Social and cultural anthropology Books
University of Washington Press A Wealth of Thought
Book SynopsisEssays on the development of Boas' theories on primitive art and his legacy i Northwest Coast art studies offer a theoretical framework for this collectio of 14 articles written between 1889 and 1916 by the art historian and anthropologist. The articles, in which he disputes Eurocentric art theorie
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University of Washington Press The Earths Blanket
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The Earth's Blanket is an excellent distillation of traditional teachings and narratives. This thoroughly researched book provides the necessary framework for identifying a resource management grounded in cultural traditions and wisdom and is capable of achieving a sustainable agro-ecology." * Agricultural History *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Prologue: The Land and the Peoples 1. Wealth and Value in a Changing Land 2. Land-based Stories of People and Home Places 3. A Kincentric Approach to Nature 4. Honouring Nature through Ceremony and Ritual 5. The Balance between Humans and Nature 6. Looking After the Lands and Waters 7. Everything Is One 8. Finding Meaning in a Contemporary Context Source Notes References Index
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University of Washington Press Enclosed
Book SynopsisHighlights an urgent problem for indigenous communities around the world--repeated displacement from their landsTrade Review"Insightful, comprehensive, and authoritative . . . Grandia has made a significant contribution to environmental anthropology and to our understanding of neoliberalism and contemporary land and labor issues in Latin America." -- Molly Doane * Anthropological Quarterly *"This is a passionately written and often angry book, and the conclusion reaches a crescendo of critical outrage. Grandia is personally engaged in working with Q’eqchi’ groups seeking to resist the policies and processes that alienate people from the land and the independent livelihoods of small-farming or peasantry. [This book is a] powerful means to those ends." -- Bonnie J. McCay * PoLAR: Political & Legal Anthropology Review *"The book is well crafted and clearly written . . . a significant contribution to environmental anthropology and as an important ethnography about the Q’eqchi’." -- Sean S. Downey * Current Anthropology *"Enclosed would be so useful for undergrad and graduate classes in anthropology, geography, history, and sociology….Grandia and the press should be congratulated for producing this important work that will be of great utility for many years to come." -- Sterling Evans * Environmental History *"A rich anthropological account of continuity, change, and contestation over vital material and social resources…[with] thought-provoking contributions to debates over the roles and applications of anthropology and anthropologists in the processes they study." -- Sophie Haines * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"Enclosed provides a timely and invaluable contribution to our understanding of the contemporary land grab…Grandia’s multifaceted and ‘historically and geographically situated’ analysis is a welcome addition to a literature characterized by varying degrees of depth and vigor….Enclosed is a fascinating and inspiring book whose relevance transcends the Guatemalan and Belizean borders." -- Alberto Alonso-Fradejas * Journal of Peasant Studies *"Grandia revela cómo la historia de las luchas de los q’eqchi’s contra el cercamiento de sus tierras puede contribuir a una mayor comprensión de los cercamientos de las tierras comunales a favor de las empresas en todo el mundo." -- Kurt Holder * Mesoamerica *"This is a passionately written and often angry book, and the conclusion reaches a crescendo of critical outrage. . . . She insists, ‘erosion of the commons is never inevitable;’ it can always be defended and it can be rebuilt. This book and its Spanish version are powerful means to those ends." * PoLAR: Political & Legal Anthropology Review *"[Grandia] insists, 'erosion of the commons is never inevitable'; it can always be defended and it can be rebuilt. This book and its Spanish version are powerful means to those ends." -- Bonnie McCay * Polar Book reviews *Table of ContentsForeword by K. Sivaramakrishnan Preface Acknowledgements Q'eqchi' Language and Orthography Notes on Measurements Maps Introduction: Commons Past 1. Liberal Plunder: A Recurring Q'eqchi' History 2. Maya Gringos: Q'eqchi' Lowland Migration and Territorial Expansion 3. Commons, Customs, and Carrying Capacities: The Property and Population Traps of the Peten Frontier 4. Speculating: The World Bank's Market-Assisted Land Reform 5. From Colonial to Corporate Capitalism: Expanding Cattle Frontiers 6. The Neoliberal Auction: The PPP and the DR-CAFTA Conclusion: Common Features Glossary Acronyms Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Washington Press The Buddha on Meccas Verandah
Book SynopsisExamines the many ways in which people living along an international border negotiate their ethnic, cultural, and political identitiesTrade Review“Johnson’s careful documentation of local histories is an important contribution and gives unusual time depth to his discussion of contemporary ethnic identification. Consequently, this book is a valuable addition to studies of Thai ethnicities, particularly the complex formations of Thai-ness that take shape on and around the borders of Thailand. -- Mary Beth Mills * Pacific Affairs: Volume 86 *"The Buddha on Mecca’s Verandah is a captivating narrative of how a marginalized minority inhabiting the complex reality of a borderland area manages its cultural political identity....This book presents the results of a much-needed investigation that further contributes to our understanding of inter-ethnic relations in Malaysia, Thailand's own religious politics, and the legacy of British colonialism in Southeast Asia to mention just a few. More generally it is a welcome addition to the literature on ethno-religious diversity, borderland histories, and identity construction." -- Chiara Formichi * Southeast Asian Studies *"This ethnographic consideration of an overlooked borderland is a welcome addition to Southeast Asian Studies. Recommended." * Choice *"Original and important. . . . The Buddha on Mecca’s Verandah remains one of the most nuanced and detailed ethnographic studies of a single minority community in Malaysia. The range of sources Johnson employs, the nuance of analysis, and the depth of his arguments make this study an essential one to scholars and graduate students interested in Buddhism, Southeast Asia, Malaysia, and minority identity." -- Jeffrey Samuels * Journal of Asian Studies *"An empirically rich, clearly written ethnography. . . . Johnson’s monograph raises descriptive dilemmas and interpretative questions that are worth pursuing more broadly in academic scholarship on modern Asian Buddhism. . . . The overall vision of Ban Bor On as a mobile village of Thai Buddhists struggling with and against their invisible, minority, and peripheral status as Malaysia citizens is illuminating, accessible, and thought-provoking whether one is a general academic reader or a regional or disciplinary specialist." -- Erick White * H-Buddhism *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Orthography and Terminology Introduction 1. Places 2. Gaps 3. Forms 4. Circuits 5. Dreams Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Washington Press The Buddha on Meccas Verandah
Book SynopsisExamines the many ways in which people living along an international border negotiate their ethnic, cultural, and political identitiesTrade Review“Johnson’s careful documentation of local histories is an important contribution and gives unusual time depth to his discussion of contemporary ethnic identification. Consequently, this book is a valuable addition to studies of Thai ethnicities, particularly the complex formations of Thai-ness that take shape on and around the borders of Thailand. -- Mary Beth Mills * Pacific Affairs: Volume 86 *"The Buddha on Mecca’s Verandah is a captivating narrative of how a marginalized minority inhabiting the complex reality of a borderland area manages its cultural political identity....This book presents the results of a much-needed investigation that further contributes to our understanding of inter-ethnic relations in Malaysia, Thailand's own religious politics, and the legacy of British colonialism in Southeast Asia to mention just a few. More generally it is a welcome addition to the literature on ethno-religious diversity, borderland histories, and identity construction." -- Chiara Formichi * Southeast Asian Studies *"This ethnographic consideration of an overlooked borderland is a welcome addition to Southeast Asian Studies. Recommended." * Choice *"Original and important. . . . The Buddha on Mecca’s Verandah remains one of the most nuanced and detailed ethnographic studies of a single minority community in Malaysia. The range of sources Johnson employs, the nuance of analysis, and the depth of his arguments make this study an essential one to scholars and graduate students interested in Buddhism, Southeast Asia, Malaysia, and minority identity." -- Jeffrey Samuels * Journal of Asian Studies *"An empirically rich, clearly written ethnography. . . . Johnson’s monograph raises descriptive dilemmas and interpretative questions that are worth pursuing more broadly in academic scholarship on modern Asian Buddhism. . . . The overall vision of Ban Bor On as a mobile village of Thai Buddhists struggling with and against their invisible, minority, and peripheral status as Malaysia citizens is illuminating, accessible, and thought-provoking whether one is a general academic reader or a regional or disciplinary specialist." -- Erick White * H-Buddhism *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Orthography and Terminology Introduction 1. Places 2. Gaps 3. Forms 4. Circuits 5. Dreams Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Washington Press Over the Mountains Are Mountains
Book SynopsisPresents a description of the economic and ecological organization of rural Korean domestic groupsTrade Review"Sorensen has gone farther than anyone else in demonstrating relationships between agricultural practices, the environment, and household organization in rural Korean society." Journal of Asian StudiesTable of ContentsPreface to the Paperback Edition Acknowledgments 1. Over the Mountains Are Mountains 2. Development without Structural Change in Sangongni Households 3. Development and the Influence of a Mountain Environment 4. Subsistence, Productivity, and Household Adaptation 5. Energy Flow and the Allocation of Household Labor 6. The Changing Family Cycle 7. Industrialization, Migration, and Land-Tenure Patterns 8. Organization, Structure, and the Explanation of Social Change Appendix Notes Guide to Romanization A Note on Weights and Measures References Index
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University of Washington Press An Affair with Korea
Book SynopsisIn 1966 the author lived in Sokp'o, a poor and isolated South Korean fishing village on the coast of the Yellow Sea, carrying out social anthropological research. This title presents an account of his growing admiration for an ancient way of life that was doomed, and that most of the villagers themselves despised.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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University of Washington Press Ecological Nationalisms
Book SynopsisPresents the analyses that consider how questions of national identity become entangled with environmental concerns in Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, and India and provide insight into the motivations of colonial and national governments in controlling or managing nature.Trade Review"The editors of this volume have begun a valuable process of understanding which must now be pursued." * Journal of Contemporary Asia *"The cases in Ecological Nationalisms— much too rich to summarize here— all take different positions on the relative importance of the ideas, interests, and identities activated or deployed in the politics of nature. . . . Beautifully produced, rich in content, and important; it is genuinely South Asian in scope and both international and interdisciplinary in execution." * Journal of Asian Studies *"Ecological Nationalisms, an edited volume of essays. . . is an ambitious and successful addition to the steadily growing literature on South Asian environmental history. . . . This work asks many good questions and should inspire subsequent research." * Environmental History *"[Ecological Nationalisms] opens the door to a remarkably wide body of research and enquiry. Most of the studies are not only very detailed but soundly based in an historical and conceptual background. The result is not easy reading but certainly provides an excellent base for understanding the interactive patterns at work in each of the areas studied.. it would be very valuable indeed to post-graduate students focusing on related problems and to senior practitioners." * Electronic Green Journal *"Informative and thought-provoking . . . Ecological Nationalisms is a must-read for serious scholars of South Asia studies." * American Anthropologist *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors 1. Introduction: Ecological Nationalisms: Claiming Nature for Making History / K. Sivaramakrishnan and Gunnel Cederlof Part One | Regional Natures, Nations, and Empire 2. Environmental History, the Spice Trade, and the State in South India / Kathleen D. Morrison 3. The Toda Tiger: Debates on Custom, Utility, and Rights in Nature, South India 1820-1843 / Gunnel Cederlof 4. Contested Forests in North-West Pakistan: The Bureaucracy between the "Ecological," the "National," and the Realities of a Nation's Frontier / Urs Geiser Part Two | Competing Nationalisms 5. Indigenous Forests: Rights, Discourses, and Resistance in Chotanagpur, 1860-2002 / Vinita Damodaran 6. Nature and Politics: The Case of Uttarakhand, North India / Antje Linkenbach 7. Indigenous Natures: Forest and Community Dynamics in Meghalaya, North-East India / Bengt G. Karlsson 8. Sacred Forests of Kodagu: Ecological Value and Social Role / Claude A. Garcia and J.-P. Pascal Part Three | Commodified Nature and National Visions 9. Knowledge Against the State: Local Perceptions of Government Interventions in the Fishery (Kerala, India) / Gotz Hoeppe 10. Shifting Cultivation, Images, and Development in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh / Wolfgang Mey 11. Forest Managementin a Pukhtun Community: The Construction of Identities / Sarah Southwold-Llewellyn 12. "There Is No Life Without Wildlife": National Parks and National Identity in Bardia National Park, Western Nepal / Nina Bhatt Bibliography Index
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University of Washington Press Memory Eternal
Book SynopsisCombines anthropology and history, anecdote and theory to portray the encounter between the Tlingit Indians and the Russian Orthodox Church in Alaska in the late 1700s and to analyze the indigenous Orthodoxy that developed over the next 200 years.Trade Review"This extraordinary book…is a model of historical anthropology." * American Historical Review *“[Provides] a vivid picture of the engagements between the actors who together contributed to transforming Tlingit culture: the different Tlingit families, the Russian traders, Orthodox and Presbyterian missionaries, Russian and U.S. settlers, and Tlingit women and men. * American Ethnologist *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Lingit Kusteeyi: Tlingit Economy, Society, and Religion at the Time of Contact 2. Anooshi: The People “from Under the Horizon” 3. The Early Decades of Tlingit-Russian Interaction 4. The Tlingit and the Russian Orthodox Church, 1834-67: From the Smallpox Epidemic to the Sale of Alaska 5. The Early Decades of the Waashdan Kwaan Rule, 1867-85 6. The Massive Conversion to Orthodoxy during the Donskoi Era, 1886-95 7. Native Brotherhoods and the Further Development of Tlingit Orthodoxy, 1895-1917 8. Village Orthodoxy: The Case of Killisnoo 9. Tlingit Orthodoxy as a Cultural System 10. The Difficult Years and the Survival of Tlingit Orthodoxy, 1917-67 11. Tlingit Orthodoxy in a New Era, 1967-90s 12. Conclusion Notes Appendix References Index
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University of Washington Press Educating the Chinese Individual
Book SynopsisInvestigates that trend, drawing on fieldwork in a rural high school in Zhejiang where students, teachers, and officials of different generations, genders, and social backgrounds form what is essentially a miniature version of Chinese society.Trade Review"Educating the Chinese Individual is an ethnographically rich and stimulating study. It enriches our knowledge about a relatively under-studied group—rural youth and young teachers—in a marginal setting. It challenges some common assumptions of the changing landscape of school education and everyday cultural practice of the younger generations in post-socialist China. . . . This book will attract a wide readership in educational studies but will also appeal to audiences in sociology and anthropology who are interested in social change and youth culture in contemporary China." -- Xuan Dong * The China Quarterly *"[E]xcellent. . . . [T]his ethnography is a fine depiction of a slice of life in China today. The important issues it handles show the value of having more ethnographies of Chinese secondary schools, including studies of first-tier, vocational, and urban high schools from many parts of the country." -- Andrew B. Kipnis * The China Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Chinese Education and Processes of Individualization 1. Discipline and Agency: Quests for Individual Space 2. Text and Truth: Visions of the Learned Person and Good Citizen 3. Hierarchy and Democracy: Controlled Rise of the Individual 4. Motivation and Examination: The Making and Breaking of the Individual 5. Dreams and Dedications: Teachers’ Views and the Construction of a Generation Gap Conclusion: Authoritarian Individualization Notes Glossary of Chinese Names and Terms Bibliography Index
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University of Washington Press Educating the Chinese Individual
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Educating the Chinese Individual is an ethnographically rich and stimulating study. It enriches our knowledge about a relatively under-studied group—rural youth and young teachers—in a marginal setting. It challenges some common assumptions of the changing landscape of school education and everyday cultural practice of the younger generations in post-socialist China. . . . This book will attract a wide readership in educational studies but will also appeal to audiences in sociology and anthropology who are interested in social change and youth culture in contemporary China." -- Xuan Dong * The China Quarterly *"[E]xcellent. . . . [T]his ethnography is a fine depiction of a slice of life in China today. The important issues it handles show the value of having more ethnographies of Chinese secondary schools, including studies of first-tier, vocational, and urban high schools from many parts of the country." -- Andrew B. Kipnis * The China Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Chinese Education and Processes of Individualization 1. Discipline and Agency: Quests for Individual Space 2. Text and Truth: Visions of the Learned Person and Good Citizen 3. Hierarchy and Democracy: Controlled Rise of the Individual 4. Motivation and Examination: The Making and Breaking of the Individual 5. Dreams and Dedications: Teachers’ Views and the Construction of a Generation Gap Conclusion: Authoritarian Individualization Notes Glossary of Chinese Names and Terms Bibliography Index
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University of Washington Press Frontier Livelihoods
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Recommended." * Choice *"A powerful ethnography of economics that reaches deep into local and regional economies and histories, tracing the pathways of key products made and traded." -- Magnus Fiskesjo * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"[This] important contribution . . . provides new insights into borderlands and everyday politics of ethnic minorities in the Southeast Asian Massif." -- Alexander Horstmann * SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia *"Provides a vivid description of a myriad of activities in the everyday lives of Hmong on the fringes as they make their living in the sectors of agriculture, livestock transactions, locally distilled alcohol, cardamom, and the textile trade." -- Nguyen Thi Le * Southeast Asian Studies *"Written in an extremely clear and engaging style, this book has a lot to offer to all those interested in borderlands studies and in the lives of those who inhabit the Southeast Asian Massif." -- Stéphane Gros * New Books Asia *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments 1. Upland Alternatives 2. Frontier Dynamics 3. Borderland Livelihoods 4. Livestock Transactions 5. Locally Distilled Alcohol 6. Farming under the Trees 7. Weaving Livelihoods 8. The Challenge Notes Glossary References Index
£110.48
University of Washington Press Andean Waterways
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Andean Waterways lends itself as a good text for use in teaching. The book is illustrated with stunning black-and-white photographs, which evocatively capture the landscapes that Rasmussen writes about. . . . The book is a valuable addition to the literature on resource politics in the Andes, and likely to be of particular interest to scholars working and teaching on this region." -- Jessica Barnes * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"A significant contribution to the anthropology of water in the Andes. . . . This is an indispensable book if one wishes to understand the contemporary politics of water in the Andes of Peru." -- Patricia Urteaga-Crovetto * American Anthropologist *Table of ContentsForeword by K. Sivaramakrishnan Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: A Sense of Urgency 1. Atoq Huacanca River: Changing Horizons 2. Querococha 3 Bases Channel: Sharing the Flow 3. Shecllapata Channel: Maintaining the Course 4. Aconan Channel: Arranging Infrastructure 5. Santa River: Defending Life Outflow: Time, Place, and the Politics of Water Notes Reference List Index
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University of Washington Press Andean Waterways
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Andean Waterways lends itself as a good text for use in teaching. The book is illustrated with stunning black-and-white photographs, which evocatively capture the landscapes that Rasmussen writes about. . . . The book is a valuable addition to the literature on resource politics in the Andes, and likely to be of particular interest to scholars working and teaching on this region." -- Jessica Barnes * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"A significant contribution to the anthropology of water in the Andes. . . . This is an indispensable book if one wishes to understand the contemporary politics of water in the Andes of Peru." -- Patricia Urteaga-Crovetto * American Anthropologist *Table of ContentsForeword by K. Sivaramakrishnan Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: A Sense of Urgency 1. Atoq Huacanca River: Changing Horizons 2. Querococha 3 Bases Channel: Sharing the Flow 3. Shecllapata Channel: Maintaining the Course 4. Aconan Channel: Arranging Infrastructure 5. Santa River: Defending Life Outflow: Time, Place, and the Politics of Water Notes Reference List Index
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University of Washington Press Chinookan Peoples of the Lower Columbia
Book SynopsisTrade Review"It is the sort of book that will be both indispensable to any Chinookan scholar and the subject of envy by historians beyond. Although the aspiration is orthodox, and as a result expansive, this project is clearly an attempt to move beyond the constraints of the early culture-area overview, most visibly in the inclusion of Chinookan authors." -- Andrew Martindale * BC Studies *"This excellent book...is divided into two parts, one focusing on what is known of the Chinook precontact, the other on their postcontact world. With chapters ranging from the environment, subsistence, and exchange to social organization and culture, part 1 has something for all. Of note, and certainly heartbreaking, are the chapters in the second part that discuss the politico-legal situation and history of the Chinookan peoples. Highly recommended." * Choice *"[The book] illustrates how rich and effective tribal and academic collaborations can be. Twenty-one tribal professionals and scholars (anthropologists, archaeologists, historians) contributed deeply researched chapters to this collection, and together their entries expand existing knowledge about and interpretations of Chinook peoples." -- Laurie Arnold * Columbia: The Journal of Northwest History *"This mature and welcome work provides lifelong academic insights concerning complex hunter-gatherers, regional social networks, ethnogenesis of modern Chinooks, comparisons of highly varied research, and strong voices of living Chinooks." -- Jay Miller * Western Historical Quarterly *"With coverage that ranges from 10,000 or more years to the present, Chinookan Peoples of the Lower Columbia explores the Chinookan world before and after contact, the advent and impacts of disease, demographic shifts, fishing and hunting practices and rights, treaty-making, and legal decisions—just to name a few of the topics under investigation. Compellingly, what is revealed is not always what one might expect." -- Cary C. Collins * Journal of the West *"In this impressive volume, the editors bring together the foremost scholars in the field….[A] tour de force examination of ancient and modern “ethnogensis”….This study is tight, focused, well-organized, comprehensive, even encyclopedic (in the best sense of the word)" -- David Arnold * Pacific Historical Review *"Chinookan Peoples draws upon an impressive body of research by some of the most eminent scholars in the field. . . . [A] starting point for understanding the most important elements of Chinookan culture and history." -- Wendi A. Lindquist * Pacific Northwest Quarterly *Table of ContentsList of Maps, Tables, and Online Materials Preface Acknowledgments The Chinook People Today / Tony A. Johnson Part I. The Chinookan World 1. Environment and Archaeology of the Lower Columbia / Elizabeth A. Sobel, Kenneth M. Ames, and Robert J. Losey 2. Cultural Geography of the Lower Columbia / David V. Ellis 3. Ethnobiology: Nonfishing Subsistence and Production / D. Ann Trieu Gahr 4. Aboriginal Fisheries of the Lower Columbia River / Virginia L. Butler and Michael A. Martin 5. Lower Columbia Trade and Exchange Systems / Yvonne Hajda and Elizabeth A. Sobel 6. Houses and Households / Kenneth M. Ames and Elizabeth A. Sobel 7. Social and Political Organization / Yvonne Hajda 8. Chinookan Oral Literature / Dell Hymes and William R. Seaburg 9. Lower Columbia Chinookan Ceremonialism / Robert T. Boyd 10. Lower Columbia River Art / Tony A. Johnson and Adam McIsaac Part II . After Euro-American Contact 11. Lower Chinookan Disease and Demography /Robert T. Boyd 12. The Chinookan Encounter with Euro-Americans in the Lower Columbia River Valley / William L. Lang 13. Chinuk Wawa and Its Roots in Chinookan / Henry B. Zenk and Tony A. Johnson 14. “Now You See Them, Now You Don’t”: Chinook Tribal Affairs and the Struggle for Federal Recognition / Andrew Fisher and Melinda Marie Jetté 15. Honoring Our tilixam: Chinookan People of Grand Ronde / David G. Lewis, Eirik Thorsgard, and Chuck Williams 16. Chinookan Writings: Anthropological Research and Historiography / Wayne Suttles and William L. Lang Bibliography Contributors Index
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University of Washington Press Humanizing the Sacred
Book SynopsisIn recent years, global attention has focused on how women in communities of Muslims are revitalizing Islam by linking interpretation of religious ideas to the protection of rights and freedoms. Humanizing the Sacred demonstrates how Sunni women activists in Malaysia are fracturing institutionalized Islamic authority by generating new understandings of rights and redefining the moral obligations of their community. Based on ethnographic research of Sisters in Islam (SIS), a nongovernmental organization of professional women promoting justice and equality, Basarudin examines SIS members' involvement in the production and transmission of Islamic knowledge to reformulate legal codes and reconceptualize gender discourses. By weaving together women's lived realities, feminist interpretations of Islamic texts, and Malaysian cultural politics, this book illuminates how a localized struggle of claiming rights takes shape within a transnational landscape. It provides a vital understanding of hoTrade Review"A diverse range of insightful analyses supported by feminist ideas, interviews, and histories. The book provides a solid critique of patriarchal discourses dominating Muslim identity politics in Malaysia." -- Çağdaş Dedeoğlu * Religion and Gender *"Humanizing the Sacred is a welcome addition to the study of women’s movements and Islamic feminism. . . .This book is therefore a timely and important read. Its accessible language makes it suitable not just for undergraduate and postgraduate students alike, but also readers who are interested in understanding issues of feminism, rights and equality in Islam, especially in Malaysia." * Contemporary Southeast Asia *"Basarudin's book is a significant contribution to understanding the distinct dynamics of Muslim feminism in Southeast Asia, the region with the largest Muslim community in the world. It is also an important work in a line of scholarship that is dedicated to deconstructing the orientalist binary of the ‘secular’ and the ‘religious’, especially in their gendered forms in the context of post 9/11 politics." * The Muslim World *"Humanizing the Sacred is a valuable contribution to the literature on Malaysian civil society, feminism, and Islam; on women’s activism within Muslim communities globally; and on the ongoing dialectic between scripture and culture in any religious community, but especially within Islam. The book will be of interest to anthropologists, scholars of religion (particularly Islam), and both area specialists and those focused on women’s/gender studies or feminism. . . . The book is sure to inspire both thoughtful reflection and lively debate, in Malaysia and elsewhere." * Islamic Law and Society *"Azza Basarudin tells the story of [Sisters in Islam] in this finely detailed feminist ethnography. . . . This comprehensive study of SIS will certainly be of interest to scholars of Southeast Asia and anyone interested in Muslim women’s movements." * Journal of Asian Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Malay Names, Honorific Titles, and Terminology List of Abbreviations Introduction | Faith, Self, and Community 1. Islam, the State, and Gender | The Malaysian Experiment 2. The Politics of the Sacred | Returning to the Fundamentals of Islam 3. In the Path of the Faithful | Activism for Social and Legal Reforms 4. Who Speaks for Islam? | Religious Authority and Contested Justice 5. Negotiating Lives, Crafting Selves | Narratives of Belonging 6. The Local in the Transnational | Gender Justice and Feminist Solidarities Conclusion Notes References Index
£110.48
University of Washington Press Humanizing the Sacred
Book SynopsisIn recent years, global attention has focused on how women in communities of Muslims are revitalizing Islam by linking interpretation of religious ideas to the protection of rights and freedoms. Humanizing the Sacred demonstrates how Sunni women activists in Malaysia are fracturing institutionalized Islamic authority by generating new understandings of rights and redefining the moral obligations of their community. Based on ethnographic research of Sisters in Islam (SIS), a nongovernmental organization of professional women promoting justice and equality, Basarudin examines SIS members' involvement in the production and transmission of Islamic knowledge to reformulate legal codes and reconceptualize gender discourses. By weaving together women's lived realities, feminist interpretations of Islamic texts, and Malaysian cultural politics, this book illuminates how a localized struggle of claiming rights takes shape within a transnational landscape. It provides a vital understanding of hoTrade Review"A diverse range of insightful analyses supported by feminist ideas, interviews, and histories. The book provides a solid critique of patriarchal discourses dominating Muslim identity politics in Malaysia." -- Çağdaş Dedeoğlu * Religion and Gender *"Humanizing the Sacred is a welcome addition to the study of women’s movements and Islamic feminism. . . .This book is therefore a timely and important read. Its accessible language makes it suitable not just for undergraduate and postgraduate students alike, but also readers who are interested in understanding issues of feminism, rights and equality in Islam, especially in Malaysia." * Contemporary Southeast Asia *"Basarudin's book is a significant contribution to understanding the distinct dynamics of Muslim feminism in Southeast Asia, the region with the largest Muslim community in the world. It is also an important work in a line of scholarship that is dedicated to deconstructing the orientalist binary of the ‘secular’ and the ‘religious’, especially in their gendered forms in the context of post 9/11 politics." * The Muslim World *"Humanizing the Sacred is a valuable contribution to the literature on Malaysian civil society, feminism, and Islam; on women’s activism within Muslim communities globally; and on the ongoing dialectic between scripture and culture in any religious community, but especially within Islam. The book will be of interest to anthropologists, scholars of religion (particularly Islam), and both area specialists and those focused on women’s/gender studies or feminism. . . . The book is sure to inspire both thoughtful reflection and lively debate, in Malaysia and elsewhere." * Islamic Law and Society *"Azza Basarudin tells the story of [Sisters in Islam] in this finely detailed feminist ethnography. . . . This comprehensive study of SIS will certainly be of interest to scholars of Southeast Asia and anyone interested in Muslim women’s movements." * Journal of Asian Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Malay Names, Honorific Titles, and Terminology List of Abbreviations Introduction | Faith, Self, and Community 1. Islam, the State, and Gender | The Malaysian Experiment 2. The Politics of the Sacred | Returning to the Fundamentals of Islam 3. In the Path of the Faithful | Activism for Social and Legal Reforms 4. Who Speaks for Islam? | Religious Authority and Contested Justice 5. Negotiating Lives, Crafting Selves | Narratives of Belonging 6. The Local in the Transnational | Gender Justice and Feminist Solidarities Conclusion Notes References Index
£28.95
University of Washington Press Forests Are Gold
Book SynopsisTrade Review"McElwee’s description of environmental rule in Vietnam helps readers look beyond simplistic explanations of environmental policy to see the more complex processes at play in defining and intervening in various social and environmental issues. . . McElwee’s book will be of great interest to those who focus on environmental policy and the interplay of social-ecological systems. Recommended." * Choice *"Forests Are Gold offers a timely analysis that will appeal to scholars far beyond Southeast Asia. . . . It should inspire upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars to rethink assumptions about the virtues of environmentalism by showing us how such reasoning has never been just about trees.—" -- Allison Truitt * American Anthropologist *"A wonderful and timely addition to the literature on political ecology. . . . In presenting the dilemmas and projects of forest conservation over the last century, she convincingly demonstrates that if forests can and do act beyond humans, the generativity of these activities is lost on those who seek to more efficiently administer them." -- Nikhil Anand * American Ethnologist (AE) *Table of ContentsForeword by K. Sivaramakrishnan Preface Acknowledgments Vietnamese Terminology Abbreviations Introduction | Seeing the Trees and People for the Forests 1. Forests for Profit or Posterity? The Emergence of Environmental Rule under French Colonialism 2. Planting New People: Socialism, Settlement, and Subjectivity in the Postcolonial Forest 3. Illegal Loggers and Heroic Rangers: The Discovery of Deforestation in Đổi Mới (Renovation) Vietnam 4. Rule by Reforestation: Classifying Bare Hills and Claiming Forest Transitions 5. Calculating Carbon and Ecosystem Services: New Regimes of Environmental Rule for Forests Conclusion | Environmental Rule in the Twenty-First Century Notes References Index
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University of Washington Press Forests Are Gold
Book SynopsisTrade Review"McElwee’s description of environmental rule in Vietnam helps readers look beyond simplistic explanations of environmental policy to see the more complex processes at play in defining and intervening in various social and environmental issues. . . McElwee’s book will be of great interest to those who focus on environmental policy and the interplay of social-ecological systems. Recommended." * Choice *"Forests Are Gold offers a timely analysis that will appeal to scholars far beyond Southeast Asia. . . . It should inspire upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars to rethink assumptions about the virtues of environmentalism by showing us how such reasoning has never been just about trees.—" -- Allison Truitt * American Anthropologist *"A wonderful and timely addition to the literature on political ecology. . . . In presenting the dilemmas and projects of forest conservation over the last century, she convincingly demonstrates that if forests can and do act beyond humans, the generativity of these activities is lost on those who seek to more efficiently administer them." -- Nikhil Anand * American Ethnologist (AE) *Table of ContentsForeword by K. Sivaramakrishnan Preface Acknowledgments Vietnamese Terminology Abbreviations Introduction | Seeing the Trees and People for the Forests 1. Forests for Profit or Posterity? The Emergence of Environmental Rule under French Colonialism 2. Planting New People: Socialism, Settlement, and Subjectivity in the Postcolonial Forest 3. Illegal Loggers and Heroic Rangers: The Discovery of Deforestation in Đổi Mới (Renovation) Vietnam 4. Rule by Reforestation: Classifying Bare Hills and Claiming Forest Transitions 5. Calculating Carbon and Ecosystem Services: New Regimes of Environmental Rule for Forests Conclusion | Environmental Rule in the Twenty-First Century Notes References Index
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University of Washington Press The New Way
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In her fine-grained analysis of local realities and the globalization of religion, Tâm Ngô has delivered an important contribution to Hmong and Vietnamese studies, the study of religion, Southeast Asian ethnography, and globalized evangelical Protestantism." -- Pascal Bourdeaux * Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review *"Not only is the book remarkable for its collection and use of hard-to-get data from a wide array of sources in Vietnam and abroad, including extended periods of fieldwork in a Hmong village, but also for the story it recounts of conversion not by mission on the ground but via broadcast from the air." -- Nick Cheesman * New Books in Southeast Asian Studies (NBN) *"This book on the conversion of the Vietnamese Hmong is important because, to an extent, the history of modern Vietnam is a history of contending with Christianity. . . . Ngô argues that beginning in the 1980s the Vietnamese Hmong, disillusioned by broken promises and oppressive developmental policies, have seized Protestantism as a route to empowerment and modernity." -- Mai Na M. Lee * Pacific Affairs *"Represents a great achievement as the summation of extensive independent fieldwork on a topic that is essentially the convergence of three 'politically sensitive' topics in Vietnam: religious change, ethnic politics, and transnational groups. Ngô has become the first academic to publish English-language research about this topic based on ethnographic methods, which is no mean feat given the government restrictions placed on academic research in upland Vietnam." -- Seb Rumsby * Southeast Asian Studies *
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University of Washington Press Transforming Patriarchy
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The anthropological perspective on Chinese family life adopted by the contributors to this volume reveals a great deal of interesting variation—across the urban-rural divide; according to region, class, and sexual orientation; and even just by personality and circumstance." -- Andrew J. Nathan * Foreign Affairs *"Provides a multifaceted and knowledgeable picture of present day families in the People’s Republic of China. . . . The book contributes to a deeper understanding of the ongoing transformation in China with changes of social norms, social relations and familial behavior modifying the traditional concept of patriarchy." -- Jutta Hebel * New Books Asia *"Taken together these papers succeed laudably in conveying the nexus of intersecting issues that complicate the contemporary scene in China with respect to gender and generational hierarchies and exchanges, filial piety, changing economic circumstances, the demands of familial duty, and so forth. In sum, the volume contributes importantly to understanding social circumstances in contemporary China." -- P. Steven Sangren * China Review International *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Transcription Introduction / Stevan Harrell and Gonçalo Santos Part One | Rural Reconfigurations 1. Dutiful Help: Masking Rural Women’s Economic Contributions / Melissa J. Brown 000 2. From Care Providers to Financial Burdens: The Changing Role of Sons and Reproductive Choice in Rural Northeast China / Lihong Shi 3. Higher Education, Gender, and Elder Support in Rural Northwest China / Helena Obendiek 4. Multiple Mothering and Labor Migration in Rural South China / Gonçalo Santos Part Two | Class, Gender, and Patriarchy in Urban Society 5. Urbanization and the Transformation of Kinship Practice in Shandong / Andrew B. Kipnis 6. Being the Right Woman for “Mr. Right”: Marriage and Household Politics in Present-Day Nanjing / Roberta Zavoretti 7. Emergent Conjugal Love, Mutual Affection, and Female Marital Power / William Jankowiak and Xuan Li 8. Under Pressure: Lesbian-Gay Contract Marriages and Their Patriarchal Bargains / Elisabeth L. Engebretsen 9. Patriarchal Investments: Expectations of Male Authority and Support in a Poor Beijing Neighborhood / Harriet Evans Part Three | New Technologies, New Institutions 10. Taking Patriarchy Out of Postpartum Recovery? / Suzanne Gottschang 11. Assisted Reproductive Technologies, Sperm Donation, and Biological Kinship: A Recent Chinese Media Debate / Kerstin Klein 12. Recalibrating Filial Piety: Realigning the State, Family, and Market Interests in China / Hong Zhang Glossary References List of Contributors Index
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University of Washington Press Sanctuary and Asylum
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Asylum and Sanctuary Seekers’ Stories 2. Sanctuary’s Beginnings 3. A Thousand Years of Medieval Sanctuary 4. From Religious Sanctuary to Secular Asylum 5. Nineteenth-Century Sanctuary outside the Law 6. The Pleasures of Holocaust Rescue 7. The Twentieth-Century Heyday of Asylum 8. Asylum Now in Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom 9. Asylum Now in Europe and Beyond 10. The Golden Door Ajar: US Asylum Policy 11. Contemporary Sanctuary Movements 12. The News from Tucson Afterword | Does Asylum Have a Future? Appendix Notes References Index Illustrations follow page
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University of Washington Press Sanctuary and Asylum
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Asylum and Sanctuary Seekers’ Stories 2. Sanctuary’s Beginnings 3. A Thousand Years of Medieval Sanctuary 4. From Religious Sanctuary to Secular Asylum 5. Nineteenth-Century Sanctuary outside the Law 6. The Pleasures of Holocaust Rescue 7. The Twentieth-Century Heyday of Asylum 8. Asylum Now in Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom 9. Asylum Now in Europe and Beyond 10. The Golden Door Ajar: US Asylum Policy 11. Contemporary Sanctuary Movements 12. The News from Tucson Afterword | Does Asylum Have a Future? Appendix Notes References Index Illustrations follow page
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University of Washington Press Rural Origins City Lives Class and Place in
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 Chinese Encounters in Southeast Asia
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An excellent work on the impacts of Chinese immigration and investment in Southeast Asia after the 1990s. . . . A highly recommended book that teaches readers about new waves of Chinese immigration, socio-economic development and borderland livelihoods in Southeast Asia, including those that entail political and environmental contestations. . . . This is a high-quality edited volume, containing diverse topics, researched geographies, and varied findings. Those who are interested in learning about Chinese influences in Southeast Asia from a bottom-up perspective will certainly appreciate the reading." -- Wen-Chin Chang * Journal of Burma Studies *"Addresses a gap in the literature and provides empirical proof of the fluidity of ‘Chineseness.’" -- Chih-yu Shih * Pacific Affairs *"Southeast Asia offers diverse political and economic landscapes for mapping how and why Chinese migration and capital flows matter. . . . Each [essay] offers a compelling case study that highlights how everyday interactions and local relationships are rewriting the region at diverse scales, from the Greater Mekong Subregion to border towns. Scholars of China and Southeast Asia will welcome this diverse collection on how money and people from China are shaping the region. Recommended." * Choice *"This collection examines the practices, network dynamics, and multiple perceptions of the China-Southeast Asia encounter, while simultaneously placing concrete experiences within multi-layered and multi-faceted contexts, thus folding ethnographic data into structural analyses. By presenting broad patterns, examining lived experiences, and identifying a space for policy and public interventions in the China-Southeast Asia encounters, this book is truly valuable on many fronts." -- Biao Xiang, University of Oxford * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsForeword / Wang Gungwu List of Abbreviations Introduction: China’s “Rise” in Southeast Asia from a Bottom-Up Perspective / Pál Nyíri and Danielle Tan Part One | Identities 1. Investors, Managers, Brokers, and Culture Workers: How Migrants from China Are Changing the Meaning of Ch-ineseness in Cambodia / Pál Nyíri 2. Multiplying Diversities: How “New” Chinese Mobilities Are Changing Singapore / Brenda S. A. Yeoh and Weiqiang Lin 3. Translocal Pious Entrepreneurialism: Hui Business and Religious Activities in Malaysia and Indonesia / Hew Wai Weng Part Two | Livelihoods 4. Border Guanxi: Xinyimin and Transborder Trade in Northern Thailand / Aranya Siriphon 5. Ambivalent Encounters: Business and the Sex Markets at the China-Vietnam Borderland / Caroline Grillot and Juan Part Three | Norms 6. Entangling Alliances: Elite Cooperation and Competition in the Philippines and China / Caroline S. Hau 7. Chinese Enclaves in the Golden Triangle Borderlands: An Alternative Account of State-Formation in Laos / Danielle Tan 8. “China in Burma”: A Multiscalar Political Economy Analysis / Kevin Woods 9. Water Governance in the Mekong Basin: Scalar Trade-offs, Transnational Norms, and Chinese Hydropower Investment / Oliver Hensengerth Part Four | Aspirations 10. “Search for Knowledge as Far as China!” Indonesian Responses to the Rise of China / Johanes Herlijanto 11. Stimulating Circuits: Chinese Desires and Transnational Affective Economies in Southeast Asia / Chris Lyttleton Glossary of Chinese Characters References Contributors Index
£110.48
University of Washington Press Chinese Encounters in Southeast Asia
Book SynopsisThis is the first book to focus explicitly on how China's rise as a major economic and political actor has affected societies in Southeast Asia. It examines how Chinese investors, workers, tourists, bureaucrats, longtime residents, and adventurers interact throughout Southeast Asia. The contributors use case studies to show the scale of Chinese influence in the region and the ways in which various countries mitigate their unequal relationship with China by negotiating asymmetry, circumventing hegemony, and embracing, resisting, or manipulating the terms dictated by Chinese capital.Trade Review"An excellent work on the impacts of Chinese immigration and investment in Southeast Asia after the 1990s. . . . A highly recommended book that teaches readers about new waves of Chinese immigration, socio-economic development and borderland livelihoods in Southeast Asia, including those that entail political and environmental contestations. . . . This is a high-quality edited volume, containing diverse topics, researched geographies, and varied findings. Those who are interested in learning about Chinese influences in Southeast Asia from a bottom-up perspective will certainly appreciate the reading." -- Wen-Chin Chang * Journal of Burma Studies *"Addresses a gap in the literature and provides empirical proof of the fluidity of ‘Chineseness.’" -- Chih-yu Shih * Pacific Affairs *"Southeast Asia offers diverse political and economic landscapes for mapping how and why Chinese migration and capital flows matter. . . . Each [essay] offers a compelling case study that highlights how everyday interactions and local relationships are rewriting the region at diverse scales, from the Greater Mekong Subregion to border towns. Scholars of China and Southeast Asia will welcome this diverse collection on how money and people from China are shaping the region. Recommended." * Choice *"This collection examines the practices, network dynamics, and multiple perceptions of the China-Southeast Asia encounter, while simultaneously placing concrete experiences within multi-layered and multi-faceted contexts, thus folding ethnographic data into structural analyses. By presenting broad patterns, examining lived experiences, and identifying a space for policy and public interventions in the China-Southeast Asia encounters, this book is truly valuable on many fronts." -- Biao Xiang, University of Oxford * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsForeword / Wang Gungwu List of Abbreviations Introduction: China’s “Rise” in Southeast Asia from a Bottom-Up Perspective / Pál Nyíri and Danielle Tan Part One | Identities 1. Investors, Managers, Brokers, and Culture Workers: How Migrants from China Are Changing the Meaning of Ch-ineseness in Cambodia / Pál Nyíri 2. Multiplying Diversities: How “New” Chinese Mobilities Are Changing Singapore / Brenda S. A. Yeoh and Weiqiang Lin 3. Translocal Pious Entrepreneurialism: Hui Business and Religious Activities in Malaysia and Indonesia / Hew Wai Weng Part Two | Livelihoods 4. Border Guanxi: Xinyimin and Transborder Trade in Northern Thailand / Aranya Siriphon 5. Ambivalent Encounters: Business and the Sex Markets at the China-Vietnam Borderland / Caroline Grillot and Juan Part Three | Norms 6. Entangling Alliances: Elite Cooperation and Competition in the Philippines and China / Caroline S. Hau 7. Chinese Enclaves in the Golden Triangle Borderlands: An Alternative Account of State-Formation in Laos / Danielle Tan 8. “China in Burma”: A Multiscalar Political Economy Analysis / Kevin Woods 9. Water Governance in the Mekong Basin: Scalar Trade-offs, Transnational Norms, and Chinese Hydropower Investment / Oliver Hensengerth Part Four | Aspirations 10. “Search for Knowledge as Far as China!” Indonesian Responses to the Rise of China / Johanes Herlijanto 11. Stimulating Circuits: Chinese Desires and Transnational Affective Economies in Southeast Asia / Chris Lyttleton Glossary of Chinese Characters References Contributors Index
£32.63
University of Washington Press Rural China on the Eve of Revolution
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Skinner (d. 2008) was a leading anthropologist of Chinese society, and much more. . . . This is a unique document.""This book deserves to be read by all students of twentieth-century rural China, in particular those with an interest in Sichuan. . . . Skinner’s acute observations and his strong sympathy for the people he studied (a sympathy which they apparently returned) remain a model almost seventy years after the fact." -- Jacob Eyferth * Pacific Affairs *Table of ContentsPreface / Stevan Harrell and William Lavely Acknowledgments Maps 1. The Road to Gaodianzi: June–November 1949 2. Settling In: November 12–26 3. A Household Survey and Rumors of the Communists: November 28–December 16 4. Working Out the Market Network as the PLA Approaches: December 13–24 5. Liberation! December 27–January 3 6. The Communists and the Temples: January 5–13 7. The Last Dongyue Temple Festival: January 15–17 8. The Premature End of Fieldwork: January 18–25 Epilogue: January–May 1950 Afterword / Zhijia Shen
£999.99
University of Washington Press Rural China on the Eve of Revolution
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Skinner (d. 2008) was a leading anthropologist of Chinese society, and much more. . . . This is a unique document.""This book deserves to be read by all students of twentieth-century rural China, in particular those with an interest in Sichuan. . . . Skinner’s acute observations and his strong sympathy for the people he studied (a sympathy which they apparently returned) remain a model almost seventy years after the fact." -- Jacob Eyferth * Pacific Affairs *Table of ContentsPreface / Stevan Harrell and William Lavely Acknowledgments Maps 1. The Road to Gaodianzi: June–November 1949 2. Settling In: November 12–26 3. A Household Survey and Rumors of the Communists: November 28–December 16 4. Working Out the Market Network as the PLA Approaches: December 13–24 5. Liberation! December 27–January 3 6. The Communists and the Temples: January 5–13 7. The Last Dongyue Temple Festival: January 15–17 8. The Premature End of Fieldwork: January 18–25 Epilogue: January–May 1950 Afterword / Zhijia Shen
£25.19
University of Washington Press In the Circle of White Stones
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Tan's curiosity about pastoral culture and language is obvious in her reported observations and experiences. . . . The author's use of detail could not have been imagined, but only have come from lived experience. . . . I thoroughly enjoyed reading In the Circle of White Stones and its depiction of the reality of a Tibetan herding way of life." -- Konchok Gelek * Asian Highlands Perspectives *"This charming book chronicles daily life among nomadic pastoralists in eastern Tibet, in China’s Sichuan Province. . . . Tan describes pastoralist life from the perspective of the women who inhabit one of the Tibetans’ tents, with whom she built up close relations. . . . [and] provides valuable insight into a threatened way of life." * Journal of Asian Studies *Table of ContentsForeword / Stevan Harrell Preface Acknowledgments Transcription, Transliteration, and Names The People Timeline 1. Getting to Dora Karmo 2. The House and the Tent 3. Life in the Summer Pasture 4. A World of Impermanence 5. The Lama 6. Leaving and Arriving Glossary Suggested Reading Index
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University of Washington Press Transforming Patriarchy
Book SynopsisEach successive wave of revolution to hit modern Chinapolitical, cultural, and economichas radically reshaped Chinese society. Whereas patriarchy defined the familial social structure for thousands of years, changing realities in the last hundred years have altered and even reversed long-held expectations. Transforming Patriarchy explores the private and public dimensions of these changes in present-day China. Patriarchy is not dead, but it is no longer the default arrangement for Chinese families: Daughters-in-law openly berate their fathers-in-law. Companies sell filial-piety insurance. Many couples live together before marriage, and in some parts of rural China, almost all brides are pregnant.Drawing on a multitude of sources and perspectives, this volume turns to the intimate territory of the family to challenge prevailing scholarly assumptions about gender and generational hierarchies in Chinese society. Case studies examine factors such as social class, geograTrade Review"The anthropological perspective on Chinese family life adopted by the contributors to this volume reveals a great deal of interesting variation—across the urban-rural divide; according to region, class, and sexual orientation; and even just by personality and circumstance." -- Andrew J. Nathan * Foreign Affairs *"Provides a multifaceted and knowledgeable picture of present day families in the People’s Republic of China. . . . The book contributes to a deeper understanding of the ongoing transformation in China with changes of social norms, social relations and familial behavior modifying the traditional concept of patriarchy." -- Jutta Hebel * New Books Asia *"Taken together these papers succeed laudably in conveying the nexus of intersecting issues that complicate the contemporary scene in China with respect to gender and generational hierarchies and exchanges, filial piety, changing economic circumstances, the demands of familial duty, and so forth. In sum, the volume contributes importantly to understanding social circumstances in contemporary China." -- P. Steven Sangren * China Review International *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Transcription Introduction / Stevan Harrell and Gonçalo Santos Part One | Rural Reconfigurations 1. Dutiful Help: Masking Rural Women’s Economic Contributions / Melissa J. Brown 000 2. From Care Providers to Financial Burdens: The Changing Role of Sons and Reproductive Choice in Rural Northeast China / Lihong Shi 3. Higher Education, Gender, and Elder Support in Rural Northwest China / Helena Obendiek 4. Multiple Mothering and Labor Migration in Rural South China / Gonçalo Santos Part Two | Class, Gender, and Patriarchy in Urban Society 5. Urbanization and the Transformation of Kinship Practice in Shandong / Andrew B. Kipnis 6. Being the Right Woman for “Mr. Right”: Marriage and Household Politics in Present-Day Nanjing / Roberta Zavoretti 7. Emergent Conjugal Love, Mutual Affection, and Female Marital Power / William Jankowiak and Xuan Li 8. Under Pressure: Lesbian-Gay Contract Marriages and Their Patriarchal Bargains / Elisabeth L. Engebretsen 9. Patriarchal Investments: Expectations of Male Authority and Support in a Poor Beijing Neighborhood / Harriet Evans Part Three | New Technologies, New Institutions 10. Taking Patriarchy Out of Postpartum Recovery? / Suzanne Gottschang 11. Assisted Reproductive Technologies, Sperm Donation, and Biological Kinship: A Recent Chinese Media Debate / Kerstin Klein 12. Recalibrating Filial Piety: Realigning the State, Family, and Market Interests in China / Hong Zhang Glossary References List of Contributors Index
£33.98
University of Wisconsin Press After Tylor British Social Anthropology 18881951
Book SynopsisTrade Review""This impressively solid, judicious, and authoritative text will surely serve the profession for a long time to come.""—Michael Young, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences|""The publication of After Tylor, taken together with Victorian Anthropology, represents a milestone in the historiography of the behavioural sciences.""—Robert Ackerman, London Review of Books|""After Tylor is thus an effort to reconstruct and understand modes of thought which—though hardly discontinuous—were still rather different from our own. In this, it is utterly and completely successful.""—Robert Alun Jones, American Journal of Sociology|""This is magnificent scholarship. Furthermore it proves that a discourse intended to complicate received ideas can also be eminently readable.”—Michael Herzfeld, American Scientist|“Formidable as its scope is, this account is also eminently readable. The layering of each character will ensure that it can be read at all levels of anthropological sophistication.""—Marilyn Strathern, Times Higher Education Supplement|""There are many reasons that George Stocking is generally recognized as the leading historian of anthropology. His ability to breathe life into the dead is not the least of them."" —Henry Munson, Jr., Religion|""Few scholarly books of this considerable length deserve to be read from cover to cover, but Stocking's After Tylor is surely one of them.""—Tamara Kohn, Metascience
£19.96
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Archiving the Unspeakable Silence Memory and the
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Dreams of the Hmong Kingdom The Quest for
Book SynopsisCountering notions that Hmong history begins and ends with the “Secret War” in Laos of the 1960s and 1970s, this study reveals how the Hmong experience of modernity is grounded in their sense of their own ancient past, when this now-stateless people had their own king and kingdom, and illuminates their political choices over the course of a century in a highly contested region of Asia.Trade Review“Mai Na Lee’s ability to situate the histories in local, national and regional terms has raised the bar for scholarship on highland areas of Southeast Asia. She uses the French colonial archives with skill and nuance, and is methodologically equally at home with oral history interviews. Her use of dreams, rumours and the dynamics of millenarian movements, plus kinship and ritual conventions, adds yet other dimensions to her work.”—Asian Studies Review
£23.96
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Of Beggars and Buddhas The Politics of Humor in the Vessantara Jataka in Thailand
Trade Review“Provides historical justification for a new reading of the Vessantara Jataka and offers delightful ethnographic descriptions of its varied performance in several regions of Thailand. An excellent addition to Thai studies and to the understudied field of Southeast Asian literature.”—Justin McDaniel, author of The Lovelorn Ghost and the Magic Monk: Practicing Buddhism in Modern Thailand“This fascinating, innovative study helps us grasp significant intersections of narrative, politics, and performance in Thai Buddhist culture.”—Stephen C. Berkwitz, author of South Asian Buddhism: A Survey
£48.75
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Of Beggars and Buddhas The Politics of Humor in the Vessantara Jataka in Thailand
Book SynopsisThe Buddhist jatakas recount the Buddha's lives in previous incarnations. In his penultimate incarnation, he appears as the Prince Vessantara, perfecting the virtue of generosity by giving away all his possessions. Taking an anthropological approach to this tale, Katherine Bowie highlights local variations in its interpretations and performances.
£18.36
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin The Names of the Python Belonging in East Africa
Book SynopsisSystems of belonging are not static, automatic, or free of contest. Historical contexts shape the ways which we are included in or excluded from specific classifications. Building on an array of sources, David Schoenbrun examines groupwork - the imaginative labour that people do to constitute themselves as communities - in East Africa.Trade ReviewA landmark book. It reminds us that the study of the distant African past need not involve a celebration of kings. In their lakeshore assemblies in spirit mediums' company, African commoners created networks of knowledge that were both cosmopolitan and multicultural. David Schoenbrun gives us republican history of ancient eastern Africa."" - Derek Peterson, University of Michigan ""This brilliant new book offers a deep history of the contingent processes of community over more than a millennium in East Africa. David Schoenbrun has produced a remarkably original non-teleological history of belonging, showing how people continually imagined and produced the very nature of society itself intellectually, morally, and metaphysically."" - Julie Livingston, New York University ""A classic for anyone interested in the long-term roots of group formation in Africa. Schoenbrun's mastery of linguistic, oral, ethnographic, and archaeological sources provides a deep and wide history of different forms of belonging, including ethnicity, for the Buganda state and its neighbors over the last thousand years."" - Jan Bender Shetler, Goshen College
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University of Wisconsin Press The Names of the Python Belonging in East Africa
Book SynopsisBuilding on an amazing array of sources, David Schoenbrun examines groupwork - the imaginative labour that people do to constitute themselves as communities - in an iconic and influential region in East Africa.Trade Review“A landmark book. It reminds us that the study of the distant African past need not involve a celebration of kings. In their lakeshore assemblies in spirit mediums’ company, African commoners created networks of knowledge that were both cosmopolitan and multicultural. David Schoenbrun gives us republican history of ancient eastern Africa.”—Derek Peterson, University of Michigan “This brilliant new book offers a deep history of the contingent processes of community over more than a millennium in East Africa. David Schoenbrun has produced a remarkably original non-teleological history of belonging, showing how people continually imagined and produced the very nature of society itself intellectually, morally, and metaphysically.”—Julie Livingston, New York University “A classic for anyone interested in the long-term roots of group formation in Africa. Schoenbrun’s mastery of linguistic, oral, ethnographic, and archaeological sources provides a deep and wide history of different forms of belonging, including ethnicity, for the Buganda state and its neighbors over the last thousand years.”—Jan Bender Shetler, Goshen College “Excellent. . . . Convincingly illustrate[s] the cognitive and concrete ways that people around the Inland Sea did groupwork, creating and maintaining social groups at a variety of scales to meet the demands of particular historical moments.”—International Journal of African Historical Studies “A fascinating and compelling book.”—H-Net Reviews “Like the mothers, mediums, warriors and spirits plying the Inland Sea, we can all feast on the theoretical and methodological fruits netted by Schoenbrun’s innovative rereading of these well-studied, well-storied histories.”—Canadian Journal of African Studies “This book is a masterclass in the reconstruction of Africa's deeper past. . . . No one working on Buganda can ignore this book, and all future work on the political, cultural, and social past of the region will need to take account of it. Schoenbrun has deepened and complicated our knowledge of how societies are formed, how belonging evolves, and how numerous layers of community are involved in it, especially once people move across longer distances and are no longer able to meet one another face-to-face.”—The Journal of African History
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University of Wisconsin Press The Befana Is Returning The Story of a Tuscan
Book SynopsisPart of the Christmas season, the Befana is familiar in some form in much of Italy, but very little has been written about her, despite sustained interest in European mumming traditions in general. This book offers an insightful presentation of this living tradition that adds a large missing piece to ethnographic scholarship on mumming.Table of Contents List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1 History 2 Season and Cycle 3 Mezzadria 4 Food 5 Song 6 The Old Woman 7 The Befana Is Returning 8 The Exchange Epilogue Appendix: The Magical Night Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Wisconsin Press Belonging Identity and Conflict in the Central
Book SynopsisThe concept of autochthony - that a true, original people are born of a land and belong to it above all others - has animated struggles across postcolonial Africa. This volume examines how political conflict unfolds when the language of autochthony is detached from historical land claims.Trade Review“This book convincingly demonstrates that claims to autochthony are only effective through othering and exclusion. It will be important reading for scholars studying the political, social, and economic dynamics of crisis and conflict and their effects on people’s everyday lives.”—Lotje de Vries, Wageningen UniversityTable of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1 Autochthony without Land 2 Civil Society and Armed Actors on Becoming an Autochthonous 3 The Discursive Practices of BozizÉ 4 Autochthony without Land, State Policy, and Mining 5 Autochthony, the Everyday and Dynamics in the Public Market 7. Conclusion: On Mobilizing Autochthony Without Land Notes References Index
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Yale University Press A Way of Life
Book SynopsisTrade Review“A rare and nuanced scholarly effort that always remains engaging and delightful. As with any memorable journey, at the end we more deeply understand and feel our own point of departure.”—Ted J. Kaptchuk, author of The Web That Has No Weaver: Understanding Chinese Medicine “This wonderfully challenging book is an induction into another world, a translation between traditional Chinese medicine and Western post-Enlightenment bio-medicine. Judith Farquhar guides us expertly through the things, thoughts, and actions of these mutually understandable worlds.”—Stephan Feuchtwang, author of Popular Religion in China: The Imperial Metaphor “Farquhar expertly translates the materials and practices of traditional Chinese medicine into a vision for concrete action in a world that is always in the midst of becoming.”—Carla Nappi, author of The Monkey and the Inkpot: Natural History and Its Transformations in Early Modern China “Farquhar guides the reader expertly through the multiple discourses of the art of Chinese medicine. Her translations capture with clarity and passion an expertise in interpreting the living body that, while rooted in the Chinese classics, nevertheless achieves a commonplace universality; in her own words, ‘a space beyond cultural difference, beyond linguistic translation, and beyond the merely conceptual.’”—Vivienne Lo, coeditor of Imagining Chinese Medicine “Written with delicate yet exact prose and pertinent use of cosmopolitan erudition, this book allows the reader to think about medicine through the localized specificities of its practices wherever those are. This book is an achievement—an immensely inspiring one.”—Marisol de la Cadena, author of Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice across Andean Worlds “Judith Farquhar’s beautiful book is a profound but accessible meditation on the very different world of Chinese medicine. It unsettles Western ways of thinking to recast how we think about the relations between science and religion.”—John Law, author of After Method: Mess in Social Science Research “A Way of Life is an exceptionally illuminating account of the concepts and practices of traditional Chinese medicine and their problematic relationship with Western biomedicine. Judith Farquhar effectively challenges some of the defining assumptions and categories of classical epistemology and contemporary philosophy of science.”—Barbara Herrnstein Smith, author of Natural Reflections: Human Cognition at the Nexus of Science and Religion“Judith Farquhar’s anthropological and linguistic focus is novel, making this book a welcome addition to the sometimes-confusing works that attempt to ‘translate’ Chinese medicine for a Western reader.”—William C. Summers, author of The Great Manchurian Plague of 1910–1911: The Geopolitics of an Epidemic Disease“A Way of Life is original, creative scholarship of the highest quality, presented in lovely and stylish prose. It is truly a pleasure to read.”—Dale Martin, author of Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century and of Sex and the Single Savior: Gender and Sexuality in Biblical Interpretation“Following in the footsteps of Joseph Needham, the renowned historian of Chinese thought, Judith Farquhar here blazes her own path. Using Chinese medicine as her lamp, she leads us through the misty mountains of ‘science’ and ‘religion,’ pointing out the pitfalls of translation along the way. She does so with erudition and eloquence.”—Donald Lopez, author of The Scientific Buddha: His Short and Happy Life“A Way of Life distills decades of anthropological and philosophical study of Chinese medical practice, in which Judith Farquhar was authoritatively trained, into an introduction as lucid as it is deep.”—Nathan Sivin, author of Health Care in Eleventh-Century China
£25.00
WW Norton & Co Nobodys Normal
Book SynopsisA compassionate and captivating examination of evolving attitudes toward mental illness throughout history and the fight to end the stigma.Trade Review"Nobody’s Normal by Roy Richard Grinker is a compassionate, well-researched chronicle of the historical stigmatisation of mental illness. Since ‘normal’ is a social construct, why can’t we change it?" -- Ruth Ozeki - The Guardian, Best Books of 2021
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Dos and Taboos of Humor Around the World
Book SynopsisThe Do''s and Taboos series: over 600,000 satisfied readers-and counting! Roger Axtell is an international Emily Post.-The New Yorker Roger Axtell''s latest eye-opening guide to the pitfalls awaiting the business and leisure traveler is his funniest and most useful yet. Building on two invaluable ideas-laughter has no accent and no matter where you travel in our world, there is one form of communication that is understood-the smile-Axtell expertly combines fascinating business and leisure lore, more than 300 hilarious anecdotes, and loads of entertaining, invaluable advice on proper etiquette in dozens of countries. From embarrassing dining debacles to unintentionally lewd gestures, this delightful guide shows how to avoid cultural faux pas as you sidestep potential misunderstandings. If all else fails, always be ready to laugh at yourself! Includes 26 whimsical illustrations by the award-winning cartoonist Mel Casson * Discusses the often comical gaffes Table of ContentsWords. The "S" Word-Sex. Interpretations. Protocol. Exporting American Humor. Gestures. Cruising. Business Bloopers. Foods and Dining. Toasts. Travel Talk. Misunderstandings. Miscellaneous Humor. Postscript. Index.
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University of Michigan Press Mass Performance
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Blindness Through the Looking Glass The
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Fashion Nation Picturing the United States in
Book SynopsisIn the late nineteenth century, the United States was known internationally as a place full of gaudiness and glitter. This book argues that this reputation was rooted in early nineteenth-century British and European ethnic nationalism, and the fashion of wearing colourful ethnic costuming that was adopted as part of these movements.
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The University of Michigan Press Going to the Countryside
Book SynopsisTthe act of "going to the countryside" was a distinctively modern experience and a continuous practice in China. Going to the Countryside deals with the cultural representations and practices of this practice between 1915 and 1965, focusing on individual homecoming, rural reconstruction, and revolutionary journeys.
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The University of Michigan Press Fashion Nation
Book SynopsisIn the late nineteenth century, the United States was known internationally as a place full of gaudiness and glitter. This book argues that this reputation was rooted in early nineteenth-century British and European ethnic nationalism, and the fashion of wearing colourful ethnic costuming that was adopted as part of these movements.Table of Contents Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction Chapter One. American Looks Chapter Two. Restyling an Old World: Metropolitan Fashion in the Antebellum U.S. Chapter Three. “Clothes Upon Sticks”: The Settler Colonial Sartorial Eye Chapter Four. Some Inscrutable Flattery of the Atmosphere: The Ethnic Nation in the White City Conclusion Index
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LUP - University of Michigan Press The Development of ArabAmerican Identity
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