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Forthcoming April 2025
Life as a Migrant Muslim Woman in Sectarian Northern Ireland
An Exploration of Gender, Visibility, Movement and Placemaking
Lubit, A. J.
The lives of migrant Muslim women in divided, post-conflict Northern Ireland, both before and after the pandemic, are full of diverse stories and experiences of belonging. This book explores how women strive to belong and create a home despite pervasive hatred, sexism and racism.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Refugee and Migration Studies Sustainable Development Goals
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Forthcoming February 2025
Market and Monastery
Capitalism in Manangi Trade Diaspora
Ratanapruck, P.
In this enlightening ethnography of the Manangi, a Buddhist trading community from northern Nepal, Prista Ratanapruck highlights the way social institutions have boosted Manangi trade opportunities. Examining how capital production and accumulation interacts with the Manangi’s pursuit of social and spiritual aspirations, Market and Monastery illuminates an intriguing form of capitalism.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Development Studies Anthropology (General)
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Forthcoming January 2025
Belonging in Unhomely Homelands
Internal Displacement and Gendered Nationalism among Kosovo Serbs
Grujić, M.
Belonging in Unhomely Lands takes a feminist approach to examine the intricate dynamics of gender, national affiliation and belonging in the context of internal displacement and territorial disputes faced by Kosovo Serbs since the ethnic conflict and tensions two decades ago.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Forthcoming January 2025
Desert Entanglements
The Making of the Badiya by Sahrawi Refugees of Western Sahara
Volpato, G.
The Sahrawi refugees in southwestern Algeria have struggled from exile for fifty years to reconfigure the animated desert they call badiya. They recovered camel husbandry and access to part of the former rangeland, and wove it back as seasonal nomadism. Desert Entanglements analyzes this process as an act of place-making premised on refugees’ agency.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Sustainable Development Goals
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Published December 2024
Correcting the Record
Essays on the History of American Anthropology
Lewis, H. S.
The critique of twentieth-century American anthropology often portrays anthropologists of the past as servants of colonialism who “extracted” information from indigenous peoples and published works causing them harm. This volume presents powerful refutations of these damaging myths.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Colonial History
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Published December 2024
(Un)Settling Place
Diverse and Divergent Place-Making of People on the Move
Winters, N., Drotbohm, H., & Guevara González, Y. (eds)
An illuminating ethnographic study of placemaking, (Un)Settling Place examines the nature of places that are remote, peripheral, and “along-the-way” of migrant journeys, highlighting the key role they play in the shaping of people’s mobilities and identities.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Mobility Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published November 2024
Radcliffe-Brown
Journeys Through Colonial Worlds, 1881-1955
Niehaus, I.
Alfred Radcliffe-Brown (1881-1955) is widely renowned as a founder of modern social anthropology. This biography challenges popular stereotypes of him as a misplaced positivist and colonial conservative. It shows Radcliffe-Brown to be a thoroughly cosmopolitan scholar, a committed fieldworker, and a sharp critic of colonialism.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology
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Published October 2024
Mobile Pastoralist Households
Archaeological and Ethnoarchaeological Perspectives
Houle, J.-L. (ed)
Mobile pastoralist activities occur at different scales across the landscape, including local, regional, and supra-regional scales. This research brings together the work of archaeologists currently engaged in mobile pastoralist household research in different regions of the world to highlight the importance of household studies and the utility of both archaeological and ethnoarchaeological approaches in understanding mobile pastoralist household formation, continuity, and adaptation to environmental, social, economic, and political change.
Subjects: Archaeology Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Sustainable Development Goals
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Published October 2024
An Ethnographic Chiefdom
Epistemic Arrest and Knowledge Production in Czechoslovak Ethnography (1969–1989)
Balaš, N.
The Czechoslovak academic discipline called ‘Ethnography and Folklore Studies’ was impacted and influenced by the daily realities of state socialism in 1969–1989. This book examines how state socialist features such as Marxist–Leninist ideology brought about the discipline’s epistemic stalling.
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)
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Published October 2024
Playing the Hand We Are Dealt
The Counterpoint of Fate and Freewill in Literature and Life
Jackson, M.
The relationship between literature and life can be construed as a counterpoint of fate and freewill. Rather than equating fate to the ‘hand we are dealt’ which is reducible to the social or familial environments into which we are born, this book explores the idea of fate through the books that shape our lives and under whose influence we write.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Literary Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published October 2024
Subjectivity at Latin America's Urban Margins
Kopper, M. & Richmond, M. A. (eds)
Subjectivity at Latin America's Urban Margins investigates how margins are actively produced, upheld, and challenged through the process of subject-making and margin-drawing by a multiplicity of actors affecting Latin American cities today.
Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published September 2024
Becoming Other
Heterogeneity and Plasticity of the Self
Berliner, D.
Most of us are conscious of having a single and stable self, but the self is more fragmented and plastic than we care to think. David Berliner explores the captivating world of identity through an array of astonishing 'exo-experiences.'
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Literary Studies
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Published September 2024
Subject Lessons
Life Histories as Reciprocal Empowerment
Forrest, J.
Life histories are a class of oral data distinct from memoirs, autobiography, and conventional history in multiple ways.Subject Lessons examines the use of and value in using one’s life history as research within the social sciences.
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)
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Published September 2024
Performing State Boundaries
Food Networks, Democratic Bureaucracy and China
Lammer, C.
Polarizing images of China’s authoritarian, socialist or culturalist otherness limit state analyses but produce political effects. In an ecological village in Sichuan, potential supporters saw citizen participation as Western liberalism, Maoism or traditional rural culture. This book shows how contrasting judgments emerged from diverse repertoires through which multiple boundaries between state and non-state were performed.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General) Sustainable Development Goals
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Published September 2024
Unexpected Encounters
Migrants and Tourists in the Mediterranean
Vietti, F.
Exploring different dimensions of the intersection of migration and tourism in the Mediterranean, this book is the result of extensive ethnographic research carried out over a decade in the Mediterranean region. It shows how migration and tourism play complementary roles in boosting the global dynamics of cultural, social, economic and political transformation in the Mediterranean.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Travel and Tourism
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Published September 2024
Women Becoming Practitioner Researchers
From School Teacher to Academic
Corcoran, S. L., Goodley, C., Hay, A., & Olsson Rost, A. (eds)
Sixteen early career researchers (ECRs) tell their stories in Women Becoming Practitioner Researchers, focusing on connecting potential and current doctoral students with an understanding of what to expect in the transition from professional or schoolteacher environments to working for universities.
Subjects: Educational Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published August 2024
Care in a Time of Humanitarianism
Stories of Refuge, Aid, and Repair in the Global South
Osanloo, A. & deBergh Robinson, C. (eds)
Care in a Time of Humanitarianism presents complex histories of forced migration and humanitarianism in an accessible way. It adopts a comparative approach to highlight the diverse cultural and religious traditions of care that are adopted across the Global South for the “distant others”.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology
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Published July 2024
New Anthropologies of Italy
Politics, History and Culture
Heywood, P. (ed)
This book heralds an exciting new frontier by bringing together some of the leading ethnographers of Italy and placing together their contributions into the broader realm of anthropological history, culture and new perspectives in Europe.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)
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Published July 2024
Egalitarian Dynamics
Liminality, and Victor Turner’s Contribution to the Understanding of Socio-historical Process
Kapferer, B. & Gold, M. (eds)
Liminality: the state of being ‘betwixt and between’ is anthropology’s one of most influential concepts. This volume reconsiders Victor Turner’s innovative extension of Arnold Van Gennep’s concept of liminality. Engaging with topical issues across the globe – from neuroscience to open access publishing and refugee experience in Europe, it launches Turner’s fundamental work into the future.
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)
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Published June 2024
Culture Figures
A Rhetorical Reading of Anthropology
Mokrzan, M.
Employing ‘rhetorical reading,' Culture Figures dissects descriptive ethnography and theoretical texts, spanning classical monographs to recent texts representing various approaches in cultural anthropology. The book demonstrates how processes of using tropes and modes of persuasion underlie the creation of meanings or misunderstandings in cultural anthropology.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Sociology
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Published June 2024
Limits of Life
Reflections on Life, Death, and the Body in the Age of Technoscience
Mogseth, M. E. & Nilsen, F. H. (eds)
Through a multidisciplinary approach, Limits of Life explores how the limitations and perceived finality of life and death are reconstituted through engagements with modern technology.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
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Published June 2024
Rest in Plastic
Death, Time and Synthetic Materials in a Ghanaian Ewe Community
Bredenbröker, I.
Rest in Plastic gives an insight into local entanglements of death, synthetic materials and power in Ewe community. It shows how different materials and things that come to shape power relations, exist in a delicate balance between state and local governance, kin and outsiders, death and life, the invisible and the visible, movement and containment.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies Anthropology of Religion
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Published June 2024
One Hundred Years of Argonauts
Malinowski, Ethnography and Economic Anthropology
Hann, C. & James, D. (eds)
Malinowski’s pioneering work remains critical for anthropology in a postcolonial age. This volume uses ethnographic studies from around the world to contextualize the work politically and intellectually, examining its gestation and influence from multiple perspectives.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)
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Published May 2024
Beyond Pain
The Anthropology of Body Suspensions
Manfredi, F.
Through thirteen years of fieldwork, an experimental practice-based methodology, and a new theoretical approach to harmonize online and offline data, Beyond Pain provides a wholly unique ethnographical exploration of the misunderstood world of body suspensions.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology (General)
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Published May 2024
Practical Archaeogaming
Reinhard, A.
As a sequel to Archaeogaming: an Introduction to Archaeology in and of Video Games, the author focuses on the practical and applied side of the discipline, collecting recent digital fieldwork together in one place for the first time to share new methods in treating interactive digital built environments as sites for archaeological investigation.
Subjects: Archaeology Media Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published May 2024
Religious Sensibilities in Pursuit of Sexual Well-Being
African Diasporic Communities in the Netherlands
Bakuri, A. Z.
Through detailed ethnographic analysis, this book shows how religious sensibilities inform the health practices, issues of sexuality and well-being of the Ghanian-Dutch and Somali-Dutch communities residing in the Randstad area of the Netherlands.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion
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Published May 2024
Asian Lives in Anthropological Perspective
Essays on Morality, Achievement and Modernity
Bayly, S.
Asian Lives in Anthropological Perspective draws together essays that trace historical and contemporary realities in India and Vietnam about a variety of compelling topics such as the experience of the Indian caste system and the ethical challenges faced by Vietnamese working women.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Theory and Methodology
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Published May 2024
Boaters of London
Alternative Living on the Water
Bowles, B. O. L.
London and the Southeast of England is home to many people living along rivers and canals. Boaters of London delves into the process of becoming a ‘boater’ and the political impact of the travelling population on the state. It examines an alternative style of living and the potential of a life spent afloat.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Urban Studies
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Published April 2024
Difference and Sameness in Schools
Perspectives from the European Anthropology of Education
Gilliam, L. & Markom, C. (eds)
Through eleven case studies across Europe, this book looks at the handling of difference and sameness in European schools from an anthropological perspective. It offers insights into the diversity of and within these central institutions and, in a broader sense, European society itself.
Subjects: Educational Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology Sustainable Development Goals
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Published April 2024
Humanism Revisited
An Anthropological Perspective
Pinxten, R.
As heirs of a ‘heteronomic’ tradition, we are still stuck in Eurocentrism (often racism), and now even threaten to ruin nature by destroying biodiversity and causing the climate to warm up dangerously. Applied through an anthropological perspective, this book calls for a NEED-humanism: Not-Eurocentric, Ecological and (economically) Durable approach that can help explore inclusion and pluralism.
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
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Published April 2024
‘I am Here’, Abraham Said
Emmanuel Levinas and Anthropological Science
Rapport, N.
One of the most significant philosophical voices of the twentieth century – the philosopher of ‘the Other’ – Emmanuel Levinas’s work offers a challenge to the discipline of anthropology that claims knowledge of the human. This book endeavours to take Levinasian and anthropological precepts on ‘humanistic science’ equally seriously and offers tentative conclusions.
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)
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Published April 2024
Food and Families in the Making
Knowledge Reproduction and Political Economy of Cooking in Morocco
Graf, K.
Food and Families in the Making looks at knowledge reproduction about how we know cooking and its role in the making of everyday family life. It also examines a political economy of cooking that situates Marrakchi women’s lived experience in the broader context of persisting poverty and food insecurity in Morocco.
Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Sustainable Development Goals
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Published March 2024
Max Gluckman
Macmillan, H.
This handy, concise biography describes the life and intellectual contribution of Max Gluckman (1911-75) who was one the most significant social anthropologists of the twentieth century.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology
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Published March 2024
Dynamics of Political Domination in Africa
An Axel Sommerfelt Collection
Sommerfelt, A., (au) Sommerfelt, T., Jakoubek, M., & Eriksen, T. H. (eds)
Axel Sommerfelt has been an important influence on Norwegian and Scandinavian anthropology, but his contributions are almost unknown. This book brings together some of his critical writings, newly written articles and an interview positions him in the history of ‘North Sea’ social anthropology and shows his continued relevance.
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)
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Published March 2024
The Horse in My Blood
Multispecies Kinship in the Altai and Saian Mountains
Peemot, V. S.
Building upon Indigenous research epistemologies, Victoria Peemot engages with the study of how the human-horse relationships interact with each other, experience injustices and develop resilience strategies as multispecies unions.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Sociology
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Published March 2024
Culturing the Body
Past Perspectives on Identity and Sociality
Collins, B. & Nowell, A. (eds)
The human body is both the site of lived experiences and a means of communicating those experiences to a diverse audience. Hominins have been culturing their bodies, that is adding social and cultural meaning through the use pigments and objects, for over 100,000 years. There is archaeological evidence for practices of adornment of the body by late Pleistocene and early Holocene hominins, including personal ornaments, clothing, hairstyles, body painting, and tattoos. These studies contribute to a novel and growing body of evidence for diversity of cultural expression in the past, something that is a hallmark of human cultures today.
Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General)
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Published February 2024
Adoption, Emotion, and Identity
An Ethnopsychological Perspective on Kinship and Person in a Micronesian Society
Rauchholz, M.
Exploring adoption in the Pacific, this book goes beyond the commonplace structural-functional analysis of adoption as a positive “transaction in parenthood.” It examines the effects it has on adoptees inner sense of self, their conflicted emotional lives, and familial relationships that are affected by a personal sense of rejection and not belonging.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology
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Published February 2024
Fig Trees and Humans
Ficus Ecology and Mutualisms across Cultures
Aumeeruddy-Thomas, Y.
Fig Trees and Humans examines the interactions between the biology and ecology of the genus Ficus and how humans use and think of Ficus species across the tropics and in the Mediterranean region.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Sustainable Development Goals
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Published February 2024
Fragile Futures
Ambiguities of Care in Burkina Faso
Samuelsen, H.
Caring for small children and the family in Burkina Faso is hard work. Although the health infrastructure in Burkina Faso is weak and many citizens feel neglected by the state, Fragile Futures shows that the state continues to play an important role in people’s engagements and hopes for a better future.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology Development Studies Sustainable Development Goals
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Published February 2024
Evil Spirits and Rocket Debris
In Search of Lost Souls in Siberia
Broz, L.
The Altai Republic in southern Siberia is renowned for excavations of frozen mummies. It also hosts fallout zones for the second stages of rockets launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome. Local inhabitants blame ‘evil spirits’ released by archaeological work and toxic fuel from rocket debris for their misfortunes. This book explores the divergent fates of such claims.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Sociology
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Published February 2024
Invisible Labours
The Reproductive Politics of Second Trimester Pregnancy Loss in England
Middlemiss, A. L.
Invisible Labours traces women’s experiences of miscarriage and termination for foetal anomaly in the second trimester before legal viability and shows how such events are positioned as less ‘real’ or significant when the foetal being does not, or will not, survive. It describes the reproductive politics of this specific category of pregnancy loss in England.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published January 2024
Inclusion, Transformation, and Humility in North American Archaeology
Essays and Other “Great Stuff” Inspired by Kent G. Lightfoot
Mallios, S., Gonzalez, S. L., Grone, M., Hull, K. L., Nelson, P., & Siliman, S. W. (eds)
In a dynamic near half-century career of insight, engagement, and instruction, Kent G. Lightfoot transformed North American archaeology through his innovative ideas, robust collaborations, thoughtful field projects, and mentoring of numerous students. Authors emphasize the multifarious ways Lightfoot impacted—and continues to impact—approaches to archaeological inquiry, anthropological engagement, indigenous issues, and professionalism.
Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General)
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Published January 2024
Houses Transformed
Anthropological Perspectives on Changing Practices of Dwelling and Building
Alderman, J. & Stolz, R. (eds)
Houses Transformed explores the intersection of house biographies and social change, the politics of housing design, the social fabrication of aspirational houses, the domestication of concrete and the intersection of materiality and ontology, and the rhetoric of the vernacular.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Development Studies Sustainable Development Goals
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Published January 2024
Breathing Hearts
Sufism, Healing, and Anti-Muslim Racism in Germany
Selim, N.
Sufism is known as the mystical dimension of Islam. Nasima Selim explores this definition to find out what it means to ‘breathe well’ along the Sufi path in the context of anti-Muslim racism. Breathing Hearts is the first book-length ethnographic account of Sufi practices and politics in Berlin.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published January 2024
Enacted Relations
Performing Knowledge in an Australian Indigenous Community
Tamisari, F.
Enacted Relations explores the Yolngu relational ontology and epistemology in the context of everyday practices, ritual ceremonies, bicultural education, vernacular Christianity and the production of popular music.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published January 2024
Melanesian Mainstream
Stringband Music and Identity in Vanuatu
Ellerich, S. T.
Based in extensive ethnographic research, Melanesian Mainstream provides a detailed representation of the roots, context, evolution, and impact of stringband music in the Melanesian Republic of Vanuatu.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Performance Studies
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Published December 2023
Compliance
Cultures and Networks of Accommodation
Rollason, W. & Hirsch, E. (eds)
Exploring compliance from an anthropological perspective, this book offers a varied selection of chapters covering taxation, corporate governance, medicine, development, carbon offsetting, irregular migration and the building trade, compliance emerges as more than the opposite of resistance.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology Sustainable Development Goals
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Published December 2023
Humanitarian Shame and Redemption
Norwegian Citizens Helping Refugees in Greece
Mogstad, H.
Following the 2015 ‘refugee crisis,’ many different actors emerged to contest or mitigate the EU’s border policies. This book explores the birth and trajectory of a Norwegian volunteer organisation “A Drop in the Ocean“, established by a mother of five with no prior experience in humanitarian work.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology
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Published November 2023
The Familial Occult
Explorations at the Margins of Critical Autoethnography
Coțofană, A. (ed)
The Familial Occult addresses the presence of occult experiences in some scholars' families and how that has affected their epistemological and ontological worlds, as well as their identities as scholars. While much has been written on encountering the occult in fieldwork or becoming an apprentice in an occult practice, little yet has been published in the academic literature about growing up with the occult.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Anthropology of Religion
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Published November 2023
Children are Everywhere
Conspicuous Reproduction and Childlessness in Reunified Berlin
Joshi, M.
This book explores everyday experiences of parenting and childlessness of ‘ethnic’ Germans in Berlin, who came of age around the fall of the Berlin Wall, and brings them into conversation with theories on parenting, waithood, non-biological intimacies, and masculinities.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published November 2023
Individually Ourselves
Personhood, Ethics, and Everyday Life in School
Winkler-Reid, S.
Individually Ourselves addresses the process of identity and community building through an examination of individuality and group dynamics during a formative juncture of life (based on ethnographic fieldwork in a London high school).
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Educational Studies Sociology
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Published October 2023
The Amazonian Puzzle
Ethnic Positionings and Social Mobilizations
Boyer, V.
By examining the multiple cultural and ethnic threads that traverse this landscape, The Amazonian Puzzle sets out to show how the category of caboclo (a powerful spiritual entity to some, and to others a despised peasant of mixed ancestry) reveals deep currents of ethnic recompositions, religious interpenetration, and social hierarchy.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
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Published September 2023
Love, Loyalty and Deceit
Rosemary Firth, a Life in the Shadow of Two Eminent Men
Firth, H. & Brown, L.
How much do we really know about our parents’ lives? What secrets lie in plain sight? This is the true story of hidden love within a small circle of some of the most acclaimed anthropologists of the 20th century.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) History: 20th Century to Present
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Published September 2023
Alfred Cort Haddon
A Very English Savage
Walsh, C.
Using previously overlooked, primary sources Ciarán Walsh argues that Haddon, the grandson of anti-slavery activists, set out to revolutionize anthropology in the 1890s in association with a network of anarcho-utopian activists and philosophers. His book regards most of what has been written about Haddon in the past as a form of disciplinary folklore shaped by a theory of scientific revolutions.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology
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Published September 2023
Mary Douglas
Richards, P. & 6, P.
This handy, concise biography covers the life of Mary Douglas, one of the most important anthropologists of the second half of the 20th century. It offers an introduction to how her distinctive approach developed across a long and productive career and how it applies to current pressing issues of social conflict and planetary survival.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology
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Published September 2023
Urban Natures
Living the More-than-Human City
Edwards, F., PEttersen, I. N. & Popartan, L. (eds)
Urban Natures explores the diversity, abundance, and impact of the conventional and future framings of urban natures. Recognizing a green resurgence in cities is underway, this volume applies a critical approach to examine urban greening histories, politics, discourses and ecologies
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Sustainable Development Goals
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Published September 2023
An Anthropology of Intellectual Exchange
Interactions, Transactions and Ethics in Asia and Beyond
Copeman, J., Long, N. J., Chau, L. M., Cook, J. & Marsden, M.(eds)
This volume advocates for an analytical focus on intellectual exchange, as well as producing an ethnographically informed framework for its study across cultures and contexts.
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published September 2023
Translocal Care across Kosovo’s Borders
Reconfiguring Kinship along Gender and Generational Lines
Leutloff-Grandits, C.
By tracing long-distant family relations with a special focus on cross-border marriages, this study looks at the reconfiguration of care relations, gender and generational roles among kin-members of Kosovo, who now live in different European states.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published September 2023
Between the Forest and the Road
The Waorani Struggle for Living Well in the Ecuadorian Oil Circuit
Bravo Díaz, A.
During the past two decades Ecuadorians have engaged in a national debate around Buen Vivir (living well). This ethnography discusses one of the ways in which people experience well-being or aspire to live well in Ecuadorian Amazonia. Waponi Kewemonipa (living well) is a Waorani notion that embraces ideas of good conviviality, health and certain ecological relations.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Environmental Studies (General) Sustainable Development Goals
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Published August 2023
That Sinking Feeling
On the Emotional Experience of Inferiority in Germany's Neoliberal Education System
Wellgraf, S.
Focusing on the emotions and affective states of students from poor migrant families, That Sinking Feeling presents a uniquely multi-layered ethnography on this under-represented area in the social and cultural sciences.
Subjects: Educational Studies Sociology Anthropology (General)
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Published August 2023
Silences and Divided Memories
The Exodus and its Legacy in Post-War Istrian Society
Virloget, K. H.
Dealing with the difficult, silenced past of the so called "Istrian exodus" after the Second World War, this book shifts the usual focus from migrants to those who stayed behind and to the new immigrants who came to the “emptied” towns.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Memory Studies
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Published August 2023
The Feeling of the Fall
An Ethnographic Writing Experiment between the Belize Barrier Reef and the Edges of Toronto, Ontario
Taccone, I.
As an inquiry into engagements with forces of loss and threat, this work explores experimental ways to write about climate crisis in anthropology. From Belize to Ontario and back, this ambitious piece of ethnographic writing set during a time “beyond ruin” in a fictional, ecotourist community in the year 2040.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Urban Studies
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Published July 2023
Once Upon a Time is Now
A Kalahari Memoir
Biesele, M.
Fifty years after her first fieldwork with Ju/'hoan San hunter-gatherers, anthropologist Megan Biesele has written this exceptional memoir based on personal journals she wrote at the time.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Development Studies
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Published July 2023
Romani Chronicles of COVID-19
Testimonies of Harm and Resilience
Blasco, P. G. y & Fotta, M. (eds)
A ground-breaking volume that gathers the testimonies of NGO workers, street vendors, activists, scholars, health professionals, and creative writers to chronicle the devastating impact of COVID-19 on Romani communities globally.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Medical Anthropology
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Published July 2023
Cryptopolitics
Exposure, Concealment, and Digital Media
Bernal, V., Pype, K., & Rodima-Taylor, D. (eds)
Focusing on African societies, Crypolitics brings together empirically grounded studies of digital media to draw out the significance of hidden information, double meanings, and the constant processes of encoding and decoding messages in negotiations of power relations.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Media Studies
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Published July 2023
Exceptional Experiences
Engaging with Jolting Events in Art and Fieldwork
Rethmann, P. & Wulff, H. (eds)
Looking at encounters that can puncture or jolt us, this volume uses art as a lens through which to register and understand exceptional experiences. The volume also includes the fieldworker’s experience of unexpected events that can lead to key understandings, as well as revelatory moments that happen during artistic creation and while looking at art.
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published July 2023
Visions of Marriage
Politics and Family on Kinmen, 1920-2020
Chiu, H.-C.
Grounded in multi-generational stories from Kinmen in Taiwan, Visions of Marriage explores the historical entanglements between the pursuit of new personal and national futures. Focusing on the relational and future-making aspects of marriage, the ethnography highlights the intersection of transformations across familial generations and shifting political economies in Taiwan, and more globally. It provides comparative insights on family change and demographic shifts in Asia.>
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Pure Food
Theoretical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Collinson, P. & Macbeth, H. (eds)
Food purity and nutrition has inter-disciplinary roots in anthropological, ethnological, evolutionary, psychological and applied perspectives. Pure Food presents the theoretical and cross-cultural aspects of adopting food purity. It demonstrates variations and similarities in diverse cultural beliefs, behaviours and practices in different societies that define the pure food mindset.
Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)
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Innovation and Implementation
Critical Reflections on New Approaches to Historic Mortuary Data Collection, Analysis, and Dissemination
Mytum, H. & Veit, R. (eds)
Providing a comprehensive set of guidance to assist researchers wishing to carry out, curate and disseminate field research at a historic burial ground, chapters offer up to date methods for surface and subsurface survey and for the recording and archiving of burial monument data. Also included is the archaeological potential of pet cemeteries and other pet memorials.
Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Anthropology (General)
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Creation and Creativity in Indigenous Lowland South America
Anthropological Perspectives
Halbmayer, E. & Goletz, A. (eds)
Investigating local Indigenous processes of creation and creativity, this book uses ethnographic and comparative anthropological perspectives to enquire about creative transformative practices in lowland South America.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Against Better Judgment
Akrasia in Anthropological Perspectives
McKearney, P. & Evans, N. H. A. (eds)
Anthropologists have long explained social behaviour as if people always do what they think is best. But what if most of these explanations only work because they are premised upon ignoring what philosophers call 'akrasia' – that is, the possibility that people might act against their better judgment? The contributors to this volume turn an ethnographic lens upon situations in which people seem to act out of line with what they judge, desire and intend.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Medical Anthropology
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White Eagle, Black Eagle
Ethnic Relations in the German-Polish Borderlands
Parkin, R.
Studying the German-Polish ethnic relations, this book analyses the people and region through their respective borderlands, migration, official cooperation and unofficial suspicions across the border.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology History: 20th Century to Present
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From Village Commons to Public Goods
Graduated Provision in Urbanizing China
Trémon, A.-C.
Illuminating the complex processes of China’s uneven urbanization through the lens of the transition from village commons to public goods, this book is set in three urbanized villages in Shenzhen, Chengdu, and Xi’an, which have experienced similar demographic explosions and dramatic changes to their landscapes, the livelihoods of its inhabitants, and the power structures governing their residents.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Urban Studies Sociology Sustainable Development Goals
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Published May 2023
Heirs of the Greek Catastrophe
The Social Life of Asia Minor Refugees in Piraeus
Hirschon, R.
Since its first publication in 1989, this classic study has remained in demand. The third edition of Heirs of the Greek Catastrophe includes updated material with a new Preface, Epilogue, and map of the study area.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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Chicanery
Senior Academic Appointments in Antipodean Anthropology, 1920–1960
Gray, G., Munro, D. & Winter, C.
Academic appointments can bring forth unexpected and unforeseen contests and tensions, cause humiliation and embarrassment for unsuccessful applicants and reveal unexpected allies and enemies. Chicanery deals with how the founding Chairs at Sydney, the Australian National University, Auckland and Western Australia dealt with this process.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) History: 20th Century to Present Theory and Methodology
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Integrating Strangers
Sherbro Identity and The Politics of Reciprocity along the Sierra Leonean Coast
Ménard, A.
Drawing on an ethnography of Sherbro coastal communities in Sierra Leone, this book analyses the politics and practice of identity through the lens of the reciprocal relations that exist between socio-ethnic groups. Anaïs Ménard examines the implications of the social arrangement that binds landlords and strangers in a frontier region, the Freetown Peninsula, characterized by high degrees of individual mobility and social interactions.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Development Studies
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Published April 2023
Things of the House
Material Culture and Migration from Post-Colonial Mozambique to Portugal
Rosales, M. V.
Focusing on the life stories of a group of European and Catholic Brahmin Goan families of the colonial elite who left Mozambique after their independence in 1975, the book shows how material culture interferes with structuring dimensions of migratory experiences, in the management of family ties and networks of belonging, as well as in the social dynamics of positioning, hierarchy and distinction.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Memory Studies
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Of Jaguars and Butterflies
Metalogues on Issues in Anthropology and Philosophy
Lloyd, G. & Vilaça, A.
Jointly authored by an anthropologist and a philosopher, this book investigates some of the most puzzling ideas and practices reported in modern ethnography and ancient philosophy concerning topics such as humans, animals, persons, spirits, agency, selfhood, consciousness, nature, life, death, disease and health.
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Contesting Moralities
Roma Identities, State and Kinship
Sarafian, I.
Roma identities have often been presented in literature as collectively constructed and in opposition to those who are not Roma. Contesting Moralities challenges these preconceptions about Roma identification by disentangling the binaries between Roma and nonRoma, state and non-state, public and private. This book explores topics resonating in contemporary Romani studies that are in need of further exploration through individual perspectives.
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Working the Fabric
Resourcefulness, Belonging and Island Life in Scotland’s Harris Tweed Industry
Nascimento, J.
Trademark-protected since 1910, the famous woollen cloth known as Harris Tweed can only be produced in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland – yet it is exported to over 50 countries around the world. Examining contemporary experiences of work and life, this book is the first in-depth anthropological study of the renowned textile industry, complementing and updating existing historical and ethnographic research.
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Modeling the Past
Archaeology, History, and Dynamic Networks
Terrell, J., Golitko, M., Dawson, H., and Kissel, M.
Using this handbook, researchers learn to develop historical and archaeological research questions anchored in dynamic network analysis (DYRA). Undergraduate and graduate students, as well as professional historians and archaeologists can consult on issues that range from hypothesis-driven research to critiquing dominant historical narratives, especially those that have tended ignore the diversity of the archaeological record.
Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Anthropology (General)
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Former Neighbors, Future Allies?
German Studies and Ethnography in Dialogue
Weber, A. D. (ed)
Former Neighbors, Future Allies is a key bridge into the research and perspectives needed to nurture ethnography’s growing role in German studies. This volume creates a space for dialogue between North American Germanists and ethnographers in and of the German-speaking world, enriching both fields in the process.
Subjects: History (General) Anthropology (General)
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Amnesia Remembered
Reverse Engineering a Digital Artifact
Aycock, J.
As an introduction to studying and reverse engineering a digital artifact, this volume is intended for nontechnical audiences wanting to learn how to conduct their own similar research on computer software. While presented through an archaeological lens, it is also suitable for readers in history, game studies, and other areas in the humanities and social sciences, as well as computer science and engineering.
Subjects: Archaeology Media Studies Anthropology (General)
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Feeding Anxieties
The Politics of Children's Food in Poland
Boni, Z.
Focusing on the underlying politics behind children’s food, this book highlights the variety of social relationships, expectations and emotions ingrained in feeding children In Poland. With rich ethnographic accounts, including research with children, the book demonstrates how families, schools, the food industry and state agencies shape and experience feeding anxieties.
Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General) Sociology Sustainable Development Goals
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Set to See Us Fail
Debating Inequalities in the Child Welfare System of New York
Castellano, V.
Examining the interaction between families and professionals in the child welfare system of New York, this book focuses on how inequalities are reproduced, measured, managed, and contested. The book describes how state institutions and neoliberal governance intersect police the groups which are most represented in the child welfare system, including low income, female-headed families living in racialized neighborhoods.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
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Anthropology, Nationalism and Colonialism
Mendes Correia and the Porto School of Anthropology
Ferraz de Matos, P.
Contributing to the history of anthropology, this book looks at the Porto School of Anthropology and analyses the life and work of its main mentor – Mendes Correia (1888-1960). Focused on Portugal, the analysis is also comparative with other international contexts.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History Political and Economic Anthropology
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In the Meantime
Toward an Anthropology of the Possible
Masquelier, A. & Durham, D. (eds)
The “meantime” represents the gap between what is past and the unknown future. When considered as waiting, the meantime is defined as a period of suspension to be endured. By contrast, the contributors of this volume understand it as a space of “the possible” where calculation coexists with uncertainty, promises with disappointment, and imminence with deferral.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Cultural Studies (General)
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The Long Shore
Archaeologies and Social Histories of Californias Maritime Cultural Landscapes
Meniketti, M. (ed)
Authors investigate the multifaceted character of maritime landscapes and maritime oriented communities in California’s equally diverse cultural landscape; viewed through an archaeological lens, and emphasizing social behavior and community as material culture in order to reveal intersections and commonalities.
Subjects: Archaeology History (General) Anthropology (General)
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Other Worlds, Other Bodies
Embodied Epistemologies and Ethnographies of Healing
Pierini, E., Groisman, A., & Espírito Santo, D. (eds)
This book proposes a sensory ethnography of healing with a focus on ethnographic knowing as embedded in an embodied epistemology of healing. Epistemological embodiment signals that personal scholarly experience of the “unknown”—be it in the form of trance, or as the embodiment of an “other”—shapes the concepts of healing, body, trance, self, and matter by which ethnographers craft out analysis.
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology
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A Sea of Transience
Poetics, Politics and Aesthetics along the Black Sea Coast
Khalvashi, T. & Demant Frederiksen, M. (eds)
Transience is found in every meeting, encounter and form of coexistence between people and things that exist and live by, or move across or along, the Black Sea. With particular attention to poetics, politics and aesthetics, this volume focuses on the scales of transient moments and histories, and enables readers to see and sense the many forms of transience that occur in a given landscape, sea or space.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Environmental Studies (General)
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Resettled Iraqi Refugees in the United States
War, Refuge, Belonging, Participation, and Protest
Keyel, J.
The American war against Iraq has caused hundreds of thousands of deaths and displaced millions of people. Between 2003 and 2017, more than 172,000 Iraqis resettled in the United States. This book explores the experiences of fifteen of them and presents insights into the core experience of life as a refugee from war.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)
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Continental Encampment
Genealogies of Humanitarian Containment in the Middle East and Europe
Knudsen, A. J. & Berg, K. G. (eds)
During the past decade, Syria’s displacement crisis has made the Middle East one of the world’s foremost refugee-hosting regions. The volume explores responses to mass migration and traces the genealogy of humanitarian containment from the Ottoman Empire and the emergence of the first refugee camps to the present-day displacement ‘crises’ and the re-bordering of Europe.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Development Studies
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At Home in a Nursing Home
An Ethnography of Movement and Care in Australia
Zhang, A. R. Y.
Focusing on contemporary ideas about how aged care is provided, this book poses the question: How can people who are aged and frail live out the final phase of their lives with dignity? In seeking answers, the author examines what it means to be ‘at home’ in residential care in a novel and compassionate way.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
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Cosmopolitan Refugees
Somali Migrant Women in Nairobi and Johannesburg
Ripero-Muñiz, N.
Exploring the dynamics of identity formation processes in diasporic spaces, this book analyses how gender, cultural and religious practices are renegotiated in a situation of displacement. The author presents the comparative case study of Somali migrant women in Nairobi and Johannesburg: two cosmopolitan urban hubs in the global South.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Glimpses of Hope
The Rise of Industrial Labor at the Urban Margins of Nepal
Hoffmann, M.
Over the last decade, Nepal has witnessed significant urban growth and an expanding urban middle class. Glimpses of Hope tells the story of the people who enable some of the middle class consumer practices in urban Nepal. The book focuses on workers in modern food-processing, water-bottling, house building, and sand-mining industries and explores how workers see such forms of work, where union organization can help, and how work opportunities emerge along lines of gender and ethnicity.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General) Sociology
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From Missionaries to Main Street
The Story of One Sgaw Karen Family in the United States
Gilhooly, D.
The Htoo family, who are Sgaw Karen and originally from Burma, resettled in the United States refugee resettlement program in 2007. This book chronicles their life in their new country. The book provides historical and cultural information on the Sgaw Karen people against the backdrop of the Htoo family’s path from Burma to Thailand.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology
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Life with Durham Cathedral
A Laboratory of Community, Experience and Building
Calvert, A. J.
An ethnographic account of daily life in Durham Cathedral, this book examines the processes of negotiation and change between a community and their cathedral.
Subjects: Heritage Studies Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion
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A Magpie’s Tale
Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives on the Kazakh of Western Mongolia
Portisch, A. O.
Telling the story of the author's time living with a Kazakh family in a small village in western Mongolia, this book contextualizes the family’s personal stories within the broader history of the region.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Refugee and Migration Studies
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The Art of Fate Calculation
Practicing Divination in Taipei, Beijing, and Kaifeng
Homola, S.
The Art of Fate Calculationexplores how conceptions of fate circulate in Chinese and Taiwanese societies while resisting uniformization and institutionalization. This is not only due to the stigma of “superstition” but also to the internal dynamic of fate calculation practice and learning.
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Mythology and Symbolism of Eurasia and Indigenous Americas
Manifestations in Artifacts and Rituals
Oleszkiewicz-Peralba, M.
There is a continuity of a cohesive system of symbols and patterns from the Paleolithic and the Neolithic that survives in present-day imagery. The understanding of commonalities underlying these seemingly distant cultures demonstrates that, despite appearances, there is more that unites us than that divides us.
Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General)
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The Politics of Making Kinship
Historical and Anthropological Perspectives
Alber, E. (ed)
Leading us beyond current narratives on the decline of kinship which assume kinship’s existence since the dawn of civilization, The Politics of Making Kinship interrogates kinship’s geneses, constructions, elaborations, implementations, and enforcing agents across a long view of European history, and demonstrates how kinship is woven through modern societies.
Subjects: History (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)
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Sexual Self-Fashioning
Iranian Dutch Narratives of Sexuality and Belonging
Roodsaz, R.
Focusing on premarital sex, homosexuality, and cohabitation outside marriage, this book provides an ethnographic account of sexuality among the Iranian Dutch. It argues that by embracing, rejecting, and questioning modernity in stories about sexuality, the Iranian Dutch actively engage in processes of self-fashioning.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)
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Punching Back
Gender, Religion and Belonging in Women-Only Kickboxing
Rana, J.
In the Netherlands, girls and young women are increasingly active in women-only kickboxing. The general assumption, in the Netherlands and in western Europe more broadly, is that women’s sport is a form of secular, feminist empowerment. Muslim women’s participation would then exemplify the incongruence of Islam with the modern, secular nation-state. Punching Back provides a detailed ethnographic study that contests this view.
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Sexscapes of Pleasure
Women, Sexuality and the Whore Stigma in Italy
Zambelli, E.
Drawing from ethnographic research, this book brings together the narratives of Italian and migrant women pole dancing for leisure, women pole and lap dancing for work, as well as women selling sex. By tracing commonalities in women’s processes of subjectivation and othering across the non/sex working women divide, the book foregrounds the intersecting structures of oppression under which women negotiate selfhood.
Subjects: Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)
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Fairies, Ghosts, and Santa Claus
Tinted Glasses, Fetishes, and the Politics of Seeing
Doerr, N. M.
Investigating the politics of seeing and its effects, this book draws on Slavoj Žižek’s notion of fetish and Walter Benjamin’s notion of the optical unconscious to offer new concepts: “tinted glasses”, through which we see the world; “unit-thinking”, which renders the world as consisting of discrete units; and “coherants”, which help fragmented experiences cohere into something intelligible.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Theory and Methodology
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Enlightening Encounters
The Journeys of an Anthropologist
Gudeman, S.
Drawing on his research in five Latin American countries, Steve Gudeman describes his anthropological fieldwork, bringing to life the excitement of gaining an understanding of the practices and ideas of others as well as the frustrations. He weaves into the text some of his findings as well as reflections on his own background that led to better fieldwork but also led him astray.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Political and Economic Anthropology
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Living on a Time Bomb
Local Negotiations of Oil Extraction in a Mexican Community
Schöneich, S.
Providing a holistic understanding of extensive oil extraction in rural Mexico, this book focuses on a campesino community, where oil extraction is deeply inscribed into the daily lives of the community members. The book shows how oil shapes the space where it is extracted in every aspect and produces multiple uncertainties.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Sustainable Development Goals
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Pacific Spaces
Translations and Transmutations
Engels-Schwarzpaul, A.-C., Lopesi, L., & Refiti, A. L. (eds)
Delving into Pacific spaces from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and interpretations, this book looks at how the anthropological and architectural can be connected.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Development Studies
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Gentrifications
Views from Europe
Chabrol, M., Collet, A., Giroud, M., Launay, L., Rousseau, M., Minassian, H. ter
Using a thorough analysis of the diversity of the forms, places and actors of gentrification in an attempt to isolate the ‘DNA’ of gentrification, the book addresses the place of social groups in cities, their competition over the appropriation of space, the infrastructure unequally offered to them by economic and political actors and the stakes of everyday social relationships.
Subjects: Urban Studies Sociology Anthropology (General) Sustainable Development Goals
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Ӧmie Sex Affiliation
A Papuan Nature
Rohatynskyj, M.
The practice of affiliating the female child with the mother and the male child with the father was considered a rare and inexplicable practice in Papua New Guinean ethnography at the time the original data was collected some forty years ago. Marta Rohatynskyj undertakes a shift in her analytical concepts to reveal the deep-seated disjuncture between female and male that this practice represents.
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Dynamics of Identification and Conflict
Anthropological Encounters
Hoehne, M. V., Gabbert, E. C., & Eidson, J. R. (eds)
Dealing with the dynamics of identification and conflict, this book uses theoretical orientations ranging from political ecology to rational choice theory, interpretive approaches, Marxism and multiscalar analysis. Case studies set in Africa, Europe and Central Asia are grouped in three sections devoted to pastoralism, identity and migration.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies
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Ritual
What It Is, How It Works, and Why
Davis-Floyd, R. & Laughlin, C. D.
Designed for both academic and lay audiences, this book identifies the characteristics of ritual and, via multiple examples, details how ritual works on the human body and brain to produce its often profound effects. These include enhancing courage, effecting healing, and generating group cohesion by enacting cultural—or individual—beliefs and values. It also shows what happens when ritual fails.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Anthropology of Religion
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Critical Public Archaeology
Confronting Social Challenges in the 21st Century
Westmont, V. C. (ed)
Critical approaches to public archaeology have been in use since the 1980s, however only recently have archaeologists begun using critical theory in conjunction with public archaeology to challenge dominant narratives of the past. This volume brings together current work on the theory and practice of critical public archaeology from Europe and the United States to illustrate the ways that implementing critical approaches can introduce new understandings of the past and reveal new insights on the present.
Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General) History (General)
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Edible People
The Historical Consumption of Slaves and Foreigners and the Cannibalistic Trade in Human Flesh
Siefkes, C.
While human cannibalism has attracted considerable notice and controversy, certain aspects of the practice have received scant attention. These include the connection between cannibalism and xenophobia: the capture and consumption of unwanted strangers. Likewise ignored is the connection to slavery: the fact that in some societies slaves and persons captured in slave raids could be, and were, killed and eaten. This book explores these largely forgotten practices and ignored connections.
Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General) Colonial History
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Francophone Migrations, French Islam and Wellbeing
The Soninké Foyer in Paris
Accoroni, D.
Addressing several issues of significance in the fields of Anthropology of Migration, Politics of Healthcare, Religious and Francophone Studies, this book pursues an unprecedented line of research by bringing to the fore the geopolitical dimension of francophonie, understood as a political construct, as much as a cultural, artistic and a linguistic space, with French as common language.
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Risky Futures
Climate, Geopolitics and Local Realities in the Uncertain Circumpolar North
Ulturgasheva, O. & Bodenhorn, B. (eds)
Examining the intersections between environmental conditions and geopolitical tensions, this book brings together a unique combination of authors who are local practitioners and international researchers, and considers the situations of environmental calamity and socio-economic risks faced by small populations.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Sociology Sustainable Development Goals
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Unusual Death and Memorialization
Burial, Space, and Memory in the Post-Medieval North
Kallio-Seppa, T., Lipkin, S., Väre, T., Moilanen, U. & Tranberg, A. (eds)
Most cultures and societies have their own customs and traditions of treating their dead. In the past, some deceased received a burial that deviated from tradition. The reasons for unusual burial could result from reasons such as outbreaks of epidemics or wars, or from premature births, distinctive social status, or disability. The case studies introduce varied views on ‘otherness’ that are visible in burial customs and memorialization.
Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General) Memory Studies
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New Perspectives on Moral Change
Anthropologists and Philosophers Engage with Transformations of Life Worlds
Eriksen, C. & Hämäläinen, N. (eds)
The world we live in is constantly changing. Climate change, transforming gender conceptions, emerging issues of food consumption, novel forms of family life and technological developments are altering central areas of our forms of life. This raises questions of how to cope with and understand the moral changes implicit in such alterations. This anthology is the first to address moral change as such.
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The Return of Polyandry
Kinship and Marriage in Central Tibet
Fjeld, H. E.
This book describes the surprising increase in polyandry in Panam valley during the 1980s. It explores married lives in polyandrous houses and develops a theory of a flexible kinship of potentiality through the lens of a farming village in Tibet Autonomous Region.
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Published August 2022
Defining and Measuring Diversity in Archaeology
Another Step Toward an Evolutionary Synthesis of Culture
Eren, M. I. & Buchanan, B. (eds)
Calculating the diversity of biological or cultural classes is a fundamental way of describing, analyzing, and understanding the world around us. Featuring studies of archaeological diversity ranging from the data-driven to the theoretical, from the Paleolithic to the Historic periods, authors illustrate the range of data sets to which diversity measures can be applied, as well as offer new methods to examine archaeological diversity.
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Where is the Good in the World?
Ethical Life between Social Theory and Philosophy
Henig, D., Strhan, A., & Robbins, J. (eds)
Bringing together contributions from anthropology, sociology, religious studies, and philosophy, along with ethnographic case studies from diverse settings, this volume explores how different disciplinary perspectives on the good might engage with and enrich each other. This is the first interdisciplinary engagement with what it means to study the good as a fundamental aspect of social life.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Anthropology of Religion
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Crossroads of Heritage and Religion
Legacy and Sustainability of World Heritage Site Moravian Christiansfeld
Damsholt, T., Melchior, M. R., Petterson, C., & Reeh, T., (eds)
Looking at the crossroads between heritage and religion through the case study of Moravian Christiansfeld, designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in July 2015, this anthology reaches back to the eighteenth century when the church settlement was founded, examines its legacy within Danish culture and modern society, and brings this history into the present and the ongoing heritagization processes.
Subjects: Heritage Studies Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)
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Communication
A House Seen from Everywhere
Klyukanov, I. E.
Focusing on the scientific study of communication, this book is a systematic examination. To that end, the natural, social, cultural, and rational scientific perspectives on communication are presented and then brought together in one unifying framework of the semiotic square, showing how all four views are interconnected.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
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Ethnographers Before Malinowski
Pioneers of Anthropological Fieldwork, 1870-1922
Rosa, F. & Vermeulen, H. F. (eds)
At a time when anthropologists claim new ethnographic experiences, a second chance should be given to older ethnographic texts. Recovering monographs produced c.1870-1922 that dispute canonic models of writing culture, the present volume challenges the assumption that fieldwork carried out within a single context by a single individual, with its corresponding output, the monograph, was a twentieth-century invention.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) History (General) Colonial History
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Technology and the Common Good
The Unity and Division of a Democratic Society
Batteau, A. W.
Building on the work of Elinor Ostrom (Governing the Commons) the author examines how the different shared goods of a democratic society are shaped by technology and demonstrates how club goods, common pool resources, and public goods are supported, enhanced, and disrupted by technology.
Subject: Anthropology (General) Sustainable Development Goals
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The Cracked Art World
Conflict, Austerity, and Community Arts in Northern Ireland
Rush, K.
This book presents a nuanced view of Northern Ireland, a place at once deeply mired in its past and seeking to forge a new future for itself as a ‘post-post-conflict’ place within the context of a changing United Kingdom, a disintegrating Europe, and a globalized world.
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Food Connections
Production, Exchange and Consumption in West African Migration
Abranches, M.
Food Connections follows the movement of food from its production sites in West Africa to its final spaces of consumption in Europe. It is an ethnographic study of economic and social life amongst a close-knit community of food producers, traders andconsumers and a wide range of small intermediaries that operate in Guinea-Bissau and Portugal.
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Making Better Lives
Hope, Freedom and Home-Making among People Sleeping Rough in Paris
Lenhard, J.
In this ethnographic study, Johannes Lenhard observes the daily practices, routines and techniques of people who are sleeping rough on the streets of Paris. The book focusses on their survival practises, their short-term desires and hopes, how they earn money through begging, how they choose the best place to sleep at night and what role drugs and alcohol play in their lives.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Urban Studies Sustainable Development Goals
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Gender, Power, and Non-Governance
Is Female to Male as NGO Is to State?
Timmer, A. D. & Wirtz, E. (eds)
Using Sherry Ortner’s analogy of Female/Nature, Male/Culture, this volume interrogates the gendered aspects of governance by exploring the NGO/State relationship. By examining how NGOs/States perform gendered roles and actions and the gendered divisions of labor involved in different types of institutional engagement, this volume attends to the ways in which gender and governance constitute flexible, relational, and contingent systems of power.
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Grazing Communities
Pastoralism on the Move and Biocultural Heritage Frictions
Bindi, L. (ed)
The present critical discourse on sustainable and responsible development implies a change of practices, a huge socio-economic transformation, and the return of new shepherds and herders in different European regions. This book is an occasion to reconsider grazing communities’ frictions in the new global heritage scenario.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Development Studies Sustainable Development Goals
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Published April 2022
Arctic Abstractive Industry
Assembling the Valuable and Vulnerable North
Mason, A. (ed)
Examining the processes at work in sites of industrial extraction and ecological vulnerability in the contemporary Arctic, this book looks at the displacements that conceal exploitation, on the one hand, and appropriations of value on the other.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Sustainable Development Goals
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Fire on the Island
Fear, Hope and a Christian Revival in Vanuatu
Bratrud, T.
In 2014, the island of Ahamb in Vanuatu became the scene of a startling Christian revival movement led by thirty children with ‘spiritual vision’. Based on twenty months of ethnographic fieldwork on Ahamb between 2010 and 2017, this book investigates how upheavals like the Ahamb revival can emerge to address and sometimes resolve social problems.
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)
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Nurturing the Other
First Contacts and the Making of Christian Bodies in Amazonia
Grotti, V.
Combining archival research, oral history and long-term ethnography, this book studies relations between Amerindians and outsiders such as American missionaries through a series of contact expeditions that led to the 'pacification' of three native Amazonian groups in Suriname and French Guiana.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History Anthropology of Religion
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The Precarity of Masculinity
Football, Pentecostalism, and Transnational Aspirations in Cameroon
Kovač, U.
This book follows young Cameroonian men who aspire to migrate abroad and play football for a living while analyzing masculinities in West Africa. The book argues that the athletic aspirations of young Cameroonians and their propensity to consult with Pentecostal Men of God offer new insights about the nature of social mobility in the neoliberal age.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Gender Studies and Sexuality
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A New African Elite
Place in the Making of a Bridge Generation
Pellow, D.
Focusing on a sub-set of the Dagomba of northern Ghana, this book looks at the first generation to go through secondary school in the north. This book charts their path into elite status and argues that this generation uses the tools gained through education and social connections to influence politics back home.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Mobility Studies Development Studies
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Engaging Environments in Tonga
Cultivating Beauty and Nurturing Relations in a Changing World
Perminow, A. A.
On March 11, 2011, a tsunami warning was issued for Tonga in Polynesia. On the low and small island of Kotu, people were unperturbed in the face of pending catastrophe. The book is an ethnography of the relationship between people and their environment based on fieldwork over three decades.
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Published March 2022
Self in the World
Connecting Life's Extremes
Hart, K.
The eminent anthropologist Keith Hart reflects on a life of learning, sharing and remembering to offer readers the means of connecting life’s extremes – individual and society, local and global, personal and impersonal dimensions of existence and explores what it is that makes us fully human.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Afropolitan Horizons
Essays toward a Literary Anthropology of Nigeria
Hannerz, U.
Nigeria is a country shaped by internal diversity and transnational connections, past and present. Leading Nigerian writers from Chinua Achebe, Amos Tutuola and Wole Soyinka to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Teju Cole have portrayed these Nigerian Issues, and have also written about some of the momentous events in Nigerian history. Afropolitan Horizons discusses their work alongside other novelists and commentators.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Literary Studies Anthropology of Religion
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Published February 2022
Durable Solutions
Challenges with Implementing Global Norms for Internally Displaced Persons in Georgia
Funke, C.
Focusing on Georgia, this book presents a theoretical and empirical study on the implementation of durable solutions for internally displaced persons (IDPs). Building on extensive field research, it describes and explains the considerable problems which Georgia faces in establishing global norms, as well as the ongoing hardship that IDPs experience.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies Sustainable Development Goals
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Walls and Gateways
Contested Heritage in Dubrovnik
Loades, C. M.
Walls and Gateways provides an ethnographic case study, which explores how the production of Dubrovnik’s World Heritage intersects with the reconstruction and consolidation of identities and locality in the city’s post-war context. The book analyses how representations, perceptions and uses of Dubrovnik’s heritage are embedded in particular social and political structural conditions, cultural practices, materiality and place.
Subjects: Heritage Studies Anthropology (General) Memory Studies
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Land and the Mortgage
History, Culture, Belonging
Rodima-Taylor, D. & Shipton, P. (eds)
The mortgaging of land is not just economic and legal but also social and cultural. Here, anthropologists, historians, and economists explore origins, variations, and meanings of the land mortgage, and the risks to homes and livelihoods.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)
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Neoliberalizing Diversity in Liberal Arts College Life
Urciuoli, B.
Far from being synonymous with race or other forms of social difference, diversity is a construct frequently contrasting with the reality of students’ lives. Neoliberalizing Diversity in Liberal Arts College Life focuses on how neoliberal diversity operates at one liberal arts college, exploring the relationship between higher education and neoliberalism.
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An Urban Future for Sápmi?
Indigenous Urbanization in the Nordic States and Russia
Berg-Nordlie, M., Dankertsen, A, & Winsvold, M. (eds)
Presenting the political and cultural processes that occur within the indigenous Sámi people of North Europe as they undergo urbanization, this book examines how they have retained their sense of history and culture in this new setting. The book is written by a team of researchers, mostly Sámi, from all the countries covered in the book.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Urban Studies Sociology
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Migration in the Making of the Gulf Space
Social, Political, and Cultural Dimensions
Bouzas, A. M. & Casini, L. (eds)
Combining visual and literary analyses and original ethnographic studies as part of a more general political reflection, Migration in the Making of Gulf Space examines the role of migrants and non-citizens in the processes of settling in the Arab States of the Gulf region.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology Sustainable Development Goals
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Françoise Héritier
Gaillard, G.
A great intellectual figure, Françoise Héritier succeeded Claude Lévi-Strauss as the Chair of Anthropology at the Collège de France in 1982. She was both an Africanist, author of magnificent works on the Samo population, the scientific progenitor of kinship studies, the creator of a theoretical base to feminist thought and an activist for many causes.
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Mediated Lives
Waiting and Hope among Iraqi Refugees in Jordan
Twigt, M.
Using the example of Iraqi refugees in Jordan's capital of Amman, this book describes how information and communication technologies (ICTs) play out in the everyday experiences of urban refugees, geographically located in the Global South, and shows how interactions between online and offline spaces are key for making sense of the humanitarian regime, for carving out a sense of home and for sustaining hope.
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Franz Baermann Steiner
A Stranger in the World
Adler, J. & Fardon, R.
Franz Baermann Steiner (1909-52) provided the vital link between the intellectual culture of central Europe and the Oxford Institute of Anthropology in its post-Second World War years.
This book demonstrates his quiet influence within anthropology, which has extended from Mary Douglas to David Graeber, and how his remarkable poetry reflected profoundly on the slavery and murder of the Shoah.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Literary Studies
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We are All Africans Here
Race, Mobilities and West Africans in Europe
Loftsdóttir, K.
This book looks critically at racialization of mobility in Europe, anchoring the discussion in the aspiration of precarious migrants from Niger in Belgium and Italy. The book contextualizes their experiences within the ongoing securitization of mobility in their home country and the persistent denial of racism and colonialism that seeks to portray the innocence of Europe.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)
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Extremism, Society, and the State
Loperfido, G. (ed)
This collected volume brings together leading anthropologists and cultural analysts to offer a concise look at the narratives, symbolic, and metaphoric fields related to extremism, systemitizing an approach to contemporary extremism by placing these idealogies into historical, political, and geo-systemic contexts.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Good Enough Mothers
Practicing Nurture and Motherhood in Chiapas, Mexico
López, JM
Motherhood in Mexico is profoundly shaped by the legacy of colonialism. This ethnography situates motherhood in a critical global health analysis of maternal health inequalities and interventions in the southeast state of Chiapas.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)
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The Pursuit of Pleasurable Work
Craftwork in Twenty-First Century England
Marchand, T. H. J.
Against the backdrop of an alienating, technologizing and ever-accelerating world of material production, this book tells an intimate story: one about a community of woodworkers training at an historic institution in London’s East End during the present ‘renaissance of craftsmanship’.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
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Cosmic Coherence
A Cognitive Anthropology Through Chinese Divination
Matthews, W.
Humans are unique in their ability to create systematic accounts of the world – theories based on guiding cosmological principles. This book is about the role of cognition in creating cosmologies, and explores this through the ethnography and history of Yijing divination in China.
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Dressing Up
Menswear in the Age of Social Media
Bluteau, J. M.
What does men’s fashion say about contemporary masculinity? How do these notions operate in an increasingly digitized world? To answer these questions, author Joshua M. Bluteau combines theoretical analysis with vibrant narrative, exploring men’s fashion in the online world of social media as well as the offline worlds of retail, production, and the catwalk.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Media Studies Anthropology (General)
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Outsiders
Memories of Migration to and from North Korea
Bell, M.
In this timely and insightful new book, Markus Bell presents the case study of Korean-Japanese – “Zainichi” – who have escaped North Korea in the years following the end of the Cold War. Through building alliances and long-distance relationships, Zainichi returnees resist forced integration and push back against life-threatening political purges to forge new ways of belonging.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)
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Crafting Chinese Memories
The Art and Materiality of Storytelling
Swancutt, K. (ed)
Through an interdisciplinary conversation with contributors from social anthropology, religious studies, film studies, literary studies, cultural studies, and history, Crafting Chinese Memories is the first volume to address how works of art shape memories, and offers new ways of conceptualising storytelling, memory-making, art, and materiality. It explores the memories of artists, filmmakers, novelists, storytellers, and persons who come to terms with their own histories even as they reveal the social memories of watershed events in modern China.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Memory Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Cattle Poetics
How Aesthetics Shapes Politics in Mursiland, Ethiopia
Eczet, J.-B.
Loving cows, then killing them. The relation with cattle in Mursi country is shaped by the dichotomy between the value given to it during life and the death imposed upon it. This book investigates the link between the nurturing and killing of cattle, and its accompanying aesthetics, with Mursi society itself.
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Hope and Insufficiency
Capacity Building in Ethnographic Comparison
Douglas-Jones, R. & Shaffner, J. (eds)
Hope and Insufficiency seeks to question the histories, assumptions, intentions, and enactments that has led to the ubiquity of capacity building as an anthropological concept, thereby developing a much-needed critical purchase on its persuasive power.
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)
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How is a Man Supposed to be a Man?
Male Childlessness – a Life Course Disrupted
Hadley, R. A.
The global trend of declining fertility rates and an increasingly ageing population has serious implications for individuals and institutions alike. Childless men are mostly excluded from ageing, social science and reproduction scholarship and almost completely absent from most national statistics. This book examines the lived experiences of a hidden and disenfranchised population: men who wanted to be fathers.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)
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Digital Archives and Collections
Creating Online Access to Cultural Heritage
Müller, K.
Museums and archives all over the world digitize their collections and provide online access to heritage material. But what factors determine the content, structure and use of these online inventories? This book turns to India and Europe to answer this question. It explains how museums and archives envision, decide and conduct digitization and online dissemination.
Subjects: Museum Studies Media Studies Anthropology (General)
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The Camino de Santiago
Curating the Pilgrimage as Heritage and Tourism
Murray, M.
Pilgrimage, as a global activity linked to the sacred, speaks to the special significance of persons, places and events. This book relates these sentiments to the curatorship of the Camino de Santiago that comprises a lattice of European pilgrimage itineraries converging at Santiago de Compostela in northwest Spain.
Subjects: Heritage Studies Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)
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Bigger Fish to Fry
A Theory of Cooking as Risk, with Greek Examples
Sutton, D. E.
What defines cooking as cooking, and why does cooking matter to the understanding of society, cultural change and everyday life? This book explores these questions by proposing a new theory of the meaning of cooking as a willingness to put oneself and one’s meals at risk on a daily basis, with examples from the author's fieldwork in Greece.
Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Vertiginous Life
An Anthropology of Time and the Unforeseen
Knight, D. M.
Through individual stories from crisis Greece, this book explores the everyday effects of vertigo: nausea, dizziness, breathlessness, the sense of falling, and unknowingness of Self. Being lost in time, caught in the spin-cycle of crisis, people reflect on belonging to modern Europe, neoliberal promises of accumulation, defeated futures, and the existential dilemmas of life held captive.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
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Tracing Slavery
The Politics of Atlantic Memory in The Netherlands
Balkenhol, M.
Looking at the ways in which the memory of slavery affects present-day relations in Amsterdam, this ethnographic account reveals a paradox: while there is growing official attention to the country’s slavery past (monuments, festivals, ritual occasions), many interlocutors showed little interest in the topic. This book follows the issue of slavery in everyday realities and offers a fine-grained ethnography of how people refer to this past.
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Stories from an Ancient Land
Perspectives on Wa History and Culture
Fiskesjö, M.
The Wa people have a rich civilization of their own and a deep history in the mountains of Southeast Asia. This book introduces aspects of Wa culture, including their approach to the world’s troubles, and the lessons others might learn from it.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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William Robertson Smith
Bošković, A.
William Robertson Smith’s influence on anthropology ranged from his relationship with John Ferguson McLennan, to advising James George Frazer to write about “Totem” and “Taboo” for the Encyclopaedia Britannica that he edited. This biography places a special emphasis on the notes and observations from his travels to Arabia, as well as on his influence on the representatives of the “Myth and Ritual School.”
Subject: Anthropology (General)
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Almost, but Not Quite Bored in Pula
An Anthropological Study of the Tapija Phenomenon in Northwest Croatia
Matošević, A.
Based on interviews and fieldwork conducted among residents of Pula – a coastal city in Northwestern Croatia, this study explores various aspects of a local feeling of boredom. This is mirrored in the term tapija, a word of Turkish origin describing a property deed.
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Textures of Belonging
Senses, Objects and Spaces of Romanian Roma
Racleş, A.
The longstanding European conception that Roma and non-Roma are separated by unambiguous socio-cultural distinctions has led to the construction of Roma as "non-belonging others." Challenging this conception, Textures of Belonging explores how Roma negotiate and feel belonging on the everyday level.
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After Corporate Paternalism
Material Renovation and Social Change in Times of Ruination
Straube, C.
In this ethnographic study of post-paternalist ruination and renovation, Christian Straube explores social change at the intersection of material decay and social disconnection in the former mine township Mpatamatu of Luanshya, one of the oldest mining towns on the Zambian Copperbelt.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies Sociology
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Margaret Mead
Shankman, P.
Tracing Mead’s career as an ethnographer, as the early voice of public anthropology, and as a public figure, this elegantly written biography links the professional and personal sides of her career. This short volume is an ideal starting point for anyone wanting to learn about, arguably, the most famous anthropologist of the twentieth century.
Subject: Anthropology (General)
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How Kinship Systems Change
On the Dialectics of Practice and Classification
Parkin, R.
Using some of his landmark publications on kinship, along with a new introduction, chapter and conclusion, Robert Parkin discusses here the changes in kinship terminologies and marriage practices, as well as the dialectics between them.
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Un-Settling Middle Eastern Refugees
Regimes of Exclusion and Inclusion in the Middle East, Europe, and North America
Inhorn, M. C. & Volk, L. (eds)
Since the Iraq war, the Middle East has been in continuous upheaval, resulting in the displacement of millions of people. Arriving from Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, and Syria in other parts of the world, the refugees show remarkable resilience and creativity amidst profound adversity. Through careful ethnography, this book vividly illustrates how refugees navigate regimes of exclusion, including cumbersome bureaucracies, financial insecurities, medical challenges, vilifying stereotypes, and threats of violence and bears witness to their struggles.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)
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Evil Eye in Christian Orthodox Society
A Journey from Envy to Personhood
Souvlakis, N.
Evil eye is a phenomenon observed globally and has to do with the misfortune and calamities that we can cause to someone else out of jealousy of their possessions. The book engages with evil eye beliefs in Corfu and investigates the Christian Orthodox influences on the phenomenon and how it affects individuals’ reactions to it.
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)
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Delta Life
Exploring Dynamic Environments where Rivers Meet the Sea
Krause, F. & Harris, M. (eds)
Proposing a series of innovative steps towards better understanding human lives at the interstices of water and land, this volume includes eight ethnographies from deltas around the world. The book presents ‘delta life’ with intimate descriptions of the predicaments, imaginations and activities of delta inhabitants.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Sociology
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Embracing Landscape
Living with Reindeer and Hunting among Spirits in South Siberia
Küçüküstel, S.
Examining human-animal relations among the reindeer hunting and herding Dukha community in northern Mongolia, this book focuses on concepts such as domestication and wildness from an indigenous perspective. By looking into hunting rituals and herding techniques, the ethnography questions the dynamics between people, domesticated reindeer, and wild animals.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
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The Moral Work of Anthropology
Ethnographic Studies of Anthropologists at Work
Mogensen, H. & Hansen, B. G. (eds)
Looking at anthropologists at work, this book investigates what kind of morality they perform in their occupations and the impact of this morality. The book includes ethnographic studies of anthropologists at work in four professional arenas: health care, business, management and interdisciplinary research.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Applied Anthropology
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NGOs and Lifeworlds in Africa
Transdisciplinary Perspectives
Kalfelis, M. C. & Knodel, K. (eds)
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have become ubiquitous in the development sector in Africa and attracting more academic attention. However, the fact that NGOs are an integral part of the everyday lives of men and women on the continent has been overlooked thus far. By taking a radical empirical stance, this book studies NGOs as a vital part of the lifeworlds of Africans.
Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General)
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In Memory of Times to Come
Ironies of History in Southeastern Papua New Guinea
Demian, M.
Drawing on twenty years of research, this book examines the historical perspective of a Pacific people who saw “globalization” come and go. It asks the question: What does it mean to claim that global connections are in the past rather than the present or the future?
Subjects: Anthropology (General) History (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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To See a Moose
The History of Polish Sex Education
Kościańska, A.
Guiding the reader through the development of sex education in Poland, Agnieszka Kościańska looks at how it has changed from the 19th century to the present day. The book also identifies the women and men who changed the way sex was written about in the country, and how they established the field of Polish sexology.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality History (General)
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Beyond the Veil
Reflexive Studies of Death and Dying
Thamann, A. & Christodoulaki, K. M. (eds)
Looking at the cultural responses to death and dying, this collection explores the emotional aspects that death provokes in humans, whether it is disgust, fear, awe, sadness, anger, or even joy. More broadly, this collection suggests a new paradigm in the study of death and dying.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology of Religion
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Mattering the Invisible
Technologies, Bodies, and the Realm of the Spectral
Espírito Santo, D. & Hunter, J. (eds)
Exploring how technological apparatuses “capture” invisible worlds, this book looks at how spirits, UFOs, discarnate entities, spectral energies, atmospheric forces and particles are mattered into existence by human minds. The book uses contemporary case studies where the realm of the invisible arises through technological engagement, and where the paranormal intertwines with modern technology.
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A Twisted Style
The Culture of Dreadlocks in “Western” Societies
Jerrentrup, M. T.
In "western" cultures, some people have chosen a dreadlock hairstyle, despite many in mainstream society looking at it in a negative light. Based on interviews and close observations in social media, the book offers insights into the culture(s) surrounding dreadlocks and ultimately interprets the phenomenon as a postmodern form of individuality.
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Liminal Moves
Traveling along Places, Meanings, and Times
Cangià, F.
Liminal Moves explores the (im)mobilities of three groups of people - street monkey performers in Japan, adolescents writing about migrants in Italy, and men accompanying their partners in Switzerland for work. The book explores how, for these ‘travelers’, the interplay of mobility and immobility creates a ‘liminal hotspot’, a condition of suspension and ambivalence between places, meanings and times.
Subjects: Mobility Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology
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Ethnography in the Raw
Life in a Luzon Village
Moeran, B.
Ethnography in the Raw describes the author’s encounters with a Philippine family into which he has married, his wife’s friends and acquaintances, and their lives in a remote rural village in the rice basin of Luzon, about 130 miles north east of Manila. It is both anthropological fieldwork ‘in the raw,’ and an incisive analysis of contemporary Philippine society and culture.
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Authenticity and Authorship in Pacific Island Encounters
New Lives of Old Imaginaries
Mageo, J. & Knauft, B. (eds)
Reconsidering issues of representation in the insular Pacific, this volume explores authenticity and authorship in practice as “traveling concepts” that spawn cross-fertilization along the cultural and historical routes they traverse. The chapters are contextualized by a strongly theorized introduction that considers how notions of authenticity and authorship have developed in Western societies too.
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Ethnographies of Power
A Political Anthropology of Energy
Loloum, T., Abram, S., & Ortar, N. (eds)
Energetic infrastructures are crucial to political organization. They shape the contours of states and international bodies, as well as corporations and communities, framing their material existence and their fears and idealisations of the future. Ethnographies of Power brings together ethnographic studies of contemporary entanglements of energy and political power.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Environmental Studies (General) Sustainable Development Goals
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Exchanging Objects
Nineteenth-Century Museum Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution
Nichols, C. A.
As an historical account of the exchange of “duplicate specimens” between anthropologists at the Smithsonian Institution and museums, collectors, and schools around the world in the late nineteenth century, this book reveals connections between both well-known museums and little-known local institutions, created through the exchange of museum objects. It explores how anthropologists categorized some objects in their collections as “duplicate specimens,” making them potential candidates for exchange.
Subjects: Museum Studies Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Floating Economies
The Cultural Ecology of the Dal Lake in Kashmir, India
Casimir, M. J.
In the Himalayas of the Indian part of Kashmir three communities depend on the ecology of the Dal lake: market gardeners, houseboat owners and fishers. Floating Economies describes for the first time the complex intermeshing economy, social structure and ecology of the area against the background of history and the present volatile socio-political situation.
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The Best We Share
Nation, Culture and World-Making in the UNESCO World Heritage Arena
Brumann, C.
As the most ambitious study of the World Heritage arena so far, this volume dissects the inner workings of a prominent global body, demonstrating the power of ethnography in the highly formalised and diplomatic context of a multilateral organisation.
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Agent of Change
The Deposition and Manipulation of Ash in the Past
Roth, B. J. & Adams, E. C. (eds)
Drawn from across the U.S. and Mesoamerica, the chapters in this volume explore the use, meanings, and cross-cultural patterns present in the use of ash. and highlight the importance of ash in ritual closure, social memory, and cultural transformation.
Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion
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A Taste for Oppression
A Political Ethnography of Everyday Life in Belarus
Hervouet, R.
Belarus has emerged from communism in a unique manner. The author, who has lived in Belarus for several years, highlights several mechanisms of tyranny, beyond the regime’s ability to control and repress, which should not be underestimated. The book sheds light on the reasons why part of the population supports Alexander Lukashenko and takes a fresh look at the functioning of what has been called 'the last dictatorship in Europe'.
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Religion and Pride
Hindus in Search of Recognition in La Réunion
Lang, N.
Through the examination of religious practices and public performance, the author offers a compelling study of how the Hindu community in the French territory of La Réunion assert pride in their religion as a means of gaining recognition as a religious minority.
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South Africa's Dreams
Ethnologists and Apartheid in Namibia
Gordon, R. J.
In the early sixties, many South African anthropologists supported ‘Grand Apartheid’ in Namibia. South Africa’s colonial policies in the country served as a testing ground for many key features of its repressive infrastructure, and strategies for countering anti-apartheid resistance. The book also analyses how the knowledge used to justify and implement apartheid was created.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History Peace and Conflict Studies
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Published February 2021
Experiencing Materiality
Museum Perspectives
Gamberi, V.
Representing a cutting-edge study on the junction between theoretical anthropology, material culture studies, religious studies and museum anthropology, this study highlights the contradictions of museum practices and, at the same time, the potentialities that contemporary museums could offer for an engaging relationship between visitors and museum artefacts and for rethinking or, better, ‘softening’ specific approaches in material culture studies.
Subjects: Museum Studies Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology (General)
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Rhetoric and Social Relations
Dialectics of Bonding and Contestation
Abbink, J. & LaTosky, S. (eds)
Rhetoric and Social Relations addresses the use and embeddedness of rhetoric in social life and social interaction. It explores the constitutive role of rhetoric in socio-cultural relations, where discursive persuasion is so important, and contains both theoretical chapters as well as fascinating examples of the ambiguities and effects of rhetoric used (un)consciously in social praxis.
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Published January 2022
Tropological Thought and Action
Essays on the Poetics of Imagination
Živković, M., Pelkey, J. & Fernandez, J. W. (eds)
From twilight in the Himalayas to dream worlds in the Serbian state, this book provides a unique collection of anthropological and cross-cultural inquiry into the power of rhetorical tropes and their relevance to the formation and analysis of social thought and action through a series of ethnographic essays offering in-depth studies of the human imagination at work and play around the world.
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Published December 2020
Shamanism
Traditional and Contemporary Approaches to the Mastery of Spirits and Healing
Jakobsen, M.
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)
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Waithood
Gender, Education, and Global Delays in Marriage and Childbearing
Inhorn, M. C. & Smith-Hefner, N. J. (eds)
The concept of “Waithood” was developed by political scientist Diane Singerman to describe the expanding period of time between adolescence and full adulthood as young people wait to secure steady employment and marry. The contributors to this volume employ the waithood concept as a frame for richly detailed ethnographic studies of “youth in waiting” from a variety of world areas.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology
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Published December 2020
The Sea Commands
Community and Perception of the Environment in a Portuguese Fishing Village
Mendes, P.
Azenha do Mar is a fishing community on the southwest coast of Portugal. It came into existence around forty years ago, as an outcome of the abandonment of work in the fields and of propitious ecological conditions. This book looks at the migration processes since the founding of the community and how they relate to the social inequalities towards property and labour which prevail today.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
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Published November 2020
Ecological Nostalgias
Memory, Affect and Creativity in Times of Ecological Upheavals
Angé, O. & Berliner, D. (eds)
Introducing the study of econostalgias through a variety of rich ethnographic cases, this volume argues that a strictly human centered approach does not account for contemporary longings triggered by ecosystem upheavals.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Cultural Studies (General) Memory Studies
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Published November 2020
Nature Wars
Essays Around a Contested Concept
Ellen, R.
Made up of 10 of Roy Ellen’s finest articles along with a new introduction linking them together, this book looks back at his ideas about nature before taking the arguments forward. Many of the chapters focus on research the author has conducted amongst the Nuaulu people of eastern Indonesia.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)
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Homo Itinerans
Towards a Global Ethnography of Afghanistan
Monsutti, A.
This book builds on more than two decades of ethnographic itinerancy in some twenty countries, bringing the readers from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran to Europe, North America and Australia. It describes the everyday life and transnational circulations of Afghan refugees and expatriates.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies
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The Helmand Baluch
A Native Ethnography of the People of Southwest Afghanistan
Amiri, G. R.
The late Ghulam Rahman Amiri accompanied a joint Aghan-US archaeological mission to the Sistan region of southwest Afghanistan in the 1970s and published the ethnography in Farsi in Kabul in 1987. This volume, the first English translation, describes the cultural, political, and economic systems of the Baluch people living in the lower Helmand River Valley of Afghanistan.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Archaeology
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Revealing the Invisible Mine
Social Complexities of an Undeveloped Mining Project
Skrzypek, E. E.
The Frieda River area in Papua New Guinea is home to one of the biggest undeveloped gold and copper deposits in the Pacific. This book offers an account of local stakeholder strategies as they unfolded at Frieda over forty years and provides a strong and novel commentary on sustainability and social accountability of the mining industry operating in indigenous territories.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Sustainable Development Goals
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Published October 2020
What Now
Everyday Endurance and Social Intensity in an Australian Aboriginal Community
Dalley, C.
Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork undertaken since 2006, the book addresses some of the most topical aspects of remote Aboriginal life in Australia. This includes the role of kinship and family, relationships to land and sea, and cross-cultural relations with non-Aboriginal residents.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
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Published October 2020
Aspirations of Young Adults in Urban Asia
Values, Family, and Identity
Westendorp, M., Remmert, D. & Finis, K. (eds)
Comparing first-person ethnographic accounts of young people living, working, and creating relationships in cities across Asia, this volume explores their contemporary lives, pressures, ideals, and aspirations.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Urban Studies
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Published September 2020
Facing the Crisis
Ethnographies of Work in Italian Industrial Capitalism
D'Aloisio, F. & Ghezzi, S. (eds)
Facing the Crisis brings together ethnographic material from anthropological research projects carried out in various Italian industrial locations during the last economic crisis. With its wide number of locations and industries, the volume looks at all corners of the diverse Italian manufacturing system.
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Heirs of the Bamboo
Identity and Ambivalence among the Eurasian Macanese
Gaspar, M. C.
Heirs of the Bamboo is about the Macanese who left Macao and now live in Portugal and looks at their interactions with their counterparts in Macao and elsewhere in the diaspora, using the Internet.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies
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Nourishing Life
Foodways and Humanity in an African Town
Huhn, A.
In this accessible ethnography of a small town in northern Mozambique, everyday cultural knowledge and behaviors about food, cooking, and eating reveal the deeply human pursuit of a nourishing life. This emerges less through the consumption of specific nutrients than it does in the affective experience of alimentation in contexts that support vitality, compassion, and generative relations.
Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published August 2020
Blurring Timescapes, Subverting Erasure
Remembering Ghosts on the Margins of History
Surface-Evans, S., Garrison, A. E. & Supernant, K. (eds)
What happens when we blur time and allow ourselves to haunt or to become haunted by the ghosts of the past? The authors draw on archaeological, historical, and ethnographic data to imagine timescapes that transcend our temporality. This volume demonstrates the value of conceiving of ghosts not just as metaphors, but for making the past more concrete and allowing the negative specters of enduring historical legacies, such as colonialism and capitalism, to be exorcised.
Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General) Memory Studies Heritage Studies
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Financialization
Relational Approaches
Hann, C. & Kalb, D. (eds)
Beginning with an original historical vision of financialization in human history, this volume then continues with a rich set of contemporary ethnographic case studies from Europe, Asia and Africa. Authors explore how finance influences social and economic structures in different environments.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology History (General) Sustainable Development Goals
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Modernity and the Unmaking of Men
Schubert, V.
Responding to the renewed emphasis on the significance of village studies, this book focuses on aging bachelorhood as a site of intolerable angst when faced with rural depopulation and social precarity. Based on ongoing ethnographic fieldwork in contemporary Macedonian society, the book explores the intersections between modernity, kinship and gender.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Under the Sign of the Cross
The People’s Salvation Cathedral and the Church-Building Industry in Postsocialist Romania
Tateo, G.
Based on extensive ethnographic research, this book investigates the construction of the world’s highest Orthodox cathedral in Bucharest, Romania. Through the notion of re-consecration, the book brings together sociological and anthropological scholarship on eastern Christianity, secularization, postsocialist urban change and nationalism in a vivid account of societal transformation.
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General) Urban Studies
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Punks and Skins United
Identity, Class and the Economics of an Eastern German Subculture
Venstel, A.
Germany has one of the most lively and well-developed punk scenes in the world. However, punk in this country is not just a style-based music community. This book provides an anthropological examination of how punk reflects the larger changes and contradictions in post-reunification Germany.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Cultural Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
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Who’s Cashing In?
Contemporary Perspectives on New Monies and Global Cashlessness
Sen, A., Lindquist, J., & Kolling, M. (eds)
From credit cards to cryptocurrencies, online and mobile money, remittances, and demonetization policies, cashless infrastructures are becoming increasingly common around the world. Who’s Cashing In? explores how different modes of cashlessness impact, transform and challenge the everyday lives and livelihoods of local communities in multiple regional contexts.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General) Sustainable Development Goals
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Birds of Passage
Hunting and Conservation in Malta
Falzon, M.-A.
Drawing on years of ethnographic fieldwork in Malta, this book traces the complex interactions between hunters, birds and the landscapes they inhabit, as well as the dynamics and politics of bird conservation. Birds of Passage looks at the practice and meaning of hunting in a specific context, and raises broader questions about human-wildlife interactions and the uncertain outcomes of conservation.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Sustainable Development Goals
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Published July 2020
Beyond Filial Piety
Rethinking Aging and Caregiving in Contemporary East Asian Societies
Shea, J., Moore, K., & Zhang, H. (eds)
This volume explores emerging cultural meanings and social responses to population aging in contemporary East Asian societies. Drawing on ethnographic, demographic, policy, archival, and media data, the authors trace both common patterns and diverging trends across China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Japan, and Korea.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
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Published July 2020
Tides of Empire
Religion, Development, and Environment in Cambodia
Work, C.
Set at the forested edge of Cambodia’s frontier, this book shares stories and insights from migrants, loggers, and soldiers carving homesteads into a new village. The stories included in this book show the fluid boundaries of social, economic and political classifications in the area, and that the inhabitants’ poverty or wealth reveal the legacy of imperial power.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies Anthropology of Religion
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An Enchantment of Digital Archaeology
Raising the Dead with Agent-Based Models, Archaeogaming and Artificial Intelligence
Graham, S.
The use of computation in archaeology is a kind of magic, a way of heightening the archaeological imagination. Agent-based modelling allows archaeologists to test the ‘just-so’ stories they tell about the past. These models are one end of a spectrum that ends with video games. This volume explores this spectrum in the context of Roman archaeology, addressing the strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities of a formalized approach to computation and archaeogaming.
Subjects: Archaeology Media Studies Heritage Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published June 2020
Ours Once More
Folklore, Ideology, and the Making of Modern Greece
Herzfeld, M.
When this work – one that contributes to both the history and anthropology fields – first appeared in 1982, it was hailed as a landmark study of the role of folklore in nation-building. In this expanded edition, a new introduction by the author and a foreword by Sharon Macdonald document its importance for current debates about Greece’s often contested place in the complex politics of the European Union.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) History (General)
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Pacing Mobilities
Timing, Intensity, Tempo and Duration of Human Movements
Amit, V. & Salazar, N. B. (eds)
Turning the attention to the temporal as well as the more familiar spatial dimensions of mobility, this volume looks at the means of mobility in twenty-first century movement. Through a focus on pacing and pace, this volume looks at how people are moving rather than the more usual focus in mobility studies on where they are heading.
Subjects: Mobility Studies Anthropology (General)
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Time Work
Studies of Temporal Agency
Flaherty, M. G., Meinert, L., & Dalsgård, A. L. (eds)
Examining how people alter or customize various dimensions of their temporal experience, this volume discovers how we resist external sources of temporal constraint or structure. These ethnographic studies are international in scope and look at many different countries and continents.
Subjects: Applied Anthropology Sociology Anthropology (General)
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Published May 2020
Can Academics Change the World?
An Israeli Anthropologist's Testimony on the Rise and Fall of a Protest Movement on Campus
Shokeid, M.
Moshe Shokeid narrates his experiences as a member of AD KAN (NO MORE), a protest movement of Israeli academics at Tel Aviv University, who fought against the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories, founded during the first Palestinian intifada/uprising (1987-1993).
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Jewish Studies Anthropology (General) Educational Studies
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Published May 2020
Structures of Protection?
Rethinking Refugee Shelter
Scott-Smith, T. & Breeze, M. E. (eds)
Questioning what shelter is and how we can define it, this volume brings together twenty-three essays on different forms of refugee shelter, with a view to widening public understanding about the lives of forced migrants and developing theoretical understanding of this oft-neglected facet of the refugee experience.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology Sustainable Development Goals
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Finding Ways Through Eurospace
West African Movers Re-viewing Europe from the Inside
Schapendonk, J.
Studying the im/mobility trajectories of West Africans in the EU, this book presents a new approach to West African migrants in Europe. Based on a trajectory ethnography, this book discusses how African migrants are confronted with rigid mobility regimes, but also how they manage to transgress and circumvent them.
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Published May 2020
Spaces of Solidarity
Karen Activism in the Thailand-Burma Borderlands
Sharples, R.
Exploring notions of activism and space as narrated by Karen displaced persons and refugees in the Thai-Burma borderlands, this book looks beyond refugees as passive victims or a ‘humanitarian case’. Instead, the book examines the active engagement the Karen have with their persecution and displacement, and their subsequent emplacement in the borderlands.
Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Total Atheism
Secular Activism and the Politics of Difference in South India
Binder, S.
Exploring lived atheism in the South Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, this book offers a unique insight into India’s rapidly transforming multi-religious society and develops an alternative to Eurocentric accounts of secularity and critically revisits central themes of South Asianist scholarship from the hitherto marginalized vantage point of radically secular and explicitly irreligious atheists in India.
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)
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Theorising Media and Conflict
Budka, P. & Bräuchler, B. (eds)
Theorising Media and Conflict brings together anthropologists as well as media and communication scholars to collectively address the elusive and complex relationship between media and conflict. Practitioners, policymakers, students and scholars who wish to understand the lived realities and dynamics of contemporary conflicts will find this book invaluable.
Subjects: Media Studies Anthropology (General)
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Selfishness and Selflessness
New Approaches to Understanding Morality
Layne, L. L. (ed)
We are said to be suffering a narcissism epidemic when the need for collective action seems more pressing than ever. Selfishness and selflessness address the ‘proper’ and ‘improper’ relationship between one’s self and others. The work they do during periods of social instability and cultural change is probed in this original, interdisciplinary collection.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology
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Rhetorical Minds
Meditations on the Cognitive Science of Persuasion
Oakley, T.
As a meditation on the nature of human thought and action, this book starts with the proposition that human thinking is inherently and irreducibly social, and that the long rhetorical tradition in the West has been a neglected source for thinking about cognition.
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Published March 2020
Space, Place and Identity
Wodaabe of Niger in the 21st Century
Köhler, F.
Known as highly mobile cattle nomads, the Wodaabe in Niger are today increasingly engaged in a transformation process towards a more diversified livelihood based primarily on agro-pastoralism and urban work migration. This book examines recent transformations in spatial patterns, notably in the context of urban migration and in processes of sedentarization in rural proto-villages.
Subjects: Mobility Studies Urban Studies Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies
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The Children of Gregoria
Dogme Ethnography of a Mexican Family
Kristensen, R. & Adeath Villamil, C.
The Children of Gregoria portrays a struggling Mexico, told through the story of the Rosales family. This book highlights their voices and allows them to tell their own stories in an accessible, literary manner without prejudice, persecution or judgment.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Media Studies
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After the Pink Tide
Corporate State Formation and New Egalitarianisms in Latin America
Gold, M. & Zagato, A. (eds)
The left-wing Pink Tide movement that swept across Latin America seems to now be overturned, as a new wave of free-market thinkers emerge across the continent. This book analyses the emergence of corporate power within Latin America and the response of egalitarian movements across the continent trying to break open the constraints of the state.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)
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Media Practices and Changing African Socialities
Non-media-centric Perspectives
Helle-Valle, J. & Strom-Mathiesen, A. (eds)
Deriving from innovative new work by six researchers, this book questions what the new media's role is in contemporary Africa. The focus is on media-related practices, which require engagement with different perspectives and concerns while situating these in a wider analytical context.
Subjects: Media Studies Anthropology (General) Development Studies
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Published February 2020
On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise
Affect, Tourism, Belize
Little, K.
On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise is a collection of seven stories about local lives in the fictional village of Wallaceville. They turn rogue in the face of runaway forces that take the form and figure of a Belize beast-time, which can appear as a comic mishap, social ruin, tragic excess, or wild guesses.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Literary Studies
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Credit and Debt in an Unequal Society
Establishing a Consumer Credit Market in South Africa
Schraten, J.
Investigates the political reasons for South Africa adopting an allegedly self-regulating market despite its disastrous effects and identifies the colonialist ideas of property rights as a mainstay of the existing social order.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General) Sociology
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The Roma and Their Struggle for Identity in Contemporary Europe
Baar, H. van & Kóczé, A. (eds)
Thirty years after the collapse of Communism, and at a time of radically diverse kinds of identity politics, including anti-migrant, anti-Roma, anti-Muslim and anti-establishment movements, this book analyses how Roma identity is expressed in contemporary Europe.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
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Management and Morality
An Ethnographic Exploration of Management Consultancy Seminars
Henningsen, E.
Drawing on extended ethnographic studies of management consultancies in the Oslo region of Norway, this book seeks to find a richer understanding of their role in contemporary work life and the attraction their practices exert on people. The author shows that management consultancy is an arena of meaning that should be analysed as a ‘cultural space’.
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Sustaining Indigenous Songs
Contemporary Warlpiri Ceremonial Life in Central Australia
Curran, G.
Set against a discussion of the contemporary vitality of Aboriginal musical traditions in Australia and embedded in the historical background of this region, Curran lays out the features of Warlpiri songs and ceremonies, and centers on a focal case study of the Warlpiri Kurdiji ceremony to illustrate the modes in which core cultural themes are being passed on through song to future generations.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Cultural Studies (General)
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Fifty Years of Peasant Wars in Latin America
Binford, L., Gill, L., & Striffler, S. (eds)
Informed by Eric Wolf’s Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century, published in 1969, this book examines selected peasant struggles in seven Latin American countries during the last fifty years and suggests the continuing relevance of Wolf’s approach.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)
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Big Capital in an Unequal World
The Micropolitics of Wealth in Pakistan
Armytage, R.
Following the hidden lives of the global “1%”, this book examines the networks, social practices, marriages, and machinations of the elite in Pakistan. In doing so, it reveals the daily, even mundane, ways in which elites contribute to and shape the inequality that characterises the modern world.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)
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Published January 2020
Institutionalised Dreams
The Art of Managing Foreign Aid
Drążkiewicz, E.
How do states become donors? Why do individuals decide to share their wealth with others through foreign aid? Using examples from Poland, Elżbieta Drążkiewicz demonstrates how the concept of foreign aid requires the establishment of a specific moral economy which links national ideologies and local cultures of charitable giving with broader ideas about the global political economy.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General) Sustainable Development Goals
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Published December 2019
Mixed Harvest
Stories from the Human Past
Swigart, R.
After millennia of wandering the earth with little impact, a universal, if inadvertent transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture and pastoralism was complete within a period of a few thousand years. Mixed Harvest tells the story of the Sedentary Divide, the most significant event since modern humans emerged.
Subjects: Archaeology Literary Studies Memory Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published November 2019
Social Im/mobilities in Africa
Ethnographic Approaches
Noret, J. (ed)
Grounded in both theory and ethnography, this volume insists on taking social positionality seriously when accounting for Africa’s current age of polarizing wealth. To this end, the notion of social im/mobilities emphasizes the complexities of current changes, taking us beyond the prism of a unidimensional social ladder, for social moves cannot always be apprehended through the binaries of ‘gains’ and ‘losses’.
Subjects: Mobility Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology
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Published November 2019
Heritage Movements in Asia
Cultural Heritage Activism, Politics, and Identity
Mozaffari, A. & Jones, T. (eds)
This volume is unique in that it is dedicated to approaching the analysis of heritage through the concepts of social movements. Adapting the latest developments in the field of social movements, the chapters examine the formation, use and contestation of heritage by various official, non-official and activist players and the spaces where such ongoing negotiations and contestation take place.
Subjects: Heritage Studies Museum Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published November 2019
It Happens Among People
Resonances and Extensions of the Work of Fredrik Barth
Wu, K. & Weller, R. P. (eds)
Written by eleven leading anthropologists from around the world, this volume extends the insights of Fredrik Barth, one of the most important anthropologists of the twentieth century, to push even further at the frontiers of anthropology.
Subject: Anthropology (General)
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Nourishing the Nation
Food as National Identity in Catalonia
Johannes, V.
Provides an ethnographic account of the everyday experience of national identity in Catalonia, using an essential, everyday object of consumption: food. As a crucial element of Catalan cultural life, a focus on food provides unique insight into the lived realities of Catalan nationalism, and how Catalans experience and express their national identity today.
Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)
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Atlantic Perspectives
Places, Spirits and Heritage
Balkenhol, M., Blanes, R. L., & Sarró, R. (eds)
Focusing on mobility, religion, and belonging, the volume contributes to transatlantic anthropology and history by bringing together religion, cultural heritage and placemaking in the Atlantic world. The entanglements of religion, cultural heritage and belonging are ethnographically scrutinized to perceive the connections and disconnections of specific places.
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Becoming Vaishnava in an Ideal Vedic City
Fahy, J.
Becoming Vaishnava in an Ideal Vedic City centers on a growing multinational community of ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness) devotees in Mayapur, West Bengal. Paying particular attention to devotees’ failure to consistently live up to ISKCON’s ideals, and the ongoing struggle to realize the utopian vision of an ‘ideal Vedic city’.
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Born a Slave, Died a Pioneer
Nathan Harrison and the Historical Archaeology of Legend
Mallios, S.
Few people in the history of the United States embody ideals of the American Dream more than Nathan Harrison. His is a story with prominent themes of overcoming staggering obstacles, forging something-from-nothing, and evincing gritty perseverance. This book uses spectacular recent discoveries from the Nathan Harrison cabin site to offer new insights and perspectives into this most American biography.
Subjects: Archaeology Heritage Studies History (General) Anthropology (General)
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Claiming Homes
Confronting Domicide in Rural China
Bruckermann, C.
Explores how ‘care’, defined as ‘work done on behalf of others’, allows villagers to forge belonging and stake claims over the locality, its values, and each other, in defiance of the social exclusion projected by China’s politics of place and localization of class.
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Inward Looking
The Impact of Migration on Romanipe from the Romani Perspective
Marinov, A. G.
Inward Looking seeks to understand the relationship between Romani identity, performance and migration. Particularly, it studies the idea of ‘Romanipe’ under the prism of the personal accounts of Romani migrants. The findings are based on qualitative data gathered from Romani migrants from three towns in Bulgaria.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Cultural Studies (General) Refugee and Migration Studies
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Regimes of Responsibility in Africa
Genealogies, Rationalities and Conflicts
Rubbers, B. & Jedlowski, A. (eds)
How have African moral worlds changed since the 1990s? Regimes of Responsibility in Africa analyses the transformations that discourses and practices of responsibility have undergone in Africa. The work enters into a dialogue with the emerging corpus of studies in the field of ethics, providing to it a set of analytical perspectives that can help further enlarge its theoretical and geographical scope.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)
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Disaster Upon Disaster
Exploring the Gap Between Knowledge, Policy and Practice
Hoffman, S. M. & Barrios, R. E. (eds)
A consistent problem that confronts disaster reduction is the disjunction between academic and expert knowledge and policies and practices of agencies mandated to deal with the concern. Disaster Upon Disaster illuminates the numerous disjunctions between the suppositions, realities, agendas, and executions in the field and advances solutions and the matter of outcomes.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Applied Anthropology
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Published September 2019
Water, Life, and Profit
Fluid Economies and Cultures of Niamey, Niger
Keough, S. B. & Youngstedt, S. M
Water, Life, and Profit offers a holistic analysis of the people, economies, cultural symbolism, and material culture involved in the management, production, distribution, and consumption of drinking water in the urban context of Niamey, Niger. Keough and Youngstedt offer new insights into the lived experiences of gender, ethnicity, class, and spatial structure in Niamey’s water economies today.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Sustainable Development Goals
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Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough
Ethnographic Responses
Martínez, F. & Laviolette, P. (eds)
We are all repairers. Exploring some of the ways in which repair practices and perceptions of brokenness vary culturally Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough argues that repair is an attempt to extend the life of things as well as an answer to failures, gaps, wrongdoings and leftovers.
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The Sound of Silence
Indigenous Perspectives on the Historical Archaeology of Colonialism
Äikäs, T. & Salmi, A.-K. (eds)
Colonial encounters between indigenous peoples and European state powers are overarching themes in the historical archaeology of the modern era, and postcolonial historical archaeology has repeatedly emphasized the complex two-way nature of colonial encounters. The volume examines common trajectories in indigenous colonial histories, and explores new ways to understand cultural contact, hybridization and power relations between indigenous peoples and colonial powers from the indigenous point of view.
Subjects: Archaeology Colonial History Memory Studies Anthropology (General)
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Ambiguous Childhoods
Peer Socialisation, Schooling and Agency in a Zambian Village
Clemensen, N.
Drawing on rich linguistic-ethnographic details of Zambian children interacting, combined with observations of school and household procedures, the author provides a rare insight into the lives, voices, and learning paths of children in a rural African setting.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Development Studies Educational Studies
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Published August 2019
The Museum of Mankind
Man and Boy in the British Museum Ethnography Department
Burt, B.
The Museum of Mankind was an innovative and popular showcase for minority cultures from around the non-Western world from 1970 to 1997, as the devolved Ethnography Department of the British Museum. This memoir of over forty years’ service with the Department is a critical appreciation of its achievements in the various roles of a national museum, of the personalities of its staff and of the issues raised in the representation of exotic cultures.
Subjects: Museum Studies Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published August 2019
Multiple Nature-Cultures, Diverse Anthropologies
Bruun Jensen, C. & Morita, A. (eds)
Over time, the role of nature in anthropology has evolved from being a mere backdrop for social and cultural diversity to being viewed as an integral part of the ontological entanglement of human and nonhuman agents. This transformation of the role of nature offers important insight into the relationships between diverse anthropological traditions.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)
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Published August 2019
Muted Memories
Heritage-Making, Bagamoyo, and the East African Caravan Trade
Lindström, J.
This book examines the centrality of the East African Caravan Trade to Bagamoyo, a Tanzanian port town on the Indian Ocean, and explores the way that this history was silenced when Bagamoyo was instead branded as a slave route town in 2006 in an attempt to qualify it for the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies Development Studies
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When Will We Talk About Hitler?
German Students and the Nazi Past
Oeser, A.
What do ordinary Germans think of their country’s Nazi past? Do young Germans just want to "move on?" Combining observation, interviews, and archival work, the studies conducted in this book explore these questions to reveal the complexity of history and how young Germans view Nazism’s place in contemporary society.
Subjects: History (General) Educational Studies Anthropology (General) Memory Studies
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Published July 2019
PC Worlds
Political Correctness and Rising Elites at the End of Hegemony
Friedman, J.
This provocative work offers an anthropological analysis of the phenomenon of political correctness, both as a general phenomenon of communication, in which associations in space and time take precedence over the content of what is communicated, and as specific critical historical conjunctures in which new elites attempt to redefine social reality.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Media Studies
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Published July 2019
The Anti-Social Contract
Injurious Talk and Dangerous Exchanges in Northern Mongolia
Højer, L.
Set in a remote district of villagers and nomadic pastoralists in the northernmost part of Mongolia, this ethnography reveals an everyday universe where uncertain relations are as much internally cultivated in indigenous Mongolian perceptions of social relatedness, as it is externally confronted in postsocialist surroundings of unemployment and diminished social security.
Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General)
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Articulate Necrographies
Comparative Perspectives on the Voices and Silences of the Dead
Panagiotopoulos, A. & Espírito Santo, D. (eds)
Going beyond the frameworks of the anthropology of death, Articulate Necrographies offers a dramatic new way of studying the dead and its interactions with the living. The collection introduces the concept of “necrography” to describe the way death and the dead create their own kinds of biographies in and among the living.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Heritage Studies Literary Studies
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The Girl in the Text
Smith, A. (ed)
How are girls represented in written and graphic texts, and how do these representations inform our understanding of girlhood? In this volume, contributors examine the girl in the text in order to explore a range of perspectives on girlhood across borders and in relation to their positionality.
Subjects: Literary Studies Sociology Media Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published July 2019
Mobile Urbanity
Somali Presence in Urban East Africa
Carrier, N. & Scharrer, T. (eds)
Demystifying Somali residence and mobility in urban East Africa, this volume shows its historical depth, and explores the social, cultural and political underpinnings of Somali-led urban transformation. In so doing, it offers a vivid case study of the transformative power of (forced) migration on urban centres, and the intertwining of urbanity and mobility.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Urban Studies Sustainable Development Goals
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Published July 2019
Lewis Henry Morgan's Comparisons
Reassessing Terminology, Anarchy and Worldview in Indigenous Societies of America, Australia and Highland Middle India
Pfeffer, G.
Georg Pfeffer re-examines the work of Lewis Henry Morgan on relationship terminologies, societal forms, and ideas of property and the relationship between these three domains. He concludes that reciprocal affinal relations determine most ‘classificatory’ terminologies and regulate many non-state societies, their property notions, and their rituals.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Crossing Histories and Ethnographies
Following Colonial Historicities in Timor-Leste
Roque, R. & Traube, E. G. (eds)
Brings together different generations of Timor-Leste scholars into dialogue to reconsider a diversity of such critical topics as the incorporation of strangers, the meanings of colonial documents, the value of sacred heirlooms, or the remembering (and forgetting) of colonial violence.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History Sociology
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Published June 2019
Encounters with Emotions
Negotiating Cultural Differences since Early Modernity
Gammerl, B., Nielsen, P., & Pernau, M. (eds)
Spanning Europe, Asia and the Pacific, Encounters with Emotions investigates experiences of face-to-face transcultural encounters from the seventeenth century to the present. The case-studies presented in this volume explore the cultural aspects of nature and the bodily dimensions of nurture in order to trace the historical trajectories that shape our understandings of current cultural boundaries and effects of globalization.
Subjects: History (General) Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published June 2019
24 Bars to Kill
Hip Hop, Aspiration, and Japan's Social Margins
Armstrong, A. B.
Contrary to persistent depictions of an ethnically and economically homogeneous Japan, “ghetto” or “gangsta” J-hop music gives voice to the suffering, deprivation, and social exclusion experienced by many modern Japanese. 24 Bars to Kill gives a fascinating ethnographic account of this music as well as the subculture around it.
Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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In Pursuit of Belonging
Forging an Ethical Life in European-Turkish Spaces
Rottmann, S, B.
The story of one remarkable woman, Leyla, a mother, who has struggled against pain and shame to live a life that makes her proud and which also inspires others. Using her story, In Pursuit of Belonging enhances our understanding of key issues in the anthropology of ethics and migration.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology
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Money Games
Gambling in a Papua New Guinea Town
Pickles, A. J.
Since the Colonial era, gambling has come to dominate nighttime activity in Papua New Guinea. This richly detailed ethnography intersects with theories of money, value, play, money, exchange, informal economy, materiality, social change, leadership, and the anthropology of Melanesia.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Cultural Studies (General)
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Food and Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century
Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
Collinson, P., Young, I., Antal, L., & Macbeth, H. (eds)
Sustainability is one of the great problems facing food production today. Using cross-disciplinary perspectives from international scholars working in social, cultural and biological anthropology, ecology and environmental biology, this volume brings many new perspectives to the problems we face.
Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General) Sustainable Development Goals
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Published June 2019
Market Frictions
Trade and Urbanization at the Vietnam-China Border
Endres, K. W.
Based on ethnographic research conducted during several years, Market Frictions examines the tensions and frictions that emerge from the interaction of global market forces, urban planning policies, and small-scale trading activities in the Vietnamese border city of Lào Cai.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General) Sociology Sustainable Development Goals
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Published May 2019
Marketing Hope
Get-Rich-Quick Schemes in Siberia
Schiffauer, L.
Looks at how get-rich-quick schemes manifest themselves in a Siberian town. By focusing on the social dynamics of these popular economies, Leonie Schiffauer provides insights into how capitalist logic is learned and negotiated, and how it affects local realities in a post-Soviet environment.
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Management by Seclusion
A Critique of World Bank Promises to End Global Poverty
Cochrane, G.
Assessing the World Bank’s attempts to combat global poverty over the past 50 years, anthropologist and former World Bank Advisor Glynn Cochrane argues that instead of the Bank’s prevailing strategy of “management by seclusion,” poverty alleviation requires personal engagement with the poorest by helpers with hands-on local and cultural skills.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies Sustainable Development Goals
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Published April 2019
Post-Ottoman Topologies
The Presence of the Past in the Era of the Nation-State
Argenti, N. (ed)
With contributions from several of the Balkan countries that once were united under the aegis of the Ottoman Empire, this latest volume proposes new theoretical approaches to the experience and transmission of the past through time.
Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General) Memory Studies
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Published March 2019
Democracy's Paradox
Populism and its Contemporary Crisis
Kapferer, B. & Theodossopoulos, D. (eds)
Does populism indicate a radical crisis in Western democratic political systems? Is it a revolt by those who feel they have too little voice in the affairs of state or are otherwise marginalized or oppressed? Or are populist movements part of the democratic process?
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology
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Raccomandazione
Clientelism and Connections in Italy
Zinn, D. L.
Based on ethnographic research in southern Italy, this book examines the concept of raccomandazione, the omnipresent social practice of using connections to get things done. Viewing the practice from both emic and etic perspectives, it builds on and extends past scholarship to consider the nature of patronage in a contemporary society and its relationship to corruption.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Applied Anthropology
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Playing the Marginality Game
Identity Politics in West Africa
Schroven, A.
In Guinea, situated in the background of central government struggles, rural elites, through the use of identity politics, employ history and contemporary political reforms to maintain their privileges and perpetuate a generation-old local social contract that bridges ethnic and religious divides.
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Published March 2019
How Materials Matter
Design, Innovation and Materiality in the Pacific
Were, G.
Explores how design and innovation shape people’s lives in the Pacific. Focusing on plant materials from the region, it reveals ways in which a variety of people – from craftswomen and scientists to architects and politicians – work with materials to transform worlds.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Cultural Studies (General)
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Published March 2019
Fate Calculation Experts
Diviners Seeking Legitimation in Contemporary China
Li, G.
As the practice of divination, long stigmatized as an immoral superstition, enjoys a revival in contemporary China, Fate Calculation Experts explores the various ways in which diviners attempt to achieve legitimation in a society which identifies strongly with modernity, science, and rationality.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion
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Published February 2019
Extinct Monsters to Deep Time
Conflict, Compromise, and the Making of Smithsonian's Fossil Halls
Marsh, D. E.
Extinct Monsters to Deep Time is an ethnography that documents the growing friction between the research and outreach functions of the museum in the 21st century.
Subjects: Museum Studies Anthropology (General)
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At Home on the Waves
Human Habitation of the Sea from the Mesolithic to Today
King, T. J. & Robinson, G. (eds)
This collection explores the variety of ways in which people have long made themselves at home at sea, bringing together both ethnographic and archaeological research – much of it with an explicit Ingoldian approach – on a wide range of geographical areas and historical periods.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Archaeology Environmental Studies (General)
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Published February 2019
Going to Pentecost
An Experimental Approach to Studies in Pentecostalism
Eriksen, A. Blanes, R. L., MacCarthy, M.
Co-authored by three anthropologists with long–term expertise studying Pentecostalism in Africa and Melanesia, and in recognition of the increasingly non-territorial nature of religion in the contemporary world, Going to Pentecost offers an experimental approach to the study of global religious movements, and Pentecostalism in particular.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion
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Published January 2019
Being Bedouin Around Petra
Life at a World Heritage Site in the Twenty-First Century
Bille, M.
Being Bedouin Around Petra explores the relationships between the UNESCO protection conferred on Petra, Jordan, and the traditions and lives of the semi-nomadic Bedouin who inhabit the surrounding area. It explores what it means to be Bedouin when tourism, heritage protection, national discourse, and other forces lay competing claims to the past.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Heritage Studies
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Published January 2019
Monetising the Dividual Self
The Emergence of the Lifestyle Blog and Influencers in Malaysia
Hopkins, J.
Combining theoretical discussions with shorter case studies, this book offers an anthropological exploration of the emergence in Malaysia of lifestyle bloggers. It tracks the transformation of personal blogs, which attracted readers with spontaneous, authentic accounts of everyday life, into lifestyle blogs that generate income through advertising and foreground consumerist lifestyles.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Media Studies
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Published December 2018
Conceptualizing the World
An Exploration across Disciplines
Jordheim, H. & Sandmo, E. (eds)
This innovative and interdisciplinary volume explores the central paradox of globalization and illuminates historical moments that range from antiquity to the era of Google Earth through contributions that trace the emergence of the world in multitudinous representations, practices, and human experiences.
Subjects: History (General) Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology (General)
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Published December 2018
Democracy Struggles
NGOs and the Politics of Aid in Serbia
Vetta, T.
This book explores the “associational revolution” in post-socialist, post-conflict Serbia. It traces the boom of local NGOs since the 1990s in the context of the global political economy of Aid, neoliberal state restructuring, and shifting post-Cold War hegemonies, and unpacks the various forms of dispossession and inequality entailed in the democracy-promotion project.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
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Of Life and Health
The Language of Art and Religion in an African Medical System
Tengan, A. B.
An anthropological study of the health system of the Dagara people of northern Ghana and southern Burkina Faso, Of Life and Health develops a cultural and epistemological lexicon of Dagara life by examining its religious, ritual, and artistic expressions, and gives a holistic account of the Dagara knowledge system.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Medical Anthropology
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From Storeroom to Stage
Romanian Attire and the Politics of Folklore
Urdea, A.
Tracing in reverse the journey of a collection of Romanian folk objects from a museum in London back to the villages where they were made, From Storeroom to Stage explores the role that material culture plays in the production of value and meaning.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Museum Studies Heritage Studies
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Published November 2018
Artifak
Cultural Revival, Tourism, and the Recrafting of History in Vanuatu
DeBlock, H.
Artifak investigates the meaning and value of (art) objects as commodities in Vanuatu, in differing states of transit and transition: in the local place, on the market, and in the museum. It provides an ethnographic account of commoditization in the context of revitalization of culture and the arts in Vanuatu.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies Museum Studies
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Published November 2018
Pacific Realities
Changing Perspectives on Resilience and Resistance
Dousset, L. & Nayral, M. (eds)
In the context of dramatic changes and processes of “glocalization” across the Pacific region, and avoiding conventional “local-global” dichotomies, this volume explores the new and multifaceted forms of resistance and resilience through which communities attempt to regain their original social, political, and economic status and structure after disruption or displacement.
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Published November 2018
Non-Humans in Amerindian South America
Ethnographies of Indigenous Cosmologies, Rituals and Songs
Rivera Andía, J. J. (ed)
Drawing on fieldwork from diverse Amerindian societies, and presenting ethnographies of non-human entities emerging in ritual, oral tradition, cosmology, shamanism and music, this book offers new insights into the indigenous constitutions of humanity, personhood, and environment characteristic of the South American highlands and lowlands.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published October 2018
Competing Power
Landscapes of Migration, Violence and the State
Halstead, N.
Drawing from ethnographic material based on long-term research in Guyana, Competing Power shows how the local is occupied and re-occupied by various powerful and powerless people and entities (“big ones” and “small ones”), and how it becomes the site of intense power negotiations in relation to external ideas of empowerment.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published October 2018
Social DNA
Rethinking Our Evolutionary Past
Martin, M. K.
Social DNA presents a new synthesis of ideas on human social origins based upon the evolution of behavioral plasticity and the process of multilevel selection. What set our ancestors off on a separate evolutionary trajectory – what made them human – was the ability to flex their reproductive and social strategies in response to changing environmental conditions.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Archaeology
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Indeterminacy
Waste, Value, and the Imagination
Alexander, C. & Sanchez, A. (eds)
What happens to people, places, and things that do not fit the progressive, ordering narratives of capitalism and modernity? This volume explores the indeterminacy left behind by conventional understandings of progress and shows how totalizing forward movement may be resisted by fragments, open-endedness, and the possibility of going nowhere at all.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published September 2018
Travelling towards Home
Mobilities and Homemaking
Frost, N. & Selwyn, T. (eds)
This collection brings ethnographic insight into the ever more topical question of homemaking, exploring a diverse range of socio-political contexts worldwide (from Jewish returnees from Israel to Ukraine to young gay South Asians in London) and provoking new understandings of the material and symbolic process of making oneself “at home.”
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Mobility Studies
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Published September 2018
Elite Malay Polygamy
Wives, Wealth and Woes in Malaysia
Zeitzen, M. K.
An ethnography of elite polygamy in urban Malaysia, this volume explores the impact this growing practice has on Malay gender relations, examining the varied and often-conflicted polygamy narratives of elite Malay women, who manage their lives and loves under the “threat” of husbands able to marry another woman without their knowledge or consent.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality Political and Economic Anthropology
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Edges, Fringes, Frontiers
Integral Ecology, Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainability in Guyana
Henfrey, T. B.
Based on an ethnographic account of subsistence forest use by Wapishana people in Guyana and developing an original analytical framework, Edges, Frontiers, Fringes examines the social, cultural and behavioral bases for sustainability and resilience in indigenous resource use.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
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Medicinal Rule
A Historical Anthropology of Kingship in East and Central Africa
Stroeken, K.
Based on ethnography-driven regional comparison and a critical re-examination of classic monographs on some forty cultural groups, this volume makes the arresting claim that across equatorial Africa, the model of rule has been medicine – and not (as Europeans have long assumed) the colonizer’s despotic administrator, the missionary’s divine king, or Vansina’s big man.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History
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Published September 2018
Cash Transfers in Context
An Anthropological Perspective
Olivier de Sardan, J.-P. & Piccoli, E. (eds)
Cash transfer programs have become the preferred channel for delivering emergency aid or tackling poverty in low-and middle-income countries. This book sheds light on their unpredicted consequences worldwide, detailing how they are used by actors to pursue their own strategies and how local populations relate to the external norms they impose.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
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Economy, Crime and Wrong in a Neoliberal Era
Carrier, J. G. (ed)
This volume examines the relationship between corporate and economic wrongdoing and the neoliberal policies and practices that have been influential in Western societies since around 1980, considering whether neoliberalism has affected the likelihood that people and firms will act in ways that many would consider wrong – and even fragmented our very ideas of economic right and wrong.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published September 2018
Barter and Social Regeneration in the Argentinean Andes
Angé, O.
Drawing on ethnographic data from fairs in the Southern Andes involving highland herders and lowland cultivators, Barter and Social Regeneration in the Argentinean Andesadvances an anthropology of the practice of barter, contributing to a fuller understanding of how social groups create themselves through material circulation.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published August 2018
Roma Activism
Reimagining Power and Knowledge
Beck, S. & Ivasiuc, A. (eds)
Exploring contemporary debates and developments and gathering together contributors from activism, academia, and the worlds of policy and development, this volume argues for taking up reflexivity as practice in in Roma-related research and forms of activism, and advocates a necessary renewal of research sites, methods, and epistemologies.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published August 2018
The Wheel of Autonomy
Rhetoric and Ethnicity in the Omo Valley
Girke, F.
Through the theoretical lens of rhetoric, this book offers an interactionalist analysis of how the Kara – a small population in southern Ethiopia – negotiate ethnic and non-ethnic differences among themselves, the relations with their various neighbors, and eventually their integration in the Ethiopian state.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published August 2018
Lullabies and Battle Cries
Music, Identity and Emotion among Republican Parading Bands in Northern Ireland
Rollins, J.
Lullabies and Battle Cries examines the relationship between music, emotion, memory, and identity in Northern Irish republican parading bands, exploring how rebel parade music provides a foundational idiom of national and republican expression, acting as a critical medium for shaping new political identities.
Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)
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All or None
Cooperation and Sustainability in Italy's Red Belt
Sánchez Hall, A.
All or None is a social history and anthropological study of the world’s oldest voluntary collective farms in Ravenna, Italy, addressing the question of the viability of cooperative enterprise as a potential solution for displaced workers, and as a more humane alternative to capitalist agribusiness.
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The Rite of Urban Passage
The Spatial Ritualization of Iranian Urban Transformation
Masoudi, R.
Focusing on the spatial dynamics of Muharram processions in the Iranian city, this book offers an alternative approach to understanding the process of urban transformation, and puts forward a spatial genealogy of Muharram rituals that provides a platform for developing a fresh spatial approach to ritual studies.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Urban Studies Anthropology of Religion
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Published August 2018
Mirrors of Passing
Unlocking the Mysteries of Death, Materiality, and Time
Seebach, S. & Willerslev, R. (eds)
Mirrors of Passing explores the relationship between death, materiality, and temporality, drawing from the fields of archaeology, cultural anthropology, political science, and media studies to explore fundamental questions about the relationship between death and our perception of time.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology of Religion
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Hierarchy and Value
Comparative Perspectives on Moral Order
Hickel, J. & Haynes, N. (eds)
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
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Published July 2018
An Australian Indigenous Diaspora
Warlpiri Matriarchs and the Refashioning of Tradition
Burke, P.
This book is a multi-sited ethnography of the migration of a minority of the aboriginal Warlpiri away from their traditional homeland to distant towns and cities. It follows a number of Warlpiri matriarchs into their new locations, exploring how they sustain their independent lives and examining their changing relationship with the traditional culture they represent.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published August 2018
Refugee Resettlement
Power, Politics, and Humanitarian Governance
Garnier, A., Jubilut, L. L., & Sandvik, K. B.
The first of its kind, this volume explores refugee resettlement as a form of humanitarian governance; it offers a detailed understanding of resettlement practices, from the selection of refugees to their long-term integration in resettling states, and highlights the relevance of a lifespan approach to resettlement analysis.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published July 2018
Momentous Mobilities
Anthropological Musings on the Meanings of Travel
Salazar, N. B.
Grounded in an eclectic process of data collection, analysis of secondary sources and personal reflection, and drawing on a multi-sited and multi-method research design, Momentous Mobilities disentangles the meanings attached to temporary travels and stays abroad and offers empirical evidence as well as novel theoretical arguments to develop an anthropology of mobility.
Subjects: Mobility Studies Anthropology (General) Travel and Tourism
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Ethnographies of Movement, Sociality and Space
Place-Making in the New Northern Ireland
Komarova, M. & Svašek, M. (eds)
Exploring the complex dynamics of twenty-first century spatial sociality, physical movement and placemaking in Northern Ireland, this volume provides a much-needed multi-dimensional perspective that undermines the dominant image of the region as a conflict-ridden place. The contributions here draw on and further develop theories of space, place, movement, identity and sociality.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Urban Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Living Under Austerity
Greek Society in Crisis
Doxiadis, E. & Placas, A. (eds)
Since its sovereign debt crisis in 2009, Greece has been living under austerity. This volume explores the effects of austerity policies on politics, health care, education, media, and other areas, and examines the crisis as the context for changing attitudes in Greek society regarding immigration, crime, minorities, consumption and more.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
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Pilgrimage and Political Economy
Translating the Sacred
Coleman, S. & Eade, J. (eds)
Pilgrimage has always had a tendency to follow – and sometimes create – trade routes. This volume explores how wider factors behind transnational and global mobility have impacted on pilgrimage activity across the world, and examines the ways in which pilgrimage relates to migration, diaspora, and political cooperation or conflict across nation-states.
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Sense and Essence
Heritage and the Cultural Production of the Real
Meyer, B. & van de Port, M. (eds)
Contrary to popular perceptions, cultural heritage is not given, but constantly in the making, subject to dynamic processes of (re)inventing culture within particular social formations and via particular forms of mediation. Through the heuristic concepts of the "politics of authentication" and "aesthetics of persuasion," this volume explores the centrality of this tension to heritage formation worldwide.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies Museum Studies
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Published June 2018
Reconceiving Muslim Men
Love and Marriage, Family and Care in Precarious Times
Inhorn, M. C. & Naguib, N. (eds)
Through anthropological accounts of Muslim men’s everyday lives in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and diasporic settings, Reconceiving Muslim Men explores the creative ways in which Muslim men care for and nurture their families and communities. By focusing on reproduction, love, and care, this volume showcases Muslim men’s humanity.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology
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Archaeogaming
An Introduction to Archaeology in and of Video Games
Reinhard, A.
Video games exemplify contemporary material objects, resources, and spaces that people use to define their culture. This book serves as a general introduction to "archaeogaming"; it describes the intersection of archaeology and video games and applies archaeological method and theory into understanding game-spaces as both site and artifact.
Subjects: Archaeology Media Studies Heritage Studies Anthropology (General)
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The Global Life of Austerity
Comparing Beyond Europe
Rakopoulos, T. (ed)
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Frontiers of Civil Society
Government and Hegemony in Serbia
Mikuš, M.
Frontiers of Civil Society is a historical anthropological analysis of the roles of ‘civil society’ in Serbia’s postsocialist and postauthoritarian transformation, focusing mainly on a set of interventions through which various civil society forces supported neoliberalization and transnational integration as part of a hegemonic project of social transformation after the rule of Slobodan Milošević.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology History: 20th Century to Present
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Who are 'We'?
Reimagining Alterity and Affinity in Anthropology
Chua, L. & Mathur, N. (eds)
Who do ‘we’ anthropologists think ‘we’ are? Drawing together reflections and ethnographic case studies, this volume explores how the anthropological ‘we’ has been construed, transformed and deployed across history and the global anthropological landscape. It interrogates how these constructions have influenced the discipline, and opens spaces in which they might be reimagined.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology
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Travelling with the Argonauts
Informal Networks Seen without a Vertical Lens
Irek, M.
Travelling with the Argonauts offers a new perspective in the research of the social space, reflecting on how best to investigate amorphous social phenomena, such as informal networks. Breaking with much current theory, it considers informality not as marginal or substandard, but as life itself, as the real experience of ordinary people.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Mobility Studies
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Worldwide Mobilizations
Class Struggles and Urban Commoning
Kalb, D. & Mollona, M. (eds)
Viewing the significant urban insurrections of past decades with an anthropological eye, Worldwide Mobilizations argues that transformations of urban class relationships must be approached in a way that is both globally and locally informed, and contends that every case of urban mobilization should be understood against its precise context in the global capitalist transformation.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Urban Studies
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Capturing Quicksilver
The Position, Power, and Plasticity of Chinese Medicine in Singapore
Smith, A. A.
Capturing Quicksilver considers the use, promotion, and legislation of Chinese medicine in Singapore in relation to government policies favoring international investment, urban redevelopment, healthcare regulation, “multiracial” nationalism, and the management of history and heritage. Theoretically and methodologically developed within medical anthropology, it explores embodied experience and individual and group creativity vis-à-vis state agendas.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology (General)
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Being-Here
Placemaking in a World of Movement
Lems, A.
By exploring the lifeworlds of two middle-aged Somalis living in Melbourne, Australia, Being-Here sheds light on the existential dynamics of being-in-place. It discusses the interrelated meanings of emplacement and displacement as experienced in people’s everyday lives, and examines the figure of the refugee as a metaphor for societal alienation and estrangement.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Mobility Studies
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Intimate Mobilities
Sexual Economies, Marriage and Migration in a Disparate World
Groes, C. & Fernandez, N. T. (eds)
This book explores how various types of migration that are often seen as distinct phenomena – such as marriage migration, romance tourism and sex work migration – are in fact variations of cross-border mobilities that evolve around experiences and constructions of “intimacy”, and are facilitated by and deeply entwined with issues of power, gender and sexuality.
Subjects: Mobility Studies Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Dreams Made Small
The Education of Papuan Highlanders in Indonesia
Munro, J.
Dreams Made Small offers an in-depth, ethnographic look at journeys of education among young Papuans under Indonesian rule, ultimately revealing how dreams of transformation, equality, and belonging are shaped and reshaped in the face of multiple constraints.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Educational Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Searching for a Better Life
Growing Up in the Slums of Bangkok
Mahony, S.
This book offers an ethnographic account of young people growing up in the slums of Bangkok, exploring their struggles to get by in conditions of severe structural constraint and the outcomes and side effects of their endeavours; in doing so, it offers an antidote to neoliberal assumptions about personal responsibility.
Subject: Anthropology (General) Urban Studies
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The Experience of Neoliberal Education
Urciuoli, B. (ed)
The college experience is increasingly positioned to demonstrate its value as a worthwhile return on investment. Specific, definable activities, such as research experience, first-year experience, and experiential learning, are marketed as delivering precise skill sets in the form of an individual educational package.
Subjects: Educational Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published April 2018
A Creole Nation
National Integration in Guinea-Bissau
Kohl, C.
Despite high degrees of cultural and ethnic diversity as well as prevailing political instability, Guinea-Bissau’s population has developed a strong sense of national belonging. By examining contemporary and historical perspectives, A Creole Nation explores how creole identity, culture, and political leaders have influenced postcolonial nation-building processes in Guinea-Bissau.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History Political and Economic Anthropology
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Waiting for Elijah
Time and Encounter in a Bosnian Landscape
HadžiMuhamedović, S.
Waiting for Elijah is an intimate portrait of time-reckoning, syncretism and proximity in one of the world’s most polarized places, the Bosnian Field of Gacko. Based on long-term, multi-sited fieldwork, it examines the complexity of time situated between folk cosmology, political constructions of history and bodily experiences of a landscape in transition.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Refugee and Migration Studies
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Experimental Collaborations
Ethnography through Fieldwork Devices
Estalella, A. & Sánchez Criado, T. (eds)
Grounded in a series of diverse ethnographic projects in Africa, America and Europe, Experimental Collaborations attempts to expand our ethnographic repertoire of fieldwork devices. The titular concept signals a descriptive account of certain forms of ethnographic engagement, and a research and pedagogic program to intervene in current forms of ethnographic practice and learning.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology
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Animism beyond the Soul
Ontology, Reflexivity, and the Making of Anthropological Knowledge
Swancutt, K. & Mazard, M. (eds)
The contributors to this volume offer compelling case studies that demonstrate how indigenous animistic practices, concepts, traditions, and ontologies are co-authored in highly reflexive ways by anthropologists and their interlocutors.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion
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Burgundy
The Global Story of Terroir
Demossier, M.
Drawing on more than twenty years of fieldwork, this book explores the professional, social and cultural world of Burgundy wines and demystifies the terroir ideology to provide a unique long-term ethnographic analysis of what lies behind the concept in Burgundy, raising important questions about the future of quality wine in a global era.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Food & Nutrition Cultural Studies (General)
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Published March 2018
Money at the Margins
Global Perspectives on Technology, Financial Inclusion, and Design
Maurer, B., Musaraj, S., & Small, I. V. (eds)
Mobile money, e-commerce, cash cards, retail credit cards, and more — as new monetary technologies become increasingly available, the global South has embraced these mediums as a simple solution to the issue of financial inclusion. Money at the Margins is a groundbreaking exploration of the uses and socio-cultural impact of new forms of money and financial services.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Cultural Studies (General)
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Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism
Precarity, Class, and the Neoliberal Subject
Hann, C. & Parry, J. (eds)
Bringing together ethnographic case studies of industrial labor from different parts of the world, Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism explores the increasing casualization of workforces and the weakening power of organized labor. By exploring this relationship, these essays question the claim that neoliberal ideology has become the new ‘commonsense’ of our times.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published March 2018
Urban Dreams
Transformations of Family Life in Burkina Faso
Roth, C.
de Jong, W., Perlik, M., Steuer, N., & Znoj, H. (eds)This collection of Claudia Roth's work closely documents the livelihood strategies of members of various neighbourhoods in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso. This collection focuses on notions of “the African family” as a solidary network, changing marriage and kinship relations, and increasingly precarious social status of young women and men.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Urban Studies
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Global Sustainability and Communities of Practice
Maida, C. A. & Beck, S, (eds)
Using case-based and theoretical chapters that examine rural and urban communities of practice, this volume illustrates how participatory researchers and students as well as policy and community leaders find ways to engage with the broader public when it comes to global sustainability research and practice. Collaboration between experts and the public is vital for effective community engagement aimed at improving the lives of the most vulnerable in society, whether at the local or global level.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)
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Back to the Postindustrial Future
An Ethnography of Germany's Fastest-Shrinking City
Ringel, F.
Back to the Postindustrial Future is the first comprehensive ethnography of the future, approaching Hoyerswerda, Germany’s fastest shrinking city, not from the perspective of its past, but persistently from that of its future. Through an extensive ethnography of the city, it allows us to investigate the postindustrial era and the futures it has supposedly lost.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Urban Studies
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Published February 2018
Soup, Love, and a Helping Hand
Social Relations and Support in Guangzhou, China
Fleischer, F.
Despite growing affluence, a large number of urban Chinese have problems making ends meet. Based on ethnographic research in Guangzhou, China, Soup, Love and a Helping Hand examines different modes and ideologies of help/support, as well as reciprocity, relatedness (kinship), and changing state-society relations in contemporary China.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
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Sacred Places, Emerging Spaces
Religious Pluralism in the Post-Soviet Caucasus
Darieva, T., Mühlfried, F., & Tuite, K. (eds)
Though long-associated with violence, the Caucasus is a region rich with spirituality. Based on fresh ethnographies and studies of sacred sites in Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia, Sacred Places, Emerging Spaces discusses vanishing and emerging sacred places in the multi-ethnic and multi-religious post-Soviet Caucasus.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Sociology
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After Difference
Queer Activism in Italy and Anthropological Theory
Heywood, P.
This book is a contribution to the anthropology of Italy and of Europe as an ethnography of queer activism in Bologna; and, at the same time, it is an intervention in a set of ongoing theoretical debates in anthropology surrounding the perennial problem of the relationship between ethnographic data and anthropological analysis. It combines discussions of identity and difference, ethics, the fieldwork setting, and anthropology’s turn to ontology.
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Messy Europe
Crisis, Race, and Nation-State in a Postcolonial World
Loftsdóttir, K., Smith, A. L., & Hipfl, B. (eds)
Messy Europe links theoretical insights to current discussions of crisis – economic and otherwise – showing how these shape the creation of subjectivities and identities. The chapters theorize “Europe” as a contested and fluid construction, and, by focusing on particular case studies, analyze how specific understandings of self and others occur in the crisis context.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Refugee and Migration Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
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Expeditionary Anthropology
Teamwork, Travel and the ''Science of Man''
Thomas, M. & Harris, A. (eds)
Expeditions played a major role in the development of anthropology, but their significance has been eclipsed by the discipline’s valorization of the lone observer. This rich assessment of cross-cultural research and team-based travel is part of a new historical turn that regards expeditions as cultural formations, and provides new and compelling perspectives on the histories of anthropology and empire.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) History (General) Travel and Tourism
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Island Historical Ecology
Socionatural Landscapes of the Eastern and Southern Caribbean
Siegel, P. (ed)
Island Historical Ecology addresses Caribbean island ecologies from the perspective of social and cultural intervention, focusing on selected islands between Venezuela and Puerto Rico. This volume goes on to compare these ecologies with well-documented patterns in the Mediterranean and Pacific islands, placing the Caribbean into a larger context of island historical ecology.
Subjects: Archaeology Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)
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Contrarian Anthropology
The Unwritten Rules of Academia
Nader, L.
Analyzing the workings of boundary maintenance in the areas of anthropology, energy, gender, and law, Nader contrasts dominant trends in academia with work that pushes the boundaries of acceptable methods and theories. Although the selections illustrate the history of one anthropologist’s work over half a century, the wider intent is to label a field as contrarian to reveal unwritten rules that sometimes hinder transformative thinking.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)
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Published December 2017
Staging Citizenship
Roma, Performance and Belonging in EU Romania
Szeman, I.
Staging Citizenship explores a wide range of Roma performances and representations—from live music and cultural performances to Gypsy soaps and reality TV shows, demonstrating how disenfranchised urban Roma claim cultural citizenship and belonging in music, dance, activism and everyday encounters.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Performance Studies
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Affective States
Entanglements, Suspensions, Suspicions
Laszczkowski, M. & Reeves, M. (eds)
The volume enhances the anthropological understanding of the various ways through which the state comes to be experienced as a visceral presence in social life.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
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Singing Ideas
Performance, Politics and Oral Poetry
Ní Shíocháin, T.
The songs of the beloved Irish poet Máire Bhuí Ní Laeire (Yellow Mary O’Leary) explore themes of colonial subjection, oppression and injustice, representing an integral contribution to the development of anti-colonial thought in Ireland. Singing Ideas explores the significance of her work, and the immense power of her chosen medium.
Subjects: Performance Studies History: 18th/19th Century Anthropology (General) Literary Studies
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Returning Life
Language, Life Force and History in Kilimanjaro
Myhre, K. C.
Returning Life explores how language and action affect life force. Diverse sources demonstrate how this phenomenon extends to coffee cash-cropping, Catholic Christianity, and colonial and post-colonial rule, featuring cognate languages throughout the area.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Sociology
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Seekers and Things
Spiritual Movements and Aesthetic Difference in Kinshasa
Lambertz, P.
Focusing on the intricate presence of a new Japanese religion (Sekai Kyûseikyô) in the densely populated and primarily Christian environment of Kinshasa (DR Congo), this ethnographic study offers a practitioner-orientated perspective to create a localised picture of religious globalization.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Refugee and Migration Studies
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Indigeneity on the Move
Varying Manifestations of a Contested Concept
Gerharz, E., Uddin, N., & Chakkarath, P. (eds)
“Indigeneity” has become a prominent yet contested concept in national and international politics, as well as within the social sciences. This edited volume draws from authors representing different disciplines and perspectives, aiming to convey a theoretical and empirical overview of indigeneity in order to investigate the concept’s scientific and political potential.
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General)
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Stategraphy
Toward a Relational Anthropology of the State
Thelen, T., Vetters, L., & Benda-Beckmann, K. von (eds)
By exploring interactions and negotiations of local actors in different institutional settings, the contributors explore state transformations in relation to social security in a variety of locations spanning from Russia, Eastern Europe, and the Balkans to the United Kingdom and France. Fusing grounded empirical studies with rigorous theorizing, the volume provides new perspectives to broader related debates in social research and political analysis.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
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From Clans to Co-ops
Confiscated Mafia Land in Sicily
Rakopoulos, T.
From Clans to Co-ops explores the social, political, and economic relations that enable the constitution of cooperatives through antimafia transformation of landholdings. The volume is the first monograph on Sicily’s rural antimafia movement, contributing to the anthropology and sociology of cooperatives, as well as to broader debates about small-scale democratic institutions, food movements and agrarian activism.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Food & Nutrition
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Peaceful Selves
Personhood, Nationhood, and the Post-Conflict Moment in Rwanda
Eramian, L.
Twenty years after the 1994 genocide, Rwandans are still troubled by what made the violence possible and how they can know it will not recur. This study uncovers how Rwandan visions of peace and modern nationhood concern not only political reform or economic development, but also transformations in the self.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies
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Selfhood and Recognition
Melanesian and Western Accounts of Relationality
Galuschek, A. C.
The disciplines of philosophy and cultural anthropology have one thing in common: human behavior. Yet surprisingly, dialogue between the two fields has remained largely silent until now. Selfhood and Recognition combines philosophical and cultural anthropological accounts of the perception of individual action, exploring the processes through which a person recognizes the self and the other.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology
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Vital Diplomacy
The Ritual Everyday on a Dammed River in Amazonia
Nahum-Claudel. C.
Focusing on the major ceremonial cycle of the Enawene-nawe people, Vital Diplomacy sheds new light on classic Amazonian themes such as manioc cultivation and cuisine, predatory relations with non-humans, and the interplay of myth and practice, and to consider dynamics of kin, clan, and gender relations, the meaning of productive work, and practices of foreign diplomacy.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Difference and Sameness as Modes of Integration
Anthropological Perspectives on Ethnicity and Religion
Schlee, G. & Horstmann, A. (eds)
What does it mean to “fit in?” This volume of essays demystifies the discourse on identity, challenging common assumptions about role of similarity in inclusion and exclusion. Armed with intimate knowledge of local social structures, these essays tease out the ways in which ethnicity, religion and nationalism are used for social integration.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Peace and Conflict Studies
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Culture Change and Ex-Change
Syncretism and Anti-Syncretism in Bena, Eastern Highlands, Papua New Guinea
Knapp, R.
Analyzing perceived and performed cultural change by members of the Bena Bena language group in Papua New Guinea, Knapp offers a new understanding by conjoining traditional anthropological models as well as recent pursuits such as collaborative, reflexive and reverse anthropology.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Anthropology of Religion
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Foucault's Orient
The Conundrum of Cultural Difference, From Tunisia to Japan
Lazreg, M.
Using interviews with scholars from Tunisia and Japan, this book examines the manner in which Foucault experienced and explained his encounters with non-Western cultures, unraveling the anthropological implications of his unwavering commitment to cultural difference. It also traces the philosophical-theoretical sources of his conception of difference, and uncovers the contradictions of his dismissal of empirical anthropology to know human beings.
Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Children of the Camp
The Lives of Somali Youth Raised in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya
Grayson, C.-L.
This original study carefully considers how young people perceive their living environment and how growing up in exile structures their view of the past and their country of origin, and the future and its possibilities.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies Sociology
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Mimesis and Pacific Transcultural Encounters
Making Likenesses in Time, Trade, and Ritual Reconfigurations
Mageo, J. & Hermann, E. (eds)
How do images circulating in Pacific cultures and exchanged between them and their many visitors transform meanings for all involved? This fascinating collection explores how through mimesis, wayfarers and locales alike borrow images from one another to expand their cultural repertoire of meanings or borrow images from their own past to validate their identities.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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The Voice of Prophecy
And Other Essays
Ardener, E.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published October 2017
Growing Up in Transit
The Politics of Belonging at an International School
Tanu, D.
Tanu offers the first ethnographic study of young people who experience high levels of international mobility while growing up, either moving across national borders or by attending international schools with trans-national student bodies.
Subjects: Mobility Studies Anthropology (General) Educational Studies
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Straying from the Straight Path
How Senses of Failure Invigorate Lived Religion
Beekers, D. & Kloos, D. (eds)
Responding to the need for comparative approaches in the face of the increasingly separated fields of the anthropology of Islam and Christianity, Straying from the Straight Path gives full attention to moral failure as a constitutive and potentially energizing force in the religious lives of both Muslims and Christians in different parts of the world.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion
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Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Real Utopia
Transitioning to an Alternative World System
Baer, H. A.
As global economic and population growth continues to skyrocket, increasingly strained resources have ignited the search for an alternative to capitalism. Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Real Utopia outlines the urgent need to reevaluate the current system, and replace it with one capable of mobilizing people globally to prevent on-going human socio-economic, environmental degradation, and anthropogenic climate change.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)
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Gender in Georgia
Feminist Perspectives on Culture, Nation, and History in the South Caucasus
Barkaia, M. & Waterston, A. (eds)
As Georgia seeks to reinvent itself in the post-Soviet period, Georgian women are maneuvering to adjust to the new economic, social and political order. Gender in Georgia brings together an international group of feminist scholars to explore the socio-political conditions that have shaped gender dynamics in Georgia from the late 19th century to the present.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Moral Engines
Exploring the Ethical Drives in Human Life
Mattingly, C., Dyring, R., Louw, M., & Schwarz Wentzer, T. (eds)
What fundamentally drives human beings to strive for moral perfection? Is it care of the self? Is it care for others? Is it inextricably wedded to politics? Moral Engines includes some of the foremost voices in the anthropology of morality, representing a unique interdisciplinary conversation between anthropologists and philosophers about the moral engines of ethical life.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Power in Practice
The Pragmatic Anthropology of Afro-Brazilian Capoeira
González Varela, S.
Considering the concept of power in capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian ritual art form, Varela describes ethnographically the importance that capoeira leaders (mestres) have in the social configuration of a style called Angola in Bahia, Brazil.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Performance Studies
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House of the Waterlily
A Novel of the Ancient Maya World
Carmean, K.
House of the Waterlily is a historical novel set in the world of the Late Classic Period Maya of the Southern Lowlands. Through the story of Lady Winik, a young Maya noble girl, the reader is immersed in the everyday world of the Maya
Subjects: Archaeology Literary Studies Memory Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published August 2017
Images from Paradise
The Visual Communication of the European Union's Federalist Utopia
Salgó, E.
Drawing upon the disciplines of politics, anthropology, psychoanalysis, aesthetics and cinema studies, Salgó presents a new way of looking at the “art of European unification” and to highlight the mythical sources of the federalist project.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Media Studies
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A Goddess in Motion
Visual Creativity in the Cult of María Lionza
Canals, R.
Shedding light on the role of visual creativity in religion, Canals explores the current practice of the cult of María Lionza, one of the most important and yet unexplored religious practices in Venezuela.
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Living Before Dying
Imagining and Remembering Home
Davies, J.
This in-depth description of life in a nursing/care home, told in a year of daily conversations with patients and staff, highlights the daily care of frail or ill residents of extreme old age, emphasising interaction with care assistants and the different behaviours of men and women.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published August 2017
European Anthropologies
Barrera-González, A., Heintz, M. & Horolets, A. (eds)
By assessing the diversity of European intellectual histories within sociocultural anthropology, this volume aims to sketch its intellectual and institutional portrait. It will be a useful reading for the students of anthropology, ethnology, history and philosophy of science, research and science policy makers.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Colonial History
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Published July 2017
Managing Ambiguity
How Clientelism, Citizenship, and Power Shape Personhood in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Brković, Č.
Why do people turn to personal connections to get things done? Challenging widespread views of favors as means of survival in transitioning contexts, this volume demonstrates that these contemporary globalized forms of flexible governance are not contradictory to one another, but often mutually constitutive.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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Published July 2017
Emptiness and Fullness
Ethnographies of Lack and Desire in Contemporary China
Bregnbæk, S. & Bunkenborg, M. (eds)
As critical voices question the quality, authenticity, and value of people, goods, and words in post-Mao China, accusations of emptiness render things open to new investments of meaning, substance, and value. Exploring the production of lack and desire through fine-grained ethnography, this volume examines how diagnoses of emptiness operate in a range of very different domains in contemporary China.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
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Transborder Media Spaces
Ayuujk Videomaking between Mexico and the US
Kummels, I.
Transborder Media Spaces offers a new perspective on how various media forms have been appropriated by Mexican indigenous people in the light of transnational migration and ethnopolitical movements. Within new media spaces, the Ayuujk people carve out their own visions of development, modernity, gender, and indigeneity in the twenty-first century.
Subjects: Media Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published June 2017
Footprints in Paradise
Ecotourism, Local Knowledge, and Nature Therapies in Okinawa
Murray, A. E.
In Okinawa, ecotourism promises to provide employment for a dwindling population of rural youth while preserving the natural environment and bolstering regional pride. Footprints in Paradise explores how sense of place in Okinawa is transformed as language, landscapes, and wildlife are reconstituted as treasured and vulnerable resources.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Travel and Tourism Environmental Studies (General) Sustainable Development Goals
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Published June 2017
The Myth of Self-Reliance
Economic Lives Inside a Liberian Refugee Camp
Omata, N.
The Myth of Self-Reliance provides valuable insights into refugees’ experiences of repatriation to Liberia after protracted exile and their responses to the ending of refugee status for remaining refugees in Ghana.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published June 2017
Money in a Human Economy
Hart, K. (eds)
Contributors to this volume attempt to think about money as a category of thought, offer theories on luxury and sex in capitalist development, and follow the evolution of money today from the role of the global South in shaping its future, to cross-border investment in China, to Bitcoin as politics. Money in a Human Economy offers multiple perspectives on capital’s central role in the formation of world society, as well as in the shaping of its current discontents.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
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Indigeneity and the Sacred
Indigenous Revival and the Conservation of Sacred Natural Sites in the Americas
Sarmiento, F. & Hitchner, S. (eds)
This important contribution presents current research in the political ecology of indigenous revival and its role in nature conservation of sacred natural sites in the Americas. The book explores how struggles for land, rights, and political power are embedded within physical landscapes, and how indigenous identity is reformed as globalizing forces simultaneously threaten and promote the notion of indigeneity.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies
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Published May 2017
Indigenist Mobilization
Confronting Electoral Communism and Precarious Livelihoods in Post-Reform Kerala
Steur, L.
Indigenist Mobilization explores the history of the dynamics between the Communist party in Kerala and indigenist activists, and the subtle ways in which global capitalist restructuring leads to a resonance of indigenist visions in the changed the everyday working lives and future aspirations of subaltern groups in Kerala.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
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Redescribing Relations
Strathernian Conversations on Ethnography, Knowledge and Politics
Lebner, A. (ed)
Marilyn Strathern is among the most creative and celebrated contemporary anthropologists, and her work draws interest from across the humanities and social sciences. With a comprehensive introduction and a newly translated interview, Redescribing Relations brings some of Strathern’s most committed and renowned readers into conversations in her honour.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology Cultural Studies (General)
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Published May 2017
Grace after Genocide
Cambodians in the United States
Mortland, C. A.
Grace after Genocide is the first comprehensive ethnography of Cambodian refugees, charting their struggle to transition from agrarian life to survival in post-industrial America, while still maintaining their Cambodian identities. The ethnography details how America’s mid-twentieth century involvement in Southeast Asia has had enormous consequences on Khmer refugees and their children.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published May 2017
Understanding Conflicts about Wildlife
A Biosocial Approach
Hill, C. M., Webber, A. D. & Priston, N. E. C. (eds)
Conflicts about wildlife are usually portrayed as resulting from the negative impacts of wildlife on human livelihoods or property. However, deeper analysis reveals that these conflicts are often better understood as people-people conflicts. Understanding Conflicts About Wildlife unites academics and practitioners to consider the political and social dimensions of ‘human-wildlife conflicts’.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
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Published May 2017
Methodologies of Mobility
Ethnography and Experiment
Elliot, A., Norum, R., & Salazar, N. B. (eds)
Research into mobility is an exciting challenge for the social sciences that raises novel socio-cultural, ethical, and methodological questions. Speaking beyond disciplinary boundaries to the challenges of engaging with a world on the move, Methodologies of Mobility traces innovative strategies for designing, applying and reflecting on methodologies of mobility.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Mobility Studies Theory and Methodology
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Published May 2017
The Good Holiday
Development, Tourism and the Politics of Benevolence in Mozambique
Baptista, J. A.
Drawing on ethnographic research in the village of Canhane, host to the first community tourism project in Mozambique, this volume explores the influence of development and tourism in relation to ethics, and non-state governance in contemporary life.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies Travel and Tourism
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Death of the Public University?
Uncertain Futures for Higher Education in the Knowledge Economy
Wright, S. & Shore, C. (eds)
Continuous government reforms to make universities ‘world class’, entrepreneurial and drivers of the knowledge economy, are transforming the traditional mission and meaning of the public university and its ability to act as ‘critic and conscience’ of society. This collection explores the new landscapes of higher education emerging across Europe and Australasia.
Subjects: Educational Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published May 2017
Being Godless
Ethnographies of Atheism and Non-Religion
Blanes, R. L. & Oustinova-Stjepanovic, G. (eds)
Drawing on ethnographic inquiry and the anthropological literature on doubt and atheism, this volume explores people's reluctance to pursue religion. The contributors capture the experiences of godless people and examine their perspectives on the role of religion in their personal and public lives. In doing so, the volume contributes to a critical understanding of the processes of disengagement from religion and reveals the challenges and paradoxes that godless people face.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion
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Published April 2017
On Retaliation
Towards an Interdisciplinary Understanding of a Basic Human Condition
Turner, B. & Schlee, G. (eds)
Retaliatory logics are associated with all types of social and political organization. Deriving a concept of retaliation from the overall notion of reciprocity, contributors to this volume touch upon the interaction between retaliation and violence, the state’s monopoly on legitimate punishment, socio-political frameworks, religious interpretations, and economic processes.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies
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Collaborative Intimacies in Music and Dance
Anthropologies of Sound and Movement
Chrysagis, E. & Karampampas, P. (eds)
Across varied domains, music and dance both emerge from and give rise to intimate collaboration. This theoretically rich collection takes an ethnographic approach to understanding the collaborative dimension of sound and movement in everyday life, drawing on genres and practices in contexts as diverse as Japanese shakuhachi playing, Peruvian huayno, and the Greek goth scene.
Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published April 2017
When Things Become Property
Land Reform, Authority and Value in Postsocialist Europe and Asia
Sikor, T., Dorondel, S., Stahl, J. & Xuan To, P.
Almost all elements of nature have become the target of property laws, from the classic preoccupation with land to more ephemeral material, such as air and genetic resources. When Things Become Property examines postsocialist land and forest reforms in Albania, Romania and Vietnam, finding that property reforms are not miracle tools available to governments for refashioning economies, politics or environments.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published April 2017
Border Aesthetics
Concepts and Intersections
Schimanski, J. & Wolfe, S. F. (eds)
The field of border studies has analyzed the legal, geographical, and historical aspects of borders extensively, but such studies have hardly exhausted their conceptual fertility. Organized around six key ideas—ecology, imaginary, in/visibility, palimpsest, sovereignty and waiting—the interlocking essays collected here provide theoretical starting points for an aesthetic understanding of borders.
Subjects: Literary Studies Mobility Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published February 2017
Food Culture
Anthropology, Linguistics and Food Studies
Chrzan, J. & Brett, J. (eds)
This volume offers a comprehensive guide to methods used in the sociocultural, linguistic and historical research of food use. This volume is unique in offering food-related research methods from multiple academic disciplines, and includes methods that bridge disciplines to provide a thorough review of best practices.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Food & Nutrition
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Food Health
Nutrition, Technology, and Public Health
Chrzan, J. & Brett, J. (eds)
This volume provides in-depth analysis and comprehensive review of methods necessary to design, plan, implement and analyze public health programming related to food and nutrition using anthropological best practices.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Food & Nutrition
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Published February 2017
Shaping Taxpayers
Values in Action at the Swedish Tax Agency
Björklund Larsen, L.
How do you make taxpayers comply? This ethnography is a vivid account of one of the most esteemed Swedish bureaucracies – the Swedish Tax Agency. Shaping Taxpayers focuses on how fiscal strategies and relationships, as well as diverse knowledge claims – legal, economic, cultural – compete to shape taxpayer behaviour.
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Food Research
Nutritional Anthropology and Archaeological Methods
Chrzan, J. & Brett, J. (eds)
Biocultural and archaeological research on food, past and present, often relies on very specific, precise, methods for data collection and analysis. These are presented here in a broad-based review.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Food & Nutrition Archaeology
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The Romance of Crossing Borders
Studying and Volunteering Abroad
Doerr, N. M. & Davis Taïeb, H. (eds)
What draws people to study abroad or volunteer in far-off communities? This volume explores what draws students to study or volunteer abroad. In doing so, the book sheds light on how affect is managed by educators and mobilized by students and volunteers themselves, and how these structures of feeling related to broader social and economic forces.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Travel and Tourism Educational Studies
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The Patient Multiple
An Ethnography of Healthcare and Decision-Making in Bhutan
Taee, J.
In Bhutan, medical patients engage a variety of healing practices to seek cures for their ailments. The Patient Multiple delves into the context of patients’ daily lives and decision-making processes, showing how these unique mountain cultures are finding paths to health among a changing and multifaceted medical topography.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion
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The Imbalance of Power
Leadership, Masculinity and Wealth in the Amazon
Brightman, M
The Imbalance of Power demonstrates that the indigenous societies of the Guiana region of Amazonia do not fit conventional characterizations of ‘simple’ political units with ‘egalitarian’ political ideologies and ‘harmonious’ relationships with nature.
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Published December 2016
America Observed
On an International Anthropology of the United States
Dominguez, V. & Habib, J. (eds)
There is surprisingly little fieldwork done in and on the United States by anthropologists from abroad. America Observed seeks to fill that gap by bringing into greater focus empirical as well as theoretical implications of this phenomenon for anthropological research and practice.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
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The Forest People without a Forest
Development Paradoxes, Belonging and Participation of the Baka in East Cameroon
Lueong, G. M.
The Forest People without a Forest explores how the Baka, who live in Eastern Cameroon, assert forms of belonging in order to participate in development interventions, and how community life is shaped and reshaped through these interventions. These interventions raise paradoxes of belonging for the Baka, and are often targeted toward competing and contradictory goals.
Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
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Breaking Rocks
Music, Ideology and Economic Collapse, from Paris to Kinshasa
Trapido, J.
Based on fieldwork in Kinshasa and Paris, Breaking Rocks examines patronage payments within Congolese popular music. This book offers insights into both the ideologies of power and value in central Africa’s troubled post-colonial political economy, and the economic flows that make up the hidden side of the globalization.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Cultural Studies (General)
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Human Origins
Contributions from Social Anthropology
Power, C., Finnegan, M. & Callan, H. (eds)
Social anthropologists have been conspicuously absent from debates about the origins of modern humans. Human Origins explores why that is, and how social anthropology can shed light on early kinship and economic relations, gender politics, ritual, cosmology, ethnobiology, medicine, and the evolution of language.
Subject: Anthropology (General)
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Against Exoticism
Toward the Transcendence of Relativism and Universalism in Anthropology
Kapferer, B. & Theodossopoulos, D. (eds)
This volume confronts the distortions of orientalism, ethnocentrism, and romantic nostalgia to expose exoticism, defined as the construction of false and unsubstantiated difference. Its aim is to re-found the importance of the exotic in the development of anthropological knowledge and to overcome methodological dualisms and dualistic approaches.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Sociology
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Narratives in the Making
Writing the East German Past in the Democratic Present
Gallinat, A.
This ethnography studies two very different institutions in one eastern German state taking divergent approaches to the past. While government organizations reliably depict the GDR as a dictatorship, one major regional newspaper focuses on the experiences and concerns of its readers—“memory work” that inevitably shapes citizenship and democracy.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Anthropology (General) Memory Studies
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Creating a New Public University and Reviving Democracy
Action Research in Higher Education
Levin, M. & Greenwood, D. J.
Morten Levin and Davydd Greenwood analyze the wreckage created by neoliberal academic administrators and policymakers, before going on to propose Action Research processes that can transform public universities back into institutions that promote academic freedom, integrity, and democracy.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Educational Studies Sociology
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Honour and Violence
Gender, Power and Law in Southern Pakistan
Shah, N.
This volume explores the implication of modern law in the seemingly ancient cultural practice of karo kari, which allows male family members to take the lives of female relatives accused of adultery. Drawing connections between local contests over marriage and resources, Nafisa Shah unearths deep historical processes and power relations at work in Upper Sindh, Pakistan.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published October 2016
Hunters, Gatherers, and Practitioners of Powerlessness
An Ethnography of the Degraded in Postsocialist Poland
Rakowski, T.
Practitioners of Powerlessness gives a dramatic account of life after the socio-economic transformations of the 1990s in Poland, which left many people impoverished and unemployed.
Subject: Anthropology (General)
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Leaving Footprints in the Taiga
Luck, Spirits and Ambivalence among the Siberian Orochen Reindeer Herders and Hunters
Brandišauskas, D.
Donatas Brandišauskas probes the strategies that Orochen reindeer herders of southeastern Siberia have developed to navigate dramatic environmental and social changes that have unfolded in post-Soviet Siberia.
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Life as a Hunt
Thresholds of Identities and Illusions on an African Landscape
Marks, S. A.
The landscape of Zambia’s central Luangwa Valley has been crafted over centuries by the Valley Bisa who live there. Stuart Marks explores an emergent dissonance with the inconvenient conventions and myths of conservationists, administrators and philanthropists who seek to intervene in Africa’s environmental and wildlife crises on new terms and with technical means.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
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Contextualizing Disaster
Button, G. V. & Schuller, M. (eds)
Contextualizing Disaster argues that, while disasters are increasingly represented by the media as unique, exceptional, newsworthy events, it is a mistake to think of disasters as isolated or discrete occurrences.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Applied Anthropology
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Published September 2016
The Online World of Surrogacy
Berend, Z.
Zsuzsa Berend presents a methodologically innovative ethnography of the surrogacy support website in the United States. The Online World of Surrogacy documents collective meaning-making practices that unfold online, and explores their practical, emotional, and moral implications.
Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology
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Published September 2016
War Magic
Religion, Sorcery, and Performance
Farrer, D. S. (ed)
This collection documents war magic and warrior religion as performed in diverse cultures and historical time periods. By foregrounding embodiment, practice, and performance, the anthropological approaches to magic, sorcery, shamanism, and religion that the authors apply go beyond what magic ‘represents’ to consider what magic does.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Performance Studies
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'City of the Future'
Built Space, Modernity and Urban Change in Astana
Laszczkowski, M.
The long-awaited comprehensive account of the rise of Astana, the capital city of Kazakhstan, this book argues for an understanding of space as inextricably material-and-imaginary, and unceasingly dynamic – allowing for a plurality of incompatible pasts and futures materialized in spatial form.
Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General) Geography
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Deadly Contradictions
The New American Empire and Global Warring
Reyna, S. P.
As US imperialism continues to dictate foreign policy, Deadly Contradictions is a compelling account of the American empire. Stephen P. Reyna argues that contemporary forms of violence exercised by American elites in the colonies, client state, and regions of interest have deferred imperial problems, but not without raising their own set of deadly contradictions.
Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General)
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Staying at Home
Identities, Memories and Social Networks of Kazakhstani Germans
Sanders, R.
This book explores the interplay of those memories, social networks and state policies which play a role in the ‘construction’ of a Kazakhstani German identity. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Kazakhstan, Rita Sanders shows that social capital, including the power to influence identities, plays a key role in Kazakhstani German attitudes
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)
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The France of the Little-Middles
A Suburban Housing Development in Greater Paris
Cartier, M., Coutant, I., Masclet, O., & Siblot, Y.
The France of the Little-Middles explores the strained reception of the migrants in The Poplars, a housing development in suburban Paris that dates back to the mid-20th centrury. The authors examine tensions within the complex less as a product of racism and xenophobia than of anxiety about social class and the loss of a sense of community that reigned before.
Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General) Urban Studies
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Violent Becomings
State Formation, Sociality, and Power in Mozambique
Bertelsen, B. E.
Violent Becomings sheds light on violence in the periods of colonial and postcolonial state formation by conceptualizing the state not as the bureaucratically ordered polity of the nation-state, but as a continuously evolving and violently challenged mode of social ordering.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies Colonial History
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Published July 2016
Made In Egypt
Gendered Identity and Aspiration on the Globalised Shop Floor
Chakravarti, L. Z.
This ground-breaking ethnography of an export-orientated factory in Egypt examines the dynamic relationships between the emergent Mubarak-bizniz (business) elites, who are caught in an intensely competitive globalized supply chain, and the local realities of the daily lives of their young, educated, and mixed-gender labor force.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General) Sociology
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Economic Citizenship
Neoliberal Paradoxes of Empowerment
Sa'ar, A.
Economic Citizenship explores shifting responsibility for the welfare of minority and poor citizens, which has shifted from states to local communities through neoliberalization. This has produced odd discursive blends of justice, solidarity, and wellbeing, and placed the languages of feminist and minority rights side by side with the language of apolitical consumerism.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
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Living on Thin Ice
The Gwich'in Natives of Alaska
Dinero, S. C.
Using quantitative and qualitative data gathered since the turn of the millennium, this volume offers an interdisciplinary evaluation of social and economic changes amongst the Gwich’in Natives of Alaska.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies Urban Studies
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Creativity in Transition
Politics and Aesthetics of Cultural Production Across the Globe
Svašek, M. & Meyer, B. (eds)
Exploring creative practices in various settings, the book calls attention to the spread of modernist discourses of creativity, from the colonial era to the current obsession with ‘innovation’ in neo-liberal capitalist cultural politics, but also to the less visible practices of copying, recycling and reproduction that occur as part and parcel of creative improvisation.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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The State We're In
Reflecting on Democracy's Troubles
Cook, J., Long, N. J., & Moore, H. L. (eds)
What makes people lose faith in democratic statecraft? The question seems an urgent one. In the first decades of the twenty-first century, citizens across the world have grown increasingly disillusioned with what was once a cherished ideal. The State We’re In is a must-read for all political theorists, scholars of democracy, and readers concerned for the future of the democratic ideal.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published June 2016
Keywords of Mobility
Critical Engagements
Salazar, N. B. & Jayaram, K. (eds)
Scholars from various disciplines have used key concepts to grasp mobilities, but as of yet, a working vocabulary of these has yet to be fully developed. This edited volume presents contributions that critically analyze mobility-related keywords: capital, cosmopolitanism, freedom, gender, immobility, infrastructure, motility, and regime.
Subjects: Mobility Studies Anthropology (General) Travel and Tourism
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Mortuary Dialogues
Death Ritual and the Reproduction of Moral Community in Pacific Modernities
Lipset, D. & Silverman, E. K. (eds)
Mortuary Dialogues presents fresh perspectives on death and mourning across the Pacific Islands. Through its set of rich ethnographies, the book examines how funerals and death rituals give rise to discourse and debate about sustaining moral persons and community amid modernity, and its enormous transformations.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion
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Migration by Boat
Discourses of Trauma, Exclusion and Survival
Mannik, L. (ed)
Exploring various contemporary case studies and historic cultural renditions of boat migrations undertaken by asylum seekers and refugees, this book shows that boats not only move people and cultural capital between places, but also fuel cultural fantasies, dreams of adventure and hope, along with fears of invasion and terrorism.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Sociology Transport Studies
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Published May 2016
Ownership and Nurture
Studies in Native Amazonian Property Relations
Brightman, M., Fausto, C. & Grotti, V. (eds)
Through ethnography of the Amazonia region, Ownership and Nurture sets new and challenging terms for debates about the classic anthropological theme of property. This volume demonstrates that property relations are of central importance in Amazonia despite portrayals of the region as the antithesis of Western, property-based, civilization.
Subject: Anthropology (General)
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Being and Becoming
Embodiment and Experience among the Orang Rimba of Sumatra
Elkholy, R.
In a unique methodological contribution, Ramsey Elkholy adopts a set of body-centered approaches that reflect and capture the day-to-day, moment-to-moment ways in which the hunters and gatherers of Orang Rimba, Sumatra, engage with the world.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology
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Witches and Demons
A Comparative Perspective on Witchcraft and Satanism
La Fontaine, J.
Devil worship, black magic, and witchcraft have long captivated anthropologists as well as the general public. This volume explores the intersection of expert and lay understandings of evil and the cultural forms that evil assumes. It presents a powerful warning of the dangers and mistaken conclusions that are inevitable in untrained ideas about other ways of life.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion
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Humour, Comedy and Laughter
Obscenities, Paradoxes, Insights and the Renewal of Life
Sciama, L.D. (ed)
Anthropological writings on humour are not numerous, but they do contain insight into the social processes that underlie joking and laughter. This volume examines the cognitive, social, and moral aspects of humour and its potential to bring about a sense of mutual understanding, even among different and possibly hostile people.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Media Studies
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Published April 2016
World Heritage on the Ground
Ethnographic Perspectives
Brumann, C. & Berliner, D. (eds)
The UNESCO World Heritage Convention of 1972 is a key arena for contemporary cultural and natural conservation. In case studies from across the globe, anthropologists with situated expertise in specific World Heritage sites explore the consequences of the World Heritage framework and the global spread of this heritage regime.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies Archaeology Museum Studies
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Trusting and its Tribulations
Interdisciplinary Engagements with Intimacy, Sociality and Trust
Broch-Due, V. & Ystanes, M. (eds)
Despite its immense significance and ubiquity in our everyday lives, the complex workings of trust are poorly understood and theorized. This volume explores trust and mistrust amidst locally situated scenes of sociality and intimacy.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
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Enduring Uncertainty
Deportation, Punishment and Everyday Life
Hasselberg, I.
Focusing on the lived experience of immigration policy and processes, this volume presents a fascinating ethnography of deportation as it is felt and understood by those subjected to it. This book is important for broader understandings of epistemology, border control policy, and human rights.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published March 2016
Choreographies of Landscape
Signs of Performance in Yosemite National Park
Ness, S. A.
This original and cross-disciplinary book studies the experiences of Yosemite park visitors in order to understand human connection with and within natural landscapes. It grounds a sophisticated semiotic analysis in the lived experiences of parkgoers, assembling a collective account that will be of interest in disciplines ranging from performance studies to cultural geography.
Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
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The Anthropology of Corporate Social Responsibility
Dolan, C. & Rajak, D. (eds)
The collection traces the connections and conflicts between the local politics of corporate engagement and the global movements of CSR, revealing the ways in which social and environmental relations are transformed through the regimes of ethical capitalism.
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Cutting and Connecting
'Afrinesian' Perspectives on Networks, Relationality, and Exchange
Myhre, K. C. (ed)
Cutting and Connecting rethinks anthropology’s comparative endeavor by calling in a conceptual debt that theoretical innovations from Melanesian anthropology owe to network analysis originally developed in African contexts. The contributors adopt and employ concepts from recent anthropological studies of Melanesia to analyze contemporary life on the African continent.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Who Knows Tomorrow?
Uncertainty in North-Eastern Sudan
Calkins, S.
Uncertainty, though intertwined with all human activity, is experienced differently—sometimes obsessed over and other times ignored. This ethnography shows how Rashaida in north-eastern Sudan deal with unknowns, which at times present debilitating problems, but also may offer opportunities to create other futures.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies
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Published February 2016
The Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective
Knörr, J. & Kohl, C. (eds)
For centuries, Africa’s Upper Guinea Coast region has been the site of regional and global interactions, with societies from different parts of the world engaging in economic trade, cultural exchange, and conflict. This book examines how such encounters have continued into the present day, identifying the disruptions and continuities in social phenomena that have resulted.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) History (General) Colonial History
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Published January 2016
Girlhood and the Politics of Place
Mitchell, C. & Rentschler, C. (eds)
Examining context-specific conditions in which girls live, learn, work, play, and organize deepens the understanding of place-making practices of girls and young women worldwide. This book offers a comprehensive reading on how girlhood scholars construct and deploy research frameworks that directly engage girls in the research process.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)
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Published January 2016
Engaging with Strangers
Love and Violence in the Rural Solomon Islands
McDougall, D.
Writing of Ranongga Island, the author tracks engagements with foreigners across many realms of life, describing startling reversals in which strangers become attached to local places, even as kinspeople are estranged. Against stereotypes of rural insularity, she argues that a distinctive cosmopolitan openness to others is evident in the rural Solomons in times of war and peace.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies
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In Search of Legitimacy
How Outsiders Become Part of the Afro-Brazilian Capoeira Tradition
Griffith, L. M.
Every year, young adults from Western nations travel to Brazil to train in the dance/martial art of capoeira. This ethnography uses the concept of apprenticeship pilgrimage—studying with a local master at a historical point of origin—to explore how non-Brazilians learn their art and claim legitimacy within capoeira communities.
Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published December 2015
Ecological Migrants
The Relocation of China's Ewenki Reindeer Herders
Xie, Y.
This ethnography details changing Ewenki ways of life brought China’s recent ecological migration policies, which aim to preserve and restore the badly damaged ecologies of western China. This ethnography examines these policies and their effects on Aoluguya Ewenki hunters, who have been relocated.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
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Published November 2015
Waterworlds
Anthropology in Fluid Environments
Hastrup, K. & Hastrup. F. (eds)
In one form or another, water participates in the making and unmaking of people’s lives, practices, and stories. Contributors analyse the union of water and social lives, thereby challenging anthropologists to foreground the mutable character of their subjects and responsibly engage with the generative role of cultural analysis.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
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Published October 2015
Making Ubumwe
Power, State and Camps in Rwanda's Unity-Building Project
Purdeková, A.
Since the end of the Rwandan genocide, the new political elite has been challenged with building a unified nation. The book investigates this project of civic education, the explosion of neo-traditional institutions and activities, and the uses of camps and retreats that come together to shape the “ideal” Rwandan citizen.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Development Studies
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Published October 2015
Street Vending in the Neoliberal City
A Global Perspective on the Practices and Policies of a Marginalized Economy
Graaff, K. & Ha, N. (eds)
From a multifaceted, global, and transnational perspective, the volume examines street vending and urban policies around the globe, comparing practices in the Global South to that in the Northern hemisphere. Essays show that though street vending activities vary depending on site-specific regulations, this urban practice also reveals global ties and developments.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Urban Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
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What We Now Know About Race and Ethnicity
Banton, M.
Academic writing about race in the USA implicitly endorses the so-called `one-drop' rule. This generates a paradox that can be resolved only by distinguishing theoretical knowledge from practical knowledge.
Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General)
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Published September 2015
In the Absence of the Gift
New Forms of Value and Personhood in a Papua New Guinea Community
Rasmussen, A. E.
Nearly half the people born on the remote Mbuke Islands become teachers, businessmen, or bureaucrats in urban centers, while those who stay at home ask migrant relatives “What about me?” This detailed ethnography sheds light on remittance motivations and documents how terms like “community” can be useful in places otherwise permeated by kinship.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies Sociology
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Published September 2015
The Living Ancestors
Shamanism, Cosmos and Cultural Change among the Yanomami of the Upper Orinoco
Jokic, Z.
This ethnography focuses on Yanomami shamanism, especially in the context of cultural change. The author interweaves ethnographic material with theoretical components of a holographic principle, or the “part is equal to the whole.” This book fills a gap in the study of Yanomami people and enriches understanding of this ancient phenomenon.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion
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The Event of Charlie Hebdo
Imaginaries of Freedom and Control
Zagato, A. (ed)
The January 2015 shooting at satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris sparked an enormous discussion among citizens and intellectuals worldwide. By analyzing the effects the attacks have had in various spheres of social life including the political, ideology, collective imaginaries, the media, and education, this collection aims to serve as a contribution and a critical response to that discussion.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Media Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published August 2015
Bush Bound
Young Men and Rural Permanence in Migrant West Africa
Gaibazzi, P.
Many young men in a Gambian village, although eager to travel for money and experience, settle as farmers, family heads, businessmen, civic activists or, alternatively, as employed, demoted youth. This ethnography focuses on these “stayers,” who enable others to migrate while preserving the values and traditions of rural, sedentary life.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published August 2015
At Home in the Okavango
White Batswana Narratives of Emplacement and Belonging
Gressier, C.
An ethnography of the lives of white citizens of the Okavango Delta, Botswana, this book examines their relationships with the natural and social environments of the region. In response to the insecurity of their European descent in a postcolonial African state, the white Batswana have developed values and practices that allow them high levels of belonging.
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Published May 2015
Breaking Boundaries
Varieties of Liminality
Horvath, A., Thomassen, B., & Wydra, H. (eds)
Liminality has the potential to be a leading paradigm for understanding transformation in a globalizing world. This book explores the methodological range and applicability of the concept to a variety of concrete social and political problems.
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In the Event
Toward an Anthropology of Generic Moments
Meinert, L. & Kapferer, B. (eds)
Based on ethnographic studies from around the world, varying from rituals and meetings over protests and conflicts to natural disasters and management, this volume unfolds how to analyze generative moments through events that hold the key to understanding larger social situations.
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Published April 2015
Reclaiming the Forest
The Ewenki Reindeer Herders of Aoluguya
Kolås, Å. & Xie, Y. (eds)
The reindeer herders of Aoluguya, China, are a group of former hunters who today see themselves as “keepers of reindeer.” To some, their future seems troubled, but this volume’s literary and academic contributions instead focus on the present, as the Ewenki attempt to reclaim their forest lifestyle and develop new forest livelihoods.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
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Published February 2015
Re-orienting Cuisine
East Asian Foodways in the Twenty-First Century
Kim, K. O. (ed)
Foods are changed by those who produce and supply them, and also by those who consume them. The contributors of this volume have expanded the discussion of food to include its social and cultural meanings and functions, thereby using it as a way to explain a culture and its changes.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Food & Nutrition
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Trapped in the Gap
Doing Good in Indigenous Australia
Kowal, E.
Trapped in the Gap explores what happens when a group of state-supported, intelligent and well-meaning people attempt to help without harming. This group of “white anti-racists” find themselves trapped by endless ambiguities, contradictions, and double binds, a microcosm of the broader dilemmas of postcolonial societies.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies
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Published January 2015
Religion and Science as Forms of Life
Anthropological Insights into Reason and Unreason
Salazar, C. & Bestard, J. (eds)
The relationships between science and religion are about to enter a new phase in our contemporary world. This volume analyzes the relationships between religion and science as forms of life: ways of engaging human experience that originate in particular social and cultural formations.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion
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Anthropology & Philosophy
Dialogues on Trust and Hope
Liisberg, S., Pedersen, E. O., Dalsgård, A. L. (eds)
The present book is a workroom in which anthropologists and philosophers have begun a dialogue on trust and hope. The interdisciplinary efforts of the contributors demonstrate how the collaboration of anthropologists and philosophers can result in new and challenging ways of thinking about trust and hope.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Theory and Methodology
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Published October 2014
Hunters, Predators and Prey
Inuit Perceptions of Animals
Laugrand, F. & Oosten, J.
Inuit hunting traditions are rich in perceptions, practices and stories relating to animals and human beings. Laugrand and Oosten examine the roles of animals from the small and non-social, such as the raven, to those considered fellow hunters, the bear and the dog. “Prey par excellence,” or caribou, seals, and the whale, are discussed in conjunction with the renewal of whale hunting.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
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Anthropology and Nostalgia
Angé, O. & Berliner, D. (eds)
Anthropologists are realizing that nostalgia constitutes a fascinating object of study for exploring contemporary issues of identity, politics and history making. Contributors to this volume explore nostalgic narratives and practices in the fields of heritage and tourism, exile and diasporas, postcolonialism and postsocialism, business and economic exchange, social, ecological and religious movements, and nation building.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies Theory and Methodology
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Published October 2014
Anthropology Now and Next
Essays in Honor of Ulf Hannerz
Eriksen, T. H., Garsten, C. & Randeria, S. (eds)
The scholarship of Ulf Hannerz is characterized by extraordinary breadth and visionary nature. Contributions honor Hannerz’ legacy by addressing theoretical, epistemological, ethical and methodological challenges facing anthropological inquiry. The book showcases anthropology, a discipline devoted to the study of localized phenomena, in a world of global connectedness and accelerated change.
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People, Money and Power in the Economic Crisis
Perspectives from the Global South
Hart, K. & Sharp, J. (eds)
The Cold War was fought between “state socialism” and “the free market.” That fluctuating relationship between public power and private money continues today, unfolding in new and unforeseen ways during the economic crisis. Nine case studies -- from Southern Africa, South Asia, Brazil, and Atlantic Africa – examine economic life from the perspective of ordinary people in places that are normally marginal to global discourse, covering a range of class positions from the bottom to the top of society.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published September 2014
Food in Zones of Conflict
Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
Collinson, P. and Macbeth, H. (eds)
Controlling food and access to food can be used as a weapon. This is an especially significant issue in zones of conflict, because conflict impinges on the production and the distribution of food causing increased competition for food, land and resources. These themes unite the chapters of Food in Zones of Conflict, but since the topic is multidisciplinary, this volume appeals specialists in any field.
Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)
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Published August 2014
Blood and Fire
Toward a Global Anthropology of Labor
Kasmir, S. & Carbonella, A. (eds)
Six historical ethnographies stemming from fieldwork around the world offer a comparative perspective on the uneven consequences of and reactions to the anthropology of labor. The contributors’ vivid accounts show in how dispossession was lived by local working classes illustrates the defeat and unmaking of particular working classes.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
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Talking Stones
The Politics of Memorialization in Post-Conflict Northern Ireland
Viggiani, E.
Using the memorialization of the Troubles in contemporary Northern Ireland as a case study, this book investigates how non-state, often proscribed, organizations have filled a societal vacuum in the creation of public memorials. In particular, these groups have sifted through the past to propose “official” collective narratives of national identification, historical legitimation, and moral justifications for violence.
Subjects: Memory Studies Heritage Studies Anthropology (General)
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Vehicles
Cars, Canoes, and Other Metaphors of Moral Imagination
Lipset, D. & Handler, R. (eds)
On-the-ground vehicles offer themselves as rich metaphors for the moral imagination, for thinking about ethical dimensions of the social. Vehicles presents a collection of ethnographic essays on the metaphoric significance of vehicles in different cultures, from canoes in Papua New Guinea to cars in contemporary China, Japan, and Eastern Europe. Vehicles not only “carry people around,” but also “carry” how they relate to culture, politics and history.
Subjects: Transport Studies Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Up, Down, and Sideways
Anthropologists Trace the Pathways of Power
Stryker, R. & González, R. (eds)
Up, Down, and Sidewaysis a collection of essays by ten anthropologists who use a “vertical slice” approach to critically analyze the relationship between undemocratic and sometimes authoritarian uses and abuses of power today and the survival of the human species. It is atimely examination of modern institutions ranging from the nuclear family to transnational corporations within such countries as Russia, Mexico, South Korea, Peru, Indonesia, Guatemala, and the U.S.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Applied Anthropology
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Published June 2014
Tourism Imaginaries
Anthropological Approaches
Salazar, N. B. & Graburn, N. H. H. (eds)
As a nexus of social practices through which individuals and groups establish places and peoples as credible objects of tourism, “tourism imaginaries” have yet to be fully explored. Presenting innovative conceptual approaches, this volume advances ethnographic research methods and critical scholarship regarding tourism and the imaginaries that drive it.
Subjects: Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General)
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The Ethnographic Experiment
A.M. Hocart and W.H.R. Rivers in Island Melanesia, 1908
Hviding, E. & Berg, C. (eds)
In 1908 Arthur Maurice Hocart and William Halse Rivers Rivers brought about a turning point in modern anthropology. The two pioneers’ fieldwork in Island Melanesia brought about the development of participant observation as a methodological hallmark of social anthropology. Contributors to this volume—who have all carried out fieldwork in Melanesian locations—situate the scholars’ efforts in the contexts of colonial history, imperialism, the history of ideas and scholarly practice within and beyond anthropology.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History
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Published May 2014
Negotiating Identity in Scandinavia
Women, Migration, and the Diaspora
Akman, H. (ed)
“The anthology provides careful analysis based on rich empirical material that illuminates the complexity of the region (and of the migration processes that have occurred in the last thirty years) represented and acted upon as the Nordic…[Its] strength lies in its ability to pose central research questions at the crossroad between the making of the ‘Nordic’ and the original ways through which diasporic communities create gendered forms of belonging that transcend the nation-state. This ability to move between the local and the global through original and reflexive methodologies locates the anthology’s work within a broader international scholarship.” · Diana Mulinari, Center for Gender Studies, University of Lund
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Refugee and Migration Studies
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Intellectuals and (Counter-) Politics
Essays in Historical Realism
Smith, G.
“A cutting edge discussion between anthropology and the disciplines of history and geography, all through the lens of the politics of intellectual work. A paradigm of sensitive ethnographic work fused with broadly social/political theory, this book will pull in a lot of people looking to find their way out of a certain rabbit hole of recent academia.” · Neil Smith, Graduate Center, City University of New York.
Gavin Smith suggests a research agenda designed to maximize the political leverage of ordinary people faced with ever more remote states and technologies that make capitalism increasingly rapacious. He tackles the political conundrums of our times and asks what roles intellectuals might play therein.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published March 2014
Domesticating Youth
Youth Bulges and their Socio-political Implications in Tajikistan
Roche, S.
“This is an outstanding study of the ‘youth bulge’ in a remote country of Central Asia…Through her extensive field work, the author acquired a deep personal knowledge of the peculiarity of the country and its culture, for which little is available in the academic literature…This work is important not only for understanding the dynamics of the youth bulge in Tajikistan, but also to better grasp the rationale and multiple dimensions of youth movements in other developing countries of the same geographical area, and in particular the so-called “Arab Spring” revolutions.” · Michel Garenne, Institut Pasteur, Paris
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
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Arab Spring
Uprisings, Powers, Interventions
Fosshagen, K. (ed)
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Hindi Is Our Ground, English Is Our Sky
Education, Language, and Social Class in Contemporary India
LaDousa, C.
Subjects: Educational Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published November 2013
Durkheim in Dialogue
A Centenary Celebration of The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
Hausner, S. L. (ed)
Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion
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Published November 2013
Dance Circles
Movement, Morality and Self-fashioning in Urban Senegal
Neveu Kringelbach, H.
A historically informed ethnography of creativity, agency, and the fashioning of selves through the different life stages in urban Senegal, this book explores the significance of multiple engagement with dance in a context of economic uncertainty and rising concerns over morality in the public space.
Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)
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The Social Life of Achievement
Long, N. J. & Moore, H. L. (eds)
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
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Published October 2013
Transcultural Montage
Suhr, C. & Willerslev, R. (eds)
“This is an ambitious and ground-breaking volume which takes a thoroughly interdisciplinary perspective on what the editors have branded as ‘transcultural montage.’ ...The total effect is a mesmerising and in many ways insightful comparative endeavour that will do much to consolidate montage as a theme that goes to the heart of contemporary social theory.” · Martin Holbraad, University College London
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Film and Television Studies Museum Studies
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Border Encounters
Asymmetry and Proximity at Europe's Frontiers
Lauth Bacas, J. & Kavanagh, W. (eds)
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Mobility Studies
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Published October 2013
Being Human, Being Migrant
Senses of Self and Well-Being
Grønseth, A. S. (ed)
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Published September 2013
A Policy Travelogue
Tracing Welfare Reform in Aotearoa/New Zealand and Canada
Kingfisher, C.
“This is a groundbreaking book…that represents a sophisticated assemblage of ideas to frame and drive the analysis of data gleaned through long-term engagement with each site…Using the well-delineated concepts of travel, assemblage, and translation, [Kingfisher] explains the contradictory ways in which policy discourse is produced and through which traveling ideas ‘touch down’ in varied places and times and are selectively taken up by people in varied systems of social relations and grounded experiences.” · Judith Goode, Temple University
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
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The Gift of European Thought and the Cost of Living
Argyrou, V.
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Published September 2013
The Legacies of a Hawaiian Generation
From Territorial Subject to American Citizen
Schachter, J.
“Schachter has produced a powerful and moving account of Native Hawaiian elders who have now passed physically but continue to live on in spirit in the prose that she has assembled from the writings gifted to her. This work represents the best that anthropology has to offer Indigenous peoples seeking to remain Native in a decidedly anti-Native world—a document that gives voice to the truths they know and which connects generations in a lineage of discourse.” · Ty Tengan, University of Hawaii
Subjects: Anthropology (General) History: 20th Century to Present
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Published August 2013
Durkheim, the Durkheimians, and the Arts
Riley, A.T., Pickering, W.S.F., & Watts Miller, W. (eds)
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Published August 2013
About the Hearth
Perspectives on the Home, Hearth and Household in the Circumpolar North
Anderson, D. G., Wishart, R. P., & Vaté, V. (eds)
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Archaeology Museum Studies Heritage Studies
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Published July 2013
Foodways and Empathy
Relatedness in a Ramu River Society, Papua New Guinea
Poser, A. von
Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)
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Published July 2013
Elusive Promises
Planning in the Contemporary World
Abram, S. & Weszkalnys, G. (eds)
Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published July 2013
Soldiering Under Occupation
Processes of Numbing among Israeli Soldiers in the Al-Aqsa Intifada
Grassiani, E.
Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published June 2013
Framing Africa
Portrayals of a Continent in Contemporary Mainstream Cinema
Eltringham, N. (ed)
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Irish/ness Is All Around Us
Language Revivalism and the Culture of Ethnic Identity in Northern Ireland
Zenker, O.
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Published April 2013
Environmental Anthropology Engaging Ecotopia
Bioregionalism, Permaculture, and Ecovillages
Lockyer, J. & Veteto, J. R. (eds)
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)
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Published April 2013
Capricious Borders
Minority, Population, and Counter-Conduct Between Greece and Turkey
Demetriou, O.
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Published March 2013
The Death of the Big Men and the Rise of the Big Shots
Custom and Conflict in East New Britain
Martin, K.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies
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Published March 2013
Communities of Complicity
Everyday Ethics in Rural China
Steinmüller, H.
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Published March 2013
Distributed Objects
Meaning and Mattering after Alfred Gell
Chua, L. & Elliott, M. (eds)
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Published February 2013
Places of Pain
Forced Displacement, Popular Memory and Trans-local Identities in Bosnian War-torn Communities
Halilovich, H.
This compelling and intimate description of places of pain and (be)longing that were lost during the 1992–95 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as of survivors’ places of resettlement in Australia, Europe and North America, serves as a powerful illustration of the complex interplay between place, memory and identity.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Peace and Conflict Studies Memory Studies
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Published January 2013
State Practices and Zionist Images
Shaping Economic Development in Arab Towns in Israel
Wesley, D.A.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published January 2013
Blood and Kinship
Matter for Metaphor from Ancient Rome to the Present
Johnson, C. H., Jussen, B., Sabean, D. W., & Teuscher, S. (eds)
Subjects: History (General) Anthropology (General)
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Published October 2012
Dancing Cultures
Globalization, Tourism and Identity in the Anthropology of Dance
Neveu Kringelbach, H. & Skinner, J. (eds)
Subjects: Performance Studies Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General)
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Published October 2012
Wind Over Water
Migration in an East Asian Context
Haines, D. W., Yamanaka, K. & Yamashita, S. (eds)
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Published September 2012
Performing Place, Practising Memories
Aboriginal Australians, Hippies and the State
Henry, R.
Subjects: Performance Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published September 2012
Landscapes Beyond Land
Routes, Aesthetics, Narratives
Árnason, A., Ellison, N., Vergunst, J. & Whitehouse, A. (eds)
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)
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Published September 2012
Playing with Languages
Children and Change in a Caribbean Village
Paugh, A. L.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Educational Studies Sociology
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Published September 2012
Narrating the Future in Siberia
Childhood, Adolescence and Autobiography among the Eveny
Ulturgasheva, O.
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Published August 2012
Animism in Rainforest and Tundra
Personhood, Animals, Plants and Things in Contemporary Amazonia and Siberia
Brightman, M., Grotti, V. E., & Ulturgasheva, O. (eds)
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)
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Published August 2012
Post-cosmopolitan Cities
Explorations of Urban Coexistence
Humphrey, C. & Skvirskaja, V. (eds)
Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published July 2012
Sharing the Sacra
The Politics and Pragmatics of Intercommunal Relations around Holy Places
Bowman, G. (ed)
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Published July 2012
Environment and Citizenship in Latin America
Natures, Subjects and Struggles
Latta, A. & Wittman, H. (eds)
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Published June 2012
Learning From the Children
Childhood, Culture and Identity in a Changing World
Waldren, J. & Kaminski, I.-M. (eds)
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Published June 2012
Dark Trophies
Hunting and the Enemy Body in Modern War
Harrison, S.
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Published June 2012
Ordinary Lives and Grand Schemes
An Anthropology of Everyday Religion
Schielke, S. & Debevec, L. (eds)
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Published June 2012
The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama
Religion, Media and Gender in Kinshasa
Pype, K.
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Published May 2012
Moving Subjects, Moving Objects
Transnationalism, Cultural Production and Emotions
Svašek, M. (ed)
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Published May 2012
Ambiguous Pleasures
Sexuality and Middle Class Self-Perceptions in Nairobi
Spronk, R.
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Published April 2012
Crafting 'The Indian'
Knowledge, Desire, and Play in Indianist Reenactment
Kalshoven, P. T.
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Differentiating Development
Beyond an Anthropology of Critique
Venkatesan, S. & Yarrow, T. (eds)
Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published March 2012
The State and the Social
State Formation in Botswana and its Precolonial and Colonial Genealogies
Gulbrandsen, Ø
Botswana has been portrayed as a major case of exception in Africa—as an oasis of peace and harmony with an enduring parliamentary democracy, blessed with remarkable diamond-driven economic growth. Whereas the “failure” of other states on the continent is often attributed to the prevalence of indigenous political ideas and structures, the author argues that Botswana’s apparent success is not the result of Western ideas and practices of government having replaced indigenous ideas and structures. Rather, the postcolonial state of Botswana is best understood as a unique, complex formation, one that arose dialectically through the meeting of European ideas and practices with the symbolism and hierarchies of authority, rooted in the cosmologies of indigenous polities, and both have become integral to the formation of a strong state with a stable government.
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Writing the Dark Side of Travel
Skinner, J. (ed)
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Ethical Consumption
Social Value and Economic Practice
Carrier, J. G. & Luetchford, P. G. (eds)
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Published March 2012
Engaging the Spirit World
Popular Beliefs and Practices in Modern Southeast Asia
Endres, K. W. & Lauser, A. (eds)
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Published February 2012
Tuff City
Urban Change and Contested Space in Central Naples
Dines, N.
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Saltwater Sociality
A Melanesian Island Ethnography
Schneider, K.
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Published February 2012
The Cult and Science of Public Health
A Sociological Investigation
Dew, K.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Medical Anthropology
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Published January 2012
Foodscapes, Foodfields, and Identities in the YucatÁn
Ayora-Diaz, S. I.
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Published December 2011
Legends of People, Myths of State
Violence, Intolerance, and Political Culture in Sri Lanka and Australia
Kapferer, B.
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Young Men in Uncertain Times
Amit, V. & Dyck, N. (eds)
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Published October 2011
Crude Domination
An Anthropology of Oil
Behrends, A., Reyna, S. P. & Schlee, G. (eds)
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Published October 2011
Anthropologies of Education
A Global Guide to Ethnographic Studies of Learning and Schooling
Anderson-Levitt, K. M. (ed)
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Published September 2011
Tourism, Magic and Modernity
Cultivating the Human Garden
Picard, D.
“...an excellent and engaging commentary on the tourism industry, postcolonial societies and environmental governance. Its strength lies in the nuance and intricacy of its portrayals of social life and the way that it opens up a difficult yet much needed theoretical space in which to contemplate issues such as how we should investigate tourist subjectivity, how collective imaginaries are formed and sustained, and how dynamics of affect and desire constitute tourism as a social practice. Its readability and the vividness of characterisations in Picard’s accounts of his ethnographic observations will make the book an accessible and appealing text to students of tourism studies and social anthropology, and to these fields it makes a notable contribution.” · Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change
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Funerals in Africa
Explorations of a Social Phenomenon
Jindra, M. & Noret, J. (eds)
This volume brings together scholars who have conducted research on funerary events across sub-Saharan Africa. The contributions offer an in-depth understanding of the broad changes and underlying causes in African societies over the years, such as changes in religious beliefs, social structure, urbanization, and technological changes and health.
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)
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Multiple Moralities and Religions in Post-Soviet Russia
Zigon, J. (ed)
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Published September 2011
Civilizations Beyond Earth
Extraterrestrial Life and Society
Vakoch, D. A. & Harrison, A. A. (eds)
“For years sections of the SETI [Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence] community have bemoaned the fact that the social sciences are often sidelined in favour of the hard sciences when it comes to SETI discussion. Civilizations Beyond Earth starts to redress the balance, edited skillfully by Douglas Vakoch, the only sociologist on staff at the SETI Institute in California, and Albert Harrison, a psychologist from the University of California.” • Astronomy
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Published August 2011
Indigenous Peoples and Demography
The Complex Relation between Identity and Statistics
Axelsson, P. & Sköld, P. (eds)
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
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Published July 2011
Imagining the Post-Apartheid State
An Ethnographic Account of Namibia
Friedman, J. T.
In northwest Namibia, people’s political imagination offers a powerful insight into the post-apartheid state. Based on extensive anthropological fieldwork, this book focuses on the former South African apartheid regime and the present democratic government; it compares the perceptions and practices of state and customary forms of judicial administration, reflects upon the historical trajectory of a chieftaincy dispute in relation to the rooting of state power and examines everyday forms of belonging in the independent Namibian State.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published July 2011
The Annoying Difference
The Emergence of Danish Neonationalism, Neoracism, and Populism in the Post-1989 World
Hervik, P.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Peace and Conflict Studies
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Published July 2011
Youth Gangs and Street Children
Culture, Nurture and Masculinity in Ethiopia
Heinonen, P.
The rapidly expanding population of youth gangs and street children is one of the most disturbing issues in many cities around the world. By focusing on gender as the defining element of these children’s lives — as they describe it in their own words — this book offers a clear analysis of how the unequal and antagonistic gender relations that are tolerated and normalized by everyday school and family structures shape their lives at home and on the street.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)
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Published June 2011
Growing Up in Central Australia
New Anthropological Studies of Aboriginal Childhood and Adolescence
Eickelkamp, U. (ed)
This volume presents recent and original studies of life experiences outside the institutional settings of childcare and education, of those growing up in contemporary Central Australia or with strong links to the region.
Subject: Anthropology (General)
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Published May 2011
Patrons of Women
Literacy Projects and Gender Development in Rural Nepal
Hertzog, E.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Development Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published May 2011
The 1926/27 Soviet Polar Census Expeditions
Anderson, D. G. (ed)
Subjects: Anthropology (General) History (General)
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Published May 2011
The Dream in Islam
From Qur'anic Tradition to Jihadist Inspiration
Edgar, I. R.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion
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Published May 2011
Liquid Bread
Beer and Brewing in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Schiefenhövel, W. and Macbeth, H. (eds)
Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General)
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Published March 2011
Collective Terms
Race, Culture, and Community in a State-Planned City in France
Epstein, B. S.
Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published January 2011
Religion, Politics, and Globalization
Anthropological Approaches
Lindquist, G. & Handelman, D. (eds)
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)
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Published December 2010
Human Diet and Nutrition in Biocultural Perspective
Past Meets Present
Moffat, T. & Prowse, T. (eds)
Subjects: Food & Nutrition Anthropology (General) Archaeology
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Published November 2010
The Ju/’hoan San of Nyae Nyae and Namibian Independence
Development, Democracy, and Indigenous Voices in Southern Africa
Biesele, M. & Hitchcock, R. K.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology
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Published November 2010
The Long Way Home
The Meaning and Values of Repatriation
Turnbull, P. & Pickering, M. (eds)
Subjects: Museum Studies Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies
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Published November 2010
Envisioning Eden
Mobilizing Imaginaries in Tourism and Beyond
Salazar, N.
Subjects: Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General)
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Published November 2010
Settling for Less
The Planned Resettlement of Israel's Negev Bedouin
Dinero, S. C.
Subjects: Anthropology (General)
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Published October 2010
Unsafe Motherhood
Mayan Maternal Mortality and Subjectivity in Post-War Guatemala
Berry, N.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology
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Published September 2010
The Hadrami Diaspora
Community-Building on the Indian Ocean Rim
Manger, L.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published August 2010
Urban Pollution
Cultural Meanings, Social Practices
Dürr, E. & Jaffe, R. (eds)
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General)