Social and cultural anthropology Books
John Wiley & Sons War Remains Ruination and Resistance in Lebanon
Book SynopsisDrawing upon work from southern Lebanon and Beirut, War Remains traces the poetics of ruination and resistance in select contemporary Lebanese wartime literature, cultural production, and sites of memory.
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The University of Arizona Press Papago Indians at Work 12 Anthropological Papers
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University of Arizona Press Global Maya Work and Ideology in Rural Guatemala
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University of Arizona Press Bountiful Deserts
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University of Arizona Press Weathering Risk in Rural Mexico
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University of Arizona Press The Aztec Kings
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The University of Arizona Press Grenville Goodwin Among the Western Apache Letters from the Field Century Collection
Book SynopsisGrenville Goodwin was one of the leading field anthropologists during a crucial period in American Indian research - the 1930s. His letters from the field provide original source material on Western Apache beliefs and customs. They also reveal the attitudes and methods which made him so effective in his work.
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The University of Arizona Press Ethnic Medicine in the Southwest Century Collection
Book Synopsis Ethnic Medicine in the Southwest explores traditions guiding the medical arts of Yaqui, Anglo, Black and Mexican American communities and points out the relationship between alternative and scientific medicine. Beliefs prevail that illness may be punishment for sin, or caused by witchcraft or overwork. Treatment may include dreams, herbs, massage, or prayer. While practitioners in these communities are not necessarily licensed in the legal sense, they are nonetheless trusted and often effective.
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University of Arizona Press Beyond Alterity
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University of Arizona Press Archaeological Anthropology Perspectives on
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University of Arizona Press The Origin and Development of the Pueblo Katsina Cult
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University of Arizona Press Detours Travel and the Ethics of Research in the
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University of Arizona Press Tewa Worlds An Archaeological History of Being
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University of Arizona Press The Global Spanish Empire
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University of Arizona Press Footprints of Hopi History
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University of Arizona Press The Edible Gardens of Ethiopia
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University of Arizona Press Calculating Brilliance
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University of Arizona Press The Maya Art of Speaking Writing
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University of Arizona Press Divided Peoples
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University of Arizona Press Michael Chiago
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UNIV OF ARIZONA PR The Carbon Calculation
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University of Arizona Press Crafting Wounaan Landscapes
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University of Arizona Press Corporate Nature
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University of Arizona Press Guarded by Two Jaguars
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University of Arizona Press Gardening at the Margins
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University of Arizona Press We Stay the Same
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UNIV OF ARIZONA PR Foodways of the Ancient Andes
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UNIV OF ARIZONA PR The Unequal Ocean
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UNIV OF ARIZONA PR Becoming Hopi
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University of Arizona Press In a Wounded Land
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University of Arizona Press Mapping Neshnabé Futurity
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University of Arizona Press Plants for Desperate Times
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University of Arizona Press Plants for Desperate Times
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University of Arizona Press Tourism Geopolitics
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University of Arizona Press Naming the World
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University of Arizona Press Huaorani Transformations in TwentyFirstCentury Ecuador
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University of Minnesota Press Appropriating Technology
Book SynopsisIn this work, the authors explore how outsiders reinvent consumer products - often in ways that embody critique, resistance, or outright revolt.
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University of Minnesota Press Culture Works The Political Economy of Culture
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University of Minnesota Press People Of The Bomb
Book SynopsisPeople of the Bomb mixes empathic and vivid portraits of individual weapons scientists with hard-hitting scrutiny of defense intellectuals' inability to foresee the end of the cold war, government rhetoric on missile defense, official double standards about nuclear proliferation, and pork barrel politics in the nuclear.
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University of Minnesota Press Toward a Sociology of the Trace
Book SynopsisQuestions national identity by investigating the creation of memory and meaning.Table of ContentsContents Prologue: Traces in the Social World Macarena Gómez-Barris and Herman Gray 1. Toward a Sociology of the Trace Macarena Gómez-Barris and Herman Gray Part I. Cartographies of Belonging 2. The Prisoner's Curse Avery F. Gordon 3. A Nation of Families: The Codification and (Be)longings of Heteropatriarchy Tanya McNeill 4. Culture, Masculinity, and the Time after Race Herman Gray 5. Producing Sacrificial Subjects for the Nation: Japan's War-related Redress Policy and the Endurance Doctrine Akiko Naono Part II. Spectacles of Consumption 6. Coal Heritage/Coal History: Progress, Tourism, and Mountaintop Removal Rebecca R. Scott 7. Ecoadventures in the American West: Innocence, Conflict, and Nation Making in Emptied Landscapes Barbara A. Barnes Part III. Managing and Reconciling Memory 8. Drinking the Nation and Making Masculinity: Tequila, the Revolution, and Mexican Identity Marie Sarita Gaytán 9. Reinscribing Memory through the Other 9/11 Macarena Gómez-Barris 10. Between Celebration and Mourning: Political Violence in Thailand in the 1970s Sudarat Musikawong Afterword: Traces in Social Worlds Sarah Banet-Weiser Contributors Index
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University of Minnesota Press Saigons Edge On the Margins of Ho Chi Minh City
Book SynopsisExploring the places where the rural and urban intersect, where many of the world’s people live.Trade Review"Sad and tragic, and at times funny and full of hope, Erik Harms shows how people live in the murky zones of the urban-rural divide, in the runoff, the debris, and wasteland of a now relentless urban industrial expansion. Saigon’s Edge is a wake up call for all of us who study the global city: socialist cities in the throes of global integration and world capitalist utopian imaginings have powerful stories to tell that we cannot afford to ignore. Saigon’s Edge sets a new benchmark on how to study the urban form, capitalist, socialist, and everything in between." —Ralph Litzinger, Duke UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Glossary Introduction: Saigon, Inside Out Part I. Social Edginess 1. Bittersweet Transitions: Urbanization on the Fringe of the City 2. Power and Exclusion on the Edge: The Conflation of Rural and Urban Spaces Part II. Space, Time, and Urban Expansion 3. Future Orientations in the Country of Memory: Social Conceptions of Time 4. Negotiating Time and Space: Household, Labor, Land, and Movement Part III. Realizing the Ideal 5. The Road to Paradise: Building the Trans-Asia Highway 6. The Problem of Urban Civilization on Saigon’s Edge Conclusion: What Edges Do Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Minnesota Press Dubai the City as Corporation
Book SynopsisThe politics of space and culture in Dubai in the first decade of the twenty-first century.Trade Review"Dubai, the City as Corporation is a thoughtful, in-depth treatment on Dubai and its recent explosive economic growth, grounded in the urban studies/spatial theory of Henri Lefebvre. Engaging and persuasive, it knits together anthropology and urban design, giving a balanced assessment of Dubai’s reinvention as a city, a global commerce center, and an experiment in urban planning." —Timothy Luke, Virginia TechTable of ContentsPreface Note on Transliteration Introduction: Dubai Contexts and Contestations 1. State, Citizen, and Foreigner in Dubai 2. “Going South” with the Starchitects: Urbanist Ideology in the Emirati City 3. The Vanished Village: Nostalgic and Nationalist Critiques of the New Dubai 4. The City-Corporation: Young Professionals and the Limits of the Neoliberal Response 5. Indian Dubai: The Identity Politics of South Asian Immigrants Conclusion: Politicizing Dubai Space Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Minnesota Press Black and Indigenous Garifuna Activism and
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcronyms Introduction 1. Race, Modernity and Tradition in a Garifuna Community 2. From Moreno to Negro: Garifuna and the Honduran Nation, 1920s to 1960s 3. Black Indigenism: The Making of Ethnic Politics and State Multiculturalism 4. Paradoxes of Participation: Garifuna Activism in the Multicultural Era 5. This Is the Black Power We Wear: Black America and the Fashioning of Young Garifuna Men 6. Political Economies of Difference: Indigeneity, Land and Culture in Sambo Creek Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Glossary: Selected Ethnic-Racial Terms and Their Contemporary Uses Bibliography Index
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University of Minnesota Press Black and Indigenous Garifuna Activism and
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcronyms Introduction 1. Race, Modernity and Tradition in a Garifuna Community 2. From Moreno to Negro: Garifuna and the Honduran Nation, 1920s to 1960s 3. Black Indigenism: The Making of Ethnic Politics and State Multiculturalism 4. Paradoxes of Participation: Garifuna Activism in the Multicultural Era 5. This Is the Black Power We Wear: Black America and the Fashioning of Young Garifuna Men 6. Political Economies of Difference: Indigeneity, Land and Culture in Sambo Creek Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Glossary: Selected Ethnic-Racial Terms and Their Contemporary Uses Bibliography Index
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University of Minnesota Press Citizens Media against Armed Conflict Disrupting
Book SynopsisCitizens’ media countering armed conflict and rebuilding community in Colombia Trade Review"Clemencia Rodríguez has given us an astonishing ethnographic study of ‘citizens’ media’ in Colombia. Remarkably, and with great insight into what uses of such ‘small media’ can accomplish, she offers readers a glimmer of hope in a stark war-torn social landscape, as well as a welcome and original intervention into contemporary theorizations of media worlds in circumstances of violence." —Faye Ginsburg, New York UniversityTable of ContentsContentsLife at the Crossfire: An Introduction to Colombia's Violence and Its Context 1. Drugs, Violence, and the Media of the People in the Colombian Amazon2. Nation-building, One Voice at a Time: Citizens’ Communication in Montes de María3. Radio, Resistance, and War in Madgalena Medio4. Media Pioneers Respond to Armed Conflict5. The Doing Is Everything! Toward a Theory of Citizens' Media in Contexts of WarAcknowledgmentsAcronymsNotesBibliographyIndigenous and Citizens' Media ReferencesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Filipino Crosscurrents Oceanographies of
Book SynopsisHow migrant Filipino seamen navigate alternative masculinities in the global shipping industryTrade Review"Filipino Crosscurrents is a very exciting book, whose contributions include its rich data; its use of a multi-disciplinary approach, incorporating ethnography, history, and literature; and its ‘crosscurrents framework’ which looks at those in-between spaces that people inhabit." —Rhacel Parrenas, University of Southern CaliforniaTable of ContentsContentsPreface. Boatmen and BoyhoodIntroduction. Filipino Crosscurrents1. The Race of the Century: Galleons and Global City Desires in Manila2. Ashore and Away: Filipino Seamen as Heroes and Deserters3. Ethnography in Blue: Navigating Time-Space in the Global Economy4. Transportation: Seamen and Tomboys in Ports and at Sea Epilogue. Decolonizing Filipino MasculinitiesAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Microfinance and Its Discontents
Book SynopsisThe first feminist critique of the much-lauded microcredit process in Bangladesh.Trade Review"It is precisely because the microcredit mantra has been so endlessly repeated, often in place of actual empirical documentation to back its claims, that Microfinance and Its Discontents is so compelling. This is an outstanding, courageous, and path-breaking piece of scholarship; one that will doubtless unsettle the microcredit establishment, and by extension, key presumptions of neoliberal research agendas." —Kamala Visweswaran, University of Texas, Austin"Lamia Karim has done an excellent job by juxtaposing facts against myths, lies against truths and objective research against subjective hagiographies. . . . I believe this book is an important addendum to the growing literature that demonstrates and deconstructs the lies and myths about microcredit and NGO business in Bangladesh and elsewhere in the Third World." —countercurrents.org"Karim's book is a timely contribution to the debate on microfinance, and is a challenging and engaging read for the specialist as well as the lay reader. I believe that her ideas will serve as a guideline for future researchers’ and policy-makers inquiries into the gender aspect of microfinance." —Soumya Mishra, Governance across Borders"Karim’s book serves as a stark and timely reminder of the value of ethnographic research in offering a deeper understanding of how developmental interventions in specific institutional and local contexts may reproduce or even exacerbate structural inequalities, and also in informing the strategies that seek to counter these inequalities." —Economic & Political WeeklyTable of ContentsPreface Abbreviations Introduction: Neoliberalism, Microfinance, and Women’s Empowerment 1. The Structural Transformation of the NGO Sphere 2. The Research Terrain 3. The Everyday Mediations of Microfinance 4. The Social Life of Debt 5. NGOs, Clergy, and Contested “Democracy” 6. Power/Knowledge in Microfinance Conclusion: From Disciplined Subjects to Political Agents? Glossary of Bengali Words Notes Index
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University of Minnesota Press The Art of Making Do in Naples
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. The Contact Zone: Where Organized Crime and Everyday Life Comingle1. Where There’s Money, There’s the Camorra2. Making Do with Art: Counterfeit Music, Pirated TV, and Crime Clan Weddings 3. The Sceneggiata: Melodramas of Manhood, Allegories of Violence 4. Family Affairs: Coming of Age on StageAct One: The Ventriloquist’s VentriloquistAct Two: Betraying SecretsAct Three: The Erotics of Exposure5. Ethnographic Imbroglios6. Who Am I and Who Are You? The Promise and Threat of Contact with the CamorraAct One: Lying TogetherAct Two: Seduction and ColonizationAct Three: Eye of the StormConclusion: Making Do with Indeterminacy NotesBibliographyIndex
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