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Harvard University Press Concepts of Ethnicity
Book SynopsisThe tightening and loosening of ethnic identity under changing definitions of Americanism is emphasized in this volume.Table of ContentsConcepts of Ethnicity William Petersen Pluralism in Humanistic Perspective Michael Novak American Identity and Americanization Philip Gleason Bibliography
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Harvard University Press Congressional Insurgents and the Party System 19091916
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Harvard University Press Crime in the Making Pathways Turning Points
Book SynopsisBased on the re-analysis of Sheldon and Eleanor Gluecks' mid-century study of 500 delinquents and 500 non-delinquents from childhood to adulthood, this informal social control theory accepts the importance of childhood behaviour but rejects the idea that adult social factors have little relevance.Trade ReviewImaginative and forthright, a well-argued book with broad theoretical and methodological implications. -- John Modell * American Journal of Sociology *Crime in the Making deserves widespread attention. -- Joan McCord * Contemporary Sociology *The book’s logical organization, the authors’ parsimonious explanation of key concepts and theoretical propositions, and the comprehensive presentation of their findings interact to produce a volume that possesses a high degree of clarity and readability… Crime in the Making should be read by all developmental criminologists and those interested in the study of criminal careers. -- Douglas Yearwood * Criminologist *This book will be widely read and cited, and it deserves to be. [The authors] have carefully crafted a model which addresses both stability and change in delinquency and crime over the life course, and they have done an impeccable job of testing it. -- Candace Kruttschnitt * Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency *Hard-headed quantitative variable-oriented statistics are skillfully blended with qualitative person-oriented studies of individual life histories. A ‘must’ for anyone interested in either criminology or life-span development, and of great interest to a much wider group of readers. Crime in the Making is destined to become a classic. -- Michael Rutter, Institute of Psychiatry, University of LondonNo previous work offers such a systematic and theoretically informed view of delinquent and criminal involvements from adolescence through adulthood. -- John Hagan, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Toward an Age-graded Theory of Informal Social Control 2. Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency and Follow-up Studies 3. Restoring, Supplementing, and Validating the Data 4. The Family Context of Juvenile Delinquency 5. The Role of School, Peers, and Siblings 6. Continuity in Behavior over Time 7. Adult Social Bonds and Change in Criminal Behavior 8. Comparative Models of Crime and Deviance 9. Exploring Life Histories 10. Summing Up and Looking Ahead Appendix: Interview with the Gluecks' Original Research Staff Notes References Index
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Harvard University Press Deaf in America
Book SynopsisWritten by authors who are themselves Deaf, this unique book illuminates the life and culture of Deaf people from the inside, through their everyday talk, their shared myths, their art and performances, and the lessons they teach one another.Trade ReviewA fascinating glimpse into a world unfamiliar to most of us. * New York Times Book Review *To be deaf, it seems obvious, must be to live in a world of silence. That, say the authors of Deaf in America, is where most people get it wrong… [Padden and Humphries] challenge their readers to imagine a world, one with a ‘different center’—one in which ability or inability to hear is not at the core. The thing that links it all together is sign language, which Deaf in America contemplates, illustrates, and celebrates. -- Paul Berg * Washington Post *A long, painful experience of hearing intolerance has generally kept Deaf culture fairly closed to outsiders, even sympathetic ones. But now Padden and Humphries…have written a charming small book that invites the rest of us at least part way in… A most welcome addition to that very small shelf of books that truly illuminate the experience of being deaf. -- Beryl Lieff Benderly * Psychology Today *Through the use of folklore, apocryphal stories, poetry, jokes, and discussion of split factions and advocacy organizations, Padden and Humphries gracefully explain how deaf culture works, what it means to its members, how they define themselves within it, and how they interact with the world outside. Providing rare insight into this universe of silence, this volume conveys the joy and satisfaction that many deaf people have in their lives and shows that being deaf is not a handicap that most hearing people think. * Booklist *In this wonderful book, we see Deaf culture from inside out and from outside in at the same time—a miracle and a delight. -- Harlan Lane, author of When the Mind Hears: A History of the DeafTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Learning to Be Deaf 2. Images of Being 3. A Different Center 4. Living in Others' World 5. A Changing Consciousness 6. The Meaning of Sound 7. Historically Created Lives References Index
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Harvard University Press Disembodying Women
Book SynopsisIn Disembodying Women, Barbara Duden takes a closer look at this contemporary transformation of women's experience of pregnancy. She suggests that advances in technology and parallel changes in public discourse have refrained pregnancy as a managed process, the mother as an ecosystem, and the fetus as an endangered species.Trade ReviewIn a world of victim profiles, suspect typologies, life cycle projections, reasonable men, and talking fetuses, Barbara Duden puts the living body back into its skin, rescuing our humanity from the fragmenting tyranny of the actuarial self. -- Patricia Williams, School of Law, Columbia University
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Harvard University Press Ecology and Evolution of Communities
Book SynopsisThis book contains 18 contributions by leaders in the field of ecology, all associates of Robert MacArthur, whose work has stimulated many recent developments in ecology. These papers offer new models for ecological processes, new applications of theoretical and quantitative techniques, and new methods for analyzing and interpreting empirical data.Table of ContentsIntroduction Martin L. Cody and Jared M. Diamond Bibliography of Robert MacArthur I. The Evolution of Species Abundance and Diversity 1. Evolution in Communities Near Equilibrium Richard Levins 2. Population Fluctuations, Community Stability, and Environmental Variability Egbert G. Leigh, Jr. 3. Environmental Fluctuations and Species Diversity John W. MacArthur 4. Patterns of Species Abundance and Diversity Robert M. May 5. On Continental Steady States of Species Diversity Michael L. Rosenzweig II. Competitive Strategies of Resource Allocation 6. Selection for Optimal Life Histories in Plants William M. Schaffer and Madhav D. Gadgil 7. Prey Characteristics and Predator Niche Width Henry A. Hespenheide 8. The Temporal Component of Butterfly Species Diversity Arthur M. Shapiro 9. Markovian Processes of Forest Succession Henry S. Horn III. Community Structure 10. Towards a Theory of Continental Species Diversities Martin L. Cody 11. Ecomorphological Configurations and Convergent Evolution James R. Karr and Frances C. James 12. Niche Relations of Desert Lizards Eric R. Pianka 13. Geographical Ecology of Desert Rodents James H. Brown 14. Assembly of Species Communities, Jared M. Diamond 15. Structure of Stream Communities Ruth Patrick 16. Some Mechanisms Producing Structure in Natural Communities Joseph H. Connell IV. Outlook 17. Variations on a Theme by Robert MacArthur G. Evelyn Hutchinson 18. Applied Biogeography Edward 0. Wilson and Edwin 0. Willis Index Contributors
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Harvard University Press Epistemic Cultures How the Sciences Make
Book SynopsisHow does science create knowledge? Epistemic cultures, shaped by affinity, necessity, and historical coincidence, determine how we know what we know. In this book, Karin Knorr Cetina compares two of the most important and intriguing epistemic cultures of our day, those in high energy physics and molecular biology.Trade Review[Karin Cetina] has studied the behavior and practices of physicists in the process of trying to acquire knowledge of the basic components of the universe, and of biologists seeking empirical knowledge of natural objects. According to Cetina, the way the two groups go about their business is fundamentally different, and this difference has something to tell us about how we know what we know...A thorough and thoughtful examination of the epistemic underpinning of a knowledge society. -- M. H. Chaplin * Choice *There are many provocative and very interesting things in this book, above all the fairly dramatic and systematic contrast between the working cultures and organizational structures of experimental high energy physics laboratories and molecular biology ones. The opening framework for contrasting these two sciences by their empirical, technological, and social machineries is enormously suggestive. All this should help set a working agenda for anthropologists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers of science and technology of how to explore, elaborate, and expand upon the now often stated proposition that the sciences are diverse in their methods and approaches to the world. -- Michael M. J. Fisher, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyTable of ContentsA Note on Transcription 1. Introduction 1.1. The Disunity of the Sciences 1.2. The Cultures of Knowledge Societies 1.3. Culture and Practice 1.4. The Structure of the Book 1.5. Physics Theory, and a First Look at the Field 1.6. Issues of Methodology, and More about the Field 2. What is a Laboratory? 2.1. Laboratories as Reconfigurations of Natural and Social Orders 2.2. From Laboratory to Experiment 2.3. Some Features of the Laboratory Reconsidered 3. Particle Physics and Negative Knowledge 3.1. The Analogy of the Closed Universe 3.2. A World of Signs and Secondary Appearances 3.3. The"Meaninglessness" of Measurement 3.4. The Structure of the Care of the Self 3.5. Negative Knowledge and the Liminal Approach 3.6. Moving in a Closed Universe: Unfolding, Framing, and Convoluting 4. Molecular Biology and Blind Variation 4.1. An Object-Oriented Epistemics 4.2. The Small-Science Style of Molecular Biology and the Genome Project 4.3. The Laboratory as a Two-Tier Structure 4.4."Blind" Variation and Natural Selection 4.5. The Experiential Register 4.6. Blind Variation Reconsidered 5. From Machines to Organisms: Detectors as Behavioral and Social Beings 5.1. Primitive Classifications 5.2. Detector Agency and Physiology 5.3. Detectors as Moral and Social Individuals 5.4. Live Organism or Machine? 5.5. Are There Enemies? 5.6. Physicists as Symbionts 5.7. Taxonomies of Trust 5.8. Primitive Classifications Reconsidered 6. From Organisms to Machines: Laboratories as Factories of Transgenics 6.1. A Science of Life without Nature? 6.2. Organisms as Production Sites 6.3. Cellular Machines 6.4. Industrial Production versus Natural (Re)production 6.5. Biological Machines Reconsidered 7. HEP Experiments as Post-Traditional Communitarian Structures 7.1.. Large Collaborations: A Brief History 7.2. The Erasure of the Individual as an Epistemic Subject 7.3. Management by Content 7.4. The Intersection of Management by Content and Communitarianism 7.5. Communitarian Time: Genealogical, Scheduled 8. The Multiple Ordering Frameworks of HEP Collaborations 8.1. The Birth Drama of an Experiment 8.2. Delaying the Choice, or Contests of Unfolding 8.3. Confidence Pathways and Gossip Circles 8.4. Other Ordering Frameworks 8.5. Reconfiguration Reconsidered 9. The Dual Organization of Molecular Biology Laboratories 9.1. Laboratories Structured as Individuated Units 9.2. Becoming a Laboratory Leader 9.3. The Two Levels of the Laboratory 9.4. The"Impossibility" of Cooperation in Molecular Biology 10. Toward an Understanding of Knowledge Societies: A Dialogue Notes References Index
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Harvard University Press From Prejudice to Destruction
Book SynopsisKatz here presents a major reinterpretation of modern anti-Semitism, revising the prevalent thesis that medieval and modern animosities against Jews were fundamentally different.Trade ReviewTo this book Mr. Katz has brought scholarly rigor, objectivity, and, last but not least, a sense of the passage of time so frequently missing from discussions of anti-Semitism. For once, the modern Jewish experience is not read backward from catastrophe, but is allowed to find its own way through all the continuities and discontinuities which history has to offer… Enables us to discern the history of anti-Semitism with greater clarity than ever before. * Commentary *Profoundly disturbing… In a world in which the disease of anti-Semitism appears to be rising, Katz’s work makes compelling reading. * Hadassah Magazine *From Prejudice to Destruction contains a wealth of specific information that will be of interest to scholars. The general reader will be drawn to its larger themes. Certainly the most important of these is Katz’s contention that modern anti-Semitism is a direct outgrowth of traditional, Christian anti-Semitism. * The New Leader *Table of ContentsIntroduction PART 1: BACKGROUND, 1700-1780 1. The Christian Tradition: Eisenmenger 2. The Rationalist Reorientation 3. Voltaire PART 2: GERMANY, 1780-1819 4. Ideological Counterattack 5. Philosophy the Heir of Theology 6. Nationalism and Romanticism 7. Incitement and Riot PART 3: FRANCE, 1780-1880 8. The Revolutionary Promise and the Catholic Reaction 9. The Socialist Indictment 10. The Liberal Ambiguity 11. Jews and Freemasons PART 4: GERMANY, 1830-1873 12. The German Liberals' Image of the Jew 13. The Radicals: Feuerbach, Bauer, Marx 14. The Scandal of the Jewish Artist: Richard Wagner 15. The Christian State 16. The Jewish Stereotype and Assimilation 17. The Conservatives' Rearguard Action PART 5: AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, 1780-1880 18. The Austrian Prelude 19. The Hungarian Prelude PART 6: THE MOVEMENT 20. The Incubation 21. The Crystallization 22. The Hungarian Variation 23. The Austrian Extension 24. French Anti-Semitism PART 7: CULMINATION 25. Racism and the Nazi Climax 26. Anti-Semitism Through the Ages Notes Index
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Harvard University Press The Holocaust the Historians Paper
Book SynopsisThe renowned author of The War Against the Jews sets out to solve a historiographical mystery. Why has the mass murder of European Jews been overlooked or trivialized by historians throughout the world? In a forceful, outspoken work, Lucy Dawidowicz looks for explanations.Trade ReviewProfessor Dawidowicz’s work embodies high standards of scholarship. The analysis is shrewd and generally fair, and the comparisons often brilliantly perceptive… A valuable contribution to the literature of the Second World War and the Holocaust. * New York Times Book Review *Ms. Dawidowicz is always incisive, sharp, analytical and honest… Her analysis especially of German historiography is fascinating. * American Jewish History *Marshalling an impressive array of scholarship, [Dawidowicz] takes the reader through a careful examination of the writings about the holocaust in England and the US, Germany, the USSR, and Poland. * Review of Books and Religion *
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Harvard University Press Mapping the Moral Domain
Book SynopsisGilligan and her colleagues expand the theoretical base of In A Different Voice and apply their research methods to a variety of life situations. The contrasting voices of justice and care clarify different ways in which women and men speak about relationships and lend different meanings to such phenomena as autonomy, loyalty, and violence.Trade ReviewThere is much more that could be said about the quiet revolution by which Gilligan—and her colleagues—have enlarged our concept of what it means to be a person. But a brief review could not begin to do justice to the nuances, and the reader is encouraged to get these emancipatory ideas firsthand. For those who have not been exposed to such writing before, Mapping the Moral Domain may be a good introduction. -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi * New York Times Book Review *
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Harvard University Press Modernism Revolution Russian Literature in
Book SynopsisThis text examines the innovations and experimentations of modernism in Russian literature during its most turbulent years. Covering artistic prose, poetry and criticism, it analyzes how revolution in the arts and revolution in society and politics related to one another.
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Harvard University Press People of the Book Canon Meaning Authority
Book SynopsisHalbertal provides a panoramic survey of Jewish attitudes toward Scripture, provocatively organized around problems of normative and formative authority, with an emphasis on the changing status and functions of Mishnah, Talmud, and Kabbalah.Trade ReviewHalbertal offers a sophisticated analysis of the development of Jewish text-centered cultures. His work is an important study for the history of interpretation within Judaism, though its significance as a model of how text-centered religions think extends even beyond Judaism...The work would make an excellent classroom introduction to the nature of the role that canonization plays in religions whose experience of the divine is mediated by the interpretation of sacred texts. This book is best suited to the philosophically sophisticated lay reader and to students or scholars of the sociology of religion. It should certainly be included among the holdings of all general, theological, and religious studies research libraries. -- Robert H. O'Connell * Library Journal *At once an introduction to Jewish hermeneutics, a reflection of canonicity, and a survey of Jewish politics of interpretation, this volume is lucidly composed and amply documented…This work is especially significant for its balanced and nuanced consideration of the "canonization of controversy" in Jewish thought. Particularly successful is Halbertal's use of his preferred expository device, the extended interpretation of selected controversies. Such closes analyses as, for example, those on R. Yair Bakhrakh and on the Maimonidean controversy are especially interesting. His probing review of philosophical and Kabbalistic challengers to Talmudism and his reflections on the Zionist turn from Talmud toward the Bible are careful and informative, yet also provocative. A desirable addition to undergraduate and graduate libraries. -- Steven M. Wasserstrom * Religious Studies Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Canonical Text and Text-Centered Community PART 1: CANON AND MEANING 1. The Uses of Canon 2. The Sealed Canon 3. Authority and Sealing 4. The Meaning of the Canonical Text 5. Canon and the Principle of Charity 6. Textual Closure and Hermeneutical Openness 7. Uncharitable Readings of Canons PART 2: AUTHORITY, CONTROVERSY, AND TRADITION 8. Authorial Intention and Authoritative Meaning 9. Canon and Controversy 10. Three Views on Controversy and Tradition 11. From a Flexible Canon to a Closed Code 12. The Institution and the Canon PART 3: CANON AND CURRICULUM 13. Formative Text 14. The Concept of Torah in "Talmud Torah" 15. The Challengers of Talmudism 16. Codification and Decanonization 17. Esotericism and Censorship 18. Kabbalists and the Talmudic Curriculum 19. Strong Canonicity and Shared Discourse Conclusion Appendix: The Sovereign and the Canon Notes Index
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Harvard University Press Probing the Limits of Representation Nazism the
Book SynopsisCan the Holocaust be compellingly described or represented? Or is there some core aspect of the extermination of the Jews of Europe which resists our powers of depiction, of theory, of narrative? In this volume, twenty scholars probe the moral, epistemological, and aesthetic limits of an account or portrayal of the Nazi horror.Trade ReviewWhat might it mean to call the Holocaust a ’crisis in form’…the Shoah nonetheless challenges our powers to draw something like a meaning, or maybe even more than one, from this powerful sense of meaningfulness. At the same time that it renders the task of historical comprehension ethically imperative, it threatens to expose the inadequacies, or at the very least the limitations of our familiar modes of coming to understand cultural events. -- Irene Tucker * Poetics Today *Table of ContentsIntroduction Saul Friedlander 1. German Memory, Judicial Interrogation, and Historical Reconstruction: Writing Perpetrator History from Postwar Testimony Christopher R. Browing 2. Historical Emplotment and the Problem of Truth Hayden White 3. On Emplotment: Two Kinds of Ruin Perry Anderson 4. History, Counterhistory and Narrative Amos Funkenstien 5. Just One Witness Carlo Ginzburg 6. Of Plots, Witness and Judgments Martin Jay 7. Representing the Holocaust: Reflections on the Historians' Debate Dominick LaCapra 8. Historical Understanding and Counterrationally: The Judenrat as Epistemological Vantage Dan Diner 9. History beyond the Pleasure Principle: Some Thoughts on the Representation of Trauma Eric L. Santner 10. Habermas, Enlightenment, and Antisemitism Vincent P. Pecora 11. Between Image and Phrase: Progessive History and the "Final Solution" as Dispossession Sande Cohen 12. Science, Modernity, and the "Final Solution" Mario Biagioli 13. Holocaust and the End of History: Postmodern Historiography in Cinema Anton Kaes 14. Whose Story Is It, Anyways? Ideology and Psychology in the Representation of the Shoah in Israeli Literature Yael S. Feldman 15. Translating Paul Celan's "Todesfuge": Rhythm and Repetition as Metaphor John Felstiner 16. "The Grave in the Air": Unbound Metaphors in Post-Holocaust Poetry Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi 17. The Dialectics of Unspeakability: Language, Silence, and the Narratives of Desubjectification Peter Haidu 18. The Representation of Limits Berel Lang 19. The Book of the Destruction Geoffrey H. Hartman Notes Contributors Index
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Harvard University Press Professional Correctness
Book SynopsisStanley Fish raises a provocative challenge to those who try to turn literary studies into an instrument of political change, arguing that when literary critics try to influence society at large by addressing social and political issues, they cease to be literary critics at all.Trade ReviewFish has written a very stylish, muscular little book arguing that the enemies of literary study are the new Historicism and cultural studies, and that more professionalism just might save the sinking ship. -- Rick Perlstein * The Nation *The book is by far the most powerful critique yet written of recent developments in academic humanities that have made interdisciplinary boundary crossing, cultural studies, and politically oriented textual analysis the dominant trend. Fish writes with a wit and dash that make him every bit as readable as the most nasty neocons while being vastly better informed. -- Gerald Graff, Professor of English, University of Chicago
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Harvard University Press Repercussions of the Kalam in Jewish Philosophy
Book SynopsisIn his monumental Philosophy of the Kalam the late Harry Wolfsontruly the most accomplished historian of philosophy in our centuryexamined the early medieval system of Islamic philosophy. He studies its repercussions in Jewish thought in this companion bookan indispensable work for all students of Jewish and Islamic traditions. Wolfson believed that ideas are contagious, but that for beliefs to catch on from one tradition to another the recipients must be predisposed, susceptible. Thus he is concerned here not so much with the influence of Islamic ideas as with Jewish elaboration, adaptation, qualification, and criticism of them. To this end he examines passages reflecting Kalam views by a wide variety of Jewish thinkers, including Isaac Israeli, Judah Halevi, Abraham ibn Ezra, and Maimonides. As always in Wolfson's work, two aspects are apparent: the special dimensions of Jewish thought as well as its relation to other traditions. And as always his prose is both graceful and precise.Table of Contents1. ATTRIBUTES AND TRINITY 1. AL--MUKAMMAS 2. SAADIA 3. KIRKISANI 4. JOSEPH AL--BASIR 5. JOSEPH IBN SADDIK 6. JTJDAH HADASSI 7. MAIMON IDES 2. THE SEMANTIC ASPECT OF THE PROBLEM OF ATTRIBUTES 1. AL-MUKAMMAS 2. SAADIA 3. JOSEPH AL-BASIR 4. JOSEPH lEN SADDIK 5. JUDAH HALEVI 6. MAIMONIDES 3. CHRISTOLOGY 4. THE PRE--EXISTENT KORAN AND THE PRE--EXISTENT LAW 1. MINOR MIDRASHIM 2. SAADIA 3. KIRKISANI 4. JOSEPH AL-BASIR 5. JUDAH BEN BARZILLAI 6. JTJDAH HALEVI 7. ABRAHAM IBN EZRA 8. JUDAH HADASSI 9. MAIMONIDES 5. PRE--EXISTENT THRONE, AND CREATED WILL 1. PRE-EXISTENT THRONE 2. CREATED WILL 6. UNAPPROVED THEORIES OF CREATION 1. PLATO'S PRE--EXISTENT ETERNAL MATTER ATOMIZED 2. THE ETERNAL AIR OF ANAXIMENES EMANATIONALIZED 3. THE ETERNAL WATER OF A PARTLY NEOPLATONIZED THALES ATOMIZED 4. DUALISM 5. THE FOUR ELEMENTS OF EMPEDOCLES 6. THE INFINITE OF ANAXIMANDER 7. THE ARISTOTELIAN ETERNITY OF THE WORLD 8. EPICUREAN ATOMISM AND CHANCE 9. THE DAHRIYYAH'S ETERNITY OF THE WORLD AND WHO THE DAHRIYYAH WERE 10. THE "KNOW-NOTHINGISM" OF PROTAGORAS, PYRRHO, AND CARNEADES 7. THEORY OF ATOMS 8. CAUSALITY 1. SAADIA AND BAHYA 2. JUDAH HALEVI AND ABRAHAM IBN DAUD 3. MAIMONIDES 4. JOSEPH AL--BASIR AND JESHUA BEN JUDAH 5. IMPOSSIBILITIES 9. FREE WILL 1. MAIMONIDES' RESTATEMENT OF THE MUTAKALLIMUN'S VIEWS ON PREDESTINATION AND FREE WILL 2. THE ANTINOMIES OF FREE WILL INDEX
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Harvard University Press Studies in the History of Philosophy and Religion
Book SynopsisReaders familiar with the luminous scholarly contributions of Harry Austryn Wolfson will welcome this rich collection of essays that have been previously published in widely dispersed journals and books, The articles range over Aristotle and Plato; Philo; the Church Fathers; and Arabic, Jewish, and Christian philosophers of the Middle Ages: Averroes and Avicenna, Maimonides, and Thomas Aquinas. The twenty-eight pieces are arranged in such a manner that ideas develop and are pursued from one article to the next, forming a coherent whole. According to the editors, This volume reflects the most basic biographical fact about Wolfson: his life has been one of unflagging commitment, uninterrupted creativity, and truly remarkable achievement...Wolfson's scholarship will be viewed with awe and admiration and his impact will be durable. He has added new dimensions to philosophical scholarship and illuminated wide areas of religious thought, plotting the terrain, blazing trails, and erecting guideposts for scores of younger scholars.Table of ContentsHallevi and Maimonides on Design, Chance and Necessity Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research, 11(1941): 105-163 Hallevi and Maimonides on Prophecy The Jewish Quarterly Review, n.s. 32.4 (1942): 345-370, and 33.1 (1942): 49-82 Maimonides and Hailevi: A Study in Typical Jewish Attitudes towards Greek Philosophy in the Middle Ages The Jewish Quarterly Review, n.s. 2.3 (1912): 297-337 The Aristotelian Predicables and Maimonides' Division of Attributes Essays and Studies in Memory of Linda R. Miller (New York, Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1938), pp. 201-234 Maimonides on Negative Attributes Louis Ginzberg Jubilee Volume (New York: American Academy for Jewish Research, 1945), pp. 411-446 Maimonides and Gersonides on Divine Attributes as Ambiguous Terms Mordecai M. Kaplan Jubilee Volume (New York: The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1953), pp. 515-530 Crescas on the Problem of Divine Attributes The Jewish Quarterly Review, n. s. 7.1(1916): 1-44, and 7.2 (1916): 175-221 The Kalam Problem of Nonexistence and Saadia's Second Theory of Creation The Jewish Quarterly Review, n.s. 36.4 (1946): 371-391 Atomism in Saadia The Jewish Quarterly Review, n.s. 37.2 (1946): 107-124 Arabic and Hebrew Terms for Matter and Element with Especial Reference to Saadia The Jewish Quarterly Review, n.s. 38.1 (1947): 47-61 Saadia on the Trinity and Incarnation Studies and Essays in Honor of Abraham A. Neuman (Philadelphia: Dropsie College, 1962), pp. 547-568 Judah Hallevi on Causality and Miracles Meyer Waxman Jubilee Volume (Chicago: College of Jewish Studies Press, and Jerusalem: Mordecai Newman Press, 1966), pp. 137-153 Maimonides on the Unity and Incorporeality of God The Jewish Quarterly Review, 56.2 (October 1965): 112-136 Studies in Crescas Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research, 5 (1934-1935): 155-175 Isaac Ihn Shem-Tob's Unknown Commentaries on the Physics and His Other Unknown Works Studies in Jewish Bibliography and Related Subjects (New York: Alexander Kohut Memorial Foundation, 1929), pp. 279-290 The Problem of the Origin of Matter in Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy and Its Analogy to the Modern Problem of the Origin of Life Proceedings of the International Congress of Philosophy (Philadelphia), 1926, pp. 602-608 St. Thomas on Divine Attributes Melanges offerts a Etienne Gilson (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 1959), pp. 673-700 Answers to Criticisms of My Discussion of Patristic Philosophy Harvard Theological Review, 57.2 (April 1964): 119-131 Answers to Criticisms of My Discussions of the Ineffability of God Harvard Theological Review, 67 (1974), 186-190 Infinite and Privative Judgments in Aristotle, Averroes, and Kant Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 8.2 (December 1947): 173-187 Goichon's Three Books on Avicenna's Philosophy The Moslem World, 31 (January 1941): 29-38 Synedrion in Greek Jewish Literature and Philo The Jewish Quarterly Review, n.s. 36 (1946): 303-306 Two Comments Regarding the Plurality of Worlds in Jewish Sources The Jewish Quarterly Review, 56.3 (January 1966): 245-247 Colcodea The Jewish Quarterly Review, n.s. 36 (1945): 179-182 Some Guiding Principles in Determining Spinoza's Mediaeval Sources The Jewish Quarterly Review, n.s. 27.4 (1937): 333-348 Spinoza's Mechanism, Attributes, and Panpsychism The Philosophical Review, 46.3 (May 1937): 307-314 Towards an Accurate Understanding of Spinoza The Journal of Philosophy, 23.10 (May 13, 1926): 268-273 Solomon Pappenheim on Time and Space and His Relation to Locke and Kant Jewish Studies in Memory of Israel Abrahams (New York: Press of The Jewish Institute of Religion, 1927), pp. 426-440 Appendix Emanation and Creation Ex Nihilo in Crescas (in Hebrew) Sefer Assaf (Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1953), pp. 230-236 Testimony of Clement of Alexandria Concerning an Unknown Custom in the Yom Kippur Service in the Temple (in Hebrew) Horeb (New York: Yeshiva University), 3 (1936): 90-92 Index
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Harvard University Press A View to a Death in the Morning Hunting and
Book SynopsisA View to a Death in the Morning shows us how hunting has figured in the Western imagination from the myth of Artemis to the tale of Bambi. This book will captivate readers on every side of the dilemma, from the most avid hunters to their most vehement opponents to those who simply wonder about the importance of hunting in human nature.Trade ReviewThere is every reason to believe that animal rights will become increasingly central to our political discourse in the next century. As this issue moves toward center stage, A View to a Death in the Morning will figure prominently...A razor-sharp analysis that succeeds in raising doubts about deeply rooted and widely shared assumptions concerning the position of human beings in nature. -- Robert Rydell * Science *In graceful prose, infused with wit, irony, and asides that lend unexpected and sometimes poignant relevance to his discussion, Cartmill tells an evocative story of human ambivalence about hunting and our relationship to the animals we kill and sometimes eat...This book is a marvelous piece of social history on a topic of wide significance. -- Bruce Winterhalder * American Scientist *[A] splendid book...A View to a Death in the Morning shows both past and present to be a lot more complicated than the slogans of simplistic ideologues. -- Betty Ann Kevles * Los Angeles Times *A stunning survey of society's attitudes toward hunting from classical literature through, inevitably, the greatest anti-hunting event of all time, the release of Walt Disney's Bambi...What [this book] does, with a breadth of literary scholarship and analysis that is most unusual in academic science, is trace society's ambivalence and polarization about hunting from classical Greece...through Rome...and on to the present day...Cartmill's consistent theme--which ties each era, each society, each viewpoint, together in a satisfying text--is his focus on a society's understanding of the relationship between human beings and nature itself. -- M. R. Montgomery * Boston Globe *This book is an elegant, erudite, stimulating essay on the history of Western ideas about humans and nature. -- Adam Kuper * Nature *Table of Contents1. The Killer Ape 2. The Rich Smell of Meat and Wickedness 3. Virgin Hun tresses and Bleeding Feasts 4. The White Stag 5. The Sobbing Deer 6. The Noise of Breaking Machinery 7. The Sorrows of Eohippus 8. The Sick Animal 9. The Bambi Syndrome 10. A Fatal Disease of Nature 11. The Spirit of the Beast 12. A View to a Death in the Morning NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INDEX
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Princeton University Press Little Brazil An Ethnography of Brazilian
Book SynopsisProvides an account of the lives of New York's Brazilians. Showing that these immigrants belie American stereotypes, this work reveals that they are largely from the middle strata of Brazilian society: many, in fact, have university educations. It aims to capture what it is like to be a new immigrant in this most cosmopolitan of world cities.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations xi List of Tables xiii Preface xv Chapter 1. The New Voyagers 3 Chapter 2. Bye-Bye, Brazil 31 Chapter 3. First Days 59 Chapter 4. Who Are They? 83 Chapter 5. Making a Living 109 Chapter 6. From Mistress to Servant 121 Chapter 7. Shoe Shine "Boys" and Go-Go "Girls" 149 Chapter 8. Life and Leisure in the Big Apple 167 Chapter 9. Little Brazil: Is It a Community? 195 Chapter 10. Class Pictures 220 Chapter 11. An Invisible Minority 242 Chapter 12. Sojourner or Immigrant? 258 Notes 277 Glossary of Portuguese and Brazilian-American Terms 301 References 305 Index 323
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Princeton University Press Being Muslim the Bosnian Way
Book SynopsisGives an ethnographic account of Bosnian Muslims' lives in a rural village located near Sarajevo. Although they represent a majority of the population in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnian Muslims are still members of a minority culture in the region that was once Yugoslavia.Trade ReviewOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Books of 1996 "At long last, there is a book which captures both the quiddity of Bosnian village life and the peculiar nature of Muslimhood in that part of Europe... [A] lucid and marvelously informative book."--The Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsForewordPrefaceA Note on Language and PronunciationIntroduction31History, Identity, and the Yugoslav Dream122A Bosnian Village373Men, Women, and the House854Marriage and Marriage Procedures1195Caring for the Living and the Souls of the Dead1586Debating Islam and Muslim Identity197Notes233Glossary of Bosnian Terms253Bibliography259Index277
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Princeton University Press Shell Shock Cinema
Book SynopsisExplores how the classical German cinema of the Weimar Republic was haunted by the horrors of World War I and the devastating effects of the nation's defeat. This title exposes how German film gave expression to the loss and acute grief that lay behind Weimar's sleek facade.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2010 Limina Award for Best International Film Studies Book, XVII Udine Film Forum, Udine, Italy Winner of the 2010 DAAD Book Prize, German Studies Association Winner of the 2008-9 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures, Modern Language Association One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2010 "This long-awaited book by one of the leading experts on German cinema is a landmark in film studies... Clearly written and beautifully produced with ample illustrations, impressive notes, and a useful filmography of Weimar DVDs, the book is a pleasure to read."--Choice "One of Kaes's greatest strengths is his ability to speak to multiple audiences. His expert analysis is sure to appeal to students of film studies, but his interpretations are also accessible to readers with a limited knowledge of Weimar cinema. Accordingly, this book will interest scholars and students in the fields of German studies, film studies, and cultural history. Anton Kaes has long been recognized as a leading scholar of Weimar cinema and German culture, and Shell Shock Cinema represents another important contribution to these fields."--Brian K. Feltman, H-Net Reviews "A combination of intensive genre analysis, well-observed contemporary cultural and psychological contextualization, and evocative cinematographic observation makes Shell Shock Cinema a splendid, even exemplary, cultural history that goes well beyond the bounds of previous studies. It is a wonderful read."--Peter Fritzsche, Modernism/Modernity "Kaes's study represents a major departure from earlier approaches. Drawing on a growing body of work on trauma, the history of psychiatry, and World War I, he places this crucial chapter of modern cultural history within an entirely new analytic framework."--Andreas Killen, H-Madness "The book is exceptionally readable and largely free of specialized jargon; it will be of interest on that basis to academics and non-academics alike... Shell Shock Cinema is ... an outstanding book that will be of considerable value to students and scholars."--Adam C. Stanley, Canadian Journal of History "Shell Shock Cinema posits a complex and convincing model of the fraught relationship between historical violence and representation, as well as a unique perspective on the legacies of war."--Scott Spector, American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsIllustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Chapter 1: The War at Home 7 The Wounded Soldier 8 The Spirit of 1914 16 Film and Nation 20 The Battle of Images 25 A Medium for Deception 29 The New Empire 34 Mental Breakdowns 37 Chapter 2: Tales from the Asylum 45 War Neurotics 46 Recovering the Past 49 Phantoms and Freaks 55 From Dr. Charcot to Dr. Caligari 63 Madness as Resistance 71 The Hitler Connection 75 Shattered Space 81 Chapter 3: The Return of the Undead 87 The Lost Generation 88 Mass Death 93 Dracula Revisited 98 A Community under Siege 108 Hysteria on the Home Front 113 The Allure of the Occult 120 The Work of Mourning 127 Chapter 4: Myth, Murder, and Revenge 131 The National Project 132 Posing for Germany 135 The Will to Form 141 The Fallen Hero 145 Excursus: Lang in World War I 151 The Sacred Battle 153 The End of Violence 157 Chapter 5: The Industrial Battlefield 167 Rise of the Machines 168 Moloch War 175 Lang's America 181 The Hunger for Religion 186 The Workers' Revolt 193 Destruction and Regeneration 200 Aftershocks 205 Conclusion 211 Notes 217 Weimar Cinema on DVD 251 Bibliography 267 Shell Shock and Trauma Theory 267 World War I and the Weimar Republic 272 Weimar Film History 278 Films Discussed 283 Index 299
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Princeton University Press Essays in Economic Sociology
Book SynopsisIncludes Weber's discussion of what is called social capital, his analysis of the institutions needed for a well-functioning capitalist economy, and his attempt to introduce social structure into economic analysis.Trade Review"This is an excellent time for a collection of Weber's work on economic sociology, and Richard Swedberg is the person to do it."—Paul J. DiMaggio, Princeton University"Swedberg offers a comprehensive introduction to a neglected economic classic. This book will be of interest to intellectual historians, to sociologists, and to philosophers of science."—Mark Perlman, University of PittsburghTable of ContentsNOTE ON THE TEXTS OF THE READINGS vii INTRODUCTION, by Richard Swedberg 3 PART I: MODERN CAPITALISM 41 ONE Modern Capitalism: Key Characteristics and Key Institutions 43 TWO The Spirit of Capitalism 52 THREE The Market 75 FOUR The Beginnings of the Firm 80 FIVE Class, Status, and Party 83 PART II: CAPITALISM, LAW, AND POLITICS 97 SIX The Three Types of Legitimate Domination 99 SEVEN The Bureaucratization of Politics and the Economy 109 EIGHT The Rational State and Its Legal System 116 NINE The National State and Economic Policy (Freiburg Address) 120 TEN The Social Causes of the Decay of Ancient Civilization 138 PART III: CAPITALISM, CULTURE, AND RELIGION 155 ELEVEN The Evolution of the Capitalist Spirit 157 TWELVE The Protestant Sects and the Spirit of Capitalism 168 THIRTEEN Kinship and Capitalism in China 179 FOURTEEN The Caste System in India 185 FIFTEEN Charity in Ancient Palestine 189 PART IV THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY 197 SIXTEEN Sociological Categories of Economic Action 199 SEVENTEEN The Area of Economics, Economic Theory, and the Ideal Type 242 EIGHTEEN Marginal Utility Analysis and "The Fundamental Law of Psychophysics" 249 GLOSSARY Key Concepts in Weber's Economic Sociology 261 A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE TO WEBER'S ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY 287 INDEX 303
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Princeton University Press The Idea of Civil Society
Book SynopsisAs the countries of East-Central Europe struggle to create liberal democracy and the United States and other Western nations attempt to rediscover their own tarnished civil institutions, this title identifies the neglect of the idea of 'civil society' as a central concern common to both cultures today.Trade Review"One of the merits of Adam Seligman's wide-ranging, probing, and deeply reflective inquiry into the history and uses of the idea of civil society is that it is concerned explicitly with identifying the ambiguities in its applications to contemporary societies ... In one aspect Mr. "Seligman's book is an exploration of the idea of civil society in all its contemporary and historical ironies and ambiguities, one that is richly learned and subtly reasoned. In another it is a question mark over the very idea of a civil society."--John Gray, The New York Times Book ReviewTable of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction11The Modern Idea of Civil Society152The Sources of Civil Society: Reason and the Individual593Civil Society, Citizenship, and the Representation of Society1014Jerusalem, Budapest, Los Angeles: In Search of Civil Society145Concluding Remarks on Civil Society199Notes207Index235
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Princeton University Press Acts of Compassion
Book SynopsisStates that those who are most involved in acts of compassion are no less individualistic than anyone else - and that those who are the most intensely individualistic are no less involved in caring for others.Trade Review"Wuthnow's writing is renowned within sociological discourse for being lucid, jargon-free, and insightful--all characteristics of this newest work... [Wuthnow] has made a provocative and stimulating case."--James A. Mathisen, Christianity TodayTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. v*Acknowledgments, pg. vii*CHAPTER ONE: An American Paradox, pg. 3*CHAPTER TWO: Caring and/for Our Selves, pg. 18*CHAPTER THREE: Talking about Motives, pg. 49*CHAPTER FOUR: Finding Fulfillment, pg. 86*CHAPTER FIVE: Conviction and Community, pg. 121*CHAPTER SIX: Along the Road, pg. 157*CHAPTER SEVEN: Bounded Love, pg. 191*CHAPTER EIGHT: The Tarnished Image, pg. 221*CHAPTER NINE: Envisioning a Better Society, pg. 249*CHAPTER TEN: The Case for Compassion, pg. 282*Notes, pg. 311*Index, pg. 331
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Princeton University Press Avenues of Participation Family Politics and
Book SynopsisFocusing on the political life of the sha'b in Cairo, this book shows how men and women develop creative and effective strategies to accomplish shared goals, despite the dominant forces ranged against them. It examines communal patterns of allocation, distribution, and decision-making.Trade Review"Political anthropology of a high order. Singerman shows how family ties empower people...Her picture of women black marketeers is especially revealing. As a social scientist, she is determined to challenge the stereotype of the passive urban poor, and she makes a largely successful case for seeing politics in other than elite terms."--Foreign Affairs "[An] outstanding piece of scholarship that forces us to rethink and broaden our understanding of political participation to better appreciate the alternative institutions that marginalized communities create in order to satisfy their political and economic needs... [Singerman's] vivid account is one of only a handful of studies that provide a detailed picture of the daily political and economic experiences of lower-class communities in the Middle East."--Guilain Denoeux, American Journal of Sociology "Singerman's work cuts across a variety of disciplines--comparative political science, anthropology and sociology, women's studies, and economics--and all are handled deftly... She is a superb writer and has produced an enjoyable, informative, and challenging piece of scholarship."--Denis J. Sullivan, Middle East JournalTable of ContentsList of TablesForewordAcknowledgmentsA Note on TransliterationIntroduction3Egypt and Popular Political Expression5The Context and Approach of the Study17Ch. 1The Family, Politics, and the Familial Ethos41The Public/Private Dichotomy and Political Participation44Patrimonialism, the Family, and Participation in a Middle Eastern Context45The Familial Ethos49Conclusion: An Ethos beyond the Household71Ch. 2Reproducing the Family74Choosing a Mate: "Shababiik, shababiik, id-dunya kullaha shababiik"77Marriage Protocol, or the Rules of Engagement85Sexuality and the Transgression of Public Norms92The Cost of Marriage: An Economic Nightmare109Raising the Capital to Marry121Conclusions: Marriage, the Economy, and the State126Ch. 3Networks: The Political Lifeline of Community132Earning a Living138Development: Education Networks160The Bureaucracy and the State164Ch. 4Informality: Politics and Economics in Tandem173Informal and Formal Economic Activity in a Shabi Community179Family Enterprises199Informality Meets the State205The Shab and Informality: Wages and Wealth231Informality: The Economic and Political Consequences for the Nation238Ch. 5Politics as Distribution244Private Voluntary Organizations: A Mediated Distribution Point246Elite Politics, the State, and the Shab255Conclusions269Notes273Bibliography315Index331
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Princeton University Press Theft of an Idol Text and Context in the
Book SynopsisEncourages us to look more closely at the issues of violence, ethnicity, and the state by focusing on specific instances of violence in their local contexts. This book shows how, out of many interpretations applicable to these incidents, government and the media select those that support existing relations of power in state and society.Trade Review"An impressive attack on 'primordialist' explanations of contemporary violence in north India. Paul Brass, who is among the best-known political scientists working on India, writes on a controversial topic in an engaging way that will appeal to a wide spectrum of readers interested in interethnic violence."—Benedict Anderson, Cornell UniversityTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables ix Preface xi List of Abbreviations xv CHAPTER 1 Text and Context 3 CHAPTER 2 Background 32 CHAPTER 3 Theft of an Idol 58 CHAPTER 4 Rape at Daphnala 97 CHAPTER 5 Horror Stories 129 CHAPTER 6 Horror Stories Untold 177 CHAPTER 7 Kala Bachcha: Portrait of a BJP Hero 204 CHAPTER 8 Conclusion 260 Index 289
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Princeton University Press The Politics of Social Policy in the United
Book SynopsisPlaces the welfare debates of the 1980s in the context of past patterns of US policy, such as the Social Security Act of 1935, the failure of efforts in the 1940s to extend national social benefits and economic planning, and the backlashes against "big government" that followed reforms of the 1960s and early 1970s.Trade Review"Social democratic critiques of the American welfare state abound ... {and this book] is one of the best works in this genre. It is solidly researched and written with calm authority."--Public Interest
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Princeton University Press Cultural Disenchantments
Book SynopsisPortrays the crosscurrents created at the interface of urban industrial and rural peasant spheres. This book shows how wage labor was adopted by country folk who maintained ties to small-scale cultivation and indigenous traditions. It examines the cultural issues that animate peasant-worker life.
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Princeton University Press Religious Orthodoxy and Popular Faith in European
Book SynopsisExamines the tension between popular and official religion in Europe. This book evokes ethnographic contexts that enable us to see people shaping their religious domain. It provides a theoretical orientation throughout, one that considers how religious discourses are formed by social disciplines and relationships of power and subordination.
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Princeton University Press Enchanted Maidens Gender Relations in Spanish
Book SynopsisSpanish villagers tell many folktales that describe in metaphorical language the struggles of young men and women as they emerge from their parental families and join in love. This book presents orally transmitted tales, including "Snow White," "Cinderella," "Beauty and the Beast," "Blancaflor," and dragonslayer stories.
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Princeton University Press Family Planning in Japanese Society Traditional
Book SynopsisThe description for this book, Family Planning in Japanese Society: Traditional Birth Control in a Modern Urban Culture, will be forthcoming.Trade Review"Family Planning in Japanese Society is not another success story about Japan... Samuel Coleman discloses the fact that Japan is unique in its reliance upon induced abortion among married women as the primary means of birth control... [This book is) strongly recommended as an original contribution to social science, work on family planning, women's studies, and Japanese studies."--Takie Sugiyama Lebra, Journal of Asian Studies "For anyone seeking the most comprehensive picture of fertility control in Japan in the 1980s and a sensitive portrayal of the role of sex in marital relations in at least one segment of contemporary Japanese society, the book cannot be recommended too highly. Were there more like it, anthropologists, demographers, and family planning specialists would be well on the way to more sensitive comparisons of the intangible whys of fertility control as well as the technical hows."--Robert J. Smith, Medical Anthropology Quarterly "Here are the answers to the questions that one wishes to ask Japanese friends but can never seem to find the right words, the proper time, or the necessary courage to do so. Do yourself and these friends a favor: read this book."--Betty Sisk Swain, The Japan Christian Quarterly "A very readable and excellent introduction to the subject of contraception in Japan today."--Susan B. Hanley, Contemporary Sociology
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Princeton University Press In the Soviet House of Culture A Century of
Book SynopsisAt the outset of the twentieth century, the Nivkhi of Sakhalin Island were a small population of fishermen under Russian dominion and an Asian cultural sway. This book draws upon Nivkh interviews, archives, and translated Soviet ethnographic texts to examine the effects of this remarkable state venture in the construction of identity.Trade Review"This book is a comprehensive study of the impact of successive Russian 'perestroikas' of the Nivkh people... from 1925 to 1994. It's chief objective is to gauge the damage done to Nivkh culture by their Russian overlords. The author approaches his task with great thoroughness and ... profound involvement... His account is as warmly humorous as it is skillful."--HistoryTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsNote on Transliteration and TerminologyList of Abbreviations1Introduction32Rybnoe Reconstructed183Nivkhi before the Soviets4041920s and the New Order685The Stalinist Period9061960s Resettlements and the Time of Stagnation1207Perestroika Revisited: On Dissolution and Disillusion1448Conclusions: The Subjects Presumed to Know156Appendix: "A Recently Discovered Case of Group Marriage"165Notes169Bibliography191Index223
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Princeton University Press Civil Islam
Book SynopsisTells the story of Islam and democratization in Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim nation. Challenging stereotypes of Islam as antagonistic to democracy, this study of courage and reformation in the face of state terror suggests possibilities for democracy in the Muslim world and beyond.Trade Review"Hefner describes brilliantly the Muslim's role in democratizing, if not civilizing, Indonesia. The work, long overdue, is significant... [Hefner] clearly knows his way around Indonesia and is fully aware of what it means to be an Indonesian."--Dicky Sofjan, Studies in Contemporary Islam "Robert Hefner's important book, Civil Islam, is the most detailed study of Islam in the Suharto Period to appear to date... Hefner writes with special sympathy on those influential currents in Indonesian Islam."--Martin Van Bruinessen, Times Literary Supplement "In this book, Robert W. Hefner ... argues ... that Islamic states and civil society are compatible, and he adduces considerable evidence from Indonesian political history ... to make his case. He makes an important contribution to our knowledge of the dynamics of contemporary Islam in Indonesia."--Richard C. Martin, The Journal of Asian Studies "What is interesting about the text is that despite his training as an anthropologist, Hefner draws on different disciplines such as history, political science and sociology to provide this major contribution to the literature of Indonesia. Anyone interested in the nature of democracy, for instance, should read the brilliant conclusion ... a powerful warning against civilizational intolerance in the modern world. The challenge of change and, specifically, democratic change within Indonesia and within an Islamic context provides larger meaning in a world so easily dominated by easy and simple assumptions. This text lucidly brings this point to life."--Kenneth Christie, International AffairsTable of ContentsForeward vii Preface xi Acknowlegments xxi List of Abbreviations xxiii Chapter One: Democratization in an Age of Religious Revitalization 3 Chapter Two: Civil Precedence 21 Chapter Three: Contests of Nation 37 Chapter Four: Ambivalent Alliances: Religion and Politics in the Early New Order 58 Chapter Five: The Modernist Travail 94 Chapter Six: Islam Deferred: Regimist Islam and the Struggle for the Middle Class 128 Chapter Seven: Uncivil State: Muslims and Violence in Soeharto's Fall 167 Chapter Eight: Conclusion: Muslim Politics, Global Modernity 214 Notes 223 Index 271
£37.80
Princeton University Press In the Shadow of Illness
Book SynopsisSuggests that understanding the impact of the illness lies not in identifying deficiencies, but in appreciating how family members carry on with their lives in the face of the disease's intrusion. This book focuses on the lives of those who live in the shadow of chronic illness: the parents and well siblings of children who have cystic fibrosis.Trade ReviewWinner of the 1997 Charles A. Corr Award in Literature "In the Shadow of Illness is a beautifully written, well-organized book that is an outstanding contribution to our understanding of the impact of chronic illness on the family and the factors that affect the coping mechanisms over the trajectory of chronic illness. An important source of information and understanding for families who find themselves in the shadow of illness."--Kirby Pope, Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic "Myra Bluebond-Langner gives us a framework of understanding how families--siblings as well as parents--move through their understanding of the condition, and their coping strategies, by redefining 'normal' family life to include routine CF care and reassessing their family priorities. She has done this with great skill and sensitivity."--Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry "I strongly recommend this book to anyone involved with families of children with CF and potentially with other chronic life-threatening illnesses. There is no question that it provides new and valid insight concerning parent and sibling adaptation."--Omega "An important contribution to the ethnography of illness experience...This book will be of great value to researchers and clinicians with interests in how families cope with chronic illness, life-threatening conditions, and genetic disorders."--Joan Ablon, Medical Anthropology QuarterlyTable of ContentsList of Tables ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xv PART 1. INTRODUCTION 1 Chapter 1. The Impact of Cystic Fibrosis on Well Siblings 3 1. Approaches to the Study of Well Siblings 3 2. An Ethnographic Approach 10 3. A Framework for Analysis 12 PART 11. PORTRAITS IN WAITING: NINE FAMILIES 15 Introduction 17 Chapter 2. The Daleys 19 Chapter 3. The Shermans 26 Chapter 4. The Farringtons 39 Chapter 5. The Campbells 48 Chapter 6. The Reynoldses 59 Chapter 7. The Chases 74 Chapter 8. The Woodwards 90 Chapter 9. The Fosters 100 Chapter 10. The Baileys 122 PART III. CONTAINING THE INTRUSION 133 Chapter 11. Parents' Responses to the Care the Ill Child Requires and the Concerns the Child's Condition Engenders 135 1. Issues and Strategies 137 2. Strategies, Normalcy, and Control 186 Chapter 12. Well Siblings' Views of Cystic Fibrosis and Their Ill Siblings' Condition 197 1. Well Siblings' Views 197 2. Formation of Well Siblings' Views 212 Chapter 13. Well Siblings' Relationships with Parents and Ill Siblings 215 1. Resources and Communication 216 2. The Well Siblings' Position in the Family 260 Afterword: Meeting the Needs of the Well Sibling 265 1. General Guide lines for Clinical Intervention 266 2. Communication in the Family: The Case for "Shuttle Diplomacy" 267 Glossary 273 Works Cited 275 Index 295
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Princeton University Press Integral Europe
Book SynopsisThe project of advanced European integration has followed a complex secular and cosmopolitan agenda. This title provides a perspective on integralism as a form of intimate cultural practice and a violent idiom of estrangement. It looks at one of modern Europe's most unsettling political trends.Trade Review"The title of this book gives barely a hint of its rich and complex content ... Highly recommended for all social scientists and policy professionals who work on European political and social issues."--Choice "Holmes convinces the reader that integralism plays a large role in shaping mainstream political discourse on Europe as well as in bolstering an explicitly fascist and marginal opposition."--Virginia Quarterly ReviewTable of ContentsPreface ix Acknowlegments xi Chapter One: Inner Landscapes 3 Part One: EUROPE 17 Chapter Two: Flowering of Cultures 19 Chapter Three: Science and Metaphysics of Solidarity 37 Chapter Four: Cultural Physician 59 Chapter Five: An Essential Sociology 75 Chapter Six: Society and Its Vicissitudes 90 Part Two: EAST END 103 Chapter Seven: Call It Fascism 105 Chapter Eight: Factual Racism 116 Chapter Nine: Authoritarianism 138 Part Three: ATAVISM 163 Chapter Ten: Radical Symmetry 165 Chapter Eleven: Eclipse 191 Notes To The Chapters 203 Bibliography 231 Index 247
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Princeton University Press Indigenous Movements and Their Critics PanMaya
Book SynopsisPresents an ethnographic account of Pan-Maya cultural activism. This book shows that Pan-Mayanism reflects diverse local, national, and international influences. It explores the movement's attempts to interweave these varied strands into political programs to promote human and cultural rights for Guatemala's indigenous majority.Trade Review"Starting with an analysis of activism in one Mayan community, a Harvard anthropologist examines the role of indigenous intellectual and their influence in pormoting the rights of Guatemala's indigenous majority on local, national, and international levels."--Kenneth Maxwell, Foreign AffairsTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsTranscription of Maya Languages and Personal NamesIntroduction: Democracy, Marginality, and Ethnic Resurgence31Pan-Mayanism and Its Critics on Left and Right332Coalitions and the Peace Process523In Dialogue: Maya Skeptics and One Anthropologist694Civil War: Enemies Without and Within865Narrating Survival through Eyewitness Testimony1136Interrogating Official History1327Finding Oneself in a Sixteenth-century Chronicle of Conquest1488"Each Mind Is a World": Person, Authority, and Community1639Indigenous Activism across Generations177Conclusions: Tracing the "Invisible Thread of Ethnicity"194App. 1Summary of the Accord on Identity and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples211App. 2Questions from the 1989 Maya Workshop Directed to Foreign Linguists215Glossary: Acronyms, Organizations, and Cultural Terms217Notes221Bibliography251Index281
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Princeton University Press Foundations of Social Evolution
Book SynopsisTreats one of the central problems in evolutionary biology, the evolution of social cooperation and conflict. This book tackles the problem with an original combination of approaches: game theory, classical models of natural selection, quantitative genetics, and kin selection.Table of ContentsPreface1Introduction32Natural Selection73Hamilton's Rule454Direct and Inclusive Fitness595Dynamics of Correlated Phenotypes796Relatedness as Information947Demography and Kin Selection1148Reproductive Value1349Sex Allocation: Marginal Value17210Sex Allocation: Kin Selection19111Sex Allocation: Reproductive Value21412Conclusions243References249Author Index261Subject Index264
£63.75
Princeton University Press Happiness and Economics How the Economy and
Book SynopsisOffers a link between happiness and economics - and between happiness and democracy. This book demonstrates how micro- and macro-economic conditions in the form of income, unemployment, and inflation affect happiness. It shows that the more developed the democratic institutions and the degree of local autonomy, the more satisfied people are.Trade Review"Frey and Stutzer are highly successful in their effort to synthesize--from an economic perspective--happiness research from a variety of disciplines and to extend that research, using an economic orientation."--Choice "With commendable expertise [the authors] integrate explanations of human well-being from psychology, sociology and political science with the few studies of happiness that have been undertaken by economists... Frey and Stutzer support the unfashionable proposition that subjective well-being is indeed something that economists can and should study, and they marshal a strong case in favor of this view."--David Throsby, Times Literary Supplement "A major breakthrough in economic research."--R.E. Lane, Journal of EconomicsTable of ContentsPreface vii PART I: Setting the Stage CHAPTER 1: Happiness 3 CHAPTER 2: Well-Being and Economics 19 CHAPTER 3: Personality and Socio-Demograohic Influences on happiness 49 PART II: Economic Effects on Happiness CHAPTER 4: Income 73 CHAPTER 5: Employment 95 CHAPTER 6: Inflation 111 PART III: Political Effects on Happiness CHAPTER 7: The Current Politico-Economic Process 121 CHAPTER 8: Constitution: Popular Referenda and Federalism 133 CHAPTER 9: Outcome and Process 153 PART IV: Conclusions CHAPTER 10: Happiness Inspires Economics 171 APPENDIX A 185 APPENDIX B 191 References 195 Data Sources 215 Index 217
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Princeton University Press Dry Bones Rattling Community Building to
Book SynopsisLooks at how to rebuild the social capital of America's communities while promoting racially inclusive, democratic participation. This book shows how Industrial Areas Foundation network works with religious congregations and other community-based institutions to cultivate the participation of Americans most left out of our elite-centered politics.Trade Review"Warren has produced something unusual in democratic theory: a masterful combination of theory and observation that is original, readable, and important. It deserves a spot on the shelf of every student of democracy."--Choice "Warren has done ... a great service with his careful fieldwork, ample documentation and nicely written reporting ... A fine introduction to what I , like Warren, believe to be an extremely important and promising social movement."--Mary Jo Bane, America "Anyone interested in community organizing, grassroots mobilization, or the controversies surrounding faith-based politics should read Mark R. Warren's first book, Dry Bones Rattling. His painstaking book stirs the democratic imagination."--Archon Fung, Boston Review "Dry Bones Rattling stands as an important contribution to the ongoing conversation about the future of American civil society. All the big issues are here... This is a timely book."--Mitchell L. Stevens, Social Forces "An excellent political ethnography that offers an engaging analysis of how to build social capital, forge multiracial cooperation, and, above all, revitalize democratic participation and civic engagement in American society... It provides us with a critical understanding as well as a tangible example of the elements that are needed to bring about a more inclusive and viable vision of civic engagement and revitalized democracy in a racially and ethnically diverse American society in the twenty-first century."--Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh, Journal of PoliticsTable of ContentsPreface ix Introduction: Dry Bones Rattling 3 1. Cimmunity Building and Political Renewal 15 2. A Theology of Organizing: From Alinsky to the Moden IAF 40 3. Beyond Local Organizing: Statewide Power and a Regional Network 72 4. Bridging Communities across Racial Lines 98 5. Deepening Multiracial Collaboration 124 6. Effective Power: Campaigning for Community-Based Policy Initiatives 162 7. Congretional Bases for Political Action 191 8. Leadership Development: Participation and Authority in Consensual Democracies 211 9. Conclusion: Restoring Faith in Politics 239 Notes 265 Index 309
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Princeton University Press The Funeral Casino Meditation Massacre and
Book SynopsisOffers an interpretation of mass-mediated violence through a study of funeral gambling and Buddhist meditation on death. This book focuses on a particular array of tactics in Thai Buddhism and protest politics for connecting death and life, past and present and unveils a picture of community, responsibility, and accountability in the world order.Trade ReviewCo-Winner of the Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, Society for Humanistic Anthropology and American Anthropological Association "Klima's attempt to bring philosophy into ethnography is important... This book is an important contribution to the ongoing critique and dialogue in anthropology about visuality, representation and symbolic exchange."--Christophe Robert, Anthropological QuarterlyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Note on Transcription and Monetary Conversion ix Acknowledgments xi 1. Introduction 1 PART I: The Passed 2. The New World: Bangkok and the World Order without History 31 3. Revolting History: The Necromantic Power of Public Massacres 53 4. Bloodless Power: A Moral Economy of the Thai Crowd 89 5. Repulsiveness of the Body Politic: An Economics of the Black May Massacre 122 PART II: Kamma 6. The Charnel Ground: Visions of Death in Buddhist Asceis and the Redemption of Mechanical Reproduction 169 7. The Funeral Casino: A Mindful Economy 231 Notes 291 Bibliography 305 Index 313
£40.50
Princeton University Press Performing Africa
Book SynopsisThe jali - a member of a hereditary group of Mandinka professional performers - is a charismatic but contradictory figure. This book shows how the jali's talents at performance make him a genius at representation - the ideal figure to tell us about the "Africa" that the world imagines, which is always a thing of illusion, magic, and contradiction.Trade Review"Performing Africa raises stimulating challenges. Very little is off limits: not nature, not gender, not sexuality, not music--and most especially not Africa as the purest locus of these things. Tackling such provocative subjects with confidence and insight, and with such impressive control over so many scholarly domains, is a major achievement."--Caroline Bledsoe, Journal of the Royal Anthropological InstituteTable of ContentsOVERTURE Where and When I Enter vii INTRODUCTION Performing Africa 1 PART ONE Representations/Performances 29 CHAPTER ONE Music: Europe and Africa 33 CHAPTER TWO Performances 53 PART TWO Professional Dreams 73 CHAPTER THREE Curators of Tradition 81 CHAPTER FOUR Personalistic Economy 114 CHAPTER FIVE Interview Encounters: The Performance of Profession 134 PART THREE Culture as Commodity 163 CHAPTER SIX Travel Stories 167 CHAPTER SEVEN Tourists as Pilgrims 189 CODA 213 NOTES 217 BIBLIOGRAPHY 225 INDEX 237
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Princeton University Press Faces of the State
Book SynopsisA study of the production of a state-revering political culture in the public life of 1990s Turkey. It brings poststructuralist and psychoanalytic theory to bear on the study of the political. It focuses on the conflict over secularism in the aftermath of an Islamist victory in the city's municipalities.Trade Review"A provocative and sophisticated analysis of value to regional specialists and scholars interested in the nature of the state."--Choice "Navaro-Yashin's highly innovative use of an ethnographic approach to establish evidence to support her two major arguments--concerning the shared political culture of secularists and Islamists and the regeneration of the state through the margins--is extremely successful. A welcome addition to the ethnography of Turkey, this study will be also of use to readers interested in debates on civil society, the public sphere, nationalism, and subjectivity."--Leyla Neyzi, Journal of Royal Anthropological InstituteTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction Semiconscious States: The Political and the Psychic in Urban Public Life 1 Entering the City 1 Secularism in Public Life 6 The Turkish Astronomer and the Little Prince 8 The Construction of "Turkish Culture" 10 "The Anthropology of Turkey" 12 The Not-Too-Native Anthropologist 13 Researching the Political 15 PART I: CULTURAL POLITICS 17 1. Prophecies of Culture: Rumor, Humor, and Secularist Projections about "Islamic Public Life" 19 "The Native" 19 Tales of Nightmare 22 Rumor or Reality? 29 The Issues at Stake 36 The Prophecy 40 Public Life and the Construction of "Local Culture" 42 2. The Place of Turkey: Contested Regionalism in an Ambiguous Area 44 "Turkey" as Sign 44 The History of "Region" 46 Beheadings in Saudi Arabia 51 Joining the Customs Union 55 The Place of Turkey 58 The Contest over "Region" 65 "The Middle Eastern Woman" 67 Undoing Area Studies 73 3. The Market for Identities: Buying and Selling Secularity and Islam 78 Consuming "Culture" 78 The Veil as a Commodity 82 Secularist Commodities 85 Istanbul's New Marketplaces 90 The Islamist Department Store 94 The Trademark of Islam 98 The Force of Symbols 107 The Market for Identities 111 PART II: STATE FANTASIES 115 4. Rituals for the State: Public Statism and the Production of "Civil Society" 117 The Soldier's Farewell 117 The Wrestler as Leviathan 122 The Flag Campaign 127 Does "Civil Society" Exist? 130 "The Transparent Reflection of Society" 137 "A Holiday of the People" 144 The Agency of "Society" 152 5. Fantasies for the State: Hype, Cynicism, and the Everyday Life of Statecraft 155 Does the "State" Exist? 155 Mundane Cynicism 166 The Truck That Crashed into the "State" 171 The Magnetism of State Crime 180 The Afterlife of the "State" 183 6. The Cult of Ataturk: The Apparition of a Secularist Leader in Uncanny Forms 188 Like a Cross That Stops the Devil ... 190 "Visits to a Saint's Tomb" 191 Mystical Apparitions 193 Calling Spirits 194 Numerology 195 Statues and Idols 196 Heads of State 199 Secularist Excesses 201 Notes 205 Bibliography 231 Index 241
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Princeton University Press When Nature Goes Public The Making and Unmaking
Book SynopsisFocusing on a contract involving Mexico's National Autonomous University, this book examines the practices through which researchers, plant vendors, indigenous cooperatives, and other actors put prospecting to work. It considers the consequences of linking scientific research and rural 'enfranchisement' to the logics of intellectual property.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2003 Diana Forsythe Prize, American Anthropological AssociationTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables ix List of Abbreviations xi Acknowledgments xiii Author's Note xvii Introduction 1 PART ONE: NEOLIBERAL NATURES Chapter 1: Interests and Publics: On (Ethno)science and Its Accountabilities 19 Chapter 2: Neoliberalism's Nature 48 Chapter 3: Prospecting in Mexico: Rights, Risk, and Regulation 85 PART TWO: PUBLIC PROSPECTING Chapter 4: Market Research: When Local Knowledge Is Public Knowledge 125 Chapter 5: By the Side of the Road: The Contours of a Field Site 158 PART THREE: PROSPECTING's PUBLICS Chapter 6: The Brine Shrimp Assay: Signs of Life, Sites of Value 191 Chapter 7: Presumptions of Interest 213 Chapter 8: Remaking Prospecting's Publics 230 Notes 237 Bibliography 255 Index 275
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Princeton University Press Suitably Modern Making MiddleClass Culture in a
Book SynopsisTraces the growth of a middle class in Kathmandu as urban Nepalis harness the modern cultural resources of mass media and consumer goods to build modern identities and pioneer a new socio-cultural space in one of the world's 'least developed countries'.Trade Review"This important and clearly written book should be read by anyone interested in understanding how people in the periphery of the capitalist world economy are experiencing the processes of globalization."--Susan Hangen, Journal of Asian Business "Liechty offers an inspiring cultural analysis of modern life in Nepal that is deeply rooted in history. He thereby connects this seemingly out-of-the-way place to the rest of the world. More generally, Suitably Modern provides a theoretically subtle depiction of middle-class cultural practice that promises to be read by a wide range of scholars interested in class and global capitalism for some time in the future."--Laura Kunreuther, Journal of the History of the Behavioral SciencesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xvii PART I: INTRODUCTION Chapter 1. Middle-Class Construction 3 Chapter 2. Modern Nepali History and the Rise of the Middle Class 39 PART II: CLASS AND CONSUMERISM Chapter 3. Middle-Class Consciousness:"Hanging between the High and the Low" 61 Chapter 4. Consumer Culture in Kathmandu:"Playing with Your Brain" 87 Chapter 5. "Doing Fashion" in Kathmandu: Class and the Consumer Public 117 PART III: MEDIA CONSUMPTION IN KATHMANDU Chapter 6. The Social Practice of Cinema and Video Viewing in Kathmandu 151 Chapter 7. Media Cultures: The Global in the Local 183 PART IV: YOUTH AND THE EXPERIENCE OF MODERNITY Chapter 8. Constructing the Modern Youth 209 Chapter 9. Modernity, Time, and Place: Youth Culture in Kathmandu 232 PART V: CONCLUSION Chapter 10. The Space of Class: Toward an Anthropology of Middle-Class Cultural Practice 249 Bibliography 267 Index 291
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Princeton University Press Elusive Togetherness Church Groups Trying to
Book SynopsisCombines insights from Alexis de Tocqueville, John Dewey, and Jane Addams with sociology and addresses questions about civic and religious life that elude the 'social capital' concept. This book argues that to create civic relationships, groups need more than the right political beliefs or resources; they must learn new ways of being groups.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2006 Distinguished Book Award, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Winner of the 2006 Distinguished Scholarly Book Award, Pacific Sociological Association Honorable Mention for the 2006 Book Award, Section on Sociology of Culture, American Sociological Association "This theory-driven ethnographic study demonstrates that there are different sets of cultural customs that enable and constrain what people do in faith-based civic groups, and that cultural discourses do not create meaning all by themselves, but are filtered through the style of the group using the discourse. A valuable addition to the fields of religion and community development."--Choice "In this detailed analysis of actual interaction in Protestant church groups, Paul Lichterman gives us reason to rethink conventional notions of social capital and the place of religion in civic life... This book is a thorough, insightful ethnography."--Katherine Cramer Walsh, Political Science QuarterlyTable of ContentsList of Tables and Figures vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 CHAPTER ONE: In Search of the Social Spiral 7 CHAPTER TWO: Studying the Social Spiral 42 CHAPTER THREE: Networkers and Volunteers Reaching Out 60 CHAPTER FOUR: Crying Out: Social Critics 99 CHAPTER FIVE: Christ-like Care: Social Servants 133 CHAPTER SIX: A Social Spiral Winds Outward: Partners 171 CHAPTER SEVEN: Doing Things with Religion in Local Civic Life 216 CHAPTER EIGHT: Doing Things Together: Lessons from Religious Community Service Groups 247 APPENDIX I: Theory and Evidence in a Study of Religious Community Service Groups 264 APPENDIX II: Studying Customs 274 Notes 281 References 303 Index 325
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Princeton University Press The Past in Question
Book SynopsisExamines the relationship between national history, identity, and politics in twentieth-century Macedonia. This work focuses on the reverberating power of events surrounding an armed uprising in August 1903, when a revolutionary organization challenged the forces of the Ottoman Empire by seizing control of the mountain town of Krusevo.Trade ReviewHonorable Mention for the 2004 Barbara Jelavich Book Prize, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies "For anyone with a serious interest in the Balkans, this volume is an important confirmation of the complexity of this corner of Europe."--Choice "Chimeras, dragons, and unicorns may not exist, but they are beautifully illustrated in this coffee-table book depicting images of fantastic beasts from the beginning of recorded time to the present. While there are other books on this subject, none is as comprehensive either chronologically or multiculturally."--Library Journal "Keith Brown takes readers on a fascinating trip through time and space that reframes understandings of the"Macedonian Question...' The Past in Question offers valuable lessons for scholars of nationalism, identity, socialism, and southeastern Europe by means of a theoretically sophisticated analysis that remains grounded in the empirical evidence of the Ilinden story."--Pamela Ballinger, Slavic ReviewTable of ContentsList of Tables and Figures ix Preface xi Notes on Transliteration and Pronunciation xvii Chapter One Introduction 1 Chapter Two A Double Legacy: Macedonia's Yugoslav and Balkan Histories 22 Chapter Three "Crowded Out by a Plethora of Facts": Distance and Experience in Western Narratives of Kru. sevo 51 Chapter Four Tipping Points: The Transformation of Identities in Kru. sevo 79 Chapter Five Between the Revolutions: Life in Kru. sevo 1903-1944 103 Chapter Six Buying the Memories: Collectivization, the Past and National Identity 126 Chapter Seven History Stated: The Making of a Monument 153 Chapter Eight Local Truths: Rereading 1903 the Kru. sevo Way 181 Chapter Nine On the Brink of a New, Old World: Recasting Solidarity After Yugoslavia 211 Chapter Ten Conclusion 234 Glossary and Acronyms 251 Notes 255 Bibliography 277 Index 295
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Princeton University Press The Poetics of Manhood Contest and Identity in a
Book SynopsisThe description for this book, The Poetics of Manhood: Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village, will be forthcoming.Trade Review"The Cretan mountain-dwellers are in particular famous for their sustained resistance to Turkish rule and then to German occupation. Their values, well-expressed in the motto of the Cretan writer Kazantzakis--'I hope for nothing; I fear nothing; I am free'--made them heroes at times when such qualities were positively endorsed in a Greece fighting to escape foreign domination. Today inevitably they are frowned on; Cretan shepherds are now caricatured as 'goat thieves and knife pullers', a survival of primitivism outrageous in a modern state. Herzfeld's excellent and sensitive ethnography of the pseudonymous village and inhabitants of Glendi, a mountain village in central Crete, is concerned with just these attributes, the ways they are lived and reproduced among Glendiots."--Olivia Harris, Times Higher Education Supplement
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Princeton University Press Americas Asia Racial Form and American
Book SynopsisExplores a discursive tradition that affiliates the East with modern efficiency, in contrast to more familiar primitivist forms of Orientalism. This book examines the relationship between Jack London and leading Progressive George Kennan on US-Japan relations, and Frank Norris and AFL leader Samuel Gompers on cheap immigrant labor.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2005 Cultural Studies Award, The Association for Asian American Studies Honorable Mention for the 2006 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2005 "Through a densely historicized, insightful reading of literary naturalism, Colleen Lye makes important contributions to understanding U.S. political, economic, and social history... This is an exemplary work of materialist study of literature and history that humbles most literary critics and historians."--Mari Yoshihara, Journal of American HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: The Minority Which Is Not One 1 Chapter One: A Genealogy of the "Yellow Peril" 12 Jack London, George Kennan, and the Russo-Japanese War Chapter Two: Meat versus Rice 47 Frank Norris, Jack London, and the Critique of Monopoly Capitalism Chapter Three: The End of Asian Exclusion? 96 The Specter of "Cheap Farmers" and Alien Land Law Fiction Chapter Four: A New Deal for Asians 141 John Steinbeck, Carey McWilliams, and the Liberalism of Japanese-American Internment Chapter Five: One World 204 Pearl S. Buck, Edgar Snow, and John Steinbeck on Asian American Character Notes 255 Works Cited 301 Index 329
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Princeton University Press Dropping Anchor Setting Sail
Book SynopsisThe port city of Liverpool, England, is home to one of the oldest Black communities in Britain. This title analyzes how this worldly origin story supports an avowedly local Black politic and identity. It also examines the rise and consequent dilemmas of Black identity.Trade Review"Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail is one of the most nuanced, sophisticated, and ethnographically rigorous works on the process of racial formation available, stretching the analysis of 'race' well beyond the by now familiar somatic and political points of reference and theoretical debates. It is also an important and original contribution to our understanding of the spatial constitution of subjectivity and the African diaspora in a fascinating and little-researched ethnographic location." - Steven Gregory, Columbia University, author of Black Corona: Race and the Politics of Place in an Urban Community; "This eloquently written work engages with a variety of issues encompassing not just the discipline of anthropology but also sociology, race and ethnic studies, and black history." - Diane Frost, University of Liverpool, author of Work and Community among West African Migrant Workers since the Nineteenth Century"Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*PREFACE, pg. ix*CHAPTER ONE Setting Sail, pg. 1*CHAPTER TWO. Black Liverpool, Black America, and the Gendering of Diasporic Space, pg. 34*CHAPTER THREE. 1981, pg. 59*CHAPTER FOUR. Genealogies: Place, Race, and Kinship, pg. 70*CHAPTER FIVE. Diaspora and Its Discontents: A Trilogy, pg. 97*CHAPTER SIX. My City, My Self: A Folk Phenomenology, pg. 129*CHAPTER SEVEN. A Slave to History: Local Whiteness in a Black Atlantic Port, pg. 161*CHAPTER EIGHT. The Ghost of Muriel Fletcher, pg. 187*CHAPTER NINE. Local Women and Global Men: The Liverpool That Was, pg. 215*POSTSCRIPT: The Leaving of Liverpool, pg. 243*NOTES, pg. 250*REFERENCES, pg. 275*INDEX, pg. 297
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