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Book SynopsisThe definitive reference on the anthropology of death and dying, expanded with new contributions covering everything from animal mourning to mortuary cannibalism Few subjects stir the imagination more than the study of how people across cultures deal with death and dying. This expanded second edition of the internationally bestselling Death, Mourning, and Burial offers cross-cultural readings that span the period from dying to afterlife, considering approaches to this transition as a social process and exploring the great variations of cultural responses to death. Exploring new content including organ transplantation, institutionalized care for the dying, HIV-AIDs, animal mourning, and biotechnology, this text retains classic readings from the first edition, and is enhanced bysixteen new articles and two new sections which provide increased breadth and depth for readers. Death, Mourning, and Burial, Second Edition is divided into eight parts reflecTable of ContentsAcknowledgments viii Death and Anthropology: An Introduction 1Antonius C. G. M. Robben Part I Conceptualizations of Death 17 1 A Contribution to the Study of the Collective Representation of Death 19Robert Hertz 2 The Rites of Passage 34Arnold van Gennep 3 Symbolic Immortality 44Robert Jay Lifton and Eric Olson 4 Remembering as Cultural Process 52Elizabeth Hallam and Jenny Hockey 5 Massive Violent Death and Contested National Mourning in Post‐Authoritarian Chile and Argentina: A Sociocultural Application of the Dual Process Model 64Antonius C. G. M. Robben Part II Death, Dying, and Care 77 6 Magic, Science and Religion 79Bronislaw Malinowski 7 Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande 83E. E. Evans‐Pritchard 8 Living Cadavers and the Calculation of Death 90Margaret Lock9 All Eyes on Egypt: Islam and the Medical Use of Dead Bodies amidst Cairo’s Political Unrest 102Sherine Hamdy 10 The Optimal Sacrifice: A Study of Voluntary Death among the Siberian Chukchi 115Rane Willerslev 11 Love’s Labor Paid for: Gift and Commodity at the Threshold of Death 129Ann Julienne Russ Part III Grief and Mourning 149 12 The Andaman Islanders 151A. R. Radcliffe‐Brown 13 Grief and a Headhunter’s Rage 156Renato Rosaldo 14 Death Without Weeping 167Nancy Scheper‐Hughes 15 Three Days for Weeping: Dreams, Emotions, and Death in the Peruvian Amazon 181Glenn H. Shepard Jr. 16 The Expression of Grief in Monkeys, Apes, and Other Animals 202Barbara J. King Part IV Mortuary Rituals and Epidemics 209 17 Hunting the Ancestors: Death and Alliance in Wari’ Cannibalism 211Beth A. Conklin 18 State Terror in the Netherworld: Disappearance and Reburial in Argentina 217Antonius C. G. M. Robben 19 Mourning Becomes Eclectic: Death of Communal Practice in a Greek Cemetery 231Diane O’Rourke 20 ‘We Are Tired of Mourning!’ The Economy of Death and Bereavement in a Time of AIDS 250Liv Haram Part V Remembrance and Regeneration 263 21 Ancestors as Elders in Africa 265Igor Kopytoff 22 The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Mapuche Shaman: Remembering, Disremembering, and the Willful Transformation of Memory 276Ana Mariella Bacigalupo 23 The Ghosts of War and the Spirit of Cosmopolitanism 293Heonik Kwon 24 The Intimacy of Defeat: Exhumations in Contemporary Spain 306Francisco Ferrandiz Index 319

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Book SynopsisCovers the major languages, language families, and writing systems attested in the Ancient Near East Filled with enlightening chapters by noted experts in the field, this book introduces Ancient Near Eastern (ANE) languages and language families used during the time period of roughly 3200 BCE to the second century CE in the areas of Egypt, the Levant, eastern Anatolia, Mesopotamia, and Iran. In addition to providing grammatical sketches of the respective languages, the book focuses on socio-linguistic questions such as language contact, diglossia, the development of literary standard languages, and the development of diplomatic languages or linguae francae. It also addresses the interaction of Ancient Near Eastern languages with each other and their roles within the political and cultural systems of ANE societies. Presented in five parts, The Companion to Ancient Near Eastern Languages provides readers with in-depth chapter coverage of the writing systems of ANE, starting with theirTrade Review"To sum up, A Companion to Ancient Near Eastern Languages deserves a place on every Hebrew Bible scholar's shelf (or device) alongside other standard resources on the ancient Near Eastern world of the OT." – Bulletin for Biblical Research, Vol. 31, No. 2, 2021Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix List of Tables xi Notes on Contributors xv Preface xix Part I Writing Systems 1 1 The Decipherment of Ancient Near Eastern Languages 3Peter T. Daniels 2 The Emergence of Cuneiform Writing 27Christopher Woods 3 The Development of Egyptian Writing in the Fourth and Early Third Millennium bce 47Ludwig Morenz 4 The Emergence of Alphabetic Scripts 65Christopher Rollston Part II Ancient Near Eastern Languages 83 5 Sumerian 85Piotr Michalowski 6 Egyptian 107Matthias Muller 7 Akkadian 129Rebecca Hasselbach‐Andee 8 Eblaite 149Amalia Catagnoti 9 Elamite 163Jan Tavernier 10 Amorite 185Viktor Golinets 11 Hurrian 203Dennis R.M. Campbell 12 Hittite 221Ilya Yakubovich 13 Luwian 239Craig Melchert 14 Ugaritic 257Robert Hawley 15 Ancient Hebrew 279Seth Sanders 16 Phoenician and Punic 297Francoise Briquel Chatonnet and Robert Hawley 17 Old and Imperial Aramaic 319Christian Stadel 18 Ancient South Arabian 337Peter Stein Part III Ancient Near Eastern Languages Used as Administrative Languages or Linguae Francae 355 19 Akkadian as a Lingua Franca 357Juan Pablo Vita 20 Aramaic as Lingua Franca 373Margaretha Folmer Part IV Language Contact in the Ancient Near East 401 21 Sumerian and Akkadian Language Contact 403C. Jay Crisostomo 22 Language Contact of Ancient Egyptian with Semitic and Other Near Eastern Languages 421Thomas Schneider 23 Hebrew and Aramaic in Contact 439Aaron Koller 24 Multilingualism and Diglossia in the Ancient Near East 457Rebecca Hasselbach‐Andee Part V The Development of Literary Languages and Literary Contact 471 25 Standard Babylonian 473Christian W. Hess 26 Standardization in Egyptian 489Antonio Loprieno 27 The “Influence” of Sumerian on Hittite Literature 505Mark Weeden 28 Ancient Near Eastern Literary Influences on Hebrew Literature and the Hebrew Bible 521Michael Wingert Index 537

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Book SynopsisA thought-provoking examination of death, dying, and the afterlife Prominent scholars present their most recent work about mortuary rituals, grief and mourning, genocide, cyclical processes of life and death, biomedical developments, and the materiality of human corpses in this unique and illuminating book. Interrogating our most common practices surrounding death, the authors ask such questions as: How does the state wrest away control over the dead from bereaved relatives? Why do many mourners refuse to cut their emotional ties to the dead and nurture lasting bonds? Is death a final condition or can human remains acquire agency? The book is a refreshing reassessment of these issues and practices, a source of theoretical inspiration in the study of death. With contributions written by an international team of experts in their fields, A Companion to the Anthropology of Death is presented in six parts and covers such subjects as: Governing the Dead in Guatemala; After Death CommunicaTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors ix An Anthropology of Death for the Twenty‐First Century xvAntonius C. G. M. Robben Part I Mortuary Rituals 1 1 Governing the Dead in Guatemala: Public Authority and Dead Bodies 3Finn Stepputat 2 Evolving Mortuary Rituals in Contemporary Japan 17Yohko Tsuji 3 Revealing Brands, Concealing Labor 31George Sanders 4 Playing with Corpses: Assembling Bodies for the Dead in Southwest China 45Erik Mueggler 5 Death and Separation in Postconflict Timor‐Leste 59Judith Bovensiepen 6 Migration, Death, and Conspicuous Redistribution in Southeastern Nigeria 71Daniel Jordan Smith Part II Emotions 85 7 After Death: Event, Narrative, Feeling 87Michael Lambek 8 Reflections on the Work of Recovery, I and II 103Beth A. Conklin 9 The Pursuit of Sorrow and the Ethics of Crying 117Olivier Allard 10 Mourning as Mutuality 131Jason Danely 11 A Comparative Study of Jewish Israeli and Buddhist Khmer Trauma Descendant Discontinued Bonds with the Genocide Dead 145Carol A. Kidron 12 Facing Death: On Mourning, Empathy, and Finitude 161Devin Flaherty and C. Jason Throop Part III Massive Death 175 13 What Is a Mass Grave? Toward an Anthropology of Human Remains Treatment in Contemporary Contexts of Mass Violence 177Élisabeth Anstett 14 Death on the Move: Pantheons and Reburials in Spanish Civil War Exhumations 189Francisco Ferrándiz 15 Accountability for Mass Death, Acts of Rescue, and Silence in Rwanda 205Jennie E. Burnet 16 Impassable Visions: The Cambodia to Come, the Detritus in its Wake 223Hudson McFann and Alexander Laban Hinton 17 Experience, Empathy, and Flexibility: On Participant Observation in Deadly Fields 237Ivana Maceǩ Part IV Regeneration 249 18 Learning How to Die 251Robert Desjarlais 19 Whirlpools, Glitter, and Ferocious Intruders: The Palpability of Death in Chachi Animism 265Istvan Praet 20 Shamanic Rebirth and the Paradox of Disremembering the Dead among Mapuche in Chile 279Ana Mariella Bacigalupo 21 After‐Death Communications: Signs from the Other World in Contemporary North America 293Ellen Badone 22 Cryonic Suspension as Eschatological Technology in the Secular Age 307Abou Farman Part V Corporeal Materiality 321 23 From Here and to Death: The Archaeology of the Human Body 323Liv Nilsson Stutz 24 Death, Corporeality, and Uncertainty in Zimbabwe 337Joost Fontein 25 Death, Power, and Silence: Native Nations’ Ancestral Remains at the Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania 357Jacqueline Fear‐Segal 26 In the Absence of a Corpse: Rituals for Body Donors in the Netherlands 371Sophie Bolt 27 Death as Spectacle: Plastinated Bodies in Germany 383Uli Linke Part VI Biomedical Issues 399 28 The Body as Medicine: Blood and Organ Donation in China 401Charlotte Ikels 29 Ethical Dilemmas in the Field: Witchcraft and Biomedical Etiology in South Africa 415Isak Niehaus 30 The Disappearance of Dying, and Why It Matters 429Helen Stanton Chapple 31 Death, Detachment, and Moral Dilemmas of Care in a Kenyan Hospital 445Ruth J. Prince 32 The New Normal: Mediated Death and Assisted Dying in the United States 461Frances Norwood Index 477

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Book SynopsisAn essential collection of scholarly essays on the anthropology of Africa, offering a thorough introduction to the most important topics in this evolving and diverse field of study The study of the cultures of Africa has been central to the methodological and theoretical development of anthropology as a discipline since the late 19th-century. As the anthropology of Africa has emerged as a distinct field of study, anthropologists working in this tradition have strived to build a disciplinary conversation that recognizes the diversity and complexity of modern and ancient African cultures while acknowledging the effects of historical anthropology on the present and future of the field of study. A Companion to the Anthropology of Africa is a collection of insightful essays covering the key questions and subjects in the contemporary anthropology of Africa with a key focus on addressing the topics that define the contemporary discipline. Written and edited by a team of leading cultural anTrade ReviewAnyone who teaches the Anthropology of Africa, or indeed Anthropology in general, will want to add this volume to their library without replacing either of those earlier ones. Qualitatively speaking, it is a valuable addition. ... This volume offers a compelling Companion to topics in Africanist Anthropology, past and present – and a well-founded argument for the continued value of the discipline. Amidst all the heated debate about the present and future of anthropology, about who should do it and how it should be done, ... the Companion proves that there is still a great deal to be said for what critical ethnography, securely situated in its historical context and adequately theorized, can and should do. John Comaroff, Hugh K. Foster Professor of African and African American Studies and of Anthropology, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors vii Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1Roy Richard Grinker, Stephen C. Lubkemann, Christopher B. Steiner, and Euclides Gonçalves Part I Enduring Themes 13 1 The Economic Anthropology of Africa 15Jane I. Guyer 2 Revisiting the Social Bedrock of Kinship and Descent in the Anthropology of Africa 33Pauline E. Peters 3 Witchcraft in Africa 63James H. Smith 4 Law, Dispute Resolution, and Justice 81Jessica Johnson 5 Illness and Healing: Africanist Anthropology 97Rebecca L. Upton 6 Power, Meaning, and Materiality in the Anthropology of African Religions South of the Sahara: A Dialogue with Religious Studies 119Joseph Hellweg and Jesse C. Miller Part II Critical and Decolonizing Themes 145 7 Who Are the New Natives? Ethnicity and Emerging Idioms of Belonging in Africa 147George Paul Meiu 8 Culture by Other Means: An Africanist Anthropology of Political Violence and War 173Danny Hoffman 9 The Anthropology of Forced Migration in Africa 199Stephen C. Lubkemann 10 Sex and Sexuality in Africa 229Suzanne Leclerc‐Madlala Part III Post‐colonial and Emerging Themes 249 11 Social Trauma and Recovery: Emergent Themes 251Victor Igreja and Erin Baines 12 Questioning Humanitarian Exceptions 271Louisa Lombard 13 Rights, Inequality, and Social Justice 289Carolyn Rouse 14 Anthropology and the Politics of Childhood in Africa 307Kristen E. Cheney 15 Africa Has Moved!: New African Diasporas and the Anthropology of Transnationalizing Africa 323Dianna Shandy and Stephen C. Lubkemann 16 Anthropological Approaches to Media in Africa 351Katrien Pype and Alessandro Jedlowski 17 Environmental Anthropology in Africa: From Cattle Complex to Environmentality 375Raquel Rodrigues Machaqueiro and Roy Richard Grinker Part IV Reflexivity 397 18 Anthropology and Africanist Political Science 399Eric Kramon 19 African Anthropological Practice in the “Era of Aid”: Towards a Critique of Disciplinary Canons 415Euclides Gonçalves 20 African Participation in, and Perspectives on, the Politics of Knowledge Production in Africanist Anthropology 439Mwenda Ntarangwi Index 459

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Book SynopsisTo help commemorate the 200th anniversary of the New York Academy of Sciences, founded in 1817, this revised edition of Simon Baatz's book Knowledge, Culture, and Science in the Metropolis: The New York Academy of Sciences, 18172017, presents new material on the Academy's activities from 1970-2016. The revised edition weaves the story of the Academy's development with the development of science in New York City and America, from the early 19th century when scientific studies were largely focused on cataloging the natural history of the nascent United States. Chapters retained from the first edition include discussions of how Academy members were prominent in the campaigns to establish New York University in 1831 and the American Museum of Natural History in 1869; the Academy's comprehensive survey of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands in 1907 and the resulting published magisterial 19-volumes over the next three decades; and scientific breaTable of ContentsList of Illustrations 2 Preface to the Second Edition 3 Preface to the First Edition 5 Prologue 9 Chapter 1 Science in the Early Republic, 1817-1844 17 Chapter 2 The Struggle for Survival, 1844-1866 63 Chapter 3 A Rivalry for Resources, 1866-1887 99 Chapter 4 Consolidation and Cooperation, 1887-1907 141 Chapter 5 The Puerto Rico Survey, 1907-1934 179 Chapter 6 The Dissemination of Knowledge, 1934-1970 219 Chapter 7 The Modern Era, 1970-2016 249 Selected Bibliography 275 Manuscript Sources 281 Index 283

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Book SynopsisThe new, updated edition of the authoritative and comprehensive survey of modern sociology The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Sociology, Second Edition is an authoritative survey of the major topics, current and emerging trends, and contemporary issues in the study of human social relationships and institutions. A collection of contributions from globally-recognized scholars and experts explore the theoretical and methodological foundations of sociology, new and established debates, and the most current research in the field. Broad in scope, this book covers a multitude of topics ranging from crime, urbanization, sexuality, and education to new questions surrounding big data, authoritarian capitalism, and the rise of nationalism. Since the first edition of the Companion was published, new developments have emerged and new problems have been created such as the omnipresence of social media, political and institutional upheaval, and the global refugee Table of ContentsContributors Bios vii Introduction xiiiGeorge Ritzer and Wendy Wiedenhoft Murphy Part I Introduction 1 1 Classical Sociological Theory 3Alan Sica 2 Contemporary Social Theory 21Jeffrey Stepnisky 3 Quantitative Methods 39Russell K. Schutt 4 Qualitative Methods 57Mitchell Duneier Part II Basic Topics 67 5 Action, Interaction, and Groups 69Kimberly B. Rogers and Lynn Smith‐Lovin 6 Social Network Analysis 87Nick Crossley 7 Culturalizing Sociology 104Laura Grindstaff and Ming‐Cheng M. Lo 8 Deviance: A Sociology of Unconventionalities 124Nachman Ben‐Yehuda 9 Criminology 141Charles F. Wellford 10 Critical Sexualities Studies: Moving On 156Ken Plummer 11 Racial and Ethnic Issues: Critical Race Approaches in the United States 174Brittany C. Slatton and Joe R. Feagin 12 Families 190Medora W. Barnes 13 Sociology of Education 206Joseph J. Merry and Maria Paino 14 Sociology of Religion 224Robert D. Woodberry, Christian Smith, and Christopher P. Scheitle 15 Medicine and Health 250William C. Cockerham 16 Urbanization 267Kevin Fox Gotham and Arianna J. King 17 Environmental Sociology 283Richard York and Riley E. Dunlap 18 Social Movements, Protest, and Practices of Social Change 301Kevin Gillan 19 War and Society 319Miguel A. Centeno and Vicki Yang 20 Immigration 340Noriko Matsumoto 21 The Sociology of Consumption 358Christopher Andrews 22 Digital Technology, Social Media, and Techno‐Social Life 377Mary Chayko 23 Contemporary Feminist Theory 398Michelle Meagher Part III Cutting Edge Issues 417 24 Big Data for Sociological Research 419Jason Radford and David Lazer 25 Toward a Sociology of Debt 444Wendy Wiedenhoft Murphy 26 Sociology of Sport 460Alan Tomlinson 27 From Fordism to Brexit and Trump: Is Authoritarian Capitalism on the Rise? 477 Robert J. Antonio and Alessandro Bonanno Index 496

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Book SynopsisEssential writings from classical and contemporary sociological theorists engagingly introduced and brought to life for students This Concise Reader in Sociological Theory contains excerpts from the writings of a wide range of key theorists who represent the dynamic breadth of classical and contemporary, macro- and micro-sociological theory. The selected writings elaborate on the core concepts and arguments of sociological theory, and, along with the commentary, explore topics that resonate today such as: crisis and change, institutions and networks, power and inequality, race, gender, difference, and much more. The text contains editorial introductions to each section that clearly explain the intellectual context of the theorists and their arguments and reinforce their relevance to sociological analysis and society today. The excerpts include writings from the classicists Karl Marx, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, W.E.B. Du Bois to the contemporary Patricia HTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Part I Classical Theorists 7 1 Karl Marx 9 1A Karl Marx from Wage Labour and Capital 12 II 13 1B Karl Marx and Frederick Engels from Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 17 Profit of Capital 19 1C Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels from The German Ideology 27 2 Emile Durkheim 31 2A Emile Durkheim from The Rules of Sociological Method 34 What is a Social Fact? 34 II 37 2B Emile Durkheim from Suicide: A Study in Sociology 41 3 Max Weber 47 3A Max Weber from The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism 50 Religious Affiliation and Social Stratification 50 3B Max Weber from Economy and Society 65 The Definition of Sociology and of Social Action 65 Types of Social Action 71 3C Max Weber from Essays in Sociology 75 Bureaucracy 75 Structures of Power 77 Class, Status, Party 78 The Sociology of Charismatic Authority 80 Science as a Vocation 83 Part II Structural Functionalism, Conflict, and Exchange Theories 89 4 Structural Functionalism 91 4A Robert K. Merton from On Social Structure and Science 94 The Ethos of Science 94 Universalism 94 “Communism” 95 Disinterestedness 95 Organized Skepticism 97 5 Conflict and Dependency Theories 99 5A Ralf Dahrendorf from Class and Class Conflict in Industrial Society 101 5B Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Enzo Faletto from Dependency and Development in Latin America 107 Theory of Dependency and Capitalistic Development 107 6 Social Exchange 111 6A Peter M. Blau from Exchange and Power in Social Life 113 6B James S. Coleman from Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital 116 Social Capital 116 Human Capital and Social Capital 118 Forms of Social Capital 118 6C Paula England from Sometimes the Social Becomes Personal: Gender, Class, and Sexualities 120 Defining Terms 121 Explaining the Gender Differences 123 Part III Symbolic Interaction, Phenomenology, and Ethnomethodology 129 7 Symbolic Interaction 131 7A George H. Mead from Mind, Self & Society 134 From the Standpoint of a Social Behaviorist 134 7B Erving Goffman from The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life 136 Introduction 136 8 Phenomenology 141 8A Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann from The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge 143 The Reality of Everyday Life 143 Origins of Institutionalization 147 9 Ethnomethodology 159 9A Harold Garfinkel from Studies in Ethnomethodology 161 Practical Sociological Reasoning: Doing Accounts in “Common Sense Situations of Choice” 161 9B Sarah Fenstermaker and Candace West from Doing Gender, Doing Difference: Inequality, Power, and Institutional Change 166 “Difference” as an Ongoing Interactional Accomplishment 166 Common Misapprehensions 168 The Dynamics of Doing Difference 169 Part IV Major Postwar European Influences On Sociological Theory 173 10 Critical Theory: The Frankfurt School 175 10A Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno from Dialectic of Enlightenment 179 10B Jurgen Habermas from The Theory of Communicative Action: Reason and the Rationalization of Society 184 11 Pierre Bourdieu 189 11A Pierre Bourdieu from The Forms of Capital 191 Cultural Capital 193 Social Capital 194 11B Pierre Bourdieu from Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste 196 Class Condition and Social Conditioning 198 The Habitus and the Space of Life‐Styles 199 12 Michel Foucault and Queer Theory 209 12A Michel Foucault from The History of Sexuality 212 Method 214 12B Steven Seidman from Queer Theory/Sociology 217 Part V Standpoint Theories Amid Globalization 223 13 Feminist Theories 225 13A Charlotte Perkins Gilman from The Man-Made World or Our Androcentric Culture 229 13B Arlie Hochschild from Emotion Work, Feeling Rules, and Social Structure 231 Framing Rules and Feeling Rules: Issues in Ideology 231 13C Dorothy E. Smith from The Conceptual Practices of Power: A Feminist Sociology of Knowledge 233 Relations of Ruling and Objectified Knowledge 235 Women’s Exclusion from the Governing Conceptual Mode 235 Women Sociologists and the Contradiction between Sociology and Experience 236 The Standpoint of Women as a Place to Start 238 13D Patricia Hill Collins from Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment 238 Black Feminist Thought as Critical Social Theory 238 Why U.S. Black Feminist Thought? 242 Black Women as Agents of Knowledge 243 Toward Truth 246 13E Patricia Hill Collins from Intersectionality’s Definitional Dilemmas 249 Racial Formation Theory, Knowledge Projects, and Intersectionality 249 Epistemological Challenges 252 13F R.W. Connell and James W. Messerschmidt from Hegemonic Masculinity: Rethinking the Concept 254 What Should Be Retained 257 What Should Be Rejected 258 Gender Hierarchy 258 14 Postcolonial Theories 263 14A W. E. Burghardt Du Bois from The Souls of Black Folk 267 14B Edward W. Said from Orientalism 270 14C Frantz Fanon from Black Skin, White Masks 273 The Fact of Blackness 273 14D Stuart Hall from Cultural Identity and Diaspora 276 14E Raewyn Connell, Fran Collyer, Joao Maia, and Robert Morrell from Toward a Global Sociology of Knowledge: Post-Colonial Realities and Intellectual Practices 279 Southern Situations and Global Arenas 280 14F Alondra Nelson from The Social Life of DNA: Racial Reconciliation and Institutional Morality after the Genome 282 Postgenomic 282 Reconciliation Projects 284 Slavery and Justice 285 15 Globalization and the Reassessment of Modernity 287 15A Zygmunt Bauman from Liquid Modernity 290 After the Nation‐state 290 15B Anthony Giddens from Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age 296 15C Ulrich Beck from Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity 300 On the Logic of Wealth Distribution and Risk Distribution 300 15D Ulrich Beck and Edgar Grande from Varieties of Second Modernity: The Cosmopolitan Turn in Social and Political Theory and Research 305 15E Jurgen Habermas from Notes on Post-Secular Society 307 The Descriptive Account of a “Post‐Secular Society” – and the Normative Issue of How Citizens of Such a Society Should Understand Themselves 307 Index 311

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Book SynopsisDoes the way we think about our minds matter? Our judgements about what counts as thought are so intimate that we may not even realize that we make them. But we do and the way we make them has consequences for our sense of the real. The Mind and Spirit project (presented in this volume) finds that the way people think about thinking, shapes the way they experience (what they take to be) gods and spiritsAuthors are a team of anthropologists and psychologists who worked together for two years across sites in the United States, Ghana, Thailand, China, and VanuatuArgues that there are cultural differences in the way social worlds represent the mind' we call these local theories of mind and that these differences affect whether and how people, for instance, hear the voices of the dead or feel the presence ofGodDiscusses how the ways people think about thought and interiority can alter human sensory experience itself Table of ContentsNotes on contributors 1. Mind and Spirit: a comparative theory about representation of mind and the experience of spirit (T.M. Luhrmann) 2. From karma to sin: a kaleidoscopic theory of mind and Christian experience in northern Thailand (Felicity Aulino) 3. Crossing the buffer: ontological anxiety among US evangelicals and an anthropological theory of mind (Joshua Brahinsky) 4. Vulnerable minds, bodily thoughts, and sensory spirits: local theory of mind and spiritual experience in Ghana (John Dulin) 5. Adwenhoasem: an Akan theory of mind (Vivian Afi Dzokoto) 6. The mind and the Devil: porosity and discernment in two Chinese charismatic‐style churches (Emily Ng) 7. Empowered imagination and mental vulnerability: local theory of mind and spiritual experience in Vanuatu (Rachel E. Smith) 8. What anthropologists can learn from psychologists, and the other way around (Kara Weisman and T.M. Luhrmann) 9. Thinking about thinking: the mind's porosity and the presence of the gods (T.M. Luhrmann) Index

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Book SynopsisProvides an expansive view of the full field of linguistic anthropology, featuring an all-new team of contributing authors representing diverse new perspectives A New Companion to Linguistic Anthropology provides a timely and authoritative overview of the field of study that explores how language influences society and culture. Bringing together more than 30 original essays by an interdisciplinary panel of renowned scholars and younger researchers, this comprehensive volume covers a uniquely wide range of both classic and contemporary topics as well as cutting-edge research methods and emerging areas of investigation. Building upon the success of its predecessor, the acclaimed Blackwell Companion to Linguistic Anthropology, this new edition reflects current trends and developments in research and theory. Entirely new chapters discuss topics such as the relationship between language and experiential phenomena, the use of research data to address social justice, racist language and raciolinguistics, postcolonial discourse, and the challenges and opportunities presented by social media, migration, and global neoliberalism. Innovative new research analyzes racialized language in World of Warcraft, the ethics of public health discourse in South Africa, the construction of religious doubt among Orthodox Jewish bloggers, hybrid forms of sociality in videoconferencing, and more. Presents fresh discussions of topics such as American Indian speech communities, creolization, language mixing, language socialization, deaf communities, endangered languages, and language of the lawAddresses recent trends in linguistic anthropological research, including visual documentation, ancient scribes, secrecy, language and racialization, global hip hop, justice and health, and language and experienceUtilizes ethnographic illustration to explore topics in the field of linguistic anthropologyIncludes a new introduction written by the editors and an up-to-date bibliography with over 2,000 entries A New Companion to Linguistic Anthropologyis a must-have for researchers, scholars, and undergraduate and graduate students in linguistic anthropology, as well as an excellent text for those in related fields such as sociolinguistics, discourse studies, semiotics, sociology of language, communication studies, and language education.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii Acknowledgments xvii Introduction 1Robin Conley Riner and Rachel George Part I: Speech Communities and Their Contested Boundaries 13 1 On the Social Lives of Indigenous North American Languages 15Paul V. Kroskrity and Barbra A. Meek 2 Creolization: Its Context, Power, and Meaning 33Christine Jourdan 3 Language Endangerment and Renewal 49Sean O’Neill 4 Narrating Transborder Communities 66Elizabeth Falconi 5 Mixing, Switching, and Languaging in Interaction 86Jan David Hauck and Teruko Vida Mitsuhara 6 Postcolonial Semiotics 107Angela Reyes 7 Deaf Communities: Constellations, Entanglements, and Defying Classifications 122Erin Moriarty and Lynn Hou 8 Global Hip Hop: Style, Language, and Globalization 139H. Samy Alim Part II: Literacies and Textualities Across Time and Space 157 9 Ancient Literacy Practices and Script Communities 159Alice Mandell 10 Rethinking Translation and Transduction 178Susan Gal 11 Social Dramas: A Semiotic Approach 194Kristina Wirtz 12 Digital Literacies 214Rachel Flamenbaum and Rachel George 13 Digital Religious Discourse 235Ayala Fader 14 Linguistic Anthropology of the Visual 253Jennifer F. Reynolds 15 Technobodily Literacy in Video Interaction 273Samira Ibnelkaïd 16 Ethics and Language 299Steven P. Black Part III: Speaking, Sensing, and Sounding 315 17 Contested Intentions 317Alessandro Duranti 18 Entanglements of Language and Experience in Everyday Life 334Elinor Ochs 19 Affect, Emotion, and Linguistic Shift 354Kathryn E. Graber 20 Using the Senses in Animal Communication 369Erica A. Cartmill 21 Human Touch 391Asta Cekaite and Marjorie Harness Goodwin 22 Socialization of Attention 410Lourdes de León 23 Sound, Voice, and the Felt Body 428Patrick Eisenlohr 24 Multimodality 443Keith M. Murphy 25 Language and Food 461Jillian R. Cavanaugh and Kathleen C. Riley Part IV: Language, Power, and Justice 477 26 Language Policy and Ethnic Conflict 479Christina P. Davis 27 Secrecy 494Erin Debenport 28 Legal Language and Its Ideologies 509Robin Conley Riner 29 Language, Gender, Race, and Sexuality: Intersectional Perspectives 525Lal Zimman 30 Engaged Linguistic Anthropology 542Netta Avineri and Jocelyn Ahlers 31 Language and Racism 560Krystal A. Smalls and Jenny L. Davis 32 Communicative Justice and Health 577Charles L. Briggs 33 The Force of Indexicality 596Alessandro Duranti Index 614

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Book SynopsisA Companion to Biological Anthropology The discipline of biological anthropologythe study of the variation and evolution of human beings and their evolutionary relationships with past and living hominin and primate relativeshas undergone enormous growth in recent years. Advances in DNA research, behavioral anthropology, nutrition science, and other fields are transforming our understanding of what makes us human. A Companion to Biological Anthropology provides a timely and comprehensive account of the foundational concepts, historical development, current trends, and future directions of the discipline. Authoritative yet accessible, this field-defining reference work brings together 37 chapters by established and younger scholars on the biological and evolutionary components of the study of human development. The authors discuss all facets of contemporary biological anthropology including systematics and taxonomy, population and molecular genetics, human biology and functional adaptation, early primate evolution, paleoanthropology, paleopathology, bioarchaeology, forensic anthropology, and paleogenetics. Updated and expanded throughout, this second edition explores new topics, revisits key issues, and examines recent innovations and discoveries in biological anthropology such as race and human variation, epidemiology and catastrophic disease outbreaks, global inequalities, migration and health, resource access and population growth, recent primate behavior research, the fossil record of primates and humans, and much more. A Companion to Biological Anthropology, Second Edition is an indispensable guide for researchers and advanced students in biological anthropology, geosciences, ancient and modern disease, bone biology, biogeochemistry, behavioral ecology, forensic anthropology, systematics and taxonomy, nutritional anthropology, and related disciplines.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors x Acknowledgments xx Foreword xxii 1 The Breadth and Vision of Biological Anthropology 1 Clark Spencer Larsen Part I: History 13 2 Foundation and History of Biological Anthropology 15 Michael A. Little and Jane E. Buikstra Part II: The Present and the Living 39 3 Evolution: What It Means and How We Know 41 Kenneth M. Weiss and Anne V. Buchanan 4 Systematics, Taxonomy, and Phylogenetics: Ordering Life, Past and Present 55 Alexis Uluutku and Bernard Wood 5 Diversity, Ancestry, and Evolution: The Genetics of Human Populations 73 John H. Relethford 6 Human Population Genomics: Diversity and Adaptation 87 Dennis H. O’Rourke 7 Race, Racism, and Racial Thinking: Implications for Biological Anthropology 103 Rachel Caspari 8 Human Life History Evolution: Growth, Development, and Senescence 122 Douglas E. Crews and Barry Bogin 9 Climate-Related Human Biological Variation 140 Cynthia M. Beall 10 Infectious Disease and Epidemiology: Dealing with the Present and Preparing for Future New Epidemics 167 Lisa Sattenspiel and Carolyn Orbann 11 Evolutionary Insights into the Social and Environmental Drivers of Health Inequality: The Example of theGlobal Epidemic of Overweight and Cardiovascular Diseases 184 Christopher W. Kuzawa and Melissa B. Manus 12 Ancient DNA and Disease 199 Anne Stone 13 Paleogenomics: Ancient DNA in Biological Anthropology 210 C. Eduardo Guerra Amorim 14 Demography, Including Paleodemography 223 Lyle W. Konigsberg George R. Milner, and Jesper L. Boldsen 15 Nutritional Anthropology: Contemporary Themes in Food, Diet, and Nutrition 244 Darna L. Dufour and Barbara A. Piperata 16 Ongoing Evolution: Are We Still Evolving? 262 Fabian Crespo 17 Primates Defined 277 W. Scott McGraw 18 Primate Behavior, Social Flexibility, and Conservation 300 Karen B. Strier 19 Behavioral Ecology: Background and Illustrative Example 314 James F. O’Connell and Kristen Hawkes 20 Brain, Cognition, and Behavior in Humans and Other Primates 329 Elaine N. Miller and Chet C. Sherwood Part III: The Past and the Dead 345 21 Taphonomy and Biological Anthropology 347 Luis L. Cabo, Dennis C. Dirkmaat, and Andrea M. Zurek-Ost 22 Primate Origins: The Earliest Primates and Euprimates and Their Role in the Evolution of the Order 365 Mary T. Silcox and Sergi López-Torres 23 Catarrhine Origins and Evolution 381 David R. Begun 24 The Human Journey Begins: Origins and Diversity in Early Hominins 400 Scott W. Simpson 25 Early Homo: Systematics, Paleobiology, and the First Out-of-Africa Dispersals 421 G. Philip Rightmire 26 Panmixis in Middle and Late Pleistocene Human Subspecies: The Genetic/Genomic Revolution inPaleoanthropology 440 Fred H. Smith and Whitney M. Karriger 27 Bioarchaeology: Transformations in Lifestyle, Morbidity, and Mortality 458 George R. Milner and Clark Spencer Larsen 28 Paleopathology: A Twenty-first Century Perspective 474 Jane E. Buikstra 29 Forensic Anthropology: Current Issues 494 Douglas H. Ubelaker 30 Diet reconstruction and Ecology 510 Margaret J. Schoeninger and Laurie J. Reitsema 31 Current Concepts in Bone Biology 527 Mary E. Cole, James H. Gosman, and Samuel D. Stout 32 Deducing Attributes of Dental Growth and Development from Fossil Hominin Teeth 544 Debbie Guatelli-Steinberg 33 Skull: Function – New Directions 559 Qian Wang and Rachel A. Menegaz 34 Dental Microwear Analysis: Wear We Are Going, Wear We Have Been 572 Christopher W. Schmidt and Peter S. Ungar 35 Primate Locomotion: A Comparative and Developmental Perspective 587 Michael C. Granatosky and Jesse W. Young 36 Teaching Biological Anthropology: Pedagogy of Human Evolution and Human Variation 603 Briana Pobiner Index 622

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Book SynopsisThe new edition of the most comprehensive, practical, and user-friendly guide of its kind, providing quick reference to the information needed by archaeologists doing fieldwork The Archaeologist's Fieldwork Guide is the must-have companion for anyone planning and performing fieldwork, whether a student going into the field for the first time or a professional archaeologist with years of real-world experience. Designed to be an all-in-one informational toolkit, the Guide is packed with the technical and practical information archaeologists need to know when in the fieldsupported by more than 400 lists and checklists, planning aids, measurement charts and tables, analysis and classification guides, sample forms, abbreviations and codes, and much more. Fully revised throughout, the second edition features two entirely new chapters on technology in the field and the archaeology laboratory, incorporating current tools and technologies such as geographic information systems (GIS), 3D data capture and modeling, DNA extraction, light detection and ranging (LiDAR) scanning, remotely controlled drones, and underground mapping. New and updated coverage includes flotation samples and processing, oxidizable carbon ratio dating, phytolith sampling, and water screening. Covers classification and typology, creating forms and records, measurement and conversion, laboratory handling and processing, artifact mapping, drawing, and photographingOffers new and updated material on legislation regarding archaeological fieldwork and emerging topics such as community engagement and public archaeology. Provides up-to-date definitions and explanations of key terms and new diagrams, line drawings, and glossesIncludes a guide to research publication, an extensive bibliography, references to relevant associations and publications, and information on where to buy suppliesThe Archaeologist's Fieldwork Guide, Second Edition is an indispensable resource for undergraduate and graduate archaeology students, students taking courses in anthropology, ethnography, and cultural resource management (CRM), archaeology enthusiasts and volunteers, and professional archeologists at any level.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 Classification and Typology Appliqué types Artifact industries Assemblage types Attributes, basic categories of Attributes of flakes illo Basket parts Basketry types Binford pipestem chronology Bone classification and description Bottle mold types/bottle manufacturing types Bottle parts Boundary types Burial types and descriptions Button attributes Cemetery types Ceramics attributes Ceramics bases Ceramics basic body shapes Ceramics classification by attributes Ceramics decoration types Ceramics fluid/liquid decoration types Ceramics fragment size classification Ceramics identification chart Ceramics rim classes Ceramics type-function classification Ceramics vessel parts Ceramics ware-fabric classification Ceramics ware-fabric classification, historical Clay types Coinage types Context types Data types, historical Debitage types (lithic) Effigy classification Figurine description Glass attributes Glass classification Glaze classification Ground stone attributes Ground stone uses Invertebrate classification Lithics attributes Lithics use-wear traits Materials basic categories Metal artifact categories Mohs scale of hardness Munsell sheets illo Nail classification Particle size descriptions Perforation types Plant remains categories Projectile point attributes Projectile point parts and measures Shell classification Site by function Site by type Soil classification, general Soil horizons and subdivisions Soil layers Soil particle shape Soil structure types Soil taxonomy Soil textural classes Stone tool classification, flaked or chipped Stone tool classification, ground Stone tool parts Stratigraphical context and relationship types Survey classes Survey methods of inspection Timber/jointing description terms Tin can types Tooth types Tyler Scale/grades of clastic sediments Units and spatial divisions Vertebrate classification Wentworth Grain Size Classification 2 Forms and Records Agreement between landlord/property owner and survey party Artifact/field specimen inventory or catalog (1, 2) Artifact (provenience) label/tag (1, 2) Basketry record Building/structure inventory form Bulk sample log Bulk soil sample label/tag Burial record Catalog card Catalog form/site catalog form/field catalog/catalog log Ceramic recording form Coin catalog card Context recording form Crew attendance sheet CRM Federal bid form requirements CRM Phase I field notes and records CRM Phase I shovel test bag label CRM Phase II field notes and records CRM Phase II artifact bag label CRM Phase III field notes and records Daily field report Daily vehicle log Datable sample form Debitage form (lithic) Diet evidence chart Drawings catalog Ecological information form Excavation level form Excavation record Excavation summary form/unit summary form Faunal attribute record Feature catalog Feature form Feature level form Feature record log Feature summary form/feature record (1, 2) Field laboratory log Field inventory form Field notebook system Figurine record Garbage project form Gift form Grain size analysis form Historical resources inventory Human remains occurrence form Level bag inventory Level label/tag Level log/master unit log Masonry form Minimum collection unit (MCU) log Oral history form Participant note form Perishables record Photographic log Photographic log, digital Photographic log, Polaroid Photographic record form Point location catalog Pollen count record Provenience designation catalog Provenience designation form Rock art record Sample bag label/tag Shovel test pit form Site record/site report/site inventory/site survey report Site survey record Skeleton recording form Skin and hide record Special finds form Storage log, on-site Stratigraphic description form Stratigraphy record Study unit catalog Study unit form Textile record Total station datum table Total station field notes form Wall profile/plan view form Wood and cane record 3 Lists and Checklists Analysis-in-the-field equipment list Arbitrary levels, working in Artifact examination methods Artifact field procedure Artifact handling and lifting Artifact packing Artifact sampling, special Augering and coring Basket parts Basketry/bark/wood field conservation Boat kit list Bone identification chart Bone/antler/ivory/shell field conservation Bulk provenience procedure Burial excavation and observations Burial variables checklist Cataloging equipment list Cataloging procedure Ceramics field conservation Closing out a level Context assessment Coordinate grid, setting up CRM (Cultural Resource Management) phases CRM Phase I shovel testing CRM Phase I shovel testing equipment Cross-sectioning a feature Dating methods by material Direction finding with compass Disturbance/exposure types Dump/sifting area placement Ecological sample collection Emergency/disaster strategies, first aid Excavation equipment list/field kit Excavation flow chart Excavation grid, setting up by taping/triangulation Excavation grid, setting up with right angle Excavation rules Expedient grid, setting up Faunal collection, analysis, and identification Features guidelines Field clothing list Field conservation initial steps Field crew Field etiquette Field hazards Field note-taking Field vehicle equipment list Field walking Fieldwork competence guidelines Fieldwork tools illos First aid kit illo Poisonous plants Flaked stone artifact identification Flora collection, analysis, and identification GPS use Ground search survey considerations Ground stone artifact identification Harris Matrix Harris Matrix illo Hearth identification Historical documents Hot weather tips Indicators of potential archaeological site Knife sharpening Labeling site grids Landowner interview questions Landscape reconstruction sources Leather/skins/textiles/cordage field conservation Level subdividing Level sheet recording Lithics field conservation Lithics identification chart Locating a site within a section Masonry and brick description terms Metal artifact analysis steps Metal field conservation Oral history instructions Photo menu board use Pit identification Point provenience procedure Pollen sample collection Post mold identification Powers’ Scale of Roundness for grains Preparing to go on a dig Reconnaissance equipment Recording artifacts with residues Recoding artifact findspot Recording artifact quarry Recording artifact scatter Recording cores Recording features Recording flaked stone artifacts Recording rock art Recording shell midden Recording stratigraphic profile Recording standing structure Recording stone arrangements Recording tools' function Research design Rock and mineral identification chart Sample collection Sampling deep-site excavation Sampling strategy decisions Sampling strategy types Sampling techniques Screen mesh chart Screening Sediment texture tests Shell analysis steps Single-context planning Soil analysis checklist Soil analysis procedure Soil samples Soil types’ effects on materials Strata, defining individual Stratigraphic/natural level excavation method Structural remains guidelines Supervisor checklist Supervisor sample budget Surface observations checklist Surface survey basic observations Survey preparation Survey team responsibilities Survival kit Taping instructions Telescope setup and use Theodolite/transit/dumpy level setup Theodolite/transit/dumpy level use Tree-ring sample collection Trench shoring Trenching types Troweling method Unit completion Unit excavation Vertical-face excavation methods When you find a potential site 4 Mapping, Drawing, and Photography Drawing a plan with offsetting Drawing a site plan Drawing a skeleton Drawing architectural plans Drawing artifact details Drawing, drafting, and mapping equipment list Drawing earth types in sections Drawing frame use Drawing from a digital photograph Drawing instructions Drawing outline of an artifact Drawing profiles and sections Drawing scale change using a photocopier Drawing scales Drawing small finds Drawing special sections Drawing stages for artifacts Drawing stone artifacts Drawing symbols for archaeology Drawings, types of archaeological Map colors Map, making sketch Map, reading topographic Map scales, USGS Map symbols Mapping a site Mapping and drawing features Mapping and surveying equipment list Mapping and surveying symbols Mapping instruments Mapping / plotting contour lines Mapping scales and areas Mapping to scale for artifacts Mapping with plane table Mapping-with-plane-table equipment Maps for archaeological sites Photographic equipment list Photographic guidelines Photographs, aerial Photographs to be taken Photography, digital Photo menu board use 5 Measurement and Conversion Alidade care and adjustment Area calculation Baseline/datum line, datum point, site benchmark and datum plane, site reference point Bearing using protractor illo Bearings calculation Benchmark tying to datum point Compass points-to-degrees conversion Compass positioning illo Datum line ranging with tape Dumpy level use EDM use to set up a grid GPS information Horizontal angle measurement How to set up a level Level-taking in unit Level-taking of sites and features Lines or transects layout Locating to an Ordnance Survey map Locating to the National Grid Map area to field area conversion Map scale equivalents Measurement conversion guide Measurement equipment Measuring around/over obstacles Measuring depth of an artifact or feature Measuring distance Measuring heights and elevation Offsetting Orienting a compass to a map Perpendiculars Plane table use Planimeter use Plumbing a line Plumbing the line/taping a slope Radial measurement Radiocarbon sample size Right triangle, sine, cosine, tangent Rim measuring scale Sample sizes Site grid establishment Slope calculation Stadia formula Stadia reduction tables Subdatum points Surveying tables Surveying with a hand level Surveying common errors Tape measurements Taping a slope Taping common errors Taping procedures Theodolite use Theodolite use to set up a grid Three-point problem Tool measurement > Biface/projectile point parts illo Total station use Transferring height from benchmark to temporary benchmark Transit, theodolite, dumpy level set-up Transit-stadia traverse measurement Traverse recording Triangulation UTM coordinate counter illo UTM grid location of archaeological site Vertical angle measurement Vertical distance measurement Vertical provenience measurement illo Vessel measurement Vessel measurement illo Weights, measures, temperatures (equivalents) 6 Technology in the Field Acoustic research/archaeoacoustics Augering and coring Computer tablet use DNA sampling Drone use Electric resistance surveying Field walking Flotation sampling Geomagnetic surveying Geophysical techniques and underground mapping GIS overlays illo GIS tool use Ground-penetrating radar LiDAR illo LiDAR use Major scientific dating methods Mechanical Excavator Use Metal detector use Optically stimulated luminescence Oxidizable carbon ratio dating Photogrammetry Phytolith sampling Pollen sampling Radiocarbon dating sources of error Radiocarbon formation illo Reflectance transformation imaging Satellite imagery Space archaeology Strontium-isotope sampling 3D data capture and modeling Thermoluminescence illo Two-bucket flotation system illo Water screening Web-based archaeology, Internet presence 7 Archaeology Laboratory Archiving tips Artifact cataloging Artifact conservation Artifact handling and cleaning Artifact handling and cleaning, specific Artifact labeling Artifact sorting Artifact storage Field lab processing illo Flow of artifacts through lab illo Lab analysis Lab environment Lab equipment Lab safety Lab use rules Modeling or reconstruction Record storage on computer Record storage types Reporting results and publication 8 Abbreviations and Codes Animal taxon codes Bone and antler artifact codes Bone codes Ceramics burnish and luster codes Ceramics codes Ceramics construction and surface treatment codes Ceramics excision and incision codes Ceramics fabric codes Ceramics fragment size codes Ceramics painted motif codes Ceramics ware color codes/Munsell codes Chipped stone artifact codes Clay pipe codes Field report abbreviations Geologic codes Glass artifact codes Ground stone artifact codes Organic artifact codes Packaging composition codes Shell artifact codes Stone codes Surveying abbreviations Tooth artifact codes 9 Resources Archaeological associations Archaeological journals Bibliography Ethics in field archaeology Federal (U.S.) legislation regarding archaeology Fieldwork information sources International archaeology ethics, laws, policies Labor rights for paid workers in archaeology U.S. State Historic Preservation Officers (SHPO) U.S. Federal archaeology information U.S. protection of archaeological resources (including permit requirements) Where to buy equipment, supplies Index

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Book SynopsisOn Irreconciliation focuses on the less examined but frequent ethnographic instances when survivors refuse to forgive in response to persistent impunity of past injustices, particularly, in the face of absence-presence of the rule of law and staged processes of justice which serve the powerful. An ethnographically-informed, interdisciplinary theorisation which makes irreconciliation visible in the contexts of Northern Ireland, Papua New Guinea, Mozambique, Bangladesh, Canada, Argentina, Sri Lanka, Colombia, USA and UKTriangulates a discussion of the rule of law within processes of unresolved genocidal injustices, debates relating to statues of slave owners, racial prejudice and institutional responsesContributors demonstrate the relationship of irreconciliation with law, aesthetics, temporality, resistance and the limits of the conceptMakes a theoretical and ethnographic case for irreconciliation as both a social and political phenomenonProposes an understanding of the past based onTable of Contents1. Introduction - On Irreconciliation: Nayanika Mookherjee (Durham University) 2. Being held accountable: why attributing responsibility matters: Lisette Josephides (Queens University, Belfast) 3. Civil war and the non-linearity of time: Approaching a Mozambican politics of irreconciliation: Bjørn Enge Bertelsen (University of Bergen) 4. ‘I was celebrating the justice the victims got’; exploring irreconciliation among Bangladeshi human rights activists in London: Jacco Visser (Aarhus University) 5. Perpetration, Impunity and Irreconciliation in Canada’s TRC on Indian Residential Schools: Ronald Niezen (McGill University) 6. Irreconciliation, Reciprocity, and Social Change (Afterword 1): Professor Richard Wilson (University of Connecticut) 7. Irreconciliation as Practice: Resisting Impunity and Closure in Argentina: Noa Vaisman (Aarhus University) 8. Absence in Technicolour: Protesting Enforced Disappearances in Northern Sri Lanka: Vindhya Buthpitiya (University College London) 9. Rendering the Absent Visible: Victimhood and the Irreconciliability of Violence: Kamari Maxine Clarke (The University of California, Los Angeles) 10. Irreconcilable Times: Nayanika Mookherjee (Durham University) 11. Action beyond intent: experiencing ir/reconciliation (Afterword II): Professor Sara Schneiderman (University of British Columbia)

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Book SynopsisClinical musings on the nature of reality and known experience.

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Book SynopsisProvides a comprehensive multidisciplinary and multinational view of attachment theory as it applies to family systems, and family systems theory as it extends attachment theory. Addresses potential clinical implications and applications of the theories and raises cultural challenges to integrative theoretical development.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Beatrice L. Wood (Children's Hospital of Buffalo). 2. The Network Perspective: An Integration of Attachment and Family Systems Theories: Kasia Kozlowska (The Children's Hospital at Westmead) and Lesley Hanney (Relationship Australia). 3. Attachment, Social Rank, and Affect Regulation: Speculations on an Ethological Approach to Family Interaction: Leon Sloman (University of Toronto), Leslie Atkinson (University of Toronto), Karen Milligan (University of Toronto) and Giovanni Liotti (Universita Pontificia Salesiana). 4. Family Systems Theory, Attachment Theory, and Culture: Fred Rothbaum (Tufts University), Karen Rosen (Boston College), Tatsuo Ujiie (Nagoya University), Nobuko Uchida (Ochanomizu University). 5. Observing Mother-Child Relationships Across Generations: Boundary Patterns, Attachment, and the Transmission of Caregiving: Molly D. Kretchmar (Gonzaga University) and Deborah B. Jacobvitz (University of Texas at Austin). 6. Relieving Parentified Children's Burdens in Families with Insecure Attachment Patterns: John Byng-Hall (Institute of Family Therapy). 7. Attachment, Mastery, and Interdependence: A Model of Parenting Process: Martha E. Edwards (Ackerman Institute for the Family). 8. Attachment Security in Couple Relationships: A Systemic Model and Its Implications for Family Dynamics: Mario Mikulincer (Bar-Ilan University), Victor Florian (Bar-Ilan University), Philip A. Cowan (University of California, Berkeley) and Carolyn Pape Cowan (University of California, Berkeley). 9. Balancing the Family and the Collective in Raising Children: Why Communal Sleeping in Kibbutzim Was Predestined to End: Ora Aviezer (University of Haifa), Abraham Sagi (University of Haifa) and Marinus van Ijzendoorn (Leiden University). 10. Attachment and Family Therapy: Clinical Utility of Adolescent-Family Attachment Research: Howard A. Liddle (University of Miami) and Seth J. Schwartz (University of Miami). 11. Attachment and Affect Regulation: A Framework for Family Treatment of Conduct Disorder: Margaret K. Keiley (Purdue University). 12. Depression and Attachment in Families: A Child-Focused Perspective: Melissa Herring (Emory University) and Nadine J. Kaslow (Emory University). 13. Links between Community Violence and the Family System: Evidence from Children's Feelings of Relatedness and Perceptions of Parent Behavior: Michael Lynch (SUNY Genesco) and Dante Cicchetti (University of Rochester). 14. The Epigenesis of the Family System as a Context for Individual Development: Herta A. Guttman (McGill University). 15. Cross-Cultural Perspectives: Implications for Attachment Theory and Family Therapy: Patricia Minuchin. 16. Conceptual Links between Byng-Hall's Theory of Parentification and the Emotional Security Hypothesis: Patrick T. Davies (University of Rochester)

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Book SynopsisTackling issues relevant to family life today, thisauthoritative Companion shows why studying social change in families is fundamental for understanding the transformations in individual and social life, across the globe. Contains original essays by expert contributors on a wide range of topics relating to the sociology of families.Trade Review”I would recommend this book strongly. The social sciences in general, and the study of family in particular, permeate much of academic life nowadays… Most academic libraries are therefore likely to find eager users for this book.” Reference Reviews "This is a classic handbook providing a considerable number of original essays written by experts in the field on a wide variety of issues. The strengths of the volume lie in its multi-dimensional approach to the knowledge of the dynamics which modify family life in a globalizing world." INTAMS Review “This authoritative volume shows why studying social change in families is fundamental for understanding the transformations in individual and social life, across the globe.” Family TherapyTable of ContentsList of Contributors. Preface: (Jacqueline Scott, Judith Treas, and Martin Richards). Part I: Families in a Global World:. 1. Globalization and Western Bias in Family Sociology: Don Edgar. 2. Changing European Families: Trends and Issues: Kath Kiernan (University of York). 3. Recent Demographic Trends in the US and Implications for Well-Being: Sinikka Elliott and Debra Umberson (University of Texas). 4. Children, Families, States, and Changing Citizenship: Hilary Land (University of Bristol). 5. Families and Local Communities: Graham Crow (University of Southampton) and Catherine Maclean. Part II: Life Course Perspectives on the Family:. 6. Generations, the Life Course, and Family Change: J. Beth Mabry, Roseann Giarrusso, and Vern L. Bengtson (all University of Southern California). 7. Children’s Families: Jacqueline Scott (University of Cambridge). 8. Aging and the Life Course: Chris Phillipson and Graham Allan (both Keele University). 9. Parenting Practices: Duane F. Alwin (Pennsylvania State University). 10. Time, Through the Life Course, in the Family: Jonathan Gershuny (University of Essex). Part III: Inequality and Diversity:. 11. Inequality and the Family: Philip N. Cohen (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and Danielle MacCartney (Webster University). 12. Families of the Poor: Robert Walker and Claire Collins (both Nottingham University). 13. Social Capital and the Family: Frank F. Furstenberg and Sarah B. Kaplan (both University of Pennsylvania). 14. Family, the State, and Health Care: Changing Roles in the New Century: Ronald J. Angel and Jacqueline L. Angel (both University of Texas at Austin). 15. Immigrant Families in the US: Karen Pyke (University of California, Riverside). 16. Immigrant Families in the UK: Alison Shaw (University of Oxford). Part IV: Changing Family Forms and Relationships:. 17. Religion, Romantic Love, and the Family: Bryan S. Turner (National University of Singapore). 18. Trends in Formation and Dissolution of Couples: Joanne J. Paetsch, Nicholas M. Bala, Lorne D. Bertrand, and Lisa Glennon (all University of Calgary). 19. Children, Families, and Divorce: Jan Pryor (Victoria University of Wellington) and Liz Trinder (Newcastle University). 20. The Lesbian and Gay Family: Jeffrey Weeks, Brian Heaphy, and Catherine Donovan (all Southbank University). 21. Couples and Their Networks: Eric Widmer (University of Geneva). 22. Men in Families and Households: David H.J. Morgan (University of Manchester). Part V: Changing Social Contexts:. 23. Sex and Family: Changes and Challenges: Judith Treas (University of California, Irvine). 24. Feminism and the Family: Michelle Budig (University of Massachusetts). 25. Work and Families: Shirley Dex (University of London). 26. Public Policy and Families: Wendy Sigle-Rushton and Catherine Kenney (both Princeton University). 27. Assisted Reproduction, Genetic Technologies, and Family Life: Martin Richards (University of Cambridge). 28. Families in a Runaway World: Ulrich Beck (University of Munich) and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim (University of Erlangen). Bibliography. Index

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Book SynopsisEarly Human Kinship brings together original studies from leading figures in the biological sciences, social anthropology, archaeology, and linguistics to provide a major breakthrough in the debate over human evolution and the nature of society. A major new collaboration between specialists across the range of the human sciences including evolutionary biology and psychology; social/cultural anthropology; archaeology and linguistics Provides a ground-breaking set of original studies offering a new perspective on early human history Debates fundamental questions about early human society: Was there a connection between the beginnings of language and the beginnings of organized ''kinship and marriage''? How far did evolutionary selection favor gender and generation as principles for regulating social relations? Sponsored by the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland in conjunction with the British Academy Trade Review"This is an important and timely volume, which in its multiple approaches brings new questions to bear on a topic that is the bedrock of anthropology." Stanley Ulijaszek, University of Oxford "An international collection of leading figures in paleontology, linguistics, geography and anthropology consider the transition from the biological kinship of primates to social kinship of modern humans which also marks the transition to language and the social control of the environment." R.H. Barnes, University of Oxford "For too long, studies of the cultural and the genetic aspects of kinship have proceeded in isolation from one another. This volume marks the beginning of what promises to be a fruitful conversation between evolutionary biology and social anthropology." Daniel Nettle, Newcastle University "Early Human Kinship brings together exciting new perspectives from a range of human sciences. Useful for teaching, it will also encourage further cross-disciplinary research into the origins of human kinship, and therefore of humanity itself." Robert Parkin, University of Oxford "This important book puts the study of kinship back in the center of deep history-exactly where nineteenth century anthropology first found it. Welcome back!" Thomas Trautmann, University of Michigan "In the middle of last century, Lévi-Strauss advanced that our ancestors came out of their animal state as the result of two “big bangs”. Symbolic thinking and language, he claimed, suddenly appeared, and humans were then able to leave off bedding their sisters or their daughters, and instead exchange them for other men’s daughters. Thus the incest taboo and male domination were sufficient to promote our ancestors from a state of nature to one of culture. Today the authors of Early Human Kinship show that these “big bangs” never happened and that the ancestors of modern humans shook off their original animal state through a series of transformations that began with the appearance of Homo erectus and the domestication of fire (500,000 BP). It was above all the development of our ancestors’ cognitive capacities that enabled them to imagine and gradually to put into practice various social forms of sexual intercourse and to decide that the children born of these unions belonged to a given group of adults considered to be their kin. Kinship relations have always formed systems, but they have never been the only founding principle of any society." Maurice Godelier, École des Hautes Études en Sciences SocialesTable of ContentsList of Tables. List of Figures. List of Illustrations. Preface. Acknowledgements. Notes on Contributors. INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND. Why 'Kinship'? New Questions on an Old Topic (Wendy James). A Brief Overview of Human Evolution (John A. J. Gowlett and Robin Dunbar). PART I Where and When: The Archaeological Evidence for Early Social Life in Africa. 1 Kinship and Material Culture: Archaeological Implications of the Human Global Diaspora (Clive Gamble). 2 Deep Roots of Kin: Developing the Evolutionary Perspective from Prehistory (John A. J. Gowlett). PART II Women, Children, Men – and the Puzzles of Comparative Social Structure. 3 Early Human Kinship Was Matrilineal (Chris Knight). 4 Alternating Birth Classes: A Note from Eastern Africa (Wendy James). 5 Tetradic Theory and the Origin of Human Kinship Systems (Nicholas J. Allen). 6 What Can Ethnography Tell Us about Human Social Evolution? (Robert Layton). PART III Other Primates and the Biological Approach. 7 Kinship in Biological Perspective (Robin Dunbar). 8 The Importance of Kinship in Monkey Society (Amanda H. Korstjens). 9 Meaning and Relevance of Kinship in Great Apes (Julia Lehmann). 10 Grandmothering and Female Coalitions: A Basis for Matrilineal Priority? (Kit Opie and Camilla Power). PART IV Reconstructions: Evidence from Cultural Practice and Language. 11 A Phylogenetic Approach to the History of Cultural Practices (Laura Fortunato). 12 Reconstructing Ancient Kinship in Africa (Christopher Ehret). 13 The Co-evolution of Language and Kinship (Alan Barnard). EPILOGUE. Reaching across the Gaps (Hilary Callan). Appendices to Chapter 12. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisExplores the nature and quality of today's older couple relationships, as well as the complex links between relationships and health.Trade ReviewThis is a timely and much-needed book. * Choice *Table of Contents Contributors Introduction: Current Perspectives on Couple Relationships in the Middle and Later Years Jamila BookwalaPart I: Nature and Quality of Older Couple Relationships Chapter 1: Happily Ever After? Marital Satisfaction During the Middle Adulthood Years Barbara A. Mitchell Chapter 2: Marital Discord in the Later Years Timothy W. Smith and Carolynne E. Baron Chapter 3: Older Couple Relationships and Loneliness Jenny de Jong Gierveld and Marjolein Broese van Groenou Chapter 4: Intimacy and Obligations in LAT Relationships in Late Life Sofie Ghazanfareeon Karlsson and Majen Espvall Chapter 5: Same-Sex Relationships in Middle and Late Adulthood Bozena Zdaniuk and Christine Smith Chapter 6: Sexual Intimacy in Mid- and Late-Life Couples Amy C. Lodge and Debra Umberson Chapter 7: Spousal Role Allocation and Equity in Older Couples Liat Kulik Chapter 8: These Happy Golden Years? The Role of Retirement in Marital Quality Amy Rauer and Jakob F. Jensen Chapter 9: Health Contributions to Marital Quality: Expected and Unexpected Links Jeremy B. Yorgason and Heejeong ChoiPart II: Marriage, Health, and Adaptation to Illness in Middle and Late Life Chapter 10: Marital Biography and Health in Middle and Late Life Zhenmei Zhang, Hui Liu, and Yan-Liang Yu Chapter 11: Collaborative Cognition in Middle and Late Life: Couple Negotiation of Everyday Tasks Jennifer A. Margrett and Celinda Reese-Melancon Chapter 12: Spousal Interrelationships in Health Across Adulthood: Health Behaviors and Everyday Stress as Potential Underlying Mechanisms Christiane A. Hoppmann, Victoria Michalowski, and Denis Gerstorf Chapter 13: A Developmental Perspective to Dyadic Coping Across Adulthood Cynthia A. Berg, Kelsey K. Sewell, Amy E. Hughes Lansing, Stephanie J. Wilson, and Carrie Brewer Chapter 14: Emotion Regulation in the Context of Spousal Caregiving: Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Strategies Joan K. Monin Chapter 15: Chronic Disease Management in Older Couples: Spousal Support Versus Control Strategies Melissa M. Franks, Elizabeth Wehrspann, Kristin J. August, Karen S. Rook, and Mary Ann Parris Stephens Chapter 16: Harnessing the Power of the Marital Relationship to Improve Illness Management: Considerations for Couple-Based Interventions Lynn M. Martire, Rachel C. Hemphill, and Courtney A. Polenick Index About the Editor

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Book SynopsisThis book shows therapists how they can impact their communities by engaging fellow citizensin addressing broad-based health and social problems.Table of ContentsPart I. Overview of Citizen Therapist Work Introduction: What Can Therapists Offer the Larger World? Chapter 1. Foundations of Citizen Therapist WorkPart II. Health Care Projects Chapter 2. Family Education Diabetes Series: Tackling the Diabetes Epidemic in an American Indian Community Chapter 3. Students Against Nicotine and Tobacco Addiction Chapter 4. The Como Clinic Health Club: Activating Citizen Patient Leaders Part III. Family and Cultural Change Projects Chapter 5. Putting Family First: Resisting the Pull of Overscheduling Kids Chapter 6. The Citizen Father Project Chapter 7. Braver Angels: Counteracting Political Polarization Part IV. Projects Dealing With Race Chapter 8. The Relationships Project With Young Black Men Chapter 9. The Police and Black Men Project Part V. Becoming and Succeeding as a Citizen Therapist Chapter 10. Case Studies in Other Citizen Therapist Work With Mark Meier, Marisol L. Meyer, Alexis R. Franklin, Ceewin N. Louder, Joelle Dorsett, Marie Boursiquot White, Guerda Nicolas, and Brooke Miller Chapter 11. Maintaining Citizen Health Care Projects Over Time Chapter 12. Funding and Evaluation in Citizen Health Care Chapter 13. Getting Started as a Citizen Therapist Chapter 14. The Citizen Therapist as a Person and as a Professional Afterword References Index About the Authors

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Book SynopsisExperiences that mirror work-family dilemmas that all employed parents face.Trade Review"Even though the stories presented in this book revolve around ethnographic research, quantitative and qualitative researchers alike will be able to relate to the discussion of work and family balance. Covering issues from the visibility of the pregnant body when in the field, to bringing children to your study, to how a researcher copes with continuing their research in the face of tragedy, this book will keep the reader engaged through its narratives and reflections on the topic of balancing work and family in research... Researchers across disciplines and methods in the social sciences will find this book an interesting reflection on their own work and family balance in their research." - Contemporary SociologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments I Parenting and Fieldwork: Introduction 1. Work and Home (Im)Balance: Finding Synergy through Ethnographic Fieldwork • Joanna Dreby and Tamara Mose Brown 2. Theorizing the Field: Beyond Blurred Boundaries and into the Thick of Things • Barbara Katz Rothman II Experiences of the Expecting 3. Sociological Pregnancy: On Gestating Research, Writing, and Offspring • Erynn Masi de Casanova 4. Emerging Breasts, Bellies, and Bodies of Knowledge: How Pregnancy and Breastfeeding Matter in Fieldwork • Jennifer A. Reich III Managing Mothers 5. The Intimate Ties between Work and Home • Joanna Dreby 6. Motherhood and Transformation in the Field: Reflections on Positionality, Meaning, and Trust • Leah Schmalzbauer 7. Parents and Children, Research and Family, Life and Loss: Living the Questions of Doing Ethnography • Chris Bobel IV Tentative Fathering 8. Passing as a Parent: Playground Fieldwork in the Shadow of the World Trade Center • Gregory Smithsimon 9. Making Up for Lost Time: My Son, My Fieldwork, My Life • Randol Contreras 10. Kids Change Everything: How Becoming a Dad Transformed My Fieldwork (and Findings) • Charles Aiden Downy V Challenging Children 11. Fourteen Months, Four Countries, and Three Kids: Tales from the Field • Tanya Golash-Boza with Raymi Boza, Soraya Boza, and Tatiana Boza 12. Reflections on Ethnographic Childhoods • Steven J. Gold 13. “Just Don’t Take Notes at Any of My Games or Do Anything Weird”: Ethnography and Mothering across Adolescence • Sherri Grasmuck Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThe United States remains the only industrialized nation in the world that does not provide paid family leave at the national level for either men or women. In the more than two decades since the passage of the Family and Medical Leave Act, there have been numerous unsuccessful attempts to expand family leave benefits nationally. However, in the United States, it is common for innovations in family policies to arise at the state level. In her timely book, Getting Paid While Taking Time, Megan Sholar explains the development of family leave policies at both the national and state levels in the United States. She provides cogent studies of states that have passed and proposed family leave legislation, and she pays special attention to the ways in which women's movement actors and other activists (e.g., labor unions) exert pressure on public officials to help influence the policymaking process. In her conclusion, Sholar considers the future of paid family leave policies in the United StTable of ContentsChapter 1: Women’s Movements and the Passage of Family Leave Policies Chapter 2: The Passage of the National Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) Chapter 3: From the FMLA to the FAMILY Act: Family Leave Policy at the National Level since 1993 Chapter 4: Success in the States: Paid Family Leave in California, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and New York Chapter 5: When Paid Family Leave Fails to Pass in the States: Washington, Oregon, Massachusetts, and Hawaii Chapter 6: The Future of Family Leave in the United States

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsChapter 1: Women’s Movements and the Passage of Family Leave Policies Chapter 2: The Passage of the National Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) Chapter 3: From the FMLA to the FAMILY Act: Family Leave Policy at the National Level since 1993 Chapter 4: Success in the States: Paid Family Leave in California, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and New York Chapter 5: When Paid Family Leave Fails to Pass in the States: Washington, Oregon, Massachusetts, and Hawaii Chapter 6: The Future of Family Leave in the United States

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Book SynopsisParents of children with disabilities often situate their activism as a means of improving the world for their child. However, some disabled activists perceive parental activism as working against the independence and dignity of people with disabilities. This thorny relationship is at the heart of the groundbreaking Allies and Obstacles. The authors chronicle parents' path-breaking advocacy in arenas such as the right to education and to liberty via deinstitutionalization as well as how they engaged in legal and political advocacy. Allies and Obstacles provides a macro analysis of parent activism using a social movement perspective to reveal and analyze the complexand often tenserelationship of parents to disability rights organizations and activism.The authors look at organizational and individual narratives using four case studies that focus on intellectual disability, psychiatric diagnoses, autism, and a broad range of physical disabilities including cerebral palsy and muscular dyTable of ContentsTABLE OF CONTENTSAcknowledgements 1Chapter 1 Introduction 4Part I: Disability Activist Communities 42Chapter 2 Intellectual Disability and Parent Activism 43Chapter 3 Psychiatric Diagnosis, Disability, and Parent Activism 82Chapter 4 Autistic Identity and Parent Activism 114Chapter 5 Physical Disability and Parent Activism 147Part II: Cross-Disability Analysis 179Chapter 6 Timing: Factors Affecting the Emergence of Parent Led Organizations 180Chapter 7 Frames and Positions within the Field of Disability Activism 203Chapter 8 Social Movement Strategies and Public Policy 248Chapter 9 Narratives of Rights 270Chapter 10 Parents, Children, and Advocacy across Life Transitions 316Chapter 11 Conclusion 340Appendix A: A Note on Methods 358Endnotes 360Bibliography 386

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Book SynopsisParents of children with disabilities often situate their activism as a means of improving the world for their child. However, some disabled activists perceive parental activism as working against the independence and dignity of people with disabilities. This thorny relationship is at the heart of the groundbreaking Allies and Obstacles.The authors chronicle parents’ path-breaking advocacy in arenas such as the right to education and to liberty via deinstitutionalization as well as how they engaged in legal and political advocacy. Allies and Obstacles provides a macro analysis of parent activism using a social movement perspective to reveal and analyze the complex—and often tense—relationship of parents to disability rights organizations and activism.The authors look at organizational and individual narratives using four case studies that focus on intellectual disability, psychiatric diagnoses, autism, and a broad range of physical disabTable of ContentsTABLE OF CONTENTSAcknowledgements 1Chapter 1 Introduction 4Part I: Disability Activist Communities 42Chapter 2 Intellectual Disability and Parent Activism 43Chapter 3 Psychiatric Diagnosis, Disability, and Parent Activism 82Chapter 4 Autistic Identity and Parent Activism 114Chapter 5 Physical Disability and Parent Activism 147Part II: Cross-Disability Analysis 179Chapter 6 Timing: Factors Affecting the Emergence of Parent Led Organizations 180Chapter 7 Frames and Positions within the Field of Disability Activism 203Chapter 8 Social Movement Strategies and Public Policy 248Chapter 9 Narratives of Rights 270Chapter 10 Parents, Children, and Advocacy across Life Transitions 316Chapter 11 Conclusion 340Appendix A: A Note on Methods 358Endnotes 360Bibliography 386

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Book SynopsisIn the absence of federal legislation, each state in the United States has its own policies regarding family leave, job protection for women and childcare. No wonder working mothers encounter such a significant disparity when it comes to childcare resources in America! Whereas conservative states like Nebraska offer affordable, readily available, and high quality childcare, progressive states that advocate for women's economic and political power, like California, have expensive childcare, shorter school days, and mothers who are more likely to work part-time or drop out of the labor market altogether to be available for their children.In Motherlands, Leah Ruppanner cogently argues that states should look to each other to fill their policy voids. She provides suggestions and solutions for policy makers interested in supporting working families. Whether a woman lives in a state with stronger childcare or gender empowerment regimes, at stake is mothers' financial dependence on their partTrade Review“Ruppanner offers a major breakthrough in our understanding of the institutional roots of gender and family inequality. Beginning with the key insight that the United States is not a singular welfare state but rather has a patchwork of diverse state-based policies, this ingenious study offers a profusion of eye-opening discoveries about the ways policy regimes put women’s empowerment at odds with the caretaking of children.Motherlands exposes the urgent need for a holistic set of policies that ensure both economically-based gender justice and generous caregiving supports for families.”—Kathleen Gerson, Professor of Sociology and Collegiate Professor of Arts and Science at New York University, and author of The Unfinished Revolution: Coming of Age in a New Era of Gender, Work, and Family“In this meticulously researched book, Leah Ruppanner compellingly makes the case that we don’t need to look to other countries such as Sweden to design policies that promote women’s economic self-sufficiency and gender equality. Taking advantage of the natural experiment that is the United States, Ruppanner shows us that the inspiration and answers lie in our own backyard. Exploiting and exploring the considerable diversity across states with regard to economic and demographic context, prevailing attitudes, and public policy around women, work, and family, she identifies the conditions that do—and don’t—foster women’s economic independence and gender justice, forces that often occur in surprising combinations and in surprising places. Lively and provocative, Motherlands challenges readers and policy makers to take a fresh look at what is happening close to home to come up with a roadmap to policy solutions that can be implemented at the national level.”—Pamela Stone, Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, and coauthor of Opting Back In: What Really Happens When Mothers Go Back to Work

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Book SynopsisIn the absence of federal legislation, each state in the United States has its own policies regarding family leave, job protection for women and childcare. No wonder working mothers encounter such a significant disparity when it comes to childcare resources in America! Whereas conservative states like Nebraska offer affordable, readily available, and high quality childcare, progressive states that advocate for women's economic and political power, like California, have expensive childcare, shorter school days, and mothers who are more likely to work part-time or drop out of the labor market altogether to be available for their children.In Motherlands, Leah Ruppanner cogently argues that states should look to each other to fill their policy voids. She provides suggestions and solutions for policy makers interested in supporting working families. Whether a woman lives in a state with stronger childcare or gender empowerment regimes, at stake is mothers' financial dependence on their partTrade Review“Ruppanner offers a major breakthrough in our understanding of the institutional roots of gender and family inequality. Beginning with the key insight that the United States is not a singular welfare state but rather has a patchwork of diverse state-based policies, this ingenious study offers a profusion of eye-opening discoveries about the ways policy regimes put women’s empowerment at odds with the caretaking of children.Motherlands exposes the urgent need for a holistic set of policies that ensure both economically-based gender justice and generous caregiving supports for families.”—Kathleen Gerson, Professor of Sociology and Collegiate Professor of Arts and Science at New York University, and author of The Unfinished Revolution: Coming of Age in a New Era of Gender, Work, and Family“In this meticulously researched book, Leah Ruppanner compellingly makes the case that we don’t need to look to other countries such as Sweden to design policies that promote women’s economic self-sufficiency and gender equality. Taking advantage of the natural experiment that is the United States, Ruppanner shows us that the inspiration and answers lie in our own backyard. Exploiting and exploring the considerable diversity across states with regard to economic and demographic context, prevailing attitudes, and public policy around women, work, and family, she identifies the conditions that do—and don’t—foster women’s economic independence and gender justice, forces that often occur in surprising combinations and in surprising places. Lively and provocative, Motherlands challenges readers and policy makers to take a fresh look at what is happening close to home to come up with a roadmap to policy solutions that can be implemented at the national level.”—Pamela Stone, Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, and coauthor of Opting Back In: What Really Happens When Mothers Go Back to Work

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Book SynopsisDo you know your real parents? is a question many adoptees are asked. In In Reunion, Sara Docan-Morgan probes the basic notions of family, adoption, and parenthood by exploring initial meetings and ongoing relationships that transnational Korean adoptees have had with their birth parents and other birth family members. Drawing from qualitative interviews with adult Korean adoptees in the United States and Denmark, as well as her own experiences as an adoptee, Docan-Morgan illuminates the complexities of communication surrounding reunion. The paradoxes of adoption and reunionshared history without blood relations, and blood relations without shared historygenerate questions: What does it mean to be family? How do people use communication to constitute family relationships? How are family relationships created, maintained, and negotiated over time? In Reunion details adoptive and cultural identities, highlighting how adoptees often end up shouldering communicative responsibility in thTrade Review“Bridging the fields of communication studies and critical adoption studies, In Reunion is a groundbreaking text weaving together the social sciences and humanities to grapple with what it means when we make sense of how reunion is performed—the emotional work undertaken—to consider how adoptees negotiate the discursive burden produced by the act of reuniting. Docan-Morgan attends to the language and cultural gaps and the work adoptees undertake to mitigate those chasms. She expertly and effectively positions herself as a scholar and adoptee, deftly weaving intimate vignettes of her own experiences to tell the stories of reunion.”—Kimberly D. McKee, author of Adoption Fantasies: The Fetishization of Asian Adoptees from Girlhood to Womanhood“An unparalleled text, In Reunion shines light on an understudied, paradoxical family phenomenon—transnational adoptee birth-family reunions. Sara Docan-Morgan artfully interweaves her story with stories of other Korean adoptees to unveil complexities and beauties of being in reunion. Immensely readable, In Reunion raises larger questions about family, belonging, and identity. Drawing upon her expertise as a communication scholar, Docan-Morgan illuminates the role communication plays in the unfolding of these relationships across time, space, and differences in language and culture. In Reunion is a must-read for adoptees, adoptive parents, scholars, and all who work with and support the transnational adoption constellation.” —Elizabeth A. Suter, Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Denver

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Book SynopsisThe North American approach to child protection is broadly accepted, despite frequent criticisms of its core limitations: parental fear and resistance, the limited range of services and supports available to families, escalating costs, and high stress and turnover among service providers. Could these shortcomings be improved through organizational or system reform?Based on findings from a decade’s worth of research, Creating Positive Systems of Child and Family Welfare provides original reflections on the everyday realities of families and front-line service providers involved with the system. It includes data from a variety of regions and situations, all linked together through a common investigatory framework. The contributors highlight areas of concern in current approaches to child and family welfare, but also propose new solutions that would make the system more welcoming and helpful both for families and for service providers.Trade Review'This is an unusual book, to its great credit... The book listens to and presents the voices of parents and caseworkers to make the child welfare system 'more welcoming and helpful for both families and service providers.' -- David Tobis Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare vol 42:01:2015Table of ContentsIntroduction GARY CAMERON Chapter 1: Fathers and Child Welfare GARY CAMERON, NICK COADY, SANDY HOY Chapter 2: Mothers and Child Welfare GARY CAMERON, SANDY HOY Chapter 3: Reviewing Child Protection Experiences Of Mothers And of Fathers MARSHALL FINE Chapter 4: Mothers of Children in Placement NANCY FREYMOND Chapter 5: Invisible Lives: Parents Receiving Child Protective Services SARAH MAITER, SHEHENAZ MANJI, SALLY PALMER Chapter 6: The Characteristics of Good Helping Relationships in Child Welfare CATHERINE DE BOER, NICK COADY Chapter 7: Matched Comparisons of Parent And Service Provider Perceptions KAREN FRENSCH, GARY CAMERON Chapter 8: Families and Family & Child Services MARSHALL FINE, DEENA MANDELL Chapter 9: Helping Relationships in Accessible and Central Service Delivery Settings LIRONDEL HAZINEH, GARY CAMERON Chapter 10: A Workplace Study of Four Southern-Ontario Children's Aid Societies DEENA MANDELL, CAROL STALKER, CHERYL HARVEY, PETER RINGROSE Chapter 11: Child Protection Jobs in Accessible And Central Service Delivery Settings GARY CAMERON Questions and Suggestions Bibliography

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Book SynopsisOften hailed as one of the greatest television series of all time, The Sopranos is a product of its time, firmly embedded in the problems of post-industrial, post-ethnic America. In The Sopranos: Born under a Bad Sign, Franco Ricci examines the groundbreaking HBO series and its impact as a cultural phenomenon.Ricci demonstrates an encyclopedic knowledge of the series, the genre, and their social context in his analysis of the show’s complex themes and characters. He explores The Sopranos’ deep engagement with problems of race, class, gender, and identity, specifically in its portrayal of the Italian-American experience, consumer and media-driven society, and contemporary psychosocial issues. The series’ protagonist, Mafia boss and patriarch Tony Soprano, in many ways embodies the anxieties of our age. Focusing on Tony’s internal struggles and interactions with his therapist, family, and associates, Ricci traces this archetypaTrade Review'The Sopranos is a unique, extended meditation on Chase as auteur... This book should be of interest to students and scholars in film/television studies, media studies, Italian American studies and related fields. Ricci's analysis also stands as a useful and usefully extended, case study for those interested in semiotics, mass media, and aesthetics.' -- Michael R. Frontani Italian American Review winter 2015 'Ricci's study is compelling, innovative, and even surprisingly moving.' -- Liz Roberts Media Education Journal vol 57:2015 'Franco Ricci's The Sopranos: Born under a Bad Sign provides an interesting take on a controversial, but much-heralded, television series... It is an important read for those interested in psychoanalysis, social commentary, history, and American popular culture.' -- Nick Giorgio H-Italy December 2014 'Ricci's book is a carefully considered and detailed study with an exhaustive and nuanced understanding of the show.' -- James McNamara Australian Book Review, January-February 2015Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: "Coming Heavy": Revisiting, Rereading, Rethinking The Sopranos 1. Inner Sanctums 2. When I Grow Up I Want to Be an American 3. God Help the Beast in Me 4. Two Tonys: Drawing Conclusions from Mediated Mob Images 5. An Appendix of Verbal Bits and Visual Bytes 6. Conclusion Notes Suggested Readings Index

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Book SynopsisSince the end of the Second World War, increasing numbers of women have decided to become mothers without intending the biological father or a partner to participate in parenting. Many conceive via donor insemination or adopt; others become pregnant after a brief sexual relationship and decide to parent alone.Using a feminist socio-legal framework, Autonomous Motherhood? probes fundamental assumptions within the law about the nature of family and parenting. Drawing on a range of empirical evidence, including legislative history, case studies, and interviews with single mothers, the authors conclude that while women may now have the economic and social freedom to parent alone, they must still negotiate a socio-legal framework that suggests their choice goes against the interests of society, fatherhood, and children.Trade Review‘Autonomous Motherhood is a wonderful and welcome contribution to feminist socio-legal literature….It raises provocative, timely, and important questions, and will provide the basis for future scholarship on single motherhood, relational autonomy, and legal regulation.’ -- Brenda Cossman * Canadian Journal of Family Law vol 30:01:2017 *‘Through a refined investigation showing sociological, legal, and historical depth, the authors offer many insightful answers to the problem of social reproduction which continues to be framed in terms of private and personal matters…This book offers an innovative study of an over-neglected topic.’ -- Emmanaulle Turcotte * Canadian Journal of Family and Youth vol 9:01:2017 *Table of Contents1. Motherhood, Autonomy, Choice, and Constraint 2. Autonomous Mothers and the Emergence of Unmarried Fathers' Rights to Access and Custody 3. "A Person is the Child of his Natural Parents": Illegitimacy, Law Reform, and Maternal Autonomy 4. Custody and Access Disputes between Unmarried, Non-Cohabiting Biological Parents 1945-2009 5. Women's Experiences Of Autonomous Motherhood, 1965-2010: An Historical Snapshot 6. Autonomous from the Start: The Narratives of Single Mothers by Choice 7. Whither Autonomous Motherhood? Choice and Constraint

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Book SynopsisThe work reported in this book represents the first attempt to study a sample of client families with marital and parent-child problems using a systematic framework based on role-theory. The findings of the study are important and made more so by the consistency of the framework: the dimensions of family behaviour can be accurately studied because the techniques of observation used are constant. This work, conducted under the auspices of the Toronto Family Diagnosis Project, School of Social Work at the University of Toronto, is an impressive contribution to two areas of social work: it offers new observations regarding family life that will be of particular interest to professionals and researchers in the field of family and child welfare, and its technical framework will be of interest to all social workers.

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Book SynopsisIn Afghanistan Remembers, Parin Dossa examines how violence is remembered by Afghan women through memories and food practices in their homeland and its diaspora.Trade Review“Dossa’s approach is to look at the memory of violence among women in Afghanistan and in Canada, which demonstrates how the act of remembering and sharing history can empower women and reshape and re-appropriate global narratives about conflict. Less a study of civic groups and more a reflection on the women who inhabit them, her text demonstrates some of the ways disenfranchised individuals can use everyday practices around things like food to resist the relentless oppression of the memory of violence.” -- Noah Coburn, Bennington College * PoLAR Online *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Chapter One. Epistemology and Methodology Chapter Two. Testimonial Narratives Chapter Three. Bearing Witness Chapter Four. The Fire of the Hearth will not be Extinguished Chapter Five. Foodscapes Conclusion. Towards an Engaged Anthropology Appendix Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisFemocratic Administration examines the gendered nature of public administration through a study of the Ontario Women's Directorate (OWD) between 1985 and 2000.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Gender, Governance, and Democracy in Ontario 1: A Feminist Political Economy of Representation 2: Gender Regimes of Public Administration 3: Experiments with State Feminism in the Weberian Gender Regime 4: Gendered Governance and the New Public Management Regime Conclusion: Building a Femocratic Administration

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Book SynopsisSucceeding Together? is an institutional ethnography that analyses front-line accounts from mothers, teachers, and child welfare workers to explore the educational issues facing abused and neglected children outside of foster care.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Chapter 1: Collective responsibility for maltreated children -- and its dilemmas Chapter 2: Separate spheres and closed systems: Reporting and communication between schools and child protection Chapter 3: Schools 'disciplining' families' cultural difference - through child protection Chapter 4: Not in the game of maximizing potential: corporate parenthood, policy silence and limited services for children who stay at home Chapter 5: Regulating aspirations: Teachers' responsibility and 'the whole child' Chapter 6: Between labour and love: individualizing teachers' responsibility for the work of care Conclusion: Revisiting the dilemmas of collective responsibility: implications for research, practice and policy Appendix 1: Notes on Methodology and Methods Appendix 2: For whose protection? Gatekeeping, ethics, research review and access in studies of the front-line Appendix 3: Regulation of teachers' work: sources and responsibilities References: Notes

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Book SynopsisThis book provides an in-depth examination of adolescents' social development in the context of the family. Grounded in social domain theory, the book draws on the author's research over the past 25 years Draws from the results of in-depth interviews with more than 700 families Explores adolescent-parent relationships among ethnic majority and minority youth in the United States, as well as research with adolescents in Hong Kong and China Discusses extensive research on disclosure and secrecy during adolescence, parenting, autonomy, and moral development Considers both popular sources such as movies and public surveys, as well as scholarly sources drawn from anthropology, history, sociology, social psychology, and developmental psychology Explores how different strands of development, including autonomy, rights and justice, and society and social convention, become integrated and coordinated in adolescence Trade Review“Overall, this book gives great detail on adolescent parent relationships and how they effect the development of children . . . This is a comforting message, one very different from popular accounts, and one that parents and adolescents would benefit from appreciating” (Journal of Youth & Adolescence, 5 December 2012) “Few scholars have influenced the contemporary study of adolescent–parent relationships as much as Judith Smetana. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the ways in which family relationships are transformed during this stage of life.” —Laurence Steinberg, Temple University “In this very thoughtful book Judith Smetana provides deep and insightful understandings of adolescence. Smetana masterfully positions adolescence in explanations of difficulties and developmental progress during these years. This splendid book is indispensable for anyone interested in adolescence, social and family relationships, moral theory, culture, and development.” —Elliot Turiel, University of California BerkeleyTable of ContentsPreface vi 1 Introduction: Perspectives on Adolescents and Their Families 1 2 Studying Adolescent–Parent Relationships from the Lens of Developmental Psychology 13 3 Conflicts and Their Vicissitudes 31 4 Parents’ Voices: Conflicts and Social Conventions 43 5 Adolescents’ Voices: Autonomy and the Personal Domain 66 6 Autonomy, Conflict, Connectedness, and Culture 96 7 Adolescent Relationships and Development within and between Cultures 120 8 Adolescent–Parent Relationships in African American Families 139 9 Beliefs about Parental Authority 172 10 Parenting Styles and Practices 193 11 Disclosure and Secrecy in Adolescent–Parent Relationships 216 12 Coordinations and Change in Social Development 249 13 Life beyond Adolescence: Transitions to Adulthood 271 References 279 Author Index 306 Subject Index 313

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Book SynopsisThis book provides an in-depth examination of adolescents' social development in the context of the family. Grounded in social domain theory, the book draws on the author's research over the past 25 years Draws from the results of in-depth interviews with more than 700 families Explores adolescent-parent relationships among ethnic majority and minority youth in the United States, as well as research with adolescents in Hong Kong and China Discusses extensive research on disclosure and secrecy during adolescence, parenting, autonomy, and moral development Considers both popular sources such as movies and public surveys, as well as scholarly sources drawn from anthropology, history, sociology, social psychology, and developmental psychology Explores how different strands of development, including autonomy, rights and justice, and society and social convention, become integrated and coordinated in adolescence Trade Review“Overall, this book gives great detail on adolescent parent relationships and how they effect the development of children . . . This is a comforting message, one very different from popular accounts, and one that parents and adolescents would benefit from appreciating” (Journal of Youth & Adolescence, 5 December 2012) “Few scholars have influenced the contemporary study of adolescent–parent relationships as much as Judith Smetana. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the ways in which family relationships are transformed during this stage of life.” —Laurence Steinberg, Temple University “In this very thoughtful book Judith Smetana provides deep and insightful understandings of adolescence. Smetana masterfully positions adolescence in explanations of difficulties and developmental progress during these years. This splendid book is indispensable for anyone interested in adolescence, social and family relationships, moral theory, culture, and development.” —Elliot Turiel, University of California BerkeleyTable of ContentsPreface vi 1 Introduction: Perspectives on Adolescents and Their Families 1 2 Studying Adolescent–Parent Relationships from the Lens of Developmental Psychology 13 3 Conflicts and Their Vicissitudes 31 4 Parents’ Voices: Conflicts and Social Conventions 43 5 Adolescents’ Voices: Autonomy and the Personal Domain 66 6 Autonomy, Conflict, Connectedness, and Culture 96 7 Adolescent Relationships and Development within and between Cultures 120 8 Adolescent–Parent Relationships in African American Families 139 9 Beliefs about Parental Authority 172 10 Parenting Styles and Practices 193 11 Disclosure and Secrecy in Adolescent–Parent Relationships 216 12 Coordinations and Change in Social Development 249 13 Life beyond Adolescence: Transitions to Adulthood 271 References 279 Author Index 306 Subject Index 313

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Book SynopsisNew Labour had a momentous impact on British family policy.In this timely book, Clem Henricson asks whether its aspirations were met, or were indeed realisable, and formulates radical proposals for the future.Trade Review“Reading the book would benefit everyone from the first year undergraduate through to senior academics and researchers who are unlikely to have the breadth of knowledge that Henrickson possesses.” – Journal of Social Policy"In this insightful, readable and important contribution, Clem Henricson comprehensively maps the development of family policy in the UK and the successes, failures, hopes and disappointments under New Labour and the Coalition." Professor Ilan Katz, University of New South Wales, Australia"A brilliant analysis of 'family policies' under New Labour, and of how they could and should be developed in the future." Alan Deacon, University of LeedsTable of ContentsIntroduction; The changed landscape; What was at the root of it?; The legacy and the coalition government; What was wrong?; Looking to the future; Conclusion: the proposal and future scenarios.

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Book SynopsisThe book aims to show that, in the 21st century, it is possible to live, love, form a family without sex, without children, without a shared home, without a partner, without a working husband, without a heterosexual orientation or without a biological sexual body.Trade Review"This is an interesting and innovative text which provides very useful coverage of the main dimensions of change in intimacies and family relations." ---Professor Kath Woodward, Open University. "an interesting and innovative book...has something to offer a wide range of students, researchers and academics and family policy makers" Donna Peach Lecturer in Social Work, University of Salford and PhD Psychology student at University of HuddersfieldTable of ContentsIntroduction: Gender, family and social change: from modernity to the Millennial generation; Family, family change, modernity; Family, family change, contemporary modernities; The book; Section One: Gender change and challenges to intimacy and sexual relations Asexual women and men: living without sex; Asexuality: a complex concept; Research on asexuality; Asexuality, couples, children; The asexual movement; Childfree women and men: living without children; The term ‘childfree’; Research on childfree women and men; Reasons to be childfree; The childfree movement; Couples together yet apart:‘I love you but do not want to live with you’; The term ‘living apart together’; Research on living apart together couples; Reasons for living apart; Invisible living apart together people?; Section Two: Gender change and challenges to traditional forms of parenthood Stay-at-home husbands and fathers; Stay-at-home men; Research on stay-at-home husbands and fathers; Male carers, couples and children; The househusbands’/stay-at-home fathers’ movement; Lone mothers and lone fathers; Lone mothers and lone fathers through history; Research on lone parenting; Lone parenting and children; The lone parenthood movement: from marginalisation to empowerment Homosexual and trans parents; Homosexual and transgender parenting; Research on homosexual parenting; Research on transgender parenting; The homosexual and trans parents rights movement; Conclusions: what can we learn?; Glossary of key concepts; Index

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Book SynopsisThis book provides innovative views in the multidisciplinary research field of intergenerational family relations in society, with a focus on Europe. Different, but complementary, perspectives are integrated in one volume bringing together international scholars from sociology, psychology and economics.Table of ContentsIntroduction ~ Isabelle Albert and Dieter Ferring; Part I: Conceptual issues regarding intergenerational relations; Demographic ageing, labour market regulation and intergenerational relations ~ Amilcar Moreira; Intergenerational solidarity in families: interplay between the family and the state ~ Kairi Kasearu and Dagmar Kutsar; Intergenerational ambivalence: beyond solidarity and conflict ~ Kurt Lüscher and Andreas Hoff; Intergenerational policy and the study of intergenerational relationships: a tentative proposal ~ Kurt Lüscher; Part II: Multigenerational and cross-cultural perspectives; Intergenerational congruence of attachment: limitations of findings ~ Katarzyna Lubiewska; Value transmission between parents and their adolescent children: the process and its outcomes. A psycho-social perspective ~ Daniela Barni, Rosa Rosnati and Sonia Ranieri; Value orientations and perception of social change in postcommunist Romania ~ Mihaela Friedlmeier and Alin Gavreliuc; Intergenerational conflict: the case of adult children and their parents ~ Beate Schwarz; Grandparent-grandchild relations in a changing society: different types and roles ~ Isabelle Albert and Dieter Ferring; Family Change Theory: a preliminary evaluation on the basis of recent cross-cultural studies ~ Boris Mayer; Part III: Applied issues and practical focus; How does family sociology contribute to the definition and measurement of a family care concept for elderly persons? ~ Amandine Masuy; Intergenerational solidarity in an ageing society: socio-demographic determinants of intergenerational support to elderly parents ~ Susana Coimbra, Luisa A. Ribeiro and Anne Marie Fontaine; Family caregiving for older people from a life-span developmental point of view ~ Thomas Boll and Dieter Ferring; Epilogue ~ Dieter Ferring and Isabelle Albert.

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Book SynopsisUnderstanding Family Meanings provides an overview of the basic concepts and theories related to families using readings with questions and analysis to encourage reflection and learning. It focuses on family meanings as the key underpinnings for academic study and professional training.Trade Review"A compelling and accessible book, Understanding family meanings combines conceptual sophistication with intriguing examples and helpful exercises. Highly recommended, it will be interest to undergraduate sociology and family studies students in general." Jaber F. Gubrium, University of Missouri"Understanding family meanings inspires the reader to reflect on the fluid and dynamic nature of contemporary families. It is an important new contribution to the literature as it highlights the multiplicity of meanings associated with families depending on context." Bahira Sherif Trask, University of DelawareTable of ContentsWhy family meanings?; Part 1: Research: Family meanings in contemporary contexts; Teasing the threads apart; Understanding 'family' and household through quantitative evidence; Part 2: Theories and concepts: Family discourses and family practices; Intimacy and personal life; Part 3: Contexts: Family meanings across time and space; Family meanings in social policies and professional practices; Family meanings and family values.

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Book SynopsisUnderstanding Family Meanings provides an overview of the basic concepts and theories related to families using readings with questions and analysis to encourage reflection and learning. It focuses on family meanings as the key underpinnings for academic study and professional training.Trade Review"A compelling and accessible book, Understanding family meanings combines conceptual sophistication with intriguing examples and helpful exercises. Highly recommended, it will be interest to undergraduate sociology and family studies students in general." Jaber F. Gubrium, University of Missouri"Understanding family meanings inspires the reader to reflect on the fluid and dynamic nature of contemporary families. It is an important new contribution to the literature as it highlights the multiplicity of meanings associated with families depending on context." Bahira Sherif Trask, University of DelawareTable of ContentsWhy family meanings?; Part 1: Research: Family meanings in contemporary contexts; Teasing the threads apart; Understanding 'family' and household through quantitative evidence; Part 2: Theories and concepts: Family discourses and family practices; Intimacy and personal life; Part 3: Contexts: Family meanings across time and space; Family meanings in social policies and professional practices; Family meanings and family values.

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Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary textbook examines children's lives across the world, acknowledging the great differences as well as points of comparison, between childhoods in different contexts.Trade Review"An excellent book for undergraduate students." Dr Anne Marie Smith, Bangor Univeristy."Local childhoods, global issues is a fascinating and accessible book that recognises children's resilience, competency and agency and the importance of child welfare to global and national politics." Dr Karen Wells, Assistant Dean, Department of Geography, Environment and Development Studies Birkbeck“This is an indispensable book for anyone interested in contemporary international childhoods. Beautifully presented and clearly written, it offers a compelling and realistic portrait of children’s lives and the many challenges they face across the globe.” Professor Jo Boyden, Director of Young Lives, University of Oxford"An excellent textbook for undergraduate students." Dr Anne Marie Smith, Bangor Univeristy.Table of ContentsInterventions and Ideologies ~ Heather Montgomery; Children, poverty and social inequality ~ Heather Montgomery; Achieving health for children ~ Catherine Panter-Brick; Children and violence ~ Heather Montgomery; Resilience and well being ~ Samantha Punch; Research on childhood issues as social problems ~ Martyn Hammersley

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Book SynopsisHighlighting what can be learned from individual experiences, the book analyses the changing welfare and labour market policies which shape the lives of working carers in Finland, Sweden, Australia, England, Japan and Taiwan.Trade Review"Providing knowledge of the conditions of working carers that has relevance for the development of policies all over the globe." British Journal of Social Work"Highlight[s] the policy lessons to be learned from experiences of the reconciliation of work and care in various contexts." Work, Employment and Society"The clear, readable presentation of the large volume of data should win it a place on reading lists for undergraduate and graduate courses on social policy, citizenship and politics." People, Place and PolicyTable of ContentsReconciling work and care: an international analysis ~ Teppo Kröger and Sue Yeandle; The emergence of policy supporting working carers: developments in six countries ~ Sue Yeandle, Teppo Kröger et al; Part One: Working carers of older people; Family rediscovered? Working carers of older people in Finland and Sweden ~ Outi Jolanki, Marta Szebehely and Kaisa Kauppinen; Working carers of older people: steps toward securing adequate support in Australia and England? ~ Sue Yeandle and Bettina Cass; Struggling for recognition: working carers of older people in Japan and Taiwan ~ Frank T.Y. Wang, Masaya Shimmei, Yoshiko Yamada and Machiko Osawa; Part Two: Working parent-carers of disabled children; Parent-carers of disabled children in Finland and Sweden: socially excluded by a labour of love ~ Sonja Miettinen, Kristina Engwall and Antti Teittinen; Reconciling work and care for parent-carers of disabled children in Australia and England: uncertain progress ~ Sue Yeandle and kylie valentine; Parent-carers in Taiwan and Japan: lifelong caring responsibilities within a familistic welfare system ~ Yueh-Ching Chou, Toshiko Nakano, Heng-Hao Chang and Li-Fang Liang; Part Three: Working partner-carers; Reconciling partner-care and paid work in Finland and Sweden: challenges and coping strategies ~ Anu Leinonen and Ann-Britt Sand; 'In sickness and in health' and beyond: reconciling work and care for a partner in Australia and England ~ Gary Fry, Cathy Thomson and Trish Hill; Partner-care in the East Asian system: combining paid work and caring in Taiwan and Japan ~ Mei-Chun Liu and Machiko Osawa; Conclusions: Reconciling work and care for older parents, disabled children and partners: convergent or separate paths in three welfare systems? ~ Sue Yeandle and Teppo Kröger.

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Book SynopsisHighlighting what can be learned from individual experiences, the book analyses the changing welfare and labour market policies which shape the lives of working carers in Finland, Sweden, Australia, England, Japan and Taiwan.Trade Review"Providing knowledge of the conditions of working carers that has relevance for the development of policies all over the globe." British Journal of Social Work"Highlight[s] the policy lessons to be learned from experiences of the reconciliation of work and care in various contexts." Work, Employment and Society"The clear, readable presentation of the large volume of data should win it a place on reading lists for undergraduate and graduate courses on social policy, citizenship and politics." People, Place and PolicyTable of ContentsReconciling work and care: an international analysis ~ Teppo Kröger and Sue Yeandle; The emergence of policy supporting working carers: developments in six countries ~ Sue Yeandle, Teppo Kröger et al; Part One: Working carers of older people; Family rediscovered? Working carers of older people in Finland and Sweden ~ Outi Jolanki, Marta Szebehely and Kaisa Kauppinen; Working carers of older people: steps toward securing adequate support in Australia and England? ~ Sue Yeandle and Bettina Cass; Struggling for recognition: working carers of older people in Japan and Taiwan ~ Frank T.Y. Wang, Masaya Shimmei, Yoshiko Yamada and Machiko Osawa; Part Two: Working parent-carers of disabled children; Parent-carers of disabled children in Finland and Sweden: socially excluded by a labour of love ~ Sonja Miettinen, Kristina Engwall and Antti Teittinen; Reconciling work and care for parent-carers of disabled children in Australia and England: uncertain progress ~ Sue Yeandle and kylie valentine; Parent-carers in Taiwan and Japan: lifelong caring responsibilities within a familistic welfare system ~ Yueh-Ching Chou, Toshiko Nakano, Heng-Hao Chang and Li-Fang Liang; Part Three: Working partner-carers; Reconciling partner-care and paid work in Finland and Sweden: challenges and coping strategies ~ Anu Leinonen and Ann-Britt Sand; 'In sickness and in health' and beyond: reconciling work and care for a partner in Australia and England ~ Gary Fry, Cathy Thomson and Trish Hill; Partner-care in the East Asian system: combining paid work and caring in Taiwan and Japan ~ Mei-Chun Liu and Machiko Osawa; Conclusions: Reconciling work and care for older parents, disabled children and partners: convergent or separate paths in three welfare systems? ~ Sue Yeandle and Teppo Kröger.

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Book SynopsisThe book shows how children are affected by conflict, explores why they respond to conflict in different ways, and provides clear, practical guidance on the best ways to ameliorate the effects.Trade Review"An excellent work that provides convincing evidence about why parents' unresolved fights can harm children, how that harm occurs, and what can be done about it." Professor Philip Cowan, University of California, Berkeley, USA"This book provides a very clear summary of the latest research and interventions for families exposed to inter-parental conflict. A must-have resource for practitioners, students and policy makers alike." Professor Leslie Leve, University of Oregon, USATable of ContentsConflict in context; Understanding different types of conflict; The impact of inter-parental conflict on children; How does inter-parental conflict affect children?; Risk and resilience: why are some children affected more than others?; Review of conflict-based interventions for couples; Implications for practice - How to help families; Conclusions and recommendations.

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Book SynopsisHarry Hendrick shows how broader social changes, including neoliberalism, feminism, the collapse of the social-democratic ideal, and the 'new behaviourism', have led to the rise of the anxious and narcissistic parent, In this provocative history of parenting.Trade Review"Situating historical and social shifts in parenthood, Harry Hendrick’s latest work is meticulously researched, vigorously argued, glitteringly provocative – and sure to spark robust debate." Alan Prout, University of Leeds"In progressive parenting, children came first. In market liberalism children became subordinate to parental self-interest. How and why is told here absorbingly, from the 1920s to the present." Avner Offer, University of Oxford, author of The Challenge of Affluence."A richly contextualised and beautifully crafted book on the history of parenting in Britain and the United States. Hendrick offers a sensitively nuanced appraisal of the past, asks pertinent questions of the present, leaving us with a strong message for the future." Alison Haggett, University of Exeter“Hendrick is an academic historian of medicine who pulls no punches in his analysis of the political and economic backcloth to zeitgeists like `authoritative’ parenting, spawned of neo-liberalism and its narcissistic fixation with the self. This intensively-researched, well-written book is in five parts” Professional Social Work magazine.Table of ContentsIntroduction; PART 1: The origins of social democracy’s family ideal: 1920s-1940s; 1. The re-imagining of adult-child relations between the wars; 2. Wartime influences: from the evacuation to the Children Act, 1948; PART 2. Characteristics of the ‘Golden Age’: 1940s-early 1970s; 3. Re-building the family: 1940s-1950s; 4. The ‘long sixties’: 1958-1974; PART 3. Influences and examples from the USA; 5. Social science and American liberalism; PART 4. Parental narcissism in neoliberal times: 1970s to the present; 6. Aspects of neoliberalism: political, economic and social realignment; 7. Laying the foundations for parental narcissism; 8. The New Labour era, and beyond: narcissism comes of age; PART 5. Therapeutic reflections; 9) Narcissism and the 'politics of recognition': concepts of the late-modern self.

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Book SynopsisHarry Hendrick shows how broader social changes, including neoliberalism, feminism, the collapse of the social-democratic ideal, and the 'new behaviourism', have led to the rise of the anxious and narcissistic parent, In this provocative history of parenting.Trade Review“Hendrick is an academic historian of medicine who pulls no punches in his analysis of the political and economic backcloth to zeitgeists like `authoritative’ parenting, spawned of neo-liberalism and its narcissistic fixation with the self. This intensively-researched, well-written book is in five parts” Professional Social Work magazine."Situating historical and social shifts in parenthood, Harry Hendrick’s latest work is meticulously researched, vigorously argued, glitteringly provocative – and sure to spark robust debate." Alan Prout, University of Leeds"In progressive parenting, children came first. In market liberalism children became subordinate to parental self-interest. How and why is told here absorbingly, from the 1920s to the present." Avner Offer, University of Oxford, author of The Challenge of Affluence."A richly contextualised and beautifully crafted book on the history of parenting in Britain and the United States. Hendrick offers a sensitively nuanced appraisal of the past, asks pertinent questions of the present, leaving us with a strong message for the future." Alison Haggett, University of ExeterTable of ContentsIntroduction; PART 1: The origins of social democracy’s family ideal: 1920s-1940s; 1. The re-imagining of adult-child relations between the wars; 2. Wartime influences: from the evacuation to the Children Act, 1948; PART 2. Characteristics of the ‘Golden Age’: 1940s-early 1970s; 3. Re-building the family: 1940s-1950s; 4. The ‘long sixties’: 1958-1974; PART 3. Influences and examples from the USA; 5. Social science and American liberalism; PART 4. Parental narcissism in neoliberal times: 1970s to the present; 6. Aspects of neoliberalism: political, economic and social realignment; 7. Laying the foundations for parental narcissism; 8. The New Labour era, and beyond: narcissism comes of age; PART 5. Therapeutic reflections; 9) Narcissism and the 'politics of recognition': concepts of the late-modern self.

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