Sociology and anthropology Books
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 Good Quality The Routinization of Sperm Banking
Book SynopsisTrade Review"...Ayo Wahlberg provides a rich and fine-grained ethnographic account of assisted reproduction in China, focusing on how state population politics and sociocultural configurations have shaped the practice of sperm banking. . . . Good Quality makes a significant contribution to anthropological studies of assisted reproduction, science and technology studies, and studies of China’s reproductive politics. While Wahlberg emphasizes that his focus is on the making of sperm banking, this important book should encourage further studies on various aspects of assisted reproduction in China, such as the experience of infertile couples and the complex decision making leading to the practice of assisted reproduction." * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"Good Quality, a detailed study of state-controlled sperm banking in China, is a wonderful contribution to a literature that understands birth planning in China as encompassing a wide set of practices. . . . This volume should appeal to scholars of reproduction and those who study China’s modernizing processes. Its accessible writing will make it available to both graduate and undergraduate students." * Social Forces *"Good Quality offers fresh and engaging data, and a novel analytic approach and set of arguments about a rarely studied subject. The author’s ideas are delivered in clear, lively prose infused with a sly sense of humor and deep empathy for his subjects. Good Quality represents, in short, some of the best that anthropology can offer to the more mainstream fields of population study. It is highly recommended for research and graduate and undergraduate teaching alike.” * Population and Development Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi List of Abbreviations xv Introduction: Sperm Crisis 1 1. The Birth of Assisted Reproductive Technology in China 29 2. Improving Population Quality 58 3. Exposed Biologies 77 4. Mobilizing Sperm Donors 100 5. Making Quality Auditable 131 6. Borrowing Sperm 157 Conclusion: Routinization 188 Coda 192 Notes 195 References 205
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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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University of California Press Adventure Capital
Book SynopsisParis's Gare du Nord is one of the busiest international transit centers in the world. In the past three decades, it has become an important hub for West African migrantsself-fashioned adventurersnavigating life in the city. In this groundbreaking work, Julie Kleinman chronicles how West Africans use the Gare du Nord to create economic opportunities, confront police harassment, and forge connections to people outside of their communities. Drawing on ten years of ethnographic research, including an internship at the French national railway company, Kleinman reveals how racial inequality is ingrained in the order of Parisian public space. She vividly describes the extraordinary ways that African migrants retool French transit infrastructure to build alternative pathways toward social and economic integration where state institutions have failed. In doing so, these adventurers defy boundariesbetween migrant and citizen, center and periphery, neighbor and strangerthat have shaped urban planning and immigration policy. Adventure Capital offers a new understanding of contemporary migration and belonging, capturing the central role that West African migrants play in revitalizing French urban life. Trade Review"Adventure Capital demonstrates beautifully how the drive for continued mobility arises as much from a position of precariousness as it does from a 'trader’s logic' that extols difference and enables connection." * Antipode *"[S]cholars in the social sciences and humanities will find Kleinman’s book extremely valuable. It is beautifully written, engaging, and powerful in delivering its message and argument." * International Migration *"Reframes the way we tend to think about migration, French public space, and about living together and valuable encounters across difference." * Journal of Economic and Social Geography *"A vivid reminder that urban planning and programming is inherently political with far-reaching repercussions on social life. . . . The book is beautifully written and a definite page-turner." * Journal of Urban Affairs *"Theoretically sophisticated, accessibly written, and ethnographically engaged, Adventure Capital makes an important and timely intervention into the study of migration. . . . The book makes for essential reading for scholars of mobility and contemporary urban life." * Political and Legal Anthropology Review *"[A] fantastic ethnography" * Sociological Review *"bishops in flight" * Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees *
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University of California Press Captured at Sea Piracy and Protection in the
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Captured at Sea [is] an engaging and rigorous example of contemporary ethnography of law and capitalism." * Anthropology Book Forum *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments A Note on Language List of Abbreviations Introduction: An Anthropology of Protection 1 • Protectors of the Sea: The Rise of Maritime Piracy off the Coast of Somalia 2 • Anchoring Pirates: Grounding a Protection Economy 3 • Regulating the Ocean: The Governance of Counter-Piracy 4 • Markets of Negotiation: The Making of a Ransom 5 • Captivity at Sea: Pirates on Dhows Epilogue: The Gifts of the Sea Notes References Index
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University of California Press Sacrificial Limbs Masculinity Disability and
Book SynopsisSacrificial Limbs chronicles the everyday lives and political activism of disabled veterans of Turkey's Kurdish war, one of the most volatile conflicts in the Middle East. Through nuanced ethnographic portraits,Açiksözexamines how veterans' experiences of war and disability are closely linked to class, gender, and ultimately the embrace of ultranationalist right-wing politics. Bringing the reader into military hospitals, commemorations, political demonstrations, and veterans' everyday spaces of care, intimacy, and activism, Sacrificial Limbs provides a vivid analysis of the multiple and sometimes contradictory forces that fashion veterans' bodies, political subjectivities, and communities. It is essential reading for students and scholars interested in anthropology, masculinity, and disability.Trade Review"An engaging, sophisticated contribution to the literature on conflict studies, political violence, medical anthropology, gender studies, and disability studies, Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey is likely to put Turkey on the map of world anthropology as never before." * Conflict and Society *"Offers a timely, rare, and robust look at the making and unmaking of political subjectivities, communities, and the state through a profound analysis of conscripts’ experiences of war and bodily loss." * New Perspectives on Turkey *"Sacrificial Limbs brings a critical approach to the often Eurocentric field of disability studies and contributes to gender studies and masculinity studies in the Middle East. Açıksöz’s perspectives on sacrificial crisis, sovereignty, and authoritarianism will encourage debates about the anthropology of state and conspiracy, disappointment, and crisis and temporality." * American Ethnologist *"An elegantly woven narrative that goes well beyond its manifest ethnographic aim and reads as an astute commentary on the recent past and present of Turkish politics. Combining theoretical rigor with ethnographic finesse, Sacrificial Limbs is an essential read for scholars of gender, disability, militarism, and political violence." * Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association *"The strength of Sacrificial Limbs is twofold: on one hand, it delves deeply into the history of Turkish politics, culture, and social life while at the same time it opens up to a broader sphere of applicability for those interested in gender, sexuality, disability, nationalism, and politics." * Disability Studies Quarterly *"The book is equally a work of political anthropology and medical anthropology and would easily be at home in upper- level undergraduate or graduate courses about either subject. With its careful attention to the sociocultural and political, and the embodiment of disabled masculinity, the book is also an exemplary contribution to the burgeoning field of disability anthropology, and one that clearly demonstrates how work on disability can push medical anthropology to attend to the political in new ways." * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"Açıksöz effectively reminds us of how otherwise unmarked bodies in theories of sovereignty and biopolitics (and necropolitics) are already always gendered, classed, and ethno-racialized in specific ways." * Anthropology Book Forum *"Brings together meticulous ethnographic insight with rigorous conceptual analysis. . . . Açıksöz has written a beautiful ethnography that provides rare insight into the intimate lives of the protagonists of ultranationalist politics. It is a book that approaches its interlocutors with critical empathy, seeking to understand and lay bare what propels them to become protagonists in deadly violence." * Kurdish Studies *"Sacrificial Limbs weaves an extremely well-written and caring ethnography with important theoretical insights. It is a must-read for those interested in contemporary political dynamics in Turkey and the Middle East. . . . It is no surprise that this elegant ethnography has won several prestigious book awards including the 2021 New Millennium Book Award by the Society of Medical Anthropology and 2020 Fatema Mernisi Award by MESA (Middle Eastern Studies Association). It is highly recommended to political anthropologists." * Political and Legal Anthropology Review *"Moving in its description and insightful in its analysis, Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey provides timely and important contributions to the study of nationalism, sovereignty, violence, masculinity, and embodiment. The author’s discussion of prostheses and their political significance is particularly fascinating." * Ethnos *"This is the kind of book one would point to as a textbook example of ethnographic description or, if you like, of ‘thick description’. But the thickness under consideration does not just mean a mass of statements lumped together by a certain thematic resemblance but rather indicates an eloquently weaved narrative that moves, unsettles, and affects the reader." * Cultural Studies *"Can we still understand the suffering of the people whose politics are offensive to our worldviews if they are simultaneously threatening us or the people sharing our political stance? In Sacrificial Limbs, an ethnography of the disabled veterans and martyrs’ families in Turkey, Salih Can Açıksöz asks and answers this question by inhabiting a ‘grey zone’ and by writing critically, tragically and beautifully from within it." * Social Anthropology *Table of ContentsIllustrations Acknowledgments Preface: Entering a Gray Zone Abbreviations Introduction 1 • Being-on-the-Mountains 2 • The Two Sovereignties: Masculinity and the State 3 • Of Gazis and Beggars 4 • Communities of Loss 5 • Prosthetic Revenge 6 • Prosthetic Debts Epilogue: Bodies and Temporalities of Political Violence Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press The Chinese Pursuit of Happiness Anxieties Hopes
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An invaluable contribution to diversifying and complicating the study of happiness across the world." * China Review International *"This book is one of those rare edited volumes where all chapters are of high quality: beautifully written, theoretically thoughtful, and empirically grounded. The book is strongly recommended for anyone interested in the sociology of morality, cultural sociology, and contemporary China." * Contemporary Sociology *"The volume offers nuanced and textured moral and ethical understandings of the good life in China at individual, familial, and societal levels. . . . It sets a high bar for future mappings of happiness imaginaries." * China Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Becky Yang Hsu 1. The Changing Notion of Happiness: A History of Xingfu Lang Chen 2. Having It All: Filial Piety, Moral Weighting, and Anxiety among Young Adults Becky Yang Hsu 3. Performing Happiness for Self and Others: Weddings in Shanghai Deborah S. Davis 4. Happy and Unhappy Meals: Culinary Expressions of the Good Life in Shanghai James Farrer 5. Making the People or the Government Happy? Dilemmas of Social Workers in a Morally Pluralistic Society Richard Madsen 6. Deriving Happiness from Making Society Better: Chinese Activists as Warring Gods Chih-Jou Jay Chen Epilogue Richard Madsen References Contributors Index
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University of California Press Fires of Gold Law Spirit and Sacrificial Labor
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Lauren Coyle Rosen’s compelling ethnography of a Ghanaian gold-mining city centers on the value of gold. But, as in those early modern mercantile encounters, it is also about the very logics of religion and ritual that place conflicting understandings of the value of exchange at the center of political struggles. Fires of Gold masterfully theorizes the dynamics of “liberalization,” which have occurred not just in Ghana but across the world since the late 1980s, as altered early modern ideas about the free market have reformed postcolonial welfare states." * Religiology *"Rosen’s ethnography provides important insights into the force field that structures life around Obuasi’s gold mines and goes beyond mere political and legal analysis by revealing the different forms of power, violence, and activism that complicate the success story of Ghana’s gold industry and rule-of-law system." * Allegra Laboratory *"Fires of Gold remains a dense, compelling and well-constructed ethnography that enriches the growing literature in the anthropology of resource extraction and uses an entry point on mining-related conflicts to bring together issues of labor struggles and existential precarity, spiritual controversies and religious change, political authority under constant contestation and redefinition, all ultimately shaping the uncertain future of a bustling but crisis-ridden one-company town." * Cahiers D'études Africaines *"Coyle Rosen convincingly describes the flattening of sovereignty between a diversity of actors in Obuasi that parallels a conflictual verticalisation of spiritual authorities spurred by the growth in monotheist practice. Ghana’s praised success as a liberal democracy should be read in the context of the spiritual and pragmatic violence that reshapes the state in what the author describes as ‘a re-spiritualization, or re-enchantment, of sovereignty and political life.'" * Journal of Modern African Studies *Table of ContentsList of Maps Introduction 1. Artisanal Miners and Sacrificial Laws 2. Spiritual Sovereigns in the Shadows 3. Pray for the Mine 4. Fallen Chiefs and Divine Violence 5. Effigies, Strikes, and Courts Conclusion: Out of the Golden Twilight? Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Testing Testing Social Consequences of the Examined Life
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University of California Press Magical Medicine The Folkloric Component of
Book SynopsisDistilling baby's first tear into the eye of a blind man to make him see; Plucking herbs upward for emetics and downward for purgatives; Stroking one's goiter with a dead man's hand to make the growth shrivel away--these are not beliefs and customs found among primitive peoples in remote parts of the world but are examples of hundreds of items of magical medicine found in Professor Hand's remarkable collection of essays dealing with this neglected field in twentieth-century Europe and America.Fantasy and imagination still have free reign in people's lives, more than any of us will admit. In a time when science is preeminent, irrational thinking ca lay hold on the mid of man as much as in olden times.Folk medicine has expanded in recent years to include holistic medicine and other forms of alternative medicine, but little attention has been paid to magical medicine. Despite the benefits of medical science in an advance culture, the magical medicine of Europe and America has clung to an unusually rich and original body of magical lore that lies at the base of its folk medical thought. Ethnomedicine in the inner cities of America can be better understood by practitioners who know something about folk medicine and, especially, if they kno some of the basics of magical medicine.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 There Is No More Haiti
Book SynopsisThis is not just another book about crisis in Haiti. This book is about what it feels like to live and die with a crisis that never seems to end. It is about the experience of living amid the ruins of ecological devastation, economic collapse, political upheaval, violence, and humanitarian disaster. It is about how catastrophic events and political and economic forces shape the most intimate aspects of everyday life. In this gripping account, anthropologist Greg Beckett offers a stunning ethnographic portrait of ordinary people struggling to survive in Port-au-Prince in the twenty-first century. Drawing on over a decade of research, There Is No More Haiti builds on stories of death and rebirth to powerfully reframe the narrative of a country in crisis. It is essential reading for anyone interested in Haiti today. Trade Review“Beckett’s deep and thoughtful ethnography effectively demonstrates that disorder is not the absence of order, but is a structured confluence of scripts and externalities that are profoundly felt by people in Haiti.” * LSE Review of Books *“While the author seeds his book with historical context, his strong narrative style emphasizes individual people... who work in the informal economy and with whom he becomes fast friends while meticulously studying their lives.” * Diplomat & International Canada *"In There is No More Haiti: Life and Death in Port-au-Prince, Greg Beckett combines a decade of ethnographic research with a novelist’s sensitivity to style to create a deeply empathetic and theoretically expansive portrait of urban life in Haiti between 2002 and 2006. . . . Overall, the book is a remarkable contribution to Haitian studies, presented with such accessible and beautiful prose that it is suitable both for experts and undergraduates." * H-Net *"At once poignant and urgent, There is No More Haiti develops a slow and intensively empathic ethnography that unfolds . . . through, and despite, a furiously rapid, chaotic historical moment marked by multiple crises." * New West Indian Guide * "There Is No More Haiti is an essential book for thinking about Haiti today." * Religious Studies Review *Table of ContentsList of Photographs Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Forest and the City 2. Looking for Life 3. Making Disorder 4. Between Life and Death 5. Aftermath Postscript Notes References Index
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University of California Press Weighing the Future Race Science and Pregnancy
Book SynopsisEpigenetics, the study of heritable changes in gene expression, has been heralded as one of the most promising new fields of scientific inquiry. Current large-scale studies selectively draw on epigenetics to connect behavioral choices made by pregnant people, such as diet and exercise, to health risks for future generations. As the first ethnography of its kind, Weighing the Future examines the sociopolitical implications of ongoing pregnancy trials in the United States and the United Kingdom, illuminating how processes of scientific knowledge production are linked to capitalism, surveillance, and environmental reproduction. Natali Valdez argues that a focus on individual behavior rather than social environments ignores the vital impacts of systemic racism. The environments we imagine to shape our genes, bodies, and future health are intimately tied to race, gender, and structures of inequality. This groundbreaking book makes the case that science, and how we translate it, is a reproductive project that requires feminist vigilance. Instead of fixating on a future at risk, this book brings attention to the present at stake.Trade Review"A ground-breaking book, both subtle and razor-sharp in its analysis. It provides an immensely valuable critique of the workings of epigenetic foreclosure in pregnancy trials." * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Weighing the Future Part I 1. Epistemic Environments: Reproducing Solutions to Past, Present, and Future Maternal Health 2. Un/Altered: The Durability of Individualized Interventions for Multidimensional Illness Part II 3. Politics of Recruitment: How Fatness, Race, and Risk Shape Contemporary Pregnancy Trials 4. Pregnant Narratives: Experiencing Lifestyle Interventions Part III 5. Environmental Animations: What Counts as the Maternal Environment? 6. Prospecting Pregnancies: Data, Time, and Speculative Value Conclusion: The Afterbirth of Foreclosure Epilogue: [The Future] Is Composed of Nows Notes References Index
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University of California Press Traces of Violence Writings on the Disaster in
Book SynopsisIn this highly original work, Robert Desjarlais and Khalil Habrih present a dialogic account of the lingering effects of the terroristic attacks that occurred in Paris in November 2015. Situating the events within broader histories of state violence in metropolitan France and its colonial geographies, the authors interweave narrative accounts and photographs to explore a range of related phenomena: governmental and journalistic discourses on terrorism, the political work of archives, police and military apparatuses of control and anti-terror deterrence, the histories of wounds, and the haunting reverberations of violence in a plurality of lives and deaths.Traces of Violence is a moving work that aids our understanding of the afterlife of violence and offers an innovative example of collaborative writing across anthropology and sociology.Table of ContentsList of illustrations Note on transcription of Arabic terms Avant-propos: A guide to reading Traces of Violence Preface: Blue flight terminal Counter-preface: Blues, flights, beginnings . . . 1 • Névralgique Interruption: Neuralgia in the Goutte d’Or 2 • Graffs Interruption: Graffiti, traces, and disappearance 3 • Operation vigilance Interruption: "Vigilance is double-edged, to say the least" 4 • Learning with the body Interruption: Give me your FAMAS 5 • Archive sorrow Interruption: Listen to the passing of time 6 • A trace is the mark of something not there Interruption: 3alesh? Why? 7 • "Where wounds are barely scarred over one is cut anew" Interruption: Paris is an apparition, sharing visions 8 • The histories of these wounds Interruption: Nervous activity Acknowledgments Glossary Notes References Index
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University of California Press Habrih K Traces of Violence
Book SynopsisIn this highly original work, Robert Desjarlais and Khalil Habrih present a dialogic account of the lingering effects of the terroristic attacks that occurred in Paris in November 2015. Situating the events within broader histories of state violence in metropolitan France and its colonial geographies, the authors interweave narrative accounts and photographs to explore a range of related phenomena: governmental and journalistic discourses on terrorism, the political work of archives, police and military apparatuses of control and anti-terror deterrence, the histories of wounds, and the haunting reverberations of violence in a plurality of lives and deaths.Traces of Violence is a moving work that aids our understanding of the afterlife of violence and offers an innovative example of collaborative writing across anthropology and sociology.Table of ContentsList of illustrations Note on transcription of Arabic terms Avant-propos: A guide to reading Traces of Violence Preface: Blue flight terminal Counter-preface: Blues, flights, beginnings . . . 1 • Névralgique Interruption: Neuralgia in the Goutte d’Or 2 • Graffs Interruption: Graffiti, traces, and disappearance 3 • Operation vigilance Interruption: "Vigilance is double-edged, to say the least" 4 • Learning with the body Interruption: Give me your FAMAS 5 • Archive sorrow Interruption: Listen to the passing of time 6 • A trace is the mark of something not there Interruption: 3alesh? Why? 7 • "Where wounds are barely scarred over one is cut anew" Interruption: Paris is an apparition, sharing visions 8 • The histories of these wounds Interruption: Nervous activity Acknowledgments Glossary Notes References Index
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University of California Press The Industrial Ephemeral
Book SynopsisWhat transformative effects does a multimillion-dollar industry have on those who work within it?The Industrial Ephemeralpresents the untold stories of the people, politics, and production chains behind architecture, real estate, and construction in areas surrounding New Delhi, India. The personal histories of those in India's large laboring classes are brought to life as Namita Vijay Dharia discusses the aggressive environmental and ecological metamorphosis of the region in the twenty-first century. Urban planning and architecture are messy processes that intertwine migratory pathways, corruption politics, labor struggle, ecological transformations, and technological development. Rampant construction activity produces an atmosphere of ephemerality in urban regions, creating an aesthetic condition that supports industrial political economy. Dharia's brilliant analysis of the sensibilities and experiences of work lends visibility to the struggle of workers in an era of growing urban inequality.Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note on Anonymity Introduction: An Asynchronous Time Line 1. Ephemeral Infrastructures 2. The Financial Sublime 3. Drawing Fantasies 4. The Industry of Sound 5. Inside the Pit 6. Concrete Love Conclusion: Inquilab Zindabad (Long Live Revolution) Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Resurrecting the Black Body
Book SynopsisThe first critical examination of death and remembrance in the digital ageand an invitation to imagine Black digital sovereignty in life and death. In Resurrecting the Black Body, Tonia Sutherland considers the consequences of digitally raising the dead. Attending to the violent deaths of Black Americansand the records that document themfrom slavery through the social media age, Sutherland explores media evidence, digital acts of remembering, and the right and desire to be forgotten. From the popular image of Gordon (also known as Whipped Peter) to photographs of the lynching of Jesse Washington to the video of George Floyd's murder, from DNA to holograms to posthumous communication, this book traces the commodification of Black bodies and lives across time. Through the lens of (anti-)Blackness in the United States, Sutherland interrogates the intersections of life, death, personal data, and human autonomy in the era of Google, Twitter, and Facebook, and presents a critique of digital resurrection technologies. If the Black digital afterlife is rooted in bigotry and inspires new forms of racialized aggression, Resurrecting the Black Body asks what other visions of life and remembrance are possible, illuminating the unique ways that Black cultures have fought against erasure and oblivion.Trade Review"In Resurrecting the Black Body, Tonia Sutherland intricately examines Black embodiment, death and remembering, specifically the effects that inclusion and visibility within the digital archival record can have on individuals and the collective. Sutherland argues for autonomy and imagination in determining the Black digital afterlife." * Ms. Magazine *Table of ContentsContents Author’s Note Acknowledgments Introduction: Trouble These Waters Part I RECORDS 1. Recording Trauma 2. Recording Hate Part II RESURRECTION 3. The Resurrection of Henrietta Lacks 4. The Resurrection of Tupac Shakur Part III RIGHTS 5. The Right to Be Forgotten 6. The Right to Be Remembered Conclusion: Homegoing Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Side Hustle Safety Net
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A lively, fascinating panorama of the neo-Dickensian labor regime so many workers endure." * Publishers Weekly *"Eye-opening. . . . A startling examination of the patchy response to pandemic-era unemployment." * Kirkus Reviews *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1 “Officially Unemployed” or “Forgotten Jobless”? 2 The Side Hustle Safety Net 3 Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, Scam Jobs 4 Making More and Moving On Up 5 Strategies of Survival 6 Stuck in Place 7 It’s a Beautiful Life 8 Learning from Covid Appendix: Research Methodology Notes References Index
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University of California Press Visions of Global Environmental Justice
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University of California Press Keep the Bones Alive Missing People and the
Book SynopsisEvery year at least 20,000 people go missing in São Paulo, Brazil. Many will be found, sometimes in mundane mass graves, but thousands will not.Keep the Bones Aliveexplores this phenomenon and why there is little concern for those who vanish. Ethnographer Graham Denyer Willis works beside family members, state workers, and gravediggers to examine the rationalization behind why bodies are missing in spacefrom cemeteries, the criminal coroner's office, prisons, and elsewhere. By accompanying the bereaved as they confront an indifferent state and a suspicious society and search for loved ones against all odds, this gripping book reveals where missing bodies go and the reasons why people can disappear without being pursued. Recognizing that disappearance has long been central to Brazil's everyday political order, this humanistic account of the silences surrounding disappearance shows why a demand for a politics of life is needed now more than ever. Trade Review"Denyer Willis’s Keep the Bones Alive makes an important contribution to our understanding of contemporary disappearances in Latin America." * The Latin Americanist *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Gone 1 Disappearance and the Search 2 Keep the Bones Alive 3 Unearthing Life 4 Disappearance and the Cemetery 5 The Usefulness of Capricious Knowledge 6 The Disappearable Subject 7 From Disappearance, Presence 8 Muted Martyrdom 9 Make Live, Make Disappear 10 “I Just Want to Live” Appendix. Reading Life through Disappearance: A Note on Method Notes References Index
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University of California Press Being Single in India
Book SynopsisA free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Today, the majority of the world's population lives in a country with falling marriage rates, a phenomenon with profound impacts on women, gender, and sexuality. In this exceptionally crafted ethnography, Sarah Lamb probes the gendered trend of single women living in India, examining what makes living outside marriage for women increasingly possible and yet incredibly challenging. Featuring the stories of never-married women as young as 35 and as old as 92, the book offers a remarkable portrait of a way of life experienced by women across class and caste divides, from urban professionals and rural day laborers, to those who identify as heterosexual and lesbian, to others who evaded marriage both by choice and by circumstance. For women in India, complex social-cultural and political-economic contexts are foundational to their lives and decisions, and evading marriage is often an unintended conseTrade Review"The book strikes a balance between examining the challenges as well as the possibilities of being single. . . . Lamb’s discussion of what makes a woman unmarriageable is both poignant and relevant." * Anthropology & Aging *"No doubt this book is a must read for scholars, students as well as a non-specialist audience interested in studying gender, sexuality, marriage and social change in India." * Contributions to Indian Sociology Journal *
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University of California Press Black Networked Resistance
Book SynopsisBlack Networked Resistance? explores the creative range of Black digital users and their responses to varying forms of oppression, utilizing cultural, communicative, political, and technological threads both on and offline. Raven Maragh-Lloyd demonstrates how Black users strategically rearticulate their responses to oppression in ways that highlight Black publics' historically rich traditions and reveal the shifting nature of both dominance and resistance, particularly in the digital age. Through case studies and interviews, Maragh-Lloyd reveals the malleable ways resistance can take shape and the ways Black users artfully demonstrate such modifications of resistance through strategies of survival, reprieve, and community online. Each chapter grounds itself in a resistance strategy, such as Black humor, care, or archiving, to show the ways that Black publics reshape strategies of resistance over time and across media platforms. Linking singular digital resistance movements while arguinTable of ContentsContents List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction 1. “The Whole World Is Going to See You, Boo”: “Karens,” Black Humor, and Innocence 2. “Do It for the Culture”: Black Digital Historians Reimagining Access 3. Care as Resistance: Black Women Online 4. Cancel Culture and the Limits of Networked Resistance 5. “The Black Delegation”: Black Evergreen Networks and Futures of Resistance Conclusion Notes References Index
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University of California Press Black Networked Resistance
Book SynopsisBlack Networked Resistance? explores the creative range of Black digital users and their responses to varying forms of oppression, utilizing cultural, communicative, political, and technological threads both on and offline. Raven Maragh-Lloyd demonstrates how Black users strategically rearticulate their responses to oppression in ways that highlight Black publics' historically rich traditions and reveal the shifting nature of both dominance and resistance, particularly in the digital age. Through case studies and interviews, Maragh-Lloyd reveals the malleable ways resistance can take shape and the ways Black users artfully demonstrate such modifications of resistance through strategies of survival, reprieve, and community online. Each chapter grounds itself in a resistance strategy, such as Black humor, care, or archiving, to show the ways that Black publics reshape strategies of resistance over time and across media platforms. Linking singular digital resistance movements while arguinTable of ContentsContents List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction 1. “The Whole World Is Going to See You, Boo”: “Karens,” Black Humor, and Innocence 2. “Do It for the Culture”: Black Digital Historians Reimagining Access 3. Care as Resistance: Black Women Online 4. Cancel Culture and the Limits of Networked Resistance 5. “The Black Delegation”: Black Evergreen Networks and Futures of Resistance Conclusion Notes References Index
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University of California Press Collateral Damages Tracing the Debts and
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University of California Press Why Snap Works
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book is a crucial read for anyone interested in understanding food accessibility and welfare in the United States. . . . Christopher Bosso provides a balanced analysis of SNAP, shedding light on its far-reaching benefits and making a persuasive case for its continued support." * Food Tank *Table of ContentsContents List of Figures Acknowledgments 1. Tales at the Intersection of Want and Plenty 2. “To Encourage Domestic Consumption” 3. The Paradox Anew 4. Farm Programs + Food Programs 5. Welfare Politics 6. Let Us Now Praise the Food Stamp Plan Appendix: Table 1. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program participation and costs, 1961–2022 Chronology: Key Moments in Food Stamps and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Notes Suggested Reading Index
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University of California Press Cancer Intersections
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University of California Press Ways of Eating
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In a study that arcs gracefully from our changing understanding of the Neolithic Revolution to the era of genetically modified organisms, fast food, Slow Food, and environmental depletion, the focus is forward-facing." * World of Fine Wine *"Food has always provided ways of expressing cultural identity, regional differences, degrees of sophistication and economic status. Wurgaft and White trace these processes over centuries and across the globe. Their conclusions are both celebratory and thought-provoking." * Inside Story *"[A]t its heart, Ways of Eating is a love letter to the anthropology and history of food." * Current *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction VIGNETTE 1 Duccio’s Eden CHAPTER 1 Nature and Culture in the Origins Of Agriculture VIGNETTE 2 Akashiyaki at Nishi-Akashi CHAPTER 2 Staple Empires of the Ancient World VIGNETTE 3 Coffee and Pepper CHAPTER 3 Medieval Tastes VIGNETTE 4 Before Kimchi CHAPTER 4 The Columbian Exchange, or, the World Remade VIGNETTE 5 The Spirit Safe CHAPTER 5 Social Beverages and Modernity VIGNETTE 6 Authenticity in Panama CHAPTER 6 Colony and Curry VIGNETTE 7 The Icebox CHAPTER 7 Food’s Industrial Revolution VIGNETTE 8 Bricolage CHAPTER 8 Twentieth-Century Foodways, or, Big Food and Its Discontents VIGNETTE 9 Nem on the Menu CHAPTER 9 Ways of Eating Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press The Corporate Alibi
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University of California Press Go with God Political Exhaustion and Evangelical
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction: Ana’s Angels 1. Avowal 2. Disinfectant 3. In Attention to Pain 4. Wolves at the Heels 5. Failures and Demons Conclusion: A Politics of Grace Notes References Index
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University of California Press Behind the Startup
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University of California Press Tackling the Everyday Race and Nation in BigTime
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