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Book SynopsisWorld War III has yet to happen, and yet material evidence of this conflict is strewn everywhere: resting at the bottom of the ocean, rusting in deserts, and floating in near-Earth orbit. In Military Waste, Joshua O. Reno offers a unique analysis of the costs of American war preparation through an examination of the lives and stories of American civilians confronted with what is left over and cast aside when a society is permanently ready for war. Using ethnographic and archival research, Reno demonstrates how obsolete military junk in its various incarnations affects people and places far from the battlegrounds that are ordinarily associated with warfare. Using a broad swath of examplesfrom excess planes, ships, and space debris that fall into civilian hands, to the dispossessed and polluted island territories once occupied by military bases, to the militarized masculinities of mass shootersMilitary Waste reveals the unexpected and open-ended relationships that non-combatants on the home front form with a nation permanently ready for war.Trade Review"Reno eschews these common ways of understanding war’s wastefulness, turning instead to a quirky ethnographic exploration of other forms of military waste. . . . a fascinating read." * Survival: Global Politics and Strategy *"Joshua Reno’s book is an essential element of a larger global conversation about the effects of war on the socio-political health of nations and the lasting environmental impact of its psychological residues and material remnants." * LSE Review of Books *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Worth the Waste 2. Flight or Fight Coauthored with Priscilla Bennett 3. Sunk Cost Coauthored with Priscilla Bennett 4. The Wrong Stuff 5. Domestic Blowback 6. Island Erasure Conclusion Notes Reference List Index

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Book SynopsisThe Likeness is a close ethnographic study of subjectivity in the former Yugoslav republic of Slovenia. In this highly imaginative work, the author argues that much of what matters in Slovenia plays out on surfacesof people and things, systems and locationsrendering the complexity of expression external and legible, but rarely unique or original. Here likenesses are everywhere in bloom and powerfully deployed. Moving blithely from Slovenia's most famous thinkers to its most confounding artists, from grammatical categories of number to the particularities of history, The Likeness exploresalternative modes of self-expression as postsocialist Slovenia gains visibility on the world stage.Trade Review"We encounter here a unique and provocative twist in the quest to depict Slovenia and the Slovenes. . . . A skillful pen, evoking deadly sincerity and a chuckle with the same stroke, is an invitation to explore this unconventional narrative." * Slovene Studies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface: Andandpersand Introduction I. Of Semblances and . . . II. Of Selves A Break in the Pattern Chapter 1 I. Walter Benjamin, Ljubljana, 1986 II. Walter Benjamin (et al.) Speaks His Mind, Ljubljana, 1986 (2001, 2003) Chapter 2 I. Technologies of Self-Protection II. “By the very cunning of the scene” Portraits of a Three-Headed Mountain (1968, 2004, 2007) Chapter 3 I. Two in the Same: Janez Janša, Janez Janša, Janez Janša, and Janez Janša II. This Is Going to Hurt a Little Chapter 4 I. Is Slavoj Žižek Full of Shit? II. More on the Same Subject Chapter 5 I. Inside the Body Is Blood and Bone II. “ . . . or at least fail while trying” Afterword: Melania Trump (née Melanija Knavs) Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more atwww.luminosoa.org. Sometimes leaving home allows you to make an impact on itbut at what cost? Exit and Voice is a compelling account of how Mexican migrants with strong ties to their home communities impact the economic and political welfare of the communities they have left behind. In many decentralized democracies like Mexico, migrants have willingly stepped in to supply public goods when local or state government lack the resources or political will to improve the town. Though migrants' cross-border investments often improve citizens' access to essential public goods and create a more responsive local government, their work allows them to unintentionally exert political engagement and power, undermining the influence of those still living in their hometowns. In looking at the paradox of migrants who have left their home to make an impact on it, Exit and Voice sheds light on how migrant transnational engagement refashions the meaning of community, democratic governance, and practices of citizenship in the era of globalization.Trade Review"[Duquette-Rury] situates Mexico within an international context by arguing that citizenship can become “decoupled” from actual residence in a community—Recommended." * CHOICE * "In the end, Exit and Voice is to be commended for putting substance into the consequences of hometown associations beyond studies that focus more specifically on development. . . . Exit and Voice enhances our understanding of how migrants engage from abroad and the political consequences of that engagement." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Local Democratic Governance and Transnational Migrant Participation 2. Decentralization, Democratization, and the Feedback Effects of Sending State Outreach 3. Micro-Politics of Substitutive and Synergetic Partnerships 4. Effects of Violence and Economic Crisis on Hybrid Transnational Partnerships 5. Synergy and Corporatism in El Mirador and Atitlan, Comarga 6. Systematic Effects of Transnational Partnerships on Local Governance Conclusion: The Paradox of Cross-Border Politics Data Appendix A: Comparative Fieldwork in Mexico Data Appendix B: Transnational Matched Survey Data Instrument Data Appendix C: Principal Component and Cluster Analysis Using Survey Data Data Appendix D: Mexican Panel Data, Mexican Family Life Survey, and Statistical Analyses Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn this intimate and innovative work, terror expert Joseba Zulaika examines drone warfare as manhunting carried out via satellite. Using Creech Air Force Base near Las Vegas as his center of study, he interviews drone operators as well as resisters to the war economy of the region to expose the layers offantasyon which counterterrorism and its self-sustaining logic are grounded.Hellfire from Paradise Ranch exposes the terror and warfare of drone killings that dominate our modern military. It unveils thetrauma drone operators experience, in part due to their visual intimacy with their victims, and explores the resistance to drone killings in the same apocalyptic Nevada desert where nuclear testing, pacifist militancy, and Shoshone tradition overlap. Stunning and absorbing, Zulaika offers a richly detailed account of how we continue to manufacture, deconstruct, and perpetuate terror.Table of ContentsPrologue: Slaughterhouse-359 1. The Real: Home of the Hunters 2. Fantasy and the Art of Drone Assassination 3. Drone Wars Returning from the Future 4. Trauma: The Killer as Voyeur 5. Resistance: A Harsh and Dreadful Love Epilogue: Obama’s Troy: Kill Me a Son Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFew symbols in today's world are as laden and fraught as shariaan Arabic-origin term referring to the straight path, the path God revealed for humans, the norms and rules guiding Muslims on that path, and Islamic law and normativity as enshrined in sacred texts or formal statute. Yet the ways in which Muslim men and women experience the myriad dimensions of sharia often go unnoticed and unpublicized. So too do recent historical changes in sharia judiciaries and contemporary strategies on the part of political and religious elites, social engineers, and brand stewards to shape, solidify, and rebrand these institutions. Sharia Transformations is an ethnographic, historical, and theoretical study of the practice and lived entailments of sharia in Malaysia, arguably the most economically successful Muslim-majority nation in the world. The book focuses on the routineeveryday practices of Malaysia's sharia courts and the changes that have occurred in the courtdiscourses and practices in reTrade Review"This book is a centerpiece that opens the way to comparison. Hopefully, the same type of inquiry will be conducted in other contexts, showing global commonalities as well as local specificities and epistemologically embodying the need to move from the science of Islamic law to the anthropology of law in Muslim contexts." * Droit & Société *"This wonderful new book by Peletz is a beautifully written and deeply illuminating account of Malaysia, a country not commonly studied in the US. It deserves a wider audience than those who might be first drawn to it from the content suggested by its title. . . .The writing, which flows unerringly and easily through a splendidly constructed series of chapters, does not stint in pulling in relevant theoretical insights from a wide range of sources, thereby expanding the implications of this work and its potential impact and reach, particularly for anthropologists and legal scholars." * CHOICE *"A highly appreciated scholarly endeavour. . . . Legal scholars, scholars of Islamic studies, and social scientists of Southeast Asia amongst others will certainly find this book very important for their studies." * Pacific Affairs *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations and Acronyms Note on Spelling, Terminology, and Currency Glossary of Frequently Used Malay Terms Introduction: Sharia, Cultural Politics, Anthropology 1. Sharia Judiciary as Global Assemblage: Islamization, Corporatization, and Other Transformations in Context 2. A Tale of Two Courts: Judicial Transformation, Corporate Islamic Governmentality, and the New Punitiveness 3. What Are Sulh Sessions? After Ijtihad, Islamic ADR, and Pastoral Power 4. Discourse, Practice, and Rebranding in Kuala Lumpur’s Sharia Courthouse 5. Are Women Getting (More) Justice? Ethnographic, Historical, and Comparative Perspectives Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Peruvian migrant workers began arriving in South Korea in large numbers in the mid 1990s, eventually becoming one of the largest groups of non-Asians in the country. Migrant Conversions shows how despite facing unstable income and legal exclusion, migrants come to see Korea as an ideal destination. Some even see it as part of their divine destiny. Faced with looming departures, Peruvians develop cosmopolitan plans to transform themselves from economic migrants into pastors, lovers, and leaders. Set against the backdrop of 2008's global financial crisis, Vogel explores the intersections of three types of conversions money, religious beliefs and cosmopolitan plansto argue that conversions are how migrants negotiate the meaning of their lives in a constantly changing transnational context. At the convergence of cosmopolitan projects spearheaded by the state, churches, and other migrants, Peruvians Trade Review"An interesting book that makes a timely contribution to enhancing our understandings of the plurality of foreign experiences in East Asia. It offers readers excellent ethnography combined with interesting conceptual arguments." * Asian Ethnology *"Deserves praise for vividly portraying the experiences of Peruvian migrants in Korea, which have not been explored so far, through thick description." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"Carries an academic value because of its contribution to studies on globalization." * H-LatAm *"Migrant Conversions contributes new and innovative material to the study of Latin American-Asian migration. . . . [It] moves us closer to understanding the multilayered migration experiences of Peruvians in areas that have received little attention and is a delightful read." * International Migration Review *"Vogel has written a highly readable book whose arguments are clearly laid out. It is an excellent classroom resource with which to engage students in discussing the multifaceted dimensions of global migrants’ experiences, and scholars of globalization and transnational migration will also learn much from it." * American Ethnologist *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Istanbul, City of the Fearless is a book that transcends disciplinary boundaries, and is useful as an exemplary framework to study political life and affect in contemporary Istanbul, as well as in other similarly complex geographies.” * International Journal of Middle East Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Prologue List of Political Parties and Groups 1. Spatial Politics, Historiography, Method: Introduction 2. Activism, Perception, Memory: 12 Eylül Museum of Shame 3. De-Ottomanization, Modernism, Migration: A Selective History of Istanbul, 1923–1974 4. Inscription, Sound, Violence: Militant Repertoires and the Production of Space in Istanbul, 1974–1980 5. Gecekondu, Factory, Municipality: Three Fields of Spatial Politics 6. Militants, Ideologies, (F)actions: What Is to Be Done? 7. Pacification, Resistance, Reconstruction: Coup d’État, City of the Fearful, 1980–1983 8. Phenomenology, Event, Commemoration: Conclusion Epilogue Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFires of Goldis a powerful ethnography of the often shrouded cultural, legal, political, and spiritual forces governing the gold mining industry in Ghana, one of Africa's most celebrated democracies. Lauren Coyle Rosen argues that significant sources of power have arisen outside of the formal legal system to police, adjudicate, and navigate conflict in this theater of violence, destruction, and rebirth. These authorities, or shadow sovereigns, include the transnational mining company, collectivized artisanal miners, civil society advocacy groups, and significant religious figures and spiritual forces from African, Islamic, and Christian traditions. Often more salient than official bodies of government, the shadow sovereigns reveal a reconstitution of sovereign powerone that, in many ways, is generated by hidden dimensions of the legal system. Coyle Rosen also contends that spiritual forces are central in anchoring and animating shadow sovereigns as well as key forms of legal authority, economic value, and political contestation. This innovative book illuminates how the crucible of gold, itself governed by spirits, serves as a critical site for embodied struggles over the realignment of the classical philosophical triad: the city, the soul, and the sacred. Trade Review"Lauren Coyle Rosen’s compelling ethnography of a Ghanaian gold-mining city centers on the value of gold. But, as in those early modern mercantile encounters, it is also about the very logics of religion and ritual that place conflicting understandings of the value of exchange at the center of political struggles. Fires of Gold masterfully theorizes the dynamics of “liberalization,” which have occurred not just in Ghana but across the world since the late 1980s, as altered early modern ideas about the free market have reformed postcolonial welfare states." * Religiology *"Rosen’s ethnography provides important insights into the force field that structures life around Obuasi’s gold mines and goes beyond mere political and legal analysis by revealing the different forms of power, violence, and activism that complicate the success story of Ghana’s gold industry and rule-of-law system." * Allegra Laboratory *"Fires of Gold remains a dense, compelling and well-constructed ethnography that enriches the growing literature in the anthropology of resource extraction and uses an entry point on mining-related conflicts to bring together issues of labor struggles and existential precarity, spiritual controversies and religious change, political authority under constant contestation and redefinition, all ultimately shaping the uncertain future of a bustling but crisis-ridden one-company town." * Cahiers D'études Africaines *"Coyle Rosen convincingly describes the flattening of sovereignty between a diversity of actors in Obuasi that parallels a conflictual verticalisation of spiritual authorities spurred by the growth in monotheist practice. Ghana’s praised success as a liberal democracy should be read in the context of the spiritual and pragmatic violence that reshapes the state in what the author describes as ‘a re-spiritualization, or re-enchantment, of sovereignty and political life.'" * Journal of Modern African Studies *Table of ContentsList of Maps Introduction 1. Artisanal Miners and Sacrificial Laws 2. Spiritual Sovereigns in the Shadows 3. Pray for the Mine 4. Fallen Chiefs and Divine Violence 5. Effigies, Strikes, and Courts Conclusion: Out of the Golden Twilight? Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Lauren Coyle Rosen’s compelling ethnography of a Ghanaian gold-mining city centers on the value of gold. But, as in those early modern mercantile encounters, it is also about the very logics of religion and ritual that place conflicting understandings of the value of exchange at the center of political struggles. Fires of Gold masterfully theorizes the dynamics of “liberalization,” which have occurred not just in Ghana but across the world since the late 1980s, as altered early modern ideas about the free market have reformed postcolonial welfare states." * Religiology *"Rosen’s ethnography provides important insights into the force field that structures life around Obuasi’s gold mines and goes beyond mere political and legal analysis by revealing the different forms of power, violence, and activism that complicate the success story of Ghana’s gold industry and rule-of-law system." * Allegra Laboratory *"Fires of Gold remains a dense, compelling and well-constructed ethnography that enriches the growing literature in the anthropology of resource extraction and uses an entry point on mining-related conflicts to bring together issues of labor struggles and existential precarity, spiritual controversies and religious change, political authority under constant contestation and redefinition, all ultimately shaping the uncertain future of a bustling but crisis-ridden one-company town." * Cahiers D'études Africaines *"Coyle Rosen convincingly describes the flattening of sovereignty between a diversity of actors in Obuasi that parallels a conflictual verticalisation of spiritual authorities spurred by the growth in monotheist practice. Ghana’s praised success as a liberal democracy should be read in the context of the spiritual and pragmatic violence that reshapes the state in what the author describes as ‘a re-spiritualization, or re-enchantment, of sovereignty and political life.'" * Journal of Modern African Studies *Table of ContentsList of Maps Introduction 1. Artisanal Miners and Sacrificial Laws 2. Spiritual Sovereigns in the Shadows 3. Pray for the Mine 4. Fallen Chiefs and Divine Violence 5. Effigies, Strikes, and Courts Conclusion: Out of the Golden Twilight? Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisGenocide involves significant death and trauma. Yet the enormous scope of genocide comes into view when one looks at the factors that lead to mass killing, the struggle for survival during genocide, and the ways survivors reconstruct their lives after the violence ends. Over a one hundred day period in 1994, the country of Rwanda saw the genocidal slaughter of at least 800,000 Tutsi at the hands of members of the Hutu majority government. This book is a powerful oral history of the tragedy and its aftermath from the perspective of its survivors. Based on in-depth interviews conducted over the course of fifteen years, the authors take a holistic approach by tracing how victims experienced the horrific events, as well as how they have coped with the aftermath as they struggled to resume their lives. The Rwanda genocide deserves study and documentation not only because of the failure of the Western world to intervene, but also because it raises profound questions about the ways survivors create a new life out of the ashes of all that was destroyed. How do they deal with the all-encompassing traumas of genocide? Is forgiveness possible? And what does the process of rebuilding teach us about genocide, trauma, and human life?Trade Review“The authors offer valuable insights into psychological trauma and its link to loss of identity. . . . Becoming Human Again is not an easy read but it is a worthwhile one; a journey through horror to healing.” * New Internationalist *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments PART I: The Genocide 1. Encountering the Genocide 2. How Did It Happen? 3. Orphan Memories 4. The Experience of Women 5. Coping after Genocide PART II: Postgenocide Experiences 6. Trauma as Moral Rupture 7. A Holistic Model of Healing 8. Forgiveness 9. Justice and Reconciliation 10. Becoming Human Again Appendix I: Methodology Appendix II: Survey Results on Distress and Resilience Beth E. Meyerowitz and Lauren C. Ng Notes References and Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisGoing beyond the how and why of burnout, a former tenured professor combines academic methods and first-person experience to propose new ways for resisting our cultural obsession with work and transforming our vision of human flourishing. Burnout has become our go-to term for talking about the pressure and dissatisfaction we experience at work. But in the absence of understanding what burnout means, the discourse often does little to help workers who suffer from exhaustion and despair. Jonathan Malesic was a burned out worker who escaped by quitting his job as a tenured professor. In The End of Burnout, he dives into the history and psychology of burnout, traces the origin of the high ideals we bring to our jobs, and profiles the individuals and communities who are already resisting our cultural commitment to constant work. In The End of Burnout, Malesic traces his own history as someone who burned out of a tenured job to frame this rigorous investigation of how and why so many of us feel worn out, alienated, and useless in our work. Through research on the science, culture, and philosophy of burnout, Malesic explores the gap between our vocation and our jobs, and between the ideals we have for work and the reality of what we have to do. He eschews the usual prevailing wisdom in confronting burnout (Learn to say no! Practice mindfulness!) to examine how our jobs have been constructed as a symbol of our value and our total identity. Beyond looking at what drives burnoutunfairness, a lack of autonomy, a breakdown of community, mismatches of valuesthis book spotlights groups that are addressing these failures of ethics. We can look to communities of monks, employees of a Dallas nonprofit, intense hobbyists, and artists with disabilities to see the possibilities for resisting a total work environment and the paths to recognizing the dignity of workers and nonworkers alike. In this critical yet deeply humane book, Malesic offers the vocabulary we need to recognize burnout, overcome burnout culture, and acknowledge the dignity of workers and nonworkers alike.Trade Review "A moving examination of a flawed approach to work that suggests a society-wide means of dismantling the problem." * ForeWord Reviews *"In mixing Thoreau with papal encyclicals, feminist thinkers with aristocratic philosophers, [Malesic] makes a persuasive case for the reorientation of our ideals surrounding work, and the proposition, catholic in every sense of the term, that acknowledgement of human dignity must precede any ability to demonstrate it." * The Bulwark *"His acutely felt investigation of work burnout as an ‘ailment of the soul’ makes his the more thought-provoking and substantial of these two books." * TLS *"Jonathan Malesic’s intelligent and careful study,The End of Burnout, brings clarity to a muddled discussion." * The Baffler *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction I   Burnout Culture 1. Everyone Is Burned Out, But No One Knows What That Means 2. Burnout: The First 2,000 Years 3. The Burnout Spectrum 4. How Jobs Have Gotten Worse in the Age of Burnout 5. Work Saints and Work Martyrs: The Problem with Our Ideals II   Counterculture 6. We Can Have It All: A New Vision of the Good Life 7. How Benedictines Tame the Demons of Work 8. Varieties of Anti-Burnout Experience Conclusion: Nonessential Work in a Post-Pandemic World Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThe breathless pace of China's economic reform has brought about deep ruptures in socioeconomic structures and people's inner landscape. Faced with increasing market-driven competition and profound social changes, more and more middle-class urbanites are turning to Western-style psychological counseling to grapple with their mental distress. This book offers an in-depth ethnographic account of how an unfolding inner revolution is reconfiguring selfhood, psyche, family dynamics, sociality, and the mode of governing in post-socialist times. Li Zhang shows that anxietybroadly construed in both medical and social termshas become a powerful indicator for the general pulse of contemporary Chinese society. It is in this particular context that Zhang traces how a new psychotherapeutic culture takes root, thrives, and transforms itself across a wide range of personal, social, and political domains.Trade Review"While grounded in the ethnographic specificities of middle-class Chinese urbanites, Anxious China offers powerful insights to scholars working on similar questions in diverse regions of the world." * Somatosphere *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Psy Fever 2. Bentuhua: Culturing Psychotherapy 3. Therapeutic Relationships with Chinese Characteristics? 4. Branding the Satir Model 5. Crafting a Therapeutic Self 6. Cultivating Happiness 7. Therapeutic Governing Epilogue Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThe breathless pace of China's economic reform has brought about deep ruptures in socioeconomic structures and people's inner landscape. Faced with increasing market-driven competition and profound social changes, more and more middle-class urbanites are turning to Western-style psychological counseling to grapple with their mental distress. This book offers an in-depth ethnographic account of how an unfolding inner revolution is reconfiguring selfhood, psyche, family dynamics, sociality, and the mode of governing in post-socialist times. Li Zhang shows that anxietybroadly construed in both medical and social termshas become a powerful indicator for the general pulse of contemporary Chinese society. It is in this particular context that Zhang traces how a new psychotherapeutic culture takes root, thrives, and transforms itself across a wide range of personal, social, and political domains.Trade Review"While grounded in the ethnographic specificities of middle-class Chinese urbanites, Anxious China offers powerful insights to scholars working on similar questions in diverse regions of the world." * Somatosphere *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Psy Fever 2. Bentuhua: Culturing Psychotherapy 3. Therapeutic Relationships with Chinese Characteristics? 4. Branding the Satir Model 5. Crafting a Therapeutic Self 6. Cultivating Happiness 7. Therapeutic Governing Epilogue Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThe first book length anthropological study of voluntary assisted dying in Switzerland, Leaving is a narrative account of five people who ended their lives with assistance. Stavrianakis places his observations of the judgment to end life in this way within a larger inquiry about how to approach and understand the practice of assisted suicide, which he characterizes as operating in a political, legal, and medical parazone, adjacent to medical care and expertise. Frequently, observers too rapidly integrate assisted suicide into moral positions that reflect sociological and psychological commonplaces about individual choice and its social determinants. Leaving engages with core early twentieth-century psychoanalytic and sociological texts arguing for a contemporary approach to the phenomenon of voluntary death, seeking to learn from such conceptual repertoires, as well as to acknowledge their limits. Leaving concludes on the anthropological question of how to account for the ethics of assistance with suicide: to grasp the actuality and composition of the ethical work that goes on in the configuration of a subject, one who is making a judgment about dying, with other participants and observers, the anthropologist included. Trade Review"An exquisite compilation of impeccable sentences and lyrical paragraphs that elucidates the complexities of assisted suicide with its clarity, its humanity, its breadth, and its depth." * Mortality *Table of ContentsA Note of Gratitude Introduction PART ONE. Restricted Action, an Orientation Near Death Parazone Judgment on Trial PART TWO. Leaving, a Casuistry Peter Fabienne and Sylviane Clément Florian PART THREE. Ethos, Three Studies Desire | Narcissism Conduct | Obstinacy Observation | The Neutral Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTransformational festivals, from Burning Man to Lightning in a Bottle, Bhakti Fest, and Wanderlust, are massive events that attract thousands of participants to sites around the world. In this groundbreaking book, Amanda J. Lucia shows how these festivals operate as religious institutions for spiritual, but not religious (SBNR) communities. Whereas previous research into SBNR practices and New Age religion has not addressed the predominantly white makeup of these communities, White Utopias examines the complicated, often contradictory relationships with race at these events, presenting an engrossing ethnography of SBNR practices. Lucia contends that participants create temporary utopias through their shared commitments to spiritual growth and human connection. But they also participate in religious exoticism by adopting Indigenous and Indic spiritualities, a practice that ultimately renders them exclusive, white utopias. Focusing on yoga's role in disseminating SBNR values, Lucia offers new ways of comprehending transformational festivals as significant cultural phenomena.Trade Review"Lucia’s sharp analysis and enthusiasm for historical and theoretical context dominates the book." * High Country News *"Being highly engaging and informative, this book is a valuable read for all scholars interested in contemporary questions of religion and spirituality." * Religious Studies Review *"Lucia’s work brings an important and timely perspective on the racialised power dynamics of [‘spiritual but not religious’] communities to the study of contemporary yoga." * Religion *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Author Note Introduction 1. Romanticizing the Premodern: The Confluence of Indic and Indigenous Spiritualities Interlude: Cultural Possession and Whiteness 2. Anxieties over Authenticity: American Yoga and the Problem of Whiteness Interlude: “White People Are on the Journey of Evolution” 3. Deconstructing the Self: At the Limits of Asceticism Interlude: Sculpting Bodies and Minds 4. Wonder, Awe, and Peak Experiences: Approaching Mystical Territories Interlude: Producing Wonder / Branding Freedom 5. The Cathartic Freedom of Transformational Festivals: Neoliberal Escapes and Entrapments Conclusion Appendix 1: @Instagram Data for Public Figures Cited Appendix 2: Methodology Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThis is not just another book about crisis in Haiti. This book is about what it feels like to live and die with a crisis that never seems to end. It is about the experience of living amid the ruins of ecological devastation, economic collapse, political upheaval, violence, and humanitarian disaster. It is about how catastrophic events and political and economic forces shape the most intimate aspects of everyday life. In this gripping account, anthropologist Greg Beckett offers a stunning ethnographic portrait of ordinary people struggling to survive in Port-au-Prince in the twenty-first century. Drawing on over a decade of research, There Is No More Haiti builds on stories of death and rebirth to powerfully reframe the narrative of a country in crisis. It is essential reading for anyone interested in Haiti today. Trade Review“Beckett’s deep and thoughtful ethnography effectively demonstrates that disorder is not the absence of order, but is a structured confluence of scripts and externalities that are profoundly felt by people in Haiti.” * LSE Review of Books *“While the author seeds his book with historical context, his strong narrative style emphasizes individual people... who work in the informal economy and with whom he becomes fast friends while meticulously studying their lives.” * Diplomat & International Canada *"In There is No More Haiti: Life and Death in Port-au-Prince, Greg Beckett combines a decade of ethnographic research with a novelist’s sensitivity to style to create a deeply empathetic and theoretically expansive portrait of urban life in Haiti between 2002 and 2006. . . . Overall, the book is a remarkable contribution to Haitian studies, presented with such accessible and beautiful prose that it is suitable both for experts and undergraduates." * H-Net *"At once poignant and urgent, There is No More Haiti develops a slow and intensively empathic ethnography that unfolds . . . through, and despite, a furiously rapid, chaotic historical moment marked by multiple crises." * New West Indian Guide * "There Is No More Haiti is an essential book for thinking about Haiti today." * Religious Studies Review *Table of ContentsList of Photographs Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Forest and the City 2. Looking for Life 3. Making Disorder 4. Between Life and Death 5. Aftermath Postscript Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisHumanity has precipitated a planetary crisis of resource consumptiona crisis of stuff. So ingrained is our stuff-centric view that we can barely imagine a way out beyond substituting a new portmanteau of material things for the one we have today. In The Human Scaffold, anthropologist Josh Berson offers a new theory of adaptation to environmental change. Drawing on niche construction, evolutionary game theory, and the enactive view of cognition, Berson considers cases in the archaeology of adaptation in which technology in the conventional sense was virtually absent. Far from representing anomalies, these cases exemplify an enduring feature of human behavior that has implications for our own fate. The time has come to ask what the environmental crisis demands of us not as consumers but as biological beings. The Human Scaffold offers a starting point. Trade Review“Berson's mind is on display in all its brilliance and eccentricity. Be prepared. . . . Berson's analytical discernment of contemporary culture burying ourselves with ‘stuff’ and mindlessly devouring the world's natural resources rings with descriptive eloquence. . . . Keep writing, Josh Berson. We need you." * National Catholic Reporter Online *Table of ContentsList of Figures Preface: Living Epiphytically Kansha 1. Treadmills 2. Scaffolds 3. Equilibria 4. Landscapes 4boro. Landscapes and Scaffolds 5. Ditch Kit Postscript: Foaminess Glossary Notes Sources Index

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Book SynopsisIn China, the weather has changed. Decades of reform have been shadowed by a changing meteorological normal: seasonal dust storms and spectacular episodes of air pollution have reworked physical and political relations between land and air in China and downwind. Continent in Dust offers an anthropology of strange weather, focusing on intersections among statecraft, landscape, atmosphere, and society. Traveling from state engineering programs that attempt to choreograph the movement of mobile dunes in the interior, to newly reconfigured bodies and airspaces in Beijing, and beyond, this book explores contemporary China as a weather system in the making: what would it mean to understand the rise of China literally, as the country itself rises into the air? Trade Review"Continent in Dust is a timely and critical intervention in the roles and relationships of China and Asia in weather-world-systems. . . . It is a welcome contribution to a growing conversation about how material, ecological and meteorological phenomena are mutually implicated with practices, knowledges and experiences of sovereignty, ethics, and sociality." * International Journal of Asian Studies *"Continent in Dust is a literary adventure." * Anthropology and Humanism *"Continent in Dust is an ambitious and intriguing book. A delightful read which should be widely utilized in teaching and discussions on contemporary China and planetary health and change." * The China Quarterly *"More than anything, Continent in Dust is an essential intervention into recent writings about the arts of living amid planetary uncertainty, precarity and ruin. Reading this book is like seeing the blue sky emerge from a dust storm’s haze. Jerry Zee shows us how to reorient our senses and conceptual toolkits to see onto other possible worlds." * Inner Asia *"The book reframes how we think and write about practical action and responses in the face of climate emergency." * Publics Books *"A groundbreaking book on the management of dust storm and air quality in China. . . . Zee’s book is an enduring meditation on the consequences of China’s modernisation." * China Perspectives *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Apparatus A. Nightwind Introduction: Earthly Interphases Part I Wind-Sand Apparatus B. The Wind Tunnel 1. Machine Sky Apparatus C. A Sheet of Loose Sand 2. Groundwork Apparatus D. Five Thousand Years 3. Holding Patterns Part II Fine Particulate Matter 4. Particulate Exposures Apparatus E. Wildfires 5. City of Chambers Part III Continent in Dust Apparatus F. A Sinocene 6. Downwinds Apparatus G. Monsters Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisBelonging in a House Dividedchronicles the everyday lives of resettled North Korean refugees in South Korea and their experiences of violence, postwar citizenship, and ethnic boundary making. Through extensive ethnographic research, Joowon Park documents the emergence of cultural differences and tensions between Koreans from the North and South, as well as new transnational kinship practices that connect family members across the Korean Demilitarized Zone. As a South Korean citizen raised outside the peninsula and later drafted into the military, Park weaves in autoethnographic accounts of his own experience in the army to provide an empathetic and vivid analysis of the multiple overlapping layers of violence that shape the embodied experiences of belonging. He asks readers to consider why North Korean resettlement in South Korea is a difficult process, despite a shared goal of reunification and the absence of a language barrier. The book is essential reading for anyone interested in aTrade Review"A horrific yet compassionate story." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"Park’s book is highly recommended as a critical antidote to the often generic and diluted representations of North Koreans. . .This book is worthwhile reading for any observer and student of (North) Korean studies, citizenship and migration, gender studies, cultural anthropology, human rights, and politics." * Asian Journal of Social Science *"Belonging in a House Divided offers a novel perspective. . . it invites readers to critically examine the interplay between violence, displacement, and the pursuit of belonging, thereby expanding our comprehension of the intricate realities surrounding migratory processes." * International Migration Review *"Belonging in a House Divided is an important addition to the fields of anthropology, migration studies, Cold War studies, and Korean studies. Park has contributed valuable scholarship to understandings of belonging, citizenship, and home in a nation divided… A classic of Korean studies." * H-Net Reviews *Table of ContentsContents Introduction: A House Divided 1. Enduring Legacies of Division and War 2. The Chinese Dimension of the North Korean Migration 3. The Body and the Violence of Phenotypical Normalization 4. Remittances and Transborder Kinship 5. Constructing North Korean Deservingness Conclusion: A Continuum of Violence in a House Divided Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisBelonging in a House Dividedchronicles the everyday lives of resettled North Korean refugees in South Korea and their experiences of violence, postwar citizenship, and ethnic boundary making. Through extensive ethnographic research, Joowon Park documents the emergence of cultural differences and tensions between Koreans from the North and South, as well as new transnational kinship practices that connect family members across the Korean Demilitarized Zone. As a South Korean citizen raised outside the peninsula and later drafted into the military, Park weaves in autoethnographic accounts of his own experience in the army to provide an empathetic and vivid analysis of the multiple overlapping layers of violence that shape the embodied experiences of belonging. He asks readers to consider why North Korean resettlement in South Korea is a difficult process, despite a shared goal of reunification and the absence of a language barrier. The book is essential reading for anyone interested in aTrade Review"A horrific yet compassionate story." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"Park’s book is highly recommended as a critical antidote to the often generic and diluted representations of North Koreans. . .This book is worthwhile reading for any observer and student of (North) Korean studies, citizenship and migration, gender studies, cultural anthropology, human rights, and politics." * Asian Journal of Social Science *"Belonging in a House Divided offers a novel perspective. . . it invites readers to critically examine the interplay between violence, displacement, and the pursuit of belonging, thereby expanding our comprehension of the intricate realities surrounding migratory processes." * International Migration Review *"Belonging in a House Divided is an important addition to the fields of anthropology, migration studies, Cold War studies, and Korean studies. Park has contributed valuable scholarship to understandings of belonging, citizenship, and home in a nation divided… A classic of Korean studies." * H-Net Reviews *Table of ContentsContents Introduction: A House Divided 1. Enduring Legacies of Division and War 2. The Chinese Dimension of the North Korean Migration 3. The Body and the Violence of Phenotypical Normalization 4. Remittances and Transborder Kinship 5. Constructing North Korean Deservingness Conclusion: A Continuum of Violence in a House Divided Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisA free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. The relationships between female sex workers and their noncommercial male partners are often assumed to be coercive and anchored in risk, dismissed as pimp-prostitute arrangements by researchers and the general public alike. Yet, these stereotypes unjustly erase the complexity of lives we imagine to be consumed by social suffering.Dangerous Lovecenters a framework of love to rethink sex workers' intimate relationships as commitments to collective solidarity and survival in contexts of oppression. Combining epidemiological research and ethnographic fieldwork in Tijuana, Mexico, Jennifer LeighSyvertsen examines how individuals try to find love and meaning in lives marked by structural violence, social marginalization, drug addiction, and HIV/AIDS. Linking the political economy of inequalities along the border with emotional lived experience, this book explores how intimate relationships become dang

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Book SynopsisSocial anthropology was at the forefront of debates about culture, society, and economic development in the British Empire. This book explores the discipline's rise in the interwar period, crisis amid decolonization, and ironic reemergence in the postwar metropole. Across the humanities and social sciences, activists and scholars used anthropological concepts forged in empire to rethink British society at midcentury. Participant Observers shows how colonial anthropology helped define the social imagination of postimperial Britain. Part institutional history of the discipline's formation, part cultural history of its impact, this is the first account of social anthropology's pivotal role in Britain's intellectual culture.Table of ContentsContents Map Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1. Islands and Institutions Anthropology in Britain and the British Empire in the First Decades of the Twentieth Century 2. Philanthropists and Imperialists Indirect Rule, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Rise of LSE Anthropology 3. Pencils, Schemes and Letters Fieldwork and Pedagogy in 1930s Social Anthropology 4. Popularising the Field Interwar Anthropologists on the Radio and in Literary Culture 5. From Kinship Studies to Community Studies ‘Race Relations’, the ‘Traditional Working-Class Neighbourhood’ and the ‘Social Network’ in Post-war British Sociology 6. The Development Decades The African Survey, the CSSRC and Three Approaches to Social Anthropology in the British Empire, 1935–1955 7. From Development Economics to the ‘Moral Economy’ At the Margins of Anthropology, Economics and Social History in the 1950s and 1960s Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA poignant account of how the carceral state shapes daily life for young Black peopleand how Black Americans resist, find joy, and cultivate new visions for the future. At the Southern California Librarya community organization and an archive of radical and progressive movementsthe author meets a young man, Marley. In telling Marley's story, Damien M. Sojoyner depicts the overwhelming nature of Black precarity in the twenty-first century through the lenses of housing, education, health care, social services, and juvenile detention. But Black life is not defined by precarity; it embraces social visions of radical freedom that allow the pursuit of a life of joy beyond systems of oppression. Structured as a record collection of five albums, this innovative book relates Marley's personal encounters with everyday aspects of the carceral state through an ethnographic A side and offers deeper context through an anthropological and archival B side. In Joy and Pain, Marley's experiencesTrade Review"Lively discussions of Black musicians including Ice Cube and Kendrick Lamar pepper the narrative, as do deep dives into the tactics and strategies of advocacy groups such as the Black Panther Party and the California Housing and Action Network. Progressive activists will savor this in-depth portrait of the struggle for justice." * Publishers Weekly *"A creative, intimate ethnography centering on Marley, a charismatic and smart teen but reluctant protagonist. . . . The result is a gripping, up-close portrait of how the carceral state in LA makes Black life so precarious. . . . This innovative, intimate book examines Marley’s joy and pain as he encounters a web of precarity created by housing, education, health care, and social services. Summing Up: Highly recommended." * CHOICE *"A work of narrative storytelling, careful historical detail, and [an] homage to a community library that holds together many threads of hope within a system of destruction." * Journal of African American History *"Joy and Pain is a book whose message, dynamic depictions, and political intervention will be appreciated for its clarity and conviction by anyone interested in unpacking the fictions that create and sustain social inequality and the multilayered truths that challenge it." * Social Forces *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction: Look at California ALBUM 1: HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT A Side: A Place Called Home B Side: Manufacturing a Problem ALBUM 2: THE HEART OF REBELLION A Side: A True Education B Side: Watts to the Future ALBUM 3: ALL THAT GLITTERS A Side: Nonprofit Management B Side: All Power to the People ALBUM 4: CRUEL AND BEAUTIFUL A Side: Shelter from Paradise B Side: Socialist Visions ALBUM 5: LIBERATORY VIBES A Side: Freedom Ain’t Free B Side: The Price of Freedom Closing Note: Freedom on the Mind Grounding Materials Works Cited Illustration Credits Index

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Book SynopsisA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. This multidisciplinary volume brings together experienced expert witnesses and immigration attorneys to highlight best practices and strategies for giving expert testimony in asylum cases. As the scale and severity of violence in Latin America has grown in the last decade, scholars and attorneys have collaborated to defend the rights of immigrant women, children, and LGBTQ+ persons who are threatened by gender-based, sexual, and gang violence in their home countries. Researchers in anthropology, history, political science, and sociology have regularly supported the work of immigration lawyers and contributed to public debates on immigration reform, but the academy contains untapped scholarly expertise that, guided by the resources provided in this handbook, can aid asylum seekers and refugees and promote the fair adj

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Book SynopsisIn 2007, a three-story-high tsunami slammed the small island of Simbo in the western Solomon Islands. Drawing on over ten years of research, Matthew Lauer provides a vivid and intimate account of this calamitous event and the tumultuous recovery process. His stimulating analysis surveys the unpredictable entanglements of the powerful waves with colonization, capitalism, human-animal communication, spirit beings, ancestral territory, and technoscientific expertise that shaped the disaster's outcomes. Although the Simbo people had never experienced another tsunami in their lifetimes, nearly everyone fled to safety before the destructive waves hit. To understand their astonishing response, Lauer argues that we need to rethink popular and scholarly portrayals of Indigenous knowledge to avert epistemic imperialism and improve disaster preparedness strategies. In an increasingly disaster-prone era of ecological crises, this provocative book brings new possibilities into view for understanTrade Review"Sensing Disaster is an excellent book that offers a sympathetic and sophisticated introduction to the anthropology of disasters and indigenous knowledge and place-making, and would be invaluable as a teaching resource. The balance of theory and ethnography is highly engaging, making the book accessible to a larger audience outside the academy. . . . as the arguments in the book are highly relevant for (and should be reshaping) development and disaster practice across Oceania." * Oceania *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Notes on the Simbo Language and Solomon Islands Pijin Glossary Prologue: “Something Was Not Right” Introduction 1. The Rise of Indigenous Ecological Knowledge 2. Ocean Knowing 3. Ancestors, Steel, and Inland Living 4. New Villages, a New God, New Vulnerabilities 5. Assembling Reconstruction 6. Vulnerable Isles? 7. Sensing Disaster Compositions Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn 2007, a three-story-high tsunami slammed the small island of Simbo in the western Solomon Islands. Drawing on over ten years of research, Matthew Lauer provides a vivid and intimate account of this calamitous event and the tumultuous recovery process. His stimulating analysis surveys the unpredictable entanglements of the powerful waves with colonization, capitalism, human-animal communication, spirit beings, ancestral territory, and technoscientific expertise that shaped the disaster's outcomes. Although the Simbo people had never experienced another tsunami in their lifetimes, nearly everyone fled to safety before the destructive waves hit. To understand their astonishing response, Lauer argues that we need to rethink popular and scholarly portrayals of Indigenous knowledge to avert epistemic imperialism and improve disaster preparedness strategies. In an increasingly disaster-prone era of ecological crises, this provocative book brings new possibilities into view for understanding the causes and consequences of calamity, the unintended effects of humanitarian recovery and mitigation efforts, and the nature of local knowledge.Trade Review"Sensing Disaster is an excellent book that offers a sympathetic and sophisticated introduction to the anthropology of disasters and indigenous knowledge and place-making, and would be invaluable as a teaching resource. The balance of theory and ethnography is highly engaging, making the book accessible to a larger audience outside the academy. . . . as the arguments in the book are highly relevant for (and should be reshaping) development and disaster practice across Oceania." * Oceania *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Notes on the Simbo Language and Solomon Islands Pijin Glossary Prologue: “Something Was Not Right” Introduction 1. The Rise of Indigenous Ecological Knowledge 2. Ocean Knowing 3. Ancestors, Steel, and Inland Living 4. New Villages, a New God, New Vulnerabilities 5. Assembling Reconstruction 6. Vulnerable Isles? 7. Sensing Disaster Compositions Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"In a study that arcs gracefully from our changing understanding of the Neolithic Revolution to the era of genetically modified organisms, fast food, Slow Food, and environmental depletion, the focus is forward-facing." * World of Fine Wine *"Food has always provided ways of expressing cultural identity, regional differences, degrees of sophistication and economic status. Wurgaft and White trace these processes over centuries and across the globe. Their conclusions are both celebratory and thought-provoking." * Inside Story *"[A]t its heart, Ways of Eating is a love letter to the anthropology and history of food." * Current *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction VIGNETTE 1 Duccio’s Eden CHAPTER 1 Nature and Culture in the Origins Of Agriculture VIGNETTE 2 Akashiyaki at Nishi-Akashi CHAPTER 2 Staple Empires of the Ancient World VIGNETTE 3 Coffee and Pepper CHAPTER 3 Medieval Tastes VIGNETTE 4 Before Kimchi CHAPTER 4 The Columbian Exchange, or, the World Remade VIGNETTE 5 The Spirit Safe CHAPTER 5 Social Beverages and Modernity VIGNETTE 6 Authenticity in Panama CHAPTER 6 Colony and Curry VIGNETTE 7 The Icebox CHAPTER 7 Food’s Industrial Revolution VIGNETTE 8 Bricolage CHAPTER 8 Twentieth-Century Foodways, or, Big Food and Its Discontents VIGNETTE 9 Nem on the Menu CHAPTER 9 Ways of Eating Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisJust who are the Malays? This provocative study, now available in paperback, poses the question and considers how and why the answers have changed over time, and from one region to another. Anthony Milner develops a sustained argument about ethnicity and identity in an historical 'Malay' context.Trade Review"The Malays - a volume in Wiley-Blackwell's series ‘The peoples of South-East Asia and the Pacific' - is an absorbing read, clearly written not only for those already interested in the cultural dynamics of the island world of Southeast Asia, but also for everyone who is interested in knowing how to successfully fail in defining a particular race, people or ethnicity." (Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 1 February 2011) "When all is said and done, readers will have learned a great deal about what it is to be Malay... A thoughtful... book." (CHOICE, December 2009)"This study of a complex, elusive, and always changing essence of Malay civilisation draws on and reviews a large existing literature and adds an original and thought-provoking analysis to it. It is a work of great scholarship that is also absorbing reading." (Asian Affairs, March 2010) "Milner's book is thorough and well researched. Indeed, it is a 'must read' for any student and/or practitioner of Malaysian history and politics." (The Star, August 2009) "The book offers a fresh insight into the construction of group identities, the history of the Malay civilization and possible future of the Malay ethnicity." (Kansas City infoZine, March 2009) "The Malays, confronts the bewildering diversity and contradictions of the Malay identity, ethnicity and consciousness. The book seeks to provide a provocative case study of the Malay people and to explore the idea of 'Malayness.'" (PR Inside, March 2009)Table of ContentsList of Figures. List of Maps. Preface and Acknowledgements. Note about the Author. 1. Thinking about ‘the Malays’ and ‘Malayness’. 2. Early Histories: Engaging India and Islam. 3. The Sultanates. 4. A ‘Malay’ or Kerajaan World? 5. Experiencing Colonialism, and the Making of the Bangsa Melayu . 6. Building ‘Malays’ into Nation States. 7. Multiple Forms of ‘Malayness’ 8. Ethnicity, Civilization and the Fear of ‘Disappearing from this World’. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book is an introduction to the social anthropology of kinship -- to the ways in which the peoples of different cultures marry and relate to each other within and outside the family.Table of ContentsList of Figures. Preface. Part I: Basic Concepts:. 1. Introductory. 2. Descent. 3. The Family and Other Kin Groupings. 4. Marriage and Sexual Relations. 5. Kinship (Relationship) Terminology. 6. Symmetric Affinal Alliance. 7. Asymmetric Affinal Alliance. 8. FZD and ZD Marriage. 9. Non-prescriptive Pseudo-systems. 10. The Meaning of Kinship. Part II: Theories of Kinship:. 11. The Significance of Kinship in Anthropology. 12. Theories of Descent. 13. Kinship Terminology and Affinal Alliance. 14. Typologies and Terminological Change. 15. Ethnographic Examples and Further Reading. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book is an introduction to the social anthropology of kinship -- to the ways in which the peoples of different cultures marry and relate to each other within and outside the family.Table of ContentsList of Figures. Preface. Part I: Basic Concepts:. 1. Introductory. 2. Descent. 3. The Family and Other Kin Groupings. 4. Marriage and Sexual Relations. 5. Kinship (Relationship) Terminology. 6. Symmetric Affinal Alliance. 7. Asymmetric Affinal Alliance. 8. FZD and ZD Marriage. 9. Non-prescriptive Pseudo-systems. 10. The Meaning of Kinship. Part II: Theories of Kinship:. 11. The Significance of Kinship in Anthropology. 12. Theories of Descent. 13. Kinship Terminology and Affinal Alliance. 14. Typologies and Terminological Change. 15. Ethnographic Examples and Further Reading. Bibliography. Index.

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Book Synopsis* Provides an introduction to the study of death and remembrance in the past. * Focuses not only on material culture but also on theories of emotion and experience in the context of death. * Includes insights from outside archaeology, drawing on literary and historical sources. .Trade Review"An interesting and informative work." Choice "This is a thoughtful study that attempts to deal with subjects of major import ... no one will come away from this book without new ideas and perceptions about the nature of bereavement, how it is commemorated through material culture and how these objects have been interpreted." Times Higher Education Supplement "... [an] extremely important contribution to the fast-growing field of post-medieval death studies." Archaeological Journal "A stimulating read." Post-Medieval Archaeology "Tarlow's book is heartening evidence that bereavement research need not stay in a narrow ghetto." Bereavement Care "Throughout, there is a sense of the writer's own humanity ... There is a great deal of interest to be found in this book and it is to be hoped that it will encourage others who choose death as their subject to be as humane in the way they write about it." FolkloreTable of ContentsList of Figures. List of tables. Preface. 1. A historical archaeology of death. 2. Towards an archaeology of bereavement and commemoration: death, emotion and metaphor. 3. Changing commemorative practices in Orkney. 4. A living memory and a corrupting corpse. 5. Remembering the dead in the nineteenth century: a love story. 6. War and remembrance. 7. Loved and lost. Glossary. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisThe region of Mesoamerica, extending from central Mexico through Honduras and El Salvador, was home to a variety of advanced civilizations in ancient times. This reader contains 25 chapters written by scholars that explore the nature of these ancient Mesoamerican civilizations.Trade Review"This volume is one of a very few that deal with the whole array of civilizations in ancient Mexico and Central America. It will be a welcome companion for readers new to the astonishing achievements and daunting variety of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. The editors have chosen well: the papers collected here highlight the common threads that bind Mesoamerican civilizations together, while portraying their individuality and reflecting the diversity of approaches the archaeologists bring to the task of interpreting them." John S. Henderson, Cornell University "Access to these important articles, as a set, will quickly prove indispensable for courses - and general reading - on Mesoamerican archaeology. The editors' introductions are equally valuable and thought-provoking as they situate the individual chapters, as well as the cross-cutting themes, in a sophisticated, highly readable review of current thinking." Wendy Ashmore, University of PennsylvaniaTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors. Preface. Acknowledgments. Introduction: Mesoamerican Civilizations: Marilyn A. Masson and Michael E. Smith (both at State University of New York at Albany). Part I: The Organization of Society:. Editors' Introduction. 1. Analyzing Household Activities: Kent V. Flannery (University of Michigan) and Marcus C. Winter (Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, Oaxacca, Mexico). 2. Distinguishing the High and Mighty from the Hoi Polloi at Tikal, Guatemala: William A. Haviland (University of Vermont) and Hattula Moholy-Nagy (University of Michigan). 3. On the Nature of the Mesoamerican City: Joyce Marcus (University of Michigan). 4. Corporate Groups and Domestic Activities at Teotihuacan: Linda Manzanilla (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México). Part II: Economic Organization:. Editors' Introduction. 5. Landscapes of Cultivation in Mesoamerica on the Eve of the Conquest: Thomas M. Whitmore (University of North Carolina) and B. L. Turner II (Clark University). 6. Lithic Craft Specialization and Product Distribution at the Maya Site of Colha, Belize: Harry J. Shafer (Texas A & M University) and Thomas R. Hester (University of Texas). 7. Economic Change in the Lowland Maya Late Classical Period: Prudence M. Rice (Southern Illinois University). 8. Imports and Exports in Classic Mesoamerican Political Economy: The Tehuacan Valley and the Teotihuacan Obsidian Industry: Robert D. Drennan (University of Pittsburgh), Philip T. Fitzgibbons (Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio), Heinz Dehn (University of Pittsburgh (retired)). 9. Principles of Regional and Long-distance Trade in the Aztec Empire: Frances F. Berdan (California State University, San Bernardino). 10. New Perspectives on Prehispanic Highland Mesoamerica: A Macroregional Approach: Gary M. Feinman and Linda M. Nicholas (both Field Museum of Natural History). 11. Rural Economy in Late Postclassic Morelos: An Archaeological Study: Michael E. Smith, Cynthia Heath-Smith (both State University of New York at Albany). Part III: Political Organization:. Editors' Introduction. 12. The Power of Prestige: Competitive Generosity and the Emergence of Rank Societies in Lowland Mesoamerica: John E. Clark (Brigham Young University) and Michael Blake (University of British Columbia). 13. Classic Maya Emblem Glyphs: Peter Mathews (University of Calgary). 14. Ideology in Ancient Maya Cultural Evolution: The Dynamics of Galactic Policies: Arthur A. Demarest (Vanderbilt University). 15. State and Society at Teotihuacan, Mexico: George L. Cowgill (Arizona State University). 16. Militarism and Social Organization at Xochicalco, Morelos: Kenneth G. Hirth (Pennsylvania State University). 17. The Four Priests: Political Stability: John M. D. Pohl (University of California, Los Angeles). Part IV: Religion and ideology:. Editors' Introduction. 18. Art, Ritual, and Rulership in the Olmec World: F. Kent Reilly, III (Southwest Texas State University). 19. Ancient Zapotec Ritual and Religion: An Application of the Direct Historical Approach: Joyce Marcus and Kent V. Flannery (both University of Michigan). 20. Kingship in the Late Preclassic Lowlands: The Instruments and Places of Ritual Power: David A. Freidel (Southern Methodist University) and Linda Schele (deceased). 21. Postclassic Maya Ritual at Laguna de On Island, Belize: Marilyn A. Masson (State University of New York at Albany). 22. Figurines and the Aztec State: Testing the Effectiveness of Ideological Domination: Elizabeth M. Brumfiel (Albion College, Michigan). 23. Living with the Ancestors: Kinship and Kingship in Ancient Maya Society: Patricia A. McAnany (Boston University). Index.

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Book Synopsis* A Focuses on and develops the cross--cultural skills that are needed by the modern manager. * A The cases engage students by focussing on real--life issues that typically arise in international management situations.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Case 1. Introduction to Culture. Case 2. The Professor's Shoes. Case 3. The New Delhi Tea Company. Case 4. How Much Structure?. Case 5. The Pascale Automobile Company. Case 6. The European Union University Support Agency. Case 7. Asia South/Research. Case 8. Honesty and Ethics. Case 9. The Swiss-Thai Joint Venture. Case 10. Consulair. Case 11. An American Family Company. Case 12. Voxykoll. Case 13. The Korean Hotel. Case 14. The Australian Expatriate. Case 15. Job Rotation in Japan. Case 16. The Anglo-Zambian Research and Development Project. Case 17. Applying American Systems in Thailand. Case 18. Repatriation. Case 19. The Filipino who was Loyal to His Friend. Case 20. Afolayan Supplies. Case 21. When to Keep Quiet. Project 1. Comparing Cultures. Project 2. Designing a Management Study Skills Course. Project 3. Making Real Change. Project 4. Spending Money. Project 5. Transplanting a Management System. Project 6. The Ruritanian Electronics Negotiation. Project 7. Workplace Communication: Needs Analysis. Appendix: Hofstede's Model. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisIn The Anthropology of Politics: A Reader in Ethnography, Theory and Critique, editor Joan Vincent offers her readers a selection of classic and contemporary articles on the anthropology of politics. Her introduction, headnotes, and suggested readings make this an indispensable resource for students, scholars, and instructors alike.Trade Review"The best and most provocative essays by anthropologists on politics, power, colonialism, nationalism, and globalization. This volume showcases the strengths of anthropological analysis: bringing detailed ethnographic and historical analysis to the understanding of the most pressing issues that contemporary societies face." Louise Lamphere, University of New Mexico "Joan Vincent has a rare grasp of anthropology's past and vision of its future. The twenty-first-century renewal of political anthropology will be excellently served by her thoughtful assemblage of foundational texts, modern classics, recent achievements, and current controversies." Ulf Hannerz, Stockholm University "In this incomparable volume, Joan Vincent has brilliantly compiled the key texts in the anthropological study of politics. Suitable as a textbook for the beginning student and as a reference work for the professional academic, it will appeal to scholars in many different disciplines. Not only does this volume provide readers with a genealogy of an anthropological approach to politics, it introduces or reacquaints them with some of its most important contemporary contributors." Akhil Gupta, Stanford UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction (Joan Vincent). Part I: Prelude: The Enlightenment and its Challenges. Introduction. Adam Ferguson, Civil Society (1767). Adam Smith, Free-Market Policies (1776). Immanuel Kant, Perpetual Peace (1795), Universal History with Cosmopolitan Purpose (1784), and Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1797). Henry Sumner Maine, The Effects of the Observation of India on European Thought (1887). Lewis Henry Morgan, The Property Career of Mankind (1877). Karl Marx, Spectres outside the Domain of Political Economy (1844). Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The World Market (1847). James Mooney, The Dream of a Redeemer (1896). Part II: Classics and Classics Revisited. Introduction. 1. Nuer Politics: Structure and System (1940) (E.E. Evans-Pritchard). 2. Nuer Ethnicity Militarized (Sharon Elaine Hutchinson). 3. "The Bridge":Analysis of a Social Situation in Zululand (Max Gluckman). 4. "The Bridge" Revisited (Ronald Frankenberg). 5. Market Model, Class Structure and Consent: A Reconsideration of Swat Political Organization (Talal Asad). 6. The Troubles of Ranhamy Ge Punchirala (E. R. Leach). 7. Stratagems and Spoils (F. G. Bailey). 8. Passages, Margins, and Poverty: Religious Symbols of Communitas (Victor W. Turner). 9. Political Anthropology (Marc J. Swartz, Victor W. Turner, and Arthur Tuden). 10. New Proposals for Anthropologists (Kathleen Gough). 11. National Liberation (Eric R. Wolf). Part III: Imperial Times, Colonial Places. Introduction. 12. From the History of Colonial Anthropology to the Anthropology of Western Hegemony (Talal Asad). 13. East of Said (Richard G. Fox). 14. Perceptions of Protest: Defining the Dangerous in Colonial Sumatra (Ann Stoler). 15. Culture of Terror – Space of Death (Michael Taussig). 16. Images of the Peasant in the Consciousness of the Venezuelan Proletariat (William Roseberry). 17. Of Revelation and Revolution (Jean and John Comaroff). 18. Between Speech and Silence (Susan Gal). 19. Facing Power – Old Insights, New Questions (Eric R. Wolf). 20. Ethnographic Aspects of The World Capitalist System (June Nash). Part IV: Cosmopolitics: Confronting a New Millennium. Introduction. 21. The New World Disorder: (Benedict Anderson). 22. Grassroots Globalization and the Research Imagination (Arjun Appadurai). 23. Transnationalization, Socio-political Disorder, and Ethnification as Expressions of Declining Global Hegemony (Jonathan Friedman). 24. Deadly Developments and Phantasmagoric Representations (S. P. Reyna). 25. Modernity at the Edge of Empire (David Nugent). 26. Politics on the Periphery (Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing). 27. Flexible Citizenship among Chinese Cosmopolitans (Aihwa Ong). 28. Long-distance Nationalism Defined (Nina Glick Schiller and Georges Fouron). 29. Theorizing Socialism: A Prologue to the "Transition" (Katherine Verdery). 30. Marx Went Away but Karl Stayed Behind (Caroline Humphrey). 31. The Anti-politics Machine (James Ferguson). 32. Peasants against Globalization (Marc Edelman). 33. On Suffering and Structural Violence: A View from Below (Paul Farmer). 34. Anthropology and Politics: Commitment, Responsibility and the Academy (John Gledhill). 35. Thinking Academic Freedom in Gendered Post-coloniality (Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak). Index.

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