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The University of Chicago Press Villa Victoria The Transformation of Social
Book SynopsisVilla Victoria is a neglected Puerto Rican enclave in Boston and provides the focus for this study of social capital. Small criticizes the theory that poor urban neighbourhoods are inevitably deprived of social capital and shows how a complex of social and economic factors needs to be considered.
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The University of Chicago Press The Women of Suye Mura
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The University of Chicago Press What Is a Person Rethinking Humanity Social Life
Book SynopsisWhat is a person? This fundamental question is a perennial concern of philosophers and theologians. This book argues that it also lies at the center of the social scientist's quest to interpret and explain social life. It presents a model for social theory that does justice to the best of our humanistic visions of people, life, and society.Trade Review"Smith combines a meticulous command of sociological theory, philosophical analysis, and moral passion to argue against reductionist theories of human personhood and agency.... This book will become required reading." (Choice)"
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The University of Chicago Press Punishment and Culture
Book SynopsisDenies that punishment is about justice, reason, and law. This book shows that punishment is an essentially irrational act founded in ritual as a means to control evil without creating more of it in the process. It looks at issues ranging from public executions and the development of the prison to the invention of the guillotine.Trade Review"This is a polished, original, and forcefully argued book that provides a fascinating discussion of a series of iconic penal institutions. Smith's analyses will become a standard reference point, and the lessons he has to teach will, I hope, quickly be learned and assimilated." - David Garland, New York University"
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The University of Chicago Press Performance All the Way Down
Book SynopsisAn award-winning biologist and writer applies queer feminist theory to developmental genetics, arguing that individuals are not essentially male or female. The idea that gender is a performancea tenet of queer feminist theory since the ninetieshas spread from college classrooms to popular culture. This transformative concept has sparked reappraisals of social expectations as well as debate over not just gender, but sex: what it is, what it means, and how we know it. Most scientific and biomedical research over the past seventy years has assumed and reinforced a binary concept of biological sex, though some scientists point out that male and female are just two outcomes in a world rich in sexual diversity. In Performance All the Way Down, MacArthur Fellow and Pulitzer Prize finalist Richard O. Prum brings feminist thought into conversation with biology, arguing that the sexual binary is not essential to human genes, chromosomes, or embryos. Our genomes are not blueprints, algorithmsTrade Review“Readers of [Prum’s] earlier work, including his 2017 book, The Evolution of Beauty, will find themselves intrigued by his continued engagement with feminist science studies—and he has done his homework. . . . Performance All the Way Down contains a lot of big ideas, both because of the biological content Prum strives to convey to his readers and because of the sophisticated nature of the feminist theory he mobilizes. . . . To understand the full scope of Prum’s vision, I encourage you to read it in full.” * Science *“Prum offers a meticulous tour of the molecular pathways that underlie stereotypical sexual development in humans, as well as the myriad ways that any individual person’s development might differ. . . . If you read Performance All the Way Down, you’ll be presented with an abundance of interesting stories drawn from developmental biology, ecology, cultural anthropology, and more. My own copy is replete with dog-eared pages that had information I’m excited to think more about.” * American Biology Teacher *“A renowned biologist meets queer theory, and creativity takes flight. A joyful and expansive celebration of the complexity and contingency of sex.” -- Sarah S. Richardson, Harvard University“A powerful appeal for an intersectional rethinking of the science, materiality, and culture of human sex, Performance All the Way Down undoes the scientific justifications for categories of a sex and gender binary that have contributed scientific support to sexual oppression. Discussing biology, queer theory, and feminism together—in a shared vocabulary—Prum successfully expands intellectual space for queer feminist analysis and research within genetics, evolutionary biology, and developmental biology. This book will be discussed across the humanities, social sciences, and hard sciences for years to come.” -- David A. Rubin, University of South Florida“An ambitious, deeply interdisciplinary, and profound effort to grapple with the biological meanings of ‘sex.’ Prum tackles a set of crucial questions in a rigorous, thoughtful, and playful way, with implications that open up a landscape of transformative possibilities for the consideration of sex in biological research and scholarship.” -- Stacey A. Ritz, McMaster UniversityTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Prologue Taking Birds Seriously A Humanistic Turn An Ornithologist for Intersectionality 1. Performance All the Way Down Material Feminisms A Performative Continuum What Is the Role of Metaphor in Biology? What Is at Stake? The Stakes for Evolutionary Biology Mind the Gap Why Queer Biology? Where Are We Going? 2. Critical Concepts What Are Male and Female? Historical Ontology Sex Is a History Sex Difference versus Sexual Difference Sex and Race Sexual Development and Differentiation The Sexual Phenotype Sex Determination and Sex Reversal Discourse Agency Queer and Queering 3. Gender Performativity What Is Performativity? Elements of Performativity Performativity and Trans Experience Between Butler and Barad 4. The Enactment of the Biological Self Genes and Development What Is Molecular Discourse? Want to Go to the Movies on Friday? How Discourse Becomes Genetic Action within Cells The Choreography of Gene Expression The Performative Phenotypic Landscape Canonical versus Performative Pathways How Does the Body Regulate Growth over Space? What Is the Role of Physical Forces in Development? Performativity of Cellular Discourse Are Genes Causes? Agency in Developmental Biology Citationality and Homology Posthuman Power Physiology and Immunity Neurobiology and Psychology Sexual Selection What Is Not Performative in Biology? Why Performative Biology Now? 5. How Do Our Sexual Bodies Develop? The Role of Chromosomes On Gene Nomenclature How Do Gonads Differentiate? Reproductive Tract Development Genital Development Post-embryonic Sexual Development Sexual Development Summary 6. Variations in Our Sexual Development Terminology and the Framing of Embodied Sexual Variation Moving beyond Pathology Chromosomal Contributions to Differences in Sexual Development Genetic Variations in Gonad Development X Chromosome Inactivation Genital and Reproductive Tract Development Noncoding Genetic Variation How Does the Environment Affect Sexual Development? Queer Science 7. How Evolution Generates Sexual Variability The Evolution of Sex Evolutionary Variability of Sexual Development Initiation Why Sexual Differentiation Mechanisms Are Generatively Queering Sexually Disruptive Selection Evolution of the Molecular Discourse of Sexual Development Evolution of Sexual Transition Evolution Is Incompatible with Sexual Essences Norms and Innovation Placental Performativity Limits of the Binary Bottleneck 8. The Future of Performative Biology Performative Scientific Hypotheses Performativity of Illness and Disability Recalibrating Causality Biology Is Ready to Think Performatively Pluralism and the Phenotype What Is Evolutionary Biology About? 9. Performance All the Way Up Sexual Reproduction Is an Intra-action A Posthuman Genealogy of Performative Discourse Is There Gender in Nature? “What Is Sex?” Revisited Toward a Scientific/Cultural Concept of Gender/Sex Performative Perspectives on Transsexual Experience Sex and Race as Scientific Apparatuses Sex and Race Categories in Biomedical Research Post-disciplinary Material Feminisms An Intellectually Queer Space in Science Acknowledgments Appendixes Appendix 1. Material Feminisms Appendix 2. Acquired Immunity Appendix 3. Current Models of the Genotype-Phenotype Relationship Appendix 4. Modularity Appendix 5. Genetic Assimilation Appendix 6. Why Gene-Level Selection Is Insufficient Appendix 7. Internal Selection Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press Critical Terms for the Study of Gender
Book SynopsisProvides an introduction to the study of gender through an exploration of key terms that are a part of everyday discourse in this vital subject. This title features twenty-one essays that cast an appropriately broad net, spanning the study of gender and sexuality across the humanities and social sciences.Trade Review"Gender systems pervade and regulate human lives-in law courts and operating rooms, ballparks and poker clubs, hair-dressing salons and kitchens, classrooms and playgroups.... Exactly how gender works varies from culture to culture, and from historical period to historical period, but gender is very rarely not at work. Nor does gender operate in isolation. It is linked to other social structures and sources of identity."
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The University of Chicago Press The Logic of Social Research
Book SynopsisArthur L. Stinchcombe has earned a reputation as a leading practitioner of methodology in sociology and related disciplines. Throughout his distinguished career he has championed the idea that to be an effective sociologist, one must use many methods. This incisive work introduces students to the logic of those methods.Trade Review"This is an important book. Arthur Stinchcombe introduces some much-needed practical wisdom into the topic of sociological methodology. Some of the silliest debates in the field seem to be about which method is superior to the rest. Stinchcombe lays waste to this notion and shows that we learn more when multiple methods are applied to the same problem. There is no other book like it." - Joel Podolny, Harvard University"
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The University of Chicago Press Race Culture and Evolution Essays in the History
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The University of Chicago Press When Formality Works Authority and Abstraction in
Book SynopsisIn this exploration of the concept of formality, or governing by abstraction, Arthur Stinchcombe breathes life into an idea that scholars have all but ignored.
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The University of Chicago Press Pockets of Crime
Book SynopsisDrawing on Chicago Police Department statistics and interviews with both law-abiding citizens and criminals in one of the city's highest-crime areas, this work demonstrates that drug dealers and robbers are primarily attracted to locations with businesses like liquor stores, fast food restaurants, and check-cashing outlets.Trade Review"In this unique and original book, Peter St. Jean examines why some blocks in urban areas experience more crime than others. Based on a number of sources - most importantly, in-depth interviews with drug dealers and routine robbers about their strategies for selecting a location or victim - St. Jean finds pitfalls in both broken windows and collective efficacy theories, while proposing a promising new alternative." - Mario Luis Small, author of Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio"
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The University of Chicago Press In Sorcerys Shadow A Memoir of Apprenticeship
Book SynopsisThe tale of Paul Stoller's sojourn among sorcerors in the Republic of Niger is a story of growth and change, of mutual respect and understanding that will challenge all who read it to plunge deeply into an alien world.
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The University of Chicago Press The Social Order of the Slum Ethnicity and
Book SynopsisWhile he did the research for this book, Gerald Suttles lived for almost three years in the high-delinquency area around Hull House on Chicago's New West Side. He came to know it intimately and was welcomed by its residents, who are Italian, Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Negro. Suttles contends that the residents of a slum neighborhood have a set of standards for behavior that take precedence over the more widely held moral standards of straight society. These standards arise out of the specific experience of each locality, are peculiar to it, and largely determine how the neighborhood people act. One of the tasks of urban sociology, according to Suttles, is to explore why and how slum communities provide their inhabitants with these local norms. The Social Order of the Slum is the record of such an exploration, and it defines theoretical principles and concepts that will aid in subsequent research.
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The University of Chicago Press Talk of Love How Culture Matters
Book SynopsisAnn Swidler's work is an attempt to discover how people find and sustain real love in the midst of that talk, and how the culture of love shapes their expectations and behaviour.
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The University of Chicago Press Beauty and the Beast
Book SynopsisBegins with a question: Is beauty destined to end in tragedy? Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Colombia, the author scrutinizes the anxious, audacious, and sometimes destructive attempts people make to transform their bodies through cosmetic surgery and liposuction.Trade Review"Beauty and the Beast is an original work, surprising not only in its thesis but in its tone, pacing, and voice. It presents its case slowly and through digressions and returns, performing a way of theorizing through writing, training the reader to follow what's going on as an ethnographer does-how everything matters, how we should just see where it all goes, and how we shouldn't overdo it. Gripping, moving, and brilliant, Beauty and the Beast is fun to read and to think with. It punctures an apparatus, producing a great sigh of relief. It is a gift." -Katie Stewart, University of Texas at Austin"
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The University of Chicago Press Walter Benjamins Grave
Book SynopsisIn September 1940, Walter Benjamin committed suicide in Port Bou on the Spanish-French border when it appeared that he and his travelling partners would be denied passage into Spain in their attempt to escape the Nazis. This is an essay about his cemetery, eyewitness accounts of Benjamin's border travails, and the circumstances of his demise.Trade Review"If Hunter S. Thompson had been trained by Boas in anthropology, Engels in economics, and Arendt in philosophy, he might write something like Taussig." - Publishers Weekly "Blending fact and fiction, ethnographic observation, archival history, literary theory and memoir, his books read more like beatnik novels than somber analyses of other cultures." - New York Times"
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The University of Chicago Press My Cocaine Museum
Book SynopsisMichael Taussig uses a make-believe Cocaine Museum, which is a parody of the Gold Museum in Colombia's central bank, to illuminate the largely unacknowledged history of Indian and African Colombian miners, now being drawn into cocaine production in the rain forest of Colombia's Pacific coast.
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The University of Chicago Press Worst Cases Terror and Catastrophe in the Popular
Book SynopsisA timely and necessary look into how we think about the unthinkable, Worst Cases will be must reading for anyone attuned to our current climate of threat and fear.Trade Review"The practical need for improvisation at all levels of societal response is unquestionable, particularly for major disasters, and Clarke's book provides a stimulus for the basic and applied studies that are needed."-- "American Journal of Sociology"Table of ContentsPreface 1 Worst Cases: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid 2 The Sky Could Be Falling: Globally Relevant Disasters and the Perils of Probabilism 3 What's the Worst That Can Happen? 4 Power, Politics, and Panic in Worst Cases 5 Silver Linings: The Good from the Worst 6 Living and Dying in Worst Case Worlds Notes Index
£18.00
University of Chicago Press Preschool in Three Cultures Revisited
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The University of Chicago Press Wannabe U
Book SynopsisBased on years of observation at a large state university, this title tracks the dispiriting consequences of trading in traditional educational values for loyalty to the market. It provides an account of how higher education's misguided pursuit of success fails us all.Trade Review"This book raises important questions about what kind of higher education we want. Tuchman is passionately engaged, but never loses her sense of humour and leaves us with much to think about." (Times Higher Education)"
£23.00
The University of Chicago Press Biotic Borders
Book SynopsisA rich and eye-opening history of the mutual constitution of race and species in modern America. In the late nineteenth century, increasing traffic of transpacific plants, insects, and peoples raised fears of a biological yellow peril when nursery stock and other agricultural products shipped from Japan to meet the growing demand for exotics in the United States. Over the next fifty years, these crossings transformed conceptions of race and migration, played a central role in the establishment of the US empire and its government agencies, and shaped the fields of horticulture, invasion biology, entomology, and plant pathology. In Biotic Borders, Jeannie N. Shinozuka uncovers the emergence of biological nativism that fueled American imperialism and spurred anti-Asian racism that remains with us today. Shinozuka provides an eye-opening look at biotic exchanges that not only altered the lives of Japanese in America but transformed American society more broadly. She shows how the modernTrade Review“An eclectic work, far-ranging in its sites and examples.” * Pacific Affairs *“Biotic Borders presents a uniquely fascinating ecological history and sociocultural analysis of the transmigration of Asian plants and insects during the period of American empire building in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with a focus on the ‘mass migration of Japanese plant and insect immigrants.’ Shinozuka skillfully weaves together a historical analysis of anti-Asian racism and its relationship to research in the agricultural, environmental, and health sciences. . . . An important contribution to the history of American empire building, showing the ecological impacts of U.S. expansion in the Pacific region and highlighting Asian, Asian American, and Hawai‘ian perspectives.” * Isis *“This book will broaden the reader's understanding of botany, the nursery trade, and invasive species regulations while offering rare insights into the different historical figures and groups that have shaped the story. . . . Highly recommended.” * Choice *"An original, important, and exciting scholarly work. Shinozuka supports her thesis and its claims with abundant examples scoured from an extensive collection of archives. But this is no mere empirical study. Its strength is in Shinozuka's theoretical scaffolding, deftly concealed, that undergirds her reading of historical sources. The result is a compelling narrative that is informed by this theory, and that never loses the reader. This is a highly readable book with a powerful argument, and a story about the Japanese American experience that needs to be told." -- Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis, University of FloridaTable of ContentsIntroduction: Plant and Insect Immigrants 1 San José Scale: Contested Origins at the Turn of the Century 2 Early Yellow Peril vs. Western Menace: Chestnut Blight, Citrus Canker, and PQN 37 3 Liable Insects at the US-Mexico Border 4 Contagious Yellow Peril: Diseased Bodies and the Threat of Little Brown Men 5 Pestilence in Paradise: Invasives in Hawai‘i 6 Japanese Beetle Menace: Discovery of the Beetle 7 Infiltrating Perils: A Race against Ownership, Contamination, and Miscegenation 8 Yellow Peril No More? National and Naturalized Enemies during World War II Conclusion: Toward a Multi(horti)cultural Global Society Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press Deep South
Book SynopsisA classic examination of the lived realities of American racism, now with a new foreword from Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson. First published in 1941, Deep South is a landmark work of anthropology, documenting in startling and nuanced detail the everyday realities of American racism. Living undercover in Depression-era Mississippinot revealing their scholarly project or even their association with one anothergroundbreaking Black scholar Allison Davis and his White co-authors, Burleigh and Mary Gardner, delivered an unprecedented examination of how race shaped nearly every aspect of twentieth-century life in the United States. Their analysis notably revealed the importance of caste and class to Black and White worldviews, and they anatomized the many ways those views are constructed, solidified, and reinforced. ? This reissue of the 1965 abridged edition, with a new foreword from Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkersonwho acknowledges the book's profound importance to her Trade Review"Deep South still has important things for race and racism in the United States--for those who are willing to listen." * Southeastern Librarian *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables Foreword by Isabel Wilkerson Preface Part I 1 Introduction: Deep South—A Social Anthropological Study of Caste and Class. W. Lloyd Warner 2 The System of Color-Castes 3 The Class System of the White Caste 4 The White Upper-Class Family 5 The White Middle-Class Family 6 The White Lower-Class Family 7 Social Cliques in the White Society 8 Social Mobility within the White Caste 9 The Class System of the Colored Caste Part II 10 Intimidation of Labor 11 The Plantation in Its Social Setting 12 Relation between the Caste System and the Economic System 13 Caste, Class, and Local Government: White Power 14 Retrospect, 1965: Power and Caste Afterword, 1986 Index
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The University of Chicago Press The Quest for Sexual Health
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book is rich, thought provoking, and timely. Epstein provides an insightful and meticulous analysis that brings together the multiple layers of social, cultural, political, and institutional processes that shape the amorphous and ubiquitous term of sexual health." -- Jennifer Reich, University of Colorado Denver "A major work. The Quest for Sexual Health is likely to change the way we think about the field of sexual health for years to come. This is the kind of critical scholarship that is truly a pleasure to read. I am convinced that it will quickly come to be recognized as the definitive study on the field of 'sexual health.'" -- Richard G. Parker, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsList of Abbreviations List of Illustrations Introduction: Catching Sexual Health Part One: Making Sexual Health: Invention, Dispersion, and Reassembly Chapter 1: A New Definition and the Backstory: Inventing Sexual Health Chapter 2: Proliferation and Ambiguity: The Buzzwording of Sexual Health Chapter 3: New Projects of Health, Rights, and Pleasure: Recombining Sexual Health Part Two: Operationalizing Sexual Health: Enabling Science, Medicine, and Health Care Chapter 4: Sexuality in the Medical Encounter: Standardizing Sexual Health Chapter 5: Diagnostic Reform and Human Rights in the ICD: Classifying Sexual Health Chapter 6: Surveys and the Quantification of Normality: Enumerating Sexual Health Chapter 7: The New Sexual Health Experts: Evaluating Sexual Health Part Three: Under the Sign of Sexual Health: Beyond the Worlds of Science and Medicine Chapter 8: The Pursuit of Wellness: Optimizing Sexual Health Chapter 9: Social Risks, Rights, and Duties: Governing via Sexual Health Chapter 10: Bridges to the Future: Repoliticizing Sexual Health Conclusion: Whither Sexual Health? Acknowledgments Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press A Thousand Steps to Parliament
Book SynopsisA Thousand Steps to Parliament traces how the complicated, contradictory paths to political representation that women in Mongolia must walk mirror those the world over. Mongolia has often been deemed an island of democracy, commended for its rapid adoption of free democratic elections in the wake of totalitarian socialism. The democratizing era, however, brought alongside it a phenomenon that Manduhai Buyandelger terms electionizationa restructuring of elections from time-grounded events into a continuous neoliberal force that governs everyday life beyond the electoral period. In this way, electoral campaigns have come to substitute for the functions of governing, from social welfare to the private sector, requiring an accumulation of wealth and power beyond the reach of most women candidates. In A Thousand Steps to Parliament, Buyandelger shows how successful women candidates instead use strategies of self-polishing to cultivate charisma and a reputation for being oyunlag, or intelTrade Review“A Thousand Steps to Parliament is exemplary of political anthropology at its best. Using fine-grained ethnography, detailed historiography, and compelling prose, Buyandelger demonstrates the ways in which elections are so much more than technical exercises. The result is a wholly original and completely convincing analysis of electoral politics and the making of women’s electable selves. Buyandelger gifts us a set of concepts and methods for understanding postsocialist democracy that couldn't be more timely.” * Jessica Greenberg, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign *“In her splendid book, Buyandelger covers a wide range of subjects that are altogether fresh and new in the context of the English-language literature on Mongolia. With clear, concise language, she conveys new information about the actual practice of politics in Mongolia while also illuminating the actuality of gender politics—hitherto little studied with such attention and nuance.” * Caroline Humphrey, University of Cambridge *Table of ContentsAbbreviations and Acronyms Note on Translation and Transliteration Preface: Hillary Clinton in Mongolia Introduction: Electable Selves—“Every Woman for Herself!” Decision Events A Thousand Steps Electable Selves Electionization Feminisms and “Women in Politics” On Research Two Unique Elections Chapter Outline 1. Legacies: Gender and Feminist Politics under State Socialism Fluent in Public Undisclosed Agents Women in Presocialist Mongolia (pre-1921) A Department of One’s Own (1924–32) Restrategizing: From Propaganda to Workforce (1932–59) The Power of Transnational Feminism (1959–70) Women’s Well-being and Advancing in Leadership (1960s–1990) Conclusion: The Power of Abstract Principles 2. Electionization: Governing and the New Economies of Democratization The Euphoric Country Short Histories of Electionization Candidates: More Winners than Seats Voters: Expect Actions, Not Promises New Electoral Economies: Giggers and Election Experts The Ones Who Do Not Care: Subjectivities and “Social Songs” Power-holders and Campaign Promises Conclusion: Governing the Political Time 3. SurFaces: Campaigns and the Interdependence of Gender and Politics The (in)Substance of an Epoch The Surreal Ecology of Campaign Media The Magnitude: Why So Many? Enfacement: Dull Images and Risk-Takers Deep Surfaces The Honest Gender The Civic Defense Expanding the Surface Conclusion: Triangulation of Images 4. The Backstage: Inside (Pre)-Campaigning Strategies A New Candidate: Beyond Gender Made with Politics Strategies and Tactics Affective Strategies: Knowledge Work, Night Work, Drink Work Architectural Strategies: The Fight to Get a Constituency A Panoptic Practice: Building the Base and Capital Resorting to Tactics: Internal Competition and Debasing In Someone’s Territory: Watching Campaigning as Governing Conclusion: Electionization as Force 5. Intellectful: Women against Commercialized Campaigns The Silken Intellect Pulling the Plug on Campaigning The Charisma of the Oyunlag An Intellectful Celebrity: Funding with a Novel Campaigning with Symbolic Capital: The New Oyunlag in Politics Social Circles versus Assemblages Gatherers, Warmer-Uppers, and Movers Financing: The Guide against Chaos From Revealing the Fraud of 2008 to the 2012 Election Conclusion: Oyunlag as a Disruptive Force 6. Self-Polishing: Styling the Candidate from Inside and Outside A Makeover The Benders of Neoliberalism Super Secretaries and Parliamentary Candidates Electability as a Shifting Target Self-Polishing: Change Yourself, Change Your Home, and then Change Your Country Self-Styling: Power Suits and Updated Deel Zanaa and the Up-to-date Deel Inner Cultivation: Care of a Candidate Conclusion: Beauty as a Political Project Conclusion: The Glass Ceiling as a Looking Glass Acknowledgments Notes References Index
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The University of Chicago Press A Thousand Steps to Parliament Constructing
Book SynopsisTrade Review“A Thousand Steps to Parliament is exemplary of political anthropology at its best. Using fine-grained ethnography, detailed historiography, and compelling prose, Buyandelger demonstrates the ways in which elections are so much more than technical exercises. The result is a wholly original and completely convincing analysis of electoral politics and the making of women’s electable selves. Buyandelger gifts us a set of concepts and methods for understanding postsocialist democracy that couldn't be more timely.” * Jessica Greenberg, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign *“In her splendid book, Buyandelger covers a wide range of subjects that are altogether fresh and new in the context of the English-language literature on Mongolia. With clear, concise language, she conveys new information about the actual practice of politics in Mongolia while also illuminating the actuality of gender politics—hitherto little studied with such attention and nuance.” * Caroline Humphrey, University of Cambridge *Table of ContentsAbbreviations and Acronyms Note on Translation and Transliteration Preface: Hillary Clinton in Mongolia Introduction: Electable Selves—“Every Woman for Herself!” Decision Events A Thousand Steps Electable Selves Electionization Feminisms and “Women in Politics” On Research Two Unique Elections Chapter Outline 1. Legacies: Gender and Feminist Politics under State Socialism Fluent in Public Undisclosed Agents Women in Presocialist Mongolia (pre-1921) A Department of One’s Own (1924–32) Restrategizing: From Propaganda to Workforce (1932–59) The Power of Transnational Feminism (1959–70) Women’s Well-being and Advancing in Leadership (1960s–1990) Conclusion: The Power of Abstract Principles 2. Electionization: Governing and the New Economies of Democratization The Euphoric Country Short Histories of Electionization Candidates: More Winners than Seats Voters: Expect Actions, Not Promises New Electoral Economies: Giggers and Election Experts The Ones Who Do Not Care: Subjectivities and “Social Songs” Power-holders and Campaign Promises Conclusion: Governing the Political Time 3. SurFaces: Campaigns and the Interdependence of Gender and Politics The (in)Substance of an Epoch The Surreal Ecology of Campaign Media The Magnitude: Why So Many? Enfacement: Dull Images and Risk-Takers Deep Surfaces The Honest Gender The Civic Defense Expanding the Surface Conclusion: Triangulation of Images 4. The Backstage: Inside (Pre)-Campaigning Strategies A New Candidate: Beyond Gender Made with Politics Strategies and Tactics Affective Strategies: Knowledge Work, Night Work, Drink Work Architectural Strategies: The Fight to Get a Constituency A Panoptic Practice: Building the Base and Capital Resorting to Tactics: Internal Competition and Debasing In Someone’s Territory: Watching Campaigning as Governing Conclusion: Electionization as Force 5. Intellectful: Women against Commercialized Campaigns The Silken Intellect Pulling the Plug on Campaigning The Charisma of the Oyunlag An Intellectful Celebrity: Funding with a Novel Campaigning with Symbolic Capital: The New Oyunlag in Politics Social Circles versus Assemblages Gatherers, Warmer-Uppers, and Movers Financing: The Guide against Chaos From Revealing the Fraud of 2008 to the 2012 Election Conclusion: Oyunlag as a Disruptive Force 6. Self-Polishing: Styling the Candidate from Inside and Outside A Makeover The Benders of Neoliberalism Super Secretaries and Parliamentary Candidates Electability as a Shifting Target Self-Polishing: Change Yourself, Change Your Home, and then Change Your Country Self-Styling: Power Suits and Updated Deel Zanaa and the Up-to-date Deel Inner Cultivation: Care of a Candidate Conclusion: Beauty as a Political Project Conclusion: The Glass Ceiling as a Looking Glass Acknowledgments Notes References Index
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The University of Chicago Press Metaracial
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Behind the ‘subject slave,’ universally human by virtue of the dialectic, there is a second slave hiding, the Black slave. Deconstructing this trope in Hegel, Terada reveals the philosophical sources of an embarrassing paradox—antiblack antiracism—which continuously affects political radicalism. An elucidation which is demanding but also fascinating and hugely clarifying!” -- Étienne Balibar, author of 'Citizen Subject: Foundations for Philosophical Anthropology'“Metaracial offers a counterintuitive claim: antiracism is antiblack. Terada teaches us to look for Hegel, Kant, and Rousseau where we least expect to find them—even in the most radical iterations of Black thought. Her philosophical readings are invigorating, careful, and insightful—laboring in the interstice between Black thought and continental philosophy. A substantial contribution to philosophies of race and contemporary debates about Black subjectivity.” -- Calvin Warren, author of 'Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation'"An undertaking to provide a critical philosophical grounding to the claim of racial pessimism. Key to her argument is that core enlightenment and postenlightenment commitments to equality, anti-essentialism, openness, and relationality is a constitutive antiblackness." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *
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The University of Chicago Press Metaracial Hegel Antiblackness and Political
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Behind the ‘subject slave,’ universally human by virtue of the dialectic, there is a second slave hiding, the Black slave. Deconstructing this trope in Hegel, Terada reveals the philosophical sources of an embarrassing paradox—antiblack antiracism—which continuously affects political radicalism. An elucidation which is demanding but also fascinating and hugely clarifying!” -- Étienne Balibar, author of 'Citizen Subject: Foundations for Philosophical Anthropology'“Metaracial offers a counterintuitive claim: antiracism is antiblack. Terada teaches us to look for Hegel, Kant, and Rousseau where we least expect to find them—even in the most radical iterations of Black thought. Her philosophical readings are invigorating, careful, and insightful—laboring in the interstice between Black thought and continental philosophy. A substantial contribution to philosophies of race and contemporary debates about Black subjectivity.” -- Calvin Warren, author of 'Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation'"An undertaking to provide a critical philosophical grounding to the claim of racial pessimism. Key to her argument is that core enlightenment and postenlightenment commitments to equality, anti-essentialism, openness, and relationality is a constitutive antiblackness." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *
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The University of Chicago Press Fair Share Senior Activism Tiny Publics and the
Book SynopsisA deeply researched ethnographic portrait of progressive senior activists in Chicago who demonstrate how a tiny public wields collective power to advocate for broad social change. If you've ever been to a protest or been involved in a movement for social change, you have likely experienced a local culture, one with slogans, jargon, and shared commitments. Though one might think of a cohort of youthful organizers when imagining protest culture, this powerful ethnography from esteemed sociologist Gary Alan Fine explores the world of senior citizens on the front lines of progressive protests. While seniors are a notoriously importantand historically conservativepolitical cohort, the group Fine calls Chicago Seniors Together is a decidedly leftist organization, inspired by the model of Saul Alinsky. The group advocates for social issues, such as affordable housing and healthcare, that affect all sectors of society but take on a particular urgency in the lives of seniors. Seniors connect and mobilize around their distinct experiences but do so in service of concerns that extend beyond themselves. Not only do these seniors experience social issues as seniorsbut they use their age as a dramatic visual in advocating for political change. In Fair Share, Fine brings readers into the vital world of an overlooked political group, describing how a tiny public mobilizes its demands for broad social change. In investigating this process, he shows that senior citizen activists are particularly savvy about using age to their advantage in social movements. After all, what could be more attention-grabbing than a group of passionate older people determinedly shuffling through snowy streets with canes, in wheelchairs, and holding walkers to demand healthcare equity, risking their own health in the process? Trade Review"In Fair Share: Senior Activism, Tiny Publics, and the Culture of Resistance, Fine makes an excellent case for . . . an example of observing a social movement as something like a social club. The meso-level of society, a middle and peopled realm wherein local values, interactions, experiences, and stories produce the necessary sociality for pursuing activism, shines through the book." -- J. L. Johnson * Symbolic Interaction *"Fine’s ethnography offers a deep and joyful dive into the contradictions and strengths of elder activism." * Choice *“The Baby Boom generation is not going quietly into the night. In entertaining detail, Gary Alan Fine, perhaps the finest ethnographer of that generation, shows us how and why they continue to cause beautiful trouble in politics. Fair Share is a pleasure to read.” -- James M. Jasper, CUNY Graduate CenterTable of ContentsPrologue: A Snowy Day in Racine Introduction: Of Seniors, for Seniors 1 Causes, Commitment, and Culture 2 Coming of Age 3 Where the Actions Are 4 Movement Memories and Eventful Experience 5 Staff Power and Senior Authority 6 Diversities 7 The Nexus of Politics 8 Our Fair Share Acknowledgments Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press Hope Trust and Forgiveness
Book SynopsisA new ethics of human finitude developed through three experimental essays. As ethical beings, we strive for lives that are meaningful and praiseworthy. But we are finite. We do not know, so we hope. We need, so we trust. We err, so we forgive. In this book, philosopher John T. Lysaker draws our attention to the ways in which these three capacitieshope, trust, and forgivenesscontend with human limits. Each experience is vital to human flourishing, yet each also poses significant personal and institutional challenges as well as opportunities for growth. Hope, Trust, and Forgiveness explores these challenges and opportunitiesand proposes ways to best meet them. In so doing, Lysaker experiments with the essay as a form and advances an improvisational perfectionism to deepen and expand our ethical horizons.Trade Review“Drawing upon diverse thinkers from several philosophical traditions, Hope, Trust, and Forgiveness is a beautiful exploration of how we relate to ourselves and one another as we navigate uncertainty, intimacy, and injustice. Lysaker has a rare and remarkable ability to capture the nuance of our lived experiences through his powerful writing. This book is rich with new insights.” -- Katie Stockdale, University of Victoria“A work in fragments without ever feeling fragmented, the book’s individual tesserae communicate a vibrant, beautiful, troubled world. Many of the text’s connected interventions stand on their own as self-contained ephemera advocating decency and care in harsh and uncertain times. Taken as a whole or in parts, this is a rich and intimate book that suggests philosophizing risks failure in the unshakable hope of getting ‘it’ right and in the knowledge that forgiveness must remain possible.” -- Mark Christian Thompson, Johns Hopkins University“With creativity and candor, Lysaker returns us to scenes of ordinary life, reminding us of our finitude while also showing how finitude itself throws us toward each other in ways that demand courage and imagination. Above all, Lysaker performs the hope he describes, forging conversations between disparate thinkers and giving readers new resources for thinking about incremental action, pragmatic hope, and partial (therefore real) forgiveness. This might well be the handbook for our time.” -- Megan Craig, Stony Brook UniversityTable of ContentsPreface Hope Interlude: On Being Partial to the Truth Trust Interlude: Become Who You Are Not Forgiveness Acknowledgments Bibliography Index
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Hope Trust and Forgiveness
Book SynopsisA new ethics of human finitude developed through three experimental essays. As ethical beings, we strive for lives that are meaningful and praiseworthy. But we are finite. We do not know, so we hope. We need, so we trust. We err, so we forgive. In this book, philosopher John T. Lysaker draws our attention to the ways in which these three capacitieshope, trust, and forgivenesscontend with human limits. Each experience is vital to human flourishing, yet each also poses significant personal and institutional challenges as well as opportunities for growth. Hope, Trust, and Forgiveness explores these challenges and opportunitiesand proposes ways to best meet them. In so doing, Lysaker experiments with the essay as a form and advances an improvisational perfectionism to deepen and expand our ethical horizons.Trade Review“Drawing upon diverse thinkers from several philosophical traditions, Hope, Trust, and Forgiveness is a beautiful exploration of how we relate to ourselves and one another as we navigate uncertainty, intimacy, and injustice. Lysaker has a rare and remarkable ability to capture the nuance of our lived experiences through his powerful writing. This book is rich with new insights.” -- Katie Stockdale, University of Victoria“A work in fragments without ever feeling fragmented, the book’s individual tesserae communicate a vibrant, beautiful, troubled world. Many of the text’s connected interventions stand on their own as self-contained ephemera advocating decency and care in harsh and uncertain times. Taken as a whole or in parts, this is a rich and intimate book that suggests philosophizing risks failure in the unshakable hope of getting ‘it’ right and in the knowledge that forgiveness must remain possible.” -- Mark Christian Thompson, Johns Hopkins University“With creativity and candor, Lysaker returns us to scenes of ordinary life, reminding us of our finitude while also showing how finitude itself throws us toward each other in ways that demand courage and imagination. Above all, Lysaker performs the hope he describes, forging conversations between disparate thinkers and giving readers new resources for thinking about incremental action, pragmatic hope, and partial (therefore real) forgiveness. This might well be the handbook for our time.” -- Megan Craig, Stony Brook UniversityTable of ContentsPreface Hope Interlude: On Being Partial to the Truth Trust Interlude: Become Who You Are Not Forgiveness Acknowledgments Bibliography Index
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Performance All the Way Down
Book SynopsisAn award-winning biologist and writer applies queer feminist theory to developmental genetics, arguing that individuals are not essentially male or female. The idea that gender is a performancea tenet of queer feminist theory since the ninetieshas spread from college classrooms to popular culture. This transformative concept has sparked reappraisals of social expectations as well as debate over not just gender, but sex: what it is, what it means, and how we know it. Most scientific and biomedical research over the past seventy years has assumed and reinforced a binary concept of biological sex, though some scientists point out that male and female are just two outcomes in a world rich in sexual diversity. In Performance All the Way Down, MacArthur Fellow and Pulitzer Prize finalist Richard O. Prum brings feminist thought into conversation with biology, arguing that the sexual binary is not essential to human genes, chromosomes, or embryos. Our genomes are not blueprints, algorithmsTrade Review“Readers of [Prum’s] earlier work, including his 2017 book, The Evolution of Beauty, will find themselves intrigued by his continued engagement with feminist science studies—and he has done his homework. . . . Performance All the Way Down contains a lot of big ideas, both because of the biological content Prum strives to convey to his readers and because of the sophisticated nature of the feminist theory he mobilizes. . . . To understand the full scope of Prum’s vision, I encourage you to read it in full.” * Science *“Prum offers a meticulous tour of the molecular pathways that underlie stereotypical sexual development in humans, as well as the myriad ways that any individual person’s development might differ. . . . If you read Performance All the Way Down, you’ll be presented with an abundance of interesting stories drawn from developmental biology, ecology, cultural anthropology, and more. My own copy is replete with dog-eared pages that had information I’m excited to think more about.” * American Biology Teacher *“A renowned biologist meets queer theory, and creativity takes flight. A joyful and expansive celebration of the complexity and contingency of sex.” -- Sarah S. Richardson, Harvard University“A powerful appeal for an intersectional rethinking of the science, materiality, and culture of human sex, Performance All the Way Down undoes the scientific justifications for categories of a sex and gender binary that have contributed scientific support to sexual oppression. Discussing biology, queer theory, and feminism together—in a shared vocabulary—Prum successfully expands intellectual space for queer feminist analysis and research within genetics, evolutionary biology, and developmental biology. This book will be discussed across the humanities, social sciences, and hard sciences for years to come.” -- David A. Rubin, University of South Florida“An ambitious, deeply interdisciplinary, and profound effort to grapple with the biological meanings of ‘sex.’ Prum tackles a set of crucial questions in a rigorous, thoughtful, and playful way, with implications that open up a landscape of transformative possibilities for the consideration of sex in biological research and scholarship.” -- Stacey A. Ritz, McMaster UniversityTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Prologue Taking Birds Seriously A Humanistic Turn An Ornithologist for Intersectionality 1. Performance All the Way Down Material Feminisms A Performative Continuum What Is the Role of Metaphor in Biology? What Is at Stake? The Stakes for Evolutionary Biology Mind the Gap Why Queer Biology? Where Are We Going? 2. Critical Concepts What Are Male and Female? Historical Ontology Sex Is a History Sex Difference versus Sexual Difference Sex and Race Sexual Development and Differentiation The Sexual Phenotype Sex Determination and Sex Reversal Discourse Agency Queer and Queering 3. Gender Performativity What Is Performativity? Elements of Performativity Performativity and Trans Experience Between Butler and Barad 4. The Enactment of the Biological Self Genes and Development What Is Molecular Discourse? Want to Go to the Movies on Friday? How Discourse Becomes Genetic Action within Cells The Choreography of Gene Expression The Performative Phenotypic Landscape Canonical versus Performative Pathways How Does the Body Regulate Growth over Space? What Is the Role of Physical Forces in Development? Performativity of Cellular Discourse Are Genes Causes? Agency in Developmental Biology Citationality and Homology Posthuman Power Physiology and Immunity Neurobiology and Psychology Sexual Selection What Is Not Performative in Biology? Why Performative Biology Now? 5. How Do Our Sexual Bodies Develop? The Role of Chromosomes On Gene Nomenclature How Do Gonads Differentiate? Reproductive Tract Development Genital Development Post-embryonic Sexual Development Sexual Development Summary 6. Variations in Our Sexual Development Terminology and the Framing of Embodied Sexual Variation Moving beyond Pathology Chromosomal Contributions to Differences in Sexual Development Genetic Variations in Gonad Development X Chromosome Inactivation Genital and Reproductive Tract Development Noncoding Genetic Variation How Does the Environment Affect Sexual Development? Queer Science 7. How Evolution Generates Sexual Variability The Evolution of Sex Evolutionary Variability of Sexual Development Initiation Why Sexual Differentiation Mechanisms Are Generatively Queering Sexually Disruptive Selection Evolution of the Molecular Discourse of Sexual Development Evolution of Sexual Transition Evolution Is Incompatible with Sexual Essences Norms and Innovation Placental Performativity Limits of the Binary Bottleneck 8. The Future of Performative Biology Performative Scientific Hypotheses Performativity of Illness and Disability Recalibrating Causality Biology Is Ready to Think Performatively Pluralism and the Phenotype What Is Evolutionary Biology About? 9. Performance All the Way Up Sexual Reproduction Is an Intra-action A Posthuman Genealogy of Performative Discourse Is There Gender in Nature? “What Is Sex?” Revisited Toward a Scientific/Cultural Concept of Gender/Sex Performative Perspectives on Transsexual Experience Sex and Race as Scientific Apparatuses Sex and Race Categories in Biomedical Research Post-disciplinary Material Feminisms An Intellectually Queer Space in Science Acknowledgments Appendixes Appendix 1. Material Feminisms Appendix 2. Acquired Immunity Appendix 3. Current Models of the Genotype-Phenotype Relationship Appendix 4. Modularity Appendix 5. Genetic Assimilation Appendix 6. Why Gene-Level Selection Is Insufficient Appendix 7. Internal Selection Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press Conspiracy Narratives from Postcolonial Africa
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The University of Chicago Press Informal Cities
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The University of Chicago Press Regulating Menstruation Beliefs Practices
Book SynopsisThis volume considers what is known of women's options and practices used to regulate menstruation - practices used to control the periodicity, quantity, colour and even consistency of menses - in different places and times, while revealing the ambiguity that those practices present.
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The University of Chicago Press The Intimacy Trials
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The University of Chicago Press Joan
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The University of Chicago Press Gods and Vampires Return to Chipaya
Book SynopsisOn his return to the village of Chipaya, the author learned that a group of Uru Indians, believed to be sorcerers and vampires, was being incarcerated and tortured. This study examines relations between the Urus and the region's dominant ethnic groups.
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The University of Chicago Press The New Welfare Bureaucrats
Book SynopsisReveals how welfare reform engendered a shift in focus for caseworkers from simply providing monetary aid to the process of helping recipients find work. This book is suitable for those who want to understand the impact of institutional and policy changes wrought by welfare reform.Trade Review"This is an insightful study of the interplay between the formal rules of the welfare bureaucracies and the discretionary power and practices of welfare caseworkers. Watkins-Hayes brilliantly documents the emerging culture of the welfare workplace and its effect on human service delivery. This timely book is a must-read for citizens, domestic policy analysts, and scholars concerned about strategies to address the plight of the truly disadvantaged." - William Julius Wilson, Harvard University"
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The University of Chicago Press Peripheral Visions Publics Power and Performance
Book SynopsisThe government of Yemen remains largely incapable of providing goods and services to its population, but the regime continues to endure despite its fragility in the global order. Revealing what holds Yemen together in such circumstances, this book shows how citizens form national attachments even in the absence of strong state institutions.Trade Review"Unusually well-written and polished, Peripheral Visions makes important contributions to our understanding of Yemen and to the study of politics. Lisa Wedeen innovatively locates her inquiry in the venerable tradition of interpretive social science. There is no comparable book on Yemen." - Brinkley Messick, Columbia University"
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The University of Chicago Press Illustrated Human Anatomy The Authoritative
Book SynopsisIn 1908, the ruler of the Balinese realm of Klungkung and over 100 members of his family and court were massacred when they marched deliberately into the fire of the Dutch colonial army. This work examines the question of what their action meant and its significance in contemporary Klungkung.
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The University of Chicago Press Navigators of the Contemporary Why Ethnography
Book SynopsisDescribes the changing nature of ethnography as anthropologists use it to analyze places closer to home. This book maintains that a conversational style of ethnography can help us look beyond our assumptions and gain new insight into arenas of contemporary life such as corporations, financial institutions, science, the military, and religion.Trade Review"Westbrook's book is the most convincing rendering of how to be a good anthropologist that I know of. The extraordinary clarity and accessibility of his prose and his reasoning are testaments in their very performance to the virtues of his ambitiously broad vision of ethnography. Both stylistically and intellectually, this is a fresh and lovely breeze." - James D. Faubion, Rice University"
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The University of Chicago Press Ethnographic Sorcery
Book SynopsisAccording to the people of the Mueda plateau in northern Mozambique, sorcerers remake the world by asserting the authority of their own imaginative visions of it. This work explores the issues provoked by this equation. A key theme of the author's research into sorcery is that one sorcerer's claims can be challenged or reversed by other sorcerers.Trade Review"At its core, this very significant book is a meditation on how to understand discourses on and around sorcery on the Mueda plateau in Mozambique. Here, Harry West is concerned with the question of how Muedans use sorcery discourse, both 'to speak about the world and to act within it.' I found this book consistently fascinating, subtle, and deeply grounded in local understandings of a complex and ambiguous world and in anthropological theory." - Donald Brenneis, University of California, Santa Cruz"
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The University of Chicago Press Kupilikula Governance and the Invisible Realm in
Book SynopsisArgues that, where neoliberal policies have fostered social division rather than security and prosperity, Muedans have, in fact, used sorcery discourse to assess and sometimes overturn reforms, advancing alternative visions of a world transformed.Trade Review"Kupilikula is one of the finest examinations of contemporary sorcery that I have read. The writing is clear and unencumbered. The ethnography is rich and nuanced. By the end of the book, the reader has a significantly more profound comprehension of the thorny thicket of contemporary African politics. This is a major contribution to African studies, political anthropology, and the anthropology of religion." - Paul Stoller, West Chester University and Temple University"
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The University of Chicago Press Urban Life in Contemporary China
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The University of Chicago Press Behind the Veil in Arabia Women in Oman
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£27.00
The University of Chicago Press Generous Betrayal Politics of Culture in the New
Book SynopsisMany immigrants in Europe find marginalization, discrimination, and increasing segregation. In this book, the author shows how an excessive respect for "their culture" has been part of the problem. Culture has become a concept of race, sustaining ethnic identity politics that subvert human rights.
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The University of Chicago Press Soft Patriarchs New Men How Christianity Shapes
Book SynopsisWilcox looks at both mainline and evangelical Protestant teachings since the 1950s and argues that there are perceivable differences between the attitudes of fathers and husbands, according to which sect they follow.
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The University of Chicago Press Gypsy World The Silence of the Living and the
Book SynopsisThe gypsies of central France, the Manus, do not speak of their dead and burn or discard all the deceased belongings. Patrick Williams argues that this view of death is central to how the Manus see the world and their place in it.
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press The Culture of Ancient Egypt Phoenix Books
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