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  • 1
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    No Alternative : Childbirth, Citizenship, and Indigenous Culture in Mexico (2018)
    Austin : University of Texas Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781477316788
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: 2021
    DDC: 305.868 72
    RVK:
    LC 66615
    RVK:
    LC 56625
    Keywords: Hebamme ; Sanfte Geburt ; Birth customs ; Birth customs-Mexico ; Childbirth Social aspects ; Childbirth-Social aspects-Mexico ; Discrimination in medical care ; Discrimination in medical care-Mexico ; Indigenous women Social conditions ; Indigenous women-Mexico-Social conditions ; Maternal health services ; Maternal health services-Mexico ; Midwives ; Midwives-Mexico ; Natural childbirth ; Natural childbirth-Mexico ; Women Social conditions ; Women-Mexico-Social conditions ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social ; Mexiko
    Abstract: Recent anthropological scholarship on “new midwifery” centers on how professional midwives in various countries are helping women reconnect with “nature,” teaching them to trust in their bodies, respecting women’s “choices,” and fighting for women’s right to birth as naturally as possible. In No Alternative, Rosalynn A. Vega uses ethnographic accounts of natural birth practices in Mexico to complicate these narratives about new midwifery and illuminate larger questions of female empowerment, citizenship, and the commodification of indigenous culture, by showing how alternative birth actually reinscribes traditional racial and gender hierarchies. Vega contrasts the vastly different birthing experiences of upper-class and indigenous Mexican women. Upper-class women often travel to birthing centers to be delivered by professional midwives whose methods are adopted from and represented as indigenous culture, while indigenous women from those same cultures are often forced by lack of resources to use government hospitals regardless of their preferred birthing method. Vega demonstrates that women’s empowerment, having a “choice,” is a privilege of those capable of paying for private medical services—albeit a dubious privilege, as it puts the burden of correctly producing future members of society on women’s shoulders. Vega’s research thus also reveals the limits of citizenship in a neoliberal world, as indigeneity becomes an object of consumption within a transnational racialized economy.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Okt 2021)
    DOI: 10.7560/316764
    URL: https://doi.org/10.7560/316764
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781477316788
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  • 2
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    Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Egypt : Navigating the Margins of Respectability (2018)
    Austin : University of Texas Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781477317051
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: 2021
    DDC: 306.0962
    Keywords: Ethnology ; Man-woman relationships 21st century ; Sex role 21st century ; Women Sexual behavior 21st century ; Women Social conditions 21st century ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
    Abstract: Cairo is a city obsessed with honor and respectability—and love affairs. Sara, a working-class woman, has an affair with a married man and becomes pregnant, only to be abandoned by him; Ayah and Zeid, a respectably engaged couple, argue over whether Ayah’s friend is a prostitute or a virgin; Malak, a European belly dancer who sometimes gets paid for sex, wants to be loved by a man who won’t treat her like a whore just because she’s a dancer; and Alia, a Christian banker who left her abusive husband, is the mistress of a wealthy Muslim man, Haroun, who encourages business by hosting risqué parties for other men and their mistresses. Set in transnational Cairo over two decades, Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Egypt is an ethnography that explores female respectability, male honor, and Western theories and fantasies about Arab society. L. L. Wynn uses stories of love affairs to interrogate three areas of classic anthropological theory: mimesis, kinship, and gift. She develops a broad picture of how individuals love and desire within a cultural and political system that structures the possibilities of, and penalties for, going against sexual and gender norms. Wynn demonstrates that love is at once a moral horizon, an attribute that “naturally” inheres in particular social relations, a social phenomenon strengthened through cultural concepts of gift and kinship, and an emotion deeply felt and desired by individuals.
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    DOI: 10.7560/317044
    URL: https://doi.org/10.7560/317044
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781477317051
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  • 3
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    Thunder Shaman : Making History with Mapuche Spirits in Chile and Patagonia (2016)
    Austin : University of Texas Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781477308813
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: 2021
    DDC: 305.898/720827
    Keywords: Mapuche Indians Rites and ceremonies ; History ; Mapuche Indians--Patagonia (Argentina and Chile)--Rites and ceremonies--History ; Shamans ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
    Abstract: As a “wild,” drumming thunder shaman, a warrior mounted on her spirit horse, Francisca Kolipi’s spirit traveled to other historical times and places, gaining the power and knowledge to conduct spiritual warfare against her community’s enemies, including forestry companies and settlers. As a “civilized” shaman, Francisca narrated the Mapuche people’s attachment to their local sacred landscapes, which are themselves imbued with shamanic power, and constructed nonlinear histories of intra- and interethnic relations that created a moral order in which Mapuche become history’s spiritual victors. Thunder Shaman represents an extraordinary collaboration between Francisca Kolipi and anthropologist Ana Mariella Bacigalupo, who became Kolipi’s “granddaughter,” trusted helper, and agent in a mission of historical (re)construction and myth-making. The book describes Francisca’s life, death, and expected rebirth, and shows how she remade history through multitemporal dreams, visions, and spirit possession, drawing on ancestral beings and forest spirits as historical agents to obliterate state ideologies and the colonialist usurpation of indigenous lands. Both an academic text and a powerful ritual object intended to be an agent in shamanic history, Thunder Shaman functions simultaneously as a shamanic “bible,” embodying Francisca’s power, will, and spirit long after her death in 1996, and an insightful study of shamanic historical consciousness, in which biography, spirituality, politics, ecology, and the past, present, and future are inextricably linked. It demonstrates how shamans are constituted by historical-political and ecological events, while they also actively create history itself through shamanic imaginaries and narrative forms.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Okt 2021)
    DOI: 10.7560/308806
    URL: https://doi.org/10.7560/308806
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781477308813
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  • 4
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    Courage, Resistance, and Women in Ciudad Juárez : Challenges to Militarization (2015)
    Austin : University of Texas Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780292768277
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: 2021
    DDC: 305.420972
    Keywords: Human rights ; Human rights ; Militarism ; Militarism ; Social movements ; Social movements ; Violence ; Violence ; Women Political activity ; Women Political activity ; Women Violence against ; Women Violence against ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
    Abstract: Ciudad Juárez has recently become infamous for its murder rate, which topped 3,000 in 2010 as competing drug cartels grew increasingly violent and the military responded with violence as well. Despite the atmosphere of intimidation by troops, police, and organized criminals, women have led the way in civil society activism, spurring the Juárez Resistance and forging powerful alliances with anti-militarization activists. An in-depth examination of la Resistencia Juarense, Courage, Resistance, and Women in Ciudad Juárez draws on ethnographic research to analyze the resistance's focus on violence against women, as well as its clash with the war against drugs championed by Mexican President Felipe Calderón with the support of the United States. Through grounded insights, the authors trace the transformation of hidden discourses into public discourses that openly challenge the militarized border regimes. The authors also explore the advocacy carried on by social media, faith-based organizations, and peace-and-justice activist Javier Sicilia while Calderón faced U.S. political schisms over the role of border trade in this global manufacturing site. Bringing to light on-the-ground strategies as well as current theories from the fields of sociology, political anthropology, and human rights, this illuminating study is particularly significant because of its emphasis on the role of women in local and transnational attempts to extinguish a hot zone. As they overcome intimidation to become game-changing activists, the figures featured in Courage, Resistance, and Women in Ciudad Juárez offer the possibility of peace and justice in the wake of seemingly irreconcilable conflict.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Nov 2021)
    DOI: 10.7560/760875
    URL: https://doi.org/10.7560/760875
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292768277
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  • 5
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    Eating Soup without a Spoon : Anthropological Theory and Method in the Real World (2015)
    Austin : University of Texas Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781477307830
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: 2021
    DDC: 301.01
    Keywords: Anthropology Fieldwork ; Anthropology Methodology ; Anthropology ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
    Abstract: Significant scholarship exists on anthropological fieldwork and methodologies. Some anthropologists have also published memoirs of their research experiences. Renowned anthropologist Jeffrey Cohen’s Eating Soup without a Spoon is a first-of-its-kind hybrid of the two, expertly melding story with methodology to create a compelling narrative of fieldwork that is deeply grounded in anthropological theory. Cohen’s first foray into fieldwork was in 1992, when he lived in Santa Anna del Valle in rural Oaxaca, Mexico. While recounting his experiences studying how rural folks adapted to far-reaching economic changes, Cohen is candid about the mistakes he made and the struggles in the village. From the pressures of gaining the trust of a population to the fear of making errors in data collection, Cohen explores the intellectual processes behind ethnographic research. He offers tips for collecting data, avoiding pitfalls, and embracing the chaos and shocks that come with working in an unfamiliar environment. Cohen’s own photographs enrich his vivid portrayals of daily life. In this groundbreaking work, Cohen discusses the adventure, wonder, community, and friendships he encountered during his first year of work, but, first and foremost, he writes in service to the field as a place to do research: to test ideas, develop theories, and model how humans cope and react to the world.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Okt 2021)
    DOI: 10.7560/305379
    URL: https://doi.org/10.7560/305379
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781477307830
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  • 6
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    The Predicament of Culture : Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art (1988)
    Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780674503724
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (395 p.)
    Edition: 2021
    DDC: 909/.09821082
    Keywords: Ethnology History 20th century ; Ethnology Philosophy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
    Abstract: The Predicament of Culture is a critical ethnography of the West in its changing relations with other societies. Analyzing cultural practices such as anthropology, travel writing, collecting, and museum displays of tribal art, Clifford shows authoritative accounts of other ways of life to be contingent fictions, now actively contested in postcolonial contexts. In discussions of ethnography, surrealism, museums, and emergent tribal arts, Clifford probes the late twentieth-century predicament of living simultaneously within, between, and after culture.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Apr 2021)
    DOI: 10.4159/9780674503724
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674503724
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  • 7
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    Kinship to Kingship : Gender Hierarchy and State Formation in the Tongan Islands (1987)
    Austin : University of Texas Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780292733909
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: 2021
    DDC: 306.8/3/099612
    Keywords: Acculturation ; Kinship - Tonga ; Kinship ; Sex role ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
    Abstract: Have women always been subordinated? If not, why and how did women's subordination develop? Kinship to Kingship was the first book to examine in detail how and why gender relations become skewed when classes and the state emerge in a society. Using a Marxist-feminist approach, Christine Ward Gailey analyzes women's status in one society over three hundred years, from a period when kinship relations organized property, work, distribution, consumption, and reproduction to a class-based state society. Although this study focuses on one group of islands, Tonga, in the South Pacific, the author discusses processes that can be seen through the neocolonial world. This ethnohistorical study argues that evolution from a kin-based society to one organized along class lines necessarily entails the subordination of women. And the opposite is also held to be true: state and class formation cannot be understood without analyzing gender and the status of women. Of interest to students of anthropology, political science, sociology, and women's studies, this work is a major contribution to social history.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Nov 2021)
    DOI: 10.7560/724563
    URL: https://doi.org/10.7560/724563
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292733909
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  • 8
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    Japanese Culture and Behavior : Selected Readings (1986)
    Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780824841522
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (448 p.)
    Edition: 2021
    DDC: 306/.089956
    Keywords: National characteristics, Japanese ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mai 2021)
    DOI: 10.1515/9780824841522
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780824841522
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  • 9
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    Conflict in Japan (1984)
    Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780824844165
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (428 p.)
    Edition: 2021
    DDC: 303.6/0952
    Keywords: Social conflict ; Social conflict ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
    Abstract: Social and political conflict in postwar Japan is the subject of this volume, which draws together a series of field-based studies by North American and Japanese sociologists, anthropologists, and political scientists. It focuses attention on the sources of conflict and the ways in which conflict is expressed and managed. This book challenges the widely held theories stressing the harmony and vertical structure of social relations in Japan, which imply that conflict is only of minimal importance. Not only does the research presented here force recognition of the existence and complexity of conflict patterns in Japan, its approach to conflict provides a dynamic, empirical, and interdisciplinary focus on social and political processes in the postwar period. The editors' theoretical introduction is followed by a general conceptual piece by one of Japan's foremost sociologists. Ten empirical studies, each offering both new data and new insights on known data about Japanese social and political systems, analyze conflict and conflict resolution in interpersonal relations, industrial relations, education, rural villages, government bureaucracy, parliament, political parties, and interest groups, including how they are manifested in women's and student protest movements and portrayed in the mass media. Western social science conflict theories are applied to enhance our understanding of both the universal and the unique elements in Japanese social and political institutions.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mai 2021)
    DOI: 10.1515/9780824844165
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780824844165
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  • 10
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    An Epoch of Miracles : Oral Literature of the Yucatec Maya. (1983)
    Austin : University of Texas Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780292771451
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: 2021
    DDC: 398.2/08997
    Keywords: Indians of Mexico Folklore ; Maya literature Translations into English ; Maya literature--Translations into English ; Mayas Folklore ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
    Abstract: “Mr. Allan Burns, I am here to tell you an example, the example of the Hunchbacks.” So said Paulino Yamá, traditionalist and storyteller, to Allan Burns, anthropologist and linguist, as he began one story that found its way into this book. Paulino Yamá was just one of several master storytellers from the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico from whom Burns learned not only the Mayan language but also the style and performance of myths, stories, riddles, prayers, and other forms of speech of their people. The result is An Epoch of Miracles, a wonderfully readable yet thoroughly scholarly set of translations from the oral literature of the Yucatec Maya, an important New World tradition never before systematically described. An Epoch of Miracles brings us over thirty-five long narratives of things large, small, strange, and “regular” and as many delightful short pieces, such as bird lore, riddles, and definitions of anteaters, rainbows, and other commonplaces of the Mayan world. Here are profound narratives of the Feathered Serpent, the mighty Rain God Chac and his helpers, and the mysterious cult of the Speaking Cross. But because these are modern, “Petroleum Age” Maya, here too are a discussion with Cuba’s Fidel Castro and a greeting to former president Richard Nixon. All pieces are translated ethnopoetically; examples of several genres are presented bilingually. An especially valuable feature is the indication of performance style, such as pauses and voice quality, given with each piece.
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    DOI: 10.7560/720374
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292771451
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