Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- -- 'Past Presencing' on the European Periphery -- European Products -- Cyprus: Postcoloniality, Division, and EU Accession -- Fieldwork in Cyprus: Ethnographic Modalities -- About this book -- -- PART I: HERITAGE REGIMES -- Chapter 1. Preserving Vernacular Architecture -- -- Heritage and Nationalism in Cyprus -- Villages Frozen in Time Preservation Standards and Aesthetic Control -- Conclusion: 'Streamlined Along the European Prototype' -- -- Chapter 2. Packaging Hospitality -- -- A Sustainable Alternative to Mass Tourism -- The Philoxenia Standard -- 'Branding the Culture of the Villages' -- Conclusion: The Creation of Tourist Spaces -- Digression: Difficult Heritage -- -- Chapter 3. Inventing the Rural -- -- A Lesson in Development -- European Union Policies -- Upgrading the Rural Heritage -- Conclusion: The Rural as a European Product -- -- PART II: FOOD, CULTURE AND HERITAGISATION -- Chapter 4. 'Full Meze': Tourism, Modernity, Crisis -- -- The Cultural Logic of Mass Tourism -- What Makes Meze Cypriot? -- Performing Asymmetry -- Modernity and the Mutations of Cypriot Meze -- Conclusion: Wasting or Sharing? -- -- Chapter 5. 'Origin Food': The Struggle over Halloumi/Hellim -- -- Contested Claims -- Pure Products, Messy Histories -- The Europeanization of Cheese Making -- Managed Diversity -- The Ingredients of Tradition -- Conclusion: Heritage Effects and Property Regimes -- -- PART III: AMBIENT HERITAGE -- Chapter 6. The Nature of Heritage Making: Environmental Governance -- -- Forces: Land Ownership, the Postcolonial State and the Privatization of the Coast -- Connections: Contested Natures and the Transnational Arena -- Imaginations: Local Communities and Moral Economies -- Conclusion: The Making of Biodiversity -- -- Chapter 7. The Divided City: Europe and the Politics of Culture -- -- Dissected Urban Space -- The Nicosia Master Plan: Regeneration and Reconciliation -- Crossing the Divide: Transnational Cultural Diplomacy and the Old Town -- Remaking Lefkosia: Artists, Immigrants, and World-Class Architecture -- 'Get In the Zone': Competing for the European Title -- Conclusion: Ambience for sale. Nature and Culture as Economic Assets -- -- Conclusion -- -- Heritagisation as a Vector of Europeanization -- Standardization: Sameness or Difference? -- Unmaking Heritage -- Neoliberal Europeanization -- One year later: What comes after 'the crusade of greed'? -- A Postcolonial Reading of the Crisis -- -- Bibliography -- Index --

Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Introduction: Street Vending in the (Neoliberal) City: A Global Perspective on the Practices and Policies of a Marginalized Economy -- Kristina Graaff and Noa Ha -- PART I: RESPONDING TO URBAN AND GLOBAL NEOLIBERAL POLICIES -- Chapter 1. Flexible Families: Latina/o Food Vending in Brooklyn, New York -- Kathleen Dunn -- Chapter 2. Street Vending and the Politics of Space in New York City -- Ryan Thomas Devlin -- Chapter 3. Creative Resistance: The Case of Mexico City's Street Artisans and Vendors -- Veronica Crossa -- PART II: STREET VENDING AND ETHNICITY -- Chapter 4. Metropolitan Informality and Racialization: Street Vending in Berlin's Historical District -- Noa Ha -- Chapter 5. Selling Memory and Nostalgia in the Barrio: Mexican and Central American Women (Re)Create Street Vending Spaces in Los Angeles -- Lorena Muñoz -- Chapter 6. Ethnic Contestations over African American Fiction: The Street Vending of Street Literature in New York City -- Kristina Graaff -- PART III: THE SPATIAL MOBILITY OF URBAN STREET VENDING -- Chapter 7. The Urbanism of Los Angeles Street Vending -- Kenny Cupers -- Chapter 8. Selling in Insecurity-Living with Violence: Eviction Drives against Street Food Vendors in Dhaka, and the Informal Politics of Exploitation -- Benjamin Etzold -- Chapter 9. The Street Vendors Act and Pedestrianism in India: A Reading of the Archival Politics of the Calcutta Hawker Sangram Committee -- Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay -- PART IV: HISTORICAL ACCOUNTS OF STREET VENDING -- Chapter 10. Street Vending, Political Activism, and Community Building in African American History: The Case of Harlem -- Mark Naison -- Chapter 11. The Roots of Street Commerce Regulation in the Urban Slave Society of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil -- Patricia Acerbi -- Notes on Contributors --

Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Glossary -- Map I: Rwanda -- Map II: The Layout of Nkumba Ingando Camp -- PART I: INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1. Kubaka Ubumwe: Building Unity in a Divided Society -- Chapter 2. Settling the Unsettled: The Politics and Policing of Meaning in Rwanda -- PART II: THE POLITICAL PROCESS -- Chapter 3. The Wording of Power: Legitimisation as Narrative Currency and Political Intimation -- Chapter 4. The Presencing Effect: Surveillance and State Reach in Rwanda -- Chapter 5. Incorporation, Disconnect: The Embodiments of Power and the Unworking of Contestation -- PART III: MAKING 'UBUMWE': THE IMAGERIES, PLANNING AND PERFORMANCES OF 'UNITY' IN RWANDA -- Chapter 6. Unity's Multiplicities: Ambiguity at Work -- Chapter 7. Performances and Platforms: Activities of Unity and Reconciliation in the Contexts of Power -- Chapter 8. Ingando Camps: Nation Building as Consent Building -- Chapter 9. Rights of Passage: Liminality and the Reproduction of Power -- PART IV: CONCLUSIONS -- Chapter 10. The Yeast of Change: Civic Education, Social Transformation and the New Development Corps -- Chapter 11. What Kind of Unity? Prospects for Co-existence, Social Justice and Peace -- Bibliography -- Index --

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Keith Hart -- PART I: ECONOMY VERSUS DEMOCRACY -- Chapter 1. Habits of austerity: financialization and new ways of dealing with money -- Jürgen Schraten -- Chapter 2. What financial crisis? The global politics of finance: distributional consequences and legitimizing narratives -- Horacio Ortiz -- Chapter 3. Party funding for and against democracy in Zimbabwe and South Africa -- Booker Magure -- PART II: THE STRUGGLE FOR ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY -- Chapter 4. Women as mediators in post-war Mozambique: pushing lobolo from price to propriety -- Albert Farré -- Chapter 5. Negotiating state and market: the South African HIV/AIDS movement and social change -- Theodore Powers -- Chapter 6. Beyond the market: the case of white workers in Pretoria -- John Sharp & Stephan Van Wyk -- Chapter 7. Waves of unrest: wildcat strikes and possible democratic change in Swaziland -- Vito Laterza -- PART III: VISIONS OF HUMAN ECONOMY AND DEMOCRACY -- Chapter 8. Solidarity economy in contemporary Greece: 'movementality', economic democracy and social reproduction -- Theodoros Rakopoulos -- Chapter 9. Money for a human economy: a reflection from Argentina -- Hadrien Saiag -- Chapter 10. Human economy: the revolutionary struggle for happiness -- Keith Hart -- Chapter 11. Building a human economy movement: the precedent of transnational feminism -- Camille Sutton-Brown -- Notes on authors -- References -- Index --

Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Sites of disaster map -- Introduction: Can Earthquakes Speak? -- -- The Voice of the Earthquake -- A Tale of Two Earthquakes -- The Structure of This Book -- -- Part I: The 1908 Messina Earthquake -- Chapter 1. The 1908 Messina Earthquake -- -- Earthquake, Tsunami, and Fire -- Earthquake Science -- Earthquake-Proof Urbanism -- -- Chapter 2. Urban Reform 1880-1908 -- -- Sanitizing the City -- A New Geography of Urban Water -- Engineering the City's Environment -- To Live Happily and Forget the Quake -- -- Chapter 3. The Modern City 1909-1943 -- -- The Provisional City (and Its Permanent Consequences) -- The Master Plan -- The City Developers versus the Hut Dwellers -- The New City and Its Darker Sides -- -- Part II: The 1968 Belice Valley Earthquake -- Chapter 4. The 1968 Belice Valley Earthquake -- -- "Like an Atomic Wasteland" -- The Disaster of Poverty -- Road Maps to Development -- -- Chapter 5. Rural Modernity 1933-1967 -- -- Reclamation and Redemption -- Development Plans -- Grassroots Counter-Measures -- The Many Virtues of Water -- -- Chapter 6. Urbanized Countryside 1968-1993 -- -- Tents, Barracks, and Committees -- The City Territory -- New Towns and Ghost Factories -- Rural Urbanism -- -- Conclusion: Fault Lines -- -- Tales of Earthquake Urbanism -- Fault Lines in a Seismic Country -- Hazards, Urbanization, and Nature -- -- Bibliography --

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- -- Chapter 1. Rehabilitation and Development in Exile -- Chapter 2. The Central Tibetan Administration -- Chapter 3. The Political Agenda -- Chapter 4. The Religious Agenda -- Chapter 5. Reception of the Tibetan Agendas in the West: Constitution of the Global Tibet Movement -- Chapter 6. A New Model of Partnership and its Adaptability -- Chapter 7. Challenges to the Model -- -- Conclusion -- -- Bibliography --

Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations -- Foreword -- F. Georg Heyne -- Acknowledgements -- Map of Aoluguya -- Contributors -- PART I: ENCOUNTERING THE EWENKI -- Introduction: Writing the 'Reindeer Ewenki' -- Åshild Kolås -- Chapter 1. From Nomads to Settlers: A History of the Aoluguya Ewenki (1965–1999) -- Si Qinfu -- PART II: MIGRATIONS: REINDEER HERDING IN FLUX -- Chapter 2. In the Forest Pastures of the Reindeer -- Tang Ge -- Chapter 3. Ambiguities of the Aoluguya Ewenki -- Åshild Kolås -- Chapter 4. The Many Faces of Nomadism among the Reindeer Ewenki: Uses of Land, Mobility and Exchange Networks -- Aurore Dumont -- PART III: REPRESENTATIONS: DEFINING THE REINDEER EWENKI CULTURE AND IDENTITY -- Chapter 5. A Passage from Forest to State: The Aoluguya Ewenki and their Museums -- Bai Ying and Zhang Rongde -- Chapter 6. The Ecological Migration and Ewenki Identity -- Xie Yuanyuan -- Chapter 7. Tents, Taiga and Tourist Parks: Vernacular Ewenki Architecture and the State -- Richard Fraser -- PART IV: LOCAL VOICES -- Chapter 8. Campfire -- Weijia -- Chapter 9. My Homeland -- Gong Yu -- Chapter 10. Hunting along the Bei'erci River -- Gu Xinjun -- Glossary -- Index --

Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Studying Good -- Chapter 2. The Culture of White Anti-racism -- Chapter 3. Tiwi 'Long Grassers' -- Chapter 4. Welcome to Country -- Chapter 5. Mutual Recognition -- Chapter 6. White Stigma -- Conclusion -- References -- Index --

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 --

Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Jens Kjaerulff -- Chapter 1. Everybody Gives: Gifts in the Global Factory -- Jamie Cross -- Chapter 2. Unveiling the Work of the Gift: Neoliberalism and the Flexible Margins of Nation-State -- Tinna Grétarsdóttir -- Chapter 3. Flexibility Frictions: Economies of Connection in Contemporary Forms of Work -- Christina Garsten -- Chapter 4. Taking Over the Gift: The Circulation and Exchange of Options, Labour and 'Lucky Money' in Alberta's Oil and Gas Industry -- Caura Wood -- Chapter 5. How to Stay Entangled in a World of Flows: Flexible Subjects and Mobile Knowledge in the New Media Industries -- Hannah Knox -- Chapter 6. The Payoff of Love and the Traffic of Favours: Reciprocity, Social Capital and the Blurring of Value Realms in Flexible Capitalism -- Susana Narotzky -- Chapter 7. Flexible Capitalism and Transactional Orders in Colonial and Postcolonial Mauritius: A Post-Occidentalist View -- Patrick Neveling -- Chapter 8. The Corrosion of Character Revisited: Rethinking Uncertainty and Flexibility -- Jens Kjaerulff -- Chapter 9. Afterword: Exchange and Corporate Forms Today -- Keir Martin -- Notes on Contributors -- Index --

Description / Table of Contents: List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Landscapes of Change in the Transitional City -- Chapter 1. A Place Apart? Sectarian Geographies, Shared Space and the Material Production of a 'New' Northern Ireland -- Chapter 2. From 'Gunland' to Globalization: The 'Space of Flows' Meets Place in a City 'on the Rise' -- Chapter 3. Neutral Space is Shopping Space. Or is it? The Choreography of Consumption in Belfast City Centre -- Chapter 4. Beautiful Barriers: Contesting the Symbolic Reimaging of Community along a Belfast Peace Line -- Chapter 5. Transforming the Stone: Recasting Derry's Diamond War Memorial for the Demands of a Shared Future -- Chapter 6. Art on the Frontlines: Civilising Derry's Ebrington Military Barracks for a 'City of Culture' -- Conclusion: The City as Civic Identikit? Twenty-first Century Public(s) on the Transnational Urban Stage Set -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index --

Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Self-Sufficiency as Reality and as Myth -- Stephen Gudeman and Chris Hann -- Chapter 1. The Ideal of Self-Sufficiency and the Reality of Dependence: A Hungarian Case -- Bea Vidacs -- Chapter 2. How Much is Enough? Household Provisioning, Self-Sufficiency and Social Status in Rural Moldova -- Jennifer R. Cash -- Chapter 3. When the Household Meets the State: Ajvar Cooking and Householding in Postsocialist Macedonia -- Miladina Monova -- Chapter 4. Self-Sufficiency is Not Enough: Ritual Intensification and Household Economies in a Kyrgyz Village -- Nathan Light -- Chapter 5. "They Work in a Closed Circle": Self-Sufficiency in House-Based Rural Tourism in the Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria -- Detelina Tocheva -- Chapter 6. Self-Sufficiency and "Being One's Own Master" among Transylvanian Forest Dwellers -- Monica Vasile -- Notes on Contributors -- Index --

Description / Table of Contents: List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Space, Narration, and the Everyday -- Wladimir Fischer-Nebmaier -- PART I: NARRATIVES AND IMAGES OF THE CITY -- Chapter 1. The Case of Ossification: Contemporary Narratives about Everyday Life in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Lviv -- Andriy Zayarnyuk -- Chapter 2. The Masa's Odysseys through Bourgeois Caracas: The Testimony of Novels, 1920s-1970s -- Arturo Almandoz -- Chapter 3. Re-imagining Nieuwland: Narrative Mapping and the Mental Geography of Urban Space in a Dutch Multi-Ethnic Neighborhood -- Leeke Reinders -- PART II: CLAIMING URBAN SPACE -- Chapter 4. City and Cinema as Spaces for (trans-national) Grassroots Mobilization: Perspectives from Southeastern and Central Europe -- Anna Schober -- Chapter 5. Adjudicating Lodging: Denazification, Housing Requisition, and Identity in "Red Vienna," 1945-1948 -- Matthew P. Berg -- PART III: LIVING AND WORKING IN THE CITY -- Chapter 6. Urban Information Flows: Workers' and Employers' Knowledge of the Asbestos Hazard in Clydeside, ca. 1950-1970s -- Ronnie Johnston and Arthur McIvor -- Chapter 7. Creating a Familiar Space: Childcare, Kinship, and Community in Post-Socialist New Zagreb -- Tihana Rubić and Carolin Leutloff-Grandits -- Notes on Contributors -- Index --

Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- Map of Central Asia -- Map of Kyrgyzstan -- Introduction: Someone Ate All Our Sheep -- -- On the Kyrgyz Highlands -- In Search of a Baseline -- Looking Back on a Soviet Economy of Intensive Livestock Farming -- From Kolkhoz to Village -- The Anthropologist in the Face of Social Change -- Some Local Authority Figures -- -- The Former Kolkhoz Chairman: The Bashkarma -- The New Official Local Authority: The Ayil Okmotu -- The "Biznesman": Economic Power -- The Shepherd: A Prestigious but Powerless Figure -- The Moldo or the Affirmation of Religious Authority -- -- The Rise of NGOs and the Development of Private Enterprise -- Logics of Power: Appropriation, Plunder, and Capture of Resources -- -- Chapter 1. Manas, Unesco, and the Kyrgyz Fabula -- -- Manas: Political Uses of a Traditional Oral Epic -- -- Indigenization and Nationalization of the Epic -- Manas 1000: Political Ritual of the New Kyrgyz Identity -- Manas Gumbez: A National Heritage Site -- Manas Ayili and the Building of an International Image -- -- UNESCO: Global Entrepreneur of the Kyrgyz National Imaginary -- Polysemous Perceptions of the Creation of the New National Imaginary -- Democracy, Decentralization, Tribal Identity, and Minorities -- Affirmation of Ethnic Identity in the South of the Country -- Enhancing "Tribal" Identity in the North -- Manas in a Context of Globalization -- -- Chapter 2. Kyrgyzstan and Good Governance Experts -- -- The Ideology of Good Governance: Minimal Government, Private Enterprise and Civil Society -- The UNPD: Decline of the State, Promotion of Local and Traditional Political Practices -- From an Economic Planning Culture to a Project Culture -- Promoting Democracy -- The Development of Local Kyrgyz NGOs -- Electoral Assistance: Technical Aid or Political Interference -- -- Chapter 3. Elections and the Promotion of Democracy -- -- Ethnography of an Election -- IFES and Elections: Democracy@large -- Ethnography of an American Political Foundation Training Session -- Training and Strategy of Influence -- -- Eligibility: The Demokrat and Kyrgyzness -- -- -- Chapter 4. The Fall of the Common House -- -- The Soviet Regime or the Ambition to Establish Absolute Control over Human Flows -- Askar Akayev's Common House Ideology and Emigration of the Russian-Speaking Population -- Rural Exodus and Urban Sprawl -- From Migration to Increased Kyrgyz Mobility -- The Russian Perspective: Gastarbeiter -- The Political Weight of Remittances in Kyrgyzstan -- -- Chapter 5. The Bazaar: Symbol of a Society of Traders -- -- The Bazaar: The Return to a Natural Economic Order? -- The "Bazarkoms": New Social Figures -- Property and Political Protection: The Dordoy Bazaar and Askar Salymbekov -- -- From Dordoy Bazar to Dordoy Associatsia: The Transmission of Capital -- Patronage and Political Clientele -- Redistribution and Social Legitimacy -- Soccer and Kok-boru -- Giving to the Dead and to God: Monuments and Jubilees -- -- The Changing Face of the Bazaar: The Labor Market on Avenue Maladoja Guardia -- -- Chapter 6. Civil Society and Election Monitoring -- -- Koalitsia and the National Democratic Institute -- Baisalov: Portrait of a Democracy Promotion Icon -- Koalitsia and the ENEMO Transnational Network -- Intellectual Influences: Non-Violent Movements -- Koalitsia's Hour of Glory: The Tulip Revolution -- Participative Observation in an Election Mission -- The Election Mission: A Multi-camp Caravan -- The Deployment of Observers -- Return to the Capital and Debriefing -- The Press Conference -- Cocktail Hour: The Communion Ritual of Democracy Promoters -- Communion of Contentious Actors: Opposition Coalition, Koalitsia, and Kel-Kel -- -- Chapter 7. The Transnationalization of Politics -- -- Anthropology of a Fraudulent Election -- Electoral Observation and Local Dynamics -- A Changing Political Personnel: From Appointees to Elected Officials -- Becoming a Deputat: An Exemplary Political Battle -- Political Transhumance, Opposition, Marginalization, and Exile -- Political Practices and Regional Factionalism -- The New Role of the President and Appointed Political Personnel -- From Communism to Keminism -- From Keminism to Teyitism -- The Political Change in 2005: Revolution, Overthrow, or Coup? -- -- Conclusion: The Kyrgyz Laboratory and the Global Politics -- Afterword: From the Kyrgyz Fabula to the Ethnic Apocalypse? -- Appendix I: Kyrgyz Republic Timeline -- Appendix II: Census of Kyrgyzstan Population -- Index --

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Chapter 1. Arrival -- Chapter 2. Religiosities -- Chapter 3. Public Lives -- Chapter 4. Resentment -- Chapter 5. Our Mosque -- Chapter 6. In the Neighbourhood -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index --

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 --

Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- Notes on Transliteration -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Setting the Scene: Cultural Difference and Political Rivalry in Times of Transition -- Chapter 2. The Power of the Fon: Nchaney Political History -- Chapter 3. From Pastoral Society to Indigenous People: Mbororo Identity Politics -- Chapter 4. A Shift to Economic Competition? Farmer–Herder Conflict and Cattle Theft in the Misaje Area -- Chapter 5. On Being Hausa: Consolidation of the Hausa Ethnic Category in the Grassfields -- Chapter 6. Grassfielder by Birth, Muslim by Choice: Religious and Ethnic Conversion -- Chapter 7. The Murder of Mr X: Legal Pluralism and Conflict Management in the Early 2000s -- Epilogue -- Glossary -- References -- Index --

Description / Table of Contents: List of Figures -- Introduction: Liminality and the Search for Boundaries -- Harald Wydra, Bjørn Thomassen, and Agnes Horvath -- PART I: FRAMING LIMINALITY -- Chapter 1. Liminality and Experience: Structuring transitory situations and transformative events -- Arpad Szakolczai -- Chapter 2. Thinking with Liminality: To the Boundaries of an Anthropological Concept -- Bjørn Thomassen -- PART II: LIMINALITY AND THE SOCIAL -- Chapter 3. Inbetweenness and Ambivalence -- Bernhard Giesen -- Chapter 4. The Genealogy of Political Alchemy: the technological invention of identity change -- Agnes Horvath -- Chapter 5. Critical Processes and Political Fluidity: a Theoretical Appraisal -- Michel Dobry -- Chapter 6. Liminality and the Frontier Myth in the Building of the American Empire -- Stephen Mennell -- Chapter 7. On the Margins of the Public and the Private: Louis XIV at Versailles -- Peter Burke -- PART III: LIMINALITY AND THE POLITICAL -- Chapter 8. Liminality, the execution of Louis XVI and the rise of terror during the French Revolution -- Camil Roman -- Chapter 9. In Search of Antistructure: The Meaning of Tahrir Square in Egypt's Ongoing Social Drama -- Mark Allen Peterson -- Chapter 10. Liminality and Democracy -- Harald Wydra -- Chapter 11. Liminality and Postcommunism: The Twenty-First Century as the Subject of History -- Richard Sakwa -- Chapter 12. The Challenge of Liminality for International Relations Theory -- Maria Malksoo -- Notes on Contributors -- Index --

Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Historical Roots for a Singaut Economy -- Chapter 2. Visible While Away: Concepts of Vision in Exchange Practices -- Chapter 3. The Power of Words: Curses and Blessings of Relatives -- Chapter 4. It's never tomorrow: Debt, Selfishness and the Contest of Obligation -- Chapter 5. Historical Roots for Community as Level of Organization and as a Concept -- Chapter 6. ...to benefit the community: Value and the Member of Community -- Chapter 7. All Things Considered: Organized Action as Appearances of Social Totalities -- Conclusion -- References -- Index --

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 --

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: In the Event-toward an Anthropology of Generic Moments -- Bruce Kapferer -- Chapter 1. 'Ashura in Bahrain: Analyses of an Analytical Event -- Thomas Fibiger -- Chapter 2. 'Burying the ANC': Post-apartheid Ambiguities at the University of Limpopo, South Africa -- Bjarke Oxlund -- Chapter 3. A Topographic Event: A Buddhist Lama's Perception of a Pilgrimage Cave -- Jesper Oestergaard -- Chapter 4. The Outburst: Climate Change, Gender Relations, and Situational Analysis -- Jonas Østergaard Nielsen -- Chapter 5. Events and Effects: Intensive Transnationalism among Pakistanis in Denmark -- Mikkel Rytter -- Chapter 6. The Cartoon Controversy: Creating Muslims in a Danish Setting -- Anja Kublitz -- Chapter 7. Values at Work: Ambivalent Situations and Human Resource Embarrassment -- Jakob Krause-Jensen -- Chapter 8. Figurations of the Future: On the Form and Temporality of Protests among Left Radical Activists in Europe -- Stine Krøijer -- Chapter 9. Mimesis of the State: From Natural Disaster to Urban Citizenship on the Outskirts of Maputo, Mozambique -- Morten Nielsen -- About the Editors -- Index --

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Introduction: Waterworlds at Large -- Kirsten Hastrup and Frida Hastrup -- Chapter 1. East Anglian Fenland: Water, the Work of Imagination, and the Creation of Value -- Richard D. G. Irvine -- Chapter 2. Fluid Entitlements: Constructing and Contesting Water Allocations in Burkina Faso, West Africa -- Ben Orlove, Carla Roncoli, and Brian Dowd-Uribe -- Chapter 3. Raining in the Andes: Disrupted Seasonal and Hydrological Cycles -- Astrid B. Stensrud -- Chapter 4. Respect and Passion in a Lagoon in the South Pacific -- Cecilie Rubow -- Chapter 5. West African Waterworlds: Narratives of Absence versus Narratives of Excess -- Mette Fog Olwig and Laura Vang Rasmussen -- Chapter 6. To the Lighthouse: Making a Liveable World by the Bay of Bengal -- Frida Hastrup -- Chapter 7. Enacting Groundwaters in Tarawa, Kiribati: Searching for Facts and Articulating Concerns -- Maria Louise Bønnelykke Robertson -- Chapter 8. Mapping Urban Waters: Grounds and Figures on an Ethnographic Water Path -- Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen -- Chapter 9. Water Literacy in the Sahel: Understanding Rain and Ground Water -- Anette Reenberg -- Chapter 10. Deep Time and Shallow Waters: Configurations of an Irrigation Channel in the Andes -- Mattias Borg Rasmussen -- Chapter 11. Moral Valves and Fluid Properties: Water Regulation Mechanisms in the Bâdia of Southeastern Mauritania -- Christian Vium -- Chapter 12. Reflecting Nature: Water Beings in History and Imagination -- Veronica Strang -- Chapter 13. The North Water: Life on the Ice Edge in the High Arctic -- Kirsten Hastrup -- Notes on Contributors --

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 --

Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements / Fisaorana -- Notes on Text -- Introduction -- PART I -- Chapter 1. A Virtual Tour through Little Masoala -- Chapter 2. Intention and Perception -- Chapter 3. Zooming in on Morality -- Chapter 4. A Kind of People -- Chapter 5. The Coconut Schema -- Extract from 'Marrakech' by George Orwell -- PART II -- Chapter 6. Living With the Masoala National Park -- Chapter 7. The Banana Plant and the Moon -- Chapter 8. The Island of the Wanderer -- Chapter 9. Who Are 'They'? -- Chapter 10. Historical Reflections -- Conclusion -- References --

Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Kwang Ok Kim -- PART I: NATIONAL/LOCAL FOOD IN THE RE(MAKING) -- Chapter 1. Dining Elegance and Authenticity: Archaeology of Royal Court Cuisine in Korea -- Okpyo Moon -- Chapter 2. History and Politics of National Cuisine: Malaysia and Taiwan -- Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao and Khay-Thiong Lim -- Chapter 3. Wudang Daoist Tea Culture -- Jean DeBernardi -- Chapter 4. Rice Cuisine and Cultural Practice in Contemporary Korean Dietary Life -- Kwang Ok Kim -- PART II: FOOD PRACTICE ACROSS CULTURAL BOUNDARY -- Chapter 5. Noodle Odyssey: East Asia and Beyond -- Kyung-Koo Han -- Chapter 6. Cultural Nostalgia and Global Imagination: Japanese Cuisine in Taiwan -- David Y. H. Wu -- Chapter 7. The Visible and the Invisible: Intimate Engagements with Russia's Culinary East -- Melissa L. Caldwell -- Chapter 8. Experiencing the "West" through the "East" in the Margins of Europe: Chinese Food Consumption Practices in Post-socialist Bulgaria -- Yuson Jung -- Chapter 9. Exoticizing the Familiar, Domesticating the Foreign: Ethnic Food Restaurants in Korea -- Sangmee Bak -- Chapter 10. Serving Ambiguity: Class and Classification in Thai Food at Home and Abroad -- Michael Herzfeld -- PART III: HEALTH, SAFETY, AND FOOD CONSUMPTION -- Chapter 11. Well-being Discourse and Chinese Food in Korean Society -- Young-Kyun Yang -- Chapter 12. The Social Life of American Crayfish in Asia -- Sidney C. H. Cheung -- Chapter 13. Eating Green: Ecological Food Consumption in Urban China -- Jakob A. Klein -- Chapter 14. From Food Poisoning to Poisonous Food: The Spectrum of Food-Safety Problems in Contemporary China -- Yunxiang Yan -- Notes on Contributors -- Index --

Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Introduction: Ritual, Economy and the Institutions of the Base -- Stephen Gudeman and Chris Hann -- Chapter 1. Economy as Ritual: The Problems of Paying in Wine -- Jennifer Cash -- Chapter 2. Animals in the Kyrgyz Ritual Economy: Symbolic and Moral Dimensions of Economic Embedding -- Nathan Light -- Chapter 3. From Pig-Sticking to Festival: Changes in Pig-Sticking Practices in the Hungarian Countryside -- Bea Vidacs -- Chapter 4. Kurban: Shifting Economy and the Transformations of a Ritual -- Detelina Tocheva -- Chapter 5. The Trader's Wedding: Ritual Inflation and Money Gifts in Transylvania -- Monica Vasile -- Chapter 6. "We don't have work. We just grow a little tobacco": Household Economy and Ritual Effervescence in a Macedonian Town -- Miladina Monova -- Appendix: The "Economy and Ritual" Project and the Field Questionnaire -- Notes on Contributors -- Index --

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 --

Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Peter Berger -- PART I: RITUALS -- Chapter 1. The Ambiguity of Mortal Remains, Substitute Bodies, and other Materializations of the Dead among the Garo of Northeast India -- Erik de Maaker -- Chapter 2. Structures and Processes of Liminality: The Shape of Mourning among the Sora of Tribal India -- Piers Vitebsky -- Chapter 3. Liminal Bodies, Liminal Food: Hindu and Tribal Death Rituals Compared -- Peter Berger -- Chapter 4. The Liminality of "Living Martyrdom": Suicide Bombers' Preparations for Paradise -- Pieter G. T. Nanninga -- PART II: CONCEPTS -- Chapter 5. Disappearance and Liminality: Argentina's Mourning of State Terror -- Antonius C.G.M. Robben -- Chapter 6. Three Dimensions of Liminality in the Context of Kyrgyz Death Rituals -- Roland Hardenberg -- Chapter 7. Death, Ritual, and Effervescence -- Peter Berger -- PART III: IMAGERIES -- Chapter 8. Hungry Ghost or Divine Soul? Post-Mortem Initiation in Medieval Shaiva Tantric Death Rites -- Nina Mirnig -- Chapter 9. Between Death and Judgement: Sleep as the Image of Death in Early Modern Protestantism -- Justin Kroesen and Jan R. Luth -- Chapter 10. Body and Soul Between Death and Funeral in Archaic Greece -- Jan N. Bremmer -- Chapter 11. Death, Memory and Liminality. Rethinking Lampedusa's Later Life as Author and Aristocrat -- Yme B. Kuiper -- Notes on Contributors --

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 --

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: Science, Religion and Forms of Life -- Carles Salazar -- PART I: COGNITION -- Chapter 1. Maturationally Natural Cognition Impedes Professional Science and Facilitates Popular Religion -- Robert N. McCauley -- Chapter 2. Scientific vs. Religious 'Knowledge' in Evolutionary Perspective -- Michael Blume -- Chapter 3. Magic and Ritual in an Age of Science -- Jesper Sørensen -- PART II: BEYOND SCIENCE -- Chapter 4. Moral Employments of Scientific Thought -- Timothy Jenkins -- Chapter 5. The Social Life of Concepts: Public and Private 'Knowledge' of Scientific Creationism -- Simon Coleman -- Chapter 6. The Embryo, Sacred and Profane -- Marit Melhuus -- Chapter 7. The Religions of Science and the Sciences of Religion in Brazil. -- Roger Sansi-Roca -- Chapter 8. Science in Action, Religion in Thought: Catholic Charismatics' Notions about Illness -- Maria Coma -- PART III: MEANING SYSTEMS -- Chapter 9. On the Resilience of Superstition -- João de Pina-Cabral -- Chapter 10. Religion, Magic and Practical Reason: Meaning and Everyday Life in Contemporary Ireland -- Tom Inglis -- Chapter 11. Can the Dead Suffer Traumas? Religion and Science after the Vietnam War -- Heonik Kwon -- Notes on Contributors --

Description / Table of Contents: List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Context is Everything: Plurality and Paradox in Contemporary European Paganisms -- Kathryn Rountree -- Chapter 1. Sami Neo-shamanism in Norway: Colonial Grounds, Ethnic Revival and Pagan Pathways -- Siv Ellen Kraft -- Chapter 2. It's Not Easy Being Apolitical: Reconstruction and Eclecticism in Danish Asatro -- Matthew H. Amster -- Chapter 3. Modern Heathenism in Sweden: A Case Study in the Creation of a Traditional Religion -- Fredrik Gregorius -- Chapter 4. The Brotherhood of Wolves, Czech Republic: From Ásatrú to Primitivism -- Kamila Velkoborská -- Chapter 5. Soviet-era Discourse and Siberian Shamanic Revivalism: How Area Spirits Speak through Academia -- Eleanor Peers -- Chapter 6. In Search of Genuine Religion: The Contemporary Estonian MaausulisedMovement and Nationalist Discourse -- Ergo-Hart Västrik -- Chapter 7. Emerging Identity Marketsof Contemporary Pagan Ideologies in Hungary -- Tamás Szilágyi -- Chapter 8. Hot, Strange, Völkish, Cosmopolitan: Native Faith and Neopagan Witchcraft in Berlin's Changing Urban Context -- Victoria Hegner -- Chapter 9. Paganism in Ireland: Syncretic Processes, Identity and a Sense of Place -- Jenny Butler -- Chapter 10. On the Sticks and Stones of the Greencraft Temple in Flanders: Balancing Global and Local Heritage in Wicca -- Léon van Gulik -- Chapter 11. Iberian Paganism: Goddess Spirituality in Spain and Portugal and the Quest for Authenticity -- Anna Fedele -- Chapter 12. Bellisama and Aradia: Paganism Re-emerges in Italy -- Francesca Ciancimino Howell -- Chapter 13. Authenticity and Invention in the Quest for a Modern Maltese Paganism -- Kathryn Rountree -- Notes on Contributors -- Index --

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 --

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Chapter 1. No Man's Land -- Chapter 2. Defending White Hegemony -- Chapter 3. Between Confrontation and Collaboration -- Chapter 4. A Culture of Economic Privileges -- Chapter 5. Unity in Diversity -- Chapter 6. The Elite Symbolism of White Skin Colour -- Conclusion -- References -- Index --

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Toward reciprocal anthropology -- Anne Raulin and Susan Carol Rogers -- PART I: DISTINCTIONS: CLASS, RACE, CULTURE -- Chapter 1. Homeless People (Paris, Los Angeles): The principle of equality seen from below -- Patrick Gaboriau -- Chapter 2. The Moral Public Sphere: Integration and discrimination in a French New Town -- Beth Epstein -- Chapter 3. Creolization, Racial Imagination and the Music Market in French Louisiana -- Sara Le Menestrel -- Chapter 4. Claiming Culture, Defending Culture: Perspectives on culture in France and the United States -- David Beriss -- PART II: KEY WORDS: COMMUNITY, HEALING -- Chapter 5. Gay Activism and the Question of Community -- William Poulin-Deltour -- Chapter 6. Confronting "Community": From Rural France to the Vietnamese Diaspora -- Deborah Reed-Danahay -- Chapter 7. Healing the Community: Ethics and ancestry in Orisha religious practices in the United States -- Stefania Capone -- Chapter 8. Healing at the Foot of the Twin Towers: Beyond the trauma of 9/11 -- Anne Raulin -- PART III: MYTHS: ENDLESS POSSIBILITY, COUNTRYSIDES -- Chapter 9. To Live in a World of Possibilities: A New Age version of the American Myth -- Christian Ghasarian -- Chapter 10. Faux Amis in the Countryside: Deciphering the familiar -- Susan Carol Rogers -- Index --

Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Carl A. Maida and Sam Beck -- Chapter 1. Community-Based Research Organizations: Co-constructing Public Knowledge and Bridging Knowledge/Action Communities through Participatory Action Research -- Jean J. Schensul -- Chapter 2. Crossing the Line: Participatory Action Research in a Museum Setting -- Alaka Wali and Madeleine Tudor -- Chapter 3. Monitoring the Commons: Giving "Voice" to Environmental Justice in Pacoima -- Carl A. Maida -- Chapter 4. Political-Ethical Dilemmas Participant Observed -- Josiah McC. Heyman -- Chapter 5. Public Anthropology and Structural Engagement: Making Ameliorating Social Inequality Our Primary Agenda -- Merrill Singer -- Chapter 6. Public Anthropology and the Transformation of Anthropological Research -- Louise Lamphere -- Chapter 7. Public Anthropology and Its Reception -- Judith Goode -- Chapter 8. Anthropology for Whom? Challenges and Prospects of Activist Scholarship -- Angela Stuesse -- Chapter 9. "We Are Plumbers of Democracy": A Study of Aspirations to Inclusive Public Dialogues in Mexico and Its Repercussions -- Raúl Acosta -- Chapter 10. What Everybody Should Know about Nature-Culture: Anthropology in the Public Sphere and "The Two Cultures" -- Thomas Hylland Eriksen -- Chapter 11. Reimagining the Fragmented City/Citizen: Young People and Public Action in Rio de Janeiro -- Udi Mandel Butler -- Chapter 12. Urban Transitions: Graffiti Transformations -- Sam Beck -- Chapter 13. Recreating Community: New Housing for Amui Djor Residents -- Tony Asare, Erika Mamley Osae, and Deborah Pellow -- Notes on Contributors --

Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Notes on Contributors -- Section I: Immigrant Organizations in a Comparative Perspective -- Introduction: Immigration, Transnationalism, and Development: The State of the Question -- Alejandro Portes -- Section II: Immigrant Organizations in the United States -- Chapter 1. Traversing Ancestral and New Homelands: Chinese Immigrant-Transnational Organizations in the United States -- Min Zhou and Rennie Lee -- Chapter 2. Transnational Philanthropy of Urban Migrants: Colombian and Dominican Immigrant Organizations and Development -- Cristina Escobar -- Chapter 3. Tapping the Indian Diaspora for Indian Development -- Rina Agarwala -- Chapter 4. Partners in Organizing: Engagement between Migrants and the State in the Production of Mexican Hometown Associations -- Natasha Iskander -- Chapter 5. Navigating Uneven Development: The Dynamics of Fractured Transnationalism -- Margarita Rodríguez -- Chapter 6. Breaking Blocked Transnationalism: Intergenerational Change in Homeland Ties -- Jennifer Huynh and Jessica Yiu -- Section III: Immigrant Organizations in Europe -- Chapter 7. Moroccan and Congolese Migrant Organizations in Belgium -- Marie Godin, Barbara Herman, Andrea Rea, and Rebecca Thys -- Chapter 8. Moroccans in France: Their Organizations and Activities Back Home -- Thomas Lacroix and Antoine Dumont -- Chapter 9. Transnational Activities of Immigrants in the Netherlands: Do Ghanaian, Moroccan, and Surinamese Diaspora Organizations Enhance Development? -- Gery Nijenhuis and Annelies Zoomers -- Chapter 10. Transnational Immigrant Organizations in Spain: Their Role in Development and Integration -- Héctor Cebolla Boado and Ana López-Sala -- Conclusion: Assimilation through Transnationalism: A Theoretical Synthesis -- Patricia Fernández-Kelly --

Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. 'Other Worlds Are Possible': A Political Cosmology of Capitalism -- A DUMPSTER DIVE. -- Chapter 2. Becoming Absorbed: Youth and Interstices of Active Time in Ungdomshuset -- NAMING AND RAISING A CHILD -- Chapter 3. 'A Common Choreography of Action': Preparations and Intentions. -- Chapter 4. 'We Are Humans, What Are You?': Securitization, Unpredictability and Enemy-Becoming -- A STREET DANCE IN HYSKENSTRÆDE -- Chapter 5. 'I Used To Run As The Black Bloc': Style and Perspectivist Time in Protests and Direct Actions -- Conclusion: The Collective Body as a Theory of Politics -- References -- Index --

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 --

Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I: TRAJECTORIES AND MAPPINGS -- Chapter 1. Studying Participation as/through Figuration Work -- Chapter 2. University Reform in Denmark: Negotiating Participation and Democracy -- Chapter 3. A History of Student Participation in Denmark -- PART II: EVENTS AND FIGURATIONS -- Chapter 4. Time and Freedom -- Chapter 5. Ownership and Investment -- Chapter 6. Bodies and Voices -- PART III: CONCLUSIONS AND DIRECTIONS -- Chapter 7. Entangled Figurations -- Chapter 8. Participation as Multi-Scaled Citizenship -- References --

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 --

Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Micol Brazzabeni, Manuela Ivone Cunha and Martin Fotta -- Chapter 1. Usury among the Slovak Roma: Notes on Relations between Lenders and Borrowers in a Segregated Taboris -- Tomáš Hrustič -- Chapter 2. New Redistributors in Times of Insecurity: Different Types of Informal Lending in Hungary -- Judit Durst -- Chapter 3. A Way of Life Flowing in the Interstices: Cigano Horse Dealers in Alentejo, Portugal -- Sara Sama Acedo -- Chapter 4. 'Endured Labour' and 'Fixing Up' Money: The Economic Strategies of Roma Migrants in Slovakia and the UK -- Jan Grill -- Chapter 5. 'I Go for Iron': Xoraxané Romá Collecting Scrap Metal in Rome -- Marco Solimene -- Chapter 6. 'I'm Good but also Mad': The Street Economy in a Poor Neighbourhood of Bucharest -- Gergő Pulay -- Chapter 7. The Mechanisms of Independence: Economic Ethics and the Domestic Mode of Production among Gabori Roma in Transylvania -- Martin Olivera -- Chapter 8. Deceit and Efficacy: Fortune Telling among the Calon Gypsies in São Paulo, Brazil -- Florencia Ferrari -- Chapter 9. Houses under Construction: Conspicuous Consumption and the Values of Youth among Romanian Cortorari Gypsies -- Cătălina Tesăr -- Chapter 10. Exchange, Shame and Strength among Calon of Bahia: A Values-Based Analysis -- Martin Fotta -- Chapter 11. 'Give and Don't Keep Anything!' Wealth, Hierarchy and Identity among the Gypsies of Two Small Towns in Andalusia, Spain -- Nathalie Manrique -- Afterword -- Keith Hart -- Notes on Contributors -- Index --

Description / Table of Contents: Foreword -- Nelson Graburn -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Relating through Tourism -- PART I: ACHIEVING ENCOUNTERS -- Chapter 1. Tourism in Cuba -- Chapter 2. Shaping Expectations -- Chapter 3. Gaining Access -- Chapter 4. Getting in Touch -- PART II: SHAPING RELATIONS -- Chapter 5. Commodity Exchange and Hospitality -- Chapter 6. Friendliness and Friendship -- Chapter 7. Partying and Seducing -- Chapter 8. Seduction and Commoditized Sex -- Conclusion: Treasuring Fragile Relations -- References -- Endnotes --

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: The Event of Charlie Hebdo - Imaginaries of Freedom and Control -- Bjørn Enge Bertelsen and Alessandro Zagato -- -- The Barbariat and Democratic Tolerance -- Knut Rio -- Charlie Hebdo: The West and the Sacred -- Axel Rudi -- The Thoughtcrimes of an Eight-Year-Old -- Maria Dyveke Styve -- Imaginaries of Violence and Surrogates for Politics -- Alessandro Zagato -- Where Were You, Charlie? Contesting Voices of Political Activism in the Wake of a Tragedy -- Mari Hanssen Korsbrekke -- Moral, All-Too Moral: Satire, Morality, and Charlie Hebdo -- Jacob Hjortsberg -- On Blasphemy: The Paradoxes of Protecting and Mocking God -- Theodoros Rakopoulos -- -- Afterword: When a Joke is Not a Joke? The Paradox of Egalitarianism -- Bruce Kapferer --

Description / Table of Contents: List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Witchcraft Violence in Comparative Perspective -- Chapter 1. Ghana: The Research Setting -- Chapter 2. Witchcraft Beliefs in Ghana -- Chapter 3. Socialization into Witchcraft Beliefs -- Chapter 4. Witchcraft Themes in Popular Ghanaian Music -- Chapter 5. Witchcraft Imagery in Akan Proverbs -- Chapter 6. Witchcraft Trials in Ghanaian Courts -- Chapter 7. Witch Killings -- Chapter 8. Non-Lethal Treatment of Alleged Witches -- Chapter 9. Gendered Victimization: Patriarchy, Misogyny, and Gynophobia -- Conclusion: Curbing Witchcraft-Related Violence in Ghana -- Bibliography -- Index --

Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Øivind Fuglerud & Leon Wainwright -- PART I: MUSEUMS -- Chapter 1. Contemporary Iroquois Art between Ethnographic Museum, Art Gallery and Global Market Place: Reflections on the Politics of Identity and Representation -- Sylvia S. Kasprycki -- Chapter 2. De-connecting Relations: Exhibitions and Objects as Resistance -- Peter Bjerregaard -- Chapter 3. Materializing Islam and the Imaginary of Sacred Space -- Saphinaz-Amal Naguib -- PART II: PRESENCE -- Chapter 4. Visible While Away: Migration, Personhood and the Movement of Money amongst the Mbuke of Papua New Guinea -- Anders Emil Rasmussen -- Chapter 5. Being there while Being here: Long-distance Aesthetics and Sensations in Tamil National Rituals -- Stine Bruland -- Chapter 6. Food Presentations Moving Overseas: Ritual Aesthetics and Everyday Sociality in Tonga and among Tongan Migrants -- Arne Aleksej Perminow -- Chapter 7. Imaginations at War: The Ephemeral and the Fullness of Life in Southwest China -- Katherine Swancutt -- Chapter 8. How Pictures Matter. Religious Objects and the Imagination in Ghana -- Birgit Meyer -- PART III: ART -- Chapter 9. Art as Empathy: Imaging Transfers of Meaning and Emotion in Urban Aboriginal Australia -- Fiona Magowan -- Chapter 10. Transvisionary Imaginations: Artistic Subjectivity and Creativity in Tamil Nadu -- Amit Desai and Maruška Svašek -- Chapter 11. An Indian Cocktail of Value/s and Desire: On the 'Artification' of Whisky and Fashion -- Tereza Kuldova -- Notes on Contributors -- Index --

Description / Table of Contents: List of Figures and Tables -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Islamism: A Comparative-Historical Overview -- Burak Gürel -- Chapter 2. Class, State and Religion in Turkey -- Sungur Savran -- Chapter 3. The Deep Fracture in the Big Bourgeoisie of Turkey -- Kurtar Tanyılmaz, translated by Osman Balkan -- Chapter 4. Islamist Big Bourgeoisie in Turkey -- Özgür Öztürk -- Chapter 5. Islamic Capital -- Evren Hoşgör -- Chapter 6. Reproduction of the Islamic Middle Class in Turkey -- Erol Balkan and Ahmet Öncü -- Chapter 7. The Question of AKP Hegemony: Consent Without Consensus -- Evren Hoşgör -- Chapter 8. Globalization, Islamic Activism, and Passive Revolution in Turkey: The Case of Fethullah Gülen -- Joshua Hendrick -- Chapter 9. The Laic-Islamic Schism in the Turkish Dominant Class and the Media -- Anita Oğurlu and Ahmet Öncü -- Notes on Contributors --

Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Higher Education, Engaged Anthropology, and Hegemonic Struggle -- Boone W. Shear and Susan Brin Hyatt -- Chapter 1. The reform of New Zealand's university system: 'after neoliberalism' -- Cris Shore -- Chapter 2. Universities and neoliberal models of urban development: using ethnographic fieldwork to understand the 'Death and Rebirth of North Central Philadelphia' -- Susan Brin Hyatt -- Chapter 3. To market, to market to buy a ... middle class life? Insecurity, anxiety, and neoliberal education in Michigan -- Vincent Lyon-Callo -- Chapter 4. Reading Neoliberalism at the University -- Boone W. Shear and Angelina I. Zontine -- Chapter 5. So many strategies, so little time ... making universities modern -- John Clarke -- Chapter 6. Constructing Fear in Academia: Neoliberal Practices at a Public College -- Dana-Ain Davis -- Chapter 7. Autonomy and control: Danish university reform in the context of modern governance -- Susan Wright and Jakob Williams Ørberg -- Afterword -- Davydd Greenwood -- Notes on Contributors -- Index --

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 --

Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction: [or, Towards an Anthropology of Shared Concerns] -- PART I: FIGURING 'NORMAL LIVES' -- Chapter 1. 'Normal Lives' [or, Towards an Anthropology of Yearning] -- Chapter 2. Waiting for a Bus [or, Towards an Anthropology of Gridding] -- Chapter 3. War-Time Gridding for 'Normal Lives' [or, Towards an Anthropology of Hope for the State] -- PART II: DIAGNOSING DAYTONITIS -- Chapter 4. First Symptom: 'There Is No System' [or, Towards an Anthropology of an Elusive State Effect] -- Chapter 5. Second Symptom: 'We Are Pattering in Place' [or, Towards an Anthropology of Spatiotemporal Entrapment] -- PART III: LIVING WITH DAYTONITIS -- Chapter 6. Conviviality in the Meantime [or, Towards a Critique of Dayton Non-Politics] -- Epilogue: Shovelling and Numbering for 'Normal Lives' -- References -- Index --

Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Critical Reflections on Ageing and Technology in the Twenty-First Century -- Chiara Garattini and David Prendergast -- Part I: Connections, Networks and Interactions -- Chapter 1. Social Media and the Age-Friendly Community -- Philip B. Stafford -- Chapter 2. Exploring New Technologies through Playful Peer-to-Peer Engagement in Informal Learning -- Josie Tetley, Caroline Holland, Verina Waights, Jonathan Hughes, Simon Holland and Stephanie Warren -- Chapter 3. Older People and Constant Contact Media -- Rachel S. Singh -- Chapter 4. Beyond Determinism: Understanding Actual Use of Social Robots by Older People -- Louis Neven and Christina Leeson -- Part II: Health and Wellbeing -- Chapter 5. Designing Technologies for Social Connection with Older People -- Joseph Wherton, Paul Sugarhood, Rob Procter and Trisha Greenhalgh -- Chapter 6. Avoiding the 'Iceberg Effect': Incorporating a Behavioural Change Approach to Technology Design in Chronic Illness -- John Dinsmore -- Chapter 7. Supporting a Good Life with Dementia -- Arlene Astell -- Chapter 8. Home Telehealth: Industry Enthusiasm, Health System Resistance and Community Expectations -- Sarah Delaney and Claire Somerville -- Chapter 9. Analysing Hands-on-Tech Care Work in Telecare Installations. Frictional Encounters with Gerontechnological Designs -- Daniel López and Tomás Sánchez-Criado -- Part III: Life Course Transitions -- Chapter 10. Caregiving in the Digital Era -- Madelyn Iris and Rebecca Berman -- Chapter 11. Digital Storytelling and the Transnational Retirement Networks of Older Japanese Adults -- Mayumi Ono -- Chapter 12. Digital Games in the Lives of Older Adults -- Bob De Schutter, Julie A. Brown and Henk Herman Nap -- Chapter 13. Digital Ownership across Lifespans -- Wendy Moncur -- Notes on Contributors -- Index --

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 --

Description / Table of Contents: List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Introduction: Taking up Residency: Spatial Reconfigurations and the Struggle to Belong in Urban Latin America -- Christien Klaufus -- PART I: THE LATIN AMERICAN CONTEXT -- Chapter 1. The Consolidation of the Latin American City and the Changing Bases for Social Order -- Bryan R. Roberts -- Chapter 2. Proximity, Crime, Politics and Design: Medellín's Popular Neighbourhoods and the Experience of Belonging -- Gerard Martin and Marijke Martin -- PART II: FAMILY AND BELONGING IN CONSOLIDATED SETTELEMENTS -- Chapter 3. Debe Ser Esfuerzo Propio: Aspirations and Belongings of the Young Generation in the Old Barriadas of Southern Lima, Peru -- Michaela Hordijk -- Chapter 4. Housing Inheritance and Succession among Pioneer Squatters and Self Builders: A Mexican Case Study -- Erika Denisse Grajeda -- Chapter 5. 'Favela Modelo': A Study on Housing, Belonging and Civic Engagement in a 'Pacified' Favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil -- Palloma Menezes -- PART III: SPACES OF THE URBAN MIDDLE CLASS -- Chapter 6. Housing Policy in the City of Buenos Aires: Some Reflections on the Programa Federal -- Fernando Ostuni and Jean-Louis Van Gelder -- Chapter 7. The Boom of High-Rise Apartment Buildings in Buenos Aires: New Spaces of Residentiality or a Motor of Disintegration? -- Jan Dohnke and Corinna Hölzl -- Chapter 8. Living With Style in My Casa GEO: Large-scale Housing Conjuntos in Urban Mexico -- Cristina Inclán-Valadez -- PART IV: ARCHITECTURAL AND SPATIAL REPRESENTATIONS -- Chapter 9. Illiterate Modernists: Tracking the Dissemination of Architectural Knowledge in Brazilian Favelas -- Fernando Luiz Lara -- Chapter 10. Towards Belonging: Design and Dwelling Practices in Santa Marta, Colombia -- Peter Kellett -- Chapter 11. (Re)Building the City of Medellín: Beyond State Rhetoric vs. Personal Experience - A Call for Consolidated Synergies -- Jota (José) Samper and Tamera Marko -- PART V: REFLECTIONS -- Chapter 12. Home and Belonging: Reflections From Urban Mexico -- Ann Varley -- Chapter 13. One Block at a Time: Performing the Neighbourhood -- Arij Ouweneel -- List of Contributors -- Index --

Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Transliteration of Arabic Terms -- List of Abbreviations -- General Map of Sudan -- Introduction: Multidimensional Change in Sudan 1989-2011: Insights from Fieldwork -- Barbara Casciarri, Munzoul A.M. Assal and François Ireton -- PART I: LAND ISSUES AND LIVELIHOODS IN THE CAPITAL REGION AND RURAL AREAS -- Chapter 1. Old-timers and New-comers in Al-Ṣālḥa: Dynamics of Land Allocation in an Urban Periphery -- Munzoul A.M. Assal -- Chapter 2. Urban Agriculture Facing Land Pressure in Greater Khartoum: The Case of New Real Estate Projects in Tuti and Abū Seʿīd -- Alice Franck -- Chapter 3. Access Strategies to Some Economic and Social Resources among Recent Migrants in the Outskirts of Khartoum : the Example of Bawga Al-Sharīg -- François Ireton -- Chapter 4. Contested Land Rights and Ethnic Conflict in Mornei (West Darfur): Scarcity of Resources or Crises of Governance? -- Zahir M. Abdal-Kareem and Musa A. Abdul-Jalil -- PART II: WATER RESOURCES AT THE CORE OF LOCAL AND GLOBAL INTERACTIONS -- Chapter 5. Sudan's Hydropolitics: Regional Chess Games, National Hegemony and Local Resistance -- Harry Verhoeven -- Chapter 6. Local Management of Urbanized Water: Exchanges among Neighbours, Household Actions and Identity in Deim (Khartoum) -- Luisa Arango -- Chapter 7. Domestic Water Supply and Management in Northern Kordofan Villages: Al-Loweib as an Example -- Elsamawal Khalil Makki -- Chapter 8. Water Management among pastoral Sudanese Pastoralists: End of the Commons or 'Silent Resistance' to Commoditization? -- Barbara Casciarri -- PART III: NEW ACTORS, NEW SPACES AND NEW IMAGINATION ON CONFLICTS -- Chapter 9. Asian Players in Sudan: Social and Economic Impacts of 'New-Old' Actors -- Irene Panozzo -- Chapter 10. Oil Exploration and Conflict in Sudan: the Predicament for Pastoralists in North-South Borderline States -- Abdalbasit Saeed -- Chapter 11. What Place in Khartoum for the Displaced? Between State Regulation and Individual Strategies -- Agnès de Geoffroy -- Chapter 12. Activist Mobilization and the Internationalization of the Darfur Crisis -- Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert -- PART IV: RESHAPING LANGUAGES, IDENTITIES AND IDEOLOGIES -- Chapter 13. The Islamic Movement and Power in Sudan: From Revolution to Absorption into the State -- Giorgio Musso -- Chapter 14. Language Policy and Planning in the Sudan: From Local Vernaculars to National Languages -- Ashraf Abdelhay, Al-Amin Abu Manga and Catherine Miller -- Chapter 15. 'One Tribe, One Language': Ethno-Linguistic Identity and Language Revitalization among the Laggorí in the Nuba Mountains -- Stefano Manfredi -- Chapter 16. Between Ideological Security and Intellectual Plurality: 'Colonialism' and 'Globalization' in Northern Sudanese Educational Discourses -- Iris Seri-Hersch -- Epilogue. A New Sudan? -- Roland Marchal -- Notes on Contributors -- Bibliography --

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 --

Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- -- Shamanism: Origins and Key Features -- Yanomami Shamanism: A Cross-Cultural Perspective -- The Book's Subject Matter and its Guiding Principles -- Fieldwork Setting and Methodology -- The Book's Outline -- -- Chapter 1. Life on Top of the Old Sky: Yanomami Habitat, Ethnographic Setting and Local Histories -- -- Yanomami Habitat -- Historical Migratory Movements and Encounters -- The Sweeping Winds of Change and its Consequences -- Platanal and Sheroana-theri at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century -- -- Chapter 2. Inside the Boa's Abdomen: The Yanomami Cosmos -- -- Holographic Totality of the Yanomami Cosmos -- No Patapi tëhë: The Ever-present Mythical Time of Creation -- Origin Myths -- -- Chapter 3. Hekura, Body and Illness -- -- Shamans and Hekura -- Epena: Transformative Substance and Aliment for Hekura -- Shamanism in Myths and in Contemporary Context -- Yanomami Conception of a Person and Causes of Illness -- -- Chapter 4. Hekuraprai: Corporeal Cosmogenesis -- -- Summary of the Initiatory Ordeal -- Transformation into Hekura: Day-by-Day Process -- Cosmic Body and its Dynamism -- First Trance: Re-experience of Death and the Beginning of Hekuramou -- -- Chapter 5. Oneiric Encounters -- -- Hekuramou and Expansion of Shamanistic Powers -- Dreams and Shamanism -- Dream Lucidity and the Transitional States of Dream Consciousness -- Dreams, Illness and Healing -- -- Chapter 6. Shamanic Battlefield: The Pendulum of Life and Death -- -- Shapori's New Identity and Social Obligation on the Intracommunal Level -- The Dialectics between Defensive and Offensive Hekuramou -- Body Intrusion and the Dynamics of the Cosmic Flow -- Shaporimou and Intersubjective Knowledge Diffusion -- -- Chapter 7. Two Pathways to Curing and in Between: Biomedical and Shamanic Treatment in the Life of Yanomami -- -- Shamanism and Biomedicine: Compatibility and Differences -- Dynamics of Doctor-Shapori-Patient Interaction -- Yanomami Responses to Diarrhoea, Malaria and Respiratory Infections -- -- Chapter 8. Return of the Ancestors: The All-pervading Shawara, The End of the World and the Beginning of a New Epoch -- -- The Origin of Shawara Epidemics -- Further Expansion of the Shawara Concept -- The End of the World and the Beginning of Another Cosmic Cycle -- -- Postscript: Recent Developments -- Glossary of Yanomami Terms -- Bibliography -- Index --

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 --

Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Mediating Publics and Anthropology: An Introduction -- Simone Abram and Sarah Pink -- PART I: ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE PUBLIC MEDIA SPHERE -- Chapter 1. Doing Anthropology in Public: Examples from the Basque Country -- Margaret Bullen -- Chapter 2. The Perils of Public Anthropology? Quiescent Anthropology in Neo-Nationalist Scandinavia -- Peter Hervik -- Chapter 3. For a Creative Anthropological Image-Making: Reflections on Aesthetics, Relationality, Spectatorship and Knowledge in the Context of Visual Ethnographic Work in New Delhi, India -- Paolo Favero -- Chapter 4. A Language For Re-Generation: Boundary Crossing and Re-Formation at the Intersection of Media Ethnography and Theater -- Debra Spitulnik Vidali -- Chapter 5. Social Movements and Video Indígena in Latin America: Key Challenges for 'Anthropologies Otherwise' -- Juan Francisco Salazar -- PART II: PUBLIC ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIAL MEDIA -- Chapter 6. Anthropology by the Wire -- Matthew Durington and Samuel Gerald Collins -- Chapter 7. Public Anthropology in Times of Media Hybridity and Global Upheaval -- John Postill -- Chapter 8. Anthropological Publics and their Onlookers: The Dynamics of Multiple Audiences in the Blog SavageMinds.Org -- Alex Golub and Kerim Friedman -- Chapter 9. The Open Anthropology Cooperative: Towards an Online Public Anthropology -- Francine Barone and Keith Hart -- Notes on Contributors --

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 --

Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I: HISTORY AND THEORY -- Chapter 1. Museums online, from repositories to forums -- Chapter 2. Digital heritage and sustainability -- Chapter 3. Trusting the online museum -- PART II: PRACTICE -- Chapter 4. A practical social media primer for museum staff -- Chapter 5. A Survey of Museum Social Media -- PART III: CASES -- Chapter 6. The Museum of London (MOL) -- Chapter 7. The Museum of World Culture (Världskulturmuseet) and the Carlotta Portal -- Chapter 8. Comparing off- and online Aboriginal, Indigenous and 'Ethnic' representations in museums and galleries in Sydney and Panama City -- PART IV: FUTURES -- Chapter 9. Augmenting The Garden of Australian Dreams at the National Museum of Australia -- Chapter 10. Cultural Interfaces to Environmental Data at the Questacon National Science Centre, Australia -- Conclusion -- References -- Index --

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Chapter 1. A short history -- Chapter 2. Where is the department? -- Chapter 3. Who are the department? -- Chapter 4. Funding of research -- Chapter 5. Life in a Department -- Chapter 6. Micro-politics and meetings -- Chapter 7. A changing department -- Chapter 8. Interviews on the web -- Chapter 9. Seminars on the web --