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University of California Press The Unending Hunger
Book SynopsisBased on ethnographic fieldwork from Santa Barbara, California, this book sheds light on the ways that food insecurity prevails in women's experiences of migration from Mexico and Central America to the United States.Trade Review"Incisive, empathetic, and engaging ... The rich data Dr. Carney has obtained through her engaged anthropology are a compelling indictment of the human failings of our national food system." -- Marilyn Gates New York Journal of Books "Well-written and thoroughly researched ... The Unending Hunger is an important exploration of the promise of a better life in the United States." Food and Foodways "A timely critical engagement with the partner concepts of food security and insecurity ... The Unending Hunger has much to offer a wide range of scholarly and applied readers." Food, Culture, and Society "Compelling... masterfully [contributes] to discussions of biopolitics and boundaries." Antipode "Well grounded... fascinating." Medical Anthropology QuarterlyTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. "We Had Nothing to Eat": The Biopolitics of Food Insecurity 2. Caring Through Food: "La Lucha Diaria" 3. Nourishing Neoliberalism? Narratives of "Sufrimiento" 4. Disciplining Caring Subjects: Food Security as a Biopolitical Project 5. Managing Care: Strategies of Resistance and Healing Conclusion Epilogue Appendix A Appendix B Notes References
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University of California Press The Weight of Obesity
Book SynopsisBased on years of fieldwork, this book offers poignant stories of how obesity is lived and experienced by Guatemalans who have recently found their diets - and their bodies - radically transformed. It is suitable for anyone who cares about the politics of healthy eating.Trade Review"Yates-Doerr's book offers wise counsel... an excellent indictment of nutritionism." -- Raj Patel "She convincingly argues there is an element of race-making in the talk around fat and the pathologization of certain lifestyles." Medical Anthology Quarterly "The richness of the book lies in its attention to detail. Emily demonstrates a lovely care for language throughout, showing how specific words are not just embedded in but elicit social contexts." -- Rebeca Ibanez Martin Somatosphere "In the short few weeks that I have had [Weight of Obesity] on my desk, I have come to consider it as a text to think with, an approach to learn from, and material to teach. The text will inform my own practices as an anthropologist, a science studies body, a teacher, and-on a good day-a writer. Just to wrap up my praise: like very few others, this text accomplishes what any book should: it makes one live with it, through it, and see the world through its eyes. If a book has eyes, that is-and of course, not to over-privilege the visual among the senses." -- Marianne de Laet Somatosphere "The Weight of Obesity offers a plethora of wide-ranging ideas that emerge powerfully from an ethnography that is subtly grounded on the rupture of political change and the inequities of a global political economy." -- Simon Cohn Somatosphere "The Weight of Obesity is a wonderful book. It is a book that invites the reader to read aloud brilliant insights and moving, sometimes truly piercing observations. The book contrasts myriads of local intricacies with the global health attempts at 'treating obesity'. The book links eating practices to such heterogeneous things as pesticides, traditional social obligations of food preparation, the workings of bodies, global politics and hunger, fortified sugar, the beauty of fatness, and racism. This is done with great sensitivity for the particular ways the language of her informants frames practices of eating, health, and happiness. The book is rica, the Guatemalan word for delicious, tasteful, rich." -- Jeannette Pols SomatosphereTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Map Introduction: The Richness of Eating 1. Disease and Modernities 2. Nutritional Black-Boxing 3. Care of the Social 4. Contemporary Body Counts 5. Bodies in Balance 6. Many Values of Health Conclusion: The Opposite of ObesityNotes References Index
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University of California Press El Mall The Spatial and Class Politics of
Book SynopsisWhile becoming less relevant in the United States, shopping malls are booming throughout urban Latin America. But what does this mean on the ground? Are shopping malls a sign of the region's "coming of age"? This title deals with these questions and explore how malls are shaping the conversation about class and social inequality in Latin America.Trade Review"Overall, Davila treats the mall as a microcosm of wider changes in governance, economics and social relations... nuanced." Environment and Urbanization
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University of California Press A Passion for Society How We Think about Human
Book SynopsisWhat does human suffering mean for society? And how has this meaning changed from the past to the present? In what ways does "the problem of suffering" serve to inspire us to care for others? How does our response to suffering reveal our moral and social conditions? The author offers some answers to these questions.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Origins of Social Suffering 2. In Division and Denial 3. A Broken Recovery 4. Learning from Weber 5. The Praxis of Social Suffering 6. Caregiving Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Global Africa
Book SynopsisTrade Review“This book serves as an invaluable resource for geographers, historians, and all social scientists, as well as any members of the public interested in learning more about this complicated and fascinating continent.” * Polymath *"In the collection of essays Global Africa Into the Twenty-First Century, editors Dorothy Hodgson and Judith Byfield tackle the challenge V.Y. Mudimbe identified as 'the idea of Africa.' Their aim is to push readers to think deeply about and grapple with the dynamic nature of Africa as a geographic space, situating Africa at the center of global processes by demonstrating the pivotal roles Africans have played in producing and circulating ideas and initiating 'transformations throughout the world'." * African Studies Review *"Challenging popular perceptions of Africa as a place of despair and violence, this volume describes the contributions that African people, ideas and goods have made throughout the world – contributions which, according to the editors, demonstrate that Africa occupies a central position in global historical processes." * Survival: Global Politics and Strategy *"A refreshingly edited collection that offers a number of unusual views on Africa’s global connectedness and entanglements." * New Global Studies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 0.1 • Why Global Africa? Dorothy L. Hodgson and Judith A. Byfield PART I. ENTANGLED HISTORIES 1.1 • PROFILE: Ibn Khaldun: The Father of the Social Sciences Oludamini Ogunnaike 1.2 • Trade and Travel in Africa’s Global Golden Age (AD 700–1500) François-Xavier Fauvelle 1.3 • Three Women of the Sahara: Fatma, Odette, and Sophie E. Ann McDougall 1.4 • Afro-Iberians in the Early Spanish Empire, ca. 1550–1600 Leo J. Garofalo 1.5 • “From the Land of Angola”: Slavery, Marriage, and African Diasporic Identities in Mexico City before 1650 Frank Trey Proctor III 1.6 • “Ethiopia Shall Stretch” from America to Africa: The Pan-African Crusade of Charles Morris Benedict Carton and Robert Trent Vinson 1.7 • Africans in India, Past and Present Renu Modi PART II. POWER AND ITS CHALLENGES 2.1 • PROFILE: Leymah Gbowee: Speaking Truth to Power Pamela Scully 2.2 • Pan-Africanism: An Ideology and a Movement Hakim Adi 2.3 • Mwalimu Nyerere as Global Conscience Chambi Chachage 2.4 • Power, Conflict, and Justice in Africa: An Uncertain March Stephen Mogaka and Stephen Ndegwa 2.5 • Where Truth, Lies, and Privilege Meet Poverty . . . What Is Hope? Reflecting on the Gains and Pains of South Africa’s TRC Sarah Malotane Henkeman and Undine Whande 2.6 • Commerce, Crime, and Corruption: Illicit Financial Flows from Africa Masimba Tafirenyika 2.7 • Working History: China, Africa, and Globalization Jamie Monson, Tang Xiaoyang, and Liu Shaonan 2.8 • The Radicalization of Environmental Justice in South Africa Jacklyn Cock PART III. CIRCULATIONS OF COMMUNITIES AND CULTURES 3.1 • PROFILE: A Taste of Africa in Harlem: Red Rooster Judith A. Byfield 3.2 • Networks of Threads: Africa, Textiles, and Routes of Exchange Victoria Rovine 3.3 • Sending Forth the Best: African Missions in China Heidi Østbø Haugen 3.4 • PHOTO ESSAY: Baohan Street: An African Community in Guangzhou, China Michaela Pelican and Li Dong 3.5 • The African Literary Tradition: Interview with Ngugi wa Thiong’o Mukoma Wa Ngugi 3.6 • African Soccer’s Global Story Peter Alegi 3.7 • Art, Identity, and Autobiography: Senzeni Marasela and Lalla Essaydi Christa Clarke 3.8 • Raï and Rap: Globalization and the Soundtrack of Youth Resistance in Northern Africa Zakia Salime PART IV. SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND HEALTH 4.1 • PROFILE: A Conversation with Microbiologist Dr. Sara Eyangoh Tamara Giles-Vernick 4.2 • The Politics, Perils, and Possibilities of Epidemics in Africa Douglas Webb 4.3 • Generative Technologies from Africa Ron Eglash 4.4 • “Money in Your Hand”: M-PESA and Mobile Money in Kenya Dillon Mahoney 4.5 • What’s in Your Cell Phone? James H. Smith 4.6 • Bioprospecting: Moving beyond Benefit Sharing Rachel Wynberg 4.7 • Of Waste and Revolutions: Environmental Legacies of Authoritarianism in Tunisia Siad Darwish PART V. AFRICA IN THE WORLD TODAY 5.1 • PROFILE: Africa Calling: A Conversation with Mo Ibrahim Stuart Reid 5.2 • From Lesotho to the United Nations: The Journey of a Gender Justice Advocate Keiso Matashane-Marite 5.3 • Meschac Gaba: Museum of Contemporary African Art Kerryn Greenberg 5.4 • Africa in Nollywood, Nollywood in Africa Onookome Okome 5.5 • Globalizing African Islam from Below: West African Sufi Masters in the United States Cheikh Anta Babou 5.6 • Afropolitanism and Its Discontents Obadias Ndaba 5.7 • PHOTO ESSAY: Awra Amba: A Model “Utopian” Community in Ethiopia Salem Mekuria About the Editors Index
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University of California Press The Anthropology of Catholicism A Reader
Book SynopsisProvides both ethnographic material and theoretical reflections on Catholicism around the world, this book demonstrates how a revised anthropology of Catholicism can generate new insights and analytical frameworks that will impact anthropology as well as other disciplines.Trade Review"Overall, the book brings needed shape and specificity to an otherwise amorphous field of study.... Summing Up: Highly recommended." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Anthropology of Catholicism Maya Mayblin, Kristin Norget, and Valentina Napolitano PART ONE. A GENEALOGY OF THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF CATHOLICISM 1. Excerpt from "St Besse: A Study of an Alpine Cult" Robert Hertz 2. Excerpt from "Tarantism and Catholicism" Ernesto de Martino 3. Excerpt from "The Place of Grace in Anthropology" Julian A. Pitt-Rivers 4. Excerpt from "The Dinka and Catholicism" Godfrey Lienhardt 5. Excerpt from "Iconophily and Iconoclasm in Marian Pilgrimage" Victor Turner and Edith Turner 6. Excerpt from Person and God in a Spanish Valley William A. Christian 7. Excerpt from "The Priest as Agent of Secularization in Rural Spain" Stanley H. Brandes 8. Excerpt from "Women Mystics and Eucharistic Devotion in the Thirteenth Century" Caroline Walker Bynum PART TWO. CONTEMPORARY WORKS IN THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF CATHOLICISM 9. "Complexio Oppositorum"? Religion, Society, and Power in the Making of Catholicism in Rural South India David Mosse 10. Marking Memory: Heritage Work and Devotional Labor at Quebec's Croix de Chemin Hillary Kaell 11. Containment and Contagion: The Gender of Sin in Contemporary Catholicism Maya Mayblin 12. Opulence and Simplicity: The Question of Tension in Syrian Catholicism Andreas Bandak 13. The Paradox of Charismatic Catholicism: Rupture and Continuity in a Q'eqchi'-Maya Parish Eric Hoenes del Pinal 14. The Virgin of Guadalupe and Spectacles of Catholic Evangelism in Mexico Kristin Norget 15. The Rosary as a Meditation on Death at a Marian Apparition Shrine Ellen Badone 16. A Catholic Body? Miracles, Secularity, and the Porous Self in Malta Jon P. Mitchell 17. Experiments of Inculturation in a Catholic Charismatic Movement in Cameroon Ludovic Lado 18. On a Political Economy of Political Theology: El Senor de los Milagros Valentina Napolitano 19. Making a Home in an Unfortunate Place: Phenomenology and Religion J. Michelle Molina PART THREE. INTERVENTIONS IN THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF CATHOLICISM 20. "We're All Catholics Now" Simon Coleman 21. What Is Catholic about the Clergy Sex Abuse Crisis? Robert A. Orsi 22. Possession and Psychopathology, Faith and Reason Thomas J. Csordas 23. Catholicism and the Study of Religion Birgit Meyer 24. The Media of Sensation Niklaus Largier Bibliography List of Contributors Index
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University of California Press Owners of the Map
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University of California Press Owners of the Map Motorcycle Taxi Drivers
Book SynopsisOn May 19, 2010, the Royal Thai Army deployed tanks, snipers, and war weapons to disperse the thousands of Red Shirts protesters who had taken over the commercial center of Bangkok to demand democratic elections and an end to inequality. Key to this mobilization were motorcycle taxi drivers, who slowed down, filtered, and severed mobility in the area, claiming a prominent role in national politics and ownership over the city and challenging state hegemony. Four years later, on May 20, 2014, the same army general who directed the dispersal staged a military coup, unopposed by protesters. How could state power have been so fragile and open to challenge in 2010 and yet so seemingly sturdy only four years later? How could protesters who had once fearlessly resisted military attacks now remain silent? Owners of the Map provides answers to these questions-central to contemporary political mobilizations around the globe-through an ethnographic study of motorcycle taxi drivers in Bangkok. Claudio Sopranzetti explores the unresolved tensions in the drivers' everyday lives, their migration trajectories, consumer desires, and political demands amidst the restructuring of Thai capitalism after the 1997 economic crisis. Reconstructing the entanglements between their everyday mobility and political mobilization, Sopranzetti reveals mobility not just as a strength of contemporary capitalism but also as one of its fragile spots, always prone to disruption by the people who sustain its channels but remain excluded from their benefits. In so doing, Owners of the Map advances an analysis of power that focuses not on the sturdiness of hegemony or the ubiquity of everyday resistance but on its potential fragility as well as the work needed for its maintenance.Trade Review"Essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the events of Bangkok in 2010 and to keep up with the anthropology of mobility and infrastructure." * H-Net *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Prologue PART ONE. MOBILITY 1 • The Unsettled Layers of Bangkok 2 • The Dangers of Mobility 3 • The Unresolved Tensions of Migration 4 • The Paradox of Freedom PART TWO. MOBILIZATION 5 • Fighting over the State 6 • Transforming Desires into Demands 7 • Unraveling the Thai Capital 8 • Combining Powers Epilogue Postscriptum References Index
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University of California Press The Anthropology of Sport
Book SynopsisFew activities bring together physicality, emotions, politics, money, and morality as dramatically as sport. In Brazil's stadiums or parks in China, on Cuba's baseball diamonds or rugby fields in Fiji, human beings test their physical limits, invest emotional energy, bet money, perform witchcraft, and ingest substances, making sport a microcosm of what life is about. The Anthropology of Sport explores not only what anthropological thinking tells us about sports, but also what sports tell us about the ways in which the sporting body is shaped by and shapes the social, cultural, political, and historical contexts in which we live. Core themes discussed in this book include the body, modernity, nationalism, the state, citizenship, transnationalism, globalization, and gender and sexuality.Trade Review"The three authors of The Anthropology of Sport have written their up-to-date survey of anthropology and sport in the style of an introductory textbook. The trio covers a basic range of topics in eight chapters, each of which could function as the essential reading for a lecture . . . Major thinkers and concepts are introduced in a deliberated, easy-to-understand manner." * Pacific Affairs *"Brownell, Besnier, and Carter’s work is a new text in a yet undefined field – it may be the start of something new. If interested in the global nature of sport today, The Anthropology of Sport is a necessary read." * Foucault News *"Besnier, Brownell and Carter . . . follow a distinct anthropological line of thinking, advocating a wide application of the term 'sport' that takes into account its various local, daily and emic conceptions in the context of globalization." * Paideuma *"This is a well‐written and accessible text. . . . The book can stimulate new research in a highly fertile but understudied area of anthropology." * American Ethnologist *"A foundational text. . . . The writing is clear, the style consistent, and the presentation informative and absorbing." * Journal of Anthropological Research *"Deeply insightful. . . . This volume can function as an important point of reference and source of inspiration for myriad anthropological research projects to come." * Social Anthropology *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1 • Sport, Anthropology, and History 2 • Sport, Colonialism, and Imperialism 3 • Sport, Health, and the Environment 4 • Sport, Social Class, Race, and Ethnicity 5 • Sport and Sex, Gender, and Sexuality 6 • Sport, Cultural Performance, and Mega-events 7 • Sport, Nation, and Nationalism 8 • Sport in the World System Epilogue: Sport for Anthropology Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Making Modern Meals How Americans Cook Today 66 California Studies in Food and Culture
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University of California Press All I Eat Is Medicine
Book SynopsisAll I Eat Is Medicine charts the lives of individuals and the operation of institutions in the thick of the AIDS epidemic in Mozambique during the global scale-up of treatment for HIV/AIDS at the turn of the twenty-first century. Even as the AIDS treatment scale-up saved lives, it perpetuated the exploitation and exclusion that was implicated in the propagation of the epidemic in the first place. This book calls attention to the global social commitments and responsibilities that a truly therapeutic global health requires.Trade Review"Ippolytos Kalofonos argues for global public health systems to confront the underlying causes of inequities instead of only providing medicine to the ill. In doing so, he explains that hunger, disease, and poverty are interlinked." * FoodTank *"All I Eat is Medicine is a grounded account showing that humanitarianism aid is a double-edged sword." * World Medical & Health Policy *
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University of California Press In the Field Life and Work in Cultural
Book SynopsisThis book offers an invaluable look at what cultural anthropologists do when they are in the field. Through fascinating and often entertaining accounts of their lives and work in varied cultural settings, the authors describe the many forms fieldwork can take, the kinds of questions anthropologists ask, and the common problems they encounter. From these accounts and the experiences of the student field workers the authors have mentored over the years, In the Field makes a powerful case for the value of the anthropological approach to knowledge.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii 1. The Fieldwork Tradition 1 2. First Fieldwork: Irish Travellers 7 3. Politics and Fieldwork: Nomads in English Cities 31 4. Applying Anthropology in an Alaskan National Park 50 5. Studying Subsistence in Sitka 70 6. On the Move: Work and Mobility in Newfoundland 87 7. Native Anthropology: Studying the Culture of Baseball 105 8. Falling into Fieldwork in Japan 120 9. Photography and Film in Ireland and Alaska 142 10. Taking Students to the Field: Barbados 164 11. When the Field Is a City: Hobart, Tasmania 185 12. In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro: Students in Tanzania 201 13. Fieldwork from Campus 221 14. The Changing Nature of Fieldwork 238 Appendix Discussion Points 251 Notes 259 References 271
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University of California Press Food and Power A Culinary Ethnography of Isrl
Book SynopsisDrawing on ethnography conducted in Israel since the late 1990s, Food and Power considers how power is produced, reproduced, negotiated, and subverted in the contemporary Israeli culinary sphere. Nir Avieli explores issues such as the definition of Israeli cuisine, the ownership of hummus, the privatization of communal Kibbutz dining rooms, and food at a military prison for Palestinian detainees to show how cooking and eating create ambivalence concerning questions of strength and weakness and how power and victimization are mixed into a sense of self-justification that maintains internal cohesion among Israeli Jews.Trade Review"Avieli’s book reveals not only power dynamics associated with what we eat, but also how we, as a community member or as an outsider researcher within it, use food to establish our 'place' in society." * Digest: A Journal of Foodways & Culture *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Hummus Wars 1 • Size Matters 2 • Roasting Meat 3 • Why We Like Italian Food 4 • Th e McDonaldization of the Kibbutz Dining Room 5 • Meat and Masculinity in a Military Prison 6 • Th ai Migrant Workers and the Dog-Eating Myth Conclusion: Food and Power in Israel—Orientalization and Ambivalence Notes References Index
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University of California Press Crossing the Kingdom
Book SynopsisFor many people, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia evokes images of deserts, camels, and oil, along with rich sheikh in white robes, oppressed women in black veils, and terrorists. This book paints a lucid portrait of contemporary Saudi culture and the lives of individuals, who like us all grapple with modernity at the dawn of the twenty-first century.Trade Review"Vivid descriptions and moving personal narratives ... Crossing the Kingdom paints a lucid portrait of contemporary Saudi culture." HEPPAS Books "A travelogue that is more sophisticated than the perspectives that dominate Western media reporting on the kingdom." Times Literary Supplement "Danforth provides a superb anthropological analysis of the cultural problems the Saudi state has become entangled in." The Middle East JournalTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface Introduction 1 * Can Oil Bring Happiness? Alternate Visions of Saudi Aramco 2 * Driving While Female: Protesting the Ban on Women Driving 3 * Saudi Modern: Art on the Edge 4 * Finding Science in the Quran: Creationism and Concordism in Islam 5 * Roads of Arabia: Archaeology in Service of the Kingdom 6 * Saving Jeddah, the Bride of the Red Sea 7 * Who Can Go to Mecca? Conversion and Pilgrimage in Islam Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Unsettled
Book SynopsisIn 1963, Kenya gained independence from Britain, ending decades of white colonial rule. While tens of thousands of whites relocated in fear of losing their fortunes, many stayed. In this book, the author looks at the lives and dilemmas of settler descendants living in post-independence Kenya.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Unsettled 2 Loving the Land 3 Guilt 4 Conflicted Intimacies 5 Linguistic Atonement 6 The Occult Conclusion Notes References Index
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University of California Press Regulating Style
Book SynopsisFashion knockoffs are everywhere. Even in the out-of-the-way markets of highland Guatemala, fake branded clothes offer a cheap, stylish alternative for people who cannot afford high-priced originals. The author approaches the fashion industry from the perspective of indigenous Maya people who make and sell knockoffs.Trade Review"Reading Regulating Style, one could imagine the IP conditions described by Thomas as unfolding in Bangladesh, the Philippines, or any of the myriad of other places that produce clothing for the fashion industry. Alongside a historically-specific disregard for and de-legitimization of Mayan culture, the refusal to acknowledge the informal rights of clothing pirates has produced a form of colonial dispossession increasingly common around the world. However, as Thomas also shows, by appropriating a fashion brand, marginalized communities can subvert not only corporate domination and appropriation of locally-produced value, but also the socio-economic and political conditions that cause oppression." * PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review *"This is a methodologically rigorous, carefully crafted, innovative book. Besides being an example of thorough academic scholarship, it becomes evident that the author has exceptional knowledge of and authentic concern for life in the Maya highlands. This fundamentally anthropological study raises many interesting questions with respect to the global IP framework and its impact on development." * ReVista *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Economic Regulation and the Value of Concealment 2. The Ethics of Piracy 3. Brand Pollution 4. Fiscal and Moral Accountability 5. Making the Highlands Safe for Business Conclusion: Late Style Notes References Index
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University of California Press Words Matter
Book SynopsisA recent study of corporate managers found that one out of five projects fail primarily because of ineffective transnational communication, resulting in the loss of millions of dollars. This book examines how communications between transnational partners routinely break down, even when all parties are fluent English speakers.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. A Duty to Die 2. Bringing a Gun to a Fistfight 3. Don’t Lie to Me 4. Show Me Yours 5. Dead Dogs Don’t Bark 6. When Is Fruit a Vegetable? 7. Private Parts 8. Is a Burrito a Sandwich? 9. Haunted Contracts 10. That Jet Won’t Fly 11. What Have You Done for Me Lately? 12. The Dancer Who Didn’t Dance 13. A Peerless Peer 14. And the Band Played On 15. Don’t Do Me Like That 16. The Five-Year-Old Defendant 17. Don’t Forget to Duck 18. The Worth of a Chance 19. Pray at Your Own Risk 20. Coin-Flip Wrongdoers 21. Growing Your Own 22. Your Body, My Body 23. Imagine No (Copyright) Possessions 24. My Barbie World 25. A Time for Dying 26. The Voice of God 27. Judging Jenna 28. Three Generations 29. A Good Walk Spoiled 30. That’s My Mother You’re Talking About! 31. Funeral Crashers 32. Bench Memo Notes Index
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University of California Press Dispossessed How Predatory Bureaucracy Foreclosed
Book SynopsisIn the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, more than 14 million U.S. homeowners filed for foreclosure. Focusing on the hard-hit Sacramento Valley, Noelle Stout uncovers the predacious bureaucracy that organized the largest bank seizure of residential homes in U.S. history. Stout reveals the failure of Wall Street banks' mortgage assistance programsbacked by over $300 billion of federal fundsto deliver on the promise of relief. Unlike the programs of the Great Depression, in which the government took on the toxic mortgage debt of Americans, corporate lenders and loan servicers ultimately denied over 70 percent of homeowner applications. In the voices of bank employees and homeowners, Stout unveils how call center representatives felt about denying appeals and shares the fears of families living on the brink of eviction. Stout discloses the impacts of rising inequality on homeownersfrom whites who felt their middle-class life unraveling to communities of color who experienced a more precipitous and dire decline. Trapped in a Kafkaesque maze of mortgage assistance, borrowers began to view debt refusal as a moral response to lenders, as seemingly mundane bureaucratic dramas came to redefine the meaning of debt and dispossession.Trade Review"Building on existing research about the Great Recession, [Stout] offers intimate interviews with a dozen families who lost their homes in the Sacramento Valley. . . . Highly recommended." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction. Once Sold, Twice Taken: A Life Undone 1. Dream It, Own It: Genealogies of Speculation and Dispossession in the ValleyLandscapes 2. Put Out: Bank Seizure at the Poverty Line 3. Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: Relocating the Middle ClassDocuments 4. Can’t Work the System: The Troubled Sympathies of Corporate Bureaucrats 5. We Shall Not Be Moved: The Shifting Moral Economies of Debt RefusalDrawings Conclusion. You Can’t Go Home Again Acknowledgments Glossary Notes References Index
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University of California Press The Twilight of Cutting
Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to say that while cutting is ending, the Western discourse surrounding it is on the rise? And what kind of a feminist anthropology is needed in such a moment? This book examines these questions from the vantage point of Ghanaian feminist and reproductive health NGOs that have organized campaigns against cutting over the years.Trade Review"This rich ethnography has much to say about civil society and feminist problems in a 21st century postcolonial nation." * Somatosphere *"This book is a gem for it offers insights into issues of interest to a wide range of scholars such as development specialists, anthropologists, Africanist scholars and feminists." * African Review of Economics *"Hodžić’s ethnography compellingly reveals the ways in which FGM as a discursive concept remains active in the wake of the ending of genital cutting practices." * Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute *"Readers can expect a brilliant feminist critique of the 'problematisation' of female genital cutting." * Journal of Modern African Studies *"A timely contribution to pan-African scholarship." * Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women’s and Gender Studies *Table of ContentsPreface: Coming to Questions Introduction: Governmentality against Itself 1 * Colonial Reason, Sensibility, and the Ethnographic Style 2 * Making Harmful Traditional Practices 3 * When Cutting Did and Did Not End 4 * Mistaken by Design: Biopolitics in Practice 5 * Blood Loss and Slow Harm in Times of Scarcity 6 * Th e Feminist Fetish: Legal Advocacy 7 * Against Sovereign Violence Epilogue Acknowledgments Acronyms Notes References Index
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University of California Press The New Food Activism
Book SynopsisThe New Food Activism explores how food activism can be pushed toward deeper and more complex engagement with social, racial, and economic justice and toward advocating for broader and more transformational shifts in the food system. Topics examined include struggles against pesticides and GMOs, efforts to improve workers' pay and conditions throughout the food system, and ways to push food activism beyond its typical reliance on individualism, consumerism, and private property. The authors challenge and advance existing discourse on consumer trends, food movements, and the intersection of food with racial and economic inequalities.Trade Review"The New Food Activism is a valuable contribution to critical food studies that raises important questions about what kind of food system we, as scholars, organizers, eaters and workers want to see and how we are going to get there." * Antipode *"A shrewdly curated call to action... By depicting the diversity of opposition to conventional food systems and with keen depth of discussion, Alkon and Guthman stoke the embers of the change that has been smoldering for decades within the food system, demonstrating means of resistance that all new activists should emulate." * Graduate Journal of Food Studies *"The New Food Activism is both relevant and timely to ongoing academic conversations about food justice and the alternative food movement within the United States. . . . While this book adds to the critique of the alternative food movement by highlighting the ways in which it is apolitical and nonstrategic, its biggest impact is the illustration of the power of activism that is strategic, political, and collaborative." * Agriculture and Human Values *Table of ContentsPreface 1 * Introduction 1 Alison Hope Alkon and Julie Guthman Part One Regulatory Campaigns 2 * Taking a Different Tack: Pesticide Regulatory-Reform Activism in California Jill Lindsey Harrison 3 * How Canadian Farmers Fought and Won the Battle against GM Wheat Emily Eaton 4 * How Midas Lost Its Golden Touch: Neoliberalism and Activist Strategy in the Demise of Methyl Iodide in California Julie Guthman and Sandy Brown Part Two Working For Workers 5 * Resetting the "Good Food" Table: Labor and Food Justice Alliances in Los Angeles Joshua Sbicca 6 * Food Workers and Consumers Organizing Together for Food Justice Joann Lo and Biko Koenig 7 * Farmworker-Led Food Movements Then and Now: United Farm Workers, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, and the Potential for Farm Labor Justice Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern Part Three Collective Practices 8 * Collective Purchase: Food Cooperatives and Their Pursuit of Justice Andrew Zitcer 9 * Cooperative Social Practices, Self-Determination, and the Struggle for Food Justice in Oakland and Chicago Meleiza Figueroa and Alison Hope Alkon 10 * Urban Agriculture, Food Justice, and Neoliberal Urbanization: Rebuilding the Institution of Property Michelle Glowa 11 * Boston's Emerging Food Solidarity Economy Penn Loh and Julian Agyeman 12 * Grounding the U.S. Food Movement: Bringing Land into Food Justice Tanya M. Kerssen and Zoe W. Brent 13 * Conclusion: A New Food Politics Alison Hope Alkon and Julie Guthman Contributors Index
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University of California Press The Art of Connection
Book SynopsisNarrates the individual stories of artisans and traders of Kenyan arts and crafts as they overcome the loss of physical access to roadside market space by turning to new digital technologies to make their businesses more mobile and integrated into the global economy.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1 * The Art of Connection: An Introduction 2 * Mombasa Marginalized: Claims to Land and Legitimacy in a Tourist City 3 * Crafts Traders versus the State 4 * Negotiating Informality in Mombasa 5 * New Mobilities, New Risks 6 * Crafting Ethical Connection and Transparency in Coastal Kenya 7 * From Ethnic Brands to Fair Trade Labels Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Getting Wrecked Women Incarceration and the
Book SynopsisGetting Wrecked provides a rich ethnographic account of women battling addiction as they cycle through jail, prison, and community treatment programs in Massachusetts. As incarceration has become a predominant American social policy for managing the problem of drug use, including the opioid epidemic, this book examines how prisons and jails have attempted concurrent programs of punishment and treatment to deal with inmates struggling with a diagnosis of substance use disorder. An addiction physician and medical anthropologist, Kimberly Sue powerfully illustrates the impacts of incarceration on women's lives as they seek well-being and better health while confronting lives marked by structural violence, gender inequity, and ongoing trauma. Trade Review"In this volume [Sue] offers an eye-opening account of the gendered dimensions of the 'War on Drugs.'—Highly recommended" * CHOICE *"Sue demonstrates empathy for the women she has come to know, as well as realism regarding the harshness of their circumstances." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Author’s Note 1 Introduction: “It’s Just Part of the Game” 2 The Beauty Shop and the Segregation Unit 3 Heroin Is My Counselor 4 Discipline, Punish, and Treat Trauma? 5 Where Medicine Is Contraband 6 Recovery Is My Job Now 7 Life and Death after Jail 8 Conclusion: Breaking “Wicked Bad Habits” Notes References Index
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University of California Press Us Relatives
Book SynopsisExplores how scalar blindness skews our understanding of these cultures and the debates they inspire. This book elaborates on indigenous modes of "being many" that have been eclipsed by scale-blind anthropology, which generally uses its large-scale conceptual language of persons, relations, and ethnic groups for even tiny communities.Table of ContentsLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PROLOGUE: ONE OF US INTRODUCTION: SCALAR BLINDNESS AND FORAGER WORLDS DOWNSCALE 1. MAPS OF HOME 1. AT HOME: SETTING AND MIND SETTING DOWNSCALE 2. CENSUS OF RELATIVES 2. LIVING PLURALLY: MOBILITY AND VISITING DOWNSCALE 3. TREE OF RELATIVES 3. THE SIB MATRIX: DYADIC AND SEQUENTIAL LOGIC 4. COUPLES AND CHILDREN: GENDER, CAREGIVING, AND FORAGING TOGETHER DOWNSCALE 4. TAXONOMY OF NONHUMAN RELATIVES 5. NONHUMAN KIN: UNISPECIES SOCIETIES AND PLURAL COMMUNITIES DOWNSCALE 5. FAMILY AND ETHNONYM 6. A CONTINUUM OF RELATIVES: OTHERING AND US-ING 7. THE STATE'S FORAGERS: THE SCALE OF MULTICULTURALISM EPILOGUE: PLURIPRESENT AND IMAGINED COMMUNITIES ACKNOWLEDGMENTS NOTES REFERENCES INDEX
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University of California Press Bitter and Sweet Food Meaning and Modernity in
Book SynopsisLess than a half century ago, China experienced a cataclysmic famine, which was particularly devastating in the countryside. This book examines the role of food in one rural Chinese community, as it has shaped everyday lives over the course of several tumultuous decades.Trade Review"Bitter and Sweet is a rich and detailed ethnography that makes a convincing case for following food through its transformations as it is created, exchanged and consumed to reveal myriad themes of contemporary social life, what I would call a “gustemological” approach to culture." * Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition *"This is useful reading not only for fellow anthropologists in the China field, but also for anyone interested in knowing about modern China. Summing Up: Highly recommended." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgments Note on the Text 1 * The Value of Food in Rural China 2 * Labor 3 * Memory 4 * Exchange 5 * Morality 6 * Conviviality Conclusion: Stitching the World Together Appendix A Appendix B Notes Glossary References Index
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University of California Press The Biopolitics of Beauty
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The Biopolitics of Beauty is gripping in its empirical narrative and in its theoretical framework, which demonstrates that empirical attention to beauty can bring together theories about medicalization and theories about affect. . . . Jarrín demonstrates that affect and biopolitical discourse shape how patients and plastic surgeons engage each other around questions of beauty, health, and social mobility." * PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review *Table of ContentsIllustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Biopolitical and Affective Dimensions of Beauty 1. The Eugenesis of Beauty 2. Plastic Governmentality 3. The Circulation of Beauty 4. Hope, Affect, Mobility 5. The Raciology of Beauty 6. Cosmetic Citizens Conclusion: Thinking of Beauty Transnationally Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Diagram for Fire Miracles and Variation in an
Book SynopsisWhat is the work that miracles do in American Charismatic Evangelicalism? How can miracles be unanticipated and yet worked for? And finally, what do miracles tell us about other kinds of Christianity and even the category of religion? This book deaks with these questions.Trade Review"A Diagram of Fire succeeds both as general theory and as finely drawn ethnography." * Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS PROLOGUE INTRODUCTION: CLEARLY WRITTEN ON HIS FACE 1. VINEYARD TIME 2. INSTITUTIONS AND GOD'S AGENTS 3. A DIAGRAM FOR FIRE 4. TOLLE, LEGE: TALKING, READING, AND HEARING 5. THE LIVING ROOM SEMINARS: PEDAGOGIES OF THE SPIRIT, TYPIFICATION, AND ELABORATION 6. THE BODY, TONGUES, HEALING, AND DELIVERANCE 7. COLLAPSES, TRAVERSALS, AND INTENSIFICATIONS OF THE PART-CULTURE CONCLUSION: ON THE PROBLEM OF RELIGION AND ON RELIGION AS A PROBLEM NOTES WORKS CITED INDEX COMPLETE SERIES LIST
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University of California Press Moving by the Spirit Pentecostal Social Life on
Book SynopsisDrawing on two years of ethnographic research, this book explores Pentecostal Christianity in the kind of community where it often flourishes: a densely populated neighborhood in the heart of an extraction economy. It highlights this religion's role in making life possible in structurally adjusted Africa.Trade Review"Naomi Haynes provides a compelling ethnographic study of the centrality of Pentecostal Christianity in contemporary Zambia... Haynes’ attention to certain socially productive elements of Pentecostalism allows her to dig deep into her ethnographic material and to detail what animates the everyday, interpersonal relationships at the core of Pentecostal Christian communities on the Zambian Copperbelt." * AllegraLab *"It is a testament to the strengths of this book that it generates such questions, that it opens these and other avenues for further research. Breaking new ground in the study of religious life and social change, Moving by the Spirit should be read by all Africanists whose research and teaching engage such themes." * African Studies Review *"Haynes’s book is a page-turner and a table-turner – gracefully written and gently dissentient toward some existing ideas on contemporary African Pentecostalism. . . . Scholars of Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity and anthropologists of Christianity are in debt to Naomi Haynes for supplying her readers with such an empirically rich and theoretically nuanced portrait of contemporary Zambian neo-Pentecostals." * PentecoStudies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note on Bemba Orthography and Pseudonyms Prologue: A Breakthrough for Mr. Zulu Introduction: Pentecostalism as Promise, Pentecostalism as Problem 1. Boom and Bust, Revival and Renewal 2. Making Moving Happen 3. Becoming Pentecostal on the Copperbelt 4. Ritual and the (Un)making of the Pentecostal Relational World 5. Prosperity, Charisma, and the Problem of Gender 6. On the Potential and Problems of Pentecostal Exchange 7. Mending Mother's Kitchen 8. The Circulation of Copperbelt Saints Conclusion: Worlds That Flourish Notes References Cited Index
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University of California Press Life on the Other Border
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Mares’s book contributes enormously to the fields of critical ethnography, borderland studies, and immigration studies, and would be an excellent addition to any classroom or public discussion of labor rights and food justice." * Gastronomica *"[Mares] successfully conveys the importance and value that agricultural laborers bring to our food system, and how their identities are often erased from the consumer experience further down the value chain." * Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development *"The most significant contribution of the book is its artful balance of structural vulnerability and agency. . . . This is not just another tale of im/migrant worker woe—rather, we see how farmworker-led activism, and university-community partner- ships, can make progress toward food justice, even in the oppressive context of the 'other' borderlands." * Anthropology of Work Review *Table of ContentsList of Tables and Illustrations Acknowledgments IntroductionBordering Visible Bodies A Distinctive Rural Place? Farmworker Injustice Grows in Every Field Harvesting a Different Product: What Makes Dairy Work Unique It’s Not Just about the Numbers Migrating through the Chapters to Come 1 • Vulnerability and Visibility in the Northern BorderlandsBorder Violence and Vulnerability “There’s No Mexicans in Vermont!” There Are Indeed Mexicans in Vermont EncerradoThe Trump Effect 2 • More than Money: Extending the Meanings and Methodologies of Farmworker Food SecurityLiving with Food Insecurity on Both Sides of the Border Feeding the Nation but Not Being Fed Measuring the Immeasurable? Assessing Dairy Worker Food Insecurity with the (Quantitative) Tools at Hand Telling the Stories of Food Insecurity When Numbers Fall Short Food Insecurity Crosses All Borders 3 • Cultivating Food Sovereignty Where There Are Few ChoicesGrowing a Project from Seed Immigrant Gardens as Fertile Ground for Food Sovereignty They Tried to Bury Us—They Didn’t Know We Were Seeds Challenging Cultural Borders through Experiential Learning 4 • They Are Out, They Are Looking: Providing Goods and Services under SurveillanceWIC: From Door-to-Door Delivery to EBT Doing a Lot with Very Little in the Field of Public Health Trunks Full of Banana Leaves and Phone Cards: The Individuals Serving the Farmworker Community 5 • Resilience and Resistance in the Movement for Just Food and WorkNavigating the Roles of Researcher and Activist A Timeline of Accomplishments—and Setbacks Immigrant Rights Are Human Rights! (Something Other than) Reform or Revolution? ConclusionThe Promise and Complications of Doing Ethnography at Home The Politics of Visibility in the Borderlands The Everyday Meanings of Food Sovereignty The Transformative Potential of Worker-Led Food Movements Some Final Thoughts Appendix 1: Semi-Structured Interview Guide for Farmworkers Appendix 2: Semi-Structured Interview Guide for Service Providers Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Unprepared Global Health in a Time of Emergency
Book SynopsisRecent years have witnessed an upsurge in global health emergencies-from SARS to pandemic influenza to Ebola to Zika. Each of these occurrences has sparked calls for improved health preparedness. This book addresses the question, how did we become unprepared? Emerging disease has only recently come to be understood as a problem of preparedness. Andrew Lakoff follows the history of health preparedness from its beginnings in 1960s Cold War civil defense to the early twenty-first century, when international health authorities carved out a global space for governing potential outbreaks. Alert systems and trigger devices now link health authorities, government officials, and vaccine manufacturers, all of whom manage the possibility of a global pandemic. Funds have been devoted to cutting-edge research on pathogenic organisms, and a system of post hoc diagnosis analyzes sites of failed preparedness to find new targets for improvement. Yet, despite all these developments, the project of global health security continues to be unsettled by the prospect of surprise.Trade Review"Andrew Lakoff offers an engaging analysis of the evolving state of emergency response to global health crises... Unprepared is an impressive account of outcomes based on their counterfactuals." * Social Forces *"Significantly, the book focuses not only on the changing mode of governing—the emergence of preparedness—but also on the diverse governmental technologies applied within this approach. If the problem has shifted from knowledge-dependent possibilities (accidents, risks), manageable by means of risk technology, to potential threats, what types of intervention technologies become possible? . . . The book seeks neither to provide a manifesto for the importance of preparedness nor to criticize its failures. Instead, drawing on the perspective of historical ontology, it tracks the emergence of an unstable consolidation of global health security, posing the question: "How did the norm of preparedness come to structure expert thought and action concerning the future of infectious disease?” * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *" As a basic, yet detailed overview, this book would do well to serve practitioners engaged in public policy issues, particularly regarding public health, and scholars who engage in similar research. Further, the author helps generate possible conversations regarding our current national issues in public health, such as the opioid crisis or tobacco use. Arguably one of this book’s primary contributions is the way it promotes contemplation and discussion on global health catastrophes whether the reader is intimately involved in the field or even using historical analysis in their own research to apply methods for addressing future challenges." * Anthropology & Education Quarterly *"As studies in historical ontology, Lakoff’s works have taught us how to see today’s world of epidemic anticipation and control beyond that cornerstone of hygienic modernity: prevention. Unprepared fulfills the promise of his invitation to the dizzying depths of global health security by laying bare how enactments of readiness are intricately and at the same time anxiously linked to an unstable constitution of threat." * Somatosphere *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. A Continuous State of Readiness 2. The Generic Biological Threat 3. Two Regimes of Global Health 4. Real Time Biopolitics 5. A Fragile Assemblage 6. Diagnosing Failure Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Unprepared Global Health in a Time of Emergency
Book SynopsisRecent years have witnessed an upsurge in global health emergencies-from SARS to pandemic influenza to Ebola to Zika. Each of these occurrences has sparked calls for improved health preparedness. This book addresses the question, how did we become unprepared? Emerging disease has only recently come to be understood as a problem of preparedness. Andrew Lakoff follows the history of health preparedness from its beginnings in 1960s Cold War civil defense to the early twenty-first century, when international health authorities carved out a global space for governing potential outbreaks. Alert systems and trigger devices now link health authorities, government officials, and vaccine manufacturers, all of whom manage the possibility of a global pandemic. Funds have been devoted to cutting-edge research on pathogenic organisms, and a system of post hoc diagnosis analyzes sites of failed preparedness to find new targets for improvement. Yet, despite all these developments, the project of global health security continues to be unsettled by the prospect of surprise.Trade Review"Andrew Lakoff offers an engaging analysis of the evolving state of emergency response to global health crises... Unprepared is an impressive account of outcomes based on their counterfactuals." * Social Forces *"Significantly, the book focuses not only on the changing mode of governing—the emergence of preparedness—but also on the diverse governmental technologies applied within this approach. If the problem has shifted from knowledge-dependent possibilities (accidents, risks), manageable by means of risk technology, to potential threats, what types of intervention technologies become possible? . . . The book seeks neither to provide a manifesto for the importance of preparedness nor to criticize its failures. Instead, drawing on the perspective of historical ontology, it tracks the emergence of an unstable consolidation of global health security, posing the question: "How did the norm of preparedness come to structure expert thought and action concerning the future of infectious disease?” * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *" As a basic, yet detailed overview, this book would do well to serve practitioners engaged in public policy issues, particularly regarding public health, and scholars who engage in similar research. Further, the author helps generate possible conversations regarding our current national issues in public health, such as the opioid crisis or tobacco use. Arguably one of this book’s primary contributions is the way it promotes contemplation and discussion on global health catastrophes whether the reader is intimately involved in the field or even using historical analysis in their own research to apply methods for addressing future challenges." * Anthropology & Education Quarterly *"As studies in historical ontology, Lakoff’s works have taught us how to see today’s world of epidemic anticipation and control beyond that cornerstone of hygienic modernity: prevention. Unprepared fulfills the promise of his invitation to the dizzying depths of global health security by laying bare how enactments of readiness are intricately and at the same time anxiously linked to an unstable constitution of threat." * Somatosphere *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. A Continuous State of Readiness 2. The Generic Biological Threat 3. Two Regimes of Global Health 4. Real Time Biopolitics 5. A Fragile Assemblage 6. Diagnosing Failure Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Building Green
Book SynopsisAt publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Building Green explores the experience of environmental architects in Mumbai, one of the world's most populous and population-dense urban areas and a city iconic for its massive informal settlements, extreme wealth asymmetries, and ecological stresses. Under these conditions, what does it mean to learn, and try to practice, so-called green design? By tracing the training and professional experiences of environmental architects in India's first graduate degree program in Environmental Architecture, Rademacher shows how environmental architects forged sustainability concepts and practices and sought to make them meaningful through engaged architectural practice. The book's focus on practitioners offers insights into the many roles that converge to produce this emergent, critically important form of urban expertise. At once activists, scientists, and designers, the environmental architects profiled in Building Green act as key agents of urban change whose efforts in practice are shaped by a complex urban development economy, layered political power relations, and a calculus of when, and how, their expert skills might be operationalized in service of a global urban future.Trade Review"Will make us think in a different way about how we study cities, as well as how we live in them." * International Institute for Asian Studies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface 1. City Ascending, City Imploding 2. The Integrated Subject 3. Ecology in Practice: Environmental Architecture as Good Design 4. Rectifying Failure: Imagining the New City and the Power to Create it 5. More than Human Nature and the Open Space Predicament 6. Consciousness and Indian-ness: Making Design “Good” 7. A Vocation in Waiting: Ecology in Practice 8. Soldiering Sustainability Notes References Index
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University of California Press Hiding in Plain Sight
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In Hiding in Plain Sight: The Pursuit of War Criminals from Nuremberg to the War on Terror, Eric Stover, Victor Peskin and Alexa Koenig combine meticulous historical and legal research to trace the global search for war criminals from Adolf Eichmann to Ratko Mladic, Saddam Hussein to Osama bin Laden. Beginning by detailing the legal and humanitarian precedents set by the Nuremberg Trials and the Geneva Convention, and ending with a critique of the United States' moral negation during the so-called 'War on Terror', this book is essential for readers looking to understand why crimes against humanity so frequently go unpunished." -- Esther Adaire LSE Review of BooksTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction: The Promise of International Justice Part One 2. To Nuremberg and Beyond 3. The Hunters and the Hunted 4. Pursuing the Last Nazi War Criminals Part Two 5. Balkan Fugitives, International Prosecutors 6. Tracking Rwanda's Genocidaires 7. Hybrid Tribunals: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally Part Three 8. International Criminal Court: At the Mercy of States 9. The "War on Terror" and Its Legacy 10. Epilogue: The Future of Global Justice Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Threshold Emergency Responders on the USMexico
Book SynopsisTrade Review“[Jusionyte] writes movingly of the collaborative efforts between Nogales, in Arizona, and its counterpart across the border, Nogales, Sonora—the two towns’ fire departments have frequently called upon one another for aid. Jusionyte explores the sister towns bisected by the border from many angles in this illuminating and poignant exploration of a place and situation that are little discussed yet have significant implications for larger political discourse.” * Publishers Weekly *“Threshold takes the reader close to realities so easily overlooked that no public figure has even gotten around to lying about them.” * Inside Higher Education *"This volume explores the dilemmas faced by paramedics and firefighters along the US–Mexico border as they try to balance their responsibilities as lifesavers with the demands of the laws that govern the border areas in which they work." * Survival: Global Politics and Strategy * “A staggering work of public anthropology, one that is richly detailed, finely argued, and written in an engaging, even captivating style that brings the reader right to the frontlines of the so-called ‘hostile environments’ and ‘tactical infrastructures’ that now mark the US-Mexico border.” * Public Anthropologist *"A timely book that will appeal to academic and public audiences interested in a more nuanced understanding of security and humanitarianism on the border." * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"This book is a remarkable socio-historical-anthropological study of the war-zone landscape of the US/Mexico border." * Political and Legal Anthropology Review *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION Dead End Treacherous Terrain First Due to the Border Binational Security Toxic Statecraft Politics of Wounding and of Rescue PART ONE: ANKLE ALLEY Nogales, Arizona, Mexico Fence Jumpers Tactical Infrastructure Por Otro Lado Overpaid Tomato Pickers Accidental Violence PART TWO: DOWNWIND, DOWNHILL, DOWNSTREAM Brotherhood Red Tape Maquiladora Acid Rain Road to Rocky Point Staging Security of the Future PART THREE: WILDLAND Load Vehicles The Man in Black Dress Pants Bound by Law Watchouts Aid Is Not a Crime Land of Many Uses Some Pill to Help Us Walk EPILOGUE: THE GREAT NEW WALL About This Project Acknowledgments Abbreviations Notes References Index
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University of California Press A War on People Drug User Politics and a New
Book SynopsisIf we see that our contemporary condition is one of war and widely diffused complexity, how do we understand our most basic ethical motivations? What might be the aims of our political activity?A War on Peopletakes up these questions and offers a glimpse of a possible alternative future in this ethnographically and theoretically rich examination of the activity of some unlikely political actors: users of heroin and crack cocaine, both active and former. The result is a groundbreaking book on how antidrug war political activity offers transformative processes that are termed worldbuilding and enacts nonnormative, open, and relationally inclusive alternatives to such key concepts as community, freedom, and care. Read the author's article about the opiod crisis on Open Democracy.Trade Review"For those interested in a theoretically complex and ambitious contribution to the anthropology of ethics and political anthropology, this book has much to offer." * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsIntroduction: On War and Potentiality 1. The Drug War as Widely Diff used Complexity 2. “Addicts” and the Disruptive Politics of Showing 3. A Community of Those without Community 4. Disclosive Freedom 5. Attuned Care Epilogue: Otherwise Notes Index
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University of California Press Forging the Ideal Muslim Girl Education and the
Book SynopsisA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visitwww.luminosoa.orgto learn more. InForging the Ideal Educated Girl, Shenila Khoja-Moolji traces the figure of the educated girl' to examine the evolving politics of educational reform and development campaigns in colonial India and Pakistan. She challenges the prevailing common sense associated with calls for women's and girls' education and argues that such advocacy is not simply about access to education but, more crucially, concerned with producing ideal Muslim woman-/girl-subjects with specific relationships to the patriarchal family, paid work, Islam, and the nation-state.Thus, discourses on girls'/ women's education are sites for the construction of not only gender but also class relations, religion, and the nation. Trade Review"Essential reading for academics, researchers, and students interested in questions of gender and South Asia." * Reading Religion *"Khoja-Moolji beautifully conveys the complexity of the constantly shifting and [re]articulated educated subjectivities and class identities of Muslim woman/girls in South Asia." * LSE Review of Books *"A complex and intriguing genealogy of the educated Muslim girl that is relevant for colonial India and Pakistan, and beyond." * Politics and Gender *"Khoja-Moolji provides an engaging critical examination of mainstream narratives of education as inherently empowering institutions, as well as the stereotypes of Muslim girls, women, and societies, that is accessible to education researchers and students alike." * Comparative Education Review *"Khoja-Moolji is able to identify multiple tiers of nuance in issues pertaining to access to education, class differences, and imposing perceptions by Western ideologies." * Journal of Muslim Philanthropy & Civil Society *"Readers will be equipped to understand Muslim women and girls in a more nuanced light, rather than as a monolith." * Feminist Theory *"A compelling account of the evolving political and social dynamics that have generated and situated ‘girl-centric’ educational reforms in colonial India. . . . contributes significantly to the dearth of current literature on the context and concepts of global neoliberal education." * Gender and Education *"This book’s rich interdisciplinary scholarship and new insights into re-examining questions around girls’ education and its myriad links to ideas of development make it an important read for scholars across fields of education, gender studies, anthropology and media studies." * Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Girls’ Education as a Unifying Discourse 2. Forging Sharif Subjects 3. Desirable and Failed Citizen-Subjects 4. The Empowered Girl 5. Akbari and Asghari Reappear 6. Tracing Storylines Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press From Label to Table
Book SynopsisHow did the Nutrition Facts label come to appear on millions of everyday American household food products? As Xaq Frohlich reveals, this legal, scientific, and seemingly innocuous strip of information can be a prism through which to view the high-stakes political battles and development of scientific ideas that have shaped the realms of American health, nutrition, and public communication. By tracing policy debates at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Frohlich describes the emergence of our present information age in food and diet markets and examines how powerful government offices inform the public about what they consume. From Label to Table explores evolving popular ideas about food, diet, and responsibility for health that have influenced what goes on the Nutrition Facts labeland who gets to decide that.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments A Note on Primary Sources Introduction: Food and Power in the Information Age 1. An Age of Standards 2. Gatekeepers and Hidden Persuaders 3. Malnourished or Misinformed? 4. The Market Turn 5. A Government Brand 6. Labeling Lifestyles Conclusion: The Informational Turn in Food Politics Chronology Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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University of California Press The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers
Book SynopsisBaseball has been Japan's most popular sport for over a century.The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers analyzes Japanese baseball ethnographically by focusing on a single professional team, the Hanshin Tigers.For over fifty years, the Tigers have been the one of the country's most watched and talked-about professional baseball teams, second only to their powerful rivals, the Tokyo Yomiuri Giants.Despite a largely losing record, perennial frustration, and infighting among players, the Tigers remain overwhelming sentimental favorites in many parts of the country. This book analyzes the Hanshin Tiger phenomenon, and offers an account of why it has long been so compelling and instructive. Author William Kelly argues that the Tigers representwhat he calls a sportsworld a collective product of the actions of players, coaching staff, management, media, and millions of passionate fans. The team has come to symbolize a powerful counter-narrative to idealized notions of Japanese workplace relations. The Tigers are savored as a melodramatic representation of real corporate life, rife with rivalries andoffice politics familiar to every Japanese worker. And playing in a historic stadium on the edge of Osaka, they carry the hopes and frustrations of Japan's second city against the all-powerful capital.Trade Review"The volume is a must-read for those with even a passing interest in Japanese baseball." * Monumenta Nipponica *"[T]his book will be essential to readers who seek to learn more about . . . baseball and sport in Japan." * Contemporary Japan *"The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers is strongly recommended to students, scholars, and general readers interested in baseball and/or Japanese culture and history." * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments A Note on Terms and Japanese Language 1. Introducing Hanshin Tigers Baseball 2. The Rhythms of Tigers Baseball: Stadiums and Seasons 3. On the Field: Players, from Rookies to Veterans 4. In the Dugout: Manager and Coaches 5. In the Offices: Front Office and Parent Corporation 6. In the Stands: Fans, Followers, and Fair-Weather Spectators 7. In the Press Box: Sports Dailies and Mainstream Media 8. Baseball as Education and Entertainment 9. Workplace Melodramas and Second-City Complex 10. A Sportsworld Transforming: The Hanshin Tigers at Present Endnotes Appendix: A Note on the Research and Writing Glossary of Key Japanese Terms References Index
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University of California Press The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The volume is a must-read for those with even a passing interest in Japanese baseball." * Monumenta Nipponica *"[T]his book will be essential to readers who seek to learn more about . . . baseball and sport in Japan." * Contemporary Japan *"The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers is strongly recommended to students, scholars, and general readers interested in baseball and/or Japanese culture and history." * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments A Note on Terms and Japanese Language 1. Introducing Hanshin Tigers Baseball 2. The Rhythms of Tigers Baseball: Stadiums and Seasons 3. On the Field: Players, from Rookies to Veterans 4. In the Dugout: Manager and Coaches 5. In the Offices: Front Office and Parent Corporation 6. In the Stands: Fans, Followers, and Fair-Weather Spectators 7. In the Press Box: Sports Dailies and Mainstream Media 8. Baseball as Education and Entertainment 9. Workplace Melodramas and Second-City Complex 10. A Sportsworld Transforming: The Hanshin Tigers at Present Endnotes Appendix: A Note on the Research and Writing Glossary of Key Japanese Terms References Index
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University of California Press From a Trickle to a Torrent Education Migration
Book SynopsisWhat happens to a community when the majority of young people leave their homes to pursue an education?From a Trickle to a Torrentdocuments the demographic and social consequences of educational migration from Nubri, a Tibetan enclave in the highlands of Nepal. The authors explore parents' motivations for sending their children to distant schools and monasteries, social connections that shape migration pathways, young people's estrangement from village life, and dilemmas that arise when educated individuals are unable or unwilling to return and reside in their native villages. Drawing on numerous decades of research, this study documents a transitional period when the future of a Himalayan society teeters on the brink of irreversible change.Trade Review"[A]n indispensable resource for scholars working in migration studies and educational research in rural areas." * Mountain Research and Development *"[The authors] provide a rigorous set of frameworks that would be salutary to adopt in classes on migration studies and state-society relations." * Journal of Asian Studies *"A must-read for anyone interested in the migration pattern that is transforming Himalayan societies today." * Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology *"This is an excellent book that provides an insight into the interconnected issues of education, migration, and social change in Nepal. . . . From a Trickle to a Torrent is an important contribution to the disciplines of anthropology, area studies, education, and migration." * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments 1. Predicaments, Presumptions, and ProceduresAn Empty Nest The Enduring Yet Ephemeral Village Managing the Family through Migration Studying Longitudinal Change The Household as a Unit of Analysis 2. Moving In before Moving OutA Peripheral Region of Darkness Excavating the Ethnic Strata The Center Comes to the Periphery Completing the Buddhist Transformation Conquest and Indirect Rule Continuity amid Political Change Contemporary Convulsions 3. Embedding the Household in the VillageRituals of Protection The Household in Demography, Anthropology, and Nubri Binding Households through Religious Cooperation Liturgy, Income, and Mobility 4. Whither the Young People?Portents of a Barley Harvest Tibetan Exiles and the Emergence of Migration Pull Factors The Demography of Supply and Demand The Pathways and Magnitude of Outmigration 5. Becoming MonksFamily Obligations versus Religious Aspirations Between Ontological Realms On the Merits of Monastic Migration Childhood Inclinations and Monastic Migration Religious Networks and Migration Destinations The Revival of Mass Monasticism 6. Becoming NunsThe Nun Serves Her Family From Servant (yogmo) to Disciple (lobma) Pathways to Celibacy Gender and the Precariousness of Virtue Demise of the Village Nun? 7. Becoming StudentsThe Son Goes First Educating Nubri Children: A Fitful Start Valuing Education The Efficacy of Strong and Weak Ties Reproducing Inequality? 8. The Household Succession QuandaryA Monk Returns The Educated Son Conundrum The Educated Daughter Dilemma Unbecoming Monks Monks and the Evolving Family Management Strategy 9. The Transformative Potential of Educational MigrationThe Lama Goes, the Lama Returns Independent Child Migration and Fosterage Educational Migration and Demographic Change Marital Endogamy and the Margins of Choice Marriage and the Misappropriation of Modernity 10. Nubri Futures?Vacating the Realm of Religious Practitioners The Predicament of Aging From Householder Lamas to Celibate Monks The Communal Obligation Impasse Disembedding the Younger Generation Parting Thoughts Appendix: The Population of Nubri Notes Glossary of Tibetan Terms References Index
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University of California Press The Myth of International Protection War and
Book SynopsisIn this viscerally intense, ethnographically based work, Claudia Seymour relates the heart-wrenching stories of young people in the Democratic Republic of Congoyoung people who live on the front lines of conflict, in neighborhoods and villages destroyed by war, and on the streets in conditions of poverty and destitution. Seymour, a former child protection adviser and human rights investigator for the United Nations, chronicles her personal journey, which begins with the will to do good yet ends with the realization of how international aid can contribute to greater harm than good. The idea of protection and universalized human rights is turned on its head as Seymour uncovers the complicities and hypocrisies of the aid world. In the promotion of inalienable human rights, aid organizations ignore the complex historical and socioeconomic dynamics that lead to the violations of such rights. Offering a new perspective, The Myth of International Protection reframes how the world sees the DRC and urges global audiences to consider their own roles in fueling the DRC's seemingly endless violence.
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University of California Press An Impossible Inheritance Postcolonial
Book SynopsisWeaving sound historical research with rich ethnographic insight,An Impossible Inheritancetells the story of the emergence, disavowal, and afterlife of a distinctive project in transcultural psychiatry initiated at the Fann Psychiatric Clinic in Dakar, Senegal during the 1960s and 1970s. Today's clinic remains haunted by its past and Katie Kilroy-Marac brilliantly examines the complex forms of memory work undertaken by its affiliates over a sixty year period. Through stories such as that of the the ghost said to roam the clinic's halls, the mysterious death of a young doctor sometimes attributed to witchcraft, and the spirit possession ceremonies that may have taken place in Fann's courtyard, Kilroy-Marac argues that memory work is always an act of the imagination and a moral practice with unexpected temporal, affective, and political dimensions. By exploring how accounts about the Fann Psychiatric Clinic and its past speak to larger narratives of postcolonial and neoliberal transformation,An Impossible Inheritanceexamines the complex relationship between memory, history, and power within the institution and beyond. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: EntanglementsRupture: Chasing a Ghost 1 • Archiving Madness: From Colonial Psychiatry to the Establishment of FannInterlude: Many Battles 2 • Origin Stories: Collomb’s Fann and Senghor’s SenegalRupture: A Letter Unanswered 3 • Nostalgic for Modernity (Or, Looking Back on a Golden Age)Interlude: A Terrible Cry from the Past 4 • The Ink That Marked HistoryInterlude: Each in His Corner 5 • Strategic AmbivalenceRupture: A Thing I Could Not See (The Joola) 6 • Distinctions of the Present Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Impersonations The Artifice of Brahmin
Book SynopsisLearn more at www.luminosoa.org. Impersonations: The Artifice of Brahmin Masculinity in South Indian Dance centers on an insular community of Smarta Brahmin men from the Kuchipudi village in Telugu-speaking South India who are required to don stri-vesam (woman's guise) and impersonate female characters from Hindu religious narratives. Impersonation is not simply a gender performance circumscribed to the Kuchipudi stage, but a practice of power that enables the construction of hegemonic Brahmin masculinity in everyday village life. However, the power of the Brahmin male body instri-vesamis highly contingent, particularly on account of the expansion of Kuchipudi in the latter half of the twentieth century from a localized village performance to a transnational Indian dance form. This book analyzes the practice of impersonation across a series of boundariesvillage to urban, Brahmin to non-Brahmin, hegemonic to non-normativeto explore the artifice of Brahmin masculinity in contemporary South Indian dance.Trade Review"In her excellent analysis of the arrival of the Indian classical dance Kuchipudi on the transnational stage, Kamath charts transformations in Kuchipudi narrative and performance. . . .Kamath cogently articulates these subversive possibilities through ideas of impersonation. Her work adds to the growing body of scholarly work on classical Indian dances that re-examines the cultural and gender politics of classicism as these forms are nationalized and globalized, and, in the current climate, increasingly integrated with the politics of Hindutva." * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *
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University of California Press Gastropolitics and the Specter of Race Stories
Book SynopsisIn recent years, Peru has transformed from a war-torn country to a global high-end culinary destination. Connecting chefs, state agencies, global capital, and Indigenous producers, this gastronomic revolution makes powerful claims: food unites Peruvians, dissolves racial antagonisms, and fuels development. Gastropolitics and the Specter of Race critically evaluates these claims and tracks the emergence of Peruvian gastropolitics, a biopolitical and aesthetic set of practices that reinscribe dominant racial and gendered orders. Through critical readings of high-end menus and ethnographic analysis of culinary festivals, guinea pig production, and national-branding campaigns, this work explores the intersections of race, species, and capital to reveal links between gastronomy and violence in Peru. Trade Review"The book presents a stunning and innovative analysis of the politics of Peru’s recent gastronomic boom. . . .[it] is at the forefront of scholarly discussions on the topic and deserves a wide readership among anthropologists and food studies scholars working on food, race, and nationalism in a range of geographic settings." * Gastronomica *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface: Understories Acknowledgments Introduction: Stories of Resurgence and Coloniality Part One: Structures of Accumulation Interlude: Hauntings 1 • Gastropolitics and the Nation Interlude: Eating the Nation 2 • Cooking Ecosystems: The Beautiful Coloniality of Virgilio Martínez Interlude: "Gastronomy Is a Display Case" 3 • Staging Difference: The Gastropolitics of Inclusion and Recognition Part Two: Narratives from the Edge Interlude: "Apega Needs Us to Look Pretty" 4 • Gastropolitics Otherwise: Stories in and of the Vernacular Interlude: Of Humor and Violence 5 • Guinea Pig Matters: Figuring Race, Sex, and Nation Interlude: Chemical Castration 6 • Death of a Guinea Pig Epilogue. Huacas Rising Notes References Index
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University of California Press Karma and Rebirth in Classical Indian Traditions
Book SynopsisKarma is perhaps the most famous concept in Indian philosophy, but this is the first comprehensive study of its various meanings and philosophical implications. Karma and Rebirth in Classical Indian Traditions offers a harmony of approach and an underlying set of methodological assumptions: a corpus of definitions of karma, a dialectic between abstract theory and historical explanation, and an awareness of logical oppositions in theories of karma. No solution to the paradox of karma is offered, but the volume as a whole presents a consistent and encompassing approach to the many different, often conflicting, Indian statements of the problem. Broad in scope and richly detailed, this book demonstrates the impossibility of speaking of the theory of karma and supplies the basis for further study. Exploring methodological issues arising in the study of a non-Western system of soteriology and rebirth, the contributors question the interaction of medical and philosophical models of the human body, the incorporation of philosophical theories into practical religions with which they are logically incompatible, and the problem of historical reconstruction of a complex theory of human life. 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 1980.
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University of California Press Circumstantial Deliveries
Book SynopsisThis simulating book gathers five lectures that ask questions of the broadest general intellectual interest: What is religion? Do other peoples have the same emotional states as we do? Why do humans make use of body imagery? In Circumstantial Deliveries, Rodney Needham shows that the comparative study of societies may furnish the answers. Circumstantial Deliveries challenges the methodology and substance of many conventional ideas about human nature and calls for more radical and comparative analyses. For instance, the author discredits the notion that to primitive peoples the colors red, white, and black symbolize blood, semen, and feces, respectively, arguing that an extensive comparative study of primitive societies discovered no such relationship. These essays sound a common theme: If a deeper appreciation of the value of life can be had from reading Crime and Punishment, or if a more acute assessment of the springs of action can be acquired from Hamlet, then in principle it should be conceded that like benefits may be derived from a sympathetic observation of other men engaged in their daily affairs.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 1981.
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University of California Press The Thorn in the Chrysanthemum Suicide and
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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University of California Press Who Survives Cancer
Book SynopsisHoward P. Greenwald takes an incisive look at how class, race, sex, psychological state, type of health care, and available treatments affect one's chance of surviving cancer. Drawing on a ten-year survival study of cancer patients, he synthesizes medical, epidemiological, and psychosocial research in a uniquely interdisciplinary and eye-opening approach to the question of who survives cancer and why. Scientists, health care professionals, philanthropists, government agencies, and the public all agree that significant resources must be allocated to fight this dreaded disease. But what is the most effective way to do it? Greenwald argues that our priorities have been misplaced and calls for a fundamental rethinking of the way the American medical establishment deals with cancer. He asserts that prevention and experimental therapy have only limited value, whereas the availability of conventional medical care has a greater influence on cancer survival. Class and race become strikingly significant in predicting who has access to health care and thus can obtain medical treatment in a timely, effective manner. Greenwald counters the popular notion that personality and psychological factors strongly affect survival, and he underscores the importance of early detection. His research shows that health maintenance organizations, while sometimes prone to delays, offer low-income patients a better chance of ultimate survival. Greenwald pleads for immediate attention to the inadequacies and inequalities in our health care delivery system that deter patients from seeking early medical care. Instead of focusing on research and the hope for a breakthrough cure, Greenwald urges renewed emphasis on ensuring available health care to all Americans. In its challenge to the thrust of much biomedical research and its critique of contemporary American health care, as well as in its fresh and often counterintuitive look at cancer survival, Who Survives Cancer? is invaluable for policymakers, health care professionals, and anyone who has survived or been touched by cancer. 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 1992.
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University of California Press Work Mobility and Participation
Book SynopsisAt a minimum our goal is to develop a better understanding of Japanese labor market practices and work organization and in so doing develop a more enlightened vision of American practices. We will greatly enhance our ability to achieve both these goals by arriving at a better understanding of the comparative experience of the two nations over time. We can no longer afford the delusion that what exists in the United States reflects the characteristics of industrial society in its most advanced form. Yet to follow current fashion in simply denying that the United States is the very model of a modern society, while advocating that we imitate the Japanese, is to take a course filled with its own pitfalls. Perhaps it is time we accepted the fact that the social scientist's intense commitment to generalization cannot be allowed to obscure the fundamental observation that nations develop along their own paths, based on their own political, cultural, economic and social histories. As nations industrialize there is undoubtedly convergence in important institutional spheres, such as the expansion of education, the adoption of common technologies and determinants of labor mobility. Certainly nations can learn from one another, and indeed some nations impose their will on other nations. Yet there are also unique solutions to common problems. From the IntroductionThis 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 1979.
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