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Book SynopsisIn France, a common notion is that the shared interests of graduate students and their professors could lead to intimate sexual relations, and that regulations curtailing those relationships would be both futile and counterproductive. This title explores nthe social problem of sexual harassment.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Making of a Concept 1. Sexual Harassment Law on the Books: Opportunity Loss v. Violence 2. Sexual Harassment Law in Action: Legitimacy and Liability 3. Sexual Harassment in the Press: National Scandal, Pride, or Superiority? 4. Discrimination, Violence, Professionalism, and the Bottom Line: How Interview Respondents Frame Sexual Harassment Conclusion: Institutions, Framing, and Political Power Epilogue: Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose Appendix: Methodological Details Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisExploring the Christian culture of the Urapmin, Joel Robbins shows how its preoccupations provide keys to understanding the nature of cultural change more generally. Offers one of the richest available anthropological accounts of Christianity as a lived religion.Trade Review"Robbins manages, through his ethnography, to illustrate for us the need to understand radical change." Reviews In AnthropologyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Prologue: A Heavy Christmas and a Pig Law for People Introduction: Christianity and Cultural Change PART ONE: THE MAKING OF A CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY 1. From Salt to the Law: Contact and the Early Colonial Period 2. Christianity and the Colonial Transformation of Regional Relations 3. Revival, Second-Stage Conversion, and the Localization of the Urapmin Church PART TWO: LIVING IN SIN 4. Contemporary Urapmin in Millennial Time and Space 5. Willfulness, Lawfulness, and Urapmin Morality 6. Desire and Its Discontents: Free Time and Christian Morality 7. Rituals of Redemption and Technologies of the Self 8. Millennialism and the Contest of Values Conclusion: Christianity, Cultural Change, and the Moral Life of the Hybrid Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisIlluminates one of the world's most troubled regions from a perspective - that of a prominent Russian intellectual. This title examines the evolution of the war in Chechnya that erupted in 1994, untangling the myths, the long-held resentments, and the ideological manipulations that have fueled the crisis.Table of ContentsContents Foreword by Mikhail S. Gorbachev Preface 1. Ethnography and Theory 2. Indigenization, Deportation, and Return 3. Contradictory Modernization 4. Chechen Images 5. The Road to War 6. Dzhokhar: Hero and Devil 7. The Sons of War 8. The Culture of Hostage-Taking 9. Violence in Secessionist Warfare 10. The Impact on Family Life 11. Religion and the Chechen Conflict 12. The Myth and Reality of the "Great Victory" 13. An Ideology of Extremes 14. Chechnya as a Stage and a Role Conclusion Notes Main Characters Research Partners, Informants, and Cross-Reviewers Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTalk of genetically engineered organisms (GEOs) has moved from the hushed corridors of life science corporations to the front pages of major newspapers. This book examines these issues from the diverse perspectives of sociology, geography, law, environmental studies and political science.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction. Biotechnology in the New Millennium: Technological Change, Institutional Change, and Political Struggle Rachel A. Schurman 1. Wonderful Potencies? Deep Structure and the Problem of Monopoly in Agricultural Biotechnology William Boyd 2. Building a Better Tree: Genetic Engineering and Fiber Farming in Oregon and Washington W. Scott Prudham 3. The Migration of Salmon from Nature to Biotechnology Dennis Doyle Takahashi Kelso 4. Making Biotech History: Social Resistance to Agricultural Biotechnology and the Future of the Biotechnology Industry Rachel A. Schurman and William A. Munro 5. Eating Risk: The Politics of Labeling Genetically Engineered Foods Julie Guthman 6. The Global Politics of GEOs: The Achilles' Heel of the Globalization Regime? Frederick H. Buttel 7. Biotech Battles: Plants, Power, and Intellectual Property in the New Global Governance Regimes Kathleen McAfee 8. From Molecules to Medicines: The Use of Genetic Resources in Pharmaceutical Research Astrid J. Scholz 9. The Brave New Worlds of Agricultural Technoscience: Changing Perspectives, Recurrent Themes, and New Research Directions in Agro-Food Studies David Goodman Conclusion. Recreating Democracy Dennis Doyle Takahashi Kelso Glossary Contributors Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTakes us into a world that lies at the heart of the maximum security prison. Focusing on the 'supermaximums' - and the mental health units that complement them, this book conveys the internal contradictions of a system mandated to both punish and treat.Table of ContentsAuthor's Note Preface Introduction PART ONE: CONDITIONS OF CONTROL 1. Controlling Troubles 2. The Choice to Be Bad PART TWO: NEGOTIATING TREATMENT, MANAGING CUSTODY 3. The Asylum of Last Resort 4. Custody and Treatment at the Divide PART THREE: QUESTIONS OF EXCLUSION 5. The Games Run Deep 6. Struggling It Out Glossary of Prison Terms Appendix: Note on Research Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Index

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Book SynopsisHelps understand the intricate interplay of gender, race, and class. This book examines an immigration pattern to analyze what happens when women who migrate before men become the breadwinners in the family. It focuses on a group of female nurses who moved from India to the United States before their husbands.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables Foreword Acknowledgments Maps Introduction 1. Contradictions of Gender When Women Immigrate First 2. Work: Nursing, Women's Networks, and Men "Tied to a Stake" 3. Home: Redoing Gender in Immigrant Households 4. Community: Creating Little Kerala and the Paradox of "Men Who Play" in the Church 5. Transnational Connections: The Janus-Faced Reproduction of an Immigrant Community 6. Conclusions Appendix 1: Interview Participants by Household Type Appendix 2: Types of Nursing Jobs Appendix 3: Transnational Organizational Structure of the Indian Orthodox Church Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisRaises questions central to the field of anthropology - questions concerning the practice of fieldwork, the production of knowledge, and anthropology's intellectual and ethical vision of itself. This book discusses the Yanomami controversy, identifies the ethical dilemmas of the controversy and assesses the state of anthropology.Trade Review"If there is one book that redefines anthropology for the twenty-first century, this is it. It is a ground-breaking study that takes us to the ethical heart of the social sciences. This is an essential book for our times." - Carolyn Nordstrom, University of Notre Dame; "What better way to learn anthropology than through one of its great controversies? Written in a lucid and concise manner, Yanomami is really two books in one: First, it is a riveting, issues-oriented text that is ideal for sparking interest and provoking discussion among introductory students; second it is an invaluable analysis of critical disciplinary questions that every anthropologist and anthropologist-in-the-making need ponder." - Alex Hinton, Rutgers University"Table of ContentsA Note to Teachers A Personal Note to Undergraduates Suggested Yanomami/Yanomamo Films Helping the Yanomami Map PART I 1 The Controversy and the Broader Issues at Stake 2 Chagnon and Tierney in Their Own Words 3 How the Controversy Has Played Out in American Anthropology 4 Broader Issues at Stake in the Controversy 5 Keeping Yanomami Perspectives in Mind 6 You Decide 7 A Platform for Change photographic interlude PART II 8 Round One 9 Round Two 10 Round Three 11 Three Assessments Appendix: Summary of the Roundtable Participants' Positions References Index

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Book SynopsisProvides a critical perspective on the central importance of ideas about language in the reproduction of gender, class, and race divisions in modern Japan. Focusing on a phenomenon commonly called "women's language," in modern Japanese society, this title considers the history and social effects of this language form.Trade Review"Miyako Inoue's Vicarious Language is a work of scholarly distinction and cultural insight. She explores the texture of Japanese modernity, its national rituals and social practices, by way of a sustained, semiotic analysis of womens' language - the language of self-expression that women use in intimate and institutional contexts, and the language used to define the gendered roles assigned to women within the powers of patriarchy. This is a work that allows you to participate in the lifeworld of the Japanese language, at the illuminating moment when gender relations are writ large in the social syntax of national life." - Homi K. Bhabha, Anne F.Rothenberg Professor, Harvard University "Inoue has accomplished an extraordinary task, which is without precedent in the East Asian Fields. To my knowledge, no author has ever demonstrated as persuasively as she does that the issues concerning women's Japanese can be explored in such an innovative, engaging way." - Naoki Sakai, author of Voices of the Past: The Status of Language in Eighteenth-Century Japanese Discourse"Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments Note on Japanese Names and the Romanization of Japanese Language Introduction: Women's Language and Capitalist Modernity in Japan part one: language, gender, and national modernity: the genealogy of japanese women's language, 1880s--1930s 1. An Echo of National Modernity: Overhearing "Schoolgirl Speech" 2. Linguistic Modernity and the Emergence of Women's Language 3. From Schoolgirl Speech to Women's Language: Consuming Indexicality in Women's Magazines, 1890--1930 part two: the nation's temporality and the death of women's language 4. Capitalist Modernity, the Responsibilized Speaking Body, and the Public Mourning of the Death of Women's Language part three: re-citing women's language in late modern japan Introduction 5. "Just Stay in the Middle": The Story of a Woman Manager 6. Defamiliarizing Japanese Women's Language: Strategies and Tactics of Female Office Workers Afterword: This Vicarious "Japanese Women's Language" Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTells the story of Folsom. Using various archaeological methods and techniques, and bringing in data from geology and paleoecology, this study provides a look at the adaptations and environments of the late Ice Age Paleoindian hunters who killed a large herd of bison at this spot, as well as a measure of Folsom's role in American archaeology.Trade Review"This book has been nearly 100 years in the making. Since its discovery in 1908, the full story of the Folsom site has been waiting to be told. Finally, it's all here between two covers - the site itself, and the story of its discovery." - Robert Kelly, author of The Foraging Spectrum, and former president of the Society for American Archaeology "This book is the culmination of a monumental research effort. It documents and evaluates the data collected and personalities involved in the initial investigations over seven decades ago. It includes the results of a well-planned and executed research effort taking advantage of all resources presently available. Meltzer blends all this into a readable, understandable, and long overdue final report on the Folsom site." - George C. Frison, author of Survival by Hunting "Discoveries at the Folsom site in 1926-27 brought remarkable changes to our perceptions of American prehistory. Meltzer returned and brought 70 years of advancement in the discipline to bear on lingering questions and then wrote this eloquent account that mirrors the history of American archaeology." - Michael B. Collins, The University of Texas at Austin"

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Book SynopsisConsiders what happens to individual subjectivity when stable or imagined environments such as nations and communities are transformed or displaced by free trade economics, terrorism, and war. This book also considers how information and medical technologies reshape the relation one has to oneself.Trade Review"Has the makings of a key reference text on a topic that will continue to provide the basis for anthropological investigation for some time." Social Anthropology/AnthropologieTable of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Contributors Introduction: Rethinking Subjectivity João Biehl, Byron Good, and Arthur Kleinman PART I. TRANSFORMATIONS IN SOCIAL EXPERIENCE AND SUBJECTIVITY 1. The Vanishing Subject: The Many Faces of Subjectivity Amélie Oksenberg Rorty 2. The Experiential Basis of Subjectivity: How Individuals Change in the Context of Societal Transformation Arthur Kleinman and Erin Fitz-Henry 3. How the Body Speaks: Illness and the Lifeworld among the Urban Poor Veena Das and Ranendra K. Das 4. Anthropological Observation and Self-Formation Paul Rabinow PART II. POLITICAL SUBJECTS 5. Hamlet in Purgatory Stephen Greenblatt 6. America’s Transient Mental Illness: A Brief History of the Self-Traumatized Perpetrator Allan Young 7. Violence and the Politics of Remorse: Lessons from South Africa Nancy Scheper-Hughes PART III. MADNESS AND SOCIAL SUFFERING 8. The Subject of Mental Illness: Psychosis, Mad Violence, and Subjectivity in Indonesia Byron J. Good, Subandi, and Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good 9. The “Other” of Culture in Psychosis: The Ex-Centricity of the Subject Ellen Corin 10. Hoarders and Scrappers: Madness and the Social Person in the Interstices of the City Anne M. Lovell PART IV. LIFE TECHNOLOGIES 11. Whole Bodies, Whole Persons? Cultural Studies, Psychoanalysis, and Biology Evelyn Fox Keller 12. The Medical Imaginary and the Biotechnical Embrace: Subjective Experiences of Clinical Scientists and Patients Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good 13. “To Be Freed from the Infirmity of (the) Age”: Subjectivity, Life-Sustaining Treatment, and Palliative Medicine Eric L. Krakauer 14. A Life: Between Psychiatric Drugs and Social Abandonment João Biehl Epilogue. To Live with What Would Otherwise Be Unendurable: Return(s) to Subjectivities Michael M. J. Fischer Index

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Book SynopsisA study of machismo in Mexico City, this work overturns many stereotypes of male culture in Mexico and looks at how Mexican men see themselves, parent their children, relate to women, and talk about sex.Trade Review"Gutmann has done the hithertofore seemingly unthinkable. [A] wholly other vision of Mexican gender relations emerges." - Jose Limon, American Anthropologist "This book does for the study of men what two generations of feminist anthropologists have done for the study of women." - Lynn Stephen, author of Zapotec Women"Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface to the Tenth Anniversary Edition Maps Introduction: Gender Conventions I. Real Mexican Machos Are Born to Die 2. The Invasion of Santo Domingo 3. Imaginary Fathers, Genuine Fathers 4. Motherly Presumptions and Presumptuous Mothers 5. Men's Sex 6. Diapers and Dishes, Words and Deeds 7. Degendering Alcohol 8. Fear and Loathing in Male Violence 9. Machismo IO. Creative Contradictions Notes Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTakes on one of the most tragic stories of the global AIDS crisis - the failure of the ANC government to stem the tide of the AIDS epidemic in South Africa. This work traces the deep roots of the AIDS crisis to apartheid and, before that, to the colonial period.Trade Review"This ethnography is comprehensive and nuanced in its approach... Fassin's ethnography is ambitious and provocative. It is recommended to anyone interested in exploring how the past critically shapes the present characterization of AIDS in South Africa." -- Marisa Macari Journal Of Biosocial ScienceTable of ContentsIntroduction: Political Anesthesia and Anthropological Concern 1. As If Nothing Ever Happened The Controversy A Life Proposition 1: The Structures of Time 2. An Epidemic of Disputes Beginnings Heresy Proposition 2: The Configuration of the Polemics 3. Anatomy of the Controversies Ordeals Arenas Proposition 3: The Figures of Denial 4. The Imprint of the Past Long Memory Bared History Proposition 4: The History of the Vanquished 5. The Embodiment of the World Behind the Landscapes Within the Narratives Proposition 5: The Forms of Experience 6. Living with Death Dying Born Again Proposition 6: Politics of Life Conclusion: This World We Live In Notes Brief Chronology of South African History Maps Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisEvery day we are bombarded by television ads, public service announcements, and media reports warning of dire risks to our health and offering solutions to help us lower those risks. This book intends to help consumers sort through this daily barrage by teaching them how to interpret the numbers behind the messages.Trade Review"Short and simple... Present(s) the basic skills necessary in navigating today's confusing health-media landscape. " Library Journal " Delightful and educational reading, simple enough for laypeople to understand yet academic enough to meet the needs of ... students." -- L. Synovitz Choice "Know Your Chances is an accessible and empowering text." Journal Of Biosocial Science "A great reminder that ... medical claims should always be evaluated by how they affect you and your current state of health." Tampa Tribune "A great reminder that ... medical claims should always be evaluated by how they affect you and your current state of health." Highlands Today "Read this book first and then think again." Time MagazineTable of ContentsWhat This Book Is About PART ONE. WHAT IS MY RISK? 1. Understanding Risk 2. Putting Risk in Perspective 3. Risk Charts: A Way to Get Perspective PART TWO. CAN I REDUCE MY RISK? 4. Judging the Benefit of a Health Intervention 5. Not All Benefits Are Equal: Understand the Outcome PART THREE. DOES RISK REDUCTION HAVE DOWNSIDES? 6. Consider the Downsides 7. Do the Benefits Outweigh the Downsides? PART FOUR. DEVELOPING A HEALTHY SKEPTICISM 8. Beware of Exaggerated Importance 9. Beware of Exaggerated Certainty 10. Who's Behind the Numbers? EXTRA HELP Quick Summary Glossary Number Converter Risk Charts Credible Sources of Health Statistics Notes Index

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Book SynopsisExplores everyday modes of social and psychological experience, the constitution of the subject, and forms of subjection that shape the lives of Basque youth, Indonesian artists, members of nongovernmental HIV/AIDS programs in China and the Republic of Congo, psychiatrists and the mentally ill in Morocco and Ireland.Trade Review"Fascinating and elegantly composed essays." -- Steve Odero Ouma and Aakash Singh Metapsychology Online "A timely, important, and extremely well-written work." -- E. Wellin Choice "Powerful and well-crafted essays (by some of the most thoughtful people in the field)." Common KnowledgeTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Postcolonial Disorders: Reflections on Subjectivity in the Contemporary World Byron J. Good, Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Sandra Teresa Hyde, and Sarah Pinto PART I: DISORDERED STATES 1. Madness and the Politically Real: Reflections on Violence in Postdictatorial Spain Begona Aretxaga 2. Indonesia Sakit: Indonesian Disorders and the Subjective Experience and Interpretive Politics of Contemporary Indonesian Artists Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good and Byron J. Good 3. The Political Dimensions of Emasculation: Fantasy, Conspiracy, and Estrangement among Populist Leaders in Post-New Order Lombok, Indonesia John M. MacDougall 4. Haunting Ghosts: Madness, Gender, and Ensekirite in Haiti in the Democratic Era Erica Caple James 5. Laboratory of Intervention: The Humanitarian Governance of the Postcommunist Balkan Territories Mariella Pandolfi PART II: SUBJECTIVITY IN THE BORDERLANDS 6. Everyday AIDS Practices: Contestations of Borders and Infectious Disease in Southwest China Sandra Teresa Hyde 7. Of Maids and Prostitutes: Indonesian Female Migrants in the New Asian Hinterlands Johan Lindquist 8. Ambivalent Inquiry: Dilemmas of AIDS in the Republic of Congo David Eaton 9. To Live with What Would Otherwise Be Unendurable, II: Caught in the Borderlands of Palestine/Israel Michael M.J. Fischer PART III: MADNESS, ALTERITY, AND PSYCHIATRY 10. The Mucker War: A History of Violence and Silence Joao Biehl 11. Institutional Persons and Personal Institutions: The Asylum and Marginality in Rural Ireland A. Jamie Saris 12. The Knot of the Soul: Postcolonial Conundrums, Madness, and the Imagination Stefania Pandolfo 13. Consuming Grief: Infant Death in the Postcolonial Time of Intervention Sarah Pinto 14. Postcoloniality as the Aftermath of Terror among Vietnamese Refugees Janis H. Jenkins and Michael Hollifield 15. Cross-Cultural Psychiatry in Medical-Legal Documentation of Suffering: Human Rights Abuses Involving Transnational Corporations and the Yadana Pipeline Project in Burma Kathleen Allden Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThe Hadza, who inhabit an area of East Africa near the Serengeti and Olduvai Gorge, have long drawn the attention of anthropologists for maintaining a foraging lifestyle in a region that is key to understanding human origins. This title presents an ethnography of one of the last remaining societies of hunter-gatherers in the world.Trade Review"This quantitative ethnography ... introduces readers to the contemporary field of understanding human behaviour from an evolutionary perspective." Times Higher Ed Supp (Thes) "Riveting... It is the most important single source of information about the Hadza, and it is superb, combining many of the virtues of classical ethnography with rigorous quantitative description and experimental hypothesis testing. " -- Melvin Konner American Scientist "Thought-provoking." ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. The Hadza and Evolutionary Theory: An Introduction 2. Habitat and History 3. Social Organization, Beliefs, and Practices 4. Material Culture 5. Foraging 6. Life History 7. Mating 8. Parenting 9. Cooperation and Food- Sharing 10. The Median Foragers: Humans in Cross- Species Perspective Afterword: The Hadza Present and Future References Index

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Book SynopsisWater sprites, mountain goblins, shape-shifting animals, and the monsters known as yokai have long haunted the Japanese cultural landscape. This book offers a history of the strange and mysterious in Japan and seeks out these creatures in folklore, encyclopedias, literature, art, science, games, manga, magazines, and movies.Trade Review“A provocative addition to the small body of scholarship in English on monsters, the mysterious, and the supernatural in Japan from the early modern period to the present. This timely book . . . offers English readers their first sustained consideration of yõkai . . . from the perspectives of folklore studies and anthropology. Engagingly written from its touching preface to its last sentence, Pandemonium and Parade draws on and converses with an extensive body of Japanese scholarship on yõkai." * Monumenta Nipponica *"This study of the 'weird' in Japan . . . will be the standard work in English on this subject for many years. Rather than being a simple catalogue and commentary of strange beasts and beings, this work provides an analytical chronology of the changing use made of the 'weird' in Japan over a period of three hundred years from the seventeenth century to the beginning of the twenty-first century." * Folklore *“Rich and refreshing . . . engaging and spiritedly written . . . Foster’s writing and attitude toward his topic gracefully embrace the two poles of the scholarly and the ludic that he attributes to yōkai discourse through the ages.” * Journal of Japanese Studies *"Foster has presented us with an excellent introduction to this corner of Japanese culture, and we are all the richer for it. Most impressively, Foster has managed to write in a way that engages the general reader (or at least the reader with little background knowledge), yet he maintains the academic robustness, scholarly tone, and level of erudition that the subject matter deserves." * Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies *"This outstanding volume is a welcome addition to English-language resources on Japan's folk culture. Showing familiarity with Japanese scholarship and vernacular culture, Pandemonium and Parade finds the rationale for continuing interest in the yōkai world in everyday needs and concerns." * Western Folklore *"Whoever thinks that a scholarly book cannot be "fun" has not yet read Michael Foster's Pandemonium and Parade. His work constitutes a rollicking exploration of the seventeenth- through twentieth-century worlds of yōkai, a broadly inclusive term for the phantasmagoria of monsters, ghosts, mysterious apparitions, and inexplicable phenomena that have animated the Japanese cultural landscape for much of the past thousand years. Foster's book is thoughtfully conceived and carefully researched, and it is written in a graceful, occasionally journalistic style that is both suitable to its subject and a pleasure to read." * Asian Ethnology *"This is a rare academic tome which can be read with delight and a sense of recognition. . . . As such, Pandemonium and Parade deserves to be read by anyone interested in the strange and mysterious." * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *“One of the most theoretically nuanced and interesting interpretations of Japan’s experience of modernity and post-modernity . . . extremely readable.” * Journal of Folklore Research *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note on Japanese Names and Terms 1. Introduction to theWeird 2. Natural History of theWeird: Encyclopedias, Spooky Stories, and the Bestiaries of Toriyama Sekien 3. Science of theWeird: Inoue EnryO, Kokkuri, and Human Electricity 4. Museum of theWeird: Modernity, Minzokugaku, and the Discovery of YOkai 5. Media of theWeird: Mizuki Shigeru and Kuchi-sake-onna 6. YOkai Culture: Past, Present, Future Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIncludes preface by the authors looking at developments in the study of urban planning during the twenty-year life of this influential work.Trade Review"Among a rare breed." Journal Of Regional ScienceTable of ContentsPreface to the 20th Anniversary Edition Preface to the First Edition 1 The Social Construction of Cities 2 Places as Commodities 3 The City as a Growth Machine 4 Homes: Exchange and Sentiment in the Neighborhood 5 How Government Matters 6 Overcoming Resistance to Value-free Development 7 The Dependent Future References Name Index Subject lndex

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Book SynopsisTakes us around the world in search of birth models that work in order to improve the standard of care for mothers and families everywhere. This book describes examples of maternity services from both developing countries and wealthy industrialized societies that apply the scientific evidence to support and facilitate normal physiological birth.Trade Review"Recommended." Choice

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Book SynopsisTwo women, virtual strangers, sit hand-in-hand across a narrow table, both intent on the same thing-achieving the perfect manicure. Encounters like this occur thousands of times across the United States in nail salons increasingly owned and operated by Asian immigrants. This study looks at these intimate encounters, focusing on New York City.Trade Review"Overall Kang has written an exceptionally well-argued, insightful book." American Journal Of Sociology / AJSTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction: Manicuring Work 1. "There's No Business Like the Nail Business" 2. "What Other Work Is There?": Manicurists 3. Hooked on Nails: Customers 4. "I Just Put Koreans and Nails Together": Nail Spas and the Model Minority 5. Black People "Have Not Been the Ones Who Get Pampered": Nail Art Salons and Black-Korean Relations 6. "You Could Get a Fungus": Asian Discount Nail Salons as the New Yellow Peril Conclusion: What Is a Manicure Worth? Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisA study that synthesizes an array of cross-cultural, experimental, and ethnographic data to understand the broad meaning of friendship, how it develops, how it interfaces with kinship and romantic relationships, and how it differs from place to place.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Boxes Acknowledgments Introduction: The Adaptive Significance of Friendship 1. An Outline of Friendship 2. Friendships across Cultures 3. Friendship and Kinship 4. Sex, Romance, and Friendship 5. Friendship: Childhood to Adulthood 6. The Development of Friendships 7. Friendship, Culture, and Ecology 8. Playing with Friends Conclusion Appendix A: Ethnographic Data and Coding Appendix B: Mathematical Models for Chapter 8 Appendix C: D-Statistics for Studies Cited Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisExamines the lives of five topless dancers in the economically devastated 'rust belt' of upstate New York. With insight and empathy, this title shows how these women negotiate their lives as parents, employees, and family members while working in a profession widely regarded as incompatible with motherhood and fidelity.Trade Review"Dewey contributes to a growing wave of qualitative research on the sex industry." Choice "Fresh... As keen as it is thorough... Neon Wasteland is a provocative, highly readable analysis." -- Kate W. Read & Yasmina Katsulis, Arizona State University Tempe Social & Cultural GeographyTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Feminized Labor and the Classed Body 3. Everyday Survival Strategies 4. Being a Good Mother in a "Bad" Profession 5. Pseudointimacy and Romantic Love 6. Calculating Risks, Surviving Danger 7. Body Work and the Feminization of Poverty 8. Conclusion Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisExamines the role of Russian Orthodox Church in the treatment of HIV/AIDS.Trade Review"A provocative and clearly argued work." Somatosphere "This is a fascinating book on an important topic." -- Erin Koch Slavic ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I: Backgrounds 1. HIV, Drug Use, and the Politics of Indifference 2. The Church's Rehabilitation Program 3. The Russian Orthodox Church, HIV, and Injecting Drug Use 4. Moral and Ethical Assemblages 5. Synergeia and Simfoniia: Orthodox Morality, Human Rights, and the State 6. Working on the Self Part II: Practices 7. Enchurchment 8. Cultivating a Normal Life 9. Normal Sociality: Obshchenie and Controlling Emotions 10. Disciplining Responsibility: Labor and Gender Some Closing Words Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisOver 12,000 years ago, in one of the greatest triumphs of prehistory, humans colonized North America. This title tells the scientific story of the first Americans: where they came from, when they arrived, and how they met the challenges of moving across the vast, unknown landscapes of Ice Age North America.Trade Review"A must read for anyone interested in what is undeniable the greatest debate in American archaeology... Essential." Choice "The book is ... sharply written and narratively compelling." -- Mark Dailey Journal Of World History "A masterful exploration and encapsulation of the last two centuries of American archaeology and the first five millennia of the earliest Americans." American Scientist "Informative and entertaining." -- E. James Dixon Antiquity "A good review of topics and controversies surrounding the peopling of North America." -- Susan C. Vehik Great Plains Research "[Meltzer] has written the most in-depth synthesis of the history of the debate about the early peopling of North America yet published." -- Juliet E. Morrow Journal Of Iowa Archeological Society "Often lively and occasionally bemused, Meltzer's study-part detective story and part archeological research-is stimulating and sometimes tantalizingly controversial." Publishers Weekly: Nonfiction (2)Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. Overture On Dates and Dating 2. The Landscape of Colonization: Glaciers, Climates, and Environments of Ice Age North America The Younger Dryas: It Came from Outer Space? 3. From Paleoliths to Paleoindians A Mammoth Fraud in Science 4. The Pre-Clovis Controversy and Its Resolution A Visit to Monte Verde 5. Non-archaeological Answers to Archaeological Questions And Then There Was Kennewick 6. American Origins: The Search for Consensus Looking for Clovis in All the Wrong Places 7. What Do You Do When No One’s Been There Before? 8. Clovis Adaptations and Pleistocene Extinctions Is Overkill Dead? 9. Settling In: Late Paleoindians and the Waning Ice Age Back to Folsom 10. When Past and Present Collide Further Reading Notes References Index Plates

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Book SynopsisTaking us on a journey into the nation's school kitchens, this book provides a comprehensive assessment of school food in the United States. It explores the politics of food provision from multiple perspectives - history, policy, nutrition, environmental sustainability, taste, and more.Trade Review"Meticulously researched, patiently explicated, potentially groundbreaking... Should be required reading for everyone who eats food, buys food, has kids, or cares about nutrition." Bookforum "Sophisticated and nuanced." -- Michael O'Donnell The Washington Monthly "[An] excellent, informative book... Poppendieck's research is extensive and meaningful." -- Lisa Sasson Gastronomica "A masterful work of public sociology that is likely to play an important role." -- Heather Sullivan-Caitlin Teaching SociologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: In Search of School Food 1. School Food 101 2. Food Fights: A Brief History 3. Penny Wise, Pound Foolish: What's Driving the Menu? 4. How Nutritious Are School Meals? 5. The Missing Millions: Problems of Participation 6. Hunger in the Classroom: Problems of Access 7. Free, Reduced Price, Paid: Unintended Consequences 8. Local Heroes: Fixing School Food at the Community Level Conclusion: School Food at the Crossroads Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFrom risque cabaret performances to engrossing after-hours shop talk, this title offers a look inside the secretive subculture of modern magicians. It follows the day-to-day lives of some of France's most renowned performers, revealing not only how secrets are created and shared, but also how they are stolen and destroyed.Trade Review"This book is a celebration and a revelation. Highly recommended." Genii Magazine "Readable, scholarly ... and personal... A fascinating account of an anthropologist visiting another world." -- Peter M. Nardi Los Angeles Review Of Books "By following some of the world's leading magicians and fully participating in the scene as a kind of sorcerer's apprentice, [Jones] shines a light on [the] community." The Independent "Look beyond the birthday parties and 10-gallon top hats and magicians have a long history going for them." Maxim "Studded with humor, insights, revelations about deceptions being created and destroyed." Magicana "Fascinatingly lays bare the craft, mores, sociology, anthropology and tendencies of magic... It's also quite funny." -- Brian Reffin Smith, U.K. Leonardo Reviews "Fascinating... [Jones's] writing is lively and engaging; Trade of the tricks will fascinate specialist and non-specialist readers alike." -- Matthew Solomon, University of Michigan Journal Royal Anthro Inst (Jrai) "There is a lot to appreciate in this book... The shrewd magician will read it." Genii Magazine

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction THE FEEL OF THINGS 1. Going on Attachment Alert 2. Can Emotional Labor Be Fun? 3. Empathy Maps FAMILIES, CLASS GAPS, AND TIME 4. So How's the Family? 5. Time Strategies 6. The Diplomat's Wife BOUNDARIES AND BLURS, MARKET AND HOME 7. The Personalized Market and the Marketized Self (with Sarah Garrett) 8. At Home in the Office (with Barrie Thorne) 9. Rent-a-Mom WOMEN ON THE GLOBAL BACKSTAGE 10. Two-Way Global Traffic in Care 11. Children Left Behind (with S. Uma Devi and Lise Isaksen) 12. The Surrogate's Womb Notes Bibliography Credits Index

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Book SynopsisDrawing on his lifelong fascination with the game, the author guides readers into the world of twenty-first-century chess to help us understand its unique pleasures and challenges, and to advance a new 'anthropology of passion.'Trade Review"The subject of chess boasts more books than any other game, but this one is special, crafted for the general reader as well as the aficionado... Like the game itself, Counterplay is an enjoyable mental exercise." -- E. James Lieberman Foreword "Desjarlais draws from his backgrounds in ethnographic research and amateur tournament chess to nimbly explore the game's social, philosophical, aesthetic, psychological, and technological quirks." -- Will Wlizlo Utne "An informative and penetrating survey of the game today." Publishers Weekly "Desjarlais brings to Counterplay a social scientist's eye for broader themes and implications, a researcher's exhaustive annotation, and a chess junkie's passion and respect for the game." -- Wayne Lee Santa Fe New Mexican/ PasatiempoTable of Contents1. Blitzkrieg Bop 2. Notes on a Swindle 3. Psych-Out 4. Sveshnikov Intrigues 5. Son of Sorrow 6. Ambivalence 7. Cyberchess 8. 24/7 on the ICC Endgame Appendix 1. Note on Chess Annotation Appendix 2. "Life is touch-move" Notes Glossary Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisSlavery is illegal throughout the world, yet more than twenty-seven million people are still trapped in one of history's oldest social institutions. This book points the way to abolishing slavery in global economy. It presents actual slaves, slaveholders, and public officials in well-drawn historical, geographical, and cultural contexts.Trade Review"Disposable People is an eloquently written plea on behalf of people who have been neglected in public discourse. Writing in a readable fashion and providing a gripping account of slaves and their families around the world, Bales reminds us that modernism has not reached all of humanity. The new type of slavery teaches us that although conditions have improved for many millions of people around the world, there are others who have not experienced any of the benefits of the global economy. For those millions of people around the world today, the global economy serves as the yoke that enslaves them." * Human Rights Quarterly *"Kevin Bales has written a fascinating book seeking to re veal the new slavery and calling for action to eradicate its presence. The book is at its best when it provides a voice for the stories of disposable people, and when it calls on the rest of us to live up to our responsibilities in a global world." * Labour / Le Travail *Table of ContentsPreface to the Revised Edition Preface to the 2012 Edition 1. The New Slavery 2. Thailand: Because She Looks Like a Child 3. Mauritania: Old Times There Are Not Forgotten 4. Brazil: Life on the Edge 5. Pakistan: When Is a Slave Not a Slave? 6. India: The Ploughman's Lunch 7. What Can Be Done? Coda: Three Things You Can Do to Stop Slavery Appendix I: A Note on Research Methods Appendix 2: Excerptsfrom International Conventions on Slavery Notes Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisThe author came of age in the South Bronx during the 1980s, a time when the community was devastated by cuts in social services, a rise in arson and abandonment, and the rise of crack-cocaine. This title provides an insider's look at the workings of a group of Dominican drug robbers.Trade Review"An important book. . . . Not your typical ethnography. . . . [This is] a story told from the inside out." -- Michael B. Greene * PsycCRITIQUES *"Hard-hitting, gravitating, and reflexive . . . Dr. Contreras shines in providing readers a greater level of coomplexity and nuance to understand these experiences." -- Robert J. Duran * Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice and Criminology *"At once a sensational, detailed, stomach-churning account of extreme violence and a sober, solid piece of social science research that makes a number of important contributions to our understanding of how violence is situated in structural, cultural, historical, and, especially, situational context. . . . finely wrought, first class social science . . . profound." -- Mercer L. Sullivan * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *"The Stickup Kids provides a unique insight for researchers, criminal justice representatives, advocates, and policy-makers who want to improve the overall well-being marginalized and segregated racial and ethnic minority communities. . . . A valuable addition." * Journal of Criminal Justice Education *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Becoming Stickup Kids 1. The Rise of the South Bronx and Crack 2. Crack Days: Getting Paid 3. Rikers Island: Normalizing Violence 4. The New York Boys: Tail Enders of the Crack Era 5. Crack is Dead Part II: Doing the Stickup 6. The Girl 7. Getting the Shit 8. Drug Robbery Torture 9. Splitting the Profits 10. Living the Dream: Life after a Drug Robbery Part III: Todo Tiene Su Final 11. Fallen Stars Conclusion Notes Index

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Book SynopsisWhat has it meant for future of the financial industry? What about the lives and careers of financial operators who were once driven by utopian visions of economic, social, and personal transformation? And what does it mean for critics of capitalism who have long predicted the end of financial institutions? This book deals with these questions.Trade Review"I heartily recommend [this book] to readers who are seriously interested in finance, market economics, or capitalism... brimming with lucid analysis and profound insight." * Social Science Japan Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Shakespearean Arbitrage 2. Between Arbitrage and Speculation 3. Trading on the Limits of Learning 4. Economy of Dreams 5. The Last Dream 6. From Arbitrage to the Gift Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisProvides a glimpse into modern-day American families. This title focuses on a variety of issues that face American families: the differing stress levels among parents; the problem of excessive clutter in the American home; the importance (and decline) of the family meal; the vanishing boundaries that once separated work and home life; and more.Trade Review"Recommended." -- B. Weston ChoiceTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note to the Reader Introduction Elinor Ochs and Tamar Kremer-Sadlik 1. Coming Home Elinor Ochs and Belinda Campos 2. At Home Anthony P. Graesch 3. Dinner Elinor Ochs and Margaret Beck 4. Mountains of Things Jeanne E. Arnold 5. Housework Wendy Klein, Carolina Izquierdo, and Thomas N. Bradbury 000 6. Chores Wendy Klein and Marjorie Harness Goodwin 7. Homework and Recreation Tamar Kremer-Sadlik and Kris Gutierrez 8. Nurturing Marjorie Harness Goodwin and Charles Goodwin 9. Stress Rena Repetti, Darby Saxbe, and Shu-wen Wang 10. Health as a Family Matter Linda C. Garro 11. Time for Family Tamar Kremer-Sadlik 12. The Good Enough Family Elinor Ochs and Tamar Kremer-Sadlik Appendix: The CELF Study References List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisExplores the moral lives of mental health clinicians serving the most marginalized individuals in the US healthcare system. This title traces the ethical dilemmas and everyday struggles of front line providers. It shows how people working deep inside the system struggle to maintain their ideals and manage a chronic sense of futility.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Terrain of Everyday Ethics Background to practice 1. Genealogy of the Treatment Model 2. Expert knowledge and Encounters with Futility Tools of the trade 3. Treatment Plans: Mandatory Narratives of Progress 4. Representative Payeeships: The Deep Logic of Dependency 5. Commitment Orders: The Practice of Consent and Constraint From Everyday to Formal Ethics 6. Coercion, Confidentiality, and the Moral Contours of Work Bibliography

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Book SynopsisExamines the revival of psychedelic science since the Decade of the Brain. This book is based on anthropological fieldwork and philosophical reflections on life and work in two laboratories that have played key roles in this development: a human lab in Switzerland and an animal lab in California.Trade Review"Beautifully rendered, exhasutively documented... Highly Recommended." -- J. G. Schnellman Choice "A deeply reflective meditation on the perennial struggle of humanity to preserve a mystical view of life during a time of materialist scientific discourses." -- Adam Montgomery Gesnerus "Neuropsychedelia is an elegant exemplar of both science studies and anthropology of the contemporary." -- Meg Stalcup SomatosphereTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Neuropsychopharmacology as Spiritual Technology 1. Psychedelic Revival 2. Swiss Psilocybin and US Dollars 3. The Varieties of Psychedelic Lab Experience 4. Enacting Experimental Psychoses 5. Between Animality and Divinity 6. Mystic Materialism Conclusion: Fieldwork in Perennial Philosophy Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Foreword by Oliver Sacks Introduction Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18: Ildefonso's Chapter Afterword Bibliography

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Book SynopsisSuitable for graduates, students, and everyone seeking to help bend the arc of history toward justice, this title challenges readers to counter failures of imagination that keep billions of people without access to health care, safe drinking water, decent schools, and other basic human rights.Trade Review"[Farmer] offers an anthology of 19 speeches on global health initiatives delivered between 2001 and 2012 . . . [from which ] readers will emerge with a heightened sense of the responsibilities and sacrifices required of future public servants." * Publishers Weekly *"...[To Repair the World] does not disappoint." * Los Angeles Review of Books *"With humor and passion, medical anthropologist Paul Farmer advocates a cure for society and the planet." * Nature *"The publication of this book is timely. It would make a perfect gift for a medical or biology graduate, but it would be inspiring to anyone who reads it. His speeches make one feel empowered ― to make a difference, to contribute to health policy, to accompany another who is struggling. In the speeches collected in To Repair the World, Dr. Farmer teaches us crucial lessons that we must all learn from, as scientists, as doctors, and as human beings." * Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine *"Paul Farmer’s anthology of speeches offers shorter narratives suited to a busy leader that exude a moral philosophy, blueprint, case histories and deep inspiration for the change of heart that must fuel American atonement and national healing.” -- Harriet A. Washington, * New York Times *Table of ContentsForeword by President Bill Clinton Introduction by Jonathan Weigel Part I: Reimagining Equity General Anesthesia for the (Young Doctor's) Soul? Brown Medical School, Commencement 2001 Epiphany, Metanoia, Praxis: Turning Road Angst into Hope--and Action Boston College, Commencement 2005 Three Stories, Three Paradigms, and a Critique of Social Entrepreneurship Skoll World Forum, Oxford University 2008 The Story of the Inhaler College of the Holy Cross, Commencement 2012 Countering Failures of Imagination Northwestern University, Commencement 2012 Part II: The Future of Medicine and the Big Picture If You Take the Red Pill: Reflections on the Future of Medicine Harvard Medical School, Class Day 2003 Medicine as a Vocation University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Commencement 2004 Haiti After the Earthquake Harvard Medical School, Talks@Twelve Speaker Series 2010 The Tetanus Speech University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Commencement 2010 Part III: Health, Human Rights, and Unnatural Disasters Global Health Equity and the Missing Weapons of Mass Salvation Harvard School of Public Health, Commencement 2004 Making Public Health Matter Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Commencement 2006 Unnatural Disasters and the Right to Health Care Tulane School of Medicine, Commencement 2008 Exploring the Adjacent Possible Georgetown University, Commencement 2011 Part IV: Service, Solidarity, Social Justice Who Stands Fast? Union Theological Seminary, Union Medal Acceptance Speech 2006 Courage and Compassion in the Time of Guantanamo Emory University, Commencement 2007 Spirituality and Justice All Saints Parish (Brookline, MA), Spirituality and Justice Award Acceptance Speech 2008 Making Hope and History Rhyme Princeton University, Commencement 2008 The Drum Major Instinct Boston University, Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration 2009 Accompaniment as Policy Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Commencement 2011 Notes Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisDoes a young person commit suicide every thirteen minutes in the United States? Are four million women really battered to death by their husbands or boyfriends each year? Is methamphetamine our number one drug problem today? This title deals with these questions.Trade Review"An ideal guide for anyone who reads a newspaper, watches television, or surfs the Web. In short, everyone." -- Joe Swingle Numeracy "Offers an eye-opening field guide to identifying problematic data and concludes by calling for better statistics." Nacada JournalTable of ContentsPREFACE TO THE 2013 EDITION PART 1. GETTING STARTED A. SPOTTING QUESTIONABLE NUMBERS B. BACKGROUND B.1 Statistical Benchmarks B.2 Severity and Frequency PART 2. VARIETIES OF DUBIOUS DATA C. BLUNDERS C.1 The Slippery Decimal Point C.2 Botched Translations C.3 Misleading Graphs C.4 Careless Calculations D. SOURCES: WHO COUNTED--AND WHY? D.1 Big Round Numbers D.2 Hyperbole D.3 Shocking Claims D.4 Naming the Problem E. DEFINITIONS: WHAT DID THEY COUNT? E.1 Broad Definitions E.2 Expanding Definitions E.3 Changing Definitions E.4 The Uncounted F. MEASUREMENTS: HOW DID THEY COUNT? F.1 Creating Measures F.2 Odd Units of Analysis F.3 Loaded Questions F.4 Raising the Bar F.5 Technical Measures G. PACKAGING: WHAT ARE THEY TELLING US? G.1 Impressive Formats G.2 Misleading Samples G.3 Convenient Time Frames G.4 Peculiar Percentages G.5 Selective Comparisons G.6 Statistical Milestones G.7 Averages G.8 Epidemics G.9 Correlations G.10 Discoveries H. RHETORIC: WHAT DO THEY WANT US TO THINK? H.1 Using Short-Term Turnover to Measure Long-Term Problems H.2 Sudden Turns for the Worse H.3 Designating Myths H.4 Rhetorical Flourishes I. DEBATES: WHAT IF THEY DISAGREE? I.1 Causality Debates I.2 Equality Debates I.3 Policy Debates PART 3. STAT-SPOTTING ON YOUR OWN J. SUMMARY: COMMON SIGNS OF DUBIOUS DATA K. BETTER DATA: SOME CHARACTERISTICS L. AFTERWORD: IF YOU HAD NO IDEA THINGS WERE THAT BAD, THEY PROBABLY AREN'T M. SUGGESTIONS FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO CONTINUE STAT-SPOTTING ACKNOWLEDGMENTS NOTES INDEX

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Book SynopsisCan philanthropy alleviate inequality? Do antipoverty programs work on the ground? In this book, the author focuses on these issues play out in California's Central Valley, which is one of the wealthiest agricultural production regions in the world and also home to the poorest people in the United States.Trade Review"Recommended." CHOICE "Too often, philanthropic and non-profit work is taken for granted as being inherently benevolent. Kohl-Arenas complicates these assumptions while also honoring the critiques presented by the Central Valley's nonprofit leaders and workers, who frequently hail from the communities they serve." Anthropology of Work ReviewTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. Private Philanthropy and the Self-Help Myth 2. The Hustling Arm of the Union: Nonprofit Institutionalization and the Compromises of Cesar Chavez 3. Foundation-Driven Collaborative Initiatives: Civic Participation for What? 4. Selling Mutual Prosperity: Worker-Grower Partnerships and the "Win-Win" Paradigm 5. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHow and why are U.S. transnational corporations investing in the lives, educations, and futures of poor, racialized girls and women in the Global South? Is it a solution to ending poverty? Or is it a pursuit of economic growth and corporate profit? Drawing on more than a decade of research in the United States and Brazil, this book focuses on how the philanthropic, social responsibility, and business practices of various corporations use a logic of development that positions girls and women as instruments of poverty alleviation and new frontiers for capitalist accumulation. Using the Girl Effect, the philanthropic brand of Nike, Inc., as a central case study, the book examines how these corporations seek to address the problems of gendered poverty and inequality, yet do so using an instrumental logic that shifts the burden of development onto girls and women without transforming the structural conditions that produce poverty. These practices, in turn, enable corporations to expand theiTrade Review“A sobering and thought-provoking examination of something many of us have taken for granted: the unquestioned benefit and feminist appeal of the Girl Effect model.” * Philanthropy News Digest *"The book is especially interesting for researchers involved in ethnography, feminism, corporate policy making, charitable giving, and the role of capitalism in enhancing and hurting worker conditions." * CHOICE *"Every now and then, a book comes along that has the potential to widen the compass and shift the terms of debate in a research field in a decisive manner. Kathryn Moeller’s The Gender Effect is precisely such a book for the field of global development studies, and especially for critical research on the politics of gender, poverty, and development. . . . the book should be widely read and vigorously discussed as a source of crucial insights into how philanthrocapitalism works to disarm radical political projects, and what can and must be done to avoid this." * Community Development Journal *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: Corporatized Development 1. The Girl Effect as Apparatus 2. The Historical Rise of the Girl Effect 3. The Spectacle of Empowering Girls and Women 4. Searching for Third World Potential 5. Proving the Girl Effect 6. Negotiating Corporatized Development Conclusion: Accelerating and Freeing the Girl Effect Sources to Timeline of Nike, Inc. and Nike Foundation History and Public Response Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe food system is broken, but there is a revolution underway to fix it. Bite Back presents an urgent call to action and a vision for disrupting corporate power in the food system, a vision shared with countless organizers and advocates worldwide. In this provocative and inspiring new book, editors Saru Jayaraman and Kathryn De Master bring together leading experts and activists who are challenging corporate powerby addressing injustices in our food system, from wage inequalityto environmental destructionto corporate bullying. In paired chapters, authors present a problem arising from corporate control of the food system and then recount how an organizing campaign successfully tackled it. This unique solutions-oriented book allows readers to explore the core contemporary challenges embedded in our food system and learn how we can push back against corporate greed to benefit workers and consumers everywhere.Trade Review"In this cleverly titled collection,​ ​attorney Saru Jayaraman and rural sociologist Kathryn De Master conclude that corporations control much of our food because of 'their unbridled, unregulated power over our democracy.'" * Nature *“Offers a series of roadmaps for activists who are looking to change the status quo.” * FoodPrint *“A book for the present moment.” * Civil Eats *"Bite Back is a valuable source that brings together research, activism and strategies for action." * The Maine Organic Farmer & Gardener *Table of ContentsForeword Marion Nestle Introduction Kathryn De Master and Saru Jayaraman 1. SEEDS Call to Action • How Corporations Control Our Seeds Philip H. Howard Collective Response • Taking Back Our Seeds Kristina “Kiki” Hubbard 2. PESTICIDES Call to Action • Pesticide Purveyors and Corporate Power Jill Lindsey Harrison Collective Response • Drift Catchers Combatting Pesticide Power Emily Marquez, Marcia Ishii-Eiteman, and Kristin Schafer 3. EXTRACTION Call to Action • Devil’s Bargain: Fractured Farms or Freedom? Kathryn De Master and Stephanie A. Malin Collective Response • Food and Water over Fracking Wenonah Hauter and Seth A. Gladstone 4 . LABOR Call to Action • Food Workers versus Food Giants Joann Lo and Jose Oliva Collective Response • Food Workers Taking On Goliath Saru Jayaraman 5. HEALTH Call to Action • Fast Food Embodied: Industrial Diets Kristine Madsen and Wendi Gosliner Collective Response • Moving a McMountain Anna Lappé and Kelle Louaillier 6. HUNGER Call to Action • Hunger Incorporated: Who Benefits from Anti-Hunger Efforts? Andy Fisher Collective Response • Progress over Poverty through Political Power Jim Araby 7. TRADE Call to Action • The Corporate Stock in Trade Raj Patel and Maywa Montenegro de Wit Collective Response • Food Sovereignty in Japan and Beyond Ayumi Kinezuka and Maywa Montenegro de Wit Conclusion: Stand Up, Bite Back Saru Jayaraman and Kathryn De Master Afterword: Taking Action to Create Change Judy Hertz Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisScholars and practitioners who witness violence and loss in human, animal, and ecological contexts are expected to have no emotional connection to the subjects they study. Yet is this possible? Following feminist traditions,Vulnerable Witnesscenters the researcher and challenges readers to reflect on how grieving is part of the research process and, by extension, is a political act. Through thirteen reflective essays the book theorizes the role of grief in the doing of researchfrom methodological choices, fieldwork and analysis, engagement with individuals, and places of study to the manner in which scholars write and talk about their subjects. Combining personal stories from early career scholars, advocates, and senior faculty, the book shares a breadth of emotional engagement at various career stages and explores the transformative possibilities that emerge from being enmeshed with one's own research.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Patricia J. Lopez and Kathryn Gillespie 1. “With You, Time Flowed Like Water”: Geographies of Grief across International Research Collaborations Jessie Hanna Clark 2. Grieving Guinea Pigs: Refl ections on Research and Shame in Peru María Elena García 3. An Immigrant in Academia: Navigating Grief and Privilege Yolanda Valencia 4. The Mongoose Trap: Grief, Intervention, and the Impossibility of Professional Detachment Elan Abrell 5. The Authentic Hypocrisy of Ecological Grief Amy Spark 6. Scale-Blocking Grief: Witnessing the Intimate between a Confl ict Leopard and Confi nement Kalli F. Doubleday 7. On Missing People in the Field David Boarder Giles 8. Grieving Daughter, Grieving Witness Abigail H. Neely 9. The Researcher-Witness of Violence against Queers: One Scholar-Activist’s Pathway through Lament William J. Payne 10. Unsteady Hands: Care and Grief for Conservation Subjects Jenny R. Isaacs 11. Grieving Salmon and the Politics of Collective Ecological Fieldwork Cleo Woelfl e-Erskine 12. Witnessing Grief: Feminist Perspectives on the Loss-Body-Mind-Self-Other Nexus and Permission to Express Feelings Avril Maddrell and Elizabeth Olson 13. Self-Care and Trauma: Locating the Time and Space to Grieve Dana Cuomo Epilogue Patricia J. Lopez and Kathryn Gillespie Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisJapanese society is frequently held up to the Western world as a model of harmony and efficiency, but the price it pays tends to be overlooked. In a searching analysis that will fascinate students and admirers of Japan as much as it will inform psychologists and suicidologists, Mamoru Iga discusses the precise nature of the thorn in the chrysanthemum, a thorn that may hurt both the Japanese and the outsider who conducts business with them. The author, who was reared and educated in Japan, is uniquely qualified to interpret the value orientations of a society in which suicide is all too common. He finds that the traits leading to homogeneity and extreme adaptability in that society as a whole are the very traits that can produce painful reactions in the individual. Those traits are described as monism, groupism, authoritarianism, familism, and accommodationism, and together they comprise the Japanese social character. Because the individual's behavior is based on the images, assumptions, and ideas about the world that make up his or her culture, conformism in the individual is one major manifestation of Japan's social character. In Japan, the need to fill one's socially prescribed role may make it doubly difficult to think independently and creatively and to find solutions for the resulting stress. Suicide notes and other personal documents reveal the painful cost of modern Japan's success story, as the examination of individual suicides is related both to the theoretical framework of Durkheim's types of suicide and to the sociological patterns that characterize suicide in Japan. It is in personal value orientations, however, that Iga finds the common ground between suicide and economic success. American readers will find especially interesting the contrast between value orientations in Japan and in the United States. Nearly the opposite of the Japanese traits described above, American values of rationalism, individualism, competition, and change create their own problems. There is much to be learned from this expert analysis of the problem of suicide in Japan. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1986.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"From the Victorian asylum era and the rise and fall of psychoanalysis to the arrival of psychopharmacology and neuroscience, Scull chronicles the medicalization of mental illness with balance and scepticism. He is trenchant on psychiatry’s failures, from prefrontal lobotomy to ‘care in the community’; critical of neuro-reductionism; eloquent on diagnosis debates; and ever aware of the human suffering at his chronicle’s core.” * Nature *“As a collection of previously published material gathered from diverse sources, this book suffers from a certain amount of repetition; however the author has done a service in bringing it together, the writing is lively, the scandals attached to its principal actors are dutifully weighed and the scholarship is impressive.” * Times Literary Supplement *"A lucid mixture of biography, bibliography, and historiography – a personal narrative of the shifting terrain of madness scholarship over five decades." * Medical Health News *“Scull’s encyclopedic knowledge of American (and British) psychiatry has something to teach any reader.” * Social Service Review *“[Scull’s] writing combines the structural curiosity of the sociologist with the historian’s quizzical eye and interest in causation. Scull’s significant corpus in the history of madness ranges from the rise of the asylum and psychiatry’s slow, fitful emergence under its eaves to a magisterial study of madness in world civilisations. It provides necessary ballast for the volume’s freewheeling adventurism.” * Australian Book Review *“Our most accomplished historian of madness and its treatments . . . . Scull, as always, is acute in his assessment and critique. . . . A vital and original perspective on the reshaping of mental medicine.” 
 * Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences *"Scull writes with style and wit. He is, by turns, skeptical, combative and passionate, especially in his denouncements of treatments. . . . Although one may not agree with all of Scull's opinions, these essays offer a stimulating and provoking account of psychiatry, past and present." * British Journal of Psychiatry *"Andrew Scull is without a doubt one of the major names in the history of late 20th‐century psychiatry. In a period of historiographical renewal that, influenced by such authors as Foucault and Goffman, came to offer highly critical views of psychiatry—against the backdrop of anti‐psychiatry and the emergence of the survivors of psychiatry movement—Scull's work always maintained a balance, which was not always easy to hold. . . . The collection does have the virtue of offering an overview of Scull's thinking on the subject." * Centaurus *"Scull is able to bring to each lively and engaging chapter, no matter how seemingly narrow in focus, a wealth of historical research, sociological analysis, and humane reflection that places each fragmentary account into a richer and more coherent historical narrative." * Society *"This volume is a useful collection of his insights for any historian or anthropologist of mental health." * Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: The Travails of Psychiatry PART 1. The Asylum and Its Discontents 2. The Fictions of Foucault’s Scholarship: Madness and Civilization Revisited 3. The Asylum, the Hospital, and the Clinic 4. A Culture of Complaint: Psychiatry and Its Critics 5. Promises of Miracles: Religion as Science, and Science as Religion PART 2. Whither Twentieth-Century Psychiatry? 6. Burying Freud 7. Psychobiology, Psychiatry, and Psychoanalysis: The Intersecting Careers of Adolf Meyer, Phyllis Greenacre, and Curt Richter 8. Mangling Memories 9. Creating a New Psychiatry: On the Rockefeller Foundation and the Rise of Academic Psychiatry PART 3. Transformations and Interpretations 10. Shrinks: Doctor Pangloss 11. The Hunting of the Snark: The Search for a History of Neuropsychiatry 12. Contending Professions: Sciences of Brain and Mind in the United States, 1900–2013 PART 4. Neuroscience and the Biological Turn 13. Trauma 14. Empathy: Reading Other People’s Minds 15. Mind, Brain, Law, and Culture 16. Left Brain, Right Brain, One Brain, Two Brains 17. Delusions of Progress: Psychiatry’s Diagnostic Manual Notes Index

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Book SynopsisAcross disciplines, critical thinking is praised, taught, and put into practice. But what does it actually mean to think critically? In this brief volume, sociologist Joel Best examines how to evaluate arguments and the evidence used to support them as he hones in on how to think in the field of sociology and beyond. With inimitable style that melds ethnographic verve with dry humor, Best examines the ways in which sociologists engage in fuzzy thinking through bias, faddish cultural waves, spurious reasoning, and implicit bias. The short chapters cover: A general introduction to critical thinking and logic in the social sciencesSociology as an enterpriseKey issues in thinking critically about sociological researchChallenging questions that confront sociologists and a call for the discipline to meet those challenges. Students across disciplines will learn the building blocks of critical thinking in a sociological context and come away with key concepts to put into practice.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. What Is Critical Thinking? 2. The Basics: Arguments and Assumptions 3. Everyday Arguments Anecdotes • Ad Hominem Arguments • Myths • Folk Wisdom and Metaphors • Facts • Everyday Reasoning 4. The Logic of Social Science Patterns • Causality • Judging Social Scientific Claims • The Importance of Evidence 5. Authority and Social Science Arguments Challenges for Social Science • The Case of Sociology • Thinking about Sociology and Critical Thinking 6. Sociology as a Social World Camps • Envy • Sociology’s Subdivisions 7. Orientations Optimism and Pessimism • Team Culture and Team Structure • Insiders and Outsiders • Tragedy and Comedy • The Importance of Orientations Contents 8. Words Jargon • Word Fads • Definitions • Concept Creep 9. Questions and Measurements Sociological Questions • Empirical Questions • Measurement • What Is Being Measured? • Questioning Measurements 10. Variables and Comparison Variables • Issues with Comparison • Varieties of Comparative Findings • Replication • Comparison in Qualitative Research • Questioning Comparisons 11. Tendencies Patterned Tendencies • The Ecological Fallacy • The Modesty of Sociological Explanations • Thinking about Tendencies 12. Evidence Effective Evidence • Not-So-Effective Evidence • Questioning Evidence Choices • Questions about Research 13. Echo Chambers Recognizing and Addressing One’s Own Biases • Expectations and Sociologists • The Complications of Ideological Homogeneity • The Importance of Self-Criticism 14. Tough Topics Cultural Waves • Good Guys and Bad Guys • Taboos • Thinking about What’s Difficult Afterword: Why Critical Thinking Is Important Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisAcross disciplines, critical thinking is praised, taught, and put into practice. But what does it actually mean to think critically? In this brief volume, sociologist Joel Best examines how to evaluate arguments and the evidence used to support them as he hones in on how to think in the field of sociology and beyond. With inimitable style that melds ethnographic verve with dry humor, Best examines the ways in which sociologists engage in fuzzy thinking through bias, faddish cultural waves, spurious reasoning, and implicit bias. The short chapters cover: A general introduction to critical thinking and logic in the social sciencesSociology as an enterpriseKey issues in thinking critically about sociological researchChallenging questions that confront sociologists and a call for the discipline to meet those challenges. Students across disciplines will learn the building blocks of critical thinking in a sociological context and come away with key concepts to put into practice.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. What Is Critical Thinking? 2. The Basics: Arguments and Assumptions 3. Everyday Arguments Anecdotes • Ad Hominem Arguments • Myths • Folk Wisdom and Metaphors • Facts • Everyday Reasoning 4. The Logic of Social Science Patterns • Causality • Judging Social Scientific Claims • The Importance of Evidence 5. Authority and Social Science Arguments Challenges for Social Science • The Case of Sociology • Thinking about Sociology and Critical Thinking 6. Sociology as a Social World Camps • Envy • Sociology’s Subdivisions 7. Orientations Optimism and Pessimism • Team Culture and Team Structure • Insiders and Outsiders • Tragedy and Comedy • The Importance of Orientations Contents 8. Words Jargon • Word Fads • Definitions • Concept Creep 9. Questions and Measurements Sociological Questions • Empirical Questions • Measurement • What Is Being Measured? • Questioning Measurements 10. Variables and Comparison Variables • Issues with Comparison • Varieties of Comparative Findings • Replication • Comparison in Qualitative Research • Questioning Comparisons 11. Tendencies Patterned Tendencies • The Ecological Fallacy • The Modesty of Sociological Explanations • Thinking about Tendencies 12. Evidence Effective Evidence • Not-So-Effective Evidence • Questioning Evidence Choices • Questions about Research 13. Echo Chambers Recognizing and Addressing One’s Own Biases • Expectations and Sociologists • The Complications of Ideological Homogeneity • The Importance of Self-Criticism 14. Tough Topics Cultural Waves • Good Guys and Bad Guys • Taboos • Thinking about What’s Difficult Afterword: Why Critical Thinking Is Important Notes References Index

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