Sociology and anthropology Books

Book SynopsisPresents a configuration of the important elements to be found in contemporary Japanese social life, and attempts to shed new light on Japanese society. The author deals with his own society as a social anthropologist using some of the methods which he was accustomed to applying in examining any other society.Table of ContentsPreface Chapter One: Criteria of Group Formation 1. Attribute and Frame 2. Emotional Participation and One-to-One Relationships Chapter Two: The Internal Structure of the Group 1. The Development of Ranking 2. The Fundamental Structure of Vertical Organization 3. Qualification of the Leader and Interpersonal Relations in the Group 4. The Undifferentiated Role of the Group Member Chapter Three: The Overall Structure of the Society Chapter Four: Characteristics and Value Orientation of Japanese Man 1. From School to Employment 2. The Web of Comradeship 3. Localism and Tangibility Concluding Remarks Index

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Book SynopsisWestern rationalism - nature, of course, and genesis - was Max Weber's dominant historical interest. It was the grand theme of his two world historical studies, Economy and Society and The Economic Ethics of the World Religions. This book presents the systematic analysis and elaboration of Weber's sociology as a developmental history of the West.

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Book SynopsisCovering groups from peasants to urban laborers, and from women to merchants, this title includes essays that depict a various non-confrontational forms of resistance and contestatory behaviors that challenge our usual assumptions about the overt nature of resistance to dominant powerholders.

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Book SynopsisTracing the life course of American teenagers in the mid-twentieth century, this book presents a historical portrait of growing up.

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Book SynopsisThis examination of the social history of modernization investigates the centuries that followed the year 1000, when a new kind of society emerged in Europe. The text highlights both the top-down and bottom-up changes that characterized the social experience of early modernization.Trade Review"He is done it again! No one else combines David Levine's deep knowledge of population processes, unforced mastery of Western European social history, quick eye for unlikely connections, graceful way with a phrase, and sheet enthusiasm for historical discovery. Read him for pleasure and illumination." - Charles Tilly, author of Durable Inequality"

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Book SynopsisThis is an analysis of the observable, human side of faith. The text combines theorizing with discussion as it moves from considering the religiousness of individuals to the dynamics of religious groups to the workings of entire societies as religious groups contend for support.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Atheism, Faith, and the Social Scientific Study of Religion PART ONE • PARADIGMS IN CONFLICT 1. A New Look at Old Issues 2. Rationality and the “Religious Mind” 3. Secularization, R.I.P. PART TWO • THE RELIGIOUS INDIVIDUAL 4. The Micro Foundations of Religion 5. Religious Choices: Conversion and Reaffiliation PART THREE • THE RELIGIOUS GROUP 6. Religious Group Dynamics 7. Catholic Religious Vocations: Decline and Revival PART FOUR • THE RELIGIOUS ECONOMY 8. A Theoretical Model of Religious Economies 9. Religious Competition and Commitment: An International Assessment 10. Church-to-Sect Movements Appendix: Propositions and Definitions Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisIn conflict zones from Iraq and Afghanistan to Guatemala and Somalia, the rules of war are changing dramatically. This book brings the highly gendered and racialized dimensions of these changes into sharp relief. It explores the gendered politics of ethno-nationalism in Sri Lanka, the post-Yugoslav states, and Israel and Palestine.Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments PART ONE: FEMINIST APPROACHES TO GENDER AND CONFLICT 1. Introduction: Gender and Conflict in a Global Context Wenona Giles and Jennifer Hyndman 2. The Continuum of Violence: A Gender Perspective on War and Peace Cynthia Cockburn 3. The Sounds of Silence: Feminist Research across Time in Guatemala Cathy Blacklock and Alison Crosby PART TWO: VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN WAR AND POSTWAR TIMES 4. Like Oil and Water, with a Match: Militarized Commerce, Armed Conflict, and Human Security in Sudan Audrey Macklin 5. No "Safe Haven": Violence against Women in Iraqi Kurdistan Shahrzad Mojab 6. From Pillars of Yugoslavism to Targets of Violence: Interethnic Marriages in the Former Yugoslavia and Thereafter Mirjana Morokvasic-Muller 7. Geographies of Violence: Women and Conflict in Ghana Valerie Preston and Madeleine Wong 8. Gender, the Nationalist Imagination, War, and Peace Nira Yuval-Davis PART THREE: FEMINIST ANALYSES OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND ASYLUM 9. Refugee Camps as Conflict Zones: The Politics of Gender Jennifer Hyndman 10. The "Purity" of Displacement and the Reterritorialization of Longing: Muslim IDPs in Northwestern Sri Lanka Malathi de Alwis 11. Escaping Conflict: Afghan Women in Transit Asha Hans 12. War, Flight, and Exile:Gendered Violence among Refugee Women from Post-Yugoslav States Maja Korac 13. The Gender Relations of Multilateralism in the Post-Yugoslav States: Intervention, Reconstruction, and Globalization Edith Klein PART FOUR: FEMINIST FUTURES: NEGOTIATING GLOBALIZATION, SECURITY, AND HUMAN DISPLACEMENT 14. New Directions for Feminist Research and Politics Wenona Giles and Jennifer Hyndman References List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisBangkok has been at the frontier of capitalism's drive into the global south for three decades. Rapid development has profoundly altered public and private life in Thailand. In her provocative study of contemporary commerce in Bangkok, the author captures the intimate effects of the global economy in this vibrant city.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Notes on Transliteration and Dates Introduction: Intimate Economies 1. From Shophouse to Department Store 2. The Economies of Intimacy in the Go-Go Bar 3. MBK: The Retail Revolution and the Infrastructure of Romance 4. The Flexible Citizens of IBC Cable TV 5. The Avon Lady, the Amway Plan, and the Making of Thai Entrepreneurs Conclusion: The Intimacy of Capitalism Notes Bibliography Index

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

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Book SynopsisIn 2004, Michael Burawoy, speaking as president of the American Sociological Association, generated far-reaching controversy when he issued an ambitious and impassioned call for a 'public sociology'. He argued that sociology should speak beyond the university. This book features the debate on the perils and the potentials of his challenge.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments INTRODUCTORY Introduction--Robert Zussman and Joya Misra For Public Sociology--Michael Burawoy INSTITUTIONALIZING PUBLIC SOCIOLOGY Public Sociology and the End of Society--Alain Touraine Stalled at the Altar? Conflict, Hierarchy, and Compartmentalization in Burawoy's Public Sociology--Sharon Hays If I Were the Goddess of Sociological Things--Judith Stacey Going Public: Doing the Sociology That Had No Name--Patricia Hill Collins POLITICS AND THE PROFESSION Speaking to Publics--William Julius Wilson Do We Need a Public Sociology? It Depends on What You Mean by Sociology--Lynn Smith-Lovin Speaking Truth to the Public, and Indirectly to Power--Arthur L. Stinchcombe The Strength of Weak Politics--Douglas S. Massey From Public Sociology to Politicized Sociologist--Frances Fox Piven FALSE DISTINCTIONS: CONCEPTUAL RESERVATIONS The Sociologist and the Public Sphere--Immanuel Wallerstein About Public Sociology--Orlando Patterson For Humanist Sociology--Andrew Abbott INTERDISCIPLINARITY Whose Public Sociology? The Subaltern Speaks, but Who Is Listening?--Evelyn Nakano Glenn A Journalist's Plea--Barbara Ehrenreich REJOINDER The Field of Sociology: Its Power and Its Promise--Michael Burawoy Editors and Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisAn intellectual history of Japanese social science, since the 1890s, this work considers the various forms of modernity that the processes of development or rationalization have engendered and the role social scientists have played in their emergence.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. Social Science as History 2. The Social Sciences in Modern Japan: An Overview 3. Doubly Cruel: Marxism and the Presence of the Past in Japanese Capitalism 4. Thinking through Capital: Uno Kozo and Marxian Political Economy 5. School's Out? The Uno School Meets Japanese Capitalism 6. Social Science and Ethics: Civil Society Marxism 7. Imagining Democracy in Postwar Japan: Maruyama Masao as a Political Thinker Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFocuses on Starbucks, the world's most famous coffee company, looking beyond baristas, movie cameos, and Paul McCartney CDs to understand what Starbucks can tell us about America.Trade Review"Those who frequent Starbucks will enjoy Simon's range of topics, from business matters to the music played to the (very American) concept of 'self-gifting.'" Publishers Weekly "Simon's book is a fascinating, sometimes dispiriting look at how Starbucks is emblematic of some deeper socioeconomic phenomena at work in this country over the past decade and a half." -- Mike Miliard Boston Phoenix "A thoughtful, in-depth study." World Wide WorkTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introducing the Starbucks Moment 1 1. Real Coffee 21 2. Predictability the Individual Way 58 3. It Looks like a Third Place 82 4. Self-Gifting and Retail Therapy 122 5. Hear Music for Everyday Discoverers 149 6. Not-So-Green Cups 173 7. Sleeping Soundly in the Age of Globalization 201 Afterword 239 A Note on the Research 247 Notes 253 Selected Bibliography 279 Index 289

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Book SynopsisSongs of Seoul is an ethnographic study of voice in South Korea, where the performance of Western opera, art songs, and choral music is an overwhelmingly Evangelical Christian enterprise. Drawing on fieldwork in churches, concert halls, and schools of music, Harkness argues that the European-style classical voice has become a specifically Christian emblem of South Korean prosperity. By cultivating certain qualities of voice and suppressing others, Korean Christians strive to personally embody the social transformations promised by their religion: from superstition to enlightenment; from dictatorship to democracy; from sickness to health; from poverty to wealth; from dirtiness to cleanliness; from sadness to joy; from suffering to grace. Tackling the problematic of voice in anthropology and across a number of disciplines, Songs of Seoul develops an innovative semiotic approach to connecting the materiality of body and sound, the social life of speech and song, and the cultural voicing of perspective and personhood.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note on Romanization Introduction PART ONE. THE QUALITIES OF VOICE 1. Transformations of Voice 2. Voicing an Advanced Korea 3. Cultivating the Christian Voice 4. The Clean Voice PART TWO. THE SOCIALITY OF VOICE 5. Tuning the Voice 6. The Voice of Homecoming 7. Feeling the Voice Conclusion Notes References Cited Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Provides an important ethnographic contribution to the implications of long-distance trade and the deconstruction of different visions of justice in ethical trade." -- Julia Poerting Mountain Research and Development "This richly detailed ethnography provides unique and important insights into the 21st century plantation economy.; Impressive field work." -- Kristin Plys International Journal of Comparative Sociology "Engaging ... The Darjeeling distinction is an important critique ... a vital and timely comment on the burgeoning ethical trade." -- Saee Haldule Social Anthropology "Extensive research ... intriguing; Besky offers insightful solutions." -- Alexandra Hatzakis Gastronomica "Besky has pushed forward several debates in sociology, anthropology, geography, and economics about the promises and perils of globalization ... impressive theoretical analysis ... essential reading." -- Jamie K. McCallumt Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal "An excellent example of local ethnography ... an important contribution." -- Daniel Reichman American Ethnologist "The Darjeeling Distinction is a brilliant and entertaining book... Its accessible and narrative style will surely appeal to a wide audience." -- Daniel Munster Alegra Laboratory "This is an important book and one of the very few to really understand that Fair Trade is refracted through local processes, ideas, and politics... It has an important and sober message to impart." Review of Agricultural & Environmental Studies "An important book and one of the very few to really understand that Fair Trade is refracted through local processes, ideas, and politics and needs to be understood in that light. It has an important and sober message to impart." Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental StudiesTable of ContentsList of Maps and Figures Acknowledgments Notes on Orthography and Usage Introduction: Reinventing the Plantation for the Twenty-first Century 1. Darjeeling 2. Plantation 3. Property 4. Fairness 5. Sovereignty Conclusion: Is Something Better Than Nothing? Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisExplores how the growth of marine domestication has blurred traditional distinctions between fish and animals, recasting farmed fish as sentient beings, capable of feeling pain and subject to animal-welfare legislation. This book focuses on the fragile and contingent relational practices that constitute salmon aquaculture.Trade Review"The book is both a keenly insightful exploration of the mutual effect of salmon and the people who raise them, and an engaging love letter to ethnography, which illuminates the ways in which such work can expand the boundaries of how we think about vexing issues of science and society... Here is anthropology that speaks to all of us about our food systems and the animals caught up in them, and about the inevitability of uncertainty, offered with no closure and with a masterly voice." Times Literary Supplement "A timely contribution... Overall, Becoming Salmon is a detailed and illuminating study of a rapidly growing industry, offering key insights into the practices of care that literally bring fish as food animals to, and through, life." Anthropology of Work Review

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A timely and important contribution to the emerging anthropological critique of 'suicide' as a kind of human behaviour and as an object for social and medical intervention." -- Dr. Tom Widger Centre for Medical HumanitiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Note Introduction PART ONE. The "Problem" of Striving 1 Between the Devil and the Deep Sea 2 Gazing at the Stars, Aiming for the Treetops 3 Tales the Dead Are Made to Tell PART TWO. On Living in a Time of Suicide 4 Care-full Acts 5 Anywhere but Here 6 Fit for the Future Afterword Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisHow do Muslims relate to Islam in societies that experienced seventy years of Soviet rule? How did the utopian Bolshevik project of remaking the world by extirpating religion from it affect Central Asia? This title combines insights from the study of both Islam and Soviet history to answer these questions.Trade Review"Thoughtful, insightful, and reflective." -- Ruqaiyah Hibell The Muslim World Book ReviewTable of ContentsList of Maps and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Islam in Central Asia 2. Empire and the Challenge of Modernity 3. The Soviet Assault on Islam 4. Islam as National Heritage 5. The Revival of Islam 6. Islam in Opposition 7. The Politics of Antiterrorism Conclusion: Andijan and Beyond Afterword Glossary Notes Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTakes the reader on a tour of the melon and corn harvesting fields of California's Central Valley to understand why farmworkers suffer heatstroke and chronic illness at rates higher than workers in any other industry. The author documents in detail how a tightly interwoven web of public policies and private interests create needless suffering.Trade Review"Horton keenly advocates for measures to remedy farmworkers' health, such as ending policies of agricultural exceptionalism, reforming the health care and immigration systems, and promoting labor policies to improve farmworkers' health." * CHOICE *"Captivating... Horton’s book comes at a critical moment to enter into discussions about undocumented migration in the US. It represents a substantial contribution to exposing the hidden reality of migrant farmworkers’ stressful lives, and also highlights potential areas of policy and law reform. Her in-depth analysis of the legal, historical, and cultural causes of migrant exploitation makes her work a relevant and eye-opening read for anyone who consumes produce in the US." * Border Criminologies *"They Leave Their Kidneys in the Fields will become an essential text in undergraduate and graduate classrooms. Horton has made a clear theoretical contribution to the academic fields of anthropology, the social sciences, public health, and immigration studies, and her captivating narrative will appeal to the larger general public interested in migrant health...Horton’s analysis of the structural violence experienced by undocumented farmworkers will draw a wide readership and bring much-deserved attention to this marginalized and exploited population." * American Ethnologist *"Sarah Horton’s book is a strong reminder of why and how we should be doing ethnography in solidarity with the communities we research and write about." * Anthropology of Work Review *"An excellent example of how to successfully produce engaged ethnographic writing that grapples with concerns of positionality, enhances empathy for vulnerable populations, and makes anthropological theory accessible to a broader readership, all of which is no easy feat." * American Anthropologist *"Horton’s work provides a platform from which people not only lend their voice but also employ their power to promote strategies for change." * Journal of Anthropological Research *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Burning Up: Heat Illness in California’s Fields 2. Entering Farm Work: Migration and Men’s Work Identities 3. Ghost Workers: The Labor Consequences of Identity Loan 4. Presión Alta: The Physiological Toll of Farm Work 5. Álvaro’s Casket: Heat Illness and Chronic Disease at Work 6. Desabilitado: Kidney Disease and the Disability- Assistance Hole Conclusion: Strategies for Change Appendix A. On Engaged Anthropology and Ethnographic Writing Appendix B. Methods Appendix C. Core Research Participants Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisWhether looking at divided cities or working with populations on the margins of society, a growing number of engaged academics have reached out to communities around the world to address the practical problems of living with difference. This book explores the challenges of accommodating difference, however difficult such accommodation may be.Trade Review"An inspiring book which advocates a challenging new approach of how to act and live together in ethnically diverse communities... Offers an attractive vision of how to increase tolerance." Ethnic and Racial StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Story of Practice 2. A Pedagogy of Community 3. A Community of Pedagogy 4. Ethnographies of Difference 5. Living with Difference 6. On Boundaries, Difference, and Shared Worlds Conclusion Appendix A. Signposts for Organizers Appendix B. Guide for Evaluators Appendix C. Study Questions for Discussion Appendix D. Further Readings Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAn exploration of identity, relatedness, and belonging in the context of profound global interconnection. It paints a poignant and graceful portrait of Portugal's urban Marranos, who trace their ancestry to fifteenth-century Jews forcibly converted to Catholicism and now seek connection with the Jewish people at large.Trade Review"Groundbreaking... Methodologically innovative and written in a compelling narrative style, Unorthodox Kin is a model study in the anthropology of kinship, tourism, and globalization that will appeal to a wide readership." Portuguese American JournalTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments A Note on Translation and Terminology Introduction: An Ethnography of Affinities 1 * Hidden Within, Imported from Without: A Social Category through Time 2 * Essentially Jewish: Body, Soul, Self 3 * Outsider, In-Between: Becoming Marranos 4 * "My Lost Brothers and Sisters!": Tourism and Cultural Logics of Kinship 5 * From Ancestors to Affection: Making Connections, Making Kin Conclusion: Strangers, Kin, and the Global Search for Belonging Notes References Index

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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