Social and cultural anthropology Books
Princeton University Press American Afterlives
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Finalist for the PROSE Award in Cultural Anthropology and Sociology, Association of American Publishers""Touching and beautifully written."---Rosemarie Szostak, Science"Fascinating. . . . American Afterlives describes an extraordinary array of approaches to celebrate — and remember — the dead."---Glenn C. Altschuler, Psychology Today"It’s hard to make death sexy, but Shannon Lee Dawdy manages to do just that in her fascinating new book about changing practices in American death care and what they can tell us about American society today. . . . Dawdy’s style is playful and somewhat experimental. . . . [A] a highly imaginative, engrossing book about a difficult topic."---Mara Buchbinder, American Ethnologist"A personable book notable for its affection for life, the richness of American culture and the brief, baffling experience of living as a human."---Algernon D’Ammassa, Las Cruces Sun-News"A fast-moving look at what happens to bodies today—embalming, cremation, gravestones, pendants with ashes, etc. She sees no lack of faith but more 'eclectic, syncretic, speculative, woo-woo, and whackadoo belief.'"---Marvin Olasky, World
£19.80
Princeton University Press Brazilian Authoritarianism
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£23.75
Princeton University Press How to Do Things with Emotions
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year""How to Do Things with Emotions is a welcome corrective to Anglophone philosophy’s tendency to frame Western presumptions as universal. And it presents an appealingly sensible moral program."---Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker"Illuminating and engaging"---Sara Protasi, Times Literary Supplement"[An] insightful book. . . . Flanagan recommends and provides careful attention to [other cultural practices around anger and shame] in the hope that they will open up possibilities for developing new ways of expressing emotional behaviors." * Choice Reviews *
£27.00
Princeton University Press What a Mushroom Lives For
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Nominee for the James Beard Media Award in Reference, History, and Scholarship""Winner of the Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes, BC and Yukon Book Prizes""Few readers, I suspect, have ever considered fungi to be sentient, but Michael Hathaway . . . argues that mushrooms (as well as plants and other organisms widely considered as passive automatons), though not exactly conscious, nevertheless 'engage their surroundings in a dynamic way.' . . . The takeaway, Hathaway advises, should at least be a renewed appreciation of the interconnectedness of all forms of life, flora, fauna, and 'funga,' and a realization that the world is 'made and remade through relationships.'"---Laurence A. Marschall, Natural History"This book will be valuable to social scientists and ecologists, and essential to philosophers of human-fungi relationships." * Choice *
£19.80
Princeton University Press Making a Mindful Nation Mental Health and
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£67.20
Princeton University Press Making a Mindful Nation
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Princeton University Press Code Work
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£67.20
Princeton University Press American Afterlives
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Finalist for the PROSE Award in Cultural Anthropology and Sociology, Association of American Publishers""Touching and beautifully written."---Rosemarie Szostak, Science"Fascinating. . . . American Afterlives describes an extraordinary array of approaches to celebrate — and remember — the dead."---Glenn C. Altschuler, Psychology Today"It’s hard to make death sexy, but Shannon Lee Dawdy manages to do just that in her fascinating new book about changing practices in American death care and what they can tell us about American society today. . . . Dawdy’s style is playful and somewhat experimental. . . . [A] a highly imaginative, engrossing book about a difficult topic."---Mara Buchbinder, American Ethnologist"A personable book notable for its affection for life, the richness of American culture and the brief, baffling experience of living as a human."---Algernon D’Ammassa, Las Cruces Sun-News"A fast-moving look at what happens to bodies today—embalming, cremation, gravestones, pendants with ashes, etc. She sees no lack of faith but more 'eclectic, syncretic, speculative, woo-woo, and whackadoo belief.'"---Marvin Olasky, World
£15.29
Princeton University Press Middle Tech
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£22.50
Princeton University Press From Serf to Russian Soldier
Book SynopsisHere is the first social history devoted to the common soldier in the Russian army during the first half of the 19th-century--an examination of soldiers as a social class and the army as a social institution. By providing a comprehensive view of one of the most important groups in Russian society on the eve of the great reforms of the mid-1800s, ElTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*LIST OF TABLES, pg. ix*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. xi*INTRODUCTION, pg. xiii*ONE. Conscription, pg. 3*Two. Military Society and the State, pg. 26*THREE. From Peasant to Soldier: Education and Training, pg. 55*FOUR. The Limits of Bureaucratic Regulation: The Regimental Economy, pg. 74*FIVE. Justice with Order: Autocratic Values and Military Discipline, pg. 96*Six. Soldiers in Service: Expectations and Realities, pg. 120*CONCLUSION. The Semi-Standing Army, pg. 149*NOTES AND LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS, pg. 153*SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 199*INDEX, pg. 209
£29.75
Pluto Press Corruption Anthropological Perspectives
Book SynopsisShows how corruption operates through informal rules, personal connections and wider social contexts.Trade Review'Breaks new descriptive and theoretical ground for anthropology' -- William Beeman, Professor of Anthropology, Brown University and Visiting Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Stanford University'An exceptionally timely anthropological response to an increasingly insistent global discourse of 'good governance', this excellent collection offers fresh and sophisticated perspectives for cross-cultural analysis of the meanings and roles of 'corruption'' -- John Gledhill, Max Gluckman Professor of Social Anthropology, The University of ManchesterTable of Contents1. Sharp Practice: Anthropology and the Study of Corruption by Cris Shore and Dieter Haer Part I. Corruption in ‘Transitional’ Societies 2. The Intersection of Political Corruption and Organized Crime: A Comparison of Palermo, Italy and Youngstown, Ohio. 3. Bribes, Gifts, and Unofficial Payments: Towards an Anthropology of Corruption in Post-Soviet Russia by Michele Rivkin-Fish 4. Corruption as a Transitional Phenomenon: Understanding Endemic Corruption by David Lovell 5. Corruption, Property Restitution, and Romanianness by Filippo M. Zerilli Part II. Institutionalised Corruption and Institutions of Anti-Corruption 6. Integrity Warriors: Global Morality and the Anticorruption Movement in the Balkans by Steven Sampson 7. Culture and Corruption in the EU: reflections on Fraud, Nepotism and Cronyism in the European Commission by Cris Shore 8. Corruption in Corporate America: Enron – Before and After by Carol MacLennan Part III. Narratives and Practices of Everyday of Corruption 9. Narrating the State of Corruption by Akhil Gupta 10.‘Where the Jeeps Come From: Narrations on Corruption in the Alentejo (Southern Portugal) by Dorle Drackle, 11. Citizens despite the State: Everyday corruption and local politics in El Alto, Bolivia by Sian Lazar 12. Afterword: Anthropology and Corruption: the State of the Art by Dorothy Louise Zinn Notes on Contributors Index
£72.25
Pluto Press Space Invaders
Book SynopsisA history of global protests and social movements from the perspective of radical geographyTrade Review'Fuses theory, practice, and passion—love and rage—to reveal the nuanced geographical logics of social movements in places from Andhra Pradesh to Zuccotti Park at scales from the body to the globe' -- Cindi Katz, Author of Growing Up Global: Economic Restructuring and Children’s Everyday LivesTable of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements Series Preface 1. Radical Geographies of Protest: Spatial Strategies, Sites of Intervention and Scholar Activism 2. Know Your Place: Barricades, Rooftops and Being Steadfast 3. Make Some Space: Camps, Commons and Occupations 4. Stay Mobile: Packs and Swarms, Flash Mobs and Hacktivism 5. Wage Wars of Words: Testimonies, Communiqués and Culture Jamming 6. Extend Your Reach: Convergences, Conferences and Caravans 7. Feel Out of Place: Ethical Spectacles, Zaps and Guerrilla Performances 8. Space Invaders: Power, Politics and Protest Notes Index
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Pluto Press Anthropologies of Value Cultures of Accumulation
Book SynopsisAn edited collection which contains unusual and global case studies providing a Marxist analysis of the commodification of lifeTrade Review'This collection of ethnographically-informed essays from around the world turns the abstractions of globalisation theory upside down and provides new insights into the values that inform economic transactions in the world today. It is essential reading for anyone concerned with the value question in the 21st Century' -- Dr Chris Gregory, Australian National University'A provocative book ... This is a remarkable achievement and one which I hope restores economic anthropology to its former prominence as an area of inquiry.' -- Jennifer Alexander, The Asia Pacific Journal of AnthropologyTable of ContentsList of Figures Series Preface Acknowledgements The Value of Everything and the Price of Nothingness by Luis Fernando Angosto-Ferrández Part I: Emerging Value in the 'Global South' 1. On the Capacity to Change the Structural Parameters of Value: The Sale of One Particular Cook Island Tivaivai - Jane Horan 2. Value and the Art of Deception: Public Morality in a Papua New Guinean Ponzi Scheme - John Cox 3. Asbin: A 'Has-Been' of Papua New Guinea Highlands Gift Exchange? - Olivia Barnett-Naghshineh 4. The Value of the Vanua: The Nexus of People and Land in Fiji’s Market Economy - Geir Henning Presterudstuen 5. Natural Value: Rent-Capture and the Commodification of a Waterfall in Gran Sabana, Venezuela - Luis Fernando Angosto-Ferrández 6. Capitalist Ventures or Solidarity Networks? Self-Employment in Post-Soviet Cuba - Marina Gold Part II: Tribulating Values in the 'Global North' 7. The Relative Value of Penguins - Moira White 8. Quota Systems: Repositioning Value in New Zealand, Icelandic and Irish Fisheries - Fiona McCormack 9. Distributions of Wealth, Distributions of Waste: Abject Capital and Accumulation by Disposal - David Boarder Giles 10. ‘The University is Kind of an Impossible Place’: Universities Towards and Against Capitalism - Fern Thompsett Notes on Contributors Index
£61.52
Pluto Press Climate Capitalism and Communities
Book SynopsisAn anthropological perspective on the devastating environmental consequences of global capital's growth imperative.Trade Review'Presenting evidence from places as diverse as the Arctic, Mongolia and Peru, this volume testifies to the growing anthropological awareness of the link between global capitalism and climate change' -- Hans A Baer, author of 'Global Capitalism and Climate Change: The Need for an Alternative World System''This excellent analysis of climate change and global 'overheating' is underpinned by studies that demonstrate how it is experienced in diverse cultural and geographical contexts. Every researcher, politician and activist seeking ways to avert ecological and social meltdown should read this book' -- Veronica Strang, author of 'Water: Nature and Culture'Table of ContentsList of Figures Preface 1. Introduction: Anthropological Perspectives on Global Economic and Environmental Crises in an Overheated World - Astrid B. Stensrud and Thomas Hylland Eriksen 2. The Political Economy of the Great Acceleration, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - Anna Tsing 3. A Community on the Brink of Extinction? Ecological Crises and Ruined Landscapes in Northwest Greenland - Kirsten Hastrup 4. Sea Ice, Climate and Resources: The Changing Nature of Hunting Along Greenland's Northwest Coast - Mark Nuttall 5. Volatility: Understanding Global Capitalism and Climate Change Vulnerability in Mongolia - Andrei Marin 6. The Dark Side of Progress: The Intersections of Climate Change, Neoliberalism and Modernity in Peru - Astrid B. Stensrud 7. Puzzling Pieces and Situated Urgencies of Climate Change and Globalisation in the High Arctic: Three Stories from Qaanaaq - Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen and Janne Flora 8. Counting: Health Emergencies and the Constitution of Extractive Natures in Northern Loreto, Peru - María A. Guzmán-Gallegos 9. Expansive Capitalism, Climate Change and Global Climate Mitigation Regimes: A Triple Burden on Forest Peoples in the Global South - Harold Wilhite and Cecilia G. Salinas 10. Climate Change, Oceanic Sovereignties and Maritime Economies in the Pacific - Edvard Hviding 11. Islands of Hope and Despair: Scaling the Collapses and the Collapse of Scales - Frank Sejersen 12. Using a Glacier Website to Promote Action and Build Community: Engaged Anthropology in the Digital Age - Ben Orlove, Kerry Milch and Laura Uguccioni Notes on Contributors Index
£25.19
Pluto Press Watershed Politics and Climate Change in Peru
Book SynopsisA critique of the global emphasis on water’s economic value and extractivist policies, based on an ethnography of a watershed in PeruTrade Review'This superb ethnography invites us to 'slow down' the assumption that water is either a resource or a vital force and attend to how its multiplicity implies a politics of entangled worldings. This book will change how you think about the politics of water!' -- Mario Blaser, Associate Professor of Archaeology, Memorial University, Canada'Though many recent researchers have examined water through a climate change lens, this highly original book is distinctive in examining climate change through a water lens' -- Ben Orlove, anthropologist and Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, New York'This book expresses the power of ethnography. Using her kaleidoscopic notions, Astrid Stensrud presents an analysis of a politics of water that empirically emerging from multiple worlds to transform political ecology and political economy into pluriversal analytics' -- Marisol de la Caden, Professor of Anthropology at UC-Davis, California and author of 'Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice Across Andean Worlds' (Duke, 2015)'An exemplary ethnographic analysis that, focusing on 'waterworlds' in Peru, illuminates the many and diverse ways that people conceptualise and value water, engage with water, and compose human and non-human relationships through water' -- Professor Veronica Strang FAcSS, Executive Director of Durham University's Institute of Advanced Study and author of 'Water, Culture and Nature' (Reaktion Press 2015)'A powerful engagement with contemporary anthropological debates on the heterogeneity of water. Working with a multiplicity of water practices, Stensrud makes a compelling case for recognizing the intrinsic value of remaining open to difference in the face of climate change' -- Professor Penny Harvey, University of ManchesterTable of ContentsMaps and Figures List of Acronyms and Abbreviations List of Words in Quechua and Spanish Series Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Water and Watershed Politics 1. Engineering Water Flows 2. Colonising the Desert 3. Water Payments 4. Water Uncertainties and Disasters 5. Water Efficiency 6. Legible and Illegible Water 7. Owning Water Conclusion: Water Multiplicity Notes Bibliography Index
£61.52
Pluto Press Deepening Divides How Territorial Borders and
Book SynopsisA non-Eurocentric, interdisciplinary collection arguing that boundaries and borders are best understood as overlapping categories.Trade Review'This volume is the first to bring together two distinct phenomena usually studied in separate strands of research: how migration regimes police the territorial boundaries of states, and how differentiating between and discriminating against minority groups creates social boundaries within states. An important and timely intellectual move' -- Andreas Wimmer, author of 'Ethnic Boundary Making: Institutions, Networks, Power''This is a splendid collection of essays that illustrates how racial, gender and class-based discrimination is instrumental to the justification of the state's right to exclude. With case studies from five continents and genuinely interdisciplinary contributions, this volume is an indispensable theoretical and political tool for reflecting on migration and territorial rights in the 21st century' -- Lea Ypi, author of 'Global Justice and Avant-Garde Political Agency'Table of Contents1. Introduction: Connecting Borders and Boundaries - Didier Fassin PART I: POLITICAL AND MORAL ECONOMIES 2. What Money Can Buy: Citizenship by Investment on a Global Scale - Kristin Surak 3. Monitoring International Labor Precarity: The State Management of Migrant Domestic Workers - Rhacel Parreñas 4. When Migrants Claim Blood Kinship: Constructing Hierarchies of Human Worth - Ays¸e Parla 5. Family Resemblances: Binational Marriage, Muslim “Communalism,” and the Patriarchal State - Mayanthi Fernando PART II: LEGAL DISBARRING 6. An Earlier Ban: Chinese Exclusion and Plenary Power - Mae Ngai 7. Manners of Exclusion: From the Asiatic Barred Zone to the Muslim Ban - Sherally Munshi 8. Brave New Worlds: The Racial Regimes of the Americas - Michael Hanchard 9. The Outlawed: Landscapes of Human Rights - Tugba Basaran PART III: CREATING SPACES 10. Protection: Sanctuary and the Contested Ethics of Presence in the United States - Linda Bosniak 11. Ruination and Rebuilding: The Precarious Place of a Border Town in Gaza - Ilana Feldman 12. Symmetry and Affinity: Comparing Borders and Border-Making Processes in Africa - Paul Nugent Notes on Contributors Index
£72.25
Pluto Press Deepening Divides How Territorial Borders and
Book SynopsisA non-Eurocentric, interdisciplinary collection arguing that boundaries and borders are best understood as overlapping categories.Trade Review'This volume is the first to bring together two distinct phenomena usually studied in separate strands of research: how migration regimes police the territorial boundaries of states, and how differentiating between and discriminating against minority groups creates social boundaries within states. An important and timely intellectual move' -- Andreas Wimmer, author of 'Ethnic Boundary Making: Institutions, Networks, Power''This is a splendid collection of essays that illustrates how racial, gender and class-based discrimination is instrumental to the justification of the state's right to exclude. With case studies from five continents and genuinely interdisciplinary contributions, this volume is an indispensable theoretical and political tool for reflecting on migration and territorial rights in the 21st century' -- Lea Ypi, author of 'Global Justice and Avant-Garde Political Agency'Table of Contents1. Introduction: Connecting Borders and Boundaries - Didier Fassin PART I: POLITICAL AND MORAL ECONOMIES 2. What Money Can Buy: Citizenship by Investment on a Global Scale - Kristin Surak 3. Monitoring International Labor Precarity: The State Management of Migrant Domestic Workers - Rhacel Parreñas 4. When Migrants Claim Blood Kinship: Constructing Hierarchies of Human Worth - Ays¸e Parla 5. Family Resemblances: Binational Marriage, Muslim “Communalism,” and the Patriarchal State - Mayanthi Fernando PART II: LEGAL DISBARRING 6. An Earlier Ban: Chinese Exclusion and Plenary Power - Mae Ngai 7. Manners of Exclusion: From the Asiatic Barred Zone to the Muslim Ban - Sherally Munshi 8. Brave New Worlds: The Racial Regimes of the Americas - Michael Hanchard 9. The Outlawed: Landscapes of Human Rights - Tugba Basaran PART III: CREATING SPACES 10. Protection: Sanctuary and the Contested Ethics of Presence in the United States - Linda Bosniak 11. Ruination and Rebuilding: The Precarious Place of a Border Town in Gaza - Ilana Feldman 12. Symmetry and Affinity: Comparing Borders and Border-Making Processes in Africa - Paul Nugent Notes on Contributors Index
£28.80
Pluto Press Identity Destabilised Living in an Overheated
Book SynopsisAn international collection of ethnographic essays exploring the anthropology of the AnthropoceneTrade Review'This provocative and ethnographically diverse volume illuminates the complexities that shape attempts to reconcile social belonging and self-consciousness in today's world' -- Noel Dyck, Professor of Social Anthropology, Simon Fraser University'Accelerated change may be a general characteristic of human life today, but the diverse and multi-facetted studies in this volume nevertheless document a significant variety of perceptions, reflections and agency in response to this volatile situation' -- Karen Fog Olwig, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen, co-editor of Climate Change and Human Mobility: Challenges to the Social Sciences (Cambridge University Press, 2012)'A powerful book ... already a benchmark classic of its discipline' -- Manchester Review of BooksTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Preface 1. Introduction: The Art of Belonging in an Overheated World - Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Elisabeth Schober 2. Down With Identity! Long Live Humanity! - Jeremy MacClancy 3. Frozen Cosmopolitanism: Coping with Radical Deceleration in Cape Verdean Contexts of Forced Return Migration - Heike Drotbohm 4. ‘We Are All Strangers Here’: Transforming Land and Making Identity in a Desert Boomtown - Astrid B. Stensrud 5. Identifying with Accelerated Change: Modernity Embodied in Gladstone, Queensland - Thomas Hylland Eriksen 6. Guarding the Frontier: On Nationalism and Nostalgia in an Israeli Border Town - Cathrine Thorleifsson 7. Cultural Wounding and Healing: Change as Ongoing Cultural Production in a Remote Indigenous Australian Community - Amanda Kearney 8. Indigenous Endurance amidst Accelerated Change? The U.S. Military, South Korean Investors and the Aeta of Subic Bay, the Philippines - Elisabeth Schober 9. The Politics of Localness: Claiming Gains in Rural Sierra Leone - Robert J. Pijpers 10. Too Many Khans?: Old and New Elites in Afghanistan - Torunn Wimpelmann 11. Do Homosexuals Wear Moustaches? Controversies around the First Montenegrin Pride Parade - Branko Banovic 12. 'We're Far Too Far Down This Road Now to Worry about Morals': The Destabilising of Football Fans' Identities in an Overheated World - Keir Martin 13. Frozen Moments: Visualising the Polity in Times of Overheating - Iver B. Neumann 14. Eurovision Identities: Or, How Many Collective Identities Can One Anthropologist Possess? - Chris Hann Notes on Contributors Index
£999.99
John Wiley and Sons Ltd On Friendship
Book SynopsisFriends can help to form the basic structure of our lives but we very often take them for granted. Friends can sometimes be regarded as an oppressive burden when they appear to be greedily demanding too much of us. How to get the balance right is a perennial concern and the subject of much fiction and drama.Trade Review'The success of books can be measured by their imagery. Ray Pahl, in this eloquent essay on the value and virtues of friendship, provides two images that stay in the mind. The first is of friendships as social convoys that accompany you through the hazards of life. The second is of friendships as personal communities, in which identity can be affirmed, and intimacy explored. Through both images you can clearly see the significance of circles of friends - never more important than in the confusions and complexities of the contemporary world.' Jeffrey Weeks, Professor of Sociology, South Bank University London 'Pahl, a warmly readable sociologist, muses over ideas of friendship found in thinkers such as Aristotle, La Rochefoucauld and Hume, and also those implied in literature and modern fiction. In a rather lovely image, he sees our set of friends as a "social convoy" that helps us on our way through life.' Steven Poole, The Guardian "What differentiates this book from other recent research and writing on friendship is that Pahl account of, and approach to, friendship is wide-ranging and unconstrained by disciplinary boundaries. The different literatures and traditions covered in this slim volume highlight the many sources from which information on friendship can be gained, including media commentary and analysis, psychological and philosophical literature and political and social theory." British Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsPreface. Introduction Chapter one: What is Friendship?;. Chapter Two: Friendship, Modernity and Trust;. Chapter Three; Friendship and the Self;. Chapter Four: Friendship in Context,. Chapter Five: Social Support, Social Capital and the Politics of Friendship. Conclusion. Further Reading. More Detailed References. Index
£49.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Understanding Cultural Globalization
Book SynopsisUnderstanding Cultural Globalization is a comprehensive and highly accessible introduction to the critical debates surrounding cultural globalization.Trade Review"Immensely well suited to undergraduate readership in Britain." Sociological Review "Hopper provides an accessible and informed introduction to cultural globalization and the critical debates surrounding it." European Journal of Communication "Hopper’s book should be required reading for anyone wishing to see globalization’s “big picture”. While many books have been written about globalization, almost all of them give culture short shrift and focus on more easily quantifiable matters such as economics and demographics. Understanding Cultural Globalization fills a most important gap in the literature on globalization. It will provide readers with a sophisticated and nuanced view of the complex phenomena that underlie globalization." Steve Jones, University of Illinois "Paul Hopper proposes a differentiating and interdisciplinary approach to understanding cultural globalization. This book is an accessible, informative, clear and student-friendly introduction to the breadth of literature and a range of different debates and topics in cultural globalization studies." Luke Martell, University of Sussex "Paul Hopper’s book is to be welcomed. It offers students a valuable, balanced introduction and a clear pathway through the often complexly overlapping arguments and perspectives covered by the idea of cultural globalization." John Tomlinson, Nottingham Trent UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Approaching Cultural Globalization. 1. The Histories of Cultural Globalization. 2. Travelling Cultures. 3. Global Communication, Media and Technology. 4. Globalization and Global Culture. 5. Globalization and National Culture. 6. Globalization and Cultural Conflict. 7. Globalization and Cosmopolitanism. Conclusion: Cultural Globalizations
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Understanding Cultural Globalization
Book SynopsisUnderstanding Cultural Globalization is a comprehensive and highly accessible introduction to the critical debates surrounding cultural globalization.Trade Review"Immensely well suited to undergraduate readership in Britain." Sociological Review "Hopper provides an accessible and informed introduction to cultural globalization and the critical debates surrounding it." European Journal of Communication "Hopper’s book should be required reading for anyone wishing to see globalization’s “big picture”. While many books have been written about globalization, almost all of them give culture short shrift and focus on more easily quantifiable matters such as economics and demographics. Understanding Cultural Globalization fills a most important gap in the literature on globalization. It will provide readers with a sophisticated and nuanced view of the complex phenomena that underlie globalization." Steve Jones, University of Illinois "Paul Hopper proposes a differentiating and interdisciplinary approach to understanding cultural globalization. This book is an accessible, informative, clear and student-friendly introduction to the breadth of literature and a range of different debates and topics in cultural globalization studies." Luke Martell, University of Sussex "Paul Hopper’s book is to be welcomed. It offers students a valuable, balanced introduction and a clear pathway through the often complexly overlapping arguments and perspectives covered by the idea of cultural globalization." John Tomlinson, Nottingham Trent UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Approaching Cultural Globalization. 1. The Histories of Cultural Globalization. 2. Travelling Cultures. 3. Global Communication, Media and Technology. 4. Globalization and Global Culture. 5. Globalization and National Culture. 6. Globalization and Cultural Conflict. 7. Globalization and Cosmopolitanism. Conclusion: Cultural Globalizations
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Meaning of Cooking
Book SynopsisIn 1785 James Boswell and Dr Johnson were trying to come up with a way of distinguishing human beings from animals. The beasts have memory, judgement, and all the faculties and passions of our mind, in a certain degree,' said Boswell, but no beast is a cook.Trade Review"A family meal is a social construct more complicated than the tasks involved would suggest, and its study is back where sexuality was before Freud. In fact, Kaufmann reminds us, historically there have been more taboos concerning food than sex." The International Herald Tribune "By showing how the preparation and consumption of food form the basis of our closest personal relationships, Kaufmann provides a persuasively unromantic view of why cooking matters." Alan Warde, University of ManchesterTable of ContentsINTRODUCTION. PART ONE: TWO STORIES. I. FOOD: FROM ORDER TO DISORDERS. Frogs and Dogs. The Discovery of Pleasures. Healthy Eating. Scientific Errors. What the 'Cretan Diet' Teaches Us. Cacophony. Minor Compromises. A Guilty Conscience. The Tastes of Pleasure. The Like and Dislikes That Rule Us. The Geopolitics of Sugar. Flour and Women. 'You've Got Everything to Hand'. The Fridge Culture. The Low-Cal Individual. The Historical Inversion. Ordeal by Fat. The Void Within. Diets and Regression. II. MEALS: FROM SACRIFICE TO COMMUNION. A Clanship of Porridge. Dietary Incest. Sacrifice and Banquets. Parties With the Gods? Towards Profane Meals? A Short History of Tables (Part One). Meals Without a Compass. Disciplina. Fork to the Left, Knife to the Right. A Strange Encounter. The Rigid Family. Towards A New Communion? PART TWO: 'FOOD'S READY!' III. MEALS MAKE A FAMILY. Pure Discipline. Discipline in Pieces. A Domestic Revolt. Women Are Not What They Used To Be. Feeding The Family and Slimming At The Same Time. Different Stages. A Child-Centred World. New Rituals. A Dream Family. Disjointed Conversations. Table Talk. What The Children Say. Television. Eating Together. The Syncretism of Minor Pleasures. Minor Adventures. The Interplay Between 'I' and 'We'. Children At The Table. IV FAMILY TRAJECTORIES AND CONTEXTS. The Sweet Jar, The Fridge and The Table. Alone At Last. Seduction. A Drink Before The Meal. Birth Of The Family. A Breathing Space. The Children Come Home. The Beginning of the End, Or A New Beginning? Meals and Families. Non-Families and Non-Meals. The First Meal. Taking Sides. Talking About The Weather. A Short History Of Tables (Part Two). Just A Table? PART THREE: IN THE KITCHEN. V THERE IS COOKING AND THERE IS COOKING. The Chef. Two Worlds. The Ancien Regime. Lightening the Burden. Hidden Difficulties. Coming Up With An Idea. A Sudden Fancy. 'What Would You Like To Eat Tomorrow?' Inside The Cook's Head. 'Making Mud Pies'. Time Inverted. The Personal Touch. 'A Lot or Organizing'. Stress. The Aftermath. Recipes. Variety and Variations. VI COOKING, COUPLES AND FAMILIES. Transmission and Autonomy. Mothers and Daughters. First Steps. Everything Falls Into Place. Sharing the Work. The Division of Labour. Helping. A Star Is Born. When Men Start To Do The Cooking. From Sacrifice to Gift. 'Hand-Made' Love. A Way of saying 'I Love You'. Food and Elective Bonds. A Family Consensus; Educating the Family. Manipulative Tactics. Compliments, But Not Too Many. For the Family. Shopping. Lists. Special Offers and Rationality. CONCLUSION. A NOTE ON METHODOLOGY. BIOGRAPHICAL DATA. REFERENCES.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Enforcing Order
Book SynopsisMost incidents of urban unrest in recent decades - including the riots in France, Britain and other Western countries - have followed lethal interactions between the youth and the police. Usually these take place in disadvantaged neighborhoods composed of working-class families of immigrant origin or belonging to ethnic minorities. These tragic events have received a great deal of media coverage, but we know very little about the everyday activities of urban policing that lie behind them. Over the course of 15 months, at the time of the 2005 riots, Didier Fassin carried out an ethnographic study in one of the largest precincts in the Paris region, sharing the life of a police station and cruising with the patrols, in particular the dreaded anti-crime squads. Far from the imaginary worlds created by television series and action movies, he uncovers the ordinary aspects of law enforcement, characterized by inactivity and boredom, by eventless days and nights where minor infractions givTrade Review“Enforcing Order is an intriguing read, not least for what it reveals about the politics of law and order, and of policing, in France in recent times” Tim Newburn, LSE, LSE Review of Books "Powerful, distressing and thought-provoking. The book is based on 15 months of fieldwork, an undertaking unprecedented in France and one that, as the difficulties of access Fassin encountered suggest, will not be conducted again for some time." Times Higher Education "Fassin’s book – the most significant contribution to the public anthropology of policing – has opened up space to discuss the unresolved tension underlying the contemporary state, that between providing security and protecting human rights." Social Anthropology "Fassin has written a brilliant example of public anthropology. This ethnography of the anti-crime squads of the French police powerfully captures the institutionalization of racism and violence against poor youth and immigrants. His book must reach the widest possible audience because these paramilitaries operating out of sight of the general public with the complicity of politicians, career bureaucrats and the courts must be dismantled." Philippe Bourgois, University of Pennsylvania "This vivid description of the daily routines of police squads operating in under-privileged Parisian suburbs reinstates ethnography as a powerful tool for revealing how social exclusion works. By bringing to life, from the point of view of its officers, how the police consolidates social hierarchies, Fassin reminds us eloquently that the behavior of its police forces is the best index of the state of a democracy." Philippe Descola, Collège de France "A fascinating read – a brilliant, deep plunge into the lives, routines, racial tensions, sometimes violence, and intricate moral reasoning of the police officers in an anti-crime brigade in the French banlieues during a heated time of rioting in Paris. It blends a subtle analysis of the moral economy of the police with rigorous ethnographic detail and a genuine honesty or transparency on Didier Fassin’s part. It is a very important contribution to our understanding of police practices in this new age of security." Bernard Harcourt, University of ChicagoTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Preliminary Remarks Preface to the Engish Edition Prologue - Interpellation In which the author comes to understand that it is sometimes dangerous to wait for a bus in the outer city on New Year’s Eve. How policing practice provides the language for a philosophical theory, and how a philosophical theory supplies the meaning of policing practice. That this is not a testimony, and that indignation is not rage. Introduction - Inquiry How the present research was authorized and then forbidden, and that this censorship is revelatory of petty exceptions in a democratic regime. That an ethnography of the police requires resisting the dual temptation of exoticism and culturalism. That a study is often the result of the converging effects of chance and necessity. Chapter 1 - Situation How an imaginary of war came to be established in the relations between the police and the projects. That a brief history of the social question and security issues is essential in order to understand the context in which law enforcement faces classes reputed to be dangerous. That the creation of more aggressive special units was judged necessary to deal with the alleged disorder in the outer cities. Chapter 2 - Ordinary How the daily work of police officers is far removed from the image they had of it when they joined the force, and the illusion they continue to maintain of it. That evaluation of the work of urban patrols yields such unexpected results that it is not taken into account by government. That inaction generates action, and what this phenomenon of spontaneous generation means for the residents of the projects. Chapter 3 - Interactions How stops and frisks serve purposes other than those they are supposed to serve, and prove more effective in perpetuating a social order than in maintaining public order. That the way police officers speak about the individuals with whom they deal throws light on their way of operating in the outer cities. That the theater of police intervention sometimes plays comedies in which not all spectators laugh at the same moment. Chapter 4 - Violence How a criminal court can offer valuable lessons on excessive use of force by the police in the outer cities. That by not reducing violence to its physical aspect and not limiting the definition of it to the legal sense, one can gain a different understanding of it. That there are many ways of preventing police brutality from being prosecuted Chapter 5 - Discrimination How police officers and sociologists challenge the existence of discriminatory practices that the rest of the French population is convinced prevail. That racist ideas do not automatically lead to discriminatory practices, but that the two are far from incompatible. That institutions show more tolerance toward institutional racism than toward its victims. Chapter 6 - Politics How some signs are not deceiving, but may nevertheless be surprising in a democratic regime. That local practices enjoy great autonomy with respect to national guidelines, but that government policy has some influence on the everyday work of law enforcement. That the corollary of the increasing criminalization of behaviors is an unprecedented casting of the police as victims. Chapter 7 - Morality How police officers disappointed by the justice of the courts began to practice street justice. That jokes in the precinct can prove more serious than is customarily maintained. That a code of ethics is not enough to interpret the ethical forces at work in the behavior of police officers and the moral impasse in which the police find themselves. Conclusion - Democracy How the French police preferred the model of the cop in the United States to the style of the British bobby, and what was the result. That the imposition of the rationale of security has a high social cost for contemporary societies. That the interests of ethnography are intimately bound with those of democracy. Epilogue - Time In which the author looks back to a not-so-distant past, observes that the more things change the more they do not stay the same, wonders about the present as it is experienced by certain segments of French society and ignored by the others, and expresses concerns about the future. Notes Bibliography
£54.00
John Wiley & Sons Collections and Objections
Book SynopsisA nuanced study of conflicts over possession of Aboriginal artifacts.Trade Review"Collections and Objections transcends geographic, scholarly, and temporal borders. Not only is it a study of Ontario, but it also touches on subjects pertinent to other cases across North America. Similarly it is not just a study of material culture, but also a narrative inspired by the complementary fields of history, archaeology, anthropology, and Aboriginal studies. (...) It is sure to be a welcome addition to many researchers' bookshelves." H-Canada "[Collections and Objections] banishes the notion that the history of archaeology is dry, dusty, and boring and has little relevance to the present. Archaeologists and Aboriginal people involved in the creation of an archaeological tradition in Ontario come to life on the pages...The book is incredibly well written and difficult to put down, a rare find in the scholarly literature about archaeology. It should be required reading for every archaeologist in Ontario and anyone interested in the historical development of the current relationship between Aboriginal peoples and archaeologists." Gary Warick, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canadian Journal of Archaeology
£999.99
McGill-Queen's University Press Ancient Pathways Ancestral Knowledge
Book SynopsisDrawing on information shared by Indigenous botanical experts and collaborators, the ethnographic and historical record, and from linguistics, palaeobotany, archaeology, phytogeography, and other fields, this book weaves together a complex understanding of the traditions of use and management of plant resources in this vast region.Trade Review"This magisterial work - exploring the deep, abiding, and ever-evolving relationships between plants and indigenous peoples - is monumental in its scope and depth. It is authoritative, accessible, full of wonderful anecdotes and stories, and will interest scholars of North American anthropology, geography, botany, and ecology, as well as general readers." Thomas F. Thornton, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford "Nancy Turner's books are vital repositories of botanical and cultural lore, but more essentially they are road maps to wonder. Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge is clearly her opus, the culmination of more than five decades of research and insight. I "Written from a deep love and respect for both people and plants, and an obvious desire for global human cooperation in the face of environmental planetary peril, Turner's message, through over 1000 pages, is simple: "We have to find ways to look after ea
£999.99
University of British Columbia Press Speaking for a Long Time
Book SynopsisThis vivid account of the creation of three public monuments in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside offers unique insights into the links between power, public space, and social memory and asks us to reconsider the nature and role of civic art.Table of ContentsPrefacePart 1: ActMarker of Change/ À l’aube du changementCRAB Park BoulderStanding with Courage, Strength and PridePart 2: FramePublic Space, Social Order and VisibilityMemory: Blending the Personal and the SocialMonuments: Permanence and MemoryA Geographic SensibilityPart 3: ForgeContinuousness of the IssueAcknowledging the UnseenConsolidating Claims of CommunityDesign FeaturesStreet SmartsProposition: A Politics of VisibilityReferencesIndex
£73.95
University of British Columbia Press Speaking for a Long Time
Book SynopsisThis vivid account of the creation of three public monuments in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside offers unique insights into the links between power, public space, and social memory and asks us to reconsider the nature and role of civic art.Table of ContentsPrefacePart 1: ActMarker of Change/ À l’aube du changementCRAB Park BoulderStanding with Courage, Strength and PridePart 2: FramePublic Space, Social Order and VisibilityMemory: Blending the Personal and the SocialMonuments: Permanence and MemoryA Geographic SensibilityPart 3: ForgeContinuousness of the IssueAcknowledging the UnseenConsolidating Claims of CommunityDesign FeaturesStreet SmartsProposition: A Politics of VisibilityReferencesIndex
£25.19
MN - University of British Columbia Press One of the Family Metis Culture in NineteenthCentury Northwestern Saskatchewan
Book SynopsisEmploys a sophisticated theoretical framework and diverse sources to trace the birth and growth of a Metis community in northern Saskatchewan.Trade ReviewIn a meticulously crafted study of the connections between the Metis families of the Sakitawak (Île à la Crosse) region of Saskatchewan, Brenda Macdougall adds richness to a familiar story by extending the focus of her study from the geographic, temporal, and cultural preeminence of Red River in historical discourse. -- Venetia Boehmer-Plotz, Brock University * H-Canada Review *An impressive work that traces the emergence of the Metis community “as an expression of Aboriginality” (p. 56). One of the Family emerges as a welcome and much-needed contribution to the field and should serve as a valuable framework for future research. Both captivating and rigorous, this book is sure to engage scholars interested in Aboriginal-newcomer relations and Metis identity studies -- Venetia Boehmer-Plotz, Brock University * H-Canada *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note on Methodology and Sources Note on Writing Conventions Introduction 1 “They are strongly attached to the country of rivers, lakes, and forests”: The Social Landscapes of the Northwest 2 “The bond that connected one human being to another”: Social Construction of the Metis Family 3 “To live in the land of my Mother”: Residency and Patronymic Connections Across the Northwest 4 “After a man has tasted of the comforts of married life this living alone comes pretty tough”: Family, Acculturation, and Roman Catholicism 5 “The only men obtainable who know the country and Indians are all married”: Family, Labour, and the HBC 6 “The HalfBreeds of this place always did and always will dance”: Competition, Freemen, and Contested Spaces 7 “I Thought it advisable to furnish him”: Freemen to Free Traders in the Northwest Fur Trade Conclusion Appendix Glossary Notes Bibliography Index of Names Index of Subjects
£26.99
MN - University of British Columbia Press Moving Mountains Ethnicity and Livelihoods in
Book SynopsisThis collection argues that minorities in the Southeast Asian Massif are not powerless in the face of economic and political change in the region – they are drawing on ethnicity and culture to indigenize modernity and maintain their livelihoods.Trade ReviewThis expertly edited and unusually coherent collection of enlightening essays on livelihoods and cultural identities in the post-socialist situations of China, Vietnam and Laos, adds usefully to the emerging literature on the borderlands of what the editors call the “Southeast Asian Massif”...this well-edited book is an argument for and demonstration of the value of good ethnography in the developmental context and as such it deserves to be very widely read. -- Nicholas Tapp, East China Normal University, Shanghai, Professor Emeritus, Australian National University * The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology *… this book is much more than a collection of individually interesting case study chapters. There is an argument that weaves its way through the text. After an intriguing foreword from Terry McGee where he connects his interest in urban change with the book’s concern with highland change, there are eight core chapters bookended by a substantial introduction from the editors, editors, and a rather briefer conclusion. -- Jonathan Rigg * Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, June 2013 *Table of ContentsIllustrationsForeword / Terry McGeeAcknowledgments1 Rethinking the Relationships between Livelihoods and Ethnicity in Highland China, Vietnam, and Laos / Tim Forsyth and Jean Michaud2 Economic Marginalization and Social Identity among the Drung People of Northwest Yunnan / Stéphane Gros3 Integration of a Lineage Society on the Laos-Vietnam Border / Steeve Daviau4 Oral Histories of Livelihoods and Migration under Socialism and Post-Socialism among the Khmu of Northern Laos / Olivier Évrard5 Of Rice and Spice: Hmong Livelihood and Diversification in the Northern Vietnam Uplands / Claire Tugault-Lafleur and Sarah Turner6 Hani Agency and Ways of Seeing Environmental Change on the China-Vietnam Border / John McKinnon7 Land Reform and Changing Identities in Two Tai-Speaking Districts in Northern Vietnam / Marie Mellac8 Commoditized Ethnicity for Tourism Development in Yunnan / Margaret Byrne Swain9 Rubber Transformations: Post-Socialist Livelihoods and Identities for Akha and Tai Lue Farmers in Xishuangbanna, China / Janet C. Sturgeon10 Conclusion: Lesson for the Future / Jean MichaudContributorsIndex
£73.95
University of British Columbia Press Moving Mountains
Book SynopsisThis collection argues that minorities in the Southeast Asian Massif are not powerless in the face of economic and political change in the region – they are drawing on ethnicity and culture to indigenize modernity and maintain their livelihoods.Trade ReviewThis expertly edited and unusually coherent collection of enlightening essays on livelihoods and cultural identities in the post-socialist situations of China, Vietnam and Laos, adds usefully to the emerging literature on the borderlands of what the editors call the “Southeast Asian Massif”...this well-edited book is an argument for and demonstration of the value of good ethnography in the developmental context and as such it deserves to be very widely read. -- Nicholas Tapp, East China Normal University, Shanghai, Professor Emeritus, Australian National University * The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology *… this book is much more than a collection of individually interesting case study chapters. There is an argument that weaves its way through the text. After an intriguing foreword from Terry McGee where he connects his interest in urban change with the book’s concern with highland change, there are eight core chapters bookended by a substantial introduction from the editors, editors, and a rather briefer conclusion. -- Jonathan Rigg * Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, June 2013 *Table of ContentsIllustrationsForeword / Terry McGeeAcknowledgments1 Rethinking the Relationships between Livelihoods and Ethnicity in Highland China, Vietnam, and Laos / Tim Forsyth and Jean Michaud2 Economic Marginalization and Social Identity among the Drung People of Northwest Yunnan / Stéphane Gros3 Integration of a Lineage Society on the Laos-Vietnam Border / Steeve Daviau4 Oral Histories of Livelihoods and Migration under Socialism and Post-Socialism among the Khmu of Northern Laos / Olivier Évrard5 Of Rice and Spice: Hmong Livelihood and Diversification in the Northern Vietnam Uplands / Claire Tugault-Lafleur and Sarah Turner6 Hani Agency and Ways of Seeing Environmental Change on the China-Vietnam Border / John McKinnon7 Land Reform and Changing Identities in Two Tai-Speaking Districts in Northern Vietnam / Marie Mellac8 Commoditized Ethnicity for Tourism Development in Yunnan / Margaret Byrne Swain9 Rubber Transformations: Post-Socialist Livelihoods and Identities for Akha and Tai Lue Farmers in Xishuangbanna, China / Janet C. Sturgeon10 Conclusion: Lesson for the Future / Jean MichaudContributorsIndex
£26.99
University of British Columbia Press Chieftains into Ancestors Imperial Expansion and
Book SynopsisAn in-depth examination of how the Chinese imperial state impacted the social order of southwestern China’s minority peoples and redefined their histories and culture.Table of ContentsIntroduction / David Faure 1 Reciting the Words as Doing the Rite: LanguageIdeology and Its Social Consequences in the Hmong’s QhuabKev (Showing the Way) / Huang Shu-li 2 Chief, God, or National Hero? Representing Nong Zhigaoin Chinese Ethnic Minority Society / Kao Ya-ning 3 The Venerable Flying Mountain: Patron Deity on theBorder of Hunan and Guizhou / Zhang Yingqiang 4 Surviving Conquest in Dali: Chiefs, Deities, andAncestors / Lian Ruizhi 5 From Woman’s Fertility to Masculine Authority:The Story of the White Emperor Heavenly Kings in Western Hunan /Xie Xiaohui 6 The Past Tells It Differently: The Myth of NativeSubjugation in the Creation of Lineage Society in South China / HeXi 7 The Tusi That Never Was: Find an Ancestor,Connect to the State / David Faure 8 The Wancheng Native Officialdom: Social Production andSocial Reproduction / James Wilkerson 9 Gendering Ritual Community across the ChineseSouthwest Borderland / Ho Ts’ui-p’ing Contributors Index
£73.80
University of British Columbia Press Photography Memory and Refugee Identity
Book SynopsisA nuanced look at the relationship between memory and photography as reflected in the experiences of Estonian refugees en route to Canada aboard the SS Walnut in 1948.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1 Passengers’ Perspectives: The Voyage andDetention, 1948-49 2 Arrival by Boat and the Media, 1948 3 Still Photos Come to Life at the Pier 21 Museum in1999 4 Memories and Stories Sixty Years Later 5 Nationalism and Identity in Retrospect Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£69.70
University of British Columbia Press Acquired Tastes
Book SynopsisInterviews with Canadian families reveal that our daily food choices reflect individual tastes and preferences but also our economic, social, and geographical place in the world.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Healthy Eating2 Eating Ethically3 Cosmopolitan Eating4 Vegetarian Eating5 Body Image6 Social Class Trajectories7 Movements within Canada8 Movement to Canada9 EmbodimentConclusionAppendix 1: Research MethodsAppendix 2: Study Participant Demographics
£73.80
University of British Columbia Press Acquired Tastes
Book SynopsisInterviews with Canadian families reveal that our daily food choices reflect individual tastes and preferences but also our economic, social, and geographical place in the world.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Healthy Eating2 Eating Ethically3 Cosmopolitan Eating4 Vegetarian Eating5 Body Image6 Social Class Trajectories7 Movements within Canada8 Movement to Canada9 EmbodimentConclusionAppendix 1: Research MethodsAppendix 2: Study Participant Demographics
£25.19
University of British Columbia Press Incorporating Culture
Book SynopsisIncorporating Culture examines what happens when Indigenous people assert control over the commercialization of their art by instilling the market with their communities’ values.Trade Review[Incorporating Culture] will resonate with those interested in the confluence of Indigenous artware and tourist souvenir markets throughout the world. [...] All readers will benefit from time spent with this well-told story of cultural adaptation and change, particularly because it refutes notions of Indigenous erasure and, instead, emphasises Indigenous resiliency. -- Thomas McIlwraith * Anthropologica *Incorporating Culture: How Indigenous People are Reshapingthe Northwest Coast Art Industry takes a fresh look at Northwest Coast art through the exploration of economic, legal, and social issues. -- Carolyn Butler-Palmer * RACAR *Table of ContentsIntroduction: (Giving) Back to “the way it should be”1 A Controversial Industry2 Expansion | Protection3 Globalization | Localization4 Property and Contracts | Stewardship and Relationality5 Accumulation | RedistributionConclusion: Indigenous Sovereignty and the Sustainability of Culturally Modified CapitalismNotesBibliographyIndex
£25.19
University of British Columbia Press Shaping the Future on Haida Gwaii
Book SynopsisCountering colonial ideas about Indigenous peoples being frozen in time and without a future, this provocative book explores the ways in which members of the Haida Nation are shaping myriad possible futures to address the dilemmas that come with life under settler colonialism.Trade Review[Shaping the Future] is a thought-provoking read, offering many important table-turning insights relevant to reconciliation and understanding any society’s resiliency through times of economic, political, and environmental uncertainties. -- Gillian Crowther * Canadian Journal of Native Studies *Weiss’s respect and relationships with the residents of Gaw and his commitment to ethical, reciprocal, and meaningful research comes through in this intriguing book. -- Molly Clarkson, Haida Gwaii resident * The Ormsby Review *Table of ContentsPart 1: Pasts and Futures1 An Introduction to Haida Future-Making in Old Massett2 The Everyday Temporalities of Life on Haida GwaiiPart 2: Home3 Coming Home to Haida Gwaii: Haida Departures and Returns in the Future Perfect4 Of Hippies and Haida: Fantasy, Future-Making, and the Allure of Haida GwaiiPart 3: Care5 Leading “from the Bottom of the Pole”: Care and Governance in the Haida World6 Precarious Authority: Endangerment and the Political Promise to Protect Haida GwaiiConclusion: Unsettling FuturesNotes; References; Index
£25.19
University of British Columbia Press Beyond Accommodation
Book SynopsisBy showing how Muslim Canadians successfully navigate and negotiate their religiosity in their everyday lives, Beyond Accommodation critiques the reasonable accommodation framework and proposes an alternative picture of how religious difference is worked out.Trade Review"In sum[...]Beyond Accommodation offers a useful contrast to the more politically oriented approach of reasonable accommodation. It shows the potential for ethnographic research to highlight the local particularities of secular political discourses and frameworks and, in doing so, to productively critique representations of secular neutrality claims that tend to reproduce a kind of ‘view from nowhere’." -- Samuel Victor * Anthropologica *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Figures That Haunt the Everyday2 Knowledge Production and Muslim Canadians’ Historical Trajectories3 Secularism in Canada4 Narratives of Navigation and Negotiation5 Mutual Respect and Working Out DifferenceConclusionNotes; References; Index
£62.90
University of British Columbia Press Beyond Accommodation
Book SynopsisBy showing how Muslim Canadians successfully navigate and negotiate their religiosity in their everyday lives, Beyond Accommodation critiques the reasonable accommodation framework and proposes an alternative picture of how religious difference is worked out.Trade Review"In sum[...]Beyond Accommodation offers a useful contrast to the more politically oriented approach of reasonable accommodation. It shows the potential for ethnographic research to highlight the local particularities of secular political discourses and frameworks and, in doing so, to productively critique representations of secular neutrality claims that tend to reproduce a kind of ‘view from nowhere’." -- Samuel Victor * Anthropologica *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Figures That Haunt the Everyday2 Knowledge Production and Muslim Canadians’ Historical Trajectories3 Secularism in Canada4 Narratives of Navigation and Negotiation5 Mutual Respect and Working Out DifferenceConclusionNotes; References; Index
£25.19
University of British Columbia Press Writing the Hamatsa
Book SynopsisWriting the Hamat?sa critically surveys more than two centuries worth of published, archival, and oral sources to trace the attempted prohibition, intercultural mediation, and ultimate survival of one of Canada's most iconic Indigenous ceremonies.Trade Review…stands as a kind of history of anthropology… -- Bruce Granville Miller, UBC * JACANZS Vol. 3 *Aaron Glass has produced an important book. -- Tony Kail, Anthropology Book ForumTable of ContentsForeword / Chief William Cranmer/T̓łlakwagila (ꞌNa̱mg̱is Nation)Prologue: Points of Arrival and DepartureIntroduction: From Writing Culture to the Intercultural History of Ethnography1 A Complex Cannibal: Colonialism, Modernity and the Hamat̓sa 2 Discursive Cannibals:The Textual Dynamics of Settler Colonialism, 1786–18933 The Foundations of All Future Researches: The Work of Franz Boas and George Hunt, 1886–19664 Reading, Rewriting, and Writing Against: Changing Anthropological Theory, 1896–19975 From Index to Icon: (Auto)Biography and Popular Culture, 1941–20126 Reading Culture, Consuming Ethnography Afterword: Between This World and That / Andy Everson/Tanis (K̕ómoks Nation)AppendicesGlossaryNotes; References; Index
£27.90
University of British Columbia Press The Social Life of Standards
Book SynopsisThe Social Life of Standards reveals how political and technical tools for organizing society are developed, applied, subverted, contested, and reassembled as local communities interact with standards created by external forces.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Social Life of Standards: Anthropological Ecologies / Janice E. Graham, Christina Holmes, Fiona McDonald, and Regna DarnellPart 1: Making Standards1 Making Standards in Science: The Imperfect Case of the European Bank for Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (EBiSC) / Shawn H.E. Harmon2 “A Lab of One’s Own”: Entangled Measures and the Challenges of Redefining Standard-Lab Practice in Academic Context / Udo Krautwurst3 When Are Standards Necessary in the Lab? Standards as Gateway or Barrier to Innovation in Proteomics / Christina Holmes, Fiona McDonald, and Mavis JonesPart 2: Subverting Standards4 Doing Science in an Emergency: Challenging Clinical Trial Standards and Producing Care / Frédéric Le Marcis, Daouda Sissoko, Xavier Anglaret, and Denis Malvy5 The Social Life of Emergency Standards: Twenty-One Days of Ebola Biosafety Precautions for Contact Cases in Senegal / Alice Desclaux6 Check Your Denominator: Geographic Mapping, Activism, and the Standardization of Sexual Risk / Robert LorwayPart 3: Contesting Standards7 Contesting Seed Standards: The Red De Semillas Libres in Colombia / Elizabeth Fitting, Laura Gutiérrez Escobar, and Tamara Wattnem8 Sick Cows and Politicized Standards: The Construction of Farmer Resistance to Testing for Bovine Tuberculosis / Jane JenkinsPart 4: Reassembling Standards9 Unsettling Standards: Indigenous Peoples and Child Welfare / L. Jane McMillan10 When the Bough Breaks: Balancing Heritage, Forestry, and Unsustainable Standards in Algonquin Provincial Park / Ian Puppe11 Standing Our Ground: Putting Indigenous Standards to Work in Environmental Assessment / Craig Candler12 Negotiating Good Development: Standards for Consultation / Dean Jacobs, Regna Darnell, and Gerald P. McKinleyConclusion: Articulating Better Standards: A Lifecycle Approach to Progressive Engagement / Janice GrahamIndex
£25.19
University of British Columbia Press Forging Diasporic Citizenship
Book SynopsisForging Diasporic Citizenship is a work of narrative research that explores the nature and implications of “diasporic citizenship” as it is evolving among German-born, Turkish-origin Berliners.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 The Model: Being and Belonging Together2 Constituting Germans and Outsiders3 Hostility–Hospitality: Accommodating the Ausländer4 Homesickness–Homelessness: Negotiating Displacement5 Borderlands6 Forging Diasporic CitizenshipConclusion: Becoming a ChameleonNotes; References; Index
£66.60
University of British Columbia Press Forging Diasporic Citizenship
Book SynopsisAround the world, a new kind of diasporic citizenship is appearing, especially among diasporic people such as German-born Berliners of Turkish origin. Drawing on interviews conducted over a fifteen-year period, Forging Diasporic Citizenship explores the dynamics of everyday life for these Ausländer (or outsiders). These people are obliged to define themselves by their Otherness, but it is their relatedness to German society that transgresses traditional concepts of both German and Turkish identity. In this work of narrative research, Gül Çaliskan explores the tensions between the experience of displacement and the politics of accommodation as the Ausländer make claims to citizenship, articulate the ways they are rooted, and seek to achieve recognition. Through examining the social encounters, life events, and everyday practices of these German-born Ausländer, Forging Diasporic Citizenship constructs a theoretically sophisticated, transnationally applicableTable of ContentsIntroduction1 The Model: Being and Belonging Together2 Constituting Germans and Outsiders3 Hostility–Hospitality: Accommodating the Ausländer4 Homesickness–Homelessness: Negotiating Displacement5 Borderlands6 Forging Diasporic CitizenshipConclusion: Becoming a ChameleonNotes; References; Index
£26.99
University of British Columbia Press Beyond Rights The Nisgaa Final Agreement and the
Book SynopsisBeyond Rights examines the legal, political, and cultural implications of the groundbreaking process of negotiating the Nisga’a treaty.Trade Review...Beyond Rights provides a compelling account for why, despite their flaws, the modern treaties are important to the future of reconcilitation in Canada and ought to have the attention of all Canadians. -- Joshua Nichols, McGill University * BC Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 We Have Always Made Laws: Defending the Right to Self-Government2 Aboriginal Title, Fee Simple, and Dead Capital: Property in Translation3 Treaty Citizenship: Negotiating beyond Inclusion4 The Treaty Relationship: Reconciliation and Its DiscontentsConclusionNotes; References; Index
£62.90
University of British Columbia Press Beyond Rights The Nisgaa Final Agreement and the
Book SynopsisBeyond Rights examines the legal, political, and cultural implications of the groundbreaking process of negotiating the Nisga’a treaty.Trade Review...Beyond Rights provides a compelling account for why, despite their flaws, the modern treaties are important to the future of reconcilitation in Canada and ought to have the attention of all Canadians. -- Joshua Nichols, McGill University * BC Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 We Have Always Made Laws: Defending the Right to Self-Government2 Aboriginal Title, Fee Simple, and Dead Capital: Property in Translation3 Treaty Citizenship: Negotiating beyond Inclusion4 The Treaty Relationship: Reconciliation and Its DiscontentsConclusionNotes; References; Index
£23.39
University of British Columbia Press Small Bites Biocultural Dimensions of Childrens
Book SynopsisSmall Bites travels the globe to show how biology and culture influence how children eat, and how child nutrition can be made more equitable and sustainable.Table of ContentsList of Figures and TablesIntroduction1 Baby Steps: Prenatal, Infant, and Young Child Feeding2 Biocultural Variation in Child Feeding and Eating3 Children’s Food in the Age of the Industrial Diet4 It Takes a Village: School Feeding Programs5 Global Malnutrition and Children’s Food (In)Security6 Childhood Obesity: A Twenty-First Century Nutritional Dilemma7 New Directions in Children’s Food and NutritionReferences; Notes; Index
£62.90
University of British Columbia Press Small Bites
Book SynopsisSmall Bites travels the globe to show how biology and culture influence how children eat, and how child nutrition can be made more equitable and sustainable.Table of ContentsList of Figures and TablesIntroduction1 Baby Steps: Prenatal, Infant, and Young Child Feeding2 Biocultural Variation in Child Feeding and Eating3 Children’s Food in the Age of the Industrial Diet4 It Takes a Village: School Feeding Programs5 Global Malnutrition and Children’s Food (In)Security6 Childhood Obesity: A Twenty-First Century Nutritional Dilemma7 New Directions in Children’s Food and NutritionReferences; Notes; Index
£25.19
University of British Columbia Press Religion at the Edge
Book SynopsisReligion at the Edge shows how the distinctive social and physical landscape of the Pacific Northwest proves fertile ground for an expansive exploration of contemporary spirituality and secularity.Trade ReviewI deeply relate to the stories of the interviewees...By reading this book, I feel, as a pastor, the sense of getting an inside look at the religious mindset of our region. -- Seth Thomas * Christ & Cascadia *I highly recommend [Religin at the Edge] as a tool for meeting Cascadian people at their spiritual heart. -- Fr. Thomas Murphy, S.J. * BC Studies *With Religion at the Edge: Nature, Spirituality, and Secularity in the Pacific Northwest, Bramadat and his collaborators have given us a clutch of rich essays. -- Michael Ledger-Lomas * Literary Review of Canada *Readers seeking information about secularism, the spiritual-but-not-religious cohort, environmentalism and religion, and the future of religion across Canada and the United States will want to read Religion at the Edge... Highly recommend. * Nova Religio *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Religion, Spirituality, and Irreligion in The Best Place on Earth / Paul Bramadat1 Reverential Naturalism: From the Fancy to the Sublime / Paul Bramadat2 On Religion, Irreligion, and Settler Colonialism in the Pacific Northwest: A Snapshot from the Field / Chelsea Horton3 Border Crossings: Indigenous Spirituality and Culture in Cascadia / Suzanne Crawford O’Brien4 But People Tend to Go the Way Their Families Go: Irreligion across the Generations in the Pacific Northwest / Tina Block and Lynne Marks5 Second to None: Religious Nonaffiliation in the Pacific Northwest / Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme6 From Outlier to Advance Guard: Cascadia in Its North American Context / Mark Silk7 Questing for Home: Place, Spirit, and Religious Community in the Pacific Northwest / Patricia O’Connell Killen8 The Precarious Nature of Cascadia’s Protestants: New Strategies for Evangelical and Liberal Christians in the Region / James K. Wellman Jr. and Katie E. Corcoran9 Evangelicals in the Pacific Northwest: Navigating the “None Zone” / Michael Wilkinson10 “To Be or Not to Be” Religious: Minority Religions in a Region of Nones / Rachel D. Brown11 Everything Old is New Again: Reverential Naturalism in Cascadian Poetry / Susanna Morrill12 Conclusion: Religion at the Edge of the Continent / Paul Bramadat and Patricia O’Connell KillenList of Contributors; Index
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University of British Columbia Press Religion at the Edge
Book SynopsisReligion at the Edge shows how the distinctive social and physical landscape of the Pacific Northwest proves fertile ground for an expansive exploration of contemporary spirituality and secularity.Trade ReviewI deeply relate to the stories of the interviewees...By reading this book, I feel, as a pastor, the sense of getting an inside look at the religious mindset of our region. -- Seth Thomas * Christ & Cascadia *I highly recommend [Religin at the Edge] as a tool for meeting Cascadian people at their spiritual heart. -- Fr. Thomas Murphy, S.J. * BC Studies *With Religion at the Edge: Nature, Spirituality, and Secularity in the Pacific Northwest, Bramadat and his collaborators have given us a clutch of rich essays. -- Michael Ledger-Lomas * Literary Review of Canada *Readers seeking information about secularism, the spiritual-but-not-religious cohort, environmentalism and religion, and the future of religion across Canada and the United States will want to read Religion at the Edge... Highly recommend. * Nova Religio *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Religion, Spirituality, and Irreligion in The Best Place on Earth / Paul Bramadat1 Reverential Naturalism: From the Fancy to the Sublime / Paul Bramadat2 On Religion, Irreligion, and Settler Colonialism in the Pacific Northwest: A Snapshot from the Field / Chelsea Horton3 Border Crossings: Indigenous Spirituality and Culture in Cascadia / Suzanne Crawford O’Brien4 But People Tend to Go the Way Their Families Go: Irreligion across the Generations in the Pacific Northwest / Tina Block and Lynne Marks5 Second to None: Religious Nonaffiliation in the Pacific Northwest / Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme6 From Outlier to Advance Guard: Cascadia in Its North American Context / Mark Silk7 Questing for Home: Place, Spirit, and Religious Community in the Pacific Northwest / Patricia O’Connell Killen8 The Precarious Nature of Cascadia’s Protestants: New Strategies for Evangelical and Liberal Christians in the Region / James K. Wellman Jr. and Katie E. Corcoran9 Evangelicals in the Pacific Northwest: Navigating the “None Zone” / Michael Wilkinson10 “To Be or Not to Be” Religious: Minority Religions in a Region of Nones / Rachel D. Brown11 Everything Old is New Again: Reverential Naturalism in Cascadian Poetry / Susanna Morrill12 Conclusion: Religion at the Edge of the Continent / Paul Bramadat and Patricia O’Connell KillenList of Contributors; Index
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