furst Acknowledgments 1. The Path to the Sierra Madre 2. Wixárika: Children of the Ancestor Gods 3. Kakauyari: The Gods and the Land Are Alive 4. Gifts for the Gods 5. Sacred Yarn Paintings 6. Commercialization of the Nierika 7. Footprints of the Founders 8. Making Yarn Paintings 9. The Colors Speak 10. Sacred Colors and Shamanic Vision 11. The Artist as Visionary 12. The "Deified Heart": Huichol Soul Concepts and Shamanic Art 13. Arte Mágico: Magical Power in Yarn Paintings 14. Shamanic Art, Global Market 15. The Influence of the Market 16. Ancient Aesthetics, Modern Images Notes Glossary of Huichol and Spanish Terms Bibliography Index
£35.10
University of Texas Press Reconstructing Beirut
Book SynopsisReconstructing Beirut contributes to a new approach to Middle East studies that applies recent theories of memory and space/place, bringing a fresh framework for analyzing contemporary Arab cultures and post-conflict cities.Table of Contents A Note on Language Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One. Beirut: A City in Transition Chapter Two. Downtown in "the Ancient City of the Future" Chapter Three. `Ayn el-Mreisse: The Global Market and the Apartment Unit Chapter Four. "Beirut Is Ours, Not Theirs": Neighborhood Sites and Struggles in `Ayn el-Mreisse Chapter Five. Cafés, Funerals, and the Future of Coffee Spaces Chapter Six. Placing the War-Displaced Afterword: Reclaiming Downtown Again Notes Bibliography Index
£15.19
MU - University of Texas Press Kinship Myth in Ancient Greece
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£17.99
MU - University of Texas Press Sacred Modern
Book SynopsisThis illuminating ethnography of the Menil Collection—the first such study of a major art museum—explores how the Collection embodies its founders’ desire to bind the sacred to the modern and how the Menils’ legacy is being perpetuated and contested beyonTable of Contents Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Seven Layers of Blue Chapter 2: Faith Chapter 3: New World Chapter 4: Collecting as a Vocation Chapter 5: "Without Servitude to the Past, nor Recklessness" Chapter 6: Toward a Museum Chapter 7: Intimacies of Possession Chapter 8: Care Chapter 9: Institutionalization of an Aesthetic Chapter 10: For Aesthetics Notes Reference List Index
£20.69
University of Texas Press Digital Ethnography
Book SynopsisHere is a state-of-the-art primer on digital applications for social scientists, with explorations of the emerging field of hypermedia ethnography.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Rethinking Culture through Multimedia Ethnography Chapter 2. Florida and Peru: Experiments in Ethnographic Representation Chapter 3. Digital Tools for Anthropological Analysis Chapter 4. Using the Extensible Markup Language in Cultural Analysis and Presentation Natalie Underberg and Rudy McDaniel Chapter 5. Using Features of Digital Environments to Enable Cultural Learning Chapter 6. Cultural Heritage Video Game Design Conclusion. Narratives and Critical Anthropology: Roles for New Media Appendix: Guide to Web-Based Materials Glossary References Cited Index
£31.50
University of Texas Press Muslim Rap Halal Soaps and Revolutionary Theat
Book SynopsisTwelve leading scholars trace Islamic discourse on the performing arts to give insight into genres of pious productions throughout the world.Trade Review"A welcome addition to discussions about contemporary cultures in Muslim contexts. [...] The collection of essays in the volume Muslim Rap is impressive." - Contemporary IslamTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction. Artistic Developments in the Muslim Cultural Sphere: Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Performing Arts (Karin van Nieuwkerk) Part One: The Power of Performance Chapter 1. Hardcore Muslims: Islamic Themes in Turkish Rap between Diaspora and Homeland (Thomas Solomon) Chapter 2. Contesting Islamic Concepts of Morality: Heavy Metal in Istanbul (Pierre Hecker) Chapter 3. Iranian Popular Music in Los Angeles: A Transnational Public beyond the Islamic State (Farzaneh Hemmasi) Part Two: Motivations Chapter 4. Ritual as Strategic Action: The Social Logic of Musical Silence in Canadian Islam (Michael Frishkopf) Chapter 5. Pious Entertainment: Hizbullah's Islamic Cultural Sphere (Joseph Alagha) Chapter 6. Of Morals, Missions, and the Market: New Religiosity and "Art with a Mission" in Egypt (Karin van Nieuwkerk) Part Three: Staging the Body and the World Stage Chapter 7. Islamic Modernity and the Re-enchanting Power of Symbols in Islamic Fantasy Serials in Turkey (Ahu Yigit) Chapter 8. From "Evil-Inciting" Dance to Chaste "Rhythmic Movements": A Genealogy of Modern Islamic Dance-Theatre in Iran (Zeinab Stellar) Chapter 9. Suficized Musics of Syria at the Intersection of Heritage and the War on Terror; Or "A Rumi with a View" (Jonathan H. Shannon) Afterword (Martin Stokes) Notes on Contributors Index
£21.59
University of Texas Press Mary Michael and Lucifer Folk Catholicism in
Book SynopsisA modern semiotic and structuralist interpretation of traditional Mexican culture that accounts for the culture's apparent heterodoxy.Table of Contents Preface 1. Introduction 2. Setting, People, and Village 3. History 4. The Family 5. Ritual Kinship 6. The Faces of Evil 7. The Ceremonial Cycle 8. The Struggle with Evil 9. Los Aires 10. Syncretism and Social Meanings: An Overview Notes Bibliography Index
£17.99
University of Texas Press The Power of Huacas
Book SynopsisBased on extensive archival research, The Power of Huacas is the first book to take account of the reciprocal effects of religious colonization as they impacted Andean populations and, simultaneously, dramatically changed the culture and beliefs of SpanisTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. A Land Obsessed with Confessions; or, The Historians’ Insights into the World of Colonial Andean Religious Specialists2. Civil Versus Ecclesiastical Authorities3. The Sickening Powers of Christianity: A Response by Andean Religious Specialists4. Talking to Demons: The Intensified Persecution of Andean Religious Specialists (ca. 1609–1700)5. From Outspoken Criticism to Clandestine Resistance6. Glimpses of the Protective Powers of Andean Rituals in the Highlands7. Andean Notions of Nature and Harm, and the Disempowerment of Andean Healers8. Weeping Statues: The End of Jesuit Demonology and the Survival of an Andean Culture9. EpilogueNotesGlossaryConsulted ArchivesBibliographyDownload an extended bibliography.Index
£48.60
University of Texas Press Courage Resistance and Women in Ciudad Juarez
Book SynopsisCiudad Juárez has recently become infamous for its murder rate, which topped 3,000 in 2010 as competing drug cartels grew increasingly violent and the military responded with violence as well. Despite the atmosphere of intimidation by troops, police, and organized criminals, women have led the way in civil society activism, spurring the Juárez Resistance and forging powerful alliances with anti-militarization activists.An in-depth examination of la Resistencia Juarense, Courage, Resistance, and Women in Ciudad Juárez draws on ethnographic research to analyze the resistance’s focus on violence against women, as well as its clash with the war against drugs championed by Mexican President Felipe Calderón with the support of the United States. Through grounded insights, the authors trace the transformation of hidden discourses into public discourses that openly challenge the militarized border regimes. The authors also explore the advocacyTable of ContentsPrefaceChapter 1. Introduction: Conceptualizing Courage and Resistance in a Mired Human Rights ContextChapter 2. Historicizing and Contextualizing the Place: Three Historic JuncturesChapter 3. From Fear and Intimidation to Game-Changing ActivismChapter 4. "Fed Up" with Militarization and Murders, via Social MediaChapter 5. Toward Transnational Solidarity: Contesting the Border Narrative in a U.S. Congressional Race, Tribunals, and Faith-Based ActivismChapter 6. South-to-North Solidarity: Sicilia and Peace and Justice Movements at the BorderChapter 7. Conclusion: Reflections on the Possibilities of Post-Conflict Peace and JusticeAfterwordAppendix 1. Responsible Firearms Retailer Partnership: A 10-Point Voluntary CodeAppendix 2. Resolution (El Paso City Council)Appendix 3. Resolution (City of Los Angeles)NotesReferencesIndex
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University of Texas Press Batos Bolillos Pochos and Pelados
Book SynopsisTable of Contents* List of Figures * List of Tables * Borderlife Interview Projects * Preface * Acknowledgments * Introduction * Chapter 1. "Mama, Nosotros Somos Migrantes": South Texas Farmworkers, 1950-1990 (with Cruz C. Torres and Juanita Valdez Cox) * Chapter 2. "A Nice House": The Colonias of South Texas * Chapter 3. "Only a Maid": Undocumented Domestic Workers in South Texas (with Cruz C. Torres) * Chapter 4. Social Class on the South Texas-Mexico Border * Chapter 5. The Pain of Gain: Fifty Years of Anglo-Hispanic Relations in South Texas Schools (with Maria Olivia Villarreal Solano) * Chapter 6. From Mexicanos to Mexican Americans * Chapter 7. "!Ahi Viene el Bolillo!": Anglo Newcomers to South Texas * Chapter 8. Black, Brown, and White: Race and Ethnicity in South Texas * Appendix A: Student Interviewers * Appendix B: Borderlife Interview Surveys * Notes * Bibliography * Index
£21.59
University of Washington Press Reporting for China
Book SynopsisWhile Western media are shrinking their foreign correspondent networks, Chinese media, for the first time in history, are rapidly expanding worldwide. The Chinese government is financing most of this growth, hoping to strengthen its influence and improve its public image. But do these reporters willingly serve formulated agendas or do they follow their own interests? And are they changing Chinese citizens' views of the world?Based on interviews and informal conversations with over seventy current and former correspondents, Reporting for China documents a diverse group of professionals who hold political views from nationalist to liberal, but are constrained in their ability to report on the world by China's media control, audience tastes, and the declining market for traditional media.Trade Review"Reporting for China is a fascinating and imaginatively conceived study of Chinese correspondents who work abroad. . . . Readers beleaguered by recent US sparring over fake news and alternative facts will find in this study a refreshingly concrete exploration of the tension, unblinkingly relayed by Nyíri. . . . The book offers, in a very accessible style, a nuanced and vivid account of a domain that has long been subject to overly facile assumptions about what freedom of speech actually entails and how it comes to be curtailed." -- Louisa Schein * American Ethnologist *"As the pioneering work in this field, Nyiri’s vibrant and important book opens up a lot of new questions about China’s global media expansion and soft power attempts. It spearheads an exciting new direction in the analysis of Chinese media and cultural studies." -- Maria Repnikova * China Review International: A Journal of Reviews of Scholarly Literature in Chinese Studies *"The first extensive, systematic study of Chinese journalists who work as foreign correspondents for Chinese audiences. . . . A must-read for those interested in the machinations of Chinese politics and the Chinese state. . . . A fine example of how anthropologists study the media . . . valuable not just for anthropologists but also for scholars and students in the fields of media, communications, and journalism." -- Wanning Sun * The China Journal *"This is an original, nuanced, and informative study that deserves a wide audience." * Pacific Affairs *"Reporting for China: How Chinese Correspondents Work with the World is a fascinating account of the expanding ways the Chinese are engaging with the world. . . . [and] is successful not only in revealing the hidden dynamics and tensions that compel Chinese foreign correspondents to report the way they do, but also in shedding light on the Chinese government’s intentions and influence as these pertain to the news media." * Anthropology of Work Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: China and the World 1. The Worldwide Expansion of China’s Media 2. How Stories are Made 3. How Correspondents Work 4. Finding the “China Peg” Epilogue: Cosmopolitan Professionals in the Service of the Nation
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University of Washington Press Shanghai Sacred
Book SynopsisShanghai, a dynamic world metropolis, is home to a multitude of religions, from Buddhism and Islam, to Christianity and Baha'ism, to Hinduism and Daoism, and many more. In this city of 24 million inhabitants, new religious groups and older faiths together claim and reclaim spiritual space. Shanghai Sacred explores the spaces, rituals, and daily practices that make up the religious landscape of the city, offering a new paradigm for the study of Chinese spirituality that reflects the global trends shaping Chinese culture and civil society. Based on years of fieldwork, incorporating both comparative and methodological perspectives, Shanghai Sacred demonstrates how religions are lived, constructed, and thus inscribed into the social imaginary of the metropolis. Evocative photographs by Liz Hingley enrich and interact with the narrative, making the book an innovative contribution to religious visual ethnography.Trade Review"This empirically rich and analytically engaging book shows that Shanghai is not only a cosmopolitan city where East meets West in China, or a thriving metropolis that positions itself as both the home of the revolutionary movement and the cornerstone of Chinese ‘modernity,’ but that it is also an important global center in terms of cultural and religious diversity." * Reading Religion *"This commendable book, based on solid fieldwork, paints a comprehensive and vivid picture about the dynamic of people’s religious/spiritual lives in Shanghai . . . [and] opens a window for those who are eager to better understand the “lived” status of Chinese religions and spiritual practice." -- Anning Hu, Fudan University * China Review International *"Shanghai Sacred is the only book that attempts an all-inclusive survey of religious practices in a Chinese city (and indeed any contemporary Chinese locale), and in this the book succeeds admirably. . . . This informative book will appeal to scholars in religious studies, Chinese Studies, urban studies, and ‘Shanghai Studies.’" * Asian Ethnology *"This monograph-length account of Shanghai’s religious landscape is a welcome addition to the expanding literature on relgious practice in the People’s Republic of China." * Review of Religion and Chinese Society *"Shanghai Sacred’s priveliging of a visual approach, along with its close collaborative production, meticulous investigation, and fruitful conversations have resulted in an incisive, nuanced, and multifaceted analysis of the sacred milieu of the global metropolis that is Shanghai. . . . This book is an important piece of scholarship which provides an illuminating insight into ‘Shanghai sacred’ and will be of interest not only to those wishing to better understand the Chinese context but those wishing to better understand the wider role and place of the sacred in a fast-changing, globalized world." * Reading Religion *"[T]he study’s strength is the focus given to the multiple facets of religiosity in Shanghai’s sacred urban spaces. Organised into spatial metaphors, thefive chapters carry the reader into different communities and their religious practices, from the Buddhist practice of animal release to the Hindu Festival of Lights (Diwali) and the Muslim Festival of Sacrifice (Eid al-Adha)." * China Perspectives *"Shanghai Sacred contributes to the growing literature on global cities by showing how notions of the sacred both unite and divide foreigners, native residents, and migrants from other parts of China." * American Ethnologist (AE) *"This book examines the various ways that—amid the chaos and bustle of more than 24 million people—believers in Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, and other religions have carved out their own sacred spaces where they can perform their rituals in concert with others" * Journal of East Asian Studies *
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University of Washington Press Shanghai Sacred
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This empirically rich and analytically engaging book shows that Shanghai is not only a cosmopolitan city where East meets West in China, or a thriving metropolis that positions itself as both the home of the revolutionary movement and the cornerstone of Chinese ‘modernity,’ but that it is also an important global center in terms of cultural and religious diversity." * Reading Religion *"This commendable book, based on solid fieldwork, paints a comprehensive and vivid picture about the dynamic of people’s religious/spiritual lives in Shanghai . . . [and] opens a window for those who are eager to better understand the “lived” status of Chinese religions and spiritual practice." -- Anning Hu, Fudan University * China Review International *"Shanghai Sacred is the only book that attempts an all-inclusive survey of religious practices in a Chinese city (and indeed any contemporary Chinese locale), and in this the book succeeds admirably. . . . This informative book will appeal to scholars in religious studies, Chinese Studies, urban studies, and ‘Shanghai Studies.’" * Asian Ethnology *"This monograph-length account of Shanghai’s religious landscape is a welcome addition to the expanding literature on relgious practice in the People’s Republic of China." * Review of Religion and Chinese Society *"Shanghai Sacred’s priveliging of a visual approach, along with its close collaborative production, meticulous investigation, and fruitful conversations have resulted in an incisive, nuanced, and multifaceted analysis of the sacred milieu of the global metropolis that is Shanghai. . . . This book is an important piece of scholarship which provides an illuminating insight into ‘Shanghai sacred’ and will be of interest not only to those wishing to better understand the Chinese context but those wishing to better understand the wider role and place of the sacred in a fast-changing, globalized world." * Reading Religion *"[T]he study’s strength is the focus given to the multiple facets of religiosity in Shanghai’s sacred urban spaces. Organised into spatial metaphors, thefive chapters carry the reader into different communities and their religious practices, from the Buddhist practice of animal release to the Hindu Festival of Lights (Diwali) and the Muslim Festival of Sacrifice (Eid al-Adha)." * China Perspectives *"Shanghai Sacred contributes to the growing literature on global cities by showing how notions of the sacred both unite and divide foreigners, native residents, and migrants from other parts of China." * American Ethnologist (AE) *"This book examines the various ways that—amid the chaos and bustle of more than 24 million people—believers in Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, and other religions have carved out their own sacred spaces where they can perform their rituals in concert with others" * Journal of East Asian Studies *
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University of Washington Press The Han
Book SynopsisOpen-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295805979This ethnography explores contemporary narratives of Han-ness, revealing the nuances of what Han identity means today in relation to that of the fifty-five officially recognized minority ethnic groups in China, as well as in relation to home place identities and the country's national identity. Based on research she conducted among native and migrant Han in Shanghai and Beijing, Aqsu (in Xinjiang), and the Sichuan-Yunnan border area, Agnieszka Joniak-Luthi uncovers and discusses these identity topographies. Bringing into focus the Han majority, which has long acted as an unexamined backdrop to ethnic minorities, Joniak-Luthi contributes to the emerging field of critical Han studies as she considers how the Han describe themselves - particularly what unites and divides them - as well as the functions of Han identity and the processes through which it is maintained and reproduced. The Han will appeal to scholars and students of contemporary CTrade Review"Contemporary anthropological research infrequently focuses on the Han, who constitute 91.5 percent of the Chinese population. Social anthropologist Joniak-Lüthi takes a big step “to explore the Han and Han-ness”… An ambitious work, similar to defining America and Americanism. Recommended." * Choice *"This should be a must-read for anyone interested in historical and contemporary notions of identity in China." -- Carla Nappi * New Books Network *"I am constantly intrigued by what it means to be Han. . . . Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi's remarkable new book casts light on this question, and reveals Hanness as a slippery and multivalent designation. . . . The fieldwork undertaken by the author for this study, and the deep analysis to which she has subjected it, has produced a wonderful contribution to scholarship on the Han, but I believe it illumines also the ways in which we all see ourselves." -- Simon Wickhamsmith * New Books Asia *Table of ContentsForeword by Stevan Harrell Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Narrating “the Han” 2. Contemporary Narratives of Han-ness 3. Topographies of Identity 4. Othering, Exclusion, and Discrimination 5. Fragmented Identities, the Han Minzu, and Ethnicity Epilogue Notes Glossary of Chinese Characters References Index
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University of Washington Press Caring for Glaciers
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In an outstanding example of multispecies anthropology based on 18 months of field research in Ladakh, northwest India, Gagné (anthropology, Univ. of Guelph) examines the consequences of war since 1948, the militarization of the border, demographic shifts, economic transformations, and unpredictable rainfall on agro-pastoral communities. . . .Highly recommended." * Choice *"This refreshing, honest-to-life portrayal of ethnographic moments makes this an essential book for anyone interested in understanding contemporary issues in the Himalayas and changing human-cryosphere relationships. . . . Gagné demonstrates that the region becomes meaningful through the entanglements of land, animals, and humans. In Caring for Glaciers, readers learn that the ethics of care, which maintain these entanglements, are eroding. It is therefore a sobering gift." * Journal of Asian Studies *"[A]n evocative ethnography of how the Tibetan Buddhist Ladakhis on the borderlands of India’s northwestern frontier have coped with the dramatic changes in the context of their lives since the 1947 partition of India. [A] profoundly compelling story of how globalization, conflict, and climate change have transformed people and, yes, glaciers." * Journal of Anthropological Research *"[A]n eloquent ethnographic exploration of how ethics and morality are cultivated through the everyday practices of living in the high desert of Ladakh in the Indian Himalayas." * Anthropologica *"[A] unique integrative account of generational and climate resiliency in the Himalayas." * Anthropological Quarterly *"[A] rich and timely ethnography exploring the ethical dimen-sion of human entanglement with the non‐human world...The great strength of Caring for Glaciers lies in the depth of its ethnographic description, drawing out the entanglement of political and environmental factors in modern Ladakh. It deserves to be read not only by regional specialists, but by anyone with an interest in human relations with the more‐than‐human world." * Social Anthropology *
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University of Washington Press Caring for Glaciers
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In an outstanding example of multispecies anthropology based on 18 months of field research in Ladakh, northwest India, Gagné (anthropology, Univ. of Guelph) examines the consequences of war since 1948, the militarization of the border, demographic shifts, economic transformations, and unpredictable rainfall on agro-pastoral communities. . . .Highly recommended." * Choice *"This refreshing, honest-to-life portrayal of ethnographic moments makes this an essential book for anyone interested in understanding contemporary issues in the Himalayas and changing human-cryosphere relationships. . . . Gagné demonstrates that the region becomes meaningful through the entanglements of land, animals, and humans. In Caring for Glaciers, readers learn that the ethics of care, which maintain these entanglements, are eroding. It is therefore a sobering gift." * Journal of Asian Studies *"[A]n evocative ethnography of how the Tibetan Buddhist Ladakhis on the borderlands of India’s northwestern frontier have coped with the dramatic changes in the context of their lives since the 1947 partition of India. [A] profoundly compelling story of how globalization, conflict, and climate change have transformed people and, yes, glaciers." * Journal of Anthropological Research *"[A]n eloquent ethnographic exploration of how ethics and morality are cultivated through the everyday practices of living in the high desert of Ladakh in the Indian Himalayas." * Anthropologica *"[A] unique integrative account of generational and climate resiliency in the Himalayas." * Anthropological Quarterly *"[A] rich and timely ethnography exploring the ethical dimen-sion of human entanglement with the non‐human world...The great strength of Caring for Glaciers lies in the depth of its ethnographic description, drawing out the entanglement of political and environmental factors in modern Ladakh. It deserves to be read not only by regional specialists, but by anyone with an interest in human relations with the more‐than‐human world." * Social Anthropology *
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University of Washington Press Sensitive Space
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A distinctive and imaginative account of the peculiar and often mystified enclaves or ‘fragmented territories’ on the border between India and Bangladesh. . . . Cons offers a rich and nuanced ethnography of multiple dimensions of everyday struggles, contestations, and opportunities in Dahagram. . . . Sensitive Space opens new conceptual avenues for analyses on the Indo-Bangladeshi border as well as border studies more generally." -- Prithvi Hirani * Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography *"Cons . . . allows his rich ethnographic material to reveal the complexities of postcolonial sovereignty, insecurity, and precarity. The result is a highly readable, theoretically acute, and sharply insightful work." -- Sankaran Krishna * Journal of Asian Studies *
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University of Washington Press The Nuosu Book of Origins
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The two scholars are perfect collaborators. Between them, they found a rare version of the epic written in the Yi script, produced an accurate translation, and added to it a comprehensive and insightful introductory treatise to Yi culture." * Journal of Folklore Research *"[A]n outstanding success...will undoubtedly be an essential primary source for scholars of Yi studies." * Bulletin of SOAS *"[R]emarkable book...presents a world apart from “Western” worldviews but at the same time inspires the readers to reflect on and understand other worldviews and to scrutinize our own." * China Review International *"Poetic in form, the narrative provides insights into how a clan- and caste-based society organizesitself, dictates ethics, relates to other ethnic groups, and adapts to a harsh environment." * New Books Network (NBN) *
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University of Washington Press The Nuosu Book of Origins
Book SynopsisOpen-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295745701The Nuosu people, who were once overlords of vast tracts of farmland and forest in the uplands of southern Sichuan and neighboring provinces, are the largest division of the Yi ethnic group in southwest China. Their creation epic plots the origins of the cosmos, the sky and earth, and the living beings of land and water. This translation is a rare example in English of Indigenous ethnic literature from China. Transmitted in oral and written forms for centuries among the Nuosu, The Book of Origins is performed by bimo priests and other tradition-bearers. Poetic in form, the narrative provides insights into how a clan- and caste-based society organizes itself, dictates ethics, relates to other ethnic groups, and adapts to a harsh environment. A comprehensive introduction to the translation describes the land and people, summarizes the work's themes, and discusses the significance of The Book of Origins for the understanding of folk epics, eTrade Review"The two scholars are perfect collaborators. Between them, they found a rare version of the epic written in the Yi script, produced an accurate translation, and added to it a comprehensive and insightful introductory treatise to Yi culture." * Journal of Folklore Research *"[A]n outstanding success...will undoubtedly be an essential primary source for scholars of Yi studies." * Bulletin of SOAS *"[R]emarkable book...presents a world apart from “Western” worldviews but at the same time inspires the readers to reflect on and understand other worldviews and to scrutinize our own." * China Review International *"Poetic in form, the narrative provides insights into how a clan- and caste-based society organizesitself, dictates ethics, relates to other ethnic groups, and adapts to a harsh environment." * New Books Network (NBN) *
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University of Washington Press Working with the Ancestors
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book details how international resource management perspectives conflict with local values: ‘the question of how to manage and preserve Marquesan heritage tangles intimately with how to ensure sustainable local livelihoods, now and into the future.’ Well-researched, this book commendably documents multiple Marquesan viewpoints. It recommends limiting heritage tourism in favor of agricultural use and advocates incorporating indigenous concerns." * Choice *"This study...lies at the intersection of various topics and approaches in social anthropology, history and heritage studies and offers an insightful perspective on the case of the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia...[B]oth timely and necessary." * Journal of Pacific History *"This well-written and powerful book blends together theoretical foundations, ethnographic examples, and Donaldson’s own extensive anthropological fieldwork, presented as a series of vignettes and case studies. Taken together it is a valuable contribution to academic and applied work in heritage studies, development encounters, and tourism in the Pacific." * Pacific Affairs *"Working with the Ancestors is a fascinating book. Embedded in the values of place, knowledge of place and power, this book furthers current debates within humangeography, anthropology and environmental sustainability concerning posthumanism, especially in terms of how posthumanistic notions can play out within the everydaylives of Indigenous people...In the tradition of the best anthropological books, Working with the Ancestors transports the reader to a foreign land and allows them to learn from local people themselves. It is a journey worth taking." * Archaeology in Oceania *
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University of Washington Press Roses from Kenya
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In addition to an exploration of controversial labor practices, the book is also about a lake and the confluence of wildlife, commerce, power and politics surrounding it. . . . Styles' book helps contextualize the labor that goes into a gift many will receive." * Illinois Times *"Styles has produced an insightful work filled with evocative analysis." * H-Net *"Styles’ vivid ethnographic descrip-tions draw attention to the myriad local contestations refashioned and created byfloriculture. This approach enables the reader to not only learn about the problem-atic sides offlower production in Kenya but to also get to know Naivasha as a site of possibility that has an important place in political and moral imaginations." * The Journal of Modern African Studies *"Styles succeeds in conveying the complexities and contradictions of global commodity production: work in floriculture, in spite of the possibilities it affords, is no bed of roses." * Exertions *
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University of Washington Press Disturbed Forests Fragmented Memories
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Based on extensive fieldwork, this book is part ethnography of a marginal Cambodian hill tribe of rice farmers, the Jarai, and part eco/cultural treatise about the mutual influences between people and their land and between history and memory." * Choice *"[N]ot your average academic book...a truly interdisciplinary contribution...Its strength lies precisely in this interdisciplinarity, allowing Padwe to draw out novel and thought-provoking insights in an engaging writing style (complemented with beautiful photos)." * South East Asia Research *"[T]he book analyzes forest biota and agricultural practices, enabling a new approach to conceptualizing landscapes that melds representation, materiality and ecology." * New Books in Southeast Asian Studies (NBN) *"By zooming in on vernacular geography and ecology in combination with history and anthropology, Padwe has crafted a compelling addition to this small library of vernacular highland histories in mainland Southeast Asia. A highly readable book that does not suffer from overtheorization, Disturbed Forests, Fragmented Memories will be of interest for historians and anthropologists of the region and, more importantly, for those interested in how a “more-than-human anthropology” and history might look like in practice." * Journal of Asian Studies *"Southeast Asia scholars in multiple fields will be drawn to the book for its impeccable attention to the ethnographic, oral, and archival record of the Vietnam-Cambodian borderlands." * Journal of Peasant Studies *"The stories that Padwe narrates are a pleasure to read and capture a sense of the world in which the highlanders of northeastern Cambodia live." * Journal of Vietnamese Studies *"Being of blurred genre, beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries of anthropology, human geography, Southeast Asia studies, or ethnohistory, this text may be of comparative interest for those anywhere engaged in bottom-up restoration—whether Native American revival of land stewardship through cultural burning, urban folk attempting to restore gift economies through permaculture garden systems, and others thinking deeply about ecological resilience and recuperation in the conjunctures of our post-pandemic world." * Conservation and Society *"This thought-provoking book...is excellent in its richness and detail." * Pacific Affairs *"[A] beautifully written and insightful ethnography that draws on Jonathan Padwe's long-term work in the Jarai village of Tang Kadon, in Cambodia's Ratanakiri province...Although Disturbed Forests, Fragmented Lives is a wonderful example of more-than-human anthropology, it will resonate with broader audiences who work on frontier dynamics, violence, memory and the co-production of nature–society in and beyond mainland Southeast Asia." * Journal of Southeast Asian Studies *
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University of Washington Press Chinese Village Life Today
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A]n excellent record of the effects of Chinse-style modernization on families and relationships in a representative rural area...Anyone interested in the modernization of rural areas, in China or elsewhere, should read this book." * Choice *"Chinese Village Life Today is a concise and persuasive read, and the author effectively conveys his findings from nearly 20 years of fieldwork. Among the book’s many interventions, three innovative aspects of it stand out: first, its analytical shift to the “rural” for studying migration and the world of work; second, its focus on the negotiation of “intimate choices” and how changing economic and political relations shape this process; and third, its longitudinal and multi-sited methodology that offers a template for other scholars researching social change in developing countries." * Society for the Anthropology of Work *"[T]he book makes a distinct contribution to ongoing efforts in social science to respect the perspectives of marginal groups and to present the complexities of social structural transformation." * The China Journal *"Beautifully written...Interweaving vibrant stories of the lives of Harmony Cave villagers with insightful analyses of processes of social, cultural, political, and economic transformation and sophisticated engagement with anthropological theories, Santos shows that it is still possible to write a rich, vivid village ethnography that is also contemporary and deeply intertwined with broader national and global processes." * Anthropos *
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University of Washington Press Chinese Village Life Today
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A]n excellent record of the effects of Chinse-style modernization on families and relationships in a representative rural area...Anyone interested in the modernization of rural areas, in China or elsewhere, should read this book." * Choice *"Chinese Village Life Today is a concise and persuasive read, and the author effectively conveys his findings from nearly 20 years of fieldwork. Among the book’s many interventions, three innovative aspects of it stand out: first, its analytical shift to the “rural” for studying migration and the world of work; second, its focus on the negotiation of “intimate choices” and how changing economic and political relations shape this process; and third, its longitudinal and multi-sited methodology that offers a template for other scholars researching social change in developing countries." * Society for the Anthropology of Work *"[T]he book makes a distinct contribution to ongoing efforts in social science to respect the perspectives of marginal groups and to present the complexities of social structural transformation." * The China Journal *"Beautifully written...Interweaving vibrant stories of the lives of Harmony Cave villagers with insightful analyses of processes of social, cultural, political, and economic transformation and sophisticated engagement with anthropological theories, Santos shows that it is still possible to write a rich, vivid village ethnography that is also contemporary and deeply intertwined with broader national and global processes." * Anthropos *
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University of Washington Press Bad Dog
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is an astonishing book... The insights and implications ofcontemporary social theory, especially queer theory, are accessible, resonant, and concrete throughout the events andexperiences the author describes." * Choice *
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University of Washington Press Rural Origins City Lives
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Paints a compelling, sensitive and nuanced picture of who China’s migrant workers are. . . . An enjoyable and rewarding read." * China Quarterly *"Succeeds in showing that the category ‘peasant worker’ is much more heterogeneous than official and popular discourses suggest." * Anthropology of Work Review *"Rural Origins, City Lives does what good ethnography should do: it brings us into the grounded, life worlds of others in a way that forces us to question our broader assumptions and the categories that those assumptions are based on. That alone makes it a worthwhile and rewarding book." -- Tim Oakes * China Review International: A Journal of Reviews of Scholarly Literature in Chinese Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Paradigm of Rural to Urban Migration in Contemporary China 1. Who Is a “Peasant Worker”? 2. Speaking of Oneself 3. A Place of Encounters 4. Earning, Spending, Consuming 5. Negotiating Success Conclusion: Making Place, Making Class
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University of Washington Press Herring and People of the North Pacific
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is an exceptionally interesting, carefully written, and well-reasoned examination of the role the Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii) has played in the history and culture of the peoples of the Alexander Archipelago of southeastern Alaska." * Choice *"[A]n interesting read: a current fishing issue with a historic and anthropologic context, well documented and annotated, with references, photographs, charts, and a timeline of the Southeast herring fishery." * Alaska History *"A profoundly hopeful work. If it is taken seriously in high places, it will save the herring and the Tlingit fishery. It is such a stunningly well-done, scholarly, tightly argued work that it will be impossible to dismiss." * Ethnobiology Letters *"The critical element and clear strength of the book is that it is not just a chronicle of herring decline or diagnosis of what has gone wrong. Rather, it provides a way forward from the profoundly alarming situation we are confronted with. The authors’ way forward is a call to draw on traditional and local knowledge concerning sustainable harvesting practices and managerial strategies...[T]his volume offers the kind of rich, compelling and well-argued study that has significant potential to fuel transformational change." * Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology *"Integration of Indigenous knowledge into understanding and management of natural resources and the ecosystems they belong to has been a desired goal of anthropology for decades. Likewise, the use of archaeological data to provide deep diachronic perspective in studies of historical ecology is a growing objective/rational for the pursuit of archaeological research. This book, which considers the past, present, and future of an often-overlooked, but critical keystone species, Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii), represents a timely and impressive step toward attainment of those goals." * Journal of Anthropological Research *
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University of Washington Press Reppin
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This anthology serves as a cornerstone of indigenous anthropological research, reclaiming Pasifika identity not just for the youth of today, but for those of future generations." * New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies *"In a field of literature currently so lacking, this book adds valuable nuance and complexity, demonstrating the desire and practices of Pacific and Pasifika youth to positively connect to and represent their cultures." * Pacific Affairs *"There are significant highlights to [this] volume. Not least, the number of Pacific and Pasifika authors, whose voices are not always centred in Pacific texts...In a field of literature currently so lacking, this book adds valuable nuance and complexity, demonstrating the desire and practices of Pacific and Pasifika youth to positively connect to and represent their cultures." * Pacific Affairs *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Reppin', Island Style Keith L. Camacho PART I. Governance, Law, and Education CHAPTER 1. Koti Rangatahi: Whanaungatanga Justice and the "Magnificence of the Connectedness" Stella Black, Jacquie Kidd, and Katey Thom CHAPTER 2. "Raise Your Pen": A Critical Race Essay on Truth and Justice Kepa Okusitino Maumau, Moana 'Ule'Ave-Hafoka, and Lea Lani Kinikini CHAPTER 3. Pasifika Lens: An Analysis of Samoan Student Experiences in Australian High Schools Vaoiva Ponton PART II. Popular Culture, Social Media, and Hip Hop CHAPTER 4. Screen Sovereignty: Urban Youth and Community Media in Vanuatu Thomas Fick and Sarah Doyle CHAPTER 5. "Holla mai! Tongan 4 life!": Transnational Citizenship, Youth Style, and Mediated Interaction through Online Social Networking Communities Mary K. good CHAPTER 6. Making Waves: Marshallese Youth Culture, "Minor Songs," and Major Challenges Jessica A. Schwartz PART III. Indigenous Masculinities CHAPTER 7. Kanaka Waikiki: The Stonewall Gang and Beachboys of O'ahu, 1916-1954 Alika Bourgette CHAPTER 8."Still feeling it": Addressing the Unresolved Grief among the Samoan Bloods of Aotearoa New Zealand Moses Ma'alo Faleolo CHAPTER 9. Faikava: A Philosophy of Diasporic Tongan Youth, Hip Hop, and Urban Kava Circles Arcia Tecun, Edmond Fehoko, and 'Inoke Hafoka CHAPTER 10. The "Young Kings of Kalihi": Boys and Bikes in Hawai'i's Urban Ahupua'a Damiliza Saramosing Contributors Index
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University of Washington Press Reppin Pacific Islander Youth and Native Justice
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This anthology serves as a cornerstone of indigenous anthropological research, reclaiming Pasifika identity not just for the youth of today, but for those of future generations." * New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies *"In a field of literature currently so lacking, this book adds valuable nuance and complexity, demonstrating the desire and practices of Pacific and Pasifika youth to positively connect to and represent their cultures." * Pacific Affairs *"There are significant highlights to [this] volume. Not least, the number of Pacific and Pasifika authors, whose voices are not always centred in Pacific texts...In a field of literature currently so lacking, this book adds valuable nuance and complexity, demonstrating the desire and practices of Pacific and Pasifika youth to positively connect to and represent their cultures." * Pacific Affairs *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Reppin', Island Style Keith L. Camacho PART I. Governance, Law, and Education CHAPTER 1. Koti Rangatahi: Whanaungatanga Justice and the "Magnificence of the Connectedness" Stella Black, Jacquie Kidd, and Katey Thom CHAPTER 2. "Raise Your Pen": A Critical Race Essay on Truth and Justice Kepa Okusitino Maumau, Moana 'Ule'Ave-Hafoka, and Lea Lani Kinikini CHAPTER 3. Pasifika Lens: An Analysis of Samoan Student Experiences in Australian High Schools Vaoiva Ponton PART II. Popular Culture, Social Media, and Hip Hop CHAPTER 4. Screen Sovereignty: Urban Youth and Community Media in Vanuatu Thomas Fick and Sarah Doyle CHAPTER 5. "Holla mai! Tongan 4 life!": Transnational Citizenship, Youth Style, and Mediated Interaction through Online Social Networking Communities Mary K. good CHAPTER 6. Making Waves: Marshallese Youth Culture, "Minor Songs," and Major Challenges Jessica A. Schwartz PART III. Indigenous Masculinities CHAPTER 7. Kanaka Waikiki: The Stonewall Gang and Beachboys of O'ahu, 1916-1954 Alika Bourgette CHAPTER 8."Still feeling it": Addressing the Unresolved Grief among the Samoan Bloods of Aotearoa New Zealand Moses Ma'alo Faleolo CHAPTER 9. Faikava: A Philosophy of Diasporic Tongan Youth, Hip Hop, and Urban Kava Circles Arcia Tecun, Edmond Fehoko, and 'Inoke Hafoka CHAPTER 10. The "Young Kings of Kalihi": Boys and Bikes in Hawai'i's Urban Ahupua'a Damiliza Saramosing Contributors Index
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University of Washington Press Misreading the Bengal Delta
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A] methodologically innovative and rigorous work...The clarity the book offers in identifying the problems around the multiple framings of climate change makes it essential reading for scholars, development practitioners, government policymakers, and general readers interested in climate change and development, Bangladesh, or both." * H-Environment *"Accessible and eloquently written...[Dewan] convincingly shows that coherent policy ideas around climate change adaptation first and foremost tend to reflect the viewpoints and interests of policy actors themselves rather than those of the envisioned beneficiaries." * Journal of Peasant Studies *"A superb decolonial ethnography...Misreading the Bengal Delta is essential reading for anyone who wishes to think critically about climate change and its local effects, about the modes through which it is made legible, and about how superficial reading may be avoided through deep decolonial, historical, and ethnographic exegeses." -- Stefan Helmreich * American Anthropologist *"Camelia Dewan brilliantly illustrates how narratives of improvement have acted as metacodes from colonial time to modern day Bangladesh." * Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography *"Uniquely, this work focuses on a variety of ‘development brokers’ beyond the ubiquitous English-speaking Western development professionals. Through this focus on brokerage in the development-climate nexus, Dewan highlights the problematic power relations currently deciding climate knowledge production and, through it, advising adaptation projects which ‘misread’ the delta." * South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies *"[Dewan] unveils a perspective on the Bengal delta that is both very intriguing and insightful." * Water Alternatives Book Review *"Dewan’s account is a rich and nuanced portrayal of how climate change and development practitioners translate climate change into practice, and the effects that these translations have on local communities...A brilliant and urgent ethnography." * Anthropology Book Review *"Dewan’s book is a timely and well-critiqued ethnography of how development projects targeting to adapt to the impact of climate change can become maladaptation because of the missing local context." * Society and Culture in South Asia *
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University of Washington Press New Lives in Anand
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Sanderien Verstappen’s wonderful new book New Lives in Anand tells us that the story of Gujarati Muslims does not end with violence and displacement...[T]he book shows us how new lives and connections are made by communities who have deep ties to a region and a way of life that cannot be reduced to the word 'Muslim.'" -- Moyukh Chatterjee * The Wire *"Verstappen...holds herself accountable to the often-contradictory stories that her interlocutors tell about their relationship to communal violence. The threat of violence is still present as a binding force, but processes of social change are made livable by a new aesthetics of mobility and connectedness." -- Nikita Simpson * Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology *"The book is instrumental in charting a new paradigm to theorize segregated Muslim spaces and Muslim middle-class formations." * South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies *
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University of Washington Press Adivasi Art and Activism
Book SynopsisThe uneasy alliance of tribal art and the museum movementAs India consolidates an aggressive model of economic development, indigenous tribal people known as adivasis continue to be overrepresented among the country's poor. Adivasis make up more than eight hundred communities in India, with a total population of more than a hundred million people who speak more than three hundred different languages. Although their historical presence is acknowledged by the state and they are lauded as a part of India's ethnic identity today, their poverty has been compounded by the suppression of their cultural heritage and lifestyle. In Adivasi Art and Activism, Alice Tilche draws on anthropological fieldwork conducted in rural western India to chart changes in adivasi aesthetics, home life, attire, food, and ideas of religiosity that have emerged from negotiation with the homogenizing forces of Hinduization, development, and globalization in the twenty-first century. She documents curatorial projeTrade Review"The book offers a fascinating case study that, on the surface, is about a new museum of indigenous expression. The story runs much deeper than that, however, and Tilche skillfully weaves together interlocking narratives about identity, belonging, religion, and politics." * IIAS Newsletter *
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University of Washington Press Adivasi Art and Activism
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The book offers a fascinating case study that, on the surface, is about a new museum of indigenous expression. The story runs much deeper than that, however, and Tilche skillfully weaves together interlocking narratives about identity, belonging, religion, and politics." * IIAS Newsletter *
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University of Washington Press Fixing the Image
Book SynopsisIntroduced in Phnom Penh around 1990, at the twilight of socialism and after two decades of conflict and upheaval, ultrasound took root in humanitarian and then privatized medicine. Services have since multiplied, promising diagnostic information and better prenatal and general health care. In Fixing the Image Jenna Grant draws on years of ethnographic and archival research to theorize the force and appeal of medical imaging in the urban landscape of Phnom Penh. Set within long genealogies of technology as tool of postcolonial modernity, and vision as central to skilled diagnosis in medicine and Theravada Buddhism, ultrasound offers stabilizing knowledge and elicits desire and pleasure, particularly for pregnant women. Grant offers the concept of fixingwhich invokes repair, stabilization, and a dose of something to which one is addictedto illuminate how ultrasound is entangled with practices of care and neglect across different domains. Fixing the Image thus provides a method for study
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University of Washington Press Fixing the Image
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University of Washington Press Sustaining Natures
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION Sarah R. Osterhoudt and K. Sivaramakrishnan FARMING AND FOOD 1 . THE FARMING OF TRUST: ORGANIC CERTIFICATION AND THE LIMITS OF TRANSPARENCY IN UTTARAKHAND, INDIA Shaila Seshia Galvin 2 . A "QUEER-LOOKING COMPOUND": RACE, ABJECTION, AND THE POLITICS OF HAWAIIAN POI Hi'ilei Julia Hobart URBAN ENVIRONMENTS 3 . HOW THE GRASS BECAME GREENER IN THE CITY: ON URBAN IMAGININGS AND PRACTICES OF SUSTAINABLE LIVING IN SWEDEN Cindy Isenhour 4 . CIRCULARITY AND ENCLOSURES: METABOLIZING WASTE WITH THE BLACK SOLDIER FLY Amy Zhang ENERGY AND ENERGY ALTERNATIVES 5 . LANDSCAPES OF POWER: RENEWABLE ENERGY ACTIVISM IN DINÉ BIKÉYAH Dana E. Powell and Dáilan J. Long 6 . DECOLONIZING ENERGY: BLACK LIVES MATTER AND TECHNOSCIENTIFIC EXPERTISE AMID SOLAR TRANSITIONS Myles Lennon NONHUMAN LIFE 7 . "THE GOAT THAT DIED FOR FAMILY": ANIMAL SACRIFICE AND INTERSPECIES KINSHIP IN INDIA'S CENTRAL HIMALAYAS Radhika Govindrajan 8 . PASSIVE FLORA? RECONSIDERING NATURE'S AGENCY THROUGH HUMAN-PLANT STUDIES John Charles Ryan CLIMATE, LANDSCAPE, AND IDENTITY 9 . IMAGINING THE ORDINARY IN PARTICIPATORY CLIMATE ADAPTATION Sarah E. Vaughn 10. WHAT THE SANDS REMEMBER Vanessa Agard-Jones LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS INDEX
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University of Washington Press An Ecological History of Modern China
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[An] intellectually adventurous, wide-ranging, and boldly integrative study." * Foreign Affairs *
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University of Washington Press An Affair with Korea
Book SynopsisIn 1966 Vincent S. R. Brant lived in Sokp'o, a poor and isolated South Korean fishing village on the coast of the Yellow Sea, carrying out social anthropological research. At that time, the only way to reach Sokp'o, other than by boat, was a two hour walk along foot paths. This memoir of his experiences in a village with no electricity, running water, or telephone shows Brandt's attempts to adapt to a traditional, preindustrial existence in a small, almost completely self-sufficient community. This vivid account of his growing admiration for an ancient way of life that was doomed, and that most of the villagers themselves despised, illuminates a social world that has almost completely disappeared.Trade Review"I can recommend this highly readable memoir without hesitation to anyone who would like to become immersed in the daily life of a pre-modern far-eastern society at a time when it was still largely pursuing its slow-paced ancient ways of life--and being able to do so through the eyes of a most engaging, perceptive and sympathetic witness." -- Arthur H. Westing * Brattleboro Reviews *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction: Upon the Handles of the Lock 2. The Song of Songs as Cultural Text: From the European Enlightenment to Israeli Biblicism 3. Rechnitz’s Botany of Love: The Song of Seaweed 4. The Biblical Ethnographies of “Edo and Enam” and the Quest for the Ultimate Song Epilogue Forevermore Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
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