Abstract: Petra, Jordan became a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1985, and the semi-nomadic Bedouin inhabiting the area were resettled as a consequence. The Bedouin themselves paradoxically became UNESCO Masterpieces of Oral and Intangible Heritage in 2005 for the way in which their oral traditions and everyday lives relate to the landscape they no longer live in. Being Bedouin Around Petra asks: How could this happen? And what does it mean to be Bedouin when tourism, heritage protection, national discourse, an Islamic Revival and even New Age spiritualism lay competing claims to the past in the present?

Abstract: The arrival in 2015 and 2016 of over one million asylum seekers and refugees in Germany had major social consequences and gave rise to extensive debates about the nature of cultural diversity and collective life. This volume examines the responses and implications of what was widely seen as the most significant and contested social change since German reunification in 1990. It combines in-depth studies based on anthropological fieldwork with analyses of the longer trajectories of migration and social change. Its original conclusions have significance not only for Germany but also for the understanding of diversity and difference more widely.

Abstract: Contemporary public discourses about the ocean are routinely characterized by scientific and environmentalist narratives that imagine and idealize marine spaces in which humans are absent. In contrast, this collection explores the variety of ways in which people have long made themselves at home at sea, and continue to live intimately with it. In doing so, it brings together both ethnographic and archaeological research ́ much of it with an explicit Ingoldian approach ́ on a wide range of geographical areas and historical periods.

Abstract: Co-authored by three anthropologists with lonǵterm expertise studying Pentecostalism in Vanuatu, Angola, and Papua New Guinea/the Trobriand Islands respectively, Going to Pentecost offers a comparative study of Pentecostalism in Africa and Melanesia, focusing on key issues as economy, urban sociality, and healing. More than an ordinary comparative book, it recognizes the changing nature of religion in the contemporary world ́ in particular the emergence of ́non-territoriaĺ religion (which is no longer specific to places or cultures) ́ and represents an experimental approach to the study of global religious movements in general and Pentecostalism in particular.

Abstract: Combining theoretical and empirical discussions with shorter ́thick descriptioń case studies, this book offers an anthropological exploration of the emergence in Malaysia of lifestyle bloggers ́ precursors to current social media ́microcelebritieś and ́influencers.́ It tracks the transformation of personal blogs, which attracted readers with spontaneous and authentic accounts of everyday life, into lifestyle blogs that generate income through advertising and foreground consumerist lifestyles. It argues that lifestyle blogs are dialogically constituted between the blogger, the readers, and the blog itself, and challenges the assumption of a unitary self by proposing that lifestyle blogs can best be understood in terms of the ́dividual self.́

Abstract: Having long been stigmatized as an immoral and even illegal ́superstitioń, the popular practice of divination is experiencing a revival in contemporary China. Fate Calculation Experts explores how diviners attempt to achieve legitimation in a society which identifies strongly with modernity, science, and rationality. As well as associating with modern knowledge production systems, diviners build a positive social image for their occupation via claims to moral authority and appeals to ́traditioń. Beyond matters of image management, divinerś efforts towards legitimation also figure in the social relationships and fundamental cultural values they develop in their practice.

Abstract: Extinct Monsters to Deep Time is an ethnography that documents the growing friction between the research and outreach functions of the museum in the 21st century. Marsh describes participant observation and historical research at the Smithsoniańs National Museum of Natural History as it prepared for its largest-ever exhibit renovation, Deep Time. As a museum ethnography, the book provides a grounded perspective on the inner-workings of the world́s largest natural history museum and the social processes of communicating science to the public.

Abstract: Heritage processes vary according to cultural, national, geographical, and historical contexts. This volume is unique in that it is dedicated to approaching the analysis of heritage through the concepts of social movements. Adapting the latest developments in the field of social movements, the chapters examine the formation, use and contestation of heritage by various official, non-official and activist players and the spaces where such ongoing negotiations and contestation take place. By bringing social movements into heritage studies, the book advocates a shift of perspective in understanding heritage, one that is no longer bound by (at times arbitrary) divisions such as those assumed between the state and people or between experts and non-experts.

Abstract: Co-authored by three anthropologists with long–term expertise studying Pentecostalism in Vanuatu, Angola, and Papua New Guinea/the Trobriand Islands respectively, Going to Pentecost offers a comparative study of Pentecostalism in Africa and Melanesia, focusing on key issues as economy, urban sociality, and healing. More than an ordinary comparative book, it recognizes the changing nature of religion in the contemporary world – in particular the emergence of “non-territorial” religion (which is no longer specific to places or cultures) – and represents an experimental approach to the study of global religious movements in general and Pentecostalism in particular

Abstract: List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- PART I: INTRODUCTIONS -- Introduction: Going to ‘Pentecost’: Outline of an Experiment -- Interlude: Locations in 'Pentecost' -- Reading Guide -- PART II: PRESENTATIONS FROM 'PENTECOST' -- Chapter 1. Borders in ‘Pentecost’: Creating Protected Spaces -- Chapter 2. Reconfiguring Life and Death: A New Moral Economy in ‘Pentecost’ -- Chapter 3. Anti-relativist Nostalgias and The Absolutist Road -- PART III: THEORIES FROM 'PENTECOST' -- Chapter 4. Borders and Abjections: Approaching Individualism in ‘Pentecost’ -- Chapter 5. Engaging with Theories of Neoliberalism and Prosperity -- Chapter 6. Ruptures and Encompassments: Towards an Absolute Truth -- PART IV: COMMENTS -- Chapter 7. Comparison Re-placed -- Matei Candea -- Chapter 8. Pentecostalism and Forms of Individualism -- Joel Robbins -- Chapter 9. Life at The End of Time: A Note on Comparison, 'Pentecost' and the Trobriands -- Bjørn Enge Bertelsen -- Chapter 10. Wealth versus Money in Pentecost: Why Is Money Good? -- Knut Rio -- Chapter 11. ‘Pentecost’ in The World -- Birgit Meyer -- Index --

Abstract: List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. From British Museum to Museum of Mankind -- Chapter 2. Colleagues and friends -- Chapter 3. Exhibitions -- Chapter 4. The Stores -- Chapter 5. Research and Collecting -- Chapter 6. Education -- Chapter 7. Back to the British Museum -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Ethnography Department Exhibitions, 1970 to 2003 -- References -- Index --

Abstract: The Museum of Mankind was an innovative and popular showcase for minority cultures from around the non-Western world from 1970 to 1997. This memoir is a critical appreciation of its achievements in the various roles of a national museum, of the personalities of its staff and of the issues raised in the representation of exotic cultures. Issues of changing museum theory and practice are raised in a detailed case-study that also focuses on the social life of the museum community. This is the first history of a remarkable museum and a memorable interlude in the long history of one of the world’s oldest and greatest museums. Although not presented as an academic study, it should be useful for museum and cultural studies as a well as a wider readership interested in the British Museum

Abstract: List of Illustrations -- List of Maps and Figures -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: Heritage-Making, Branding, and Globalization -- Chapter 1. Bagamoyo: A History of Practices, Principles, and Partnership in Heritage-Making -- Chapter 2. Heritage-Making: The 2002 International Conference -- Chapter 3. Fractures in the Image of Bagamoyo: Despair or Joy? -- Chapter 4. World Heritage and Globalization: The Bagamoyo Case -- Part II: Commerce, Competition, and Consumerism: Bagamoyo and the Caravan Trade -- Chapter 5. Entrepreneurs and Explorers from the Heart of Africa -- Chapter 6. Pawned, Preyed Upon, Purchased, or Punished: Slaves and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century East Africa -- Chapter 7. Conflicts and Clashes in the Competition over the Caravan Trade on the Central Routes -- Chapter 8. Bagamoyo and the Caravan Trade: The Entrance to the Heart of Africa -- Chapter 9. Old Bagamoyo -- Chapter 10. Fluid Identities: Politics of Identity in Multicultural Bagamoyo -- Chapter 11. Conspicuous Competitive Consumption and Communication by Means of Cloth -- Chapter 12. Intruders and Terminators: The End of the Story -- Epilogue -- Glossary -- References -- Index --

Abstract: In the late nineteenth century, tens of thousands of porters carried ivory every year from the African interior to Bagamoyo, a port town at the Indian Ocean. In the opposite direction, they carried millions of meters of cloth, manufactured in the USA, Europe, and India. This book examines the centrality of the caravan trade, both culturally and economically, to Bagamoyo’s development and cosmopolitan character, while also exploring how this history was silenced when Bagamoyo was instead branded as a slave route town in 2006 in an attempt to qualify it for the UNESCO World Heritage List

Abstract: Combining theoretical and empirical discussions with shorter “thick description” case studies, this book offers an anthropological exploration of the emergence in Malaysia of lifestyle bloggers – precursors to current social media “microcelebrities” and “influencers.” It tracks the transformation of personal blogs, which attracted readers with spontaneous and authentic accounts of everyday life, into lifestyle blogs that generate income through advertising and foreground consumerist lifestyles. It argues that lifestyle blogs are dialogically constituted between the blogger, the readers, and the blog itself, and challenges the assumption of a unitary self by proposing that lifestyle blogs can best be understood in terms of the “dividual self.”

Abstract: List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Brief Chronology of Personal and Lifestyle Blogging in Malaysia -- Introduction: Anthroblogia: Participant Observation and Blogging in Malaysia -- Chapter 1. The Blog as Assemblage: Agency and Affordances -- Chapter 2. January 2006: Blogwars, Hit Sluts and Authenticity in the Personal Blogosphere -- Chapter 3. The Blogger and Her Blog: (Dis)Assembling the Dividual Self -- Chapter 4. May 2007: Assembling Genres -- Chapter 5. Assembling Blogs and Bloggers -- Chapter 6. April 2007: Voicy Consumers and Negotiating Networked Publics -- Chapter 7. Assembling a Blog Market -- Chapter 8. January 2009: Negotiating the Authentic Advertorial -- Chapter 9. Assembling Lifestyles -- Chapter 10. October 2009: Regional Blogmeet -- Conclusions: The Dividual Self and Emergence of the Lifestyle Blog -- References -- Index --

Abstract: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Money-Moving -- Chapter 2. Reputation Management -- Chapter 3. Disciplines -- Chapter 4. Public Service -- Chapter 5. Social Soundness Analysis -- Conclusions -- Appendix A: Engagement Issues for Anthropology -- Appendix B: The Culture of Poverty Debate -- Appendix C: World Bank Social Development Group -- Appendix D: Culture and Development Assistance -- Bibliography -- Index --

Abstract: 50 years ago, World Bank President Robert McNamara promised to end poverty. Alleviation was to rely on economic growth, resulting in higher incomes stimulated by Bank loans processed by deskbound Washington staff, trickling down to the poorest. Instead, child poverty and homelessness are on the increase everywhere. In this book, anthropologist and former World Bank Advisor Glynn Cochrane argues that instead of Washington’s “management by seclusion,” poverty alleviation requires personal engagement with the poorest by helpers with hands-on local and cultural skills. Here, the author argues, the insights provided by anthropological fieldwork have a crucial role to play

Abstract: List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Language -- Introduction: A Hip Hop Introduction to -- Other Japans -- Chapter 1. Down in the Ghetto -- Chapter 2. Hypermasculinity and Ghetto/Gangsta -- Authenticity -- Chapter 3. Represent JP Koreans! Ethnic Identity in -- Zainichi Hip Hop -- Chapter 4. Rapping for the Nation -- Afterword -- References --

Abstract: The most clearly identifiable and popular form of Japanese hip-hop, “ghetto” or “gangsta” music has much in common with its corre ponding American subgenres, including its portrayal of life on the margins, confrontational style, and aspirational “rags-to-riches” narrati es. Contrary to depictions of an ethnically and economically homogeneous Japan, gangsta J-hop gives voice to the suffering, deprivation, and social exclusion experienced by many modern Japanese. 24 Bars to Kill offers a fascinating ethnographic account of this music as well as the subculture around it, showing how gangsta hip-hop arises from widespread dissatisfaction and malaise

Abstract: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I: 'COMMUNITY' HEALTH -- Chapter 1. The Pursuit of Self-protection -- Chapter 2. Culture, Faith and Health -- PART II: MATERNITY AND INFANT BODY POLITICS -- Chapter 3. Maternity Matters -- Chapter 4. Immunities and Immunisations -- Conclusion: Antonymic Immunities -- Appendix -- List of Archival Materials and Oral Histories -- Glossary -- Index --

Abstract: For Haredi Jews, reproduction is entangled with issues of health, bodily governance and identity. This is an analysis of the ways in which Haredi Jews negotiate healthcare services using theoretical perspectives in political philosophy. This is the first archival and ethnographic study of Haredi Jews in the UK and sits at the intersection of medical anthropology, social history and Jewish studies. It will allow readers to understand how reproductive care issues affect this growing minority population

Abstract: Extinct Monsters to Deep Time is an ethnography that documents the growing friction between the research and outreach functions of the museum in the 21st century. Marsh describes participant observation and historical research at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History as it prepared for its largest-ever exhibit renovation, Deep Time. As a museum ethnography, the book provides a grounded perspective on the inner-workings of the world’s largest natural history museum and the social processes of communicating science to the public

Abstract: List of Illustrations and Table -- Foreward -- Jennifer Shannon -- Prologue: Fieldnotes from the Badlands -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Chronology A: Lists of Relevant Leadership -- Chronology B: Geologic Time Scale -- Chronology C: Fossil Exhibits Timeline -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Increase and Diffusion: Early Fossil Exhibits and a History of Institutional Culture -- Chapter 2. Group Dynamics: Exhibit Meetings and Expertise -- Chapter 3. Group Dynamics: The Roots of Team Frictions and Complementarities -- Chapter 4. Content Development: Debates about Interconnected Processes and Static Things -- Chapter 5. Content Development: The Roots of Interpretive Frictions and Complementarities -- Chapter 6. Diffusion and Increase: Shifts in Institutional Culture from Modernization to Now -- Chapter 7. Conclusion -- Chapter 8. Coda: The Nation’s T-rex -- Appendix A: Consent Form -- Appendix B: Interview Questionnaires -- Sample Team Interview Questionnaire -- Sample Oral History Interview Questionnaire -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index --

Abstract: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Social and Political Status of Divination in China -- Chapter 2. The Practice of Divination and Diviners -- Chapter 3. Typical Customers of Divination -- Chapter 4. The Moral Discourses of Divination -- Chapter 5. Divination as an Aspect of ‘Traditional Culture’ -- Chapter 6. Divination as Counselling -- Chapter 7. The Professionalization of Divination through Associations -- Conclusion -- References -- Index --

Abstract: Having long been stigmatized as an immoral and even illegal “superstition”, the popular practice of divination is experiencing a revival in contemporary China. Fate Calculation Experts explores how diviners attempt to achieve legitimation in a society which identifies strongly with modernity, science, and rationality. As well as associating with modern knowledge production systems, diviners build a positive social image for their occupation via claims to moral authority and appeals to “tradition”. Beyond matters of image management, diviners’ efforts towards legitimation also figure in the social relationships and fundamental cultural values they develop in their practice

Abstract: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Exploring ART in Tanga -- Chapter 2. Antiretroviral Treatment as a Global Mobile Force -- Chapter 3. Translating Global Technology into Local Health Care Practice -- Chapter 4. Generating Treatment Adherence: Neoliberal Patient Subjectivities, Biomedical Truth Claims, and Institutional Micropolitics -- Chapter 5. Diverging Trajectories of Reconstitution: Living with ARVs and the Pursuit of ‘Normalcy’ -- Chapter 6. Cohesion and Conflict: Living a Social Live on ARVs within Kin-Based Networks of Solidarity -- Chapter 7. HIV (Self-)Support Groups: Competition, Bureaucracy, and the Limitations of Biosociality -- Chapter 8. The Blood of Jesus, Witchcraft, and CD4 Counts: HIV/AIDS and ART in the Context of Traditional and Religious Healing -- Conclusion -- References -- Index --

Abstract: Set in Tanga, a city on the Tanzanian Swahili coast, Dominik Mattes examines the implementation of antiretroviral HIV-treatment (ART) in the area, exploring the manifold infrastructural and social fragilities of treatment provision in public HIV clinics as well as patients’ multi-layered struggles of coming to terms with ART in their everyday lives. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, the book shows that, notwithstanding the massive rollout of ART, providing treatment and living a life with HIV in settings like Tanga continue to entail social, economic, and moral challenges and long-term uncertainties, which contradict the global rhetoric of the “normalization of HIV”

Abstract: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- PART I: INTRODUCTIONS -- Introduction: Mobile Urbanity: Somali Presence in Urban East Africa -- Tabea Scharrer and Neil Carrier -- Interlude: Being and Becoming Mobile -- Yusuf Hassan -- PART II: URBANITY -- Chapter 1. The Somali Factor in Urban Kenya: A History -- Hannah Whittaker -- Chapter 2. The Port and the Island: Cosmopolitan and Vernacular Identity Constructions among Somali Women in Nairobi and Johannesburg -- Nereida Ripero-Muñiz -- Chapter 3. Being Oromo in Nairobi’s ‘Little Mogadishu’: Superdiversity, Moral Community and the Open Economy -- Neil Carrier and Hassan H. Kochore -- PART III: ECONOMIC NETWORKS -- Chapter 4. Demanding and Commanding Goods: The Eastleigh Transformation Told through the ‘Lives’ of Its Commodities -- Neil Carrier and Hannah Elliott -- Chapter 5. Capital Mobilization among the Somali Refugee Business Community in Eastleigh, Nairobi -- John Mwangi Githigaro and Kenneth Omeje -- Chapter 6. Challenging the Status Quo from the Bottom Up? Gender and Enterprise in Somali Migrant Communities in Nairobi, Kenya -- Holly A. Ritchie -- Chapter 7. Reinventing Retail: ‘Somali’ Shopping Centres in Kenya -- Tabea Scharrer -- PART IV: THE POLITICS OF SOMALI MOBILITY -- Chapter 8. Perpetually in Transit: Somalian Refugees in a Context of Increasing Hostility -- Lucy Lowe and Mark Yarnell -- Chapter 9. Framing the Swoop: A Comparative Analysis of Operation Usalama Watch in Muslim and Secular Print Media in Kenya -- Joseph Wandera and Halkano Abdi Wario -- Chapter 10. Beyond Eastleigh: A New Little Mogadishu in Uganda? -- Gianluca Iazzolino -- Afterword -- Günther Schlee -- Glossary -- Index --

Abstract: The increased presence of Somalis has brought much change to East African towns and cities in recent decades, change that has met with ambivalence and suspicion, especially within Kenya. This volume demystifies Somali residence and mobility in urban East Africa, showing its historical depth, and exploring the social, cultural and political underpinnings of Somali-led urban transformation. In so doing, it offers a vivid case study of the transformative power of (forced) migration on urban centres, and the intertwining of urbanity and mobility. The volume will be of interest for readers working in the broader field of migration, as well as anthropology and urban studies

Abstract: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Language and Translation -- Introduction: Market Frictions -- Chapter 1. Town -- Chapter 2. Market -- Chapter 3. Neigboring -- Chapter 4. Illegality -- Chapter 5. Morality -- Chapter 6. Renewal -- Epilogue -- References -- Index --

Abstract: Based on ethnographic research conducted during several years, Market Frictions examines the tensions and frictions that emerge from the interaction of global market forces, urban planning policies, and small-scale trading activities in the Vietnamese border city of Lào Cai Here, it is revealed how small-scale traders and market vendors experience the marketplace, reflect upon their trading activities, and negotiate current state policies and regulations. It shows how “traditiona ” Vietnamese marketplaces have continually been reshaped and adapted to me t the changing political-economic circumstances and civilizational ideals of the time

Abstract: Heritage processes vary according to cultural, national, geographical, and historical contexts. This volume is unique in that it is dedicated to approaching the analysis of heritage through the concepts of social movements. Adapting the latest developments in the field of social movements, the chapters examine the formation, use and contestation of heritage by various official, non-official and activist players and the spaces where such ongoing negotiations and contestation take place. By bringing social movements into heritage studies, the book advocates a shift of perspective in understanding heritage, one that is no longer bound by (at times arbitrary) divisions such as those assumed between the state and people or between experts and non-experts

Abstract: List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: In the Presence of Things -- Chapter 1. Preserving Heritage – Marketing Bedouinity -- Chapter 2. Taming Heritage -- Chapter 3. The Shameful Shaman -- Chapter 4. Dealing with Dead Saints -- Chapter 5. The Allure of Things -- Chapter 6. Ambiguous Materialities -- Conclusion -- References -- Index --

Abstract: Petra, Jordan became a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1985, and the semi-nomadic Bedouin inhabiting the area were resettled as a consequence. The Bedouin themselves paradoxically became UNESCO Masterpieces of Oral and Intangible Heritage in 2005 for the way in which their oral traditions and everyday lives relate to the landscape they no longer live in. Being Bedouin Around Petra asks: How could this happen? And what does it mean to be Bedouin when tourism, heritage protection, national discourse, an Islamic Revival and even New Age spiritualism lay competing claims to the past in the present?

Abstract: List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Life and Work of Lewis Henry Morgan (1818–1881) -- Chapter 2. Tools and Types -- Chapter 3. Seneca Revisited -- Chapter 4. Omaha Skewing Reconsidered -- Chapter 5. Highland Middle Indian (HMI) Terminologies -- Chapter 6. Schneider, Relatedness, “Malayan”, and General Comparison -- Chapter 7. Social Evolution and the Australian Anomaly -- Chapter 8. Order in Anarchy: HMI Gentile Organization Compared -- Chapter 9. Bridewealth and Gender in Highland Middle India -- Chapter 10. The Dark Side of the Moon -- Conclusion: For the Record -- Glossary -- References -- Index --

Abstract: About 150 years ago L. H. Morgan compared relationship terminologies, societal forms, and ideas of property to recognize the interdependence of the three domains. From a new perspective, the book will re-examine, confirm and criticize, Morgan’s findings to conclude that reciprocal affinal relations determine most ‘classificatory’ terminologies and regulate many non-state societies, their property notions, and their rituals. Apart from references to American and Australian features, such holistic socio-cultural constructs will be exemplified by elaborate descriptions of little-known contemporary indigenous societies in highland Middle India, altogether comprising many millions of members

Abstract: List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Education in the Service of Democracy -- Chapter 2. Talking about the Nazi Past in Class and Succeeding at School -- Chapter 3. Gender, Family and the Nazi Past(s) -- Chapter 4. The Nazi Past as an Everyday Resource for Adolescents -- Chapter 5. The Social and Cultural Limits to Appropriations of the Nazi Past -- Chapter 6. Peer-group Dynamics and Playful Uses of the Past -- Conclusion: From Memory to Appropriation(s) -- Appendix 1: The German School System -- Appendix 2: Structure of Interviews with Students -- Appendix 3: Summary Table of Teachers and List of Teachers Interviewed -- Appendix 4: List of Students Interviewed -- References -- Index --

Abstract: For more than half a century, discourses on the Nazi past have powerfully shaped German social and cultural policy. Specifically, an institutional determination not to forget has expressed a “duty of remembrance” through commemorative activities and educational curricula. But as the horrors of the Third Reich retreat ever further from living memory, what do new generations of Germans actually think about this past? Combining observation, interviews, and archival research, this book provides a rich survey of the perspectives and experiences of German adolescents from diverse backgrounds, revealing the extent to which social, economic, and cultural factors have conditioned how they view representations of Germany’s complex history

Abstract: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Mistaken Identities: The Task of Thinking in Dark Times -- Chapter 2. Radical Empiricism and the Little Things of Life -- Chapter 3. The Witch as a Category and as a Person -- Chapter 4. The New Materialisms -- Chapter 5. Words and Deeds -- Chapter 6. Critique of Cultural Fundamentalism -- Chapter 7. Existential Scarcity and Ethical Sensibility -- Chapter 8. Identification and Description: An Essay on Metaphor -- Chapter 9. Islam and Identity among the Kuranko -- Chapter 10. In Defense of Existential Anthropology -- Notes -- Index --

Abstract: Recent world-wide political developments have persuaded many people that we are again living in what Hannah Arendt called “dark times.” Jackson’s response to this age of uncertainty is to remind us how much experience falls outside the concepts and categories we habitually deploy in rendering life manageable and intelligible. Drawing on such critical thinkers as Hannah Arendt, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and Karl Jaspers, whose work was profoundly influenced by the catastrophes that overwhelmed the world in the middle of the last century, Jackson explores the transformative and redemptive power of marginalized voices in the contemporary conversation of humankind

Abstract: Colonial encounters between indigenous peoples and European state powers are overarching themes in the historical archaeology of the modern era, and postcolonial historical archaeology has repeatedly emphasized the complex two-way nature of colonial encounters. This volume examines common trajectories in indigenous colonial histories, and explores new ways to understand cultural contact, hybridization and power relations between indigenous peoples and colonial powers from the indigenous point of view. By bringing together a wide geographical range and combining multiple sources such as oral histories, historical records, and contemporary discourses with archaeological data, the volume finds new multivocal interpretations of colonial histories.

Abstract: Becoming Vaishnava in an Ideal Vedic City centers on a growing multinational community of ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness) devotees in Mayapur, West Bengal. While ISKCON’s history is often presented in terms of an Indian guru ‘transplanting’ Indian spirituality to the West, this book focusses on the efforts to bring ISKCON back to India. Paying particular attention to devotees’ failure to consistently live up to ISKCON’s ideals and the ongoing struggle to realize the utopian vision of an ‘ideal Vedic city’, this book argues that the anthropology of ethics must account for how moral systems accommodate the problem of moral failure.

Abstract: At present, Roma are an integral part of Europe, though they face structural and social inequalities and different forms of exclusion and discrimination. Inward Looking seeks to understand the relationship between Romani identity, performance and migration. Particularly, it studies the idea of ‘Romanipe’ through the prism of the personal accounts of Romani migrants. It also seeks to understand the relationships between the Romani groups in Europe, due to their increased travel and convergence, and predict the effects of migration on (new) Romani consciousness. The findings are based on qualitative data gathered from Romani migrants from three towns in Bulgaria.

Abstract: Grounded in both theory and ethnography, this volume insists on taking social positionality seriously when accounting for Africa’s current age of polarizing wealth. To this end, the book advocates a multidimensional view of African societies, in which social positions consist of a variety of intersecting social powers - or ‘capitals’ – including wealth, education, social relationships, religion, ethnicity, and others. Accordingly, the notion of social im/mobilities emphasizes the complexities of current changes, taking us beyond the prism of a one-dimensional social ladder, for social moves cannot always be apprehended through the binaries of ‘gains’ and ‘losses’.

Abstract: Development has remained elusive in Africa. Through theoretical contributions and case studies focusing on Southern Africa’s former white settler states, South Africa and Zimbabwe, this volume responds to the current need to rethink (and unthink) development in the region. The authors explore how Africa can adapt Western development models suited to its political, economic, social and cultural circumstances, while rejecting development practices and discourses based on exploitative capitalist and colonial tendencies. Beyond the legacies of colonialism, the volume also explores other factors impacting development, including regional politics, corruption, poor policies on empowerment and indigenization, and socio-economic and cultural barriers.

Abstract: On the Geopragmatics of Anthropological Identification explores the discursive spaces of our speaking position, or what has routinely been referred to in the literature as the poetics and politics of writing culture. At issue here are its problematic underlying notions of cultural identity, authorial subjectivity and postcolonial critique. Contrary to the widespread assumption that cultural studies and the social sciences share a common discourse of culture and society, Allen Chun argues that 'modern' disciplinary practices and axioms have in fact produced inherently incompatible theories. Anthropology's ethical relativism has also created obstacles for a critical theory of culture and society.

Abstract: With the development of new direct interfaces between the human brain and computer systems, the time has come for an in-depth ethical examination of the way these neuronal interfaces may support an interaction between the mind and cyberspace. In so doing, this book does not hesitate to blend disciplines including neurobiology, philosophy, anthropology and politics. It also invites society, as a whole, to seek a path in the use of these interfaces enabling humanity to prosper while avoiding the relevant risks. As such, the volume is the first extensive study in cyberneuroethics, a subject matter which is certain to have a significant impact in the 21st century and beyond.

Abstract: In Guinea, situated against the background of central government struggles, rural elites use identity politics through contemporary political reforms to maintain their privileges and perpetuate a generations-old local social contract that bridges ethnic and religious divides. Simultaneously, administrative reform and national unrest lead to the creative re-combination of sources of authority and practices of legitimate rule. Past periods of colonization, socialism and authoritarian regime are reflected in contemporary struggles to make sense of participatory democracy and the future of the embattled Guinean national state.

Abstract: Written by eleven leading anthropologists from around the world, this volume extends the insights of Fredrik Barth, one of the most important anthropologists of the twentieth century, to push even further at the frontiers of anthropology and honor his memory. As a collection, the chapters thus expand Barth’s pioneering work on values, further develop his insights on human agency and its potential creativity, as well as continuing to develop the relevance for his work as a way of thinking about and beyond the state. The work is grounded on his insistence that theory should grow only from observed life.

Abstract: Focussing ethnographically on private-sector maternity care in South Africa, Privileges of Birth looks at the ways healthcare and childbirth are shaped by South Africa’s racialised history. Birth is one of the most medicalised aspects of the lifecycle across all sectors of society, and there is deep division between what the privileged can afford compared with the rest of the population. Examining the ethics of care in midwife-attended birth, the author situates the argument in the context of a growing literature on care in anthropological and feminist scholarship, offering a unique account of birthing care in the context of elite care services.

Abstract: Exploring some of the ways in which repair practices and perceptions of brokenness vary culturally, Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough argues that repair is both a process and also a consequence which is sought out—an attempt to extend the life of things as well as an answer to failures, gaps, wrongdoings, and leftovers. This volume develops an open-ended combination of empirical and theoretical questions including: What does it mean to claim that something is broken? At what point is something broken repairable? What are the social relationships that take place around repair? And how much tolerance for failure do our societies have?

Abstract: Chinese citizens make themselves at home despite economic transformation, political rupture, and domestic dislocation in the contemporary countryside. By mobilizing labor and kinship to make claims over homes, people, and things, rural residents withstand devaluation and confront dispossession. As a particular configuration of red capitalism and socialist sovereignty takes root, this process challenges the relationship between the politics of place and the location of class in China and beyond.

Abstract: In the early twenty-first century, nationalism has seen a surprising resurgence across the Western world. In the Catalan Autonomous Community in northeastern Spain, this resurgence has been most apparent in widespread support for Catalonia’s pro-independence movement, and the popular assertion of Catalan symbols, culture and identity in everyday life. Nourishing the Nation provides an ethnographic account of the everyday experience of national identity in Catalonia, using an essential, everyday object of consumption: food. As a crucial element of Catalan cultural life, a focus on food provides unique insight into the lived realities of Catalan nationalism, and how Catalans experience and express their national identity today.

Abstract: How are historians and social scientists to understand the emergence, the multiplicity, and the mutability of collective memories of the Ottoman Empire in the political formations that succeeded it? With contributions focussing on several of the nation-states whose peoples once were united under the aegis of Ottoman suzerainty, this volume proposes new theoretical approaches to the experience and transmission of the past through time. Developing the concept of topology, contributors explore collective memories of Ottoman identity and post-Ottoman state formation in a contemporary epoch that, echoing late modernity, we might term “late nationalism”.

Abstract: Despite France and Belgium sharing and interacting constantly with similar culinary tastes, music and pop culture, access to Assisted Reproductive Technologies are strikingly different. Discrimination written into French law acutely contrasts with non-discriminatory access to ART in Belgium. The contributors of this volume are social scientists from France, Belgium, England and the United States, representing different disciplines: law, political science, philosophy, sociology and anthropology. Each author has attempted, through the prism of their specialties, to demonstrate and analyse how and why this striking difference in access to ART exists.

Abstract: Regimes of Responsibility in Africa ­analyses the transformations that discourses and practices of responsibility have undergone in Africa. By doing so, this collection develops a stronger grasp of the specific political, economic and social transformations taking place today in Africa. At the same time, while focusing on case studies from the African continent, the work enters into a dialogue with the emerging corpus of studies in the field of ethics, adding to it a set of analytical perspectives that can help further enlarge its theoretical and geographical scope.

Abstract: Volta Redonda is a Brazilian steel town founded in the 1940s by dictator Getúlio Vargas on an ex-coffee valley as a powerful symbol of Brazilian modernization. The city’s economy, and consequently its citizen’s lives, revolves around the Companha Siderurgica Nacional (CSN), the biggest industrial complex in Latin America. Although the glory days of the CSN have long passed, the company still controls life in Volta Redonda today, creating as much dispossession as wealth for the community. Brazilian Steel Town tells the story of the people tied to this ailing giant – of their fears, hopes, and everyday struggles.

Abstract: How does design and innovation shape people’s lives in the Pacific? Focusing on plant materials from the region, How Materials Matter reveals ways in which a variety of people – from craftswomen and scientists to architects and politicians – work with materials to transform worlds. Recognizing the fragile and ephemeral nature of plant fibres, this work delves into how the biophysical properties of certain leaves and their aesthetic appearance are utilized to communicate information and manage different forms of relations. It breaks new ground by situating plant materials at the centre of innovation in a region.

Abstract: In Sometime Kin, Sandra Wallman paints the portrait of an Alpine settlement – its history, economy and culture, and its unusual resistance to outsiders and modernization. Against this, her journal shows the villagers embracing her four small children and acting as participant observers in the two-way process of research. This project happened more than forty years ago and involved a uniquely large fieldwork family, but its insights have wider significance. The book argues that the intrusion of observation inevitably distorts the ordinary life observed, that the challenges of multi-vocality and “truth” are always with us, and that memory is the bedrock of every ethnographic enterprise.

Abstract: Focusing on mobility, religion, and belonging, the volume contributes to transatlantic anthropology and history by bringing together religion, cultural heritage and placemaking in the Atlantic world. The entanglements of these domains are ethnographically scrutinized to perceive the connections and disconnections of specific places which, despite a common history, are today very different in terms of secular regimes and the presence of religion in the public sphere. Ideally suited to a variety of scholars and students in different fields, Atlantic Perspectives will lead to new debates and conversations throughout the fields of anthropology, religion and history.

Abstract: Military-civilian encounters are multiple and diverse in our times. Contributors to this volume demonstrate how military and civilian domains are constituted through entanglements undermining the classic civil-military binary and manifest themselves in unexpected places and manners. Moreover, the essays trace out the ripples, reverberations and resonations of civil-military entanglements in areas not usually associated with such ties, but which are nevertheless real and significant for an understanding of the roles war, violence and the military play in shaping contemporary societies and the everyday life of its citizens.

Abstract: Anthropologists have expressed wariness about the concept of evil even in discussions of morality and ethics, in part because the concept carries its own cultural baggage and theological implications in Euro-American societies. Addressing the problem of evil as a distinctly human phenomenon and a category of ethnographic analysis, this volume shows the usefulness of engaging evil as a descriptor of empirical reality where concepts such as violence, criminality, and hatred fall short of capturing the darkest side of human existence.

Abstract: Multilevel marketing and pyramid schemes promote the idea that participants can easily become rich. These popular economies turn ordinary people into advocates of their interests and missionaries of the American Dream. Marketing Hope looks at how different types of get-rich-quick schemes manifest themselves in a Siberian town. By focusing on their social dynamics, Leonie Schiffauer provides insights into how capitalist logic is learned and negotiated, and how it affects local realities in a post-Soviet environment.

Abstract: Does populism indicate a radical crisis in Western democratic political systems? Is it a revolt by those who feel they have too little voice in the affairs of state or are otherwise marginalized or oppressed? Or are populist movements part of the democratic process? Bringing together different anthropological experiences of current populist movements, this volume makes a timely contribution to these questions. Contrary to more conventional interpretations of populism as crisis, the authors instead recognize populism as integral to Western democratic systems. In doing so, the volume provides an important critique that exposes the exclusionary essentialisms spread by populist rhetoric while also directing attention to local views of political accountability and historical consciousness that are key to understanding this paradox of democracy.

Abstract: The issue of patronage-clientelism has long been of interest in the social sciences. Based on long-term ethnographic research in southern Italy, this book examines the concept and practice of raccomandazione: the omnipresent social institution of using connections to get things done. Viewing the practice both from an indigenous perspective – as a morally ambivalent social fact – and considering it in light of the power relations that position southern Italy within the nesting relations of global Norths and Souths, it builds on and extends past scholarship to consider the nature of patronage in a contemporary society and its relationship to corruption.

Abstract: A consistent problem that confronts disaster reduction is the disjunction between academic and expert knowledge and policies and practices of agencies mandated to deal with the concern. Although a great deal of knowledge has been acquired regarding many aspects of disasters, such as driving factors, risk construction, complexity of resettlement, and importance of peoples’ culture, very little has become protocol and procedure. Disaster Upon Disaster illuminates the numerous disjunctions between the suppositions, realities, agendas, and executions in the field, goes on to detail contingencies, predicaments, old and new plights, and finally advances solutions toward greatly improved outcomes.

Abstract: French sociologist and anthropologist Pierre Bourdieu’s relevance for studies of spatiality and mobility has received less attention than other aspects of his work. Here, Deborah Reed-Danahay argues that the concept of social space, central to Bourdieu’s ideas, addresses the structured inequalities that prevail in spatial choices and practices. She provides an ethnographically informed interpretation of social space that demonstrates its potential for new directions in studies of mobility, immobility, and emplacement.  This book traces the links between habitus and social space across the span of Bourdieu’s writings, and places his work in dialogue with historical and contemporary approaches to mobility.

Abstract: Growing up with social and economic upheaval in the peripheries of global neoliberalism, children in rural Zambia are presented with diverging social and moral protocols across homes, classrooms, church halls, and the streets. Mostly unmonitored by adults, they explore the ambiguities of adult life in playful interactions with their siblings and kin across gender and age. Drawing on rich linguistic-ethnographic details of such interactions combined with observations of school and household procedures, the author provides a rare insight into the lives, voices, and learning paths of children in a rural African setting.

Abstract: Water, Life, and Profit offers a holistic analysis of the people, economies, cultural symbolism, and material culture involved in the management, production, distribution, and consumption of drinking water in the urban context of Niamey, Niger. Paying particular attention to two key groups of people who provide water to most of Niamey’s residents - door-to-door water vendors, and those who sell water in one-half-liter plastic bags (sachets) on the street or in small shops – the authors offer new insights into how Niamey’s water economies affect gender, ethnicity, class, and spatial structure today.

Abstract: An anthropological study of the health system of the Dagara people of northern Ghana and southern Burkina Faso, Of Life and Health develops a cultural and epistemological lexicon of Dagara life by examining its religious, ritual, and artistic expressions. Consisting of ethnographic descriptions and analyses of six Dagara cultic institutions, each of which deals with different aspects of sustaining and transmitting life, the volume gives a holistic account of the Dagara knowledge system.

Abstract: Tracing the boom of local NGOs since the 1990s in the context of the global political economy of aid, current trends of neoliberal state restructuring, and shifting post-Cold War hegemonies, this book explores the ́associational revolutioń in post-socialist, post-conflict Serbia. Looking into the countrýs ́transitioń through a global and relational analytical prism, the ethnography unpacks the various forms of dispossession and inequality entailed in the democracy-promotion project.

Abstract: Written for study abroad practitioners, this book introduces theoretical understandings of key study abroad terms including ́the global/national,́ ́culture,́ ́native speaker,́ ́immersion,́ and ́host society.́ Building theories on these notions with perspectives from cultural anthropology, political science, educational studies, linguistics, and narrative studies, it suggests ways to incorporate them in study abroad practices. Through attention to daily activities via the concept of immersion, it reframes study abroad not as an encounter with cultural others but as an occasion to analyze constructions of ́differenceś in daily life, backgrounded by structural arrangements.

Abstract: Departing from an ethnographic collection in London, From Storeroom to Stage traces the journey of its artefacts back to the Romanian villages where they were made 70 years ago, and to other places where similar objects are still in use. The book explores the role that material culture plays in the production of value and meaning by examining how folk objects are mobilized in national ideologies, transmissions of personal and family memory, museological discourses, and artistic acts.

Abstract: Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Sample Questions -- Chapter 1. The Global and the National: Does the Global Need the National, and If It Does, What’s Wrong with That? -- Recommended Readings -- Sample Questions -- Chapter 2. Culture: Is It a Homogeneous, Static Unit of Difference? -- Recommended Readings -- Sample Questions -- Activity: Study Abroad Checklist -- Chapter 3. “Native Speakers”: Do They Really Exist, and Should Students Aim to Speak Like Them? -- Recommended Readings -- Sample Questions -- Chapter 4. Immersion: Is It Really about “Living Like a Local”? -- Recommended Readings -- Activity: Daorba Yduts -- Sample Questions -- Chapter 5. Host Society and Host Family: Who Are They, and Who Shapes Their Lives? -- Recommended Readings -- Sample Questions -- Chapter 6. Border Crossing: Do We Instead Construct Borders through Learning and Volunteering? -- Recommended Readings -- Sample Questions -- Chapter 7. Self-Transformation: Do Assessing and Talking about Self-Transformation Involve Power Politics? -- Recommended Readings -- Sample Questions -- Conclusion and Departure: New Frameworks for Study Abroad -- References -- Index --

Abstract: Written for study abroad practitioners, this book introduces theoretical understandings of key study abroad terms including “the global/national,” “culture,” “native speaker,” “immersion,” and “host society.” Building theories on these notions with perspectives from cultural anthropology, political science, educational studies, linguistics, and narrative studies, it suggests ways to incorporate them in study abroad practices. Through attention to daily activities via the concept of immersion, it reframes study abroad not as an encounter with cultural others but as an occasion to analyze constructions of “differences” in daily life, backgrounded by structural arrangements

Abstract: Corporate scandals since the 1990s have made it clear that economic wrong-doing is more common in Western societies than might be expected. This volume examines the relationship between such wrong-doing and the neoliberal orientations, policies, and practices that have been influential since around 1980, considering whether neoliberalism has affected the likelihood that people and firms will act in ways that many people would consider wrong. It furthermore asks whether ideas of economic right and wrong have become so fragmented and localized that collective judgement has become almost impossible

Abstract: Preface -- Introduction: Economy, Crime and Wrong in a Neoliberal Era -- James G. Carrier -- Chapter 1. Marketing Clientelism vs Corruption: Pharmaceutical Off-label Promotion on Trial -- Kalman Applbaum -- Chapter 2. The Measure of Sociality: Quantification, Control and Economic Deviance -- Emil A. Røyrvik -- Chapter 3. Under Pressure: Financial Supervision in the Post-2008 European Union -- Daniel Seabra Lopes -- Chapter 4. Of Taxation, Instability, Fraud and Calculation -- Thomas Cantens -- Chapter 5. Marketing Marijuana: Prohibition, Medicalization and the Commodity -- Michael Polson -- Chapter 6. Neoliberal Citizenship and the Politics of Corruption: Redefining Informal Exchange in Romanian Healthcare -- Sabina Stan -- Chapter 7. Neoliberalism, Violent Crime and the Moral Economy of Migrants -- Kathy Powell -- Chapter 8. How Does Neoliberalism Relate to Unauthorized Migration? The U.S.–Mexico Case -- Josiah McC. Heyman -- Conclusion: All That is Normal Melts Into Air: Rethinking Neoliberal Rules and Deviance -- Steven Sampson -- Index --

Abstract: Acknowledgements -- Notes on Translation -- Introduction: Moses and Oedipus -- Chapter 1. 'Parental Capability': The Story of the Ziv Family Children -- Chapter 2. 'Belonging' and 'Continuity': Elinor's Story -- Chapter 3. From 'The Best Interests of the Child' to the 'Wilderness Generation': The Story of Dalit and her Daughter Tal -- Chapter 4. Interlude: Between Secrecy and Privacy: On the Publication of Dalit and Tal's Story -- Chapter 5. 'Sacred Calling': Daniel's Story -- Epilogue: Not Blame, but Loss -- Bibliography -- Index --

Abstract: Marshalling her experience as an expert witness in court proceedings on non-consensual, confidential adoption in Israel, Mass describes legal proceedings following the Israeli state petition that declares children eligible for adoption because of alleged parental incapability, and explores the politics of state intervention in the parent/child relationship. The selected case studies present the testimonies of the children, the parents, the designated adoptive parents, and the state’s representatives, as well as the author’s own testimony

Abstract: The last three decades have witnessed a period of growing archaeological activity in Greece that have enhanced our awareness of the diversity and variability of ancient communities. New sites offer rich datasets from many aspects of material culture that challenge traditional perceptions and suggest complex interpretations of the past. This volume provides a synthetic overview of recent developments in the study of Neolithic Greece and reconsiders the dynamics of human-environment interactions while recording the growing diversity in layers of social organization. It fills an essential lacuna in contemporary literature and enhances our understanding of the Neolithic communities in the Greek Peninsula

Abstract: List of Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Maps -- Chapter 1. Communities, Landscapes, and Interaction: An Introduction -- Evita Kalogiropoulou and Apostolos Sarris -- PART I: COMMUNITIES, SOCIAL SPACES, AND DIMENSIONS OF NEOLITHIC LIFEWAYS (AND DEATH) -- Chapter 2. The Transition from the Mesolithic to the Neolithic in a Circum-Aegean Perspective: Concepts and Narratives -- Agathe Reingruber -- Chapter 3. Opening a New Frontier in the Study of Neolithic Settlement Patterns of Eastern Thessaly, Greece -- Apostolos Sarris, Tuna Kalayci, François-Xavier Simon, Jamieson Donato, Carmen Cuenca García, Meropi Manataki, Gianluca Cantoro, Ian Moffat, Evita Kalogiropoulou, Georgia Karampatso, Kayt Armstrong, Nassos Argyriou, Sylviane Dederix, Cristina Manzetti, Nikos Nikas, Konstantinos Vouzaxakis, Vasso Rondiri, Polyxeni Arachoviti, Kalliopi Almatzi, Despina Efstathiou, and Evangelia Stamelou -- Chapter 4. A Road to Variation: Diversity among Neolithic Settlements in Central Macedonia, Greece -- Maria Pappa, Stratos Nanoglou, and Melina Efthymiadou -- Chapter 5. An Investigation of Neolithic Settlement Pattern and Plant Exploitation at Dikili Tash: Reconsidering Old and New Data from the late 5th Millennium B.C. Settlement -- Dimitra Malamidou, Maria Ntinou, Soultana-Maria Valamoti, Zoï Tsirtsoni, Haïdo Koukouli-Chrysanthaki, and Pascal Darcque -- Chapter 6. Koutroulou Magoula in Pthiotida, Central Greece: a Middle Neolithic Tell site in Context -- Yannis Hamilakis, Nina Kyparissi-Apostolika, Thomas Loughlin, Tristan Carter, James Cole, Yorgos Facorellis, Stella Katsarou, Aggeliki Kaznesi, Areti Pentedeka, Vasileios Tsamis, and Nicolas Zorzin -- Chapter 7. The Environment and Interactions of Neolithic Halai -- John E. Coleman, Evangelia Karimali, Lilian Karali, Melanie Fillios, Charlotte Diffey, Petra Vaiglova, Amy Bogaard, Jayme Joos, and Effie Angeli -- Chapter 8. Diros in Context: Alepotrypa Cave and Ksagounaki Promontory in the Neolithic Period -- William Parkinson, Anastasia Papathanasiou, Michael Galaty, Daniel Pullen, Panagiotis Karkanas, and Giorgos Papathanassopoulos -- Chapter 9. Visviki Magoula Revisited: Comparing Past Excavations' Data to Recent Geophysical Research -- Eva Alram-Stern, Apostolos Sarris, Konstantinos Vouzaxakis, Kalliopi Almatzi, Polyxeni Arachoviti, Vasso Rondiri, Despina Efstathiou, Evangelia Stamelou, Carmen Cuenca García, Tuna Kalayci, François-Xavier Simon, Gianluca Cantoro, Jamieson Donati, and Meropi Manataki -- Chapter 10. Kouphovouno (Laconia): Some Thoughts about the Settlement Pattern at the end of the Middle Neolithic -- Josette Renard and William Cavanagh -- Chapter 11. Pictures of Home: Regional Perspectives into the Neolithic Building Technology of Northern Greece -- Dimitris Kloukinas -- Chapter 12. Communities Interaction and (intended) Land Use in Neolithic Greece: the Testimony of the Defensive Architecture -- Tomáš Alušík -- Chapter 13. Fluid Landscapes, Bonded People? The Role of Burial Areas as Places for Interaction, Exchange and Deposition during the Final Neolithic Period in Central and Southern Greece -- Katerina Psimogiannou -- PART II: LANDSCAPE DYNAMICS AND SUBSISTENCE STRATEGIES -- Chapter 14. Islands out of the Mainstream: Landscapes of Action, Settlements and Social Identities in the Neolithic Aegean -- Evita Kalogiropoulou -- Chapter 15. Cycladic or Mainland? The Prehistoric Landscapes of Southern Euboea -- Žarko Tankosić and Markos Katsianis -- Chapter 16. Human – Landscape Interaction in Neolithic Kephalonia, West Greece: the Dynamic Role of Drakaina Cave within an Insular Environment -- Georgia Stratouli and Odysseas Metaxas -- Chapter 17. Submerged Neolithic Landscapes off Franchthi Cave: the Measurements from the Terra Submersa Expedition and their Implications -- Julien Beck, Dimitris Sakellariou, and Despina Koutsoumba -- Chapter 18. Humans, Animals, and the Landscape in Neolithic Koutroulou Magoula, Central Greece: An Approach Through Micromorphology and Plant Remains in Dung -- Georgia Koromila, Panagiotis Karkanas, Georgia Kotzamani, Kerry Harris, Yannis Hamilakis, and Nina Kyparissi-Apostolika -- Chapter 19. Farming Strategies at Kouphovouno, Lakonia, in the MN-LN periods -- William Cavanagh, Josette Renard, Amy Bogaard, Armelle Gardeisen, Jean Cantuel, Petra Vaiglova, and Charlotte Diffey -- Chapter 20. Animal Husbandry and the Use of Space in the Greek Sector of the Late Neolithic Settlement of Promachon-Topolnica -- George Kazantzis -- PART III: INTERACTIONS AND MATERIAL PERSPECTIVES -- Chapter 21. Social Interaction in the Farming Communities of Neolithic Greece: Archaeological Perceptions -- Nikos Efstratiou -- Chapter 22. Patterns in Contemporaneous Ceramic Traditions: Inter-Regional Relations between Thessaly and Macedonia during the Early and Middle Neolithic -- Dushka Urem-Kotsou, Anastasia Dimoula, Gazmed Elezi, Trisevgeni Papadakou, Anna Papaioannou, Niki Saridaki, Ioanna Siamidou, Teresa Silva, Eirini Tzemopoulou, and Kostas Kotsakis -- Chapter 23. Pottery Exchange Networks under the Microscope: the case of Neolithic Thessaly -- Areti Pentedeka -- Chapter 24. The Discovery of Painted Pottery in Caves: an Interpretation in the Case of Sarakenos Cave (Kopais, Boeotia) -- Vagia Mastrogiannopoulou -- Chapter 25. Thoughts on the Preliminary Study of Early Neolithic Decorated Pottery from the Central Origma at Mavropigi-Filotsairi -- Lily Bonga -- Chapter 26. Emergent Networks and Socio-Cultural Change in Final Neolithic Southern Greece -- David Michael Smith -- Chapter 27. Ritual and Interaction during the Final Neolithic Period: The example of Aegina-Kolonna -- Eva Alram-Stern -- Chapter 28. Making Choices in a Neolithic Landscape: Raw Materials and Ground Stone Technology in Neolithic Avgi, Northwest Greece -- Tasos Bekiaris, Christos Stergiou, and Stella Theodoridou -- Chapter 29. Chipped Stone Aspects of the Interaction among Neolithic Communities of Northern Greece -- Odysseas Kakavakis -- Chapter 30. Casting A Wide Network: Preliminary Results from the Early Neolithic Chipped Stone Assemblage from Revenia, Pieria (Greece) -- Lilian Dogiama -- Color Plates --

Abstract: How can we study the impact of rules on the lives of past people using archaeological evidence? To answer this question, Archaeologies of Rules and Regulation presents case studies drawn from across Europe and the United States. Covering areas as diverse as the use of space in a nineteenth-century U.S. Army camp, the deposition of waste in medieval towns, the experiences of Swedish migrants to North America, the relationship between people and animals in Anglo-Saxon England, these case studies explore the use of archaeological evidence in understanding the relationship between rules, lived experience, and social identity

Abstract: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Archaeologies of Rules and Regulation: An Introduction -- Barbara Hausmair, Ben Jervis, Ruth Nugent and Eleanor Williams -- PART I: NETWORKS -- Introduction: Rules, Networks, and Different Kinds of Sources -- Natascha Mehler -- Chapter 1. Rules, Identity and a Sense of Place in a Medieval Town. The Case of Southampton’s Oak Book -- Ben Jervis -- Chapter 2. Meat for the Market. The Butchers’ Guild Rules from 1267 and Urban Archaeology in Tulln, Lower Austria -- Ute Scholz -- Chapter 3. Rubbish and Regulations in the Middle Ages: A Comparison of Urban and Rural Disposal Practices -- Greta Civis -- Chapter 4. How to Plant a Colony in the New World: Rules and Practices in New Sweden and the Seventeenth-Century Delaware Valley -- Magdalena Naum -- PART II: SPACE AND POWER -- Introduction: Rules and the Built Environment -- Harold Mytum -- Chapter 5. Embodied Regulations: Searching for Boundaries in the Viking Age -- Marianne Hem Eriksen -- Chapter 6. What Law Says That There Has to be a Castle? The Castle Landscape of Frodsham, Cheshire -- Rachel Swallow -- Chapter 7. Shakespearian Space-Men: Spatial Rules in London’s Early Playhouses -- Ruth Nugent -- Chapter 8. US Army Regulations and Spatial Tactics: The Archaeology of Indulgence Consumption at Fort Yamhill, Oregon, United States, 1856–1866 -- Justin E. Eichelberger -- Chapter 9. Religion in the Asylum: Lunatic Asylum Chapels and Religious Provision in Nineteenth-Century Ireland -- Katherine Fennelly -- Chapter 10. Prison-Issue Artefacts, Documentary Insights and the Negotiated Realities of Political Imprisonment: The Case of Long Kesh/Maze, Northern Ireland -- Laura McAtackney -- PART III: CORPOREALITY -- Introduction: Maleficium and Mortuary Archaeology: Rules and Regulations in the Negotiation of Identities -- Duncan Sayer -- Chapter 11. Gone to the Dogs? Negotiating the Human-Animal Boundary in Anglo-Saxon England -- Kristopher Poole -- Chapter 12. Adherence to Islamic Tradition and the Formation of Iberian Islam in Early Medieval Al-Andalus -- Sarah Inskip -- Chapter 13. Break a Rule but Save a Soul. Unbaptized Children and Medieval Burial Regulation -- Barbara Hausmair -- Chapter 14. Medieval Monastic Text and the Treatment of the Dead. An Archaeothanatological Perspective on Adherence to the Cluniac Customaries -- Eleanor Williams -- Chapter 15. ‘With as Much Secresy and Delicacy as Possible’: Nineteenth-Century Burial Practices at the London Hospital -- Louise Fowler and Natasha Powers -- The Archaeology of Rules and Regulation: Closing Remarks -- Duncan H. Brown -- Index --

Abstract: In Vanuatu, commoditization and revitalization of culture and the arts do not necessarily work against each other; both revolve around value formation and the authentication of things. This book investigates the meaning and value of (art) objects as commodities in differing states of transit and transition: in the local place, on the market, in the museum. It provides an ethnographic account of commoditization in a context of revitalization of culture and the arts in Vanuatu, and the issues this generates, such as authentication of actions and things, indigenized copyright, and kastom disputes over ownership and the nature of kastom itself

Abstract: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Art and Commodity in Vanuatu -- Chapter 1. Art, Anthropology, and Tourism -- Chapter 2. Arts of Vanuatu -- Chapter 3. Making Authenticity -- Chapter 4. Selling Authenticity -- Chapter 5. Commodities and Authenticity -- Chapter 6. Museums -- Conclusion: Artifak: The Value of Art in Vanuatu -- Bibliography --

Abstract: List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Leo Lucassen -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Postwar Migration to the City of Ghent -- Chapter 2. Integration Processes of Immigrants in the Local Labour Market and the Workplace -- Chapter 3. Immigrant Workers’ Relations with Colleagues and Employers -- Chapter 4. Integration Processes of Immigrants in the Local Housing Market and the Neighbourhood -- Chapter 5. Immigrants’ Social Relations with Neighbours -- Conclusion -- Quantitative appendix -- List of interviews -- Bibliography -- Index --

Abstract: Originally coined in 2001 in a report on racial tensions in the United Kingdom, the concept of “parallel lives” has become familiar in the European discourse on immigrant integration. There, it refers to what is perceived as the segregation of immigrant populations from the rest of society. However, the historical roots of this presumed segregation are rarely the focus of discussion. Combining quantitative analysis, archival research, and over one hundred oral history interviews, Parallel Lives Revisited explores the lives of immigrants from six Mediterranean countries in a postwar Belgian city to provide a fascinating account of how their experiences of integration have changed at work and in their neighborhoods across two decades

Abstract: Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I: CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE MAKING -- Chapter 1. Empowerment, Fast-Track -- Chapter 2. NGOing and the Donor Effect -- PART II: THE POLITICS OF CULTURE -- Chapter 3. The “Democrats”: Salon NGOs in Belgrade -- Chapter 4. The “Nationalists”: Radikali and Privatization -- PART III: GOOD GOVERNANCE -- Chapter 5. Revitalizing Communities, Decentralizing the State -- Chapter 6. NGOs vs. State: Clash or Class? -- Conclusion -- References -- Index --

Abstract: Tracing the boom of local NGOs since the 1990s in the context of the global political economy of aid, current trends of neoliberal state restructuring, and shifting post-Cold War hegemonies, this book explores the “associational revolution” in post-socialist, post-conflict Serbia. Looking into the country’s “transition” through a global and relational analytical prism, the ethnography unpacks the various forms of dispossession and inequality entailed in the democracy-promotion project

Abstract: Biocultural and archaeological research on food, past and present, often relies on very specific, precise, methods for data collection and analysis. These are presented here in a broad-based review. Individual chapters provide opportunities to think through the adoption of methods by reviewing the history of their use along with a discussion of research conducted using those methods. A case study from the author's own work is included in each chapter to illustrate why the methods were adopted in that particular case along with abundant additional resources to further develop and explore those methods.

Abstract: Nutritional Anthropology and public health research and programming have employed similar methodologies for decades; many anthropologists are public health practitioners while many public health practitioners have been trained as medical or biological anthropologists. Recognizing such professional connections, this volume provides in-depth analysis and comprehensive review of methods necessary to design, plan, implement and analyze public health programming using anthropological best practices. To illustrates the rationale for use of particular methods, each chapter elaborates a case study from the author's own work, showing why particular methods were adopted in each case.

Abstract: This volume offers a comprehensive guide to methods used in the sociocultural, linguistic and historical research of food use. This volume is unique in offering food-related research methods from multiple academic disciplines, and includes methods that bridge disciplines to provide a thorough review of best practices. In each chapter, a case study from the author's own work is to illustrate why the methods were adopted in that particular case along with abundant additional resources to further develop and explore the methods.

Abstract: In Kerala, political activists with a background in Communism are now instead asserting political demands on the basis of indigenous identity. Why did a notion of indigenous belonging come to replace the discourse of class in subaltern struggles? Indigenist Mobilization answers this question through a detailed ethnographic study of the dynamics between the Communist party and indigenist activists, and the subtle ways in which global capitalist restructuring leads to a resonance of indigenist visions in the changing everyday working lives of subaltern groups in Kerala

Abstract: List of Figures -- Maps -- Acknowledgements -- PART I: INTRODUCTION -- Introduction: Research and Activism in, on, and Beyond a Capitalist World System -- PART II: ADIVASINESS AND ITS DISCONTENTS -- Chapter 1. The “Tribe” in World Time -- Chapter 2. The importance of Being Adivasi -- PART III: CONTENTION AND CONFLICT AT THE END OF A REFORMIST CYCLE -- Chapter 3. Electoral Communism and Its Critics -- Chapter 4. Widening Circles of Political Disidentification -- PART IV: CONDITIONING INDIGENISM: THE "KERALA MODEL" IN CRISIS -- Chapter 5. Salaried but Subaltern: On the Vulnerability of Social Mobility -- Chapter 6. Adivasi Labor: Of Workers without Work -- PART V: CONCLUSION -- Chapter 7. The (Dis)Placements of Class -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index --

Abstract: In this compelling study of the children of serial migrants, Danau Tanu argues that the international schools they attend promote an ideology of being “international” that is Eurocentric. Despite the cosmopolitan rhetoric, hierarchies of race, culture and class shape popularity, friendships and romance on campus. By going back to high school for a year, Tanu befriended transnational youth, often called “Third Culture Kids”, to present their struggles with identity, belonging and internalized racism in their own words. The result is the first engaging, anthropological critique of the way Western-style cosmopolitanism is institutionalized as cultural capital to reproduce global socio-cultural inequalities

Abstract: Figures -- Foreword -- Fazal Rizvi -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Unpacking “Third Culture Kids” -- Chapter 1. Being International -- Chapter 2. The Power of English -- Chapter 3. Living in "Disneyland " -- Chapter 4. Chasing Cosmopolitan Capital -- Chapter 5. The Politics of Hanging out -- Chapter 6. Invisible Diversity -- Chapter 7. Race and Romance -- Chapter 8. Whose United Nations Day? -- Conclusion: Transnational Youth -- References -- Index --

Abstract: Universities have been subjected to continuous government reforms since the 1980s, to make them ‘entrepreneurial’, ‘efficient’ and aligned to the predicted needs and challenges of a global knowledge economy. Under increasing pressure to pursue ‘excellence’ and ‘innovation’, many universities are struggling to maintain their traditional mission to be inclusive, improve social mobility and equality and act as the ‘critic and conscience’ of society. Drawing on a multi-disciplinary research project, University Reform, Globalisation and Europeanisation (URGE), this collection analyses the new landscapes of public universities emerging across Europe and the Asia-Pacific, and the different ways that academics are engaging with them

Abstract: List of Illustrations, Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction: Privatizing the Public University: Key Trends, Countertrends and Alternatives -- Cris Shore and Susan Wright -- PART I: REDEFINING THE MISSION AND MEANING OF THE UNIVERSITY -- Chapter 1. Universities in Britain and the Spirit of ’45 -- John Morgan -- Chapter 2. Managing the Third Mission: Reform or Reinvention of the Public University? -- Nick Lewis and Cris Shore -- Chapter 3. Universities in the Competition State: Lessons from Denmark -- Susan Wright and Jakob Williams Ørberg -- Chapter 4. Leadership in Higher Education: A Critical Feminist Perspective on Global Restructuring -- Jill Blackmore -- PART II: PERFORMING THE NEW UNIVERSITY - NEW PRIORITIES, NEW SUBJECTS -- Chapter 5. Science/ Industry Collaboration: Bugs, Project Barons and Managing Symbiosis -- Birgitte Gorm Hansen -- Chapter 6. On Delivering the Consumer-Citizen: New Pedagogies and Their Affective Economies -- Barbara M. Grant -- Chapter 7. Tuning Up and Tuning In: How the European Bologna Process Is Influencing Students’ Time of Study -- Gritt B. Nielsen and Laura Louise Sarauw -- PART III: MANAGING THE RISK UNIVERSITY - RESEARCH, RANKING AND REPUTATION -- Chapter 8. The Causes, Mechanisms and Consequences of Reputational Risk Management of Universities and the Higher -- Education Sector -- Roger Dale -- Chapter 9. The Rise and Rise of the Performance-Based Research Fund? -- Bruce Curtis -- Chapter 10. Evaluating Academic Research: Ambivalence, Anxiety and Audit in the Risk University -- Lisa Lucas -- Chapter 11. The Ethics of University Ethics Committees: Risk Management and the Research Imagination -- Tamara Kohn and Cris Shore -- PART IV: REVIVING THE PUBLIC UNIVERSITY - ALTERNATIVE VISIONS -- Chapter 12. Who Will Win the Global Hunger Games? The Emerging Significance of Research Universities in the International Relations of States -- Christopher Tremewan -- Chapter 13. Resistance in the Neoliberal University -- Sandra Grey -- Chapter 14. The University as a Place of Possibilities: Scholarship as Dissensus -- Sean Sturm and Stephen Turner -- Chapter 15. Crisis, Critique and the Contemporary University: Reinventing the Future -- Susan L. Robertson -- Index --

Abstract: For many refugees, economic survival in refugee camps is extraordinarily difficult. Drawing on both qualitative and quantitative research , this volume challenges the reputation of a ‘self-reliant’ model given to Buduburam refugee camp in Ghana and sheds light on considerable economic inequality between refugee households.By following the same refugee households over several years, The Myth of Self-Reliancealso provides valuable insights into refugees’ experiences of repatriation to Liberia after protracted exile and their responses to the ending of refugee status for remaining refugees in Ghana

Abstract: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Maps -- Introduction: Buduburam: An Exemplary Refugee Camp? -- Chapter 1. ‘Guests Who Stayed Too Long’: Refugee Lives in a Protracted Exile -- Chapter 2. Economic Lives in Buduburam -- Chapter 3. The Household Economy in the Camp -- Chapter 4. Roots of Economic Stratification: A Historical Perspective -- Chapter 5. Repatriation to Liberia: The ‘Best’ Solution for Refugees? -- Chapter 6. The ‘End’ of Refugee Life? When Refugee Status Ceases -- Chapter 7. Developing a Better Understanding of Livelihoods, Self-Reliance and Social Networks in Forced Migration Studies -- Epilogue: Buduburam in 2015 -- References -- Index --

Abstract: Breastfeeding and child feeding at the center of nurturing practices, yet the work of nurture has escaped the scrutiny of medical and social scientists. Anthropology offers a powerful biocultural approach that examines how custom and culture interact to support nurturing practices. Our framework shows how the unique constitutions of mothers and infants regulate each other. The Dance of Nurture integrates ethnography, biology and the political economy of infant feeding into a holistic framework guided by the metaphor of dance. It includes a critique of efforts to improve infant feeding practices globally by UN agencies and advocacy groups concerned with solving global nutrition and health problems

Abstract: Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I: CHALLENGES -- Chapter 1. Recovering Nurture -- Chapter 2. Studying Nurture -- PART II: CONTEXTS -- Chapter 3. Tracing the Human Story -- Chapter 4. Entering the Commensal Circle -- PART III: DIVERSITIES -- Chapter 5. Customizing Nurture in Southeast Asia -- Chapter 6. Modernizing Nurture: A Global Shift -- PART IV: INTERVENTIONS -- Chapter 7. Mastering Nurture: Lessons Unlearned -- Chapter 8. Negotiating Nurture: Yesterday’s Lesson, Tomorrow’s Hope -- References -- Index --

Abstract: The current practice of the cult of María Lionza is one of the most important and yet unexplored religious practices in Venezuela. Based on long-term fieldwork, this book explores the role of images and visual culture within the cult. By adopting a relational approach, A Goddess in Motion shows how the innumerable images of this goddess—represented as an Indian, white or mestizo woman—move constantly from objects to bodies, from bodies to dreams, and from the religion domain to the art world. In short, this book is a fascinating study that sheds light on the role of visual creativity in contemporary religious manifestations

Abstract: List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Who is María Lionza? -- Chapter 2. The cult of María Lionza -- Chapter 3. The ritual image -- Chapter 4. Between Art and Religion -- Chapter 5. Bodies, Dreams and Apparitions -- Chapter 6. A Globalized Goddess -- Chapter 7. A Network of Images -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index --

Abstract: The Mediterranean island of Cyprus is the site of enduring political, military, and economic conflict. This interdisciplinary collection takes Cyprus as a geographical, cultural and political point of reference for understanding how conflict is mediated, represented, reconstructed, experienced, and transformed. Through methodologically diverse case studies of a wide range of topics—including public art, urban spaces, and print, broadcast and digital media—it assembles an impressively multifaceted perspective, one that provides broad insights into the complex interplay of culture, conflict, and identity

Abstract: Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: A Multidisciplinary and Multiperspectival Approach to Conflict -- Vaia Doudaki and Nico Carpentier -- PART I: THE MATERIALITY OF CONFLICT IN CYPRUS -- Chapter 1. Iconoclastic Controversy in Cyprus: The Problematic Rethinking of a Conflicted Past -- Nico Carpentier -- Chapter 2. Soundmarks of Conflict in the City Centre of Divided Nicosia -- Yiannis Christidis and Angeliki Gazi -- Chapter 3. -- Bridge Over Troubled… -- Susan J. Drucker and Gary Gumpert -- Chapter 4. Financial Crisis, Austerity and Public Service Media in Cyprus: Reforming or Downsizing? An Analysis of Discourses and Critiques -- Lia-Paschalia Spyridou and Dimitra L. Milioni -- PART II: CONFLICT REPRESENTATIONS OF CYPRUS FROM WITHIN (NORTH AND SOUTH) -- Chapter 5. The ‘Others’ in Peace Talks: Representation of ‘Us’ and ‘Them’ in the Turkish-Cypriot and Greek-Cypriot Press -- Christophoros Christophorou and Sanem Şahin -- Chapter 6. Discourses of Legitimation in the News: The Case of the Cypriot Bailout -- Vaia Doudaki -- Chapter 7. Challenging the Sacredness of ‘the Mediated Centre’: The Shift in Media Discourses on Bicommunal Relations in Cyprus after the Crossing Points Opening in 2003 -- Christiana Karayianni -- Chapter 8. The Cypriot ‘Occupy the Buffer Zone’ Movement: Online Discursive Frames and Civic Engagement -- Venetia Papa and Peter Dahlgren -- PART III: CONFLICT REPRESENTATIONS OF CYPRUS FROM THE OUTSIDE -- Chapter 9. Whose Flags are These? Apollon Limassol v. Trabzonspor Football Matches in Turkish Online News and User Comments as a Case of ‘Banal Nationalism’ -- D. Beybin Kejanlioglu and Serhat Güney -- Chapter 10. A Treasure in Varosha: The Role of a Cypriot Myth in the Construction of Turkish Nationalist Identity -- Aysu Arsoy -- Chapter 11. Pax Troikana: The U.K. Media and the Symbolic Conflicts on the Cypriot ‘Rescue’ Programme -- Giulia Airaghi and Maria Avraamidou -- Chapter 12. Hegemonic and Counter-hegemonic Discourses of the Cypriot Economic Crisis by Greek Media -- Yiannis Mylonas -- Conclusion: Studying Conflicts in Cyprus: Lessons Learned for Conflict Studies -- Nico Carpentier -- Index --

Abstract: What draws people to study abroad or volunteer in far-off communities? Often the answer is romance – the romance of landscapes, people, languages, the very sense of border-crossing – and longing for liberation, attraction to the unknown, yearning to make a difference. This volume explores the complicated and often fraught desires to study and volunteer abroad. In doing so, the book sheds light on how affect is managed by educators and mobilized by students and volunteers themselves, and how these structures of feeling relate to broader social and economic forces

Abstract: List of Tables -- Preface -- Michael Woolf -- Acknowledgements -- PART I: INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1. Affect and Romance in Study and Volunteer Abroad: Introducing our Project -- Neriko Musha Doerr and Hannah Davis Taïeb -- Chapter 2. Study Abroad and its Reasons: A Critical Overview of the Field -- Hannah Davis Taïeb and Neriko Musha Doerr -- PART II: STUDYING WITH(OUT) PASSION: STUDY ABROAD AND AFFECT -- Chapter 3. Passionate Displacements into Other Tongues and Towns: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Shifting into a Second Language -- Karen Rodriguez -- Chapter 4. Sojourn to the Dark Continent: Landscape, Affect in an African Mobility Experience -- Bradley Rink -- Chapter 5. Thinking through the Romance -- Hannah Davis Taïeb, with Emily Bihl, Mai-Linh Bui, Hyojung Kim, and Kaitlin Rosenblum -- Chapter 6. Falling in/out of Love with the Place: Affective Investment, Perceptions of Difference, and Learning in Study Abroad -- Neriko Musha Doerr -- Chapter 7. Learning Japanese/Japan in a Year Abroad in Kyoto: Discourse of Study Abroad, Emotions, and Construction of Self -- Yuri Kumagai -- PART III: SERVING WITH PASSION: ROMANTIC IMAGES OF SELF AND OTHER IN VOLUNTEERING ABROAD -- Chapter 8. One Smile, One Hug: Romanticizing “Making a Difference” to Oneself and Others through English-Language Voluntourism -- Cori Jakubiak -- Chapter 9. “People with Pants”: Self-Perceptions of WorldTeach Volunteers in the Marshall Islands -- Ruochen Richard Li -- Conclusion -- Hannah Davis Taïeb and Neriko Musha Doerr -- Student Photo Essay -- Morgan Greer, Lee-Anna John, Richard Suarez, Carla Villacís -- Index --

Abstract: The economic imperative of sustainable tourism development frequently shapes life on small subtropical islands. In Okinawa, ecotourism promises to provide employment for a dwindling population of rural youth while preserving the natural environment and bolstering regional pride. Footprints in Paradise explores the transformation in community and sense of place as Okinawans come to view themselves through the lens of the visiting tourist consumer, and as their language, landscapes, and wildlife are reconstituted as treasured and vulnerable resources. The rediscovery and revaluing of local ecological knowledge strengthens Okinawan or Uchinaa cultural heritage, despite the controversial presence of US military bases amidst a hegemonic Japanese state

Abstract: List of Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: "We Want Them to Know Nature -- Chapter 1. Okinawa's Tourism Imperative -- Chapter 2. Slow Vulnerability in Okinawa -- Chapter 3. Knowing and Noticing -- Chapter 4. Ecologies of Nearness -- Chapter 5. Healing and Nature -- Conclusion: Yambaru Funbaru! -- References -- Index --

Abstract: How do you make taxpayers comply? This ethnography offers a vivid, yet nuanced account of knowledge making at one of Sweden’s most esteemed bureaucracies – the Swedish Tax Agency. In its aim to collect taxes and minimize tax faults, the Agency mediates the application of tax law to ensure compliance and maintain legitimacy in society. This volume follows one risk assessment project’s passage through the Agency, from its inception, through the research phase, in discussions with management to its final abandonment. With its fiscal anthropological approach, Shaping Taxpayers reveals how diverse knowledge claims – legal, economic, cultural – compete to shape taxpayer behaviour

Abstract: Introduction -- Chapter 1. From Control to Compassion: A History of the Swedish Tax Agency -- Chapter 2. Talking with People: What Can We Learn from an Attitudinal Survey? -- Chapter 3. X Per Cent: The Birth of a Number at the Random Audit Control -- Chapter 4. To Publish or Not? Communicating and Legitimizing Concerns Regarding the Project’s Result -- Chapter 5. Values in Action -- Notes -- Reference List -- Index --

Abstract: Governments have conferred ownership titles to many citizens throughout the world in an effort to turn things into property. Almost all elements of nature have become the target of property laws, from the classic preoccupation with land to more ephemeral material, such as air and genetic resources. When Things Become Property interrogates the mixed outcomes of conferring ownership by examining postsocialist land and forest reforms in Albania, Romania and Vietnam, and finds that property reforms are no longer, if they ever were, miracle tools available to governments for refashioning economies, politics or environments

Abstract: Preface -- List of Acronyms -- Introduction: Turning things into property -- PART I: AGRICULTURE: NEGOTIATING PROPERTY AND VALUE -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Transnational migration, ethnicity, and property in Albania -- Chapter 2. Livelihood traditions, worker-peasants, and peasant entrepreneurs in Romania -- Chapter 3. Modernity, fantasies, and property in Vietnam -- PART II: FORESTS: CONTESTING PROPERTY AND AUTHORITY -- Introduction -- Chapter 4. Forests, state, and custom in Albania -- Chapter 5. Property, predators, and patrons in Romania -- Chapter 6. Land allocation, loggers, and lawmakers in Vietnam -- Conclusion: Postsocialist propertizing and the dynamics of property -- Index --

Abstract: Set in the Maya civilization’s Late Classic Period House of the Waterlily is a historical novel centered on Lady Winik, a young Maya royal. Through tribulations that mirror the political calamities of the Late Classic world, Winik’s personal story immerses the reader not only in her daily life, but also in the difficult decisions Maya men and women must have faced as they tried to navigate a rapidly changing world. Kelli Carmean’s novel brings to life a people and an era remote from our own, yet recognizably human all the same