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Mountain at a center of the world
Considering the diverse heritage of the pilgrimage site of Adam’s Peak in Sri Lanka, Alexander McKinley develops a new account of pluralism based in political ecology, representing the full array of actors and issues on the mountain.
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Hong kong soft power
In late 2014, the pro-democracy demonstrations that were called the "Umbrella Movement" revealed to the world that Hong Kong was not the money-obsessed society it had often been portrayed as. Hong Kong Soft Power is a description of the complex relationship the artists and activists of this city ...
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Youth and the state in guinea: meandering lives
By combining an ethnographic study of youth with an analysis of the local state in the making, this monograph introduces the perspective of “meandering lives” to grasp being young and growing up in the Guéckédou borderland, a remote space approximately 700 kilometers southeast of Conakry, Guinea’...
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Harmattan
A compelling work of ethnography, memoir, and fiction that explores the emancipatory power of transcending boundaries.
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The extraordinary in the mundane
This book brings together a diverse group of scholars to explore the many ways people in China self-organize and create varied forms of coordination to solve important problems.
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The social life of the mall
In an ethnography of the mall, Franziska Reiffen explores how people create socially meaningful places in cities characterized by diversity, inequality, and mobility.
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Fighting free to become unfree again
Labor bondage is discussed as a major feature of the peasant economies which have dominated the subcontinent of South Asia from an unrecorded precolonial past until the postcolonial present.
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Cut-pieces
Imagine watching an action film in a small-town cinema hall in Bangladesh, and in between the gun battles and fistfights a short pornographic clip appears. This is known as a cut-piece, a strip of locally made celluloid pornography surreptitiously spliced into the reels of action films in Banglad...
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The domestication of language
A provocative investigation into the making of human languages and the exceptional nature of human adaptation.
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Dispossession and the environment
Paige West’s searing study of Papua New Guinea reveals how a range of actors produce and reinforce inequalities in today’s globalized world. She shows how racist rhetorics of representation underlie all uneven patterns of development and seeks a more robust understanding of the ideological work t...
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Styles for flourishing
Drawing on years of cross-cultural ethnographic research, Gabriel Alejandro Torres Colón develops an innovative theory to grasp racial experiences in their full sociocultural complexity, with vital implications for both social science and antiracist politics.
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Decolonising the future academy in africa and beyond
Decolonising academia in Africa? Inspiration from the development of anthropology at African universities and international collaboration on par.
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Mistrust
Scholars have long seen trust as a foundational social good. We therefore have ample studies on building trust in free markets, on cultivating trust in the state, and on rebuilding trust through civil society. The contributors to this volume, instead, take a step back. They ask: Can mistrust ever...
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Illicit monogamy
Angel Park is a Mormon fundamentalist polygamous community where plural marriages between one man and multiple women are common. Based on many years of in-depth ethnographic research, Illicit Monogamy considers the plural family from the points of view of husbands, wives, and children, giving a b...
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Anthropology and ethnology during world war ii
The volume presents a collection of texts describing research into the Sektion Rassen und-Volsktumsforschung of the Institut für Deutsche Ostarbeit (IDO)—a Nazi-led institution established in occupied Poland during World War II. The research was carried out by anthropologists together with histor...
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Speech acts
Speech Acts contains select interviews that annotate Geeta Kapur’s contributions to modern Indian art criticism and trace her interrogations of the contemporary through various historical conjunctures
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The politics of affective societies
Many claim that political deliberation has become exceedingly affective and hence destabilizing. This book reframes the debate by deploying the analytic framework of affective societies—claiming that in all aspects of the social, affect and emotion are present. What changes are modes and calibrat...
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Spaces of care – confronting colonial afterlives in european ethnographic museums
The essays in this book discuss how museums are at the center of multiple world-wide crises.
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Southern fujian
This book examines traditions in post-Mao southern Fujian, surveying various aspects of everyday culture including lineages, religion, and the status of women. Though the State remains officially opposed to "superstitious" traditions, these articles illustrate how post-liberalization economic and...
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Proxemics and the architecture of social interaction
Founded by anthropologist Edward T. Hall, proxemics developed amid cold war political tensions and social and civil unrest. Proxemics and the Architecture of Social Interaction presents selections from Hall’s extensive archive of visual materials alongside a critical analysis that traces transfor...
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Kharkiv is a dream
The authors zoom in on three events over the past decade that reflect how different actors used the cityscape of Kharkiv to make sense of and shape their context.
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The other catholics
The Other Catholics recounts the remarkable history and current activity of independent Catholics. Julie Byrne focuses on the Church of Antioch, one of the first Catholic groups to ordain women in modern times, to explain how these understudied churches change the narrative of modern Catholicism.
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Plurinational afrobolivianity
In Bolivia, novel political articulations, legal reform, and processes of collective identification converge in unprecedented efforts to transform society. This ethnography explores the experiences of Afrodescendants in plurinational Bolivia and offers a fresh perspective on the social and politi...
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Alleviative objects
Alleviative Objects approaches Caribbean art through intersectional entanglements and combines decolonial epistemologies with critical whiteness studies and affect theory. David Frohnapfel shows how progressive racism in discourse on Haitian art recenters whiteness by performing benign identifica...
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Guides of the atlas
This ethnography of everyday life in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco situates social transformations of the region, analyses a variety of media practices concerning the organizational work and transnational cooperation that take place there - in particular at the intersection of mountain tour...
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A history of virility
How has the meaning of manhood changed over time? A History of Virility proposes a series of answers to this question by describing a trajectory that begins with ancient conceptions of male domination and privilege and examining how it persisted, with significant alterations, for centuries. While...
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Traversing transnational biomedical landscapes
This book explores the experiences of Nigerian-trained physicians who migrated to the U.S. and the UK within the last forty years. By drawing on individual professional life stories, Judith Schühle illuminates how these physicians disconnect from and (re)connect to diverse local social and biomed...
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Political participation in the digital age
This book explores the potential of the internet for enabling new and flexible political participation modes. With an ethnographic focus on Icelandic and German tools Betri Reykjavík and LiquidFriesland, it offers plentiful advice for citizens, programmers, politicians, and administrations alike ...
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Fashioning appetite
Public spaces have become platforms for the invention and display of self-identity, especially in the affluent West where the restaurant, from local café to Michelin-starred establishment, deftly stages these performances. In this follow-up to her classic Dining Out: A Sociology of Modern Manners...
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Sociology and anthropology in twentieth-century china
Within this text, the contributors provide a historical perspective on the development of anthropology and sociology since their introduction to Chinese thought and education in the early 20th century, with an emphasis on the 1930s and 1980s. The authors offer different windows on theoretical and...
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Chopsticks only work in pairs
The ideal of "gender equality" seems forever elusive, always tantalizingly over the horizon. Shanshan Du suggests that by shifting our attention away from the various utopian ideals embedded in mainstream feminism, we may be surprised to learn that gender-egalitarian societies do exist. Based on ...
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When the state winks
When the State Winks traces the performance of state-endorsed Orthodox conversion in Israel. Michal Kravel-Tovi complicates the popular perception that it is a "wink-wink" relationship in which both sides agree to treat pretenses of faith as real, developing new ways to think about the connection...
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The political ecology of malaria
Malaria remains one of the main causes of mortality and morbidity in sub-Saharan Africa. Matian van Soest looks at the malaria epidemic in the peri-urban zones of Uganda’s capital Kampala against the backdrop of recent socio-ecological transformations.
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Days of death, days of life
Kristin Norget explores the practice and meanings of death rituals in poor urban neighborhoods on the outskirts of the southern Mexican city of Oaxaca. Drawing on her extensive fieldwork in Oaxaca City, Norget provides vivid descriptions of the Day of the Dead and other popular religious practice...
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Making a homeland
Tsypylma Darieva examines the changing nature of transnational migratory flows and a new generation of diasporic youth among global Armenians.
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Homes of the homeless
This book examines the image of home as experienced and expressed by the men and women who are affected by the crisis of homelessness and live in specialized institutions. Inga B. Kuźma focuses on describing and interpreting the stories of people from homeless centers who speak about the ups and ...
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Blogging in beirut
Unlike previous media-analytic research, Sarah Jurkiewicz's anthropological study understands blogging as a social field and a domain of practice. This approach underlines the significance of blogging in practitioners' daily lives and for their self-understanding. In this context, the notion of p...
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Religion and magic in socialist and post-socialist contexts ii
Religion and magic have often played important roles in Baltic, Eastern European, and post-Soviet societies like those in Russia, Romania, Serbia, Latvia, Kyrgyzstan, and Estonia. Taken together, the studies presented in this collection suggest that the idea that religion and magic are connected ...
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Becoming donor-conceived
While it has been argued that anonymity in gamete donation has been brought to an end, Amelie Baumann suggests that this is in fact still in transformation. By focusing on the narratives of those who were conceived with anonymously donated gametes, she examines this transformative process and the...
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Imaginaries of migration
How do Mexican migrants in Germany perceive themselves and their lives? Innovatively combining theories of interculturality and social imaginaries, Yolanda López García uses the anthropological method of life stories to investigate the understudied area of Mexican migration to Germany.
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After the american century
From Egyptian cyberpunk to dubbed versions of Shrek in Iran, this book examines the emergence of new forms of culture in circulation and their geopolitical implications.
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Autobiography of an archive
A scholar’s intellectual awakening set against the backdrop of two disciplines and many journeys.
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Revolution within
Book argues that the social reform movement in Kerala contributed to the growth of progressive democratic movements there.
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