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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.
    Edition: 1st edition
    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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    Reluctant Intimacies : Japanese Eldercare in Indonesian Hands (2016)
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    ISBN: 9781785332708
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 242 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: Medical Anthropology
    Abstract: Based on seventeen months of ethnographic research among Indonesian eldercare workers in Japan and Indonesia, this book is the first ethnography to research Indonesian care workers' relationships with the cared-for elderly, their Japanese colleagues, and their employers. Through the notion of intimacy, the book brings together sociological and anthropological scholarship on the body, migration, demographic change, and eldercare in a vivid account of societal transformation. Placed against the background of mass media representations, the Indonesian workers' experiences serve as a basis for discussion of the role of bodily experience in shaping the image of a national "other" in Japan.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Language -- List of Abbreviations -- Map 1. Distribution of Indonesian caregiver candidates who arrived in Japan in 2008 -- Map 2. Distribution of Indonesian caregiver and nurse candidates who arrived in Japan in 2008 -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Imagining Life and Work in Japan -- Chapter 2. Working Intimacies -- Chapter 3. Intimate Management -- Chapter 4. National Predicaments -- Conclusion: Reluctant Intimacies -- Bibliography -- Index --
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    Our Common Denominator : Human Universals Revisited (2016)
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    ISBN: 9781785330940
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    Pages: 364 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    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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    Patient-Centred IVF : Bioethics and Care in a Dutch Clinic (2016)
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    ISBN: 9781785332272
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    Pages: 372 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives 33
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    Abstract: Contemporary Dutch policy and legislation facilitate the use of high quality, accessible and affordable assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) to all citizens in need of them, while at the same time setting some strict boundaries on their use in daily clinical practices. Through the ethnographic study of a single clinic in this national context, Patient-Centred IVF examines how this particular form of medicine, aiming to empower its patients, co-shapes the experiences, views and decisions of those using these technologies. Gerrits contends that to understand the use of reproductive technologies in practice and the complexity of processes of medicalization, we need to go beyond 'easy assumptions' about the hegemony of biomedicine and the expected impact of patient-centredness.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- -- Medicalization and Persistence -- Patient-Centred Medicine -- Outline of the Book -- -- Chapter 1. Studying ARTs: Theory, Context, the Clinic and Methods -- -- Understanding the Use of ARTs -- Dutch Context – Families, Children and Childlessness -- The Radboud Clinic -- The Study -- -- Chapter 2. 'Dutch IVF'. Legislation, Guidelines and Health Insurances -- -- Legislation and Guidelines -- Health Insurance Coverage -- Conclusion -- -- Chapter 3. The Couples and their Quest for a Child -- -- Social and Demographic Characteristics -- Facing Fertility Problems: Diverse Points of Departure -- Couples' Quest for a Child: the Process -- Complementary and Alternative Medicine -- Adoption as a Last Resort -- Conclusion -- -- Chapter 4. Daily Practices in the Patient-Centred Clinic -- -- Interpersonal Aspects of Care -- Privacy (or Not) -- Abundant Information -- Psycho-Social Support and Empathy -- Decision Making – Multiple Dynamics -- Conclusion -- -- Chapter 5. Information and Interpretation. Risks and Rates -- -- IVF Success Rates: What Do They Tell Us? -- Risks: Facts and Perceptions -- Beyond Facts – Uncertainty and Trust -- Conclusion -- -- Chapter 6. The Body and Visualizing Technologies -- -- Gaining Insight in the Reproductive Body and its Flaws -- Visualization of Reproduction through IVF -- Case: Louise's Diary -- Trying Once More? Compelling Technology -- Conclusion -- -- Chapter 7. Gendered Suffering and Support -- -- The Gendered and Unequal Burdens of IVF -- Sharing the Grief of Loss after IVF -- Essentializing Genetics and Gender Dynamics -- Conclusion -- -- Chapter 8. Bioethics in Practice -- -- Multi-Disciplinary Ethics Meeting -- Case: Woman Carrier of a Cancer Gene -- Concerns in Context -- Addressing Ethically Sensitive Requests -- Conclusion -- -- Chapter 9. Conclusion -- -- Dutch IVF -- Bioethics in Practice -- Patient-Centred Practices -- Gender Inequality and the Imperative of Genetics -- Final Thoughts: Implications for the Field and Future Research -- -- Appendices -- Appendix I: Methods -- Appendix II: Social and Demographic Background Data Of Study Participants -- Appendix III: Patients' or Couples' Characteristics or Situations Leading to Concerns among Clinic Staff and their Reasons for Withholding Treatment -- Glossary -- Reference list -- Index --
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    The Anthropologist as Writer : Genres and Contexts in the Twenty-First Century (2016)
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    ISBN: 9781785330193
    Language: Undetermined
    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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    Conceptions : Infertility and Procreative Technologies in India (2016)
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    ISBN: 9781785332319
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 312 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives 34
    Keywords: Medical Anthropology
    Abstract: Infertility and assisted reproductive technologies in India lie at the confluence of multiple cultural conceptions. These 'conceptions' are key to understanding the burgeoning spread of assisted reproductive technologies and the social implications of infertility and childlessness in India. This longitudinal study is situated in a number of diverse locales which, when taken together, unravel the complex nature of infertility and assisted conception in contemporary India.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface: Test-Tube Conceptions -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Conceptualising Conceptions: An Introduction -- PART I -- Chapter 1. Fertile Conceptions: Culture and Infertility -- Chapter 2. Gendered Conceptions: Stigma, Blame and Infertility -- PART II -- Chapter 3. Contested Conception: The Medical Politics of Test-Tube Babies -- Chapter 4. Politics of Conception: The State and Biomedicine -- PART III -- Chapter 5. Changing Conceptions? 'Adoption' of Assisted Conception -- Chapter 6. Supplementary Conception: The Other Mother -- PART IV -- Chapter 7. Long Road to Conception: Emotional and Financial Costs -- Chapter 8. In Search of Conception: Clinicians, Patients and Clinics -- Afterword: Conceptions -- Notes -- Bibliography --
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    Parenthood between Generations : Transforming Reproductive Cultures (2016)
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    ISBN: 9781785331510
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 298 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives 32
    Keywords: Medical Anthropology
    Abstract: Recent literature has identified modern "parenting" as an expert-led practice-one which begins with pre-pregnancy decisions, entails distinct types of intimate relationships, places intense burdens on mothers and increasingly on fathers too. Exploring within diverse historical and global contexts how men and women make-and break-relations between generations when becoming parents, this volume brings together innovative qualitative research by anthropologists, historians, and sociologists. The chapters focus tightly on inter-generational transmission and demonstrate its importance for understanding how people become parents and rear children.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Siân Pooley and Kaveri Qureshi -- Chapter 1. Between Future Families and Families of Origin: Talking about Gay Parenthood across Generations. -- Robert Pralat -- Chapter 2. The Politics of Fertility and Generation in Buganda, East Africa, 1860-1980. -- Shane Doyle -- Chapter 3. Changing Mothering Practices and Intergenerational Relations in Contemporary Urban China. -- Michala Hvidt Breengaard -- Chapter 4. Intergenerational Negotiations of Non-marital Pregnancies in Contemporary Japan. -- Ekaterina Hertog -- Chapter 5. Grandfathers, Grandmothers and the Inheritance of Parenthood in England, c. 1850–1914. -- Siân Pooley -- Chapter 6. First-time Parenthood among Migrant Pakistanis: Gender and Generation in the Postpartum Period. -- Kaveri Qureshi -- Chapter 7. Intergenerational Mythscapes and Infant Care in North-western Amazonia. -- Elizabeth Rahman -- Chapter 8. Generational Change and Continuity amongst British Mothers: the Sharing of Beliefs, Knowledge and Practices c. 1940–1990. -- Angela Davis -- Chapter 9. 'I Feel my Dad every Moment!': Memory, Emotion and Embodiment in British South Asian Fathering Practices. -- Punita Chowbey and Sarah Salway -- Chapter 10. Becoming Papa: Kinship, Senescence and the Ambivalent Inward Journeys of Ageing Men in the Antilles. -- Adom Philogene Heron -- Conclusion -- Siân Pooley and Kaveri Qureshi --
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    Cosmos, Gods and Madmen : Frameworks in the Anthropologies of Medicine (2016)
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    ISBN: 9781785331787
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    Pages: 220 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: Medical Anthropology
    Abstract: The social anthropology of sickness and health has always been concerned with religious cosmologies: how societies make sense of such issues as prediction and control of misfortune and fate; the malevolence of others; the benevolence (or otherwise) of the mystical world; local understanding and explanations of the natural and ultra-human worlds. This volume presents differing categorizations and conflicts that occur as people seek to make sense of suffering and their experiences. Cosmologies, whether incorporating the divine or as purely secular, lead us to interpret human action and the human constitution, its ills and its healing and, in particular, ways which determine and limit our very possibilities.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Divinity, Disease, Distress -- Roland Littlewood and Rebecca Lynch -- Chapter 1. Why Animism Matters -- David Napier -- Chapter 2. Spreading the Gospel of the Miracle Cure: Panama's Black Christ -- Rodney J. Reynolds -- Chapter 3. Madness and Miracles: Hoping for Healing in Rural Ghana -- Ursula M. Read -- Chapter 4. 'Sakawa' Rumours: Occult Internet Fraud and Ghanaian Identity -- Alice Armstrong -- Chapter 5. To Heal the Body is to Heal Oneself: The Body as Congregation -- Isabelle Lange -- Chapter 6. Addiction and the Duality of the Self in a North American Religio-Therapeutic Community -- Ellie Reynolds -- Chapter 7. Religious Conversion and Madness: Contested Territory in the Peruvian Andes -- David M.R. Orr -- Chapter 8. Cosmologies of Fear: The Medicalisation of Anxiety in Contemporary Britain -- Rebecca Lynch -- Chapter 9. Functionalists and Zombis: Sorcery as Spandrel and Social Rescue -- Roland Littlewood -- Chapter 10. Religion and Psychosis: A Common Evolutionary Trajectory? -- Simon Dein -- Index --
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    Achieving Procreation : Childlessness and IVF in Turkey (2015)
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    ISBN: 9781782386353
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    Pages: 214 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives 29
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    Abstract: Managing social relationships for childless couples in pro-natalist societies can be a difficult art to master, and may even become an issue of belonging for both men and women. With ethnographic research gathered from two IVF clinics and in two villages in northwestern Turkey, this book explores infertility and assisted reproductive technologies within a secular Muslim population. Göknar investigates the experience of infertility through various perspectives, such as the importance of having a child for women, the mediating role of religion, the power dynamics in same-gender relationships, and the impact of manhood ideologies on the decision for - or against - having IVF.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Desire to Have a Child -- Chapter 2. Religion as Discourse and Practice -- Chapter 3. Childlessness among Kin and Friends -- Chapter 4. Manhood Ideologies and IVF -- Chapter 5. Achievement and Procreation -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index --
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    Thai in Vitro : Gender, Culture and Assisted Reproduction (2015)
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    ISBN: 9781782387336
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 276 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives 30
    Keywords: Medical Anthropology
    Abstract: In Thailand, infertility remains a source of stigma for those couples that combine a range of religious, traditional and high-tech interventions in their quest for a child. This book explores this experience of infertility and the pursuit and use of assisted reproductive technologies by Thai couples. Though using assisted reproductive technologies is becoming more acceptable in Thai society, access to and choices about such technologies are mediated by differences in class position. These stories of women and men in private and public infertility clinics reveal how local social and moral sensitivities influence the practices and meanings of treatment.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Language and Transliteration -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Culture Mediums -- Chapter 1. The Birth of IVF in Thailand -- Chapter 2. Incompleteness -- Chapter 3. Begging for Babies -- Chapter 4. Engaging Technologies -- Chapter 5. The Clinical Ensemble -- Chapter 6. Patriarchal Bargains -- Chapter 7. 'Love Clinic': Cyber-sociality -- Chapter 8. 'Technology that gives men hope' -- Chapter 9. Carrying the Merit -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Glossary -- References -- Index --
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    Cousin Marriages : Between Tradition, Genetic Risk and Cultural Change (2015)
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    ISBN: 9781782384939
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    Pages: 248 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives 28
    Keywords: Medical Anthropology
    Abstract: Juxtaposing contributions from geneticists and anthropologists, this volume provides a contemporary overview of cousin marriage and what is happening at the interface of public policy, the management of genetic risk and changing cultural practices in the Middle East and in multi-ethnic Europe. It offers a cross-cultural exploration of practices of cousin marriage in the light of new genetic understanding of consanguineous marriage and its possible health risks. Overall, the volume presents a reflective, interdisciplinary analysis of the social and ethical issues raised by both the discourse of risk in cousin marriage, as well as existing and potential interventions to promote "healthy consanguinity" via new genetic technologies.  
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Figures and Tables -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Alison Shaw and Aviad Raz -- Chapter 1. The Prevalence and Outcomes of Consanguineous Marriage in Contemporary Societies -- Alan H. Bittles -- Chapter 2. Risk Calculations in Consanguinity -- Leo P. ten Kate, Marieke E. Teeuw, Lidewij Henneman and Martina C. Cornel -- PART I: CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN TRADITIONAL CONSANGUINEOUS MARRIAGE -- Chapter 3. Cousin Marriages and Inherited Blood Disorders in the Sultanate of Oman -- Claire Beaudevin -- Chapter 4. 'Dangerous Liaisons': Modern Bio-medical Discourses and Changing Practices of Cousin Marriage in Southeastern Turkey -- Laila Prager -- PART II: COUSIN MARRIAGES WITHIN MIGRANT POPULATIONS IN EUROPE -- Chapter 5. British Pakistani Cousin Marriages and the Negotiation of Reproductive Risk -- Alison Shaw -- Chapter 6. A Cousin Marriage Equals a Forced Marriage: Transnational Marriages between Closely Related Spouses in Denmark -- Anika Liversage and Mikkel Rytter -- Chapter 7. Changing Patterns Of Partner Choice? Cousin Marriages Among Migrant Groups In The Netherlands -- Oka Storms and Edien Bartels -- PART III: CONSANGUINITY AND MANAGING GENETIC RISK -- Chapter 8. Using Community Genetics for Healthy Consanguinity -- Joël Zlotogora -- Chapter 9. Premarital Carrier Testing and Matching in Jewish Communities -- Aviad Raz -- Chapter 10. Preconception Care For Consanguineous Couples in the Netherlands -- Marieke E. Teeuw, Pascal Borry and Leo P. ten Kate -- Afterword: The Marriages of Cousins in Victorian England -- Adam Kuper -- Index --
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    Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the Third Phase : Global Encounters and Emerging Moral Worlds (2015)
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    ISBN: 9781782388081
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    Pages: 284 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives 31
    Keywords: Medical Anthropology
    Abstract: Following the birth of the first "test-tube baby" in 1978, Assisted Reproductive Technologies became available to a small number of people in high-income countries able to afford the cost of private treatment, a period seen as the "First Phase" of ARTs. In the "Second Phase," these treatments became increasingly available to cosmopolitan global elites. Today, this picture is changing - albeit slowly and unevenly - as ARTs are becoming more widely available. While, for many, accessing infertility treatments remains a dream, these are beginning to be viewed as a standard part of reproductive healthcare and family planning. This volume highlights this "Third Phase" - the opening up of ARTs to new constituencies in terms of ethnicity, geography, education, and class.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: Assisted Reproductive Technologies: A Third Phase? -- Bob Simpson and Kate Hampshire -- Section One: (Islamic) ART Journeys and Moral Pioneers -- Introduction: New Reproductive Technologies in Islamic Local Moral Worlds -- Marcia C. Inhorn -- Chapter 1. 'Islamic Bioethics' in Transnational Perspective -- Morgan Clarke -- Chapter 2. Moral Pioneers: Pakistani Muslims and the Take-up of Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the North of England -- Bob Simpson, Mwenza Blell and Kate Hampshire -- Chapter 3. Whither Kinship? Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Relatedness in the Islamic Republic of Iran -- Soraya Tremayne -- Chapter 4. Practitioner Perspective: Practising ARTs in Islamic Contexts -- Farouk Mahmoud -- Section Two: ARTs and the Low-Income Threshold. -- Introduction: ARTs in Resource-Poor Areas: Practices, Experiences, Challenges and Theoretical Debates -- Trudie Gerrits -- Chapter 5. Global Access to Reproductive Technologies and Infertility Care in Developing Countries -- Willem Ombelet -- Chapter 6. Childlessness in Bangladesh: Women's Experiences of Access to Biomedical Infertility Services -- Papreen Nahar -- Chapter 7. Ethics, Identities and Agency: ART, Elites and HIV/AIDS in Botswana -- Astrid Bochow -- Chapter 8. A Child Cannot Be Bought? Economies of Hope and Failure When Doing ARTs in Mali -- Viola Hörbst -- Chapter 9. Practitioner Perspective: A View from Sri Lanka -- Thilina S. Palihawadana and H.R. Seneviratne -- Section Three: ARTs and Professional Practice -- Introduction: Ethnic Communities, Professions and Practices -- Alison Shaw -- Chapter 10. Reproductive Technologies and Ethnic Minorities: Beyond a Marginalising Discourse on the Marginalised Communities -- Sangeeta Chattoo -- Chapter 11. Knock Knock, 'You're my mummy': Anonymity, Identification and Gamete Donation in British South Asian Communities -- Nicky Hudson and Lorraine Culley -- Chapter 12. Practitioner Perspective: Cultural Competence from Theory to Clinical Practice -- Ana Liddie Navarro and Miriam Orcutt -- Notes on Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index --
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    Ritual Retellings : Luangan Healing Performances through Practice (2015)
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    Pages: 304 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Epistemologies of Healing 16
    Keywords: Medical Anthropology
    Abstract: Belianis an exceptionally lively tradition of shamanistic curing rituals performed by the Luangans, a politically marginalized population of Indonesian Borneo. This volume explores the significance of these rituals in practice and asks what belian rituals do – socially, politically, and existentially – for particular people in particular circumstances. Departing from the conception that rituals exist as ethereal, liminal or insulated traditional domains, this volume demonstrates the importance of understanding rituals as emergent within their specific historical and social settings. It offers an analysis of a number of concrete ritual performances, exemplifying a diversity of ritual genres, stylistic modalities and sensual ambiences, from low-key, habitual affairs to drawn-out, crowd-seizing community rituals and innovative, montage-like cultural experiments.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Luangan Lives: The Order and Disorder of Improvisation and Practice -- Chapter 2. Representing Unpredictability -- Chapter 3. Making Tactile: Ganti Diri Figures and the Magic of Concreteness -- Chapter 4. The Uncertainty of Spirit Negotiation -- Chapter 5. So that Steam Rises: Ritual Bathing as Depersonalization -- Chapter 6. It Comes Down to One Origin: Reenacting Mythology and the Human-Spirit Relationship in Ritual -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- References -- Index --
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    Indigenous Medicine Among the Bedouin in the Middle East (2015)
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    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 232 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: Medical Anthropology
    Abstract: Modern medicine has penetrated Bedouin tribes in the course of rapid urbanization and education, but when serious illnesses strike, particularly in the case of incurable diseases, even educated people turn to traditional medicine for a remedy. Over the course of 30 years, the author gathered data on traditional Bedouin medicine among pastoral-nomadic, semi-nomadic, and settled tribes. Based on interviews with healers, clients, and other active participants in treatments, this book will contribute to renewed thinking about a synthesis between traditional and modern medicine - to their reciprocal enrichment.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Health and Health Services among the Bedouin in the Middle East -- Chapter 2. The Treatment of Human Ailments - Part A -- Chapter 3. The Treatment of Human Ailments - Part B -- Chapter 4. "Don't Touch My Body": The Qarina and Bedouin Women's Fertility -- Bibliography -- Index --
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    Extraordinary Encounters : Authenticity and the Interview (2015)
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    ISBN: 9781782385905
    Language: Undetermined
    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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    From Virtue to Vice : Negotiating Anorexia (2015)
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    ISBN: 9781782384564
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 252 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Food, Nutrition, and Culture 4
    Keywords: Medical Anthropology
    Abstract: The recovered possess the key to overcoming anorexia. Although individual sufferers do not know how the affliction takes hold, piecing their stories together reveals two accidental afflictions. One is that activity disorders-dieting, exercising, healthy eating-start as virtuous practices, but become addictive obsessions. The other affliction is a developmental disorder, which also starts with the virtuous-those eager for challenge and change. But these overachievers who seek self-improvement get a distorted life instead. Knowing anorexia from inside, the recovered offer two watchwords on helping those who suffer. One is "negotiate," to encourage compromise, which can aid recovery where coercion fails. The other is "balance," for the ill to pursue mind-with-body activities to defuse mind-over-body battles.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Negotiating Anorexia -- PART I: THE DISEASE: AN ACTIVITY DISORDER -- Chapter 1. The Person: Working with Interviews -- Chapter 2. Medicine: Reworking Cartesian Knowledge -- Chapter 3. The Stories: Respecting Diversity -- Chapter 4. Bioculturalism: Seeing Holistically and Historically -- Chapter 5. Bodily Bent: The Individual's Constitution -- Chapter 6. The Activity: How Ascetic Doing Takes Over -- Chapter 7. The Core: Elementary Anorexia -- PART II: THE LIFECYCLE: A DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER -- Chapter 8. Youth: How Adolescence Invites Anorexia -- Chapter 9. Coming of Age: Meeting an Imagined Real World -- PART III: MODERN TRADITIONS: CULTURAL PATHS INTO ANOREXIA -- Chapter 10. Virtuous Eating: A Modern Morality -- Chapter 11. The Conflicted Body: Sympathy and Control as Competing Virtues -- Chapter 12. The Attractive Person: A Modern Appearance Ethic -- PART IV: RECOVERY: FINDING BALANCE -- Chapter 13. Getting Out: Undoing Anorexia -- Chapter 14. Staying Out: Redoing Life -- Epilogue -- References --
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    Healing Roots : Anthropology in Life and Medicine (2015)
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    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 302 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Epistemologies of Healing 15
    Keywords: Medical Anthropology
    Abstract: Umhlonyane, also known as Artemisia afra, is one of the oldest and best-documented indigenous medicines in South Africa. This bush, which grows wild throughout the sub-Saharan region, smells and tastes like "medicine," thus easily making its way into people's lives and becoming the choice of everyday healing for Xhosa healer-diviners and Rastafarian herbalists. This "natural" remedy has recently sparked curiosity as scientists search for new molecules against a tuberculosis pandemic while hoping to recognize indigenous medicine. Laplante follows umhlonyane on its trails and trials of becoming a biopharmaceutical - from the "open air" to controlled environments - learning from the plant and from the people who use it with hopes in healing.  
    Description / Table of Contents: Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Tracing the Preclinical Trial of an Indigenous Plant -- Chapter 1. Knowing Umhlonyane/Artemisia afra -- Chapter 2. Engaging in Medicine -- Chapter 3. Tracing Medicine – Wayfaring -- Chapter 4. Imagining Indigeneity -- Chapter 5. Healing the Nation -- Chapter 6. Dreams, Ancestors and Sound Healing -- Chapter 7. Weaving Molecules in Life -- Conclusion: Imagining the Clinical Trial -- References --
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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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    Regimes of Ignorance : Anthropological Perspectives on the Production and Reproduction of Non-Knowledge (2015)
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    ISBN: 9781782388395
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    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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    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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    Culture, Catastrophe, and Rhetoric : The Texture of Political Action (2015)
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    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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    Unforgotten : Love and the Culture of Dementia Care in India (2014)
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    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 240 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations 2
    Keywords: Medical Anthropology
    Abstract: As life expectancy increases in India, the number of people living with dementia will also rise. Yet little is known about how people in India cope with dementia, how relationships and identities change through illness and loss. In addressing this question, this book offers a rich ethnographic account of how middle-class families in urban India care for their relatives with dementia. From the husband who wakes up at 3 am to feed his wife ice-cream to the daughters who gave up employment for seven years to care for their mother with dementia, this book illuminates the local idioms on dementia and aging, the personal experience of care-giving, the functioning of stigma in daily life, and the social and cultural barriers in accessing support.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Transliteration -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Methods and Character Building -- Chapter 2. The Diagnostic Process -- Chapter 3. Therapeutics and Health Seeking -- Chapter 4. The Economies of Care -- Chapter 5. Alzheimer's and the Indian Appetite -- Chapter 6. Stigma and Loneliness in Care -- Chapter 7. The Journey to Silence -- Conclusion: 'This is the Time for Romance' -- Glossary -- References -- Index --
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    Globalized Fatherhood (2014)
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    Pages: 430 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives 27
    Keywords: Medical Anthropology
    Abstract: Using an entirely new conceptual vocabulary through which to understand men's experiences and expectations at the dawn of the twenty-first century, this path-breaking volume focuses on fatherhood around the globe, including transformations in fathering, fatherhood, and family life. It includes new work by anthropologists, sociologists, and cultural geographers, working in settings from Peru to India to Vietnam. Each chapter suggests that men are responding to globalization as fathers in creative and unprecedented ways, not only in the West, but also in numerous global locations.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Globalized Fatherhood: Emergent Forms and Possibilities in the New Millennium -- Marcia C. Inhorn, Wendy Chavkin, and José-Alberto Navarro -- PART I: CORPORATE FATHERHOOD -- Chapter 1. The Corporate Father -- Jude Browne -- Chapter 2. Hiding Fatherhood in Corporate Japan -- Scott North -- PART II: TRANSNATIONAL FATHERHOOD -- Chapter 3. Transnational Fathers, Good Providers, and the Silences of Adoption -- Jessaca Leinaweaver -- Chapter 4. Long-Distance Fathers, Left-Behind Fathers, and Returnee Fathers: Changing Fathering Practices in Indonesia and the Philippines -- Brenda S. A. Yeoh and Theodora Lam -- PART III: PRIMARY CARE FATHERHOOD -- Chapter 5. When the Pillar of the Home is Shaking: Female Labor Migration and Stay-at-home Fathers in Vietnam -- Vu Thi Thao -- Chapter 6. On Fatherhood in a Conflict Zone: Gaza Fathers and their Children's Cancer Treatments -- Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli, Yana Diamand, and Maram Abu Yaman -- PART IV: CLINICAL FATHERHOOD -- Chapter 7. Enhancing Fathering through Medical Research Participation in Mexico -- Emily Wentzell -- Chapter 8. The High-Tech Homunculus: New Science, Old Constructs -- Linda G. Kahn and Wendy Chavkin -- PART V: INFERTILE FATHERHOOD -- Chapter 9. Assumed, Promised, Forbidden: Infertility, IVF, and Fatherhood in Turkey -- Zeynep B. Gürtin -- Chapter 10. New Arab Fatherhood: Emergent Masculinities and Assisted Reproduction -- Marcia C. Inhorn -- PART VI: GAY/SURROGATE FATHERHOOD -- Chapter 11. Relating across International Borders: Gay Men Forming Families through Overseas Surrogacy -- Deborah Dempsey -- Chapter 12. Conceiving Fatherhood: Gay Men and Indian Surrogate Mother -- Sharmila Rudrappa -- PART VII: AMBIVALENT FATHERHOOD -- Chapter 13. Fatherhood, Companionate Marriage, and the Contradictions of Masculinity in Nigeria -- Daniel Jordan Smith -- Chapter 14. The Four Faces of Iranian Fatherhood -- Soraya Tremayne -- PART VIII: IMPERILED FATHERHOOD -- Chapter 15. "Bare Sticks" and Other Dangers to the Social Body Assembling Fatherhood in China -- Susan Greenhalgh -- Chapter 16. Paternity Poisoned: The Impact of Gulf War Syndrome on Fatherhood -- Susie Kilshaw -- List of Contributors --
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    Nighttime Breastfeeding : An American Cultural Dilemma (2014)
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    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 316 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives 26
    Keywords: Medical Anthropology
    Abstract: Nighttime for many new parents in the United States is fraught with the intense challenges of learning to breastfeed and helping their babies sleep so they can get rest themselves. Through careful ethnographic study of the dilemmas raised by nighttime breastfeeding, and their examination in the context of anthropological, historical, and feminist studies, this volume unravels the cultural tensions that underlie these difficulties. As parents negotiate these dilemmas, they not only confront conflicting medical guidelines about breastfeeding and solitary infant sleep, but also larger questions about cultural and moral expectations for children and parents, and their relationship with one another.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Embodied Cultural Dilemmas: An Anthropological Approach to the Study of Nighttime Breastfeeding and Sleep -- Chapter 2. Struggles Over Authoritative Knowledge and "Choice" in Breastfeeding and Infant Sleep in the U.S. -- Chapter 3. Making Breastfeeding Parents in Childbirth Education Courses -- Chapter 4. Dispatches from the Moral Minefield of Breastfeeding -- Chapter 5. Breastfeeding as Men's "Kin Work" -- Chapter 6. Breastfeeding Babies in the Nest: Producing Children, Kinship, and Moral Imagination in the House -- Chapter 7. Time to Sleep: Nighttime Breastfeeding and Capitalist Temporal Regimes -- Conclusion -- Appendixes -- Bibliography -- Index --
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    The Ethics of the New Eugenics (2014)
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    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 242 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: Medical Anthropology
    Abstract: Strategies or decisions aimed at affecting, in a manner considered to be positive, the genetic heritage of a child in the context of human reproduction are increasingly being accepted in contemporary society. As a result, unnerving similarities between earlier selection ideology so central to the discredited eugenic regimes of the 20th century and those now on offer suggest that a new era of eugenics has dawned. The time is ripe, therefore, for considering and evaluating from an ethical perspective both current and future selection practices. This inter-disciplinary volume blends research from embryology, genetics, philosophy, sociology, psychology, and history. In so doing, it constructs a thorough picture of the procedures emerging from today's reproductive developments, including a rigorous ethical argumentation concerning the possible advantages and risks related to the new eugenics.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgments -- A Note on the Text -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- -- Introduction -- -- Chapter 1. The History of Eugenics -- Chapter 2. General Introduction to Eugenic Procedures -- Chapter 3. General Ethical Discussion -- Chapter 4. Arguments Supporting the New Eugenics -- Chapter 5. Arguments Opposing the New Eugenics -- -- Conclusion -- -- Appendix I: Past and Present Personalities Supporting Eugenic Policies -- Appendix II: Scottish Council on Human Bioethics Recommendations on Eugenics -- -- Glossary of Terms -- Bibliography --
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