Social and cultural anthropology Books

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 ContentsAcknowledgments viii Introduction 1 Joan Vincent Part I Prelude: The Enlightenment and its Challenges 15 Introduction 17 Adam Ferguson, Civil Society (1767) 21 Adam Smith Free-Market Policies (1776) 21 Immanuel Kant, Perpetual Peace (1795), Universal History with Cosmopolitan Purpose (1784), and Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1797) 22 Henry Sumner Maine, The Effects of the Observation of India on European Thought (1887) 23 Lewis Henry Morgan, The Property Career of Mankind (1877) 24 Karl Marx, Spectres outside the Domain of Political Economy (1844) 24 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The World Market (1847) 24 James Mooney, The Dream of a Redeemer (1896) 25 Part II Classics and Classics Revisited 27 Introduction 29 1 Nuer Politics: Structure and System (1940) 34 E. E. Evans-Pritchard 2 Nuer Ethnicity Militarized 39 Sharon Elaine Hutchinson 3 ``The Bridge'': Analysis of a Social Situation in Zululand 53 Max Gluckman 4 ``The Bridge'' Revisited 59 Ronald Frankenberg 5 Market Model, Class Structure and Consent: A Reconsideration of Swat Political Organization 65 Talal Asad 6 The Troubles of Ranhamy Ge Punchirala 82 E. R. Leach 7 Stratagems and Spoils 90 F. G. Bailey 8 Passages, Margins, and Poverty: Religious Symbols of Communitas 96 Victor W. Turner 9 Political Anthropology 102 Marc J. Swartz, Victor W. Turner, and Arthur Tuden 10 New Proposals for Anthropologists 110 Kathleen Gough 11 National Liberation 120 Eric R. Wolf Part III Imperial Times, Colonial Places 127 Introduction 129 12 From the History of Colonial Anthropology to the Anthropology of Western Hegemony 133 Talal Asad 13 East of Said 143 Richard G. Fox 14 Perceptions of Protest: Defining the Dangerous in Colonial Sumatra 153 Ann Stoler 15 Culture of Terror ± Space of Death 172 Michael Taussig 16 Images of the Peasant in the Consciousness of the Venezuelan Proletariat 187 William Roseberry 17 Of Revelation and Revolution 203 Jean and John Comaroff 18 Between Speech and Silence 213 Susan Gal 19 Facing Power ± Old Insights, New Questions 222 Eric R. Wolf 20 Ethnographic Aspects of the World Capitalist System 234 June Nash Part IV Cosmopolitics: Confronting a New Millennium 255 Introduction 257 21 The New World Disorder 261 Benedict Anderson 22 Grassroots Globalization and the Research Imagination 271 Arjun Appadurai 23 Transnationalization, Socio-political Disorder, and Ethnification as Expressions of Declining Global Hegemony 285 Jonathan Friedman 24 Deadly Developments and Phantasmagoric Representations 301 S. P. Reyna 25 Modernity at the Edge of Empire 313 David Nugent 26 Politics on the Periphery 325 Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing 27 Flexible Citizenship among Chinese Cosmopolitans 338 Aihwa Ong 28 Long-distance Nationalism Defined 356 Nina Glick Schiller and Georges Fouron 29 Theorizing Socialism: A Prologue to the ``Transition'' 366 Katherine Verdery 30 Marx Went Away but Karl Stayed Behind 387 Caroline Humphrey 31 The Anti-politics Machine 399 James Ferguson 32 Peasants against Globalization 409 Marc Edelman 33 On Suffering and Structural Violence: A View from Below 424 Paul Farmer 34 Anthropology and Politics: Commitment, Responsibility and the Academy 438 John Gledhill 35 Thinking Academic Freedom in Gendered Post-coloniality 452 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Index 460

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Book SynopsisThis Companion provides the first definitive overview of psychocultural anthropology: a subject that focuses on cultural, psychological, and social interrelations across cultures. Brings together original essays by leading scholars in the field Offers an in-depth exploration of the concepts and topics that have emerged through contemporary ethnographic work and the processes of global change Key issues range from studies of consciousness and time, emotion, cognition, dreaming, and memory, to the lingering effects of racism and ethnocentrism, violence, identity and subjectivity Trade ReviewA Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year "This ambitious volume argues for the relevance and necessity for psychocultural perspectives for understanding globalization and its discontents.... I can not do justice here to the intriguing examples, case studies, and discussions of methodologies drawn from the authors' own research that make these essays grounded and engaging reading." (Anthropos, 2009) "Absolutely without an equal among texts in the field ... this volume (is) particularly user friendly for instructors and readers." (Choice) "What a wonderful surprise! Having edited, reviewed and contributed to many anthologies, I approached this Companion skeptically ... But the uniformly high quality of the writing soon won me over ... This volume achieves its goals of introducing new readers to psychological anthropology and of contributing to 'its growing vigor'." (Ethos: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology) "Any publication which draws the attention of psychologists to the existence of other cultures is extremely welcome ... This book can be recommended for its broad coverage and its range of interesting ideas. All university libraries catering for courses in psychology or in any sociological field should consider acquiring a copy." (Reference Reviews)Table of ContentsSynopsis of Contents x Notes on Contributors xvii Acknowledgments xxv Introduction 1 Part I Sensing, Feeling, and Knowing 15 1 Time and Consciousness 17 Kevin Birth 2 An Anthropology of Emotion 30 Charles Lindholm 3 "Effort After Meaning" in Everyday Life 48 Linda C. Garro 4 Culture and Learning 72 Patricia M. Greenfield 5 Dreaming in a Global World 90 Douglas Hollan 6 Memory and Modernity 103 Jennifer Cole Part II Language and Communication 121 7 Narrative Transformations 123 James M. Wilce, Jr. 8 Practical Logic and Autism 140 Elinor Ochs and Olga Solomon 9 Disability: Global Languages and Local Lives 168 Susan Reynolds Whyte Part III Ambivalence, Alienation, and Belonging 183 10 Identity 185 Daniel T. Linger 11 Self and Other in an "Amodern" World 201 A. David Napier 12 Immigrant Identities and Emotion 225 Katherine Pratt Ewing 13 Emotive Institutions 241 Geoffrey M. White 14 Urban Fear of Crime and Violence in Gated Communities 255 Setha M. Low 15 Race: Local Biology and Culture in Mind 274 Atwood D. Gaines 16 Unbound Subjectivities and New Biomedical Technologies 298 Margaret Lock 17 Globalization, Childhood, and Psychological Anthropology 315 Thomas S. Weisner and Edward D. Lowe 18 Drugs and Modernization 337 Michael Winkelman and Keith Bletzer 19 Ritual Practice and Its Discontents 358 Don Seeman 20 Spirit Possession 374 Erika Bourguignon 21 Witchcraft and Sorcery 389 René Devisch Part IV Aggression, Dominance, and Violence 417 22 Genocide and Modernity 419 Alexander Laban Hinton 23 Corporate Violence 436 Howard F. Stein 24 Political Violence 453 Christopher J. Colvin 25 The Politics of Remorse 469 Nancy Scheper-Hughes Afterword 495 Catherine Lutz Index 499

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Book SynopsisThis unprecedented collection of articles is an introduction to the study of cultural variations in childhood across the world and to the theoretical frameworks for investigating and interpreting them.Trade Review"I recommend this book as a good introduction to the study of child development that draws upon anthropology's unique ability to hone in on both the extraordinary complex phenomenon of individual childhood agency and the social constructions ilia1 lend 1.0 bind and limit our notions of children as social actors." (Journal of Anthropological Research, 2010) “Not unexpectedly, LeVine and New – true scholars – have rendered a reader, a reference, and a stunningly prescient volume that should be savored and studied, not merely read. Of sweeping breadth across time and place and of unparalleled depth regarding the nature of children and childhood, Anthropology and Child Development challenges deeply held conventions while provoking invigorating ways of thinking and acting – an indispensable, intellectual compass for globalists, futurists, and all who care about children.” Sharon Lynn Kagan, Columbia University “The cutting-edge scholarship presented in this important and timely book richly documents that the nuances of cultural context constitute a fundamental basis for significant variation in the development of diverse children and adolescents.” Richard Lerner, Tufts University“This is an artfully organized collection of seminal papers, a collection that pulls together research across stages of childhood; domains (of the development of emotion, thought, and language); theories; methods; and, of course, cultures. The collection also provides a sense of the historical development of the field, as a chronological reading of the papers, from a Boas essay published in 1911 to several papers published in the new millennium, reveals the changing concerns, concepts, and theories that have characterized work on culture and child development over the past 100 years.” Joseph Tobin, Arizona State University Table of ContentsAcknowledgments x Introduction 1Robert A. LeVine and Rebecca S. New Part I Discovering Diversity in Childhood: Early Works 9 Introduction 11 1 Plasticity in Child Development 18Franz Boas 2 The Ethnography of Childhood 22Margaret Mead 3 Childhood in the Trobriand Islands, Melanesia 28Bronislaw Malinowski 4 Tallensi Childhood in Ghana 34Meyer Fortes 5 Continuities and Discontinuities in Cultural Conditioning 42Ruth Benedict Part II Infant Care: Cultural Variation in Parental Goals and Practices 49 Introduction 51 6 The Comparative Study of Parenting 55Robert A. LeVine, Suzanne Dixon, Sarah E. LeVine, Amy Richman, Constance Keefer, P. Herbert Liederman, and T. Berry Brazelton 7 Infant Care in the Kalahari Desert 66Melvin J. Konner 8 Multiple Caregiving in the Ituri Forest 73Edward Z. Tronick, Gilda A. Morelli, and Steve Winn 9 Fathers and Infants among Aka Pygmies 84Barry S. Hewlett 10 Swaddling, Cradleboards and the Development of Children 100James S. Chisholm 11 Talking and Playing with Babies: Ideologies of Child-Rearing 115Catherine Snow, Akke De Blauw, and Ghislaine Van Roosmalen 12 Attachment in Anthropological Perspective 127Robert A. LeVine and Karin Norman 13 An Experiment in Infant Care: Children of the Kibbutz 143Melford E. Spiro with the assistance of Audrey G. Spiro Part III Early Childhood: Language Acquisition, Socialization, and Enculturation 157 Introduction 159 14 The Acquisition of Communicative Style in Japanese 165Patricia M. Clancy 15 Why African Children Are So Hard to Test 182Sara Harkness and Charles M. Super 16 Autonomy and Aggression in the Three-Year-Old: The Utku Eskimo Case 187Jean L. Briggs 17 Narrating Transgressions in U.S. and Taiwan 198Peggy J. Miller, Todd L. Sandel, Chung-Hui Liang, and Heidi Fung 18 Child’s Play in Italian Perspective 213Rebecca S. New 19 Discussione and Friendship in Italian Peer Culture 227William A. Corsaro and Thomas A. Rizzo Part IV Middle and Later Childhood: Work, Play, Participation, and Learning 245 Introduction 247 20 Age and Responsibility 251Barbara Rogoff, Martha Julia Sellers, Sergio Pirrotta, Nathan Fox, and Sheldon H. White 21 Child and Sibling Caregiving 264Thomas S. Weisner and Ronald Gallimore 22 Altruistic and Egoistic Behavior of Children in Six Cultures 270John W. M. Whiting and Beatrice Blyth Whiting 23 Children’s Daily Lives among the Yucatec Maya 280Suzanne Gaskins 24 Children’s Work, Play, and Relationships among the Giriama of Kenya 289Martha Wenger Epilogue 307 Index 309

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Book SynopsisIn Food in the Ancient World, a respected classicist and a practising world-class chef explore a millennium of eating and drinking. * Explores a millennium of food consumption, from c. 750 BC to 200 AD. * Shows the pivotal role food had in a world where it was linked with morality and the social order.Trade Review"[A] fascinating tour through Greek and Roman eating habits." The Guardian "This learned and often amusing work will help to establish the importance of this field of study [food history]. Covering the period of antiquity from 750 BC to AD 200, it is a fruitful joint effort between a classicist, Wilkins, and Hill, a distinguished chef... By contrasting the ancient world with our own, this book shows how little human nature has changed in three millennia." BBC History Magazine "A delight in every sense -- learned, but written with a real delight in its subject matter, packed with beguiling information and drawing cunning parallels between the ancient and modern food worlds." Matthew Fort, Food & Drink Editor, The Guardian “A clear and comprehensive introduction that will be useful both for teachers and for anyone wishing for an overview of a complex, but absolutely central, aspect of Greek and Roman life. This book will certainly whet the reader’s appetite to learn still more.” Susan Alcock, Brown University "A delicious feast of a book... Unlike many other books of its type, Food in the Ancient World has been written with the combined talents of a respected classicist and a world-class chef to cover a millenium of food consumption from c.750 BC to 200AD... a valuable addition to any writer's reference collection." The New Writer “Outstanding Title… The authors incorporate an impressive range of ancient sources, modern classical scholarship, and studies in the history of food… Highly recommended” ChoiceTable of ContentsFigures. Preface. Timeline. Map of the Mediterranean. Introduction. 1. An Overview of Food in Antiquity. Introduction. 2. The Social Context of Eating. Introduction. 3. Food and Ancient Religion. Introduction. 4. Staple Foods: Cereals and Pulses. Introduction. 5. Meat and Fish. Introduction. 6. Wine and Drinking. Introduction. 7. Food in Ancient Thought. Introduction. 8. Medial Approaches to Food. Introduction. 9. Food in Literature. Recipes. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisIn Food in the Ancient World, a respected classicist and a practising world-class chef explore a millennium of eating and drinking. * Explores a millennium of food consumption, from c. 750 BC to 200 AD. * Shows the pivotal role food had in a world where it was linked with morality and the social order.Trade Review"[A] fascinating tour through Greek and Roman eating habits." The Guardian "This learned and often amusing work will help to establish the importance of this field of study [food history]. Covering the period of antiquity from 750 BC to AD 200, it is a fruitful joint effort between a classicist, Wilkins, and Hill, a distinguished chef... By contrasting the ancient world with our own, this book shows how little human nature has changed in three millennia." BBC History Magazine "A delight in every sense -- learned, but written with a real delight in its subject matter, packed with beguiling information and drawing cunning parallels between the ancient and modern food worlds." Matthew Fort, Food & Drink Editor, The Guardian “A clear and comprehensive introduction that will be useful both for teachers and for anyone wishing for an overview of a complex, but absolutely central, aspect of Greek and Roman life. This book will certainly whet the reader’s appetite to learn still more.” Susan Alcock, Brown University "A delicious feast of a book... Unlike many other books of its type, Food in the Ancient World has been written with the combined talents of a respected classicist and a world-class chef to cover a millenium of food consumption from c.750 BC to 200AD... a valuable addition to any writer's reference collection." The New Writer “Outstanding Title… The authors incorporate an impressive range of ancient sources, modern classical scholarship, and studies in the history of food… Highly recommended” ChoiceTable of ContentsJohn Wilkins is responsible for the chapters and Shaun Hill for the Introductions and recipes Figures vii Preface ix Timeline xii Map of the Mediterranean xiv Introduction 1 1 An Overview of Food in Antiquity 4 Introduction 39 2 The Social Context of Eating 41 Introduction 79 3 Food and Ancient Religion 81 Introduction 110 4 Staple Foods: Cereals and Pulses 112 Introduction 140 5 Meat and Fish 142 Introduction 164 6 Wine and Drinking 166 Introduction 185 7 Food in Ancient Thought 187 Introduction 211 8 Medical Approaches to Food 213 Introduction 245 9 Food in Literature 247 Recipes 277 Bibliography 281 Index 290

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Book SynopsisWe Are What We Eat is a complex tale of ethnic mingling and borrowing, of entrepreneurship and connoisseurship, of food as a social and political symbol and weaponand a thoroughly entertaining history of America's culinary tradition of multiculturalism. Donna Gabaccia invites us to consider: If we are what we eat, who are we?Trade ReviewToday’s multiethnic American diet offers intriguing insight into the character of the nation, the subject of Donna Gabaccia’s We Are What We Eat… Rigorously annotated and dense with detail, Gabaccia’s writing nevertheless evokes knee-buckled puritans and buckskin-clad settlers, sunbonnets and babushkas, and the clamor of street markets at the turn of the century. Drawing from early American cookbooks and immigrant journals, Gabaccia unravels the nation’s earliest ‘regional creoles,’ dishes combining cultivated ingredients with indigenous plants, game and seafood, enriched by the foodstuffs of Native American traders… Gabaccia explores the journey of these ethnic foods from pushcarts to the national marketplace and how—despite the homogenizing effects of industrialized canning, milling and meatpacking—ethnic cuisines have retained their essential and often ritualized role in American life. -- Linda Temple * USA Today *Donna Gabaccia…has assembled an impressive piece of research and writing about [eating]. We Are What We Eat…takes the immigrant metaphor of America—whether it be a melting pot or a tossed salad—and brings it to the dinner table… It’s a fascinating trip through everything from the history of Fritos corn chips to the wild rice traditions of American Indians in Minnesota to the rise of ethnic grocery chains in New York City… She sees the popularity of ethnic food as nothing less than a chance to bring together disparate folk—and create a nation of eaters who, through their dining experiences, manage to get along. -- Ted Anthony * Associated Press *[A] fascinating guided tour of American foodstuffs… Gabaccia pursues the oscillations of 20th-century taste from the bland mass-market fare of Middle America to the revived interest in ethnic cuisine, particularly in phosphorically powerful pepper sauces. Stressing the ‘extraordinary diversity’ which runs in tandem with ‘homogeneous, processed, mass-produced foods,’ she insists that America is ‘not a multi-ethnic nation, but a nation of multi-ethnics.’ -- Christopher Hirst * The Independent *Plenty of thought-provoking and probably little-known details are presented along the way [in We Are What We Eat]… Gabaccia has a lightness of style, but this should not beguile readers into thinking that this is just a pleasing story-book with vivid illustrations. It is a skillfully written professional history imbued with a social anthropological sensibility. I wish that more British social anthropologists (and sociologists) in this field would trouble themselves to return the compliment by paying such diligent attention to social history. Gabaccia not only embraces the anthropological insight that human beings bestow meaning on food, making it not just good to eat but also good to communicate with, but goes on to grasp the other side of the anthropological debate, which requires detailed analysis of the material and economic circumstances that bring people and food together to allow communicative meanings to be created. But more than this, Gabaccia recognizes that understanding eating habits requires not just one but several histories: of recurring human migrations, of agriculture, of (big) business and of consumption. This intellectual attitude and methodological grip on the study of food and eating is the book’s great strength. -- Anne Murcott * Nature *In this academic, yet readable—even entertaining—work, Ms. Gabaccia explores how ethnicity has influenced American eating habits… She answers why every town in America ended up with a Chinese restaurant, how sacred Italian pasta morphed into Spaghetti-Os and why burritos are filled with everything from beans to bok choy… We Are What We Eat is a unique approach to this country’s melting pot, and demonstrates the multicultural side of all Americans. * Forward *Donna R. Gabaccia serves up an intriguing appetizer on the growing menu of food history… The book raises intriguing and important questions regarding the cultural meaning of food and the significance of foodways in social change. -- Susan Levine * Journal of American History *How did enclaves of immigrants obtain the foods to which they were accustomed in their new homes in America? How did pasta, tacos, and bagels move from ethnic fare to popular American foods? These are the types of questions Gabaccia addresses in this well-researched and thoroughly documented volume. Through case studies and anecdotal records she traces the way immigrant groups, from Colonial times to the present, maintained their culinary identity in spite of efforts to Americanize them. Concurrently, entrepreneurs succeeded in mainstreaming many of these same ethnic foods into American households and culture. Gabaccia concludes that we are ‘not a multi-ethnic nation, but a nation of multi-ethnics.’ -- Sherry Feintuch * Library Journal *Table of ContentsIntroduction: What Do We Eat? Colonial Creoles Immigration, Isolation, and Industry Ethnic Entrepreneurs Crossing the Boundaries of Taste Food Fights and American Values The Big Business of Eating Of Cookbooks and Culinary Roots Nouvelle Creole Conclusion: Who are We? Sources Notes Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisThe unique amalgam of prayer and play at the Sensoji temple in Edo is often cited as proof of the degenerate Buddhism of the Tokugawa period. This investigation of the economy and cultural politics of Sensoji, however, shows that its culture of prayer and play reflected changes taking place in Tokugawa Japan, particularly in the city of Edo.

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Book SynopsisThis is the story of the sexual revolution in a small university town in the quintessential heartland state of Kansas. Bypassing oft-told tales of radicals and revolutionaries on the coasts, Bailey argues that the revolution was forged in towns and cities alike, as ordinary people struggled over boundaries of sexual behavior in postwar America.Trade Review[A] vivid reminder of just how national and chaotic the events we call ‘the sixties’ really were… Bailey’s exploration of the sexual revolution offers a subtler sense of the underlying forces of that era, which unified even while dividing a nation and, ultimately, the world. -- Tom Engelhardt * The Nation *[Beth Bailey’s] applied research here is interesting, imaginative and compassionate, and the final treat is that Bailey is a very good writer. Sex in the Heartland is simply a fascinating read. I’m sorry I can’t call her up and congratulate her on this book in person… [This book is] beautifully shaped, carefully thought out, a treasury of useful information. -- Carolyn See * Washington Post *One of the great strengths of this book is Bailey’s ability to make local characters, institutions and fights vital and compelling, all the while keeping an eye on the broader issues at stake. She gives us a vivid portrait of one university town in transition and a case study for U.S. social history. A cast of local characters comes alive… Virtually every chapter has surprising, subtle turns in which Bailey’s thesis of historical paradox and unintended consequences is amply demonstrated. -- Maureen McLane * Chicago Tribune *The book’s greatest strength is its delineation of ‘social and cultural changes’ as effected by watershed events (panty raids, the advent of the Pill, birth control clinics, co-ed dorms, coffee houses, and underground newspapers); [and] local and national institutions (which provided moral direction and financial and social support). -- Jay A. Gertzman * American Historical Review *Bailey’s account of the sexual revolution in Lawrence, Kansas is a rejoinder to American critics on the right who continue to see this process as something imposed on ordinary people by bohemian intellectuals and sex radicals located on either coast, and not as a phenomenon integral to America’s ‘heartland.’ In Bailey’s account, the sexual revolution was a grassroots movement happening in any number of college towns across the USA, and created unwittingly by ‘people who had absolutely no intention of abetting a revolution in sex.’ Bailey argues that the replacement of moral with therapeutic frameworks for understanding sexual and emotional problems undermined any remaining moral consensus by offering non-punitive judgments on homosexuality and other forms of deviance. Unnoticed developments like the reform of parietals were far more important, in Bailey’s reading, than the pill or the counter culture… The fact that Bailey’s attention is directed towards the less renowned, everyday sources of sexual revolution makes this a valuable book. -- H. G. Cocks * Journal of Contemporary History *Published by the prestigious Harvard University Press, the book suggests that out-of-the-mainstream states such as Kansas actually were on the cutting edge of the nation’s sexual revolution during the early 1960s. -- Matt Moline * Capital-Journal (Topeka, KS) *[Bailey] points out that those who claim the radical nature of the [sexual] revolution may be surprised by just how deep-seated and mainstream the origins of many of those revolutionary changes were. -- Philip Godwin, M.D. * Lawrence Journal-World *Bailey examines the 20th-century ‘sexual revolution’ as it played out in the midwestern college town of Lawrence, Kansas… Bailey is especially perceptive on the ambivalent and conflicted relationship of both the feminist and gay rights movements to the sexual revolution. She also has strong sections on the birth control pill and other more mundane but long-lasting changes in American sexual culture… [A] fascinating and impressive book. -- K. Blaser * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction Before the Revolution Sex and the Therapeutic Culture Responsible Sex Prescribing the Pill Revolutionary Intent Sex as a Weapon Sex and Liberation Remaking Sex Epilogue Abbreviations Notes Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisDespite Taiwan's rise as an economic force in the world, modernity has not led to a Weberian process of disenchantment or curbed religiosity. To the contrary, other factorssocial, economic, politicalhave stimulated religion. How and why this has happened are central issues in this book.Trade ReviewThis is an excellent study of Taiwanese religious culture. Combining a thorough knowledge of Chinese historical and religious writings with camcorder ethnography, Sutton explores the face painted 'ghostly generals'—the entourage of the Five Emperors/Plague Gods that 'step the void,' dancing cosmic patterns of Daoism in modern Taiwan...This important work proves that Taiwanese culture must be understood as distinct from Mainland China culture. -- F. B. Bessac * Choice *

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Book SynopsisThroughout history, Mount Tai has been a magnet for both women and men from all classesemperors, aristocrats, officials, literati, and villagers. This book examines the behavior of those who made the pilgrimage to Mount Tai and their interpretations of its sacrality and history, as a means of better understanding their identities and mentalities.Trade ReviewProbably no one understanding of why the mountain mattered would have been shared by all the pilgrims Dott describes. But all visitors would have been aware that people unlike themselves shared the view that this particular place mattered, and that visitors over the centuries had deposited many different layers of meaning. They would have recognized themselves as part of an ‘us’ for whom Taishan was a crucial site. Understanding that ‘us’ remains an important task for scholars who want to probe the mountain’s significance or paint a general picture of late imperial culture. Scholars interested in either task will benefit greatly from reading this book. -- Kenneth Pomeranz * Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies *

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Book SynopsisThe more than two dozen Rai languages in eastern Nepal, which make up the larger part of the Kiranti language family, are linguistically highly varied. This volume for the first time brings together different variants of myths from various Rai languages, presenting them with linguistic glossings in interlinear translations.

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Book SynopsisFour themes dominate this study of the late Mongol empire in Northeast Asia: the need for an all-inclusive regional perspective; pan-Asian integration under the Mongols; the tendency for individual and family interests to trump those of dynasty, country, or linguistic affiliation; and the need to see Koryŏ Korea as part of the wider Mongol empire.Table of ContentsKory Kings During the Mongol Period Mongolian Rulers Introduction 1. Northeast Asia and the Mongol Empire 2. A Precarious Restoration 3. Kory in the Great Yuan Ulus 4. The Red Turban Wars 5. Buffeted in the Storm 6. In the Wake of the Invasions 7. A New King of Kory 8. Wider Perspectives Epilogue Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisStrict decrees on the observance of death were part of the myriad laws enacted under the Tokugawa shogunate to control nearly every aspect of Japanese life. Hirai explores how this class of legislation played an integrative part in Japanese society by codifying religious beliefs and customs the Japanese people had cherished for generations.

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Book SynopsisStigmatized throughout Japanese history as outcastes, the burakumin are contemporary Japan’s largest minority. In this study of youths from two different communities, Christopher Bondy explores how individuals navigate their social world, demonstrating the ways in which people make conscious decisions about disclosing a stigmatized identity.

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Book SynopsisEmily Rosenberg examines the social and cultural networks that emerged from global exchanges between 1870 and 1945. Transnational connections were being formed many decades before globalization became a commonplace term in economic and political discourse, and these currents underscore the fluidity of spatial and personal identifications.

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Book SynopsisWhile teaching at an all-Black middle school in Atlanta, Levinson realized that her students’ individual self-improvement would not necessarily enable them to overcome their historical marginalization. In order to overcome their civic empowerment gap, students must learn how to reshape power relationships through public political and civic action.Trade ReviewThis is Dewey updated… This is a strong book. The ideas that activate it are effectively presented, the detail of real school life…vividly brought to life. -- Nathan Glazer * Education Next *Read No Citizen Left Behind by Meira Levinson—a forthright defense of schools as institutions for teaching about democracy and justice. -- Deborah Meier * Education Week blog *Levinson advocates restoring civic education, which gives young people insights into the workings of the American political system, to the educational curriculum on a national scale. She believes that ensuring all students receive the same civic education would strengthen our country and cause more citizens to take an active role in its government… Civic education is an area of education reform that experts have overlooked, but it could have a major impact on our country if achieved. The experiences and research Levinson shares have the potential to produce a national ‘aha’ moment. -- Terry Christner * Library Journal *Brilliant. No Citizen Left Behind is must-reading for anyone concerned with the reform of civic education in America. An inspiration for both scholars and practitioners. -- Robert D. Putnam, author of Bowling Alone and coauthor of American GraceA must-read for anyone who cares to see young people from all backgrounds grow into self-confident and efficacious citizens. -- Danielle S. Allen, Institute for Advanced Study, PrincetonA landmark book that should influence teachers of all subjects in American schools while providing an important model for scholars. -- Peter Levine, Tufts UniversityA very sophisticated and lively argument, backed by wonderful tales from school, for what it might mean if we really educated for democracy. An important contribution to a field dominated by clichés. -- Deborah Meier, coauthor of Playing for Keeps

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Book SynopsisK. E. Brashier examines practices of memorializing the dead in early imperial China. After surveying how learning in this period relied on memorization and recitation, he treats the parameters name, age, and kinship as ways of identifying a person in Han public memory, as well as the media responsible for preserving the deceased person's identity.

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Book SynopsisThrough an exploration of contemporary Chinese popular religion from its cultural, social, and material perspectives, Wei-Ping Lin paints a broad picture of the dynamics of popular religion in Taiwan. Analyzing these aspects of religious practice in a unified framework, she traces their transformation as adherents move from villages to cities.Trade ReviewAn ethnographic work that weaves together description and theoretical discussion, Materializing Magic Power demonstrates the insights we achieve when we approach religious practices from the vantage of materiality. The book will give scholars who have been working on Chinese religious practices a new and promising framework in which to revisit ethnographic and archival sources. For the novice, it gives a thorough multi-sited introduction to popular religious life in all its contemporary complexities. Materializing Magic Power will appeal to those curious about religious practices, but will also engage anyone who wonders about material culture’s role in how we build lasting social relationships. -- D. J. Hatfield, Berklee College of MusicMaterializing Magic Power is a significant contribution to the anthropology of religion and to the study of religion in China. We have quite a few studies of rural religion in Taiwan (although this is particularly well done in Lin’s case), but almost nothing for any Chinese society that brings this level of ethnographic context to migrant religion. It is by far the best study of this kind that I have seen for any Chinese community, even though we have known how important migration has been. -- Robert P. Weller, Boston University

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Book SynopsisMany of the West's best writers fought in duels or wrote about them, seduced by glamour or risk or recklessness. A gift as a plot device, the duel also offered a way to discover how we face fears of humiliation, pain, and death. John Leigh's literary history of the duel illuminates these and other tensions attending the birth of the modern world.Trade ReviewAn intriguing book… Ranging over two dozen examples of novels, poems and plays, Leigh describes how this ‘medieval anomaly’ continued to preoccupy writers, even as they dismissed dueling as an old-fashioned folly… The strength of Leigh’s book is that it makes sense of such an anachronistic act… Some of the most striking moments are when he invokes potential modern parallels to duels—American Westerns, Olympic fencing… His entertaining study will remind readers why this archaic form of male combat can still be compelling, and how it could live on. * The Economist *[Leigh] has produced a surprisingly long list of plays and fictions in a variety of languages in which [duels] feature. He uses his haul to trace attitudes to dueling, often made clearer in literature than by the historical record, through a series of close readings of texts where duels are not merely a plot device but reveal something about human nature and the evolution of social values… His elegantly written, free-ranging encounter with the literature of dueling shows why the duelist became and stayed a hero. -- David Coward * Times Literary Supplement *Touché is keen, clever, thorough, crisply humorous and impressive in its sources. -- Richard Davenport-Hines * The Spectator *Throughout Touché, Leigh shows himself a master of the neatly turned observation… An excellent [book]. -- Michael Dirda * Washington Post *Erudite, enjoyable and wide ranging, taking in authorities as disparate as St. Augustine and Jerome K Jerome. Leigh has the knack of the well-minted phrase. -- Richard Hopton * The Field *Fascinating. -- Brooke Allen * Hudson Review *A duel always carried with it some improvisatory aspect, what Leigh calls ‘a sort of joyous death-defying creativity, an ingenuity which almost excuses the fatalities that followed.’ Touché itself has something of this quality. The depth and scope of Leigh’s reading are never in doubt, but it is the idiosyncratic willfulness of his enthusiasm that frees this book from the dead hand of cultural studies under which it might otherwise have languished… Urbane and elegantly penned. -- Jonathan Keates * Literary Review *It is the extraordinary prevalence of duels in literature that John Leigh explores in a study that ranges from the early 17th century to the early 20th century, and that moves confidently across the continent of European literature… Leigh has a remarkable range of reading to hand and is easy with the different proprieties of various European languages. He wears his learning lightly—with a nonchalance, one might think, that matches many of the duelists we encounter in his book. -- John Mullan * New Statesman *With a [book] like Touché, the temptation to linger on anecdotes must be strong, but Leigh stays admirably focused: he wants to understand why the duel was so pervasive in stories, and to uncover the meanings writers found or placed in it. It soon becomes clear that, in a variety of ways, the practice of dueling was wrapped up in writing about it. -- James Guida * New Yorker *Insightful. -- Henrik Bering * Wall Street Journal *Touché demonstrates how some of the greatest writers of the modern era used the duel in their works (and sometimes literally in their own lives) to help their readers come to grips with the emerging modern world. -- M. A. Byron * Choice *This is an excellent study of the strange survival of the duel into the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and its imaginative appeal in literature. The author’s unexpected and illuminating insights come across in a pleasing, infectious way. -- Ritchie Robertson, University of OxfordTouché is remarkable. Through the insightful analysis of classic works in English, French, German, Russian, and Italian literature from the past three centuries, the book generates a vivid history of dueling. It is brilliantly written, filled with apt allusions to contemporary art and music—a pleasure to read. -- Theodore Ziolkowski, Princeton University

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Book SynopsisFor 250 years the Turkic Muslims of Altishahr, who now call themselves Uyghurs, have cultivated a sense of history and identity that challenges Beijing's national narrative. The roots of this history run deeper than recent conflicts, Rian Thum says, to a time when manuscripts and pilgrimage along the Silk Road dominated understandings of the past.Trade ReviewIn The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History, [Thum] documents how the Muslims of the region now called Xinjiang understood their past in the three centuries before the Cultural Revolution. Then he explains how that historical identity was torn apart, by inside and outside forces, in the course of the 20th century… What makes Sacred Routes so valuable is its coverage of both the modern and pre-modern periods, taking us back before the Chinese conquest of Altishahr. This enables Thum to show what happened to the older cultural technologies of manuscript, shrine, and pilgrimage in the age of mass printing, competing nationalisms, and commercial tourism… Refusing to reduce his ‘biography of history’ in Altishahr to a simplistic binary of oppression and opposition, Thum instead leads readers beyond the familiar ideologies of modern times toward older ways of knowing and belonging. The empathy and magnitude of this humanist project show the experience of the past in a society few have tried to understand in its own terms… This is Uyghur history as everyman’s history. -- Nile Green * Los Angeles Review of Books *A pioneering work. The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History explores the complex relationship between history production, social practice, and space, and traces the transformation of specific historical genres in response to changing political contexts and the increasing role of the state. By examining the development of manuscript culture and technology, it provides a new perspective on the study of the history of the region. -- Ildikó Bellér-Hann, University of CopenhagenThum’s brilliant depiction of historical practice in Altishahr—Chinese Central Asia—is nothing less than a new understanding of what history is, how it is practiced, and how it works. The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History shows how the interplay of shrine pilgrimage, tazkirah recitation, tomb graffiti, recombinant manuscripts, and later, printed biographies, reflected and constituted a historical community in Xinjiang that was not dynastic, religious, or national but still comprised a powerful and pervasive identity. This book should be read not only by specialists on China, Central Asia, and the Islamic world, but by all historians, for its insights into alternative but vital modes of historiography on the limes of Eurasian empire and the cusp of colonial modernity. -- James A. Millward, Georgetown University

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Book SynopsisThis text traces the intellectual and institutional deployment of the culture concept in England and America in the first half of the 20th century. It works across disciplinary lines to embrace literary, literary critical, and anthropological writing.Trade Review"This is an excellent, original, well-written book. It makes a significant contribution to the history of both Modernism and of the concept of culture--as well as to the interpretation of some of the most consequential works of the interwar period. A most important work."--Clifford Geertz, author of Available Light: Anthropological Reflections of Philosophical TopicsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix INTRODUCTION Culture, Anthropology, and the "Literary" Modern 1 CHAPTER 1 Making Up for Lost Ground: Eliot's Cultural Geographics 16 CHAPTER 2 Malinowski: Writing, Culture, Function, Kula 56 CHAPTER 3 Malinowski, "Native" Narration, and "The Ethnographer's Magic" 78 CHAPTER 4 Joyce and His Critics: Notes toward the Definition of Culture 105 CHAPTER 5 Joyce's Wholes: Culture, Tales, and Tellings 132 CHAPTER 6 Patterns of Culture: Ruth Benedict and the New Critics 151 CHAPTER 7 Hurston, Burke, and the New Critics: Narrative, Context, and Magic 175 AFTERWORD Culture's Pasts, Presents, and Futures 200 Notes 203 Index 225

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Book SynopsisRepresents a different approach to the question of citizenship amid the changing global economy and the fiscal crisis of the nation-state. This book examines the nature of fiscal relationships between the state and its citizens. It argues that citizenship is being redefined through a renegotiation of the rights and obligations.Trade Review"The whole book is a sophisticated essay on how to bring such an area and problematic into focus: the question of regulatory authority in places where it has never been self-evident. As such, it opens up some very important analytical issues, not only for African studies but also for an anthropology of emergent economies worldwide."--Jane I.Guyer, International Journal of African Historical StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments xiii Chapter One: Introduction: An Anthropology of Regulation and Fiscal Relations 1 Chapter Two: Incivisme Fiscal 23 Chapter Three Tax-Price as a Technique of Government 48 Chapter Four Unsanctioned Wealth, or the Productivity of Debt 73 Chapter Five Fixing the Moving Targets of Regulation 100 Chapter Six The Unstable Terms of Regulatory Practice 129 Chapter Seven The Pluralization of Regulatory Authority 151 Conclusion 200 References 207 Index 227

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Book SynopsisMaps and borders notwithstanding, some places are best described as "gaps" - places with repeatedly contested boundaries that are wedged in between other places that have clear boundaries. This book explores an example of this in the contemporary Western imagination: the Balkans.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2006 William A. Douglass Award, American Anthropological Association Winner of the 2007 Honor Book Award, New Jersey Council for the Humanities "Notes from the Balkans is a penetrating and richly textured account of marginality in the Epirus area of north-western Greece... Sarah Green's text... provides a subtle and persuasive tool for thinking about the contextual specificity of social identities ... that will be pertinent far beyond the Balkans."--Madeleine Reeves, Cambridge Anthropology "Sarah Green's wide-ranging discussion of 'Balkan' history, emphasizing circuits of movement, is engaging and enlightening. The book's theoretical discussions are dense ... but not turgid; Green has a light, direct, and unpretentious style of writing. Notes from the Balkans gives readers a visceral sense of the 'ordinary' and, I think, a better idea about marginality. It is a delightful book to read."--Laurie Kain Hart, American Ethnologist "The book's principal contributions are twofold: First, it adds magnificent new ethnographic information about an area that has not been systematically studied by a foreign anthropologist since the pioneering work of John Campbell. Second, it applies a brilliant theoretical discussion of marginality, identity, and ambiguity to a setting in which concepts and categories, or affiliations and labels, have been under constant change. This is a well-researched, masterfully written, and theoretically sophisticated study that is unique in both conception and analysis... This is a quality study that should reach out to a wider audience of area specialists, not only to anthropologists."--Anastasia Karakasidou, American AnthropologistTable of ContentsList of Maps and Figures ix List of Tables xi Acknowledgments xiii Notes on Transliteration, Translation, and Pseudonyms xvii CHAPTER 1: Marginal Margins 1 CHAPTER 2: Travels 40 CHAPTER 3: Moving Mountains 89 CHAPTER 4: The Balkan Fractal 128 CHAPTER 5: Counting 159 CHAPTER 6: Embodied Recounting 176 CHAPTER 7: Developments 218 APPENDIX: Tables 249 Notes 261 Bibliography 279 Index 297

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Book SynopsisExamines the polarized fields of nationalist politics - in Cluj, Transylvania, and the wider region - and also the more fluid terrain on which ethnicity and nationhood are experienced, enacted, and understood in everyday life. This book addresses fundamental questions about ethnicity: where it is, when it matters, and how it works.Trade ReviewOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2007 "By drilling deep into the mundane conversations, cares, and relationships among citizens of Cluj-Napoca...[the authors] set out to examine precisely how ethnicity matters...[An] important and conceptually innovative book."--Robert Levgold, Foreign Affairs "Provides a reality check for those who continue to operate under the myths of the past, while offering valuable insights into the mundane inner workings of everyday ethnicity in the old borderlands of the Russian, Turkish, and Austro-Hungarian empires...The most important contribution of the book is its ability to demystify nationhood in East Central Europe."--Robert A. Saunders, Transitions "This fascinating, richly detailed, and highly informative study of Cluj in the mixed Hungarian-Romanian Transylvanian part of Romania is based on fieldwork conducted between 1995 and 2001...This is a must read for anyone interested in ethnic or national identity in eastern Europe or, indeed, in any area contested by groups using ethnic or nationalist symbols to announce their presence and promote their interests."--D. Ashley, Choice "This substantial volume, with its vivid portrayal of the shifting dimensions of ethnicity in Romanian-Transylvanian city of Cluj-Napoca... is a welcome addition both to theory challenging romantic, essentialist identity models as well as to our knowledge of the inner workings of central European life... Given its strong arguments and impressive array of data about the resourceful, performative, everyday qualities of ethnicity, this book deserves a wide readership."--David A. Kideckel, Slavic Review "We can only rejoice that through the writing of this book Rogers Brubaker reads anew the theories of nationalism to which he has contributed in the past with the aid of convincing field arguments."--Monica Heintz, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Society "Brubaker et al. have written a splendid and highly recommendable book, adding substantial new insights to innumerable other works on ethnicity. Their method of combining observations with theory and discussing the significance of ethnicity in a wide range of situations in everyday life proves illuminating, not only to and understanding of ethnicity in Cluj, but also in providing insight and a framework for approaching numerous other cases as well."--Jorgen Kuhl, Political Studies Review "The authors of this pathbreaking book will have done the historiography of the region a tremendous service if historians, as they should, take up the challenge it poses them."--Mark Pittaway, Journal of Modern History "Rogers Brubaker and his collaborators have succeeded in writing a readable, informative, and provocative book... Valuable in a number of ways: first in its direct, readable, and clear style, which is remarkable given so many co-authors; second in its artful way of using technical terms and concepts from socio-linguistics to make sense of complex interpersonal interactions; and third in its organization, which makes the book useful for both introductory and advanced courses in history, sociology, and anthropology."--Thomas C. Wolfe, Austrian History Yearbook "National Politics and Everyday Ethnicity in a Transylvanian Town has the potential to prompt a fundamental shift in how we both conceptualize and study ethnicity. In the light of its contributions, researchers interested in ethnicity would do well to examine the interstices of social life as well as its formal institutions, and to ask questions that privilege local meanings, rather than reifying narratives that are themselves me tools of ethnic mobilization."--Jessica Allina-Pisano, Perspectives on Politics "Nationalist Politics and Everyday Ethnicity was an excellent read... I have added this book to my students' reading list, and heartily recommend it to anyone who has an interest in any of the themes Brubaker and his colleagues set out to address."--Teresa Staniewicz, American Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations xi Preface, by Rogers Brubaker xiii Acknowledgments xix A Note on Names, Transcriptions, and Citations xxi List of Abbreviations xxiii Introduction 1 Part One: Nationalist Politics, Past and Present 23 Chapter 1: The National Question in East Central Europe 27 Empire and Nation 30 Historical and Ethnocultural Claims in the Habsburg Lands 34 Ethnic Intermixing and National Conflict 37 Nationalist Claims and Counterclaims 39 The National Question Recast 43 World War II and After 50 Chapter 2: Transylvania as an Ethnic Borderland 56 The Three Nationes 57 1848: The Emergence of Modern Nationalism 60 Dualist Hungary as a Nationalizing State 63 Nationalization Reversed 68 War and Regime Change 76 The Return to the "Nation" 82 Chapter 3: From Kolozsvar to Cluj-Napoca 89 Kolozsvar in Nationalizing Hungary 91 From Kolozsvar to Cluj 97 Once Again in Hungary 101 The Transition to Communist Rule 105 The Romanianization of Cluj 109 Chapter 4: Cluj after Ceausescu 119 The Re-emergence of Ethnopolitical Contention 122 The Struggle over Separate Schools in Cluj and Targu-Mures 127 Gheorghe Funar and the Nationalization of Public Space 136 Reproducing Ethnicity: A Hungarian University in Cluj? 146 Counting and Categorizing 151 Conclusion 160 Part Two: Everyday Ethnicity 167 Chapter 5: Portraits 173 Mari and Family 173 Emilia 176 Karcsi and Agi 178 Ana 182 Zsolt and Kati 184 Claudiu and Lucian 188 Chapter 6: Preoccupations 191 Getting By 191 Everyday Coping Strategies 197 Getting Ahead 201 Accounting for Success 205 Conclusion 206 Chapter 7: Categories 207 Asymmetries 211 Cues 217 Doing Things with Categories 224 Ethnic and Regional Categories 231 Conclusion 237 Chapter 8: Languages 239 Interaction with Strangers 243 Private Talk in Public Places 246 Language Choice in Mixed Company 251 Language Mixing in Intraethnic Settings 259 Conclusion 262 Chapter 9: Institutions 265 Schools 269 Churches 277 Workplaces 283 Associations 287 Media 290 Conclusion 295 Chapter 10: Mixings 301 Disagreement and Conflict 303 Avoidance 307 Joking and Teasing 309 Choices 311 Conclusion 314 Chapter 11: Migrations 316 "Aici nu se mai poate" 316 Stigmatized Citizenship 321 The Ambivalent Homeland 326 Chapter 12: Politics 333 Funar 339 DAHR 343 Autonomy 346 Status Law 350 Conclusion 357 Epilogue 365 Appendix A: An Example of the Interactional Emergence of Nationalism 375 Appendix B: A Note on Data 380 Bibliography 387 Index 429

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Book SynopsisJamaat-e-Islami Hind is the most influential Islamist organization in India. This book offers an in-depth examination of India's Jamaat-e-Islami and SIMI, exploring political Islam's complex relationship with democracy and providing a rare window into the Islamist trajectory in a Muslim-minority context.Trade ReviewShortlisted for the 2011 ICAS Book Prize for Best Study in the Field of Social Sciences, International Convention of Asian Scholars "Islamist politics, argues Ahmad, are shaped by the dynamics of modern politics and cannot be explained simply by analyzing sacred religions texts. In this well-documented study, Ahmad supports this thesis by providing a historical account of the transformation of the Jamaat-e-Islami in India, one of the most important Islamist movements in the Muslim world, from its founding in 1941 to the present... [T]his well-crafted study will be of great interest to scholars, students of Islam, and policymakers."--Choice "The book is rich in detail, interviews, and scholarly overviews of both historical and contemporary events that have shaped the Jamaate-Islami... Ahmad has enriched Islamism and Democracy in India with an incredible amount of scholarship in his analysis of the incontrovertible distinction between Jamaat-e-Islami's moderation and SIMI's radicalization."--Edward M. Proctor, Digest of Middle East Studies "While a constellation of volumes exist on the nature of Islamism and the contemporary world, Irfan Ahmad's examination is a successful addition by way of its intellectual precision, innovative analysis, and diplomatic disposition."--Scott Nicholas Romaniuk, Central European Journal of International & Security Studies "Ahmad's book is an impressive analytical achievement, a convincing argument for differentiation, and a well-written and accessible read."--Raphael Susewind, Contemporary South AsiaTable of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables ix Preface and Acknowledgments xi Notes to the Reader xvii Abbreviations xix Introduction 1 Part I. Fieldwork and Historical Context Chapter 1: Doing Fieldwork in Times of War 31 Chapter 2: Contextualizing the Formation and Ideology of Islamism 49 Part II. Zigzags to Allah's Kingdom Chapter 3: Educating the Children 83 Chapter 4: Mobilizing the Young 111 Chapter 5: Defining Islam: Conflict and Democratization 137 Part III. Opposition and Negotiation Chapter 6: Invoking Jihad 163 Chapter 7: Negotiating the Idol: Secularism, Democracy, and Allah's Kingdom 188 Conclusion 217 Appendixes 241 Notes 245 Glossary of Urdu-Hindi Terms 263 Bibliography 265 Index 295

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Book SynopsisTells how Brazil, against all odds, became the first developing country to universalize access to life-saving AIDS therapies - a breakthrough made possible by an unexpected alliance of activists, government reformers, development agencies, and the pharmaceutical industry.Trade ReviewJoint Winner of the 2008 Wellcome Medal for Medical Anthropology, Royal Anthropological Institute and the Wellcome Trust Winner of the 2008 Diana Forsythe Prize, American Anthropological Association "Biehl's powerful ethnography beautifully mixes visual and written portraits of those who lived and died as Brazil developed its public health and policy responses to AIDS. The author gives voice to those at the margins--the poor, the homeless, homosexuals, drug addicts, transvestites, prostitutes--who remained stigmatized and invisible as Brazil universalized access to AIDS therapies... Biehl convincingly argues the importance of understanding the history and politics of AIDS pharmaceuticalization, the role of social mobilization, and the invisibility of the marginalized in official statistics and care in grasping the reality of AIDS in Brazil."--E.J. Schatz, Choice "In Will to Live, Joao Biehl combines critical public health, ethnography, and even a mini epidemiological survey, studying AIDS therapies up, down, and sideways... The running commentary from major decision-makers in the novel Brazilian approach to AIDS provides both insights and rather transparent post facto justifications for the state's regulatory practices. These are nicely complemented by activist and patient critiques throughout the text."--Matthew Gutmann, American Ethnologist "Biehl's ethnography is already a paradigmatic example of how transformations in subjectivities and social experience can be investigated at all levels: personal, social, political, and global. The book is also exceptional, while describing in fruitful ways, complex interconnections that might occur within and across levels of lived experience... I strongly recommend this book to all those interested in pursuing anthropological investigations emphasizing the conceptual significance of lived experience through 'experience-near' analyses and 'thick description.'"--Cristina Redko, Ethos "[Joao Biehl's] book is important for understanding a complex public health program in a developing country. It is well written; the chapter that contains patients' testimonies is particularly emotional and poignant."--Carlos M.F. Antunes, Sc.D., New England Journal of Medicine "[Will to Live] argues that, despite the government's commitment, treatment has been difficult to implement among HIV-positive poor Brazilians, who are often stigmatized."--Chronicle Review "Will to Live is a compellingly crafted study of AIDS in Brazil, an exemplar of how careful ethnographic work can illuminate the place of everyday life in the constitution of, and response to, globalizing forces... I bring a unique understanding of, and appreciation for, Biehl's achievement. It is significant."--Tom Boellstorff, Journal of Anthropological Research "Biehl manages to make his writing accessible, informative, fluid and engaging, resulting in a text which requires no prior knowledge of the subject matter, or the methods of anthropological research. As such, while deeply anthropological in approach and commitment to ethnographic forms of narrative, the book will enlighten, challenge and fascinate readers from a wide range of disciplines, from medicine to health policy, sociology to government, STS and law."--Rachel Douglas-Jones, Kaleidoscope "This is an insightful read for those interested in medical anthropology, the pharmaceutical industry, medical ethics, AIDS activism, and health studies. It is an essential tool for those seeking to understand the complexity of tackling the AIDS issue on the ground level."--Lindsay Sprague, Anthropology in Action "Will to Live is an impressive and moving analysis by an engaged ethnographer... Biehl presents a powerful example of how ethnographic investigation can illuminate the fine details and trajectories of people's lives while also informing critical analysis of broad shifts in global and national health policies."--Steven Epstein, American Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsIntroduction: A NEW WORLD OF HEALTH The Right to a Nonprojected Future 3 Universal Access to Lifesaving Therapies 7 A Political Economy of Pharmaceuticals 10 Persistent Inequalities 14 Lives "Take me to my father's house" (Edileusa) 20 "Today is another world" (Luis) 22 "If I only had thought then the way I think now" (Rose) 26 "Why will I think about the future?" (Nerivaldo) 30 "A child is what I wanted most in life" (Evangivaldo) 33 "To have HIV ... is like not having money" (Valquirene) 37 "Too much medication" (Soraia) 40 "A beautiful place" (Tiquinho) 43 The Politics of Survival 47 Chapter One: PHARMACEUTICAL GOVERNANCE Globalization and Statecraft 53 The Social Science of a Transforming Regime 55 AIDS, Democratization, and Human Rights 58 A Transnational Policy-Space 64 The Activist State 68 Intellectual Property Rights and World Trade 73 A Country's Disease--Public-Private Partnerships 79 Decentralization and a Magic Bullet Approach 84 Public-Sector Science and the Production of Generic Drugs 87 Scaling-Up 93 The Pharmaceuticalization of Public Health 97 Chapter Two: CIRCUITS OF CARE How Has AIDS Activism Changed? 105 From Passion to Politics 110 The AIDS Industry 115 Micro-Politics of Patienthood 120 Performing Citizenship 125 Grassroots Health Systems 130 A New National AIDS Program 135 On the Street: Violence, Charity, and Pleasure 140 In the Mainstream 155 Measures of Success, Undesirable Realities 160 The Undetectable Virus 164 "It is all about medicines now" 169 In Search of a Comprehensive Approach 172 "There is not just one death" 175 Chapter Three: A HIDDEN EPIDEMIC The Limits of Surveillance 179 AIDS in Bahia 180 Economic Death 184 Pelourinho 190 "I set myself on fire" (Maria Madalena) 194 "They take care of me as if I were family" (Lazaro) 198 Technologies of Invisibility 202 A System of Nonintervention 204 Infectious Diseases Research 206 Medical Sovereignty, Local Bioethics 209 Triage 213 The Social Life of Death Certificates 217 AIDS Therapies and Homelessness 225 "Science makes people equal" 232 Brasilia 236 Chapter Four: EXPERIMENTAL SUBJECTS AIDS-like Symptoms 241 HIV Antibody Test 244 Certainty: Closing the Past 246 Uncertainty: The Window Period 246 A Population of Doubts 250 What Is Socially Visible Is an Imagined AIDS 253 Risk and Prevention Models 257 Libidinal Order 259 Science and Subjectivity 263 Dangerous Worlds of Intimacy 267 Technoneurosis 270 "They own their bodies and are responsible for their actions" 272 Clinical Trials 276 Chapter Five: PATIENT-CITIZENSHIP "On the plane of immanence that leads us into a life" 283 A Place of No Government 286 Pastoral Power 296 Institutional Belonging and Treatment Adherence 303 New Prohibitions 308 "In Caasah we don't just have AIDS--we have God" 312 Religion, Health, Wealth 318 Ambiguous Political Subjects 324 Resuming Sexual Life 327 Beyond Direct Observed Therapy 334 Chapter Six: WILL TO LIVE Lifelong AIDS 339 Human Values 344 Medical Disparities 347 From Epidemic to Personalized Disease 349 Physically Well, Economically Dead 353 Drug Resistance and Rescue Treatments 355 "Medication is me" (Luis) 358 "I am mother and father" (Rose) 363 "It is the financial part of life that tortures me" (Evangivaldo) 368 Conclusion: GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH Large-Scale Medical Change 375 "A little more reverence for life" 377 The Future of Treatment Rollouts 379 Pharmaceutical Philanthropy and Equity 383 Where Is the State? 388 A Vanishing Civil Society 393 Understanding the Nexus of AIDS, Poverty, and Politics 396 Local Economies of Salvation 399 The Unexpected and the Possible 404 Acknowledgments 407 Notes 411 References 425 Index 451

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Book SynopsisDiscusses about Irish nationalism and how Irish nationalists developed their own conception of the Irish race. This book begins with an exploration of the discourse of race - from the nineteenth - century belief that 'race is everything' to the argument that there are no races.Trade Review"This is ... a most impressive study, not only for its breathtaking scope and Nelson's command of such vast and varied scholarship but for pointing to many unexplored directions for future comparative and transnational studies. This book is a welcome addition to the literature on Irish nationalism and on the construction of group identity."--Patrick Furlong, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics "Nelson's book is a timely chronology of the quest by both foreigners and the Irish themselves to define and redefine race and identity."--Lar Joye, History Ireland "Irish Nationalists and the Making of the Irish Race is ... a wide-ranging work rooted in large volumes of both primary and secondary sources. It succeeds in broadening our understanding of Irish identity by digging up new and interesting intellectual connections between Irish nationalists and the outside world in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries."--Cian McMahon, New Hibernia Review "The whole book ... rests on a solid base of original research and analysis. Even when we may be familiar in outline with some of the incidents [Nelson] recounts ... this book enriches our understanding."--Patrick Maume, Irish Historical Studies "This is an important book that will chart a way forward to a fuller and more complex understanding of the role of race in Irish nationalist ideology."--Michael de Nie, American Historical Review "For anyone interested in the development of an Irish national identity in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and its connection to the popular racial ideologies of the same period, this book is an essential starting point."--David T. Gleeson, Journal of British Studies "His book is a welcome and important addition to the subject of Irish nationalism."--Sean Farrell Moran, HistorianTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Part 1. The Making of the Irish Race Prologue: Arguing about (the Irish) Race 3 Chapter 1. "The blood of an Irishman": The English Construction of the Irish Race, 1534-1801 17 Chapter 2. Celts, Hottentots, and "white chimpanzees": The Racialization of the Irish in the Nineteenth Century 30 Part 2. Ireland, Slavery, and Abolition Chapter 3. "Come out of such a land, you Irishmen": Daniel O'Connell, American Slavery, and the Making of the Irish Race 57 Chapter 4. "The Black O'Connell of the United States": Frederick Douglass and Ireland 86 Part 3. Ireland and Empire Chapter 5. "From the Cabins of Connemara to the Kraals of Kaffirland": Irish Nationalists, the British Empire, and the "Boer Fight for Freedom" 121 Chapter 6. "Because we are white men": Erskine Childers, Jan Christian Smuts, and the Irish Quest for Self-Government, 1899-1922 148 Part 4. Ireland and Revolution Chapter 7. Negro Sinn Feiners and Black Fenians: "Heroic Ireland" and the Black Nationalist Imagination 181 Chapter 8. "The Irish are for freedom everywhere": Eamon de Valera, the Irish Patriotic Strike, and the"last white nation ... deprived of its liberty" 212 Epilogue: The Ordeal of the Irish Republic 242 Notes 259 Index 323

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Although some are suspicious of collections of published work, part of the power of this volume is its time-capsule quality. It is precisely because we know what comes thereafter that adds drama to witnessing Geertz measure new ideas in real time... You can justify reading this book on the grounds of learning from the intoxicating analysis, all the while covertly enjoying the razor-wire writing."--Timothy Larsen, Books & Culture "Life among the Anthros ... should not be left unread for anyone who wants to see the critical mind of Geertz at play."--Daniel Martin Varisco, Contemporary Islam "Inglis has successfully curated a volume of essays that does not only remind us of the depth and breadth of material that Geertz covered in his prolific scholarly life, but it also illustrates the ways that good humor, open-mindedness, and unapologetic fascination regarding the behavior of the human animal can facilitate the presentation of scholarly discourse to more popular audiences... An eclectic collection of essays."--Sarah Gordon, Journal of Folklore ResearchTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Comic Vision of Cliff ord Geertz 1 Part I: Sages and Anthropologists 1967 On Malinowski 15 1969 On Gandhi 21 1978 On Foucault 29 1992 On Genet 39 2001 Ethnography in China 47 Part II: Islams and the Fluidity of Nations 1971 In Search of North Africa 61 1975 Mysteries of Islam 71 1985 The Last Arab Jews 81 1989 House Painting: Toutes Directions 88 1990 On Feminism 101 2000 Indonesia: Starting Over 112 2001 On the Devastation of the Amazon 123 2003 Which Way to Mecca? Part I 135 2003 Which Way To Mecca? Part II 145 2005 On the State of the World 157 Part III: Th e Idea of Order: Last Lectures 2001 Th e Near East in the Far East 169 2002 An Inconstant Profession 185 2004 What Is a State If It Is Not a Sovereign? 200 2005 Shifting Aims, Moving Targets 219 2005 What Was the Th ird World Revolution? 236 Acknowledgments and Editorial Details 253 Notes 255 Index 265

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Book SynopsisThe Greek philosopher Diogenes said that when he died his body should be tossed over the city walls for beasts to scavenge. Why should he or anyone else care what became of his corpse? In The Work of the Dead, acclaimed cultural historian Thomas Laqueur examines why humanity has universally rejected Diogenes's argument. No culture has been indifferTrade ReviewWinner of the 2016 PROSE Award in European & World History, Association of American Publishers Winner of the 2016 Stansky Book Prize, North American Conference on British Studies Winner of the 2016 Cundill Prize in Historical Literature, McGill University Winner of the 2016 George L. Mosse Prize, American Historical Association 2016 Gold Medal Winner in World History, Independent Publisher Book Awards One of Flavorwire's 10 Best Books by Academic Publishers in 2015 One of The Guardian's Best Books of 2015, selected by Alison Light One of Flavorwire's 15 Best Nonfiction Books of 2015 "Laqueur's discussion of how the cemetery supplanted the church graveyard as the chief place of interment is a masterpiece of historical investigation. Showing how a complex mix of factors--including concern with public health, the waning power of the Catholic Church, and the emergence of a belief that the place where one is buried should be a matter of personal choice--produced the shift, he describes how sites were created in which the dead were separated from the living as they had not been when they were interred in or near places of worship. With the rise of cemeteries, the dead could be remembered as individuals and buried with their families in a way that was impractical in overcrowded churchyards. Hardly a sentence in Laqueur's long book is wasted."--John Gray, New York Review of Books "[A] sprawling meditation on mortal remains... Laqueur offers an intricate historical narrative about the place the dead occupy in our lives... The Work of the Dead is a methodologically bracing book."--Thomas Meaney, London Review of Books "Laqueur effectively shows that remains of the dead matter long after they decompose ... [and his] engaging writing style enlivens this somber subject."--Library Journal "The product of prodigious research and a subtle and sophisticated knowledge of history, anthropology, and philosophy, The Work of the Dead is as magnificent--and mindboggling--as it is monumental."--Glenn C. Altschuler, Huffington Post "A remarkably supple and fascinating study, providing as it were the sociological and forensic underpinning of every ghost story ever told... The Work of the Dead [is] both provocative and, you should pardon the term, lively (and readers should be sure not to miss the wonderfully argumentative end notes). It'll change the way you look at being dead and buried."--Steve Donoghue, Open Letters Monthly "Laqueur's book is a monumental undertaking, teeming with so many absorbing anecdotes and so much vivid information that it can be read either compulsively or for an hour a day, just to keep in sight of the nub of our fears and the often romantic absurdity of our hopes and superstitions. It had this reader at least imagining many cross-generational dialogues on the subject."--Gregory Day, Sydney Morning Herald "This massive, mesmerizing work contains much that's worth pondering."--Publishers Weekly, (starred review) "Laqueur's mastery of this history, and his limpid prose, make this a deeply engaging text. He renders his sentences with gorgeous profundity."--Deborah Lutz, Times Higher Education "The Work of the Dead is an enormous, erudite, sprawling, garrulous, exhausting and brilliant piece of work. And it never forgets that thread of 'intuition and feeling'."--Economist "A major work of scholarship on an undiscovered country, the land of the dead, which, as it turns out, has had major implications for the living. Laqueur's book, which begins with Diogenes' claim that his dead body should be thrown over the gates for the dogs, aims to show that our care for the dead ('materially and imaginatively') marks 'the sign of our emergence from the order of nature into culture'."--Jonathan Sturgeon, Flavorwire (One of Flavorwire's Ten Best Books by Academic of 2015) "[The Work of the Dead] is, quite simply, an extraordinary book... [I]n short, this is the work of a great historian doing what we all do, only better: reckoning with death as we bide time until our own."--Darrin M. McMahon, Literary Review "Laqueur's detailed stories enable us to see 'the work of the dead' in action as it were, sustaining the old and forging the new... Dazzling in its scope, expertly researched and crafted, The Work of the Dead shows us what is important about our humanity and longings. It is also a page-turner and a terrific read."--Sharon R. Kaufman, Los Angeles Review of Books "After being asked what he would like to have done with his body after he died, the Greek philosopher Diogenes replied that he wanted it thrown out for animals to devour. Thousands of years later, his answer can still shock. Thomas Laqueur explains why in his sweeping history of the way humans have grappled with death--an abstract terror made concrete by the bodies that remain when the dead have passed on. Combining anthropological reflections on the cultural functions of the dead with historical investigations of the shifting ways their bodies have been treated, Laqueur uses the stubborn resistance to Diogenes' provocation to explore the world the dead left behind."--Tim Shenk, Dissent "Poetically, powerfully sweeping across human history, Laqueur explores what the rituals of caring for the departed reveal about the living. Their story is ours; their absence shapes art and architecture, communities and civilizations. In every era and every culture, Laqueur finds the dead body imbued with meaning."--Swarthmore Bulletin "Laqueur's venerable research all leads to one principal concluding thought, which is that while we can know logically that the human corpse is unrelated to the personality it once held, it is the most intimately connected material thing that is left of a life."--Juniper Quin, SevenPonds "This thought-provoking tome, erudite and finely-written, seemingly encapsulates all past uttering on the dead in our fleetingly short lives."--Julie Peakman, History Today "[An] invariably fascinating treatment of a morbid subject."--Choice "What Laqueur has done, is one meticulously argumented stroll through time and beliefs, highly attractive in its depth and far-reachingness."--Amir Muzur, European Journal of BioethicsTable of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction: The Work of the Dead 1 Part I The Deep Time of the Dead 29 1 Do the Dead Matter? 35 2 The Dead Body and the Persistence of Being 55 3 The Cultural Work of the Dead 80 Part II Places of the Dead 107 4 The Churchyard and the Old Regime 112 The Development of the Churchyard 114 Language 117 Place 121 The Church and Churchyard in the Landscape 121 Necrogeography 123 Necrobotany 133 Necrotopology and Memory 137 The Life and Afterlife of the Churchyard in Literature 141 The Passage of the Dead to the Churchyard 145 Law 148 Exclusion from the Churchyard 148 The Claims of the Dead Body on the Parish Churchyard 151 The Claims of the Parish on the Dead Body 153 The Economics of Churchyard Burial 155 The Right to Burial and the Crisis of the Old Regime 161 Enlightenment Scandals 182 Voltaire 189 David Hume 203 5 The Cemetery and the New Regime 211 The Danger of the Dead and the Rise of the Cemetery 215 Genealogies of the New Regime 238 Imagination: Elysium, Arcadia, and the Dead of the Eighteenth Century 238 Cimetiere du Pere-Lachaise 260 Distant Lands and the Imperial Imagination 265 The Age of the Cemetery 271 Novelty 272 Necrogeography and Necrobotany 279 Cemeteries and Capitalism 288 Religious Pluralism in the Age of the Cemetery 294 Reform, Revolution, and the Cemetery 305 Class, Family, and the Cemetery 309 Putting the Dead in Their Place: Pauper Funerals and Proper Funerals, Burials and Reburials 312 Disrupted Bodies 336 Part III Names of the Dead 363 6 The Names of the Dead in Deep Time 367 Names of the Dead in Times of War 375 Names of the Dead in Times of Peace 382 7 The Rise of the Names of the Dead in Modern History 388 8 The Age of Necronominalism 413 Names over Bodies 415 Names and the Absent but Present Body 417 Monumental Names 421 Names of the Vanished Dead 431 9 The Names of the Great War 447 Part IV Burning the Dead 489 10 Disenchantment and Cremation 495 11 Ashes and History 523 Different Enchantments 524 Ashes in Their Place 542 Afterword: From a History of the Dead to a History of Dying 549 Notes 559 Image Credits 679 Index 681 Plates follow page 408

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Book SynopsisIn the Indian outsourcing industry, employees are expected to be "dead ringers" for the more expensive American workers they have replaced. This book chronicles the rise of a workforce for whom mimicry is a job requirement and a passion.Trade ReviewFinalist for the 2011 C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems "[Nadeem] offers concrete and important insight into the world of outsourcing... One cannot help agreeing with the author that the brave new IT world documented in his interviews disturbs more than it shines."--Andrew Robinson, Nature "Dead Ringers is an excellent resource for both students and scholars and should be required reading for policymakers, whose faith in or distrust of globalization may miss its very point: 'economic growth should be recognized not [as] an end in itself but as means toward the realization of diverse human potentialities.'"--May-Lee Chai, Asian Affairs "Nadeem's account of the relationship between new economy management styles and labor rights is especially illuminating."--Sareeta Amrute, India Review "Dead Ringers' insightful and articulate contribution proves to be a fruitful, engaging, provocative response to the questions asked by anyone that ever found themselves talking to an Indian call centre worker and wondered what it would look, smell, feel and sound like on the other end of the line."--Zachary Condon, Journal of Intercultural Studies "This is an important book. The tone of the book is academic and the style difficult, and some may disagree with the Marxian framework used, it is well worth a read for anyone who wishes to understand the sociological dynamics of this fledgling industry."--Jajodia, Businessworld "After speaking with dozens of employees from call centers and white-collar subsidiaries of multinational firms, Nadeem questions the optimistic and conventional view that outsourcing, and globalization in general, benefits Indians. His concerns are not economic--those employed in the outsourcing industry certainly do earn comparatively higher salaries--but rather on the effect that outsourcing has on individual workers and Indian society as a whole."--Maura Elizabeth Cunningham, Asian Review of Books "Sociolgist Nadeem explores the Indian call center industry and its effects on its workers, a topic with relatively little scholarly literature... The book covers a lot of ground, analyzing call center lifestyles in terms of language, time, gender, class, work culture, and shifting notions of morality... Overall, the book is useful to graduate students or faculty interested in how globalization operates at the local level or in the outsourcing industry."--Choice "[T]he book poses several more questions than it answers, a characteristic that provides fertile ground for organizational scholars to find questions to investigate. The book should appeal to organizational scholars, business professionals, and policy makers alike."--Sriram Narayanan, Administrative Science Quarterly "The main contribution of this book lies in the social and cultural analyses of work sites and workers as their lives unfold through a typical day-night set of activities monitored in ways that may appear to reduce workers into objects... [It] captures broadly the contradictions involved in the lives of workers of the outsourcing industry, as well as actions of the Indian state."--Mangala Subramaniam, Contemporary Sociology "Armed with sensitive ethnographic detail and careful attention to the material and symbolic structures of the global economy... Nadeem ushers us into the everyday texture of the outsourcing industry, where he focuses on the ironic, funny, and often troubling everyday lives of the people who constitute it."--American Journal of Sociology "Nadeem's carefully crafted prose, literary style, and incisive critique make this book an important and timely contribution to the burgeoning sociological literature on outsourcing, asserting a dark critique of the economic and cultural processes that legitimate a peculiar consumerist-worker in India. His bold engagement with prevailing claims about contemporary India serves to debunk stereotypes, producing an original, empirically grounded, and politically astute narrative of one of globalization's hot spots."--Smitha Radhakrishnan, American Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Chapter One. Leaps of Faith 14 Chapter Two. Variations on a Theme 27 Chapter Three. Macaulay's (Cyber) Children 50 Chapter Four. The Uses and Abuses of Time 73 Chapter Five. The Rules of the Game 102 Chapter Six. The Infantilizing Gaze, or Schmidt Revisited 132 Chapter Seven. The Juggernaut of Global Capitalism 169 Chapter Eight. Cyber-Coolies and Techno-Populists 192 Conclusion. 213 Appendix. Research Methods 221 Notes 227 Index 265

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Book SynopsisThis is a book about Irish nationalism and how Irish nationalists developed their own conception of the Irish race. Bruce Nelson begins with an exploration of the discourse of race--from the nineteenth--century belief that "race is everything" to the more recent argument that there are no races. He focuses on how English observers constructed the "Trade Review"This is . . . a most impressive study, not only for its breathtaking scope and Nelson's command of such vast and varied scholarship but for pointing to many unexplored directions for future comparative and transnational studies. This book is a welcome addition to the literature on Irish nationalism and on the construction of group identity."---Patrick Furlong, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics"Nelson's book is a timely chronology of the quest by both foreigners and the Irish themselves to define and redefine race and identity."---Lar Joye, History Ireland"Irish Nationalists and the Making of the Irish Race is . . . a wide-ranging work rooted in large volumes of both primary and secondary sources. It succeeds in broadening our understanding of Irish identity by digging up new and interesting intellectual connections between Irish nationalists and the outside world in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries."---Cian McMahon, New Hibernia Review"The whole book . . . rests on a solid base of original research and analysis. Even when we may be familiar in outline with some of the incidents [Nelson] recounts . . . this book enriches our understanding."---Patrick Maume, Irish Historical Studies"This is an important book that will chart a way forward to a fuller and more complex understanding of the role of race in Irish nationalist ideology."---Michael de Nie, American Historical Review"For anyone interested in the development of an Irish national identity in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and its connection to the popular racial ideologies of the same period, this book is an essential starting point."---David T. Gleeson, Journal of British Studies"His book is a welcome and important addition to the subject of Irish nationalism."---Sean Farrell Moran, Historian

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Book SynopsisTaking readers into the homes of middle-class families to reveal the hidden consequences of student debt and the ways that financing college has transformed family life, the author describes the profound moral conflicts for parents take on enormous debts and gamble on an investment that might not pay off.Trade Review"A Forbes' Pick for The Year's Best Books About Higher Education, 2019""A great new book . . . . It has come to be the case that . . . . literally the definition of being middle class is sending your kid to college when you can't afford to . . . . Think about the psychic toll that this fundamental paradox is taking on the nation, the effects it has, both on folks who don't go to college, who are missing the cut-off of the middle class, folks who are in the middle class, and then, as the college scandal shows, all the way to the very top. It's insanity cascading up and down the system. That's the status quo we have. And that's exactly what Caitlin Zaloom explains so well."---Chris Hayes, Why Is This Happening podcast"Indebted ends up being a story about modern families—about how we understand our responsibilities toward one another in a time of diminishing prospects. There’s a distinctly modern paradox in Zaloom’s version of middle-class life, with parents preparing their children for adulthood while also protecting them from it. [Indebted] takes much of what we have come to accept and renders it alien and a bit absurd . . . . At times, Indebted reads like an ethnography of a dwindling way of life, an elegy for families who still abide by the fantasy that thrift and hard work will be enough to secure the American Dream."---Hua Hsu, The New Yorker"A compelling new book."---Gillian Tett, Financial Times"The story of the rising cost of college in America is often told through numbers, with references to runaway tuition sticker prices and the ever-growing pile of outstanding student debt. The personal toll these trends have taken is hard to convey, but the anthropologist Caitlin Zaloom does so in her new book Indebted: How Families Make College Work at Any Cost, which documents how the price of a college education has forced many middle-class families to rearrange their priorities, finances, and lives."---Joe Pinsker, The Atlantic"Paying for college is a total nightmare for anyone who is not a total bazillionaire, but it’s really hard to talk about that, because it’s a sensitive subject . . . . All these families really get into the nitty gritty of what they went through. Zaloom got them to really open up . . . . It’s a very eye-opening book. It’s super interesting. So my recommendation . . . check out Indebted by Caitlin Zaloom."---Dan Kois, Slate"Zaloom’s book has become a sensation because so many people instinctively know that something is deeply out of whack in the way we pay for university education."---Sasha Abramsky, The Nation"Important new book . . . . Zaloom demonstrates that the moral logic of financing college is unique to the United States."---Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein, The Baffler"Zaloom’s comprehensive exposé of the college-financing industry argues that middle-class Americans are in an unresolvable bind: culturally mandated to ensure 'open futures' for their children, but unable to afford to do so without help, they become ensnared in risky, speculative debt. . . . The facts described here will be familiar to anyone who’s heard of the student-debt crisis; the analysis, with its emphasis on the moral dilemma facing middle-class families, will resonate with parents confronting it." * Publishers Weekly *"Zaloom provides a clear-sighted and timely analysis." * Library Journal *"An excellent introduction to the student finance complex for students, parents, and present and future policy makers." * Choice *"Zaloom has produced a book that is accessible to those without a prior understanding of economics . . . . [Indebted] is a timely book and may be of interest to all parents and students preparing for entry to HE."---Chloe Reid, LSE

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies""Finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, Jewish Book Council""Finalist for the Jordan Schnitzer Award in Social Science, Anthropology, and Folklore, Association for Jewish Studies""[An] absorbing account of how Haredi Jews in contemporary New York use social and other digital media to negotiate religious doubt. . . . It is the personal stories in particular that make Hidden Heretics so compelling."---Giulia Miller, Times Literary Supplement"Engaging. . . . Fader effectively shows how modern apostasy meets hard-line orthodoxy." * Library Journal *"Providing us with a detailed examination of how disbelief occurs on a spectrum, Fader pushes us to understand how staying or leaving a religion does too."---Katie Christine Gaddini, Marginalia"Hidden Heretics provides a view of contemporary ultra-Orthodox life from a series of unexpected angles and tucked-away corners."---Naomi Seidman, Public Books"Fader has written a groundbreaking work that delves into the parts of the Orthodox world that many do not even know exist."---Ben Rothke, Times of Israel"Substantial and riveting."---David Zvi Kalman, The Forward"Ayala Fader . . . unpacks one of the most daunting public secrets confronting Haredi communities: the suspicion, or realistic understanding, that there are members of the community who are experiencing life-changing doubt." * American Anthropologist *"[Hidden Heretics] explores, with great insight and sensitivity, the complex existence of double lifers and the conditions under which they live. [Fader’s] engaging style makes this fascinating work appeal both to scholars of contemporary Orthodox Judaism and those who study the relationship between technology and society, as well as to the general reader." * American Jewish History *"Hidden Heretics does indeed reflect the best of anthropology: an incisive, sensitive book that draws novel ethnographic fieldwork together with scholarship on language and semiotic ideologies, secrecy, doubt, media, authority, and ethics." * Journal of Linguistic Anthropology *"Masterfully written"---Oren Golar, Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Herbert Jacob Book Prize, Law and Society Association""Honorable Mention for the Clifford Geertz Book Award, Society for the Anthropology of Religion""Honorable Mention for the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Book Prize in Critical Anthropology""An impressive achievement which combines ethnography, law and philosophy to propose a sensitive and informed account of a phenomenon reflecting the complexities of the Iranian society while at the same time accompanying its transformations. It is also an important contribution to the law-and-society theory."---Baudouin Dupret, Arab Law Quarterly

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is a masterly and path-breaking book by one of the most complete behavioral scientists of all time, Herbert Gintis. It seeks to unify the behavioral sciences and to provide a core analytical framework. It should be required reading for every student of behavioral science and will play a critical role in the development of the behavioral sciences. . . . I would unhesitatingly give it a five-star-plus rating."---Sanjit Dhami, Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative CultureTable of ContentsOverview xi 1 Gene-Culture Coevolution 1 1.1 Culture Determines Biological Fitness 3 1.2 Reciprocal Causality 7 1.3 The Physiology of Human Communication 9 2 Zoon Politikon: The Evolutionary Origins of Human Socio-political Systems 12 2.1 Accounting for Human Exceptionalism 12 2.2 Models of Political Power 13 2.3 The Moral Basis of Modern Political Systems 16 2.4 The Socio-political Structure of Primate Societies 18 2.5 The Evolutionary History of Primate Societies 22 2.6 Fire and Social Sharing 23 2.7 From Gatherer to Scavenger 24 2.8 Primitive Lethal Weapons 26 2.9 Warfare 30 2.10 Dominance and Reverse Dominance Hierarchies 31 2.11 Are There Egalitarian Nonhuman Primates? 37 2.12 Governance by Consent 38 2.13 Cooperative Mothering: The Evolution of Prosociality 40 2.14 Lethal Weapons and Egalitarianism 40 2.15 The Long-Term Evolution of Human Sociality 42 3 Distributed Effectivity: Political Theory and Rational Choice 45 3.1 Public and Private Spheres 47 3.2 Private and Public Persona 49 3.3 Social Rationality 51 3.4 The Social Rationality of Voter Turnout 55 3.5 The Logic of Distributed Effectivity 59 3.6 Situating Distributed Effectivity 63 4 Power and Trust in CompetitiveMarkets 67 4.1 The Short-Side Power Principle 68 4.2 Power in Competitive Markets 73 4.3 Trust and Integrity 74 4.4 Reputational Equilibrium 79 4.5 Contingent Renewal Labor Markets 80 4.6 I'd Rather Fight than Switch 84 4.7 Regulating Market Power 87 5 Rational Choice Revealed and Defended 88 5.1 The Axioms of Rational Choice 92 5.2 Choice Under Uncertainty 94 5.3 Bayesian Updating with Radical Uncertainty 97 5.4 State-Dependent Preferences 98 5.5 Networked Minds and Distributed Cognition 100 5.6 Limitations of the Rational Actor Model 101 6 An Analytical Core for Sociology 109 6.1 Game Theory 111 6.2 Complexity 115 6.3 Roles, Actors, and the Division of Social Labor 117 6.4 The Socio-psychological Theory of Norms 121 6.5 Socialization and the Internalization of Norms 123 6.6 A Model of Norm Internalization 124 6.7 The Evolution of Social Conventions 126 6.8 The Omniscient Choreographer and Moral Preferences 129 6.9 The Evolution of Norm Internalization 131 6.10 Modeling NetworkedMinds 133 6.11 Class Structure in General Social Equilibrium 135 6.12 Resurrecting Sociological Theory 138 7 The Theory of Action Reclaimed 140 7.1 The Moral and Material Bases of Choice 145 7.2 Carving an Academic Niche for Sociology 148 7.3 The Parsonian Synthesis 150 7.4 The Attempt to Separate Morality from Rationality 153 7.5 Why Did Parsons Fail? 157 7.6 The Flourishing of Middle-Range Theory 160 7.7 High Theory as Interpretation 163 8 The Evolution of Property 165 8.1 The Endowment Effect 166 8.2 Territoriality 168 8.3 Property Rights in Young Children 171 8.4 Respect for Possession in Nonhuman Animals 171 8.5 Conditions for a Property Equilibrium 174 8.6 Property and Antiproperty Equilibria 177 8.7 An Antiproperty Equilibrium 182 8.8 Property Rights as Choreographer 184 9 The Sociology of the Genome 186 9.1 The Core Genome 191 9.2 Inclusive Fitness and Hamilton's Rule 195 9.3 Kin Selection and Inclusive Fitness 201 9.4 A Generalized Hamilton's Rule 205 9.5 Harmony and Disharmony Principles 207 9.6 The Utterly Selfish Nature of the Gene 208 9.7 Prosocial Genes Maximize Inclusive Fitness 210 9.8 The Boundaries of Inclusive Fitness Maximization 211 9.9 The One Mutation at a Time Principle 212 9.10 The Phenotypic Gambit 213 9.11 The Anatomy of the Core Genome 214 9.12 Explaining Social Structure 218 A1 Hamilton's Rule with General Social Interaction 219 10 Gene-Culture Coevolution and the Internalization of Norms 227 10.1 Norms and Internalization 227 10.2 Socialization and Fitness-Enhancing Norms 229 10.3 Altruism 233 10.4 Copying Phenotypes: The Replicator Dynamic 237 10.5 Why is Altruism Predominantly Prosocial? 238 10.6 The Power of Altruistic Punishment 241 10.7 Final Considerations 243 11 The Economy as Complex Dynamical System 246 11.1 The General Equilibrium Model Explained 247 11.2 The Fundamental Theorems of Welfare Economics 250 11.3 The Market Economy as a Dynamic Game 252 11.4 The Walrasian Economy 253 11.5 Exchange Processes with Private Prices 255 11.6 Strict Nash Equilibria and Stability 256 11.7 The Characterization of Stable Exchange Processes 256 11.8 A Markov Implementation of Walrasian Dynamics 261 11.9 Complex Dynamics 264 12 The Future of the Behavioral Sciences 267 12.1 What are Analytical Foundations? 271 12.2 Cross-Disciplinary Conflicts in the Behavioral Sciences 274 Acknowledgments 279 References 281 Subject Index 341 Author Index 345

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Runner-Up for the 2016 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize in Middle Eastern Studies""Of Sand or Soil is a pertinent, rich, and beautifully written book about Saudi Arabian identity politics. Samin offers anthropologists, historians, political scientists, and others the tools to analyze a contemporary Saudi debate in the field of genealogy and belonging. His book is, by all standards, a groundbreaking piece of academic research."---Marieke Brandt, American Ethnologist"Samin has produced one of the best monographs on Saudi culture and society and their relationship with the state."---Jörg Matthias Determann, Comparative Islamic Studies"An outstanding addition to the literature of modern Saudi Arabia that also serves to put the whole contemporary analysis of retribalization into a much broader context. Samin successfully demonstrates that despite religious, political, and economic forces that diminished tribal institutions, cross-pressures countered those trends, and in the process a culture of genealogy combined with a bureaucratic genealogical rule of governance to lead Saudis to assert tribal descent . . . and so establish their ancient roots in the Arabian Peninsula."---Calvin H. Allen, Jr., PhD, Middle East Media & Book Reviews"Of Sand or Soil is guaranteed to set one thinking. . . . [I]t is a measure of the book's worth that it suggests several lines of inquiry. [Samin] is to be congratulated . . . on a very well-written book, [and] . . . to be commended for productive fieldwork [in Saudi Arabia] requiring moral stamina."---P. Dresch, American Historical Review"The detailed historical and archival work and the deep ethnographic research shine throughout the book. . . . Of Sand or Soil is a welcome contribution to scholarship on Saudi Arabia, one that challenges the arguments of some of the most recent works in the field."---R. Bsheer, Arab Studies Journal"Samin's book . . . forces us to see Saudi society with new eyes. It shatters many stereotypes abundant among people in the west and the Arab world about the kingdom and leads us to reconsider outdated anthropological myths. . . . An indispensible tool for better understanding Saudi Arabia."---S. Maisel, SOAS Bulletin"An impressive piece of work. . . . Of Sand or Soil presents groundbreaking scholarship and as such, forms part of a growing trend of valuable in-depth studies on the kingdom."---J. E. Peterson, Bustan"Eloquent and free of jargon. . . . I highly recommend this book to scholars and students interested in kinship studies, state making and issues of belonging, object fetishisation, and textual authority."---Gabriele vom Bruck, Die Welt des Islams

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A fascinating, well-researched, cogently argued study. . . . A valuable contribution to understanding how people navigate their lives amid rapidly changing religious and legal contexts."---Candy Gunther Brown, Journal of Religion"Admirable. . . . [and] well articulated."---Kevin Ward, Religious Studies Review

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Forrest Stuart, Winner of a MacArthur fellowship, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation""Winner of the CITAMS Book Award, Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association""Honorable Mention for the Outstanding Book Award, Inequality, Poverty and Mobility Section of the American Sociological Association""Finalist for the PROSE Award in Cultural Anthropology & Sociology, Association of American Publishers""The global cross-pollination of drill music is not a coincidence. Young people suffering from inequality and violence are harnessing social media to be heard and valued. Ballad of the Bullet is a detailed, sensitive toolkit for understanding cultural production in the modern city; essential reading for educators, community workers and music fans alike."---Ciaran Thapar, youth worker and writer, speaking on BBC Radio"Mr Stuart’s recent book, Ballad of the Bullet, is an often gripping account of what he learned from his association with teenage members of an up-and-coming drill group—he dubs them the Corner Boys—desperate to win fame, status and money from rapping. He shows how their musical and lyrical talent is only a minor part of what determines success."---Adam Roberts, The Economist"The book completely reshaped the way I thought about micro-celebrity and youth culture, and it opened my eyes to how discussions of the internet have been largely oblivious to the worlds of those who are not class-privileged, white and female. As people have been sucked ever deeper into their digital worlds in 2020, Stuart shines a light on how social media offer both hope and danger for some of our cities' most disadvantaged young."---Ashley Mears, Times Higher Education"Poignant, written with great clarity in a lively style, Stuart’s book belongs to a tradition of ethnographic studies conducted in Chicago on urban poverty since the 1930s."---Clément Petitjean, Books and Ideas

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A revealing picture."---Thomas E. Bergler, Christianity Today"[Religious Parenting] is a solid contribution to the literature about religious socialization and offers a fruitful way to advance theory in close dialogue with empirically grounded research" * American Journal of Sociology *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A needed contribution. . . . Richlin’s ethnographic and qualitative research [are] both engaging and heartening."---Philip Letizia, Reading Religion

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Honorable Mention for the Best Scholarly Book, Global and Transnational Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association"

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Honorable Mention for the Best Scholarly Book, Global and Transnational Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association""A much needed sociological perspective on foreign aid that fundamentally shifts the terms of the debate.—Robert Wyrod, Contemporary Sociology"

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Outstanding Book Award, History of Education Society""A must-read"---R. W. Zens, Choice

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