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    Our Common Denominator : Human Universals Revisited (2016)
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    Pages: 364 p.
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    Keywords: Theory & Methodology in Anthropology
    Abstract: Since the politicization of anthropology in the 1970s, most anthropologists have been reluctant to approach the topic of universals-that is, phenomena that occur regularly in all known human societies. In this volume, Christoph Antweiler reasserts the importance of these cross-cultural commonalities for anthropological research and for life and co-existence beyond the academy. The question presented here is how anthropology can help us approach humanity in its entirety, understanding the world less as a globe, with an emphasis on differences, but as a planet, from a vantage point open to commonalities.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Tables -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Humankind: Current Societal Debates -- -- Universal Postulates Everywhere! -- Popular Universality in Visual Media: "The Family of Man" -- Normative Universalism -- -- Chapter 2. A World of Cultures: Their Differences and Likenesses -- -- Finding Patterns in Diversity: George Peter Murdock and Donald Edward Brown -- Universals as Subject Matter: Concept, Terms and Metaphors -- Universals do matter: The Relevance of Universals in General and for Cultural Studies -- Universals in Cultural Anthropology Today: the forgotten Half in the Science of Humanity -- -- Chapter 3. Cultures and Human Nature: Human Beings are biologically Cultural -- -- The Nexus of Intra-cultural Diversity and Universals -- Human Nature and the Proper Image of Who We Are -- Homo sapiens: Uniqueness versus Special Status -- -- Chapter 4. Universals: Examples from Several Realms -- -- Qualifying Remarks -- Narration and Expressive Culture -- Sociality -- Worldview and Images of Humanity -- Rituals and Beliefs -- Cognition and Knowledge -- Languages and Speaking -- Behavior and Experience -- Gender, Sexuality and Social Reproduction -- -- Chapter 5. Methods: Deduction, Case Studies and Comparison -- -- Finding Potential Candidates and Deducing from Theory -- Case Studies: Testing Postulated Universals -- Concepts beyond Cultural Bias? -- Inventories of Universals -- Evaluating Lists of Universals and Holistic Forms of Representation -- Cross-cultural Comparison -- Cross-species Comparison -- -- Chapter 6. Taxonomy: The Forms, Levels and Depth of Universals -- -- Levels, Spheres and Time Frame -- Substance and Depth -- Degree of Universality -- Conditional Universals and other Specific Forms -- Relations between basic Anthropological Orientations -- -- Chapter 7. Toward Explanation: Why do Universals exist? -- -- Ten Pitfalls in Research and in Anti-universalism -- Systematics of Explanatory Approaches -- Cultural Contact: Universals through Cultural Transfer and Diffusion -- Function, Convergence and Structural Implication: Emerging Universals through Real-Life Circumstances -- Evolution: Universals Based on Adaptation -- Complex Causes -- -- Chapter 8. Critical Positions: Arguments against Universalism -- -- Reification, Hidden Syllogisms and Implicit Primitivity -- Relativist and Empirical Criticisms -- Fundamental Criticism: Charges of Eurocentrism and Hegemony -- -- Chapter 9. Synthesis: Human Universals and the Human Sciences -- Bibliography -- Index --
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    The France of the Little-Middles : A Suburban Housing Development in Greater Paris (2016)
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    ISBN: 9781785332296
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    Pages: 224 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Anthropology of Europe 1
    Keywords: Sociology
    Abstract: The Poplars housing development in suburban Paris is home to what one resident called the "Little-Middles" – a social group on the tenuous border between the working- and middle- classes. In the 1960s The Poplars was a site of upward social mobility, which fostered an egalitarian sense of community among residents. This feeling of collective flourishing was challenged when some residents moved away, selling their homes to a new generation of upwardly mobile neighbors from predominantly immigrant backgrounds. This volume explores the strained reception of these migrants, arguing that this is less a product of racism and xenophobia than of anxiety about social class and the loss of a sense of community that reigned before.
    Description / Table of Contents: Illustrations, Tables, and Maps -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The "Good Old Days" -- Chapter 2. Children of the projects in quest of respectability -- Chapter 3. Suburban Youth -- Chapter 4. "They're very nice, but...": Encountering new foreign neighbors -- Chapter 5. A vote of the white lower classes? -- Appendices -- Appendix I: Interviews cited in the book -- Appendix II: Documents and sources -- Bibliography -- Index --
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    The Anthropologist as Writer : Genres and Contexts in the Twenty-First Century (2016)
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    ISBN: 9781785330193
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    Pages: 288 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: Theory & Methodology in Anthropology
    Abstract: Writing is crucial to anthropology, but which genres are anthropologists expected to master in the 21st century? This book explores how anthropological writing shapes the intellectual content of the discipline and academic careers. First, chapters identify the different writing genres and contexts anthropologists actually engage with. Second, this book argues for the usefulness and necessity of taking seriously the idea of writing as a craft and of writing across and within genres in new ways. Although academic writing is an anthropologist's primary genre, they also write in many others, from drafting administrative texts and filing reports to composing ethnographically inspired journalism and fiction.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introducing the Anthropologist as Writer: Across and Within Genres -- Helena Wulff -- PART I: THE ROLE OF WRITING IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL CAREERS -- Chapter 1. The Necessity of Being a Writer in Anthropology Today -- Dominic Boyer -- Chapter 2. Reading, Writing, and Recognition in the Emerging Academy -- Don Brenneis -- Chapter 3. O Anthropology, Where Art Thou? An Auto-Ethnography of Proposals -- Sverker Finnström -- Chapter 4. The Craft of Editing: Anthropology's Prose and Qualms -- Brian Moeran -- Chapter 5. The Anglicization of Anthropology: Opportunities and Challenges -- Máiréad Nic Craith -- PART II: ETHNOGRAPHIC WRITING -- Chapter 6. The Anthropologist as Storyteller -- Alma Gottlieb -- Chapter 7. Writing for the Future -- Paul Stoller -- Chapter 8. Life-writing: Anthropological Knowledge, Boundary-Making, and the Experiential -- Narmala Halstead -- Chapter 9. Chekhov as Ethnographic Muse -- Kirin Narayan -- PART III: REACHING OUT: POPULAR WRITING AND JOURNALISM -- Chapter 10. On Some Nice Benefits and One Big Challenge of The Second File -- Anette Nyqvist -- Chapter 11. The Writer as Anthropologist -- Oscar Hemer -- Chapter 12. Writing Together: Tensions and Joy between Scholars and Activists -- Eva-Maria Hardtmann, Vincent Manoharan, Urmila Devi, Jussi Eskola and Swarna Sabrina Francis -- PART IV: WRITING ACROSS GENRES -- Chapter 13. Fiction and Anthropological Understanding: A Cosmopolitan Vision -- Nigel Rapport -- Chapter 14. On Timely Appearances: Anthropology, Art, Literature -- Mattias Viktorin -- Chapter 15. Digital Narratives in Anthropology -- Paula Uimonen -- Chapter 16. Writing Otherwise -- Ulf Hannerz -- Index --
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    Reflecting on Reflexivity : The Human Condition as an Ontological Surprise (2016)
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    ISBN: 9781782387534
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    Pages: 324 p.
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    Keywords: Theory & Methodology in Anthropology
    Abstract: Humanness supposes innate and profound reflexivity. This volume approaches the concept of reflexivity on two different yet related analytical planes. Whether implicitly or explicitly, both planes of thought bear critically on reflexivity in relation to the nature of selfhood and the very idea of the autonomous individual, ethics, and humanness, science as such and social science, ontological dualism and fundamental ambiguity. On the one plane, a collection of original and innovative ethnographically based essays is offered, each of which is devoted to ways in which reflexivity plays a fundamental role in human social life and the study of it; on the other-anthropo-philosophical and developed in the volume's Preface, Introduction, and Postscript-it is argued that reflexivity distinguishes-definitively, albeit relatively-the being and becoming of the human.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Terry Evens, Don Handelman, and Christopher Roberts -- Introduction: Reflexivity and Selfhood -- Terry Evens, Don Handelman, and Christopher Roberts -- SECTION I: REFLEXIVITY, SOCIAL SCIENCE, AND ETHICS -- Chapter 1. Is There a Difference between Doing Good and Doing Good Research: Anthropology and Social Activism, or the Productive Limits of Reflexivity -- Terry Evens -- Chapter 2. The Ethic of Being Wrong: Taking Levinas into the Field -- Don Handelman -- Chapter 3. Cosmopolitan Reflexivity: Consciousness and the Non-Locality of Ritual Meaning -- Koenraad Stroeken -- Chapter 4. Religionist Reflexivity and the Machiavellian Believer -- Christopher Roberts -- SECTION II: REFLEXIVITY, PRACTICE, AND EMBODIMENT -- Chapter 5. Wittgensetin's Critique of Representation and the Ethical Reflexivity of Anthropological Discourse -- Horacio Ortiz -- Chapter 6. Human Cockfighting in the Squared Circle: Thai Boxing as a Matter of Reflexivity -- Paul Schissel -- Chapter 7. Perfect Praxis in Akidō-A Reflexive Body-Self -- Einat Bar-On Cohen -- SECTION III: REFLEXIVITY, SELF, AND OTHER -- Chapter 8. Tension, Reflection, and Agency in the Life of a Hausa Grain Trader -- Paul Clough -- Chapter 9. Reflexivity in Intersubjective and Intercultural Borderlinking -- René Devisch -- SECTION IV: REFLEXIVITY, DEMOCRACY, AND GOVERNMENT -- Chapter 10. The Latent Effects of the Distribution of Political Reflexivity in Contemporary Democracies -- Yaron Ezrahi -- Postscript: Reflexivity and Social Science -- Terry Evens -- Index --
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    Making a Difference? : Social Assessment Policy and Praxis and its Emergence in China (2015)
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    ISBN: 9781782384588
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    Pages: 316 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Asia-Pacific Studies: Past and Present 6
    Keywords: Development Studies
    Abstract: Social assessment for projects in China is an important emerging field. This collection of essays - from authors whose formative work has influenced the policies that shape practice in development-affected communities - locates recent Chinese experience of the development of social assessment practices (including in displacement and resettlement) in a historical and comparative perspective. Contributors - social scientists employed by international development banks, national government agencies, and sub-contracting groups - examine projects from a practitioner's perspective. Real-life experiences are presented as case-specific praxis, theoretically informed insight, and pragmatic lessons-learned, grounded in the history of this field of development practice. They reflect on work where economic determinism reigns supreme, yet project failure or success often hinges upon sociopolitical and cultural factors.
    Description / Table of Contents: Figures and Tables -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Making Economic Growth Socially Sustainable? -- Susanna Price -- PART i: ENGAGED SOCIAL RESEARCH IN SHIFTING DEVELOPMENT NARRATIVES -- Introduction to Part One -- Susanna Price -- Chapter 1. Landmarks in Development: The Introduction of Social Analysis -- Michael M. Cernea -- Chapter 2. Social Science and the Mining Sector: Contemporary Roles and Dilemmas for Engagement -- Deanna Kemp and John R. Owen -- Chapter 3. Practicing Social Development: Navigating Local Contexts to Benefit Local Communities -- Aaron Kyle Dennis and Gregory Eliyu Guldin -- Chapter 4. Striving for Good Practice: Unpacking AusAID's approach to Community Development -- Kathryn Robinson and Andrew McWilliam -- Chapter 5. Seeds of Life: Social Research for Improved Farmer Yields in East Timor -- Andrew McWilliam, Modesto Lopes, Diana Glazebrook, Marcelino de Jesus da Costa, and Anita Ximenes -- PART II: APPLYING SOCIOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE IN CHINA -- Introduction to Part Two -- Susanna Price -- Chapter 6. Social Assessment in the People's Republic of China: Progress and Application in Domestic Development Projects -- Li Kaimeng -- Chapter 7. Turning Risks into Opportunities? Social Assessment as Governmental Technologies -- Bettina Gransow (柯兰君) -- Chapter 8. Participatory Monitoring of Development Projects in China -- David Arthur and Jianliang Xiao (Elisa) -- Chapter 9. How Social Assessment Could Improve Conservation Policy and Projects: Cases from Pastoral Management in China -- Wang Xiaoyi -- Chapter 10. Improving Social Impact Assessment and Participatory Planning to Identify and Manage Involuntary Resettlement Risks in the People's Republic of China -- Scott G. Ferguson and Wenlong Zhu -- Chapter 11. Stakeholder Participation in Rural Land Acquisition in China: A Case Study of the Resettlement Decision-making Process -- Yu Qingnian and Shi Guoqing -- Conclusion -- Susanna Price -- Notes on Contributors -- Glossary -- Index --
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    Developmentality : An Ethnography of the World Bank-Uganda Partnership (2015)
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    Pages: 280 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: Development Studies
    Abstract: Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork within the World Bank and a Ugandan ministry, this book critically examines how the new aid architecture recasts aid relations as a partnership. While intended to alter an asymmetrical relationship by fostering greater recipient participation and ownership, this book demonstrates how donors still seek to retain control through other indirect and informal means. The concept of developmentality shows how the World Bank's ability to steer a client's behavior is disguised by the underlying ideas of partnership, ownership, and participation, which come with other instruments through which the Bank manipulates the aid recipient into aligning with its own policies and practices.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Introducing Developmentality -- Chapter 1. Developmentality -- Chapter 2. The World Bank and the New Aid Architecture – the Official Discourse -- Chapter 3. Moving Beyond Official Discourse: Interfaces and Disjuncture within the Bank -- Chapter 4. A Meeting of Partners: Developmentality as Seen from Uganda -- Chapter 5. Developmentality and the Politics of Harmonisation -- Chapter 6. A Metamorphosis of Power Relations? The New Aid Architecture, Partnership and the State -- Conclusion: Revisiting Developmentality -- Bibliography -- Index --
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    Language and Identity Politics : A Cross-Atlantic Perspective (2015)
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    ISBN: 9781782389439
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    Pages: 228 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: Sociology
    Abstract: In an increasingly multicultural world, the relationship between language and identity remains a complicated and often fraught subject for most societies. The growing political salience of questions relating to language is evident not only in the expanded implementation of new policies and legislation, but also in heated public debates about national unity, collective identities, and the rights of linguistic minorities. By taking a comprehensive approach that considers both the inclusive and exclusive dimensions of linguistic identity across Europe and North America, the studies assembled here provide a sophisticated look at one of the global era's defining political dynamics.
    Description / Table of Contents: Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Language and the Rise of Identity Politics: An Introduction -- Christina Späti -- PART I: LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY POLITICS: THEORY AND CONCEPTS -- Chapter 1. Language and Collective Identity: Theorising Complexity -- Peter Ives -- Chapter 2. The Politics of Linguistic Identity in Europe: Between the Expression of Power and the Power of Expressivity -- Peter A. Kraus -- PART II: LANGUAGE AND COLLECTIVE IDENTITY IN MULTILINGUAL STATES -- Chapter 3. Language and Identity Politics in Belgium -- Claude Javeau -- Chapter 4. Plurilingualism and Identity Politics: The Case of Switzerland -- Christina Späti -- Chapter 5. Languages and Collective Identities in Switzerland: The Case of Bilingual Cantons (Bern, Fribourg, Valais) -- Manuel Meune -- Chapter 6. Language Rights and Language Endangerment in Canada: The Case of Indigenous Languages -- Donna Patrick -- PART III: LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY POLITICS IN IMMIGRATION SOCIETIES -- Chapter 7. Immigrants and the Reframing of Language and National Identity Politics in the United States -- Ronald Schmidt, Sr. -- Chapter 8. Challenges of Diversity: Language and Immigration in Switzerland -- Damir Skenderovic -- Chapter 9. Language and the Transformation of Identity Politics in Minority Francophone Communities in Canada: Between Collective Linguistic Identity and Individualistic Integration Policies -- Nicole Gallant -- Conclusion: The Problematic Nexus of Language and Identity: Some Concluding Remarks -- Robert Gould -- Bibliography -- Index --
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    Thinking Through Sociality : An Anthropological Interrogation of Key Concepts (2015)
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    Pages: 210 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: Theory & Methodology in Anthropology
    Abstract: As issues and circumstances investigated by anthropologists are becoming ever more diverse, the need to address social affiliation in contemporary situations of mobility, urbanity, transnational connections, individuation, media, and capital flows, has never been greater. Thinking Through Sociality combines a review of classical theories with recent theoretical innovations across a wide range of issues, locales, situations and domains. In this book, an international group of contributors train attention on the concepts of disjuncture, field, social space, sociability, organizations and network, mid-range concepts that are "good to think with." Neither too narrowly defined nor too sweeping, these concepts can be used to think through a myriad of ethnographic situations.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- Introduction:Thinking through Sociality: The Importance of Mid-Level Concepts -- Vered Amit with Sally Anderson, Virginia Caputo, John Postill, Deborah Reed-Danahay, and Gabriela Vargas-Cetina -- Chapter 1. Disjuncture: The Creativity of, and Breaks in, Everyday Associations and Routines -- Vered Amit -- Chapter 2. Fields: Dynamic Configurations of Practices, Games and Socialities -- John Postill -- Chapter 3. Social Space: Distance, Proximity, and Thresholds of Affinity -- Deborah Reed-Danahay -- Chapter 4. Sociability: The Art of Form -- Sally Anderson -- Chapter 5. Organizations: From Corporations to Ephemeral Associations -- Gabriela Vargas-Cetina -- Chapter 6. Network: The Possibilities and Mobilizations of Connections -- Vered Amit and Virginia Caputo -- Epilogue: Sociality and Uncertainty: Between Avowing and Disavowing Concepts in Anthropology -- Nigel Rapport -- Notes on Contributors --
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    What We Now Know About Race and Ethnicity (2015)
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    Pages: 178 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: Sociology
    Abstract: Attempts of nineteenth-century writers to establish "race" as a biological concept failed after Charles Darwin opened the door to a new world of knowledge. Yet this word already had a place in the organization of everyday life and in ordinary English language usage. This book explains how the idea of race became so important in the USA, generating conceptual confusion that can now be clarified. Developing an international approach, it reviews references to "race," "racism," and "ethnicity" in sociology, anthropology, philosophy, and comparative politics and identifies promising lines of research that may make it possible to supersede misleading notions of race in the social sciences.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Introduction: The Paradox -- Chapter 1. The Scientific Sources of the Paradox -- -- Two dimensions -- Taxonomy -- Typology -- Darwin and Mendel -- Two Vocabularies -- The Power of the Ordinary Language Construct -- -- Chapter 2. The Political Sources of the Paradox -- -- Social Categories and Their Names -- After the Civil War -- Discrimination -- The 'One-Drop' Rule -- Counter Trends -- -- Chapter 3. International Pragmatism -- -- The Racial Convention -- Implementing the Convention -- Other International Action -- Naming the Categories -- -- Chapter 4. Sociological Knowledge -- -- Theoretical or Practical? -- The Chicago School -- In World Perspective -- Social Race? -- -- Chapter 5. Conceptions of Racism -- -- Writing History -- Teaching Philosophy -- Teaching Sociology -- Sociological Textbooks -- Political Ends -- -- Chapter 6. Ethnic Origin and Ethnicity -- -- Census categories -- Anthropology -- A New Reality? -- Nomenclature -- Sociobiology -- Ethnic Origin as a Social Sign -- Comparative Politics -- The Current Sociology of Ethnicity -- -- Chapter 7. Collective Action -- -- The Rediscovery of Weber's 1911 Notes -- Four Propositions -- Closure -- The Human Capital Variable -- The Colour Variable -- Ethnic Preferences -- Opening relationships -- -- Conclusion: The Paradox Resolved -- Select Bibliography -- Index --
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    Extraordinary Encounters : Authenticity and the Interview (2015)
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    Pages: 212 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Methodology & History in Anthropology 28
    Keywords: Theory & Methodology in Anthropology
    Abstract: Given the anthropological focus on ethnography as a kind of deep immersion, the interview poses theoretical and methodological challenges for the discipline. This volume explores those challenges and argues that the interview should be seen as a special, productive site of ethnographic encounter, a site of a very particular and important kind of knowing. In a range of social contexts and cultural settings, contributors show how the interview is experienced and imagined as a kind of space within which personal, biographic and social cues and norms can be explored and interrogated. The interview possesses its own authenticity, therefore-true to the persons involved and true to their moment of interaction-whilst at the same time providing information on human capacities and proclivities that is generalizable beyond particular social and cultural contexts.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: The Interview as Analytical Category -- James Staples and Katherine Smith -- Chapter 1. The Transcendent Subject? Biography as a Medium for Writing 'Life and Times' -- Pat Caplan -- Chapter 2. Using and Refusing Antiretroviral Drugs in South Africa: Towards a Biographical Approach -- Isak Niehaus -- Chapter 3. An 'Up and Down Life': Understanding Leprosy through Biography -- James Staples -- Chapter 4. Finding My Wit: Explaining Banter and Making the Effortless Appear in the Unstructured Interview -- Katherine Smith -- Chapter 5. 'Different Times' and Other 'Altermodern' Possibilities: Filming Interviews with Children as Ethnographic 'Wanderings' -- Angels Trias i Valls -- Chapter 6. Dialogues with Anthropologists: Where Interviews Become Relevant -- Judith Okley -- Chapter 7. Talking and Acting for Our Rights: The Interview in an Action-research Setting -- Ana Lopes -- Epilogue: Extraordinary Encounter? The Interview as an Ironical Moment -- Nigel Rapport -- Notes on Contributors --
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    What Is Existential Anthropology? (2015)
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    Pages: 254 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: Theory & Methodology in Anthropology
    Abstract: What is existential anthropology, and how would you define it? What has been gained by using existential perspectives in your fieldwork and writing? Editors Michael Jackson and Albert Piette each invited anthropologists on both sides of the Atlantic to address these questions and explore how various approaches to the human condition might be brought together on the levels of method and of theory. Both editors also bring their own perspective: while Jackson has drawn on phenomenology, deploying the concepts of intersubjectivity, lifeworld, experience, existential mobility, and event, Piette has drawn on Heidegger's Dasein-analysis, and developed a phenomenographical method for the observation and description of human beings in their singularity and ever-changing situations.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: Anthropology and the Existential Turn -- Michael Jackson and Albert Piette -- Chapter 1. Continuities of Change: Conversion and Convertibility in Northern Mozambique -- Devaka Premawardhana -- Chapter 2. Both/And -- Michael Lambek -- Chapter 3. Reading Bruno Latour in Bahia -- Mattijs Van de Port -- Chapter 4. The Station Hustle: Ghanaian Migration Brokerage in a Disjointed World -- Hans Lucht -- Chapter 5. Mobility and Immobility in the Life of an Amputee -- Sónia Silva -- Chapter 6. Existential Aporias and the Precariousness of Being -- Michael Jackson -- Chapter 7. Existence, Minimality and Believing -- Albert Piette -- Chapter 8. Considering Human Existence: An existential reading of Michael Jackson and Albert Piette. -- Laurent Denizeau -- Notes on Contributors -- Index --
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    Social Bonds as Freedom : Revisiting the Dichotomy of the Universal and the Particular (2015)
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    Pages: 296 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: Sociology
    Abstract: Central to discussions of multiculturalism and minority rights in modern liberal societies is the idea that the particular demands of minority groups contradict the requirements of equality, anonymity, and universality for citizenship and belonging. The contributors to this volume question the significance of this dichotomy between the universal and the particular, arguing that it reflects how the modern state has instituted the basic rights and obligations of its members and that these institutions are undergoing fundamental transformations under the pressure of globalization. They show that the social bonds uniting groups constitute the means of our freedom, rather than obstacles to achieving the universal.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Tables -- Introduction: Of Bonds and Boundaries -- Paul Dumouchel & Reiko Gotoh -- Part I: Social bonds in transformation -- Chapter 1. Incompleteness and the Possibility of Making: Towards denationalized citizenship? -- Saskia Sassen -- Chapter 2. Justice and Culture: New contradictions in the era of techno-nihilistic capitalism -- Mauro Magatti -- Chapter 3. Bounded Justifiability: Making commonality on the basis of binding engagements -- Laurent Thévenot -- Chapter 4. On the Poverty of our Freedom -- Axel Honneth -- Part II: Beyond imperial universalism -- Chapter 5. Western Humanitarianism and the Representation of Distant Suffering: A genealogy of moral grammars and visual regimes -- Fuyuki Kurasawa -- Chapter 6. Parochial Altruism and Christian Universalism: On the deep difficulties of creating solidarity without outside enemies -- Wolfgang Palaver -- Chapter 7. Partial Commitments and Universal Obligations -- Paul Dumouchel -- Chapter 8. A Reluctant Cosmopolitan -- Anne Phillips -- Part III: Towards a re-conceptualization of liberalism -- Chapter 9. Liberal Autonomy and Minority Accommodation: A new approach -- Geoffrey Brahm Levey -- Chapter 10. Cultural Boundaries and the Reasonable Accommodation of Minorities: Is secularism enough? -- Gurpreet Mahajan -- Chapter 11. Arrow, Rawls and Sen: The Transformation of Political Economy and the Idea of Liberalism -- Reiko Gotoh -- Conclusion: Social bonds as freedom -- Notes on Contributors -- Index --
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    Culture, Catastrophe, and Rhetoric : The Texture of Political Action (2015)
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    ISBN: 9781782387473
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 274 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Studies in Rhetoric and Culture 7
    Keywords: Theory & Methodology in Anthropology
    Abstract: This volume explores political culture, especially the catastrophic elements of the global social order emerging in the twenty-first century. By emphasizing the texture of political action, the book theorizes how social context becomes evident on the surface of events and analyzes the performative dimensions of political experience. The attention to catastrophe allows for an understanding of how ordinary people contend with normal system operation once it is indistinguishable from system breakdown. Through an array of case studies, the book provides an account of change as it is experienced, negotiated, and resisted in specific settings that define a society's capacity for political action.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Robert Hariman -- Chapter 1. The Communal Dilemma as a Cultural Resource in Hungarian Political Expression -- David Boromisza-Habashi -- Chapter 2. Chronotopes of the Political: Public Discourse, News Media, and Mass Action in Post-Conflict Macedonia -- Andrew Graan -- Chapter 3. The In-Between States: Enduring Catastrophes as Sources of Democracy's Deadlocks in the Balkans: The Case of Kosovo -- Naser Miftari -- Chapter 4. Occupy Wall Street as Rhetorical Citizenship: The Ongoing Relevance of Pragmatism for Deliberative Democracy -- Robert Danisch -- Chapter 5. Contemporary Social Movements and the Emergent Nomadic Political Logic -- Peter N. Funke and Todd Wolfson -- Chapter 6. "Project Heat" and Sensory Politics in Redeveloping Chicago Public Housing -- Catherine Fennell -- Chapter 7. Reading between the Digital Lines: Narrating the Political Rhetoric of Ethical Consumption -- Eleftheria J. Lekakis -- Chapter 8. The Uncertainty of Power and the Certainty of Irony: Encountering the State in Kara, Southern Ethiopia -- Felix Girke -- Chapter 9. Grassroots Discourses in Times of Scarcity: Debating the 2004 Locust Plague in Northwestern Senegal and the World -- Christian Meyer -- Chapter 10. Too Too Much Much: Presence and Catastrophe in Contemporary Art -- Monica Westin -- Conclusion: What Next? Modernity, Revolution, and the "Turn" to Catastrophe -- Ralph Cintron -- Contributors -- Index --
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    Regimes of Ignorance : Anthropological Perspectives on the Production and Reproduction of Non-Knowledge (2015)
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    ISBN: 9781782388395
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 222 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Methodology & History in Anthropology 29
    Keywords: Theory & Methodology in Anthropology
    Abstract: Non-knowledge should not be simply regarded as the opposite of knowledge, but as complementary to it: each derives its character and meaning from the other and from their interaction. Knowledge does not colonize the space of ignorance in the progressive march of science; rather, knowledge and ignorance are mutually shaped in social and political domains of partial, shifting, and temporal relationships. This volume's ethnographic analyses provide a theoretical frame through which to consider the production and reproduction of ignorance, non-knowledge, and secrecy, as well as the wider implications these ideas have for anthropology and related disciplines in the social sciences and humanities.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: Regimes of Ignorance: An Introduction -- Thomas G. Kirsch and Roy Dilley -- Chapter 1. Mind the Gap: On the Other Side of Knowing -- Carlo Caduff -- Chapter 2. Ignoring Native Ignorance: Epidemiological Enclosures of Not-Knowing Plague in Inner Asia -- Christos Lynteris -- Chapter 3. Managing Pleasurable Pursuits: Utopic Horizons and the Arts of Ignoring and 'Not Knowing' among Fine Woodworkers -- Trevor H. J. Marchand -- Chapter 4. Ignorant Bodies and the Dangers of Knowledge in Amazonia -- Casey High -- Chapter 5. What Do Child Sex Offenders Know? -- John Borneman -- Chapter 6. Problematic Reproductions: Children, Slavery and Not-Knowing in Colonial French West Africa -- Roy Dilley -- Chapter 7. Power and Ignorance in British India: The Native Fetish of the Crown -- Leo Coleman -- Chapter 8. Secrecy and the Epistemophilic Other -- Thomas G. Kirsch -- Notes on Contributors --
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    The Power of Death : Contemporary Reflections on Death in Western Society (2014)
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    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 272 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: General Cultural Studies
    Abstract: The social and cultural changes of the last century have transformed death from an everyday fact to something hidden from view. Shifting between the practical and the theoretical, the professional and the intimate, the real and the fictitious, this collection of essays explores the continued power of death over our lives. It examines the idea and experience of death from an interdisciplinary perspective, including studies of changing burial customs throughout Europe; an account of a"dying party" in the Netherlands; examinations of the fascination with violent death in crime fiction and the phenomenon of serial killer art; analyses of death and bereavement in poetry, fiction, and autobiography; and a look at audience reactions to depictions of death on screen. By studying and considering how death is thought about in the contemporary era, we might restore the natural place it has in our lives.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Ricarda Vidal and Maria-José Blanco -- PART I: DEATH IN SOCIETY -- Chapter 1. Life Extension, Immortality and the Patient Voice -- Catherine Jenkins -- Chapter 2. Beyond 'Mourning and Melancholia' -- Lynne M. Simpson -- Chapter 3. War and Requiem Compositions in the Twentieth Century -- Wolfgang Marx -- PART II: DEATH IN LITERATURE -- Chapter 4. Understanding Death/Writing Bereavement: The writer's experience -- Maria-José Blanco López de Lerma -- Chapter 5. A Way of Sorrows for the Twentieth Century: Margherita Guidacci's LaVia Crucis dell'umanità -- Eleanor David -- Chapter 6. From Self-Erasure to Self-Affirmation: Communally Acknowledged 'Good Death' in Ernest Gaines's A Lesson Before Dying -- Corina Crisu -- Chapter 7. Habeas Corpse. The Dead Body of Evidence in John Grisham's The Client -- Fiorenzo Iuliano -- Chapter 8. The Fascination with Torture and Death in Twenty-first-Century Crime Fiction -- Rebecca Shillabeer -- PART III: DEATH IN VISUAL CULTURE -- Chapter 9. The Power of Negative Creation – Why Art by Serial Killers Sells -- Ricarda Vidal -- Chapter 10. Screening the Dying Individual: Film, Mortality and the Ethics of Spectatorship -- John Horne -- Chapter 11. The Broken Body as Spectacle: Looking at Death and Injury in Sport -- Julia Banwell -- Chapter 12. Death on Display: The Ideological Function of the Mummies of the World Exhibit -- Diana York Blaine -- PART IV: CEMETERIES AND FUNERALS -- Chapter 13. The Romanian Carnival of Death and the Merry Cemetery of Săpânţa -- Marina Cap Bun -- Chapter 14. In the Dead of Night: a Nocturnal Exploration of Heterotopia in the Graveyard -- Bel Deering -- Chapter 15. Scenarios of Death in Contexts of Mobility: Guineans and Bangladeshis in Lisbon -- Clara Saraiva and José Mapril -- Chapter 16. Karaoke Death: Intertextuality in Active Euthanasia Practices -- Natasha Lushetich -- PART V: PERSONAL REFLECTIONS ON DEATH -- Chapter 17. Death isn't what it used to be -- Lala Isla -- Chapter 18. The Dad Project -- Briony Campbell -- Index --
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    Culture, Suicide, and the Human Condition (2014)
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    Pages: 230 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: General Cultural Studies
    Abstract: Suicide is a puzzling phenomenon. Not only is its demarcation problematic but it also eludes simple explanation. The cultures in which suicide mortality is high do not necessarily have much else in common, and neither is a single mental illness such as depression sufficient to lead a person to suicide. In a word, despite its statistical regularity, suicide is unpredictable on the individual level. The main argument emerging from this collection is that suicide should not be understood as a separate realm of pathological behavior but as a form of human action. As such it is always dependent on the decision that the individual makes in a cultural, ethical and socio-economic context, but the context never completely determines the decision. This book also argues that cultural narratives concerning suicide have a problematic double function: in addition to enabling the community to make sense of self-inflicted death, they also constitute a blueprint depicting suicide as a solution to common human problems.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Figures and Tables -- -- Introduction: Culture, Suicide, and the Human Condition -- Marja-Liisa Honkasalo and Miira Tuominen -- -- PART I: SUICIDE: CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES -- -- Chapter 1. The Construction of the Suicidal Self in Phenomenological Psychology -- Charles J-H Macdonald and Jean Naudin -- -- Chapter 2. When it is Worth the Trouble to Die: The Cultural Valuation of Suicide -- María Cátedra -- -- PART II: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL APPROACHES TO SUICIDE -- -- Chapter 3. "Tell Him to Follow Me as Quickly as Possible" – Plato's Phaedo (60c–63c) on Self-Killing -- Miira Tuominen -- -- Chapter 4. Free Philosophers and Tragic Women – Stoic Perspectives on Suicide -- Malin Grahn -- -- Chapter 5. Moral Philosophical Arguments against Suicide in the Middle Ages -- Virpi Mäkinen -- -- PART III: MORALITY, POLITICS, AND VIOLENCE - SUICIDE IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETIES -- -- Chapter 6. "She Kissed Death with a Smile": The Politics and Moralities of the Female Suicide Bomber -- Susanne Dahlgren -- -- Chapter 7. "When We Stop Living, We also Stop Dying" – Men, Suicide, and Moral Agency -- Marja-Liisa Honkasalo -- -- Afterword -- Arthur Kleinman -- -- Notes on Contributors --
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    Chiasmus and Culture (2014)
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    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 264 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Studies in Rhetoric and Culture 6
    Keywords: General Cultural Studies
    Abstract: Anyone who has heard of chiasmus is likely to think of it as no more than a piece of rhetorical playfulness, at times challenging, though useful for supplying a memorable sententious note or for performing a pirouette of syntax and thought. Going beyond traditional rhetoric, this volume is concerned with the possibility of using the figure of chiasmus to model a broad array of phenomena, from human relations to artistic creation. In the process, it provides the first book-length study not of chiasmus, the rhetorical figure, but of chiastic thought. The contributors are concerned with chiastic inversion and its place in social interactions, cultural creation, and more generally human thought and experience.They explore from a variety of angles what the unsettling logic of chiasmus (from the Greek meaning "cross-wise"), has to tell us about the world, human relations, cultural patterns, psychology, and artistic and poetic creation.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Anthony Paul and Boris Wiseman -- -- PART I: THE PATHOS OF CHIASMUS -- -- Chapter 1. From stasis to ek-stasis: four types of chiasmus -- Anthony Paul -- -- Chapter 2. What is a Chiasmus? Or, Why the Abyss Stares Back -- Robert Hariman -- -- Chapter 3. Chiasmus and Metaphor -- Ivo Strecker -- -- PART II: EPISTEMOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS ON CHIASMUS -- -- Chapter 4. Chiasm in Merleau-Ponty, metaphor or concept? -- Isabelle Thomas-Fogiel -- -- Chapter 5. Chiasmi figuring difference -- Stephen Tyler -- -- Chapter 6. Forking: Rhetoric χ Rhetoric -- Phillipe-Joseph Salazar -- -- PART III: SENSUOUS EXPERIENCE MEDIATED BY CHIASMUS -- -- Chapter 7. Chiasm in suspense in psychoanalysis -- Alain Vanier -- -- Chapter 8. Quotidian Chiasmus in Montaigne -- Phillip John Usher -- -- Chapter 9. 'Travestis, Michês' and Chiasmus -- Ben Bollig -- -- PART IV: CHIASTIC STRUCTURES IN RITUAL AND MYTHO-POETIC TEXTS -- -- Chapter 10. Parallelism and Chiasmus in Ritual Oration -- Douglas Lewis -- -- Chapter 11. Chiasmus, mythical creation and H.C. Andersen's The Shadow followed by a "Response" from Lucien Scubla -- Boris Wiseman -- -- Bibliography -- Index --
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    Enhancing Democracy : Public Policies and Citizen Participation in Chile (2014)
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    ISBN: 9781782385479
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    Pages: 308 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: CEDLA Latin America Studies 104
    Keywords: Sociology
    Abstract: Since the end of the Pinochet regime, Chilean public policy has sought to rebuild democratic governance in the country. This book examines the links between the state and civil society in Chile and the ways social policies have sought to ensure the inclusion of the poor in society and democracy. Although Chile has gained political stability and grown economically, the ability of social policies to expand democratic governance and participation has proved limited, and in fact such policies have become subordinate to an elitist model of democracy and resulted in a restrictive form of citizen participation.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Acronyms -- Introduction: The Question of Democracy in a Democratic Society -- Chapter 1. Construction of Democracy, Public Policies and Participation of Civil Society -- Chapter 2. Chile: Top-Down Modernization and Low Intensity Re-Democratization -- Chapter 3. Social Policy Agendas in the Transition to Democracy -- Chapter 4. Civil Society, Public Policy Networks and Participatory Initiatives -- Chapter 5. From the Civil Society to the State: A New Elite is Born? -- Conclusion: Participation and Public Policies in the Chilean Democratic Process -- References -- Index --
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