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INTRODUCTORY READINGS
IN ANTHROPOLOGY
New
Edited by Hilary Callan, Brian Street and Simon Underdown
Published by Berghahn Books in association
with the Royal Anthropological Institute
Essays in Honor of Ulf Hannerz
Anthropology seeks to understand the roots of our common
humanity, the diversity of cultures and world-views, and the
organisation of social relations and practices. As a method of
inquiry it embraces an enormous range of topics, and as a
discipline it covers a multitude of ﬁelds and themes, as shown
in this selection of original writings. As an accessible entry
point, for upper-level students and ﬁrst year undergraduates
new to the study of anthropology, this reader also oﬀers
guidance for teachers in exploring the subject’s riches with
their students. There is no single ‘story of anthropology’. Taken
together, these fundamental readings are evidence of a
contemporary, vibrant subject that has much to tell us about
all the worlds in which we live.
“The cosmopolitan anthropologist Ulf Hannerz has been engaged
for forty years on a multi-site ethnography of the intricate web of
relationships that he calls the global ecumene. To this ambitious,
protean project he has brought remarkable erudition, the insights
of the social sciences, and the style and sensibility of a humanist.”
Adam Kuper, London School of Economics
Hilary Callan was Director of the Royal Anthropological
Institute from 2000 to 2010. Brian Street is Emeritus Professor
of Language in Education at King’s College, London University.
Simon Underdown is Senior Lecturer in Biological
Anthropology at Oxford Brookes University.
Available, 458 pages, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-0-85745-968-8 Hardback $150.00/£95.00 (2013)
ISBN 978-0-85745-969-5 Paperback $34.95/£22.00
ETHICS IN THE FIELD
Contemporary Challenges
Edited by Jeremy MacClancy and Agustín Fuentes
“This is an excellent volume that focuses on the ethics of ﬁeld
work. The topics considered represent a broad array that will be of
interest to a wide audience. There is nothing like this to the best of
my knowledge in the available literature, and the editors are
highly recognized researchers who have done a very good job of
attracting eminent scholars.” Marc Bekoﬀ, University of Colorado
“Contributors to this volume nicely and clearly present a diverse
array of examples, case studies and data revealing the multidimensionality of ethics, as well as dilemmas and challenges that
ﬁeldworkers might expectedly or accidentally encounter and/or
face during the course of their work.”
Tatyana Humle, University of Kent
In this volume, practitioners from across anthropological
disciplines—social and biological anthropology and
primatology—come together to question and compare the
ethical regulation of ﬁeldwork, what is common to their
practices, and what is distinctive to each discipline.
Jeremy MacClancy is Professor of Anthropology and Director
of the Anthropological Centre for Conservation, the
Environment, and Development at Oxford Brookes University.
Agustín Fuentes is Professor of Anthropology at the University
of Notre Dame.
Volume 7, Studies of the Biosocial Society
Available, 224 pages, 10 ﬁgs & tables, 1 map, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-0-85745-962-6 Hardback $70.00/£45.00
eISBN 978-0-85745-963-3
ANTHROPOLOGY NOW AND NEXT
Edited by Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Christina Garsten
and Shalini Randeria
“One of anthropology’s most prescient, capacious, and original
thinkers, Hannerz is unique in his worldliness, his genial humanity.
He has long epitomized the genius of his discipline to cast light on
a culturally complex, translocal world.”
Jean Comaroﬀ, Harvard University
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GENERAL
INTEREST
The scholarship of Ulf Hannerz is characterized by
extraordinary breadth and visionary nature. Contributions
honor Hannerz’ legacy by addressing theoretical,
epistemological, ethical and methodological challenges facing
anthropological inquiry. The book showcases anthropology, a
discipline devoted to the study of localized phenomena, in a
world of global connectedness and accelerated change.
Thomas Hylland Eriksen is Professor of Social Anthropology at
the University of Oslo. Christina Garsten is Professor of Social
Anthropology at Stockholm University. Shalini Randeria is
Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at the Graduate
Institute for International and Development Studies.
October 2014, 324 pages, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-449-6 Hardback $110.00/£68.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-450-2
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WHAT IS EXISTENTIAL
ANTHROPOLOGY?
Edited by Michael Jackson and Albert Piette
"This is a book whose time has come. . . Focusing on themes like
contingency, the open-endedness of life projects and the lived
tension between emergent properties like security and freedom,
existential anthropology attends to the human condition rather
than just culture." Don Seeman, Emory University
"This is a very signiﬁcant intervention in current debates about the
aims and future of anthropology: the ethnography we are
introduced to here is richly contemporary both in the kinds of
methodological questions it raises and in terms of the status it
gives to individual human experience. What is Existential
Anthropology? marks out a strong challenge to recent
fashionable 'turns' of theorizing."
Huon Wardle, University of St. Andrews
What is existential anthropology, and how would you deﬁne
it? Contributing anthropologists join editors Michael Jackson
and Albert Piette in answering these questions and exploring
how various approaches to the human condition might be
brought together on the levels of method and of theory.
Michael Jackson is Distinguished Professor of World Religions
at Harvard Divinity School. Albert Piette is Professor of
Anthropology at Paris West University Nanterre.
April 2015, 280 pages, 2 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-636-0 Hardback $95.00/£60.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-637-7
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DEBATING AUTHENTICITY
ANTHROPOLOGY & PHILOSOPHY
Concepts of Modernity in
Anthropological Perspective
Dialogues on Trust and Hope
Edited by Thomas Fillitz and A. Jamie Saris
The longing for authenticity, on an individual or collective
level, connects the search for external expressions to internal
orientations. What is largely referred to as production of
authenticity is a reformulation of cultural values and norms
within the ongoing process of modernity, impacted by
globalization and contemporary transnational cultural ﬂows.
This collection interrogates the notion of authenticity from an
anthropological point of view and considers authenticity in
terms of how meaning is produced in and through discourses
about authenticity. Incorporating case studies from four
continents, the topics reach from art and colonialism to
exoticism-primitivism, ﬁlm, ritual and wilderness. Some
contributors emphasise the dichotomy between the
academic use of the term and the one deployed in public
spaces and political projects. All, however, consider
authenticity as something that can only be understood
ethnographically, and not as a simple characteristic or
category used to distinguish some behaviors, experiences or
material things from other less authentic versions.
Thomas Fillitz is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at
the University of Vienna. A. Jamie Saris is Senior Lecturer at
the Department of Anthropology at the National University of
Ireland-Maynooth.
March 2015, 276 pages, 36 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-0-85745-496-6 Hardback $120.00/£75.00 (2012)
ISBN 978-1-78238-912-5 Paperback $34.95/£22.00
eISBN 978-0-85745-497-3
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THINKING THROUGH SOCIALITY
An Anthropological Interrogation
of Key Concepts
Edited by Vered Amit
“i don’t know of a book that explores [sociality] so centrally and
eﬀectively. . . each chapter and concept has multiple applications
across a range of research and conceptualization. . .Overall, i
enjoyed reading this unpacking of sociality through diﬀerent
lenses very much, and i am sure others will too.”
Caroline Knowles, Goldsmiths, University of London
Thinking Through Sociality combines a review of older, classical
theories of sociality with more recent theoretical innovations
across a wide range of topics. Contributors focus on key
concepts of sociality — disjuncture, ﬁeld, social space,
sociability, organizations and network — and how these can
be used to think through ethnographic situations.
Vered Amit is Professor of Anthropology in the Department of
Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University.
February 2015, 224 pages, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-585-1 Hardback $90.00/£55.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-586-8
Edited by Sune Liisberg, Esther Oluﬀa Pedersen
and Anne Line Dalsgård
The present book is a workroom in which anthropologists and
philosophers have begun a dialogue on trust and hope. The
interdisciplinary eﬀorts of the contributors demonstrate how
the collaboration of anthropologists and philosophers can
result in new and challenging ways of thinking about trust
and hope.
Sune Liisberg is an External Lecturer of Philosophy of
Psychology and Intercultural Communication at Aarhus
University. Esther Oluﬀa Pedersen is Associate Professor of
Philosophy at the University of Roskilde. Anne Line Dalsgård
is Associate Professor at Aarhus University.
Volume 4, anthropology & ...
January 2015, 292 pages, 1 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-556-1 Hardback $95.00/£60.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-557-8
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ANTHROPOLOGY AND
POLITICAL SCIENCE
A Convergent Approach
Myron J. Aronoﬀ and Jan Kubik
MyRon J. ARonoff: REcIPIEnt of thE 2013
AIS-ISRAEl InStItutE lIfEtIME AchIEvEMEnt AwARd
“a person encountering the challenge of integrating anthropology
and political science for the ﬁrst time will ﬁnd the book engaging
and informative. it is a book that could proﬁtably be used as an
adjunct text in methods classes or theory classes in both
anthropology and political science…[it] is a welcome addition to
the conversation between these two disciplines.”
Political Science Quarterly
What can anthropology and political science learn from each
other? The authors argue that collaboration, particularly in the
area of concepts and methodologies, is tremendously
beneﬁcial for both disciplines, though they also deal with
some troubling aspects of the relationship. Focusing on the
inﬂuence of anthropology on political science, the book
examines the basic assumptions the practitioners of each
discipline make about the nature of social and political reality,
compares some of the key concepts each ﬁeld employs, and
provides an extensive review of the basic methods of research
that “bridge” both disciplines: ethnography and case study.
Myron J. Aronoﬀ is Professor Emeritus of Political Science,
Anthropology, and Jewish Studies at Rutgers University. Jan
Kubik is Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University.
Volume 3, anthropology & ...
November 2014, 368 pages, 23 ﬁgures & tables, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-0-85745-725-7 Hardback $120.00/£75.00 (2012)
ISBN 978-1-78238-669-8 Paperback $34.95/£22.00
eISBN 978-0-85745-726-4
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SERIES
Series Editors:
Stephan Gudeman, University of Minnesota
Chris Hann, Max Planck Institute of
Social Anthropology (Halle)
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PEOPLE, MONEY AND POWER
IN THE ECONOMIC CRISIS
Studies in Postsocialist Transformations
Perspectives from the Global South
Edited by Stephen Gudeman and Chris Hann
Edited by Keith Hart and John Sharp
“This volume links two ﬁelds of anthropological inquiry that were
central to the development of the discipline, but have rarely been
considered together in recent decades: the study of ritual and of
economic systems and rationalities . . . it is a welcome and fresh
contribution that has no direct equivalents currently in print.”
Sonja Luehrmann, Simon Fraser University
“This volume will be a valuable contribution to economic
anthropology. The empirically rigorous cases reveal just why the
methods that we associate with anthropology are fundamental
to our understanding of the economy....[it] urges us to rethink
what ‘the crisis’ – the aftermath of the 2008 ﬁnancial meltdown really is.” Erik Bähre, Leiden University
The Cold War was fought between “state socialism” and “the
free market.” That ﬂuctuating relationship between public
power and private money continues today, unfolding in new
and unforeseen ways during the economic crisis. Nine case
studies -- from Southern Africa, South Asia, Brazil, and Atlantic
Africa – examine economic life from the perspective of
ordinary people in places that are normally marginal to global
discourse, covering a range of class positions from the bottom
to the top of society.
Keith Hart is a Co-Director of the Human Economy Program at
the University of Pretoria. John Sharp is Professor of Social
Anthropology at the University of Pretoria.
Volume 1, The Human economy
October 2014, 246 pages, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-467-0 Hardback $95.00/£60.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-468-7
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DIFFERENTIATING DEVELOPMENT
Beyond an Anthropology of Critique
Edited by Soumhya Venkatesan and Thomas Yarrow
“The themes and styles are refreshingly diverse but all the
contributors remind us that what many development scholars
and policy-makers downgrade as ‘context’ – history, ways of
making meaning, political disputes – are often central to
explaining development practice…[This book] not only implies
the need for a classiﬁcatory rethink, which has been widely
recognized for decades, but also gives us the ethnographic
material to see how fruitful a more concerted anthropology of
development in europe could be.”
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
This volume constitutes a timely intervention in
anthropological debates about development, moving beyond
the critical stance to focus on development as a mode of
engagement that, like anthropology, attempts to understand,
represent and work within a complex world. By setting out to
elucidate both the similarities and diﬀerences between these
epistemological endeavors, the book demonstrates how the
ethnographic study of development challenges anthropology
to rethink its own assumptions and methods.
Soumhya Venkatesan lectures in Social Anthropology at the
University of Manchester. Thomas Yarrow lectures in Social
Anthropology at Durham University.
ECONOMY AND RITUAL
“[This book] makes an innovative contribution to the way we
think about economic anthropology—rituals, celebrations, feasts,
and the partly constructive ways that they are indelibly tied to
economic practices.”
Russell Zanca, Northeastern Illinois University
General Interest
Max Planck Studies in
Anthropology and Economy
Common sense suggests that rituals drain economic wealth
and that rational actions are antithetical to rituals. These six
ethnographies oﬀer a diﬀerent vision. Comparative, historical,
and contemporary, the studies stretch from Macedonia to
Kyrgyzstan, each one illuminating the changes in an area as it
emerged from socialism and (re-)entered market society.
Stephen Gudeman, Professor of Anthropology at the
University of Minnesota, has undertaken ﬁeldwork in several
countries of Latin America. Chris Hann is a Founding Director
of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology at Halle.
Volume 1, Max planck Studies in anthropology and economy
February 2015, 244 pages, 5 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-569-1 Hardback $95.00/£60.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-570-7
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OIKOS AND MARKET
Explorations in Self-Suﬃciency after Socialism
Edited by Stephen Gudeman and Chris Hann
“The volume presents a compilation of well written ethnographic
accounts of ideals and practices of self-suﬃciency in a wide range
of post-socialist settings. Historically contextualised, the individual
contributions stress the strong values placed on self-suﬃciency in
virtually all of the localities, as well as the various ways and
degrees to which actors try to come close to it.”
Tatjana Thelen, University of Vienna
This volume’s six comparative investigations of postsocialist
communities illuminate the universal signiﬁcance of Aristotle’s
vision of the oikos, an economy based on the order of the
house. These postsocialist conﬁgurations show that
economies depend on macro institutions of markets and
states, and also on the micro institutions of families,
communities, and house economies.
Stephen Gudeman is Professor of Anthropology at the
University of Minnesota. Chris Hann is a Founding Director of
the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology at Halle.
Volume 2, Max planck Studies in anthropology and economy
June 2015, 224 pages, 11 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-695-7 Hardback $95.00/£60.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-696-4
September 2014, 258 pages, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-0-85745-303-7 Hardback $120.00/£75.00 (2012)
ISBN 978-1-78238-674-2 Paperback $34.95/£22.00
eISBN 978-0-85745-304-4
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WHOSE COSMOPOLITANISM?
DIGNITY FOR THE VOICELESS
Critical Perspectives, Relationalities
and Discontents
Willem Assies's Anthropological Work in Context
Edited by Nina Glick Schiller and Andrew Irving
“. . . an interesting collected volume on what has become a muchdiscussed theme. The combination of disciplines and the critical
conversation it builds up make this a worthwhile addition to the
debate.” Huon Wardle, University of St. Andrews
whose Cosmopolitanism? examines cosmopolitanism’s
possibilities, aspirations and applications—as well as its
tensions, contradictions, and discontents—from a range of
diﬀerent disciplinary perspectives. The book investigates
cosmopolitanism’s emergence as a contemporary social
process, global aspiration or emancipatory political project
and asks whether it can serve as a political or methodological
framework for action in a world of conﬂict and diﬀerence.
Nina Glick Schiller is Founding Director of the Research
Institute for Cosmopolitan Culture. Andrew Irving is Director
of the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology at the
University of Manchester.
October 2014, 264 pages, 8 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-445-8 Hardback $95.00/£60.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-446-5
WE THE COSMOPOLITANS
Moral and Existential Conditions of Being Human
Edited by Lisette Josephides and Alexandra Hall
“[This volume] enriches interdisciplinary debates about hitherto
neglected aspects of contemporary cosmopolitanism as a
political and moral project, examining the form of its lived eﬀects
and oﬀering new ideas and case studies to work with…[it is] a
collection of seminal essays that are as informed and thoughtful
as they are iconoclastic examples of meticulous and seminal
scholarship replete with illustrative case examples. Of special note
are Lisette Josephides' introduction' and alexandra Hall's
'Conclusion'. [This volume] is a strongly recommended
contribution to academic library philosophy and Cultural Studies
reference collections and supplemental reading lists.”
Midwest Book Review
The provocative title of this book is deliberately and
challengingly universalist, matching the theoretically
experimental essays, where contributors try diﬀerent ideas to
answer distinct concerns regarding cosmopolitanism. Leading
anthropologists explore what cosmopolitanism means in the
context of everyday life, variously viewing it as an aspect of
kindness and empathy, as tolerance, hospitality and openness,
and as a deﬁning feature of pan-human individuality. The
chapters thus advance an existential critique of abstract
globalization discourse. The book enriches interdisciplinary
debates about hitherto neglected aspects of contemporary
cosmopolitanism as a political and moral project, examining
the form of its lived eﬀects and oﬀering new ideas and case
studies to work with.
Edited by Ton Salman, Salvador Marti i Puig,
and Gemma van der Haar
“This is a fascinating body of work…i was most impressed by his
balance of "hard" political-science analysis and the softer sociocultural interpretations and by the balance of theory and applied
work (scholarship speaking to real world contemporary
problems).” Edward Fischer, Vanderbilt University
Willem Assies explored the messy, often untidy daily lives of
people, with their inconsistencies, irrationalities, and passions,
but also with their hopes, sense of beauty, solidarity, and quest
for dignity. This collection brings together some of Willem
Assies’ best, most fascinating, and still highly relevant writings.
Ton Salman is Associate Professor at the Department of Social
and Cultural Anthropology at the VU University of Amsterdam.
Salvador Martí i Puig has done research on the Nicaraguan
revolution and Central American and Mexican politics and
social movements. Gemma van der Haar is Assistant Professor
at the chair group Sociology of Development and
Change/Disaster Studies at Wageningen University.
Volume 103, CeDLa Latin america Studies
June 2014, 348 pages, 2 tables, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-292-8 Hardback $95.00/£60.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-293-5
AMERICANS IN TUSCANY
Charity, Compassion, and Belonging
Catherine Trundle
“…very well written and a pleasure to read. The author
interweaves her theoretical concerns with her ethnographic
material with a great degree of skill…Trundle’s exploration of key
intellectual and anthropological questions of charity is both
highly interesting and innovative. She frames these debates in a
way which brings new questions and perspectives to the fore,
particularly around the application of anthropological concepts
of the free gift to an ethnography of charity.”
Rosie Read, Bournemouth University
In the ﬁrst ethnographic monograph of Americans in Italy,
Catherine Trundle argues that charity and philanthropy are the
central means through which many American women
negotiate a sense of migrant belonging in Italy. In exploring
the often-ignored role of charitable action in migrant
community formation, Trundle contributes to anthropological
theories of gift giving, compassion, and reﬂexivity.
Catherine Trundle is a Lecturer in Cultural Anthropology at
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
Volume 36, New Directions in anthropology
July 2014, 230 pages, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-369-7 Hardback $95.00/£60.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-370-3
Lisette Josephides is Professor of Anthropology at Queen’s
University Belfast. Alexandra Hall is Lecturer in Politics at the
University of York.
Available, 194 pages, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-276-8 Hardback $80.00/£50.00
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LEARNING UNDER NEOLIBERALISM
BREAKING BOUNDARIES
Ethnographies of Governance
in Higher Education
Varieties of Liminality
Edited by Susan Brin Hyatt, Boone W. Shear,
and Susan Wright
As part of the neoliberal trends toward public-private
partnerships, universities all over the world have forged more
intimate relationships with corporate interests and more
closely resemble for-proﬁt corporations in both structure and
practice. These transformations, accompanied by new forms
of governance, produce new subject-positions among faculty
and students and enable new approaches to teaching,
curricula, research, and everyday practices. The contributors to
this volume use ethnographic methods to investigate the
multi-faceted impacts of neoliberal restructuring, while
reporting on their own pedagogical responses, at universities
in the United States, Europe, and New Zealand.
Susan B. Hyatt is Associate Professor of Anthropology at IUPUI.
Boone Shear is a PhD Candidate in the Anthropology
Department at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Susan Wright is Professor of Educational Anthropology at
Aarhus University.
Volume 1, Higher education in Critical perspective: practices and policies
January 2015, 274 pages, 1 illus., 1 table, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-595-0 Hardback $95.00/£60.00
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Social Value and Economic Practice
Edited by James G. Carrier and Peter G. Luetchford
“This edited volume brilliantly shows that ethical consumption is a
process of socializing (and fetishizing) goods on the consumption
side, as well as a process of economizing social values on the
production side.” Sociologus
“all of the case studies [presented] here are remarkable in terms of
their analysis and ethnographic richness, providing a wonderfully
nuanced picture of ethical consumption.” American Ethnologist
Extending beyond the growing body of scholarly work on the
topic in several ways, this volume focuses primarily on
consumers rather than producers and commodity chains. It
presents cases from a variety of European countries and is
concerned with a wide range of objects and types of ethical
consumption, not simply the usual tropical foodstuﬀs, trade
justice and the system of fair trade. Contributors situate ethical
consumption within diﬀerent contexts, from common
Western assumptions about economy and society, to the
operation of ethical-consumption commerce, to the ways that
people’s ethical consumption can aﬀect and be aﬀected by
their social situation.
James G. Carrier is a Hon. Research Associate at Oxford
Brookes University. Peter G. Luetchford is Senior Lecturer in
Anthropology at the University of Sussex.
October 2014, 246 pages, 3 illus., bibliog., index
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Edited by Agnes Horvath, Bjørn Thomassen,
and Harald Wydra
“[This book treats] a topic with a very broad appeal, namely
liminality, treated here as an analytical concept. while liminality
has been a widespread concept in anthropology and social theory
for decades, largely owing to Victor Turner's seminal work, it has
rarely been scrutinized properly, and this volume is to be
welcomed; in some ways, this kind of book is long overdue.”
Thomas Hylland Eriksen, University of Oslo
“….the book is a timely intervention which secures ﬁrmer
grounding for liminality as one of the key concepts in social
theory…Theoretically strong, and with an empirical range that
takes in pre- and post-revolutionary France, the frontierbuilding
of the american west, egypt’s Tahrir Square, and the liminality of
the postcommunist eastern bloc, the book provides a valuable
contribution to debates on liminality, transformation and
contingency in the social and political world.”
Les Roberts, University of Liverpool
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understanding transformation in a globalizing world. This
book explores the methodological range and applicability of
the concept to a variety of concrete social and political
problems.
Agnes Horvath is a founding editor of the peer-reviewed
journal International Political Anthropology. Bjørn Thomassen
is Associate Professor in the Department of Society and
Globalisation, Roskilde University. Harald Wydra is a Fellow of
St Catharine’s College at the University of Cambridge.
May 2015, 272 pages, 7 illus., 1 table, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-766-4 Hardback $110.00/£68.00
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FIGURATIONS OF THE FUTURE
Forms and Temporalities of Left
Radical Politics in Northern Europe
Stine Krøijer
“. . .an excellent, intriguing . . .book [that] puts forward a number of
connected theses . . . in activist politics, the emergence of a certain
regime of temporality with ‘cosmological’ import, and the priority
of form over content in the generation of a certain indigenous
concept of style that is importantly diﬀerent from the classic,
Birmingham-school notion.”
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Built around key events, this book explores politics among left
radical activists in Northern Europe. The author recasts
theoretical concerns about politics and aesthetics, drawing on
anthropological literature from Scandinavia and the Amazon
to establish analogies between perceptions of the body,
autonomy, forests and capitalism.
Stine Krøijer is Assistant Professor at University of
Copenhagen.
Volume 2, ethnography, Theory, experiment
August 2015, 272 pages, bibliog., index
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Applied Anthropology
General Editors:
Sarah Pink, University of Loughborough
Simone Abram, Town and Regional Planning,
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FOrTHCOMiNg
NARRATING VICTIMHOOD
PUBLIC ANTHROPOLOGY
IN A BORDERLESS WORLD
Gender, Religion and the Making
of Place in Post-War Croatia
Edited by Sam Beck and Carl A. Maida
Michaela Schäuble
“[This] collection fruitfully examines how the turn to public
engagement is transforming the discipline—leading
anthropologists to reconsider the researcher's subject position and
to use new techniques for conducting, communicating, and
applying research to communities and publics. Contributors oﬀer
candid perspectives on their personal and professional
transformations as they turn to a more engaged scholarly
practice.” Krista Harper, University of Massachusetts Amherst
“This is a truly excellent study. From the ﬁrst to the last page, i was
impressed by its thoughtfulness, level of scholarship, and
ethnographic thoroughness…She succeeds in making this
unstudied place come alive in her ethnography while
simultaneously making her rich ethnographic detail serve as a
lever for a highly sophisticated analysis of a cluster of issues that
are both of contemporary political relevance and of theoretical
signiﬁcance.” Marko Zivkovic, University of Alberta
Today anthropologists carry out the discipline’s original
purpose of understanding and advocating for cultural
integrity of societies across the globe. Public anthropology,
likewise, is an important genre of anthropology with the goal
of actively engaging with people to make changes to improve
the modern human condition.
Mythologies and narratives of victimization pervade
contemporary Croatia, set against the backdrop of militarized
notions of masculinity and the political mobilization of religion
and nationhood. Based on extensive ethnographic ﬁeldwork
in rural Dalmatia in the Croatian-Bosnian border region, this
book provides a unique account of the politics of ambiguous
Europeanness from the perspective of those living at Europe’s
margins. Examining phenomena such as Marian apparitions, a
historic knights tournament, the symbolic re-signiﬁcation of a
massacre site, and the desolate social situation of Croatian war
veterans, Narrating Victimhood traces the complex
mechanisms of political radicalization in a post-war scenario.
This book provides a new perspective for understanding the
ongoing processes of transformation in Southeastern Europe
and the Balkans.
Sam Beck is Senior Lecturer in the College of Human Ecology.
Carl A. Maida is Professor in the Institute of the Environment
and Sustainability.
Volume 8, Studies in public and applied anthropology
July 2015, 388 pages, 44 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-730-5 Hardback $120.00/£75.00
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UP, DOWN, AND SIDEWAYS
Anthropologists Trace the Pathways of Power
Edited by Rachael Stryker and Roberto González
Foreword by Laura Nader
“i really appreciate the way the authors combine the overall
concept of social power with its actual application by decisionmakers that impact the daily lives of ordinary people, and the way
they perceive the realities that they experience in a very wide range
of circumstances…This is a well-structured collection by authors
who all share the same perspective, but they cover a widediversity of areas, both topically and geographically.”
John H. Bodley, Washington State University
Up, Down, and Sideways is a collection of essays by ten
anthropologists who use a “vertical slice” approach to critically
analyze the relationship between undemocratic and
sometimes authoritarian uses and abuses of power today and
the survival of the human species. It is atimely examination of
modern institutions ranging from the nuclear family to
transnational corporations within such countries as Russia,
Mexico, South Korea, Peru, Indonesia, Guatemala, and the U.S.
Rachael Stryker is Assistant Professor in the department of
Human Development and Women’s Studies at California State
University, East Bay. Roberto J. González is Professor of
Anthropology at San Jose State University.
Volume 7, Studies in public and applied anthropology
August 2014, 284 pages, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-401-4 Hardback $105.00/£65.00
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Michaela Schäuble is Lecturer in Social and Visual
Anthropology at the University of Manchester.
Volume 11, Space and place
Available, 392 pages, 28 illus., 1 map, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-260-7 Hardback $120.00/£75.00
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ARAB SPRING
Uprisings, Powers, Interventions
Kjetil Fosshagen
This volume delves beneath the seemingly chaotic nature of
events to explore the structural dynamics underpinning
popular resistance and their support or suppression. It moves
beyond what has usually been deﬁned as Arab Spring nations
to include critical views on Bahrain, the Palestinian territories,
and Turkey. The research and analysis presented explores not
just the immediate protests, but also the historical realization,
appropriation, and even institutionalization of these critical
voices, as well as the role of international criminal law and
legal exceptionalism in authorizing humanitarian
interventions. Above all, it questions whether the revolutions
have since been hijacked and the broad popular uprisings
already overrun, suppressed, or usurped by the upper classes.
Kjetil Fosshagen teaches in the Department of Social
Anthropology at the University of Bergen.
Volume 14, Critical interventions: a Forum for Social analysis
Available, 122 pages, 1 illus., 21 tables, bibliog. Pocket Size 4.25” x 7”
ISBN 978-1-78238-465-6 Paperback $10.00/£6.00
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Edited by Olivia Angé and David Berliner
Cars, Canoes and other Metaphors
of Moral Imagination
“This volume…risks being a future trend-setter in the
anthropological study of memory and temporality, as it captures
a historical moment of growing interest (in and outside the
academy) regarding nostalgia as a social and political
phenomenon, while simultaneously disentangling the multiple
understandings and instrumentalisations that the concept
entails…” Ruy Llera Blanes, University of Bergen
Anthropologists are realizing that nostalgia constitutes a
fascinating object of study for exploring contemporary issues
of identity, politics and history making. Contributors to this
volume explore nostalgic narratives and practices in the ﬁelds
of heritage and tourism, exile and diasporas, postcolonialism
and postsocialism, business and economic exchange, social,
ecological and religious movements, and nation building.
Olivia Angé is a postdoctoral fellow at the Quai Branly
Museum. David Berliner is an Associate Professor of
Anthropology at Université Libre de Bruxelles.
October 2014, 248 pages, 12 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-453-3 Hardback $95.00/£60.00
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DISTRIBUTED OBJECTS
Meaning and Mattering after Alfred Gell
Edited by David Lipset and Richard Handler
“This book oﬀers ethnographic journeys into the daily work of
cultural imaginations by giving attention to what is generally
neglected: their vehicles. Not only functional supports or futile
material dresses, cars, boats or planes are here delightedly
addressed as morale-boosting devices engaged in situated social
relations…These essays show that vehicular units are always
participation units—they are always vernacular units of cultural
agency.” Pierre Lanoy, Université Libre de Bruxelles
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for the moral imagination, for thinking about ethical
dimensions of the social. Vehicles presents a collection of
ethnographic essays on the metaphoric signiﬁcance of
vehicles in diﬀerent cultures, from canoes in Papua New
Guinea to cars in contemporary China, Japan, and Eastern
Europe. Vehicles not only “carry people around,” but also “carry”
how they relate to culture, politics and history.
David Lipset is Professor of Anthropology at the University of
Minnesota. Richard Handler is Professor of Anthropology at
the University of Virginia.
August 2014, 224 pages, 29 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-375-8 Hardback $95.00/£60.00
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Edited by Liana Chua and Mark Elliott
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“Chua and elliott have pulled together an excellent volume to
address a real problem in the interdisciplinary discussions of art…
while i think the volume is most useful for those teaching artsoriented disciplines, it is also a valuable volume for those thinking
through curatorial choices in regard to ethnographic and art
objects.” Museum Anthropology
One of the most inﬂuential anthropological works of the last
two decades, Alfred Gell’s art and agency is a provocative and
ambitious work that both challenged and reshaped
anthropological understandings of art, agency, creativity and
the social. It has become a touchstone in contemporary
artifact-based scholarship. This volume brings together
leading anthropologists, archaeologists, art historians and
other scholars into an interdisciplinary dialogue with art and
agency, generating a timely re-engagement with the themes,
issues and arguments at the heart of Gell’s work, which
remains salient, and controversial, in the social sciences and
humanities. Extending his theory into new territory – from
music to literary technology and ontology to technological
change – the contributors do not simply take stock, but also
provoke, critically reassessing this important work while using
it to challenge conceptual and disciplinary boundaries.
IN THE EVENT
Toward an Anthropology of Generic Moments
Edited by Lotte Meinert and Bruce Kapferer
Based on ethnographic studies from around the world,
varying from rituals and meetings over protests and conﬂicts
to natural disasters and management, this volume unfolds
how to analyze generative moments through events that hold
the key to understanding larger social situations. These
events—including the Ashura ritual in Bahrain, social
cleavages in South Africa, a Buddhist cave in Nepal, drought in
Burkina Faso, an earthquake in Pakistan, the cartoon crisis in
Denmark, corporate management at Bang & Olufsen, protest
meetings in Europe, and ﬂooding and urban citizenship in
Mozambique—are not simply destructive disasters, crises, and
conﬂicts but also generative and constitutive of the social.
Lotte Meinert is Professor of Anthropology in the Department
of Culture and Society at Aarhus University. Bruce Kapferer is
Professor of Anthropology at the University of Bergen.
May 2015, ca 186 pages, ca 7 ills, index
ISBN 978-1-78238-889-0 Paperback $24.95/£15.50
eISBN 978-1-78238-890-6 ca $99.00/£60.00
Liana Chua is Lecturer in Anthropology at Brunel University,
West London. Mark Elliott is Curatorial Research Fellow and
Exhibitions Coordinator at the Museum of Archaeology and
Anthropology, University of Cambridge.
March 2015, 232 pages, 25 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-0-85745-744-8 Hardback $120.00/£75.00 (2013)
IBN 978-1-78238-913-2 Paperback $29.95/£18.50
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Maruška Svašek, School of History and Anthropology,
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The Politics of Memorialization in
Post-Conﬂict Northern Ireland
Perspectives on Materialization and Meaning
Elisabetta Viggiani
Foreword by Hastings Donnan
“This is an excellent piece of work, one of the best of its kind. The
ethnographic approach, with the actual testimonies, is very well
done.” Jack Santino, Bowling Green State University
“This is an excellent account of the reproduction of collective
memory and its associated narratives. it delves into the nature
and construction of memory and the related forms of
propaganda and myth making therein. The inquiry into the
construction of memorialization is vital for any scholar of divided
societies, nation-building and community construction. The book
is important in that it not only describes the processes of such
construction but also pinpoints an analysis of the interpretation of
meaning.” Peter Shirlow, Queen’s University Belfast
Using the memorialization of the Troubles in contemporary
Northern Ireland as a case study, this book investigates how
non-state, often proscribed, organizations have ﬁlled a societal
vacuum in the creation of public memorials. In particular,
these groups have sifted through the past to propose “oﬃcial”
collective narratives of national identiﬁcation, historical
legitimation, and moral justiﬁcations for violence.
Elisabetta Viggiani participated in numerous research
projects carried out by the Institute of Irish Studies at Queen’s
University Belfast on public displays of identity, political rituals,
and symbols in Northern Ireland.
August 2014, 288 pages, 20 illus., 11 tables, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-407-6 Hardback $95.00/£60.00
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TRANSATLANTIC PARALLAXES
Toward Reciprocal Anthropology
Edited by Anne Raulin and Susan Carol Rogers
Anthropological inquiry developed around the study of the
exotic. Now that we live in a world that seems increasingly
familiar, putatively marked by a spreading sameness,
anthropology must re-envision itself. The emergence of
diverse national traditions in the discipline oﬀers one
intriguing path. This volume, the product of a novel encounter
of American anthropologists of France and French
anthropologists of the United States, explores the possibilities
of that path through an experiment in the reciprocal
production of knowledge. Simultaneously native subjects,
foreign experts, and colleagues, these scholars oﬀer novel
insights into each other’s societies, juxtaposing glimpses of
ourselves and a familiar “other” that productively unsettle and
enrich our understanding of both.
Anne Raulin is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at
the University of Paris West-Nanterre-La Defense. Susan Carol
Rogers is Associate Professor of Anthropology at New York
University.
April 2015, 260 pages, 2 tables, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-663-6 Hardback $95.00/£60.00
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OBJECTS AND IMAGINATION
Edited by Øivind Fuglerud and Leon Wainwright
“The volume oﬀers a valuable new addition to recent publications
on material culture by introducing the concept of the imaginary
as a framework for the study of objects…with a variety of case
studies in diﬀerent regional settings it deals with the
‘enchantment of materiality’ (Naguib in the volume), the
meaningfulness of objects, their sensual and emotional
capacities, and the negotiation of value in their representation or
movement across cultural regimes.”
Barbara Plankensteiner, Weltmuseum Wien
Despite the wide interest in material culture, art, and
aesthetics, few studies have considered them in light of the
importance of the social imagination - the complex ways we
conceptualize our social surroundings. This collection engages
the “material turn” in the arts, humanities, and social sciences
through a range of original contributions on creativity in
diverse global and contemporary social settings.
Øivind Fuglerud is Professor of Social Anthropology and Head
of the Department of Ethnography at the Museum of Cultural
History, University of Oslo. Leon Wainwright is Lecturer in Art
History at The Open University.
Volume 3, Material Mediations: people and Things in a world of Movement
February 2015, 272 pages, 41 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-566-0 Hardback $110.00/£68.00
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MOVING SUBJECTS,
MOVING OBJECTS
Transnationalism, Cultural Production
and Emotions
Edited by Maruška Svašek
“…a vibrant volume that leads the reader to an intellectual and
emotional engagement with art, artifacts, and people on the
move.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
This book examines how ‘emotions’ can be theorized, and
serves as a useful analytical tool for understanding the
interrelated mobility of humans, objects and images.
Ethnographically rich, and theoretically grounded case studies
oﬀer new perspectives on the relations between migration,
material culture and emotions. While some chapters address
the many diﬀerent ways in which migrants and migrant artists
express their emotions through objects and images in
transnational contexts, other chapters focus on how particular
works of art, everyday objects and artefacts can evoke feelings
speciﬁc to particular migrant groups and communities.
Maruška Svašek is Reader in the School of History and
Anthropology, Queens University, Belfast.
Volume 1, Material Mediations: people and Things in a world of Movement
Available, 296 pages, 45 illus. & tables, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-0-85745-323-5 Hardback $85.00/£53.00 (2012)
ISBN 978-1-78238-512-7 Paperback $34.95/£22.00
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Edited by Jóhann Páll Árnason and Björn Wittrock
Transnational Perspectives on
Demography in the Twentieth Century
Within the growing attention to the diverse forms and
trajectories of modern societies, the Nordic countries are now
widely seen as a distinctive and instructive case. While
discussions have centred on the ‘Nordic model’ of the welfare
state and its record of adaptation to the changing global
environment of the late twentieth century, this volume’s focus
goes beyond these themes. The guiding principle here is that
a long-term historical-sociological perspective is needed to
make sense of the Nordic paths to modernity; of their
signiﬁcant but not complete convergence in patterns, which
for some time were perceived as aspects of a model to be
emulated in other settings; and of the speciﬁc features that
still set the ﬁve countries in question (Denmark, Sweden,
Norway, Finland and Iceland) apart from one another. The
contributors explore transformative processes, above all the
change from an absolutistmilitary state to a democratic one
with its welfarist phase, as well as the crucial experiences that
will have signiﬁcant implications on future developments.
Jóhann Páll Árnason is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at La
Trobe University, Melbourne. Björn Wittrock is Principal of the
Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS), Uppsala.
December 2014, 296 pages, Bibliog., index
ISBN 978-0-85745-269-6 Hardback $120.00/£75.00 (2012)
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“The contributors to this volume are supremely well-qualiﬁed to
explore these themes; most of them have spent long and
distinguished careers researching these or similar questions…as
one might expect, the book impresses above all with the weight of
scholarship displayed here.” H-Soz-u-Kult
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“i learned something new on almost every page of A World of
Populations, despite having worked very closely in this ﬁeld. The
case studies herein are surprising and fascinating, oﬀering new
geographies and perspectives. This book has made me intrigued
and curious about demography and world population all over
again.”
Alison Bashford, University of Cambridge, author of global
population
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shaped family planning, population growth, medical practice,
and environmental conservation. While covering a variety of
regions and time periods, the essays in this book share an
interest in the transnational dynamics of emerging
demographic discourses and practices. Together, they present
a global picture of the history of demographic knowledge.
Heinrich Hartmann is Assistant Professor of History at the
University of Basel, Switzerland. Corinna R. Unger is Associate
Professor of Modern European History at Jacobs University
Bremen.
September 2014, 264 pages, 5 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-427-4 Hardback $95.00/£60.00
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SOCIAL BONDS AS FREEDOM
Revisiting the Dichotomy of the
Universal and the Particular
Edited by Paul Dumouchel and Reiko Gotoh
DARK TROPHIES
Hunting and the Enemy Body in Modern War
Simon Harrison
“prepare to cringe. as if the horrors of combat were not enough,
Harrison introduces another brutal, and ultimately fascinating,
element of humans at war: military trophy taking…an important
book. Highly recommended.” Choice
Many anthropological accounts of warfare in indigenous
societies have described the taking of heads or other body
parts as trophies. But almost nothing is known of the
prevalence of trophy-taking of this sort in the armed forces of
contemporary nation-states. This book is a history of this type
of misconduct among military personnel over the past two
centuries, exploring its close connections with colonialism,
scientiﬁc collecting and concepts of race, and how it is a
model for violent power relationships between groups.
Simon Harrison is Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology
at the University of Ulster.
Available, 244 pages, 2 ﬁgures, bibliog., index
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“This excellent set of essays oﬀers a fantastic contribution to how
we might consider the relation between the national and the
global in modern political thought, written by many of the
leading international ﬁgures in the ﬁeld…a terriﬁc resource for
anyone interested in engaging more deeply with the ways we
should conceive liberal democracy in light of globalization with
far reaching implications for politics, philosophy and public
policy.” Thom Brooks, Durham University
Central to discussions of multiculturalism and minority rights
in modern liberal societies is the idea that the particular
demands of minority groups contradict the requirements of
equality, anonymity, and universality for citizenship and
belonging. The contributors to this volume question the
signiﬁcance of this dichotomy between the universal and the
particular.
Paul Dumouchel is Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate
School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences, Ritsumeikan
University, Kyoto, Japan. Reiko Gotoh is Professor at the
Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo.
July 2015, 296 pages, 4 tables, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-693-3 Hardback $95.00/£60.00
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General Editor:
David Parkin, Fellow of
All Souls College, Oxford
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UNDERSTANDING CULTURAL
TRANSMISSION IN ANTHROPOLOGY
Authenticity and the Interview
A Critical Synthesis
Edited by Katherine Smith, James Staples and Nigel Rapport
Edited by Roy Ellen, Stephen J. Lycett, and Sarah E. Johns
“…a diverse group of scholars who have a broad range of
experience as ethnographers and whose work with interviews, life
stories and biography highlight the extraordinariness of social
encounters.” Tamara Kohn, University of Melbourne
“This is an important contribution to the study of human
knowledge and cultural transmission, and it squarely addresses
contemporary concerns to cultivate a cross-disciplinary exchange
of ideas and methods…The chapters are of high academic
standard, well written and accessible to the interested reader who
does not (and is unlikely to) possess expertise in each of the ﬁelds
represented.” Trevor H.J. Marchand, SOAS, University of London
The interview creates a context of interaction with a particular
authenticity to experience. Contributors explore how the
interview is experienced as a particular kind of knowing within
which personal, biographic, and social norms are explored and
interrogated, providing direction and awareness for future
encounters.
Katherine Smith lectures in Social Anthropology at the
University of Manchester. James Staples is Senior Lecturer in
Anthropology at Brunel University. Nigel Rapport is Professor
of Anthropological, Philosophical and Film Studies at the
University of St Andrews.
Volume 28, Methodology & History in anthropology
March 2015, 204 pages, 2 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-589-9 Hardback $70.00/£43.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-590-5
UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL
On Peripheral Perspectives and the
Production of Anthropological Knowledge
This book brings together contributions that reﬂect the
current diversity of approaches - from the ﬁelds of biology,
primatology, palaeoanthropology, psychology, social
anthropology, ethnobiology, and archaeology - to examine
social and cultural transmission from a range of perspectives
and at diﬀerent scales of generalization.
Roy Ellen is Professor of Anthropology and Human Ecology at
the University of Kent, Canterbury. Stephen J. Lycett is Senior
Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Kent, Canterbury.
Sarah E. Johns is a Lecturer in Evolutionary Anthropology at
the University of Kent, Canterbury.
Volume 26, Methodology & History in anthropology
Available, 392 pages, 33 illus., 10 tables, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-0-85745-993-0 Hardback $95.00/£60.00 (2013)
ISBN 978-1-78238-071-9 Paperback $39.95/£25.00
eISBN 978-0-85745-994-7
Edited by Cris Shore and Susanna Trnka
ANYONE
“The book thus oﬀers both unsettling and highly inspirational
reading material, especially forvacademics emerging from the
world’s metropolises. it raises issues that are frequently overlooked
and which represent unavoidable starting points for those doing
anthropology today in the antipodes and elsewhere.”
Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
The Cosmopolitan Subject of Anthropology
Combining rich personal accounts from twelve veteran
anthropologists with reﬂexive analyses of the state of
anthropology today, this book is a treatise on theory and
method oﬀering fresh insights into the production of
anthropological knowledge, from the creation of key concepts
to major paradigm shifts. Particular focus is given to how
‘peripheral perspectives’ can help re-shape the discipline and
the ways that anthropologists think about contemporary
culture and society. From urban Maori communities in
Aotearoa/New Zealand to the Highlands of Papua New
Guinea, from Arnhem Land in Australia to the villages of
Yorkshire, these accounts take us to the heart of the
anthropological endeavour, decentring mainstream
perspectives, and revealing the intimate relationships and
processes that create anthropological knowledge.
Cris Shore is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University
of Auckland. Susanna Trnka is a Senior Lecturer in the
Department of Anthropology at the University of Auckland.
Volume 25, Methodology & History in anthropology
Available, 284 pages, 23 ills, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-0-85745-846-9 Hardback $95.00/£60.00
eISBN 978-0-85745-847-6
Nigel Rapport
“Contributing to the rich and diverse literature on cosmopolitanism
that has come out of the social sciences and humanities over the
past decade and a half, Nigel rapport oﬀers us a robust discussion
of the topic…while one of the several edited volumes published on
cosmopolitanism during the past decade and a half might be a
better ﬁrst read for those unfamiliar with the topic, this book would
serve as an excellent follow-up. in particular, this book will be of
interest to scholars of cosmopolitanism, human rights, and
contemporary anthropological theory.” Anthropos
Cosmopolitanism oﬀers an alternative to multiculturalism, a
diﬀerent vision of identity, belonging, solidarity and justice,
that avoids the seemingly intractable character of identity
politics: it identiﬁes samenesses of the human condition that
underlie the surface diﬀerences of history, culture and society,
nation, ethnicity, religion, class, race and gender. This book
argues for the importance of cosmopolitanism as a theory of
human being, as a methodology for social science and as a
moral and political program.
Nigel Rapport is Professor of Anthropological and
Philosophical Studies at the University of St. Andrews.
Volume 24, Methodology & History in anthropology
Available, 238 pages, 8 illus, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-0-85745-519-2 Hardback $99.00/£60.00 (2012)
ISBN 978-1-78238-526-4 Paperback $24.95/£15.50
eISBN 978-0-85745-523-9
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N e w i N pa p e r B aC k
New
THE SCOPE OF ANTHROPOLOGY
TOURISM IMAGINARIES
Maurice Godelier’s Work in Context
Anthropological Approaches
Edited by Laurent Dousset and Serge Tcherkézoﬀ
Edited by Noel B. Salazar and Nelson H. H. Graburn
Afterword by Naomi Leite
“This is an extremely welcome addition to the literature -unfortunately, too many english-speakers today think of godelier
as a footnote in the history of Marxist anthropology. This volume
helps us remember the importance of godelier as a thinker of the
ﬁrst order and a major bridge between the anglophone and
Francophone anthropology.”
Alex Golub, University of Hawai’i, Manoa
Some of the most prominent social and cultural
anthropologists have come together in this volume to discuss
Maurice Godelier’s work. They explore and revisit some of the
highly complex practices and structures social scientists
encounter in their ﬁeldwork. From the nature–culture debate
to the fabrication of hereditary political systems, from
transforming gender relations to the problems of the
Christianization of indigenous peoples, these chapters
demonstrate both the diversity of anthropological topics and
the opportunity for constructive dialogue around shared
methodological and theoretical models.
“This is a ﬁne text that engages with pressing issues in the
anthropology of tourism. it takes an ethnographic approach to
the work of the imaginary in the tourism engagement…this
volume lies at the vanguard of engagements with tourism by
anthropologists and represents the best scholars in the world
collectively and thoroughly engaging with the topic.”
Jonathan Skinner, University of Roehampton
“…an interesting and timely collection of chapters that make an
original contribution to academic debate about tourism
imaginaries… a deﬁnite strength of the book is the contributions
from authors from a range of countries (whose chapters are based
on a wide range of locations around the world, some in europe
but most in the Developing world).”
Duncan Light, Manchester Metropolitan University
Laurent Dousset is Associate Professor at the School for
Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS). Serge
Tcherkézoﬀ is Professor of Anthropology at the School for
Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris-Marseille.
As a nexus of social practices through which individuals and
groups establish places and peoples as credible objects of
tourism, “tourism imaginaries” have yet to be fully explored.
Presenting innovative conceptual approaches, this volume
advances ethnographic research methods and critical
scholarship regarding tourism and the imaginaries that drive
it.
Volume 23, Methodology & History in anthropology
October 2014, 296 pages, 10 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-0-85745-331-0 Hardback $120.00/£75.00 (2012)
ISBN 978-1-78238-532-5 Paperback $34.95/£22.00
eISBN 978-0-85745-332-7
Noel B. Salazar is Research Professor in Anthropology at the
University of Leuven, Belgium. Nelson H. H. Graburn is
Professor of the Graduate School and Professor Emeritus of
Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.
DURKHEIM IN DIALOGUE
June 2014, 304 pages, 20 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-367-3 Hardback $95.00/£60.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-368-0
A Centenary Celebration of The
Elementary Forms of Religious Life
Edited by Sondra L. Hausner
One hundred years after the publication of the great
sociological treatise, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life,
this new volume shows how aptly Durkheim’s theories still
resonate with the study of contemporary and historical
religious societies. The volume applies the Durkheimian model
to multiple cases, probing its resilience, wondering where it
might be tweaked, and asking which aspects have best stood
the test of time. A dialogue between theory and ethnography,
this book shows how Durkheimian sociology has become a
mainstay of social thought and theory, pointing to multiple
ways in which Durkheim’s work on religion remains relevant to
our thinking about culture.
Sondra L. Hausner is Oxford¹s ﬁrst University Lecturer in the
Study of Religion.
Volume 27, Methodology & History in anthropology
Available, 280 pages, 10 ﬁgures & tables, 1 map, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-021-4 Hardback $99.00/£62.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-022-1
Travel & Tourism
Methodology & History in Anthropology
TRAVEL
& TOURISM
JAPANESE TOURISM
Spaces, Places and Structures
Carolin Funck and Malcolm Cooper
“The volume's scope suggests how daunting the editors' task was,
and they do a credible job, addressing issues ranging from
governmental policy to heritage tourism to the possibilities of
virtual tourism in the 21st century. This is a good introduction to
the subject…what the authors do accomplish is signiﬁcant,
particularly for comparative tourism studies…Highly
recommended.” Choice
As well as providing a case study for the purpose of
investigating the changing face of global tourism from the
19th to the 21st Century, this account of Japanese tourism
explores both domestic social relations and international
geographical, political and economic relations, especially in
the northeast Asian context.
Carolin Funck is Associate Professor in Human Geography at
Hiroshima University (Japan) Graduate School of Integrated
Arts and Sciences. Malcolm Cooper was Vice-President,
Research and International Cooperation until 2011 at
Ritsumeikan Asia Paciﬁc University, Beppu, Japan.
Volume 5, asia-paciﬁc Studies: past and present
Available, 256 pages, 40 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-075-7 Hardback $90.00/£55.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-076-4
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SERIES
Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality
Fertility, Reproduction
and Sexuality
New
GLOBALIZED FATHERHOOD
Edited by Marcia C. Inhorn, Wendy Chavkin
and José-Alberto Navarro
“The book provides manifold empirical and ethnographic insights
into the ways in which men around the globe think of and enact
fatherhood and into how diﬀerent historical, national, global,
societal and cultural conditions shape men’s possibilities of
becoming and being fathers. The book convincingly shows that
fatherhood is closely related to family life, kinship concerns,
marriage, parenthood, partnership, gender identity, sexuality and
class.” Tine Tjørnhøj-Thomsen, University of Southern Denmark
Looking through a twenty-ﬁrst century lens, anthropologists,
sociologists, and cultural geographers consider fatherhood
from Peru to India to Vietnam. The volume highlights the
globally emergent, transnationally inﬂected transformations in
fathering, fatherhood, and family life, suggesting that men
throughout the world are responding to globalization as
fathers in creative and unprecedented ways.
Marcia C. Inhorn is the William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of
Anthropology and International Aﬀairs at Yale University.
Wendy Chavkin is Professor of Public Health and Obstetrics
and Gynecology at the Columbia University Mailman School
of Public Health in New York City. José-Alberto Navarro is an
MSc student at HEC Paris.
Volume 27, Fertility, reproduction and Sexuality
October 2014, 430 pages, 3 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-437-3 Hardback $120.00/£75.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-438-0
New
COUSIN MARRIAGES
Between Tradition, Genetic Risk
and Cultural Change
Edited by Alison Shaw and Aviad Raz
“…an engaging multi-disciplinary reﬂection on a common
theme, namely, cross-cousin marriage. The collection oﬀers
perspectives – sociological, anthropological, historical, clinical
and political – on the practice of cousin marriage and particularly
as this distinctive marital strategy gains visibility.”
Bob Simpson, Durham University
Juxtaposing contributions from geneticists and
anthropologists, this volume provides a contemporary
overview of cousin marriage, presenting a reﬂective,
interdisciplinary analysis of the social and ethical issues raised
by both the discourse of risk in cousin marriage, as well as
existing and potential interventions to promote “healthy
consanguinity.”
Alison Shaw is a Senior Research Fellow in Social
Anthropology in the Nuﬃeld Department of Population
Health at the University of Oxford. Aviad E. Raz is Professor at
the Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology at Ben-Gurion
University.
General Editors:
Soraya Tremayne, Founding
Director, Fertility and
Reproduction Studies Group and
Research Associate, Institute of Social
and Cultural Anthropology,
University of Oxford
Marcia C. Inhorn, William K.
Lanman, Jr. Professor of
Anthropology and International
Affairs, Yale University
David Parkin, Fellow of All Souls
College, University of Oxford
Philip Kreager, Director, Fertility and
Reproduction Studies Group, and
Research Associate, Institute of Social
and Cultural Anthropology and
Institute of Human Sciences,
University of Oxford
New
NIGHTTIME BREASTFEEDING
An American Cultural Dilemma
Cecília Tomori
“i have nothing but praise for this book and its worth. it is written
in a ﬂawless and eﬀortless manner. i loved the tone and how it
packs in so much factorial information without the reader
knowing it, but at the same time explores in-depth intimate life
decisions and care giving practices that we have never seen so
closely and so vividly presented.”
James J. McKenna, University of Notre Dame
“The controversies prompted by nighttime breastfeeding touch on
so many hot-button issues in american culture: sexuality, child
endangerment, the importance of individualism and
independence in american culture to name a few. and this author
handles the issue with sophistication and clarity.”
Jacqueline H. Wolf, Ohio University
Nighttime breastfeeding and sleep for many new parents in
the United States is fraught with intense challenges. Through a
close ethnographic examination, this volume explores the
impact of conﬂicting medical guidelines about breastfeeding
and infant sleep, and uncovers cultural tensions about
expectations for children, parents, and their relationship.
Cecília Tomori is currently a Research Associate at the Johns
Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Volume 26, Fertility, reproduction and Sexuality
October 2014, 312 pages, 4 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-435-9 Hardback $110.00/£68.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-436-6
FOrTHCOMiNg
ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE
TECHNOLOGIES IN THE THIRD PHASE
Global Encounters and Emerging Moral Worlds
Edited by Kate Hampshire and Bob Simpson
“...a fascinating read...The complex intersections between gender,
kinship, region, nationality, ethnicity, and religion — as well as the
vicissitudes of individual agency — are very clearly demonstrated
in this volume. For this alone it will be welcomed as a substantial
accomplishment.” Sarah Franklin, Cambridge University
The “First Phase” of Assisted Reproductive Technologies
followed the ﬁrst “test-tube baby” birth, when treatments were
available only to the wealthy. In the “Second Phase,” these
treatments became available to a wider, but still elite,
population. This volume explores the “Third Phase,” as ARTs are
becoming a standard part of reproductive healthcare.
Kate Hampshire is Reader in Anthropology at Durham
University. Bob Simpson is Professor of Anthropology at
Durham University.
Volume 31, Fertility, reproduction and Sexuality
September 2015, 264 pages, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-807-4 Hardback $95.00/£60.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-808-1
Volume 28, Fertility, reproduction and Sexuality
January 2015, 262 pages, 9 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-492-2 Hardback $90.00/£56.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-493-9
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New
N e w i N pa p e r B aC k
ACHIEVING PROCREATION
IDENTITY POLITICS
AND THE NEW GENETICS
Childlessness and IVF in Turkey
Merve Demircioğlu Göknar
“Many women in Turkey feel (or are made to feel) that they are not
complete or fully adult until they produce a child, preferably a boy
. . .This book tells the stories of childless women who resort to iVF
at great expense and much suﬀering in order to achieve that
status. a poignant call for changes in this patriarchal culture.”
Carol Delaney, Professor Emerita, Stanford University
Managing social relationships for childless couples in pronatalist societies can be a diﬃcult art to master. With
ethnographic research gathered in northwestern Turkey, this
book explores infertility and assisted reproductive
technologies within a secular Muslim population and how
social experience leads to a decision for — or against —
having an IVF.
Merve Demircioğlu Göknar is a Medical Anthropologist who
specializes in reproduction, gender and religion.
Volume 29, Fertility, reproduction and Sexuality
June 2015, 220 pages, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-634-6 Hardback $80.00/£50.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-635-3
New
THAI IN VITRO
Gender, Culture and Assisted Reproduction
Andrea Whittaker
“. . .an important contribution to the growing ﬁeld of social studies
of infertility treatment. . .assisted reproductive technologies (arTs)
are now routine throughout the world, and it is crucial that we
learn more about how they gain a foothold in particular
countries.” Ayo Wahlberg, University of Copenhagen
“This is a splendid piece of scholarly work, and demonstrates the
discipline of anthropology and of ﬁne-grained ethnographic
research and critically reﬂexive analysis at its best. it ﬁlls a much
needed gap in the anthropology of Thailand and in the provision
of solid ethnographic data on the topic of assisted reproduction
more generally.”
Graham Fordham, Australian National University
In Thailand, infertility remains a source of stigma for those
couples that combine a range of religious, traditional and
high-tech interventions in their quest for a child. This book
explores this experience of infertility and the pursuit and use
of assisted reproductive technologies by Thai couples. Though
using assisted reproductive technologies is becoming more
acceptable in Thai society, access to and choices about such
technologies are mediated by diﬀerences in class position.
These stories of women and men in private and public
infertility clinics reveal how local social and moral sensitivities
inﬂuence the practices and meanings of treatment.
Andrea Whittaker is ARC Future Fellow and Convenor of
Anthropology at Monash University.
Volume 30, Fertility, reproduction and Sexuality
June 2015, 276 pages, 17 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-732-9 Hardback $110.00/£68.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-733-6
Re/Creating Categories of Diﬀerence
and Belonging
Edited by Katharina Schramm, David Skinner
and Richard Rottenburg
“This wide-ranging, international collection considers many of the
practical, ethical and political questions raised by the proliferation
of genetic research and testing around the world…almost all of
the chapters deal in a sophisticated way with questions about
how ideas of identity, race, and kinship are being shaped by their
interaction with genetic technologies and the way those
technologies are being interpreted.”
Contemporary Sociology. A Journal of Reviews
This volume investigates the ways in which existing social
categories are both maintained and transformed at the
intersection of the natural (sciences) and the cultural (politics).
The contributors include medical researchers, anthropologists,
historians of science and sociologists of race relations;
together, they explore the new and challenging landscape
where biology becomes the stuﬀ of identity.
Medical Anthropology
MEDICAL
ANTHROPOLOGY
Katharina Schramm is Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Social
Anthropology at Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
and Research Associate at the Max Planck Institute for Social
Anthropology. David Skinner is Reader in Sociology at Anglia
Ruskin University, UK. Richard Rottenburg holds a Chair in
Social Anthropology at Martin-Luther-University HalleWittenberg.
Volume 6, Studies of the Biosocial Society
November 2014, 226 pages, 4 tables & ﬁgs, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-0-85745-253-5 Hardback $120.00/£75.00 (2012)
ISBN 978-1-78238-682-7 Paperback $29.95/£18.50
eISBN 978-0-85745-254-2
THE ETHICS OF THE NEW EUGENICS
Edited by Calum MacKellar and Christopher Bechtel
“The book is clearly written, easy to follow, well-structured, and
well-researched. a lay audience will easily access and understand
the debate and realize what is at stake with the new eugenics.
Medical procedures and technical concepts are well explained…
[its] importance and relevance cannot be overstated...a must-read
in our day and age, especially when biotechnology and the new
eugenics can be a threat to all of humanity.”
Johann A. R. Roduit, Institute of Biomedical Ethics, University
of Zurich
This inter-disciplinary volume blends research from
embryology, genetics, philosophy, sociology, psychology, and
history. In so doing, it constructs a thorough picture of the
procedures emerging from today’s reproductive
developments, including a rigorous ethical argumentation
concerning the possible advantages and risks related to the
new eugenics.
Calum MacKellar is Director of Research of the Scottish
Council on Human Bioethics, Edinburgh. Christopher Bechtel
holds a degree in Philosophy and is a Research Fellow with the
Scottish Council on Human Bioethics, Edinburgh, UK.
Available, 242 pages, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-120-4 Hardback $95.00/£60.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-121-1
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THE CULTURAL POLITICS
OF REPRODUCTION
Negotiating Anorexia
Migration, Health and Family Making
Richard A. O' Connor and Penny van Esterik
Edited by Maya Unnithan-Kumar and Sunil K. Khanna
"i found this to be a top-notch scholarly work written in a way that
will be accessible for diverse audiences including students,
professional clinicians, academics, and the interested lay public."
Janet Dixon Keller, University of Illinois
“This is a welcome addition to the literature on both migration
and reproduction, bringing together in interesting ways the
causes and consequences of forcible or agentive movement upon
birth practices, plans, and outcomes…Overall, the chapters
complement each other… providing a nice mix of ethnographic
breadth and detailed analysis.”
Perveez Mody, King’s College, Cambridge
Charting the experiences of migrant communities, the volume
examines the relationship between movement, reproduction,
and health. Informed by research in Europe, Britain, South and
East Asia, Canada and Northern America, the chapters
examine how healthcare experiences of migrants are
embedded in their own worldviews and inﬂuenced by wider
state systems.
Maya Unnithan-Kumar is Professor of Social and Medical
Anthropology at the University of Sussex. Sunil K. Khanna is a
Professor of International Health in the College of Public
Health and Human Sciences at Oregon State University.
FROM VIRTUE TO VICE
The recovered possess the key to overcoming anorexia.
Although individual suﬀerers do not know how the aﬄiction
takes hold, piecing their stories together reveals two
accidental aﬄictions. One is that activity disorders—dieting,
exercising, healthy eating—start as virtuous practices, but
become addictive obsessions. The other aﬄiction is a
developmental disorder, which also starts with the virtuous—
those eager for challenge and change. But these
overachievers who seek self-improvement get a distorted life
instead. Knowing anorexia from inside, the recovered oﬀer
two watchwords on helping those who suﬀer. One is
"negotiate," to encourage compromise, which can aid
recovery where coercion fails. The other is "balance," for the ill
to pursue mind-with-body activities to defuse mind-overbody battles.
November 2014, 206 pages, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-544-8 Hardback $95.00/£60.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-545-5
Richard A. O'Connor is Biehl Professor of International Studies
and Anthropology at The University of the South. Penny Van
Esterik is a retired Professor of Anthropology from York
University.
THE CULT AND SCIENCE
OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Volume 4, Food, Nutrition, and Culture
March 2015, 264 pages, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-455-7 Hardback $95.00/£60.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-456-4
A Sociological Investigation
Kevin Dew
FOrTHCOMiNg
“…an extremely detailed, structured and intelligent investigation
into the vast, constantly changing world of public health. Dew
excels at addressing the many diﬀerent variants of public health
as a whole: from epidemiology and social determinants to
expansive campaigns focused on large populations and
environments where the lines between hazard and health
become blurred. where other pieces of work of this nature tend to
read as broad and one-sided, Dew has provided a stellar account
of the importance of public health in our world as well as the
eﬀect the role of public health has on our societies.” Social Analysis
This study focuses on this tension between traditional science
and the changing vision articulated within public health (and
across many disciplines) that calls for a collective response to
uncontrolled capitalism and unremitting globalization, and to
the way in which health inequalities and their association with
social inequalities provides a political rhetoric that calls for a
new redistributive social programme. Drawing on decades of
research, the author argues that public health is both a cult
and a science of contemporary society.
INDIGENOUS MEDICINE AMONG
THE BEDOUIN IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Aref Abu-Rabia
Modern medicine has penetrated Bedouin tribes, but when
serious illnesses strike, even educated people turn to
traditional medicine for a remedy. Based on interviews with
healers, clients, and other active participants in treatments,
this book will contribute to renewed thinking about a
synthesis between traditional and modern medicine — to
their reciprocal enrichment.
Aref Abu-Rabia is an Anthropologist at the Department of
Middle East Studies at Ben-Gurion University.
September 2015, 224 pages, 11 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-689-6 Hardback $95.00/£60.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-690-2
Kevin Dew is Professor of Sociology in the School of Social
and Cultural Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New
Zealand.
Available, 188 pages, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-0-85745-339-6 Hardback $70.00/£42.00 (2012)
978-1-78238-518-9 Paperback $24.95/£15.50
eISBN 978-0-85745-340-2
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SERIES
New
HEALING ROOTS
General Editors:
David Parkin, Fellow of All Souls
College, University of Oxford
Elizabeth Hsu, Institute of Social
and Cultural Anthropology,
University of Oxford
New
RITUAL RETELLINGS
Anthropology in Life and Medicine
Luangan Healing Performances through Practice
Julie Laplante
Isabell Herrmans
“This book represents an interesting addition to the emerging
series of articles and books dedicated to the study of the
interactions between western and african systems of
knowledge…[it] is very provocative and will no doubt provoke
many intellectual debates.” Gilles Bibeau, Université de Montréal
“i consider this book to be a valuable contribution to Southeast
asian ethnography and to the study of ritual performance and
healing. The author eﬀectively explores the connections of her
study to contemporary approaches to the study of ritual meaning
and practice, and to the wider ethnographic literature. The book
reads as an extended conversation with colleagues about ways to
approach, present, and understand curing rituals.”
Jane Monnig Atkinson, Lewis & Clark College
Laplante follows umhlonyane — one of the oldest and bestdocumented indigenous medicines in South Africa. The
volume follows the plant anthropologically on its trails and
trials of becoming a biopharmaceutical — from the “open air”
to controlled environments — learning from the plant itself,
and from the people who use it with hopes in healing.
Julie Laplante is Associate Professor in the Department of
Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Ottawa.
Volume 15, epistemologies of Healing
February 2015, 276 pages, 25 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-554-7 Hardback $95.00/£60.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-555-4
N e w i N pa p e r B aC k
THE BODY IN BALANCE
Humoral Medicines in Practice
Edited by Peregrine Horden and Elisabeth Hsu
“This is a model of what an edited volume can and should be,
bringing a wide range of geographic and temporal frames into
dialogue to help rethink a notion that is arguably crucial to each
one of them. it is a superior study, and i am conﬁdent that it will
become a classic volume in the history of medicine.”
Carla Nappi, University of British Columbia
Focusing on practice more than theory, this collection oﬀers
new perspectives for studying the so-called “humoral medical
traditions,” as they have ﬂourished around the globe during
the last 2,000 years. Exploring notions of “balance” in medical
cultures across Eurasia, Africa and the Americas, from antiquity
to the present, the volume revisits “harmony” and “holism” as
main characteristics of those traditions. It foregrounds a
dynamic notion of balance and asks how balance is deﬁned or
conceptualized, by whom, for whom and in what
circumstances. Balance need not connoteegalitarianism or
equilibrium. Rather, it alludes to morals of self care exercised in
place of excessiveness and indulgences after long periods of a
life in dearth. As the moral becomes visceral, the question
arises: what constitutes the visceral in a body that is in
constant ﬂux and ﬂow? How far, and in what ways, are there
fundamental properties or constituents in those bodies?
Peregrine Horden is Professor of Medieval History at Royal
Holloway, University of London. Elisabeth Hsu is Professor of
Anthropology at the Institute of Social and Cultural
Anthropology of the University of Oxford, and Governing Body
Fellow of Green Templeton College.
Volume 13, epistemologies of Healing
February 2015, 300 pages, 4 ﬁgures & tables, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-0-85745-982-4 Hardback $120.00/£75.00 (2013)
ISBN 978-1-78238-907-1 Paperback $34.95/£22.00
eISBN 978-0-85745-983-1
The book is an ethnography of belian, a lively tradition of
shamanistic curing rituals performed by the Luangans of
Indonesian Borneo. This volume demonstrates the importance
of understanding rituals as emergent within their speciﬁc
historical and social settings, and highlights the irreducibility
of lived reality to epistemological certainty.
Isabell Herrmans is a post-doctoral researcher in Social and
Cultural Anthropology at the University of Helsinki.
Volume 16, epistemologies of Healing
March 2015, 296 pages, 20 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-564-6 Hardback $95.00/£60.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-565-3
Epistemologies of Healing
Epistemologies
of Healing
ASYMMETRICAL CONVERSATIONS
Contestations, Circumventions, and
the Blurring of Therapeutic Boundaries
Edited by Harish Naraindas, Johannes Quack,
and William S. Sax
“This is a compelling and intellectually satisfying volume that
oﬀers important new ethnographic work which, i would argue,
revitalizes studies of medical pluralism…an important project by
some of the most outstanding and well-known scholars in these
areas of study — several of whose names readers will recognize
and inspire interest in the volume.”
Murphy Halliburton, City University of New York
Ideas about health are reinforced by institutions and their
corresponding practices, such as donning a patient's gown in
a hospital or prostrating before a healing shrine. Even though
we are socialized into regarding such ideologies as "natural"
and unproblematic, we sometimes seek to bypass,
circumvent, or even transcend the dominant ideologies of our
cultures as they are manifested in the institutions of health
care. The contributors to this volume describe such
contestations and circumventions of health ideologies, and
the blurring of therapeutic boundaries, on the basis of case
studies from India, the South Asian Diaspora, and Europe,
focusing on relations between body, mind, and spirit in a
variety of situations.
Harish Naraindas has taught at the Universities of Delhi, Iowa,
Freiburg and Heidelberg. Johannes Quack is Principal
Investigator of the Emmy Noether-Project “The Diversity of
Nonreligion” at Goethe-University, Frankfurt. William S. Sax has
taught at Harvard, Christchurch, Paris, and Heidelberg, where
he is Chair of Ethnology at the South Asia Institute.
Volume 14, epistemologies of Healing
Available, 276 pages, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-308-6 Hardback $95.00/£60.00 (2014)
eISBN 978-1-78238-309-3
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SERIES
Life Course, Culture and Aging:
Global Transformations
FOOD &
NUTRITION
General Editor:
Jay Sokolovsky, University of South Florida
St. Petersburg
Published by Berghahn Books under the auspices
of the Association for Anthropology and
Gerontology (AAGE) and the American
Anthropological Association Interest Group on
Aging and the Life Course
N e w i N pa p e r B aC k
TRANSITIONS AND
TRANSFORMATIONS
Cultural Perspectives on
Aging and the Life Course
Edited by Caitrin Lynch and Jason Danely
Afterword by Jennifer Cole, University of Chicago
“This volume is a welcome addition to [the literature], particularly
because it speaks to concerns in the cross-cultural study of aging
and in anthropology. it was a pleasure to read.”
Peter Collings, University of Florida
This volume reframes aging on a global scale by illustrating
the multiple ways it is embedded within individual, social, and
cultural life courses. It presents a broad range of ethnographic
work, introducing a variety of conceptual and methodological
approaches to studying life-course transitions in conjunction
with broader sociocultural transformations. The authors
explore not simply our understandings of growing older, but
the interweaving of individual maturity and intergenerational
relationships, social and economic institutions, and intimate
experiences of gender, identity, and the body.
Caitrin Lynch is Associate Professor of Anthropology at
Franklin W. Olin. Jason Danely is Assistant Professor of
Anthropology at Rhode Island College.
Volume 1, Life Course, Culture and aging: global Transformations
February 2015, 272 pages, 16 illus. & tables, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-0-85745-778-3 Hardback $120.00/£75.00 (2013)
ISBN 978-1-78238-906-4 Paperback $34.95/£22.00
eISBN 978-0-85745-779-0
RECONSTRUCTING OBESITY
The Meaning of Measures
and the Measure of Meanings
Edited by Megan McCullough and Jessica Hardin
Afterword by Stephen T. McGarvey
“By situating this collection at the nexus of understanding of
knowledge about obesity and obesity itself as contextual,
sociocultural, and contested phenomena, the various authors
contribute to an understanding of obesity as both a local biology
and a global assemblage…Highly recommended.” Choice
In the crowded and busy arena of obesity and fat studies,
there is a lack of attention to the lived experiences of people,
how and why they eat what they do, and how people in crosscultural settings understand risk, health, and bodies. This
volume addresses the lacuna by drawing on ethnographic
methods and analytical emic explorations in order to consider
the impact of cultural diﬀerence, embodiment, and local
knowledge on understanding obesity. It is through this
reconstruction of how obesity and fatness are studied and
understood that a new discussion will be introduced and a
new set of analytical explorations about obesity research and
the eﬀectiveness of obesity interventions will be established.
Megan B. McCullough is a Medical Anthropologist. Jessica A.
Hardin is a PhD Candidate at Brandeis University.
Volume 2, Food, Nutrition, and Culture
Available, 256 pages, 5 ﬁgures, 1 table, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-141-9 Hardback $90.00/£56.00 (2013)
eISBN 978-1-78238-142-6
New
AGING AND THE
DIGITAL LIFE COURSE
Edited by David Prendergast and Chiara Garattini
Bianca Brijnath
“. . . a comprehensive view of a topic that is becoming increasingly
important in health care but is often misunderstood and/or
undervalued. it presents the actual/potential use of technology for
enhancing the lives of older people and their caregivers.”
Catherine McCabe, Trinity College Dublin
“This is a superb study, one of the most exciting, original,
perceptive and engrossing books i have read in india studies and
aging studies in some time...One of the most attractive features of
it is its eloquent, often poetic, writing style that draws the reader in
from the ﬁrst pages through to the end.”
Sarah Lamb, Brandeis University
Breaking new ground in the study of technology and aging,
this book examines how technological developments are
redeﬁning experiences and expectations around growing
older in the twenty-ﬁrst century. This book explores the key
themes of social media, robotics, chronic disease and
dementia management, care-giving, gaming, migration and
data inheritance.
New
UNFORGOTTEN
Love and the Culture of Dementia Care in India
Though the number of people living with dementia in India
will rise with increased life expectancy, little is known about
how people in India cope with dementia. Unforgotten oﬀers a
rich ethnographic account of how middle-class families in
urban India care for their relatives with dementia—
illuminating idioms on dementia and aging, the experience of
care-giving, and the social and cultural barriers in accessing
support.
David Prendergast is a Social Anthropologist based at Intel
Labs Europe. Chiara Garattini is an Anthropologist working as
part of the Health & Life Sciences group at Intel.
Volume 3, Life Course, Culture and aging: global Transformations
June 2015, 300 pages, 6 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-691-9 Hardback $120.00/£75.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-692-6
Bianca Brijnath is a NHMRC Early Career Fellow in the
Department of General Practice, Monash University, Australia.
Volume 2, Life Course, Culture and aging: global Transformations
July 2014, 240 pages, 11 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-354-3 Hardback $95.00/£60.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-355-0
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SERIES
WYSE Series in Social Anthropology
Editors:
Maryon McDonald, Fellow and Director of Studies,
Robinson College, University of Cambridge
Henrietta L. Moore, William Wyse Chair of Social
Anthropology, University of Cambridge
New
N e w i N pa p e r B aC k
FOOD IN ZONES OF CONFLICT
SOCIALITY
Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
New Directions
Edited by Paul Collinson and Helen Macbeth
Foreword by Hugo Slim
Edited by Nicholas J. Long and Henrietta L. Moore
The availability of food is an especially signiﬁcant issue in
zones of conﬂict because conﬂict nearly always impinges on
the production and the distribution of food, and causes
increased competition for food, land and resources
Controlling the production of and access to food can also be
used as a weapon by protagonists in conﬂict. The logistics of
supply of food to military personnel operating in conﬂict
zones is another important issue. These themes unite this
collection, the chapters of which span diﬀerent geographic
areas. This volume will appeal to scholars in a number of
diﬀerent disciplines, including anthropology, nutrition,
political science, development studies and international
relations, as well as practitioners working in the private and
public sectors, who are currently concerned with food-related
issues in the ﬁeld.
Paul Collinson is an Honorary Research Associate and former
part-time lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at
Oxford Brookes University. Helen Macbeth is President of the
International Commission on the Anthropology of Food and
Nutrition.
Volume 8, anthropology of Food & Nutrition
September 2014, 252 pages, 16 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-403-8 Hardback $95.00/£60.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-404-5
“an ambitious book that aims to put both the concept and
changing empirical status of sociality at the center of the agenda
of anthropology and the social sciences more broadly… The
contributions are all at a high level.”
Webb Keane, University of Michigan
The notion of 'sociality' is now widely used within the social
sciences and humanities. However, what is meant by the term
varies radically, and the contributors here, through compelling
and wide ranging essays, identify the strengths and
weaknesses of current deﬁnitions and their deployment in the
social sciences. By developing their own rigorous and
innovative theory of human sociality, they re-set the
framework of the debate and open up new possibilities for
conceptualizing other forms of sociality, such as that of
animals or materials.
Nicholas J. Long is Assistant Professor in Anthropology at the
London School of Economics and Political Science. Henrietta
L. Moore is Director Institute for Global Prosperity, University
College London.
Volume 1, wYSe Series in Social anthropology
September 2014, 228 pages, 10 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-0-85745-789-9 Hardback $120.00/£75.00 (2012)
ISBN 978-1-78238-666-7 Paperback $29.95/£18.50
eISBN 978-0-85745-790-5
THE SOCIAL LIFE OF ACHIEVEMENT
New
RE-ORIENTING CUISINE
East Asian Foodways in the Twenty-First Century
Kwang Ok Kim
“[The book] is very informative, and introduces material that
might lead to very interesting debates in culture and foodways, as
well as in the classroom.” Merry White, Boston University
“This book is unique in that it covers eurasia as a system, linking
east asia to europe in an interesting and creative ways.”
James L. Watson, Professor Emeritus, Harvard University
Foods are changed not only by those who produce and
supply them, but also by those who consume them. Analyzing
food without considering changes over time and across space
is less meaningful than analyzing it in a global context where
tastes, lifestyles, and imaginations cross boundaries and blend
with each other, challenging the idea of authenticity. A dish
that originated in Beijing and is recreated in New York is not
necessarily the same, because although authenticity is often
claimed, the form, ingredients, or taste may have changed. The
contributors of this volume have expanded the discussion of
food to include its social and cultural meanings and functions,
thereby using it as a way to explain a culture and its changes.
Kwang Ok Kim, D.Phil. Oxon. is Professor of Anthropology at
Seoul National University.
Volume 3, Food, Nutrition, and Culture
February 2015, 344 pages, 29 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-562-2 Hardback $95.00/£60.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-563-9
Edited by Nicholas J. Long and Henrietta Moore
“we measure our lives in terms of success without questioning
what it actually means to achieve it. The essays in this
groundbreaking book show that what we perceive as
achievement is highly inﬂuenced by culture and that... for some
people coming close to a desired goal can be rather traumatic.
This compilation of highly original essays truly achieves in
presenting a radically new view on the term that has dominated
public discourse in today’s society, but the meaning of which we
too often take for granted.”
Renata Salecl, Birkbeck College, University of London
Drawing on research from Southeast Asia, Europe, the United
States, and Latin America, this collection develops an
innovative framework for explaining achievement’s multiple
eﬀects—one which brings together cutting-edge theoretical
insights into politics, psychology, ethics, materiality, aurality,
embodiment, aﬀect and narrative. In doing so, the volume
advances a new agenda for the study of achievement within
anthropology, emphasizing the signiﬁcance of achievement
as a moment of cultural invention, and the complexity of “the
achiever” as a subject position.
Nicholas J. Long is an Assistant Professor in Anthropology at
the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Henrietta L. Moore is the William Wyse Chair of Social
Anthropology at the University of Cambridge.
Volume 2, wYSe Series in Social anthropology
Available, 248 pages, 7 illus. & tables, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-220-1 Hardback $95.00/£60.00 (2013)
eISBN 978-1-78238-221-8
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SERIES
EASA Series
EASA Series
Series Editor:
Eeva Berglund,
University of Helsinki
Published in Association with the
European Association of
Social-Anthropologists (EASA)
New
N e w i N pa p e r B aC k
FLEXIBLE CAPITALISM
LANDSCAPES BEYOND LAND
Exchange and Ambiguity at Work
Routes, Aesthetics, Narratives
Edited by Jens Kjaerulﬀ
Edited by Arnar Árnason, Nicolas Ellison, Jo Vergunst
and Andrew Whitehouse
“The book is an intriguing compilation of research that deals with
changes in modern labour and employment. its authors add new
perspectives to debates in sociology of work and contemporary
social thought.” Vera Trappmann, Universität Magdeburg
Approaching “work” as at heart a practice of exchange, this
volume explores sociality in work environments marked by
the kind of structural changes that have come to deﬁne
contemporary “ﬂexible” capitalism. It introduces
anthropological exchange theory to a wider readership, and
shows how the perspective oﬀers new ways to enquire about
the ﬂexible capitalism’s social dimensions. The essays
contribute to a trans-disciplinary scholarship on
contemporary economic practice and change by
documenting how, across diverse settings, “gift-like” socialities
proliferate, and even sustain the intensiﬁed ﬂexible
commoditization that more commonly is touted as tearing
social relations apart. By interrogating a keenly debated
contemporary work regime through an approach to sociality
rooted in a rich and distinct anthropological legacy, the
volume also makes a novel contribution to the
anthropological literature on work and on exchange.
Jens Kjaerulﬀ is conducting independent research and
serving as a consultant PhD supervisor.
Volume 25, eaSa Series
March 2015, 288 pages, 1 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-615-5 Hardback $95.00/£60.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-616-2
“The main theoretical aim of the book, to move beyond a
dichotomy between experience and structure in the
anthropological study of landscape, is important and makes a lot
of sense in relation to the existing literature on the topic… [T]his
new collection is timely,…exceptionally rich and interesting and
clearly demonstrate that anthropological thinking on landscape
is alive and well.” Paola Fillipucci, Cambridge University
The contributors explore how landscapes become known
primarily through movement and journeying rather than
stasis. Working across four continents, they explain how
landscapes are constituted and recollected in the stories
people tell of their journeys through them, and how, in turn,
these stories are embedded in landscaped forms.
Arnar Árnason is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the
University of Aberdeen. Nicolas Ellison is Lecturer in Social
Anthropology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences
Sociales (Toulouse). Jo Vergunst is Lecturer in Social
Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at the
University of Aberdeen. Andrew Whitehouse is a Teaching
Fellow in Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen.
Volume 19, eaSa Series
March 2015, 244 pages, 20 ills, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-0-85745-671-7 Hardback $120.00/£75.00 (2012)
ISBN 978-1-78238-915-6 Paperback $29.95/£18.50
eISBN 978-0-85745-672-4
PERIPHERAL VISION
FOrTHCOMiNg
Politics, Technology, and Surveillance
FIGURATION WORK
Catarina Frois
Student Participation, Democracy and University
Reform in a Global Knowledge Economy
Gritt B. Nielsen
“i found myself engrossed by Nielsen’s discussion of a number of
topics that are of crucial signiﬁcance for universities today. and i
found myself learning from her and using her stories and analyses
to think about issues i’m struggling with here [in the U.S].”
Richard Handler, University of Virginia
“. . . [a] well-written piece of work [which] draws upon extensive
interdisciplinary studies of higher education and recent theoretical
approaches to capitalism and globalization . . . The analysis is
careful, detailed, and always points beyond the event analyzed to
the social implication and to the change in the theories of civism
and citizenship.” Monica Heintz, University of Paris 10 – Nanterre
What should the role of students be in shaping their
education, their university, and the wider society? This book
seeks to answer these questions following recent international
educational reforms. Using Denmark as the prism, the author
reﬂects on and questions the kinds of future citizens who will
emerge from current reforms.
Gritt B. Nielsen is Assistant Professor of Educational
Anthropology at Aarhus University.
Volume 27, eaSa Series
July 2015, 268 pages, 1 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-771-8 Hardback $100.00/£62.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-772-5
“This is a valuable contribution to the ﬁeld of surveillance studies,
in that it broadens the perspective of many aspects of research on
surveillance through political anthropology; and it adds a
considerable perspective to anthropology itself, as it concentrates
on surveillance as a phenomenon of anthropological research,
proving it to be an important aspect of societies today, or even
seen in a wider context, of societies in general.”
Nils Zurawski, Hamburg University
In Portugal between 2005 and 2010, “modernization through
technology” was the major political motto used to develop
and improve the country’s peripheral and backward
condition. This study reﬂects on one of the resulting, speciﬁc
aspects of this trend—the implementation of public video
surveillance. The in-depth ethnography provides evidence of
how the political construction of security and surveillance as a
strategic program actually conceals intricate institutional
relationships between political decision-makers and common
citizens.
Catarina Frois is Invited Assistant Professor in the Department
of Anthropology at Lisbon University Institute and Senior
Researcher at the Centre for Research in Anthropology,
Portugal.
Volume 22, eaSa Series
Available, 176 pages, 8 illus. & tables, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-023-8 Hardback $85.00/£53.00 (2013)
eISBN 978-1-78238-024-5
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BEING A STATE AND STATES
OF BEING IN HIGHLAND GEORGIA
Florian Mühlfried
“it is an important contribution to the anthropology of the state,
the Caucasus and it especially helps to conceptualise a group of
people without falling in the trap of ethnic ‘groupism’, so present in
many writings on the Caucasus.”
Stephane Voell, Philipps University Marburg
The highland region of the republic of Georgia, one of the
former Soviet Socialist Republics, has long been legendary for
its beauty. It is often assumed that the state has only made
partial inroads into this region, and is mostly perceived as
alien. Taking a fresh look at the Georgian highlands allows the
author to consider perennial questions of citizenship,
belonging, and mobility in a context that has otherwise been
known only for its folkloric dimensions. Scrutinizing forms of
identiﬁcation with the state at its margins, as well as local
encounters with the erratic Soviet and post-Soviet state, the
author argues that citizenship is both a sought-after means of
entitlement and a way of guarding against the state. This book
not only challenges theories in the study of citizenship but
also the axioms of integration in Western social sciences in
general.
Florian Mühlfried teaches in the Caucasus Studies Program at
the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena.
Volume 24, eaSa Series
Available, 264 pages, 27 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-296-6 Hardback $95.00/£60.00 (2014)
eISBN 978-1-78238-297-3
BEING HUMAN, BEING MIGRANT
A
S
A
S
E
R
I
E
S
New
CONTEMPORARY PAGAN
AND NATIVE FAITH
MOVEMENTS IN EUROPE
Colonialist and Nationalist Impulses
Edited by Kathryn Rountree
“rountree’s welcome and timely edited volume addresses topical,
cutting-edge issues with regard to contemporary european pagan
and Native Faith movements. Focusing on the theoretical richness
born out of the tensions found between ‘the local’ and ‘the global,’
past and present, the volume provides a refreshing approach to
understanding these movements.”
Amy Whitehead, University of Wales Trinity Saint David
Though all Pagan and Native Faith movements valorize
human relationships with nature and embrace polytheistic
cosmologies, practitioners’ beliefs, practices, goals and
agendas are diverse. Contributors to this volume draw on
ethnographic cases within Europe to explore the interplay of
nationalism and transnationalism within these recently
emerging and diverse groups.
Kathryn Rountree is Professor of Anthropology at Massey
University.
Volume 26, eaSa Series
May 2015, 304 pages, 22 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-646-9 Hardback $95.00/£60.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-647-6
FAMILY UPHEAVAL
Generation, Mobility and Relatedness
among Pakistani Migrants in Denmark
Senses of Self and Well-Being
Mikkel Rytter
Edited by Anne Sigfrid Grønseth
Epilogue by Nigel Rapport
“This book delivers on its promise. it skillfully locates the upheavals
currently being experienced in Danish pakistani family life in the
context of the Danish nation-state’s governance of Muslim
immigrants, the post 9/11 securitisation and the corresponding
insecurities for migrants.” Alison Shaw, Oxford University
“it is refreshing to ﬁnd a volume that both shows commitment to
ethnographic detail and aspires to lift consideration to a broader
level, reaching back to the nihil humani a me alienum puto
perspective, but with new and nuanced narratives to give that
perspective a special appeal.”
Pamela Stewart and Andrew Strathern, University of Pittsburgh
Migrant experiences accentuate general aspects of the
human condition. Therefore, this volume explores migrant’s
movements not only as geographical movements from here
to there but also as movements that constitute an embodied,
cognitive, and existential experience of living “in between” or
on the “borderlands” between diﬀerently ﬁgured life-worlds.
Focusing on memories, nostalgia, the here-and-now social
experiences of daily living, and the hopes and dreams for the
future, the volume demonstrates how all interact in migrants’
and refugees’ experience of identity and quest for well-being.
Anne Sigfrid Grønseth is an Associate Professor in Social
Anthropology at the University College of Lillehammer,
Norway.
Volume 23, eaSa Series
Available, 184 pages, 8 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-045-0 Hardback $85.00/£53.00 (2013)
eISBN 978-1-78238-046-7
EASA Series
E
Pakistani migrant families in Denmark ﬁnd themselves in a
speciﬁc ethno-national, post-9/11 environment where Muslim
immigrants are subjected to processes of non-recognition,
exclusion and securitization. This ethnographic study explores
how, why, and at what costs notions of relatedness, identity,
and belonging are being renegotiated within local families
and transnational kinship networks. Each entry point concerns
the destructive–productive constitution of family life, where
neglected responsibilities, obligations, and trust lead not only
to broken relationships, but also, and inevitably, to the
innovative creation of new ones. By connecting the micropolitics of the migrant family with the macro-politics of the
nation state and global conjunctures in general, the book
argues that securitization and suspicion—launched in the
name of “integration”—escalate internal community dynamics
and processes of family upheaval in unpredicted ways.
Mikkel Rytter is Assistant Professor in the Department of
Culture and Society at Aarhus University.
Volume 21, eaSa Series
Available, 250 pages, 5 ﬁgs, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-0-85745-939-8 Hardback $75.00/£48.00 (2013)
eISBN 978-0-85745-940-4
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Sociology
SOCIOLOGY
New
N e w i N pa p e r B aC k
ENHANCING DEMOCRACY
A DURKHEIMIAN QUEST
Public Policies and Citizen Participation in Chile
Solidarity and the Sacred
Gonzalo Delamaza
William Watts Miller
“[This book] frames the Chilean case nicely in the context of
theories of democratization, democracy, and the case for political
participation in democracy. it will clarify our thinking about the
many diﬀerent modalities of participation…This is a huge
advance and contribution to the debate. and, of course, the book
makes a very signiﬁcant, unique empirical contribution to
understanding the state of political participation by civil society in
Chile.” Eduardo Silva, Tulane University
“watts Miller provides a meticulous, conscientious, and
unpretentious reading of Durkheim, rooted in deep acquaintance
not only with his unpublished lectures but also with the writing of
his contemporaries…The strength of watts Miller’s book is that it
harks back to a Durkheim of complexity and rich ambiguity.”
Choice
Since the end of the Pinochet regime, Chilean public policy
has sought to rebuild democratic governance in the country.
This book examines the links between the state and civil
society in Chile and the ways social policies have sought to
ensure the inclusion of the poor in society and democracy.
Although Chile has gained political stability and grown
economically, the ability of social policies to expand
democratic governance and participation has proved limited,
and in fact such policies have become subordinate to an elitist
model of democracy and resulted in a restrictive form of
citizen participation.
Gonzalo Delamaza is a Chilean sociologist and Professor at
the University of Los Lagos, Chile.
Volume 104, CeDLa Latin america Studies
November 2014, 308 pages, illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-546-2 Hardback $99.00/£62.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-547-9
New
NEW IMAGINARIES
Youthful Reinvention of
Ukraine’s Cultural Paradigm
Edited and Translated by Marian Rubchak
Foreword Martha Kichorowska Kebalo
“instead of pointing out how ‘diﬀerent’ Ukrainian
feminism/gender studies/women’s studies is from ‘western’ (or
other) feminisms, this volume has potential to contribute to our
understanding of the exciting and complex ways that feminist
thought travels, as one of the most important ‘ideascapes’ (a la
appadurai) of our time.” Sarah D. Phillips, Indiana University
Contributors to this volume infuse their work with Western
elements, although vestiges of Soviet-style ideas, research
methodology and writing linger. This, as a result, is a paradigm
articulating “New Imaginaries” — neither Soviet nor Western
— oﬀering a fresh portrait of Ukrainian society seen through a
new generation of feminist scholars.
Marian J. Rubchak is Senior Research Professor, Valparaiso
University whose work focuses on reimagining Slavic identities
in various contexts.
June 2015, 328 pages, 28 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-764-0 Hardback $120.00/£75.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-765-7
Durkheim, in his very role as a ‘founding father’ of a new social
science, sociology, has become like a ﬁgure in an old religious
painting, enshrouded in myth and encrusted in layers of thick,
impenetrable varnish. This book undertakes detailed, up-todate investigations of Durkheim’s work in an eﬀort to restore
its freshness and reveal it as originally created. These
investigations explore his particular ideas, within an overall
narrative of his initial problematic search for solidarity, how it
became a quest for the sacred and how, at the end of his life,
he embarked on a project for a new great work on ethics. A
theme running through this is his concern with a modern
world in crisis and his hope in social and moral reform.
Accordingly, the book concludes with a set of essays on
modern times and on a crisis that Durkheim thought would
pass but which now seems here to stay.
William Watts Miller is editor of the journal, Durkheimian
Studies.
August 2014, 278 pages, 6 tables & illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-0-85745-549-9 Hardback $120.00/£75.00 (2012)
ISBN 978-1-78238-528-8 Paperback $34.95/£22.00
eISBN 978-0-85745-567-3
N e w i N pa p e r B aC k
TUFF CITY
Urban Change and Contested
Space in Central Naples
Nick Dines
“…a well-written, lively and stimulating study…Current public
debates on the so-called Neapolitan renaissance of the 1990s
have often been reduced to the simplistic refrain that ‘it was all a
question of image’. Tuﬀ Cityinstead returns to the city’s recent past
to critically engage with the myriad changes that took place,
including shifts in public discourse.” Il Matino
This book examines the conﬂicts surrounding the reimaging
and reordering of Naple’s historic centre through detailed case
studies of two piazzas and a centro sociale, focusing on a
series of issues that include decorum, security,
pedestrianization, tourism, immigration and new forms of
urban protest. This monograph is the ﬁrst in-depth study of
the complex transformations of one of Europe’s most
fascinating and misunderstood cities. It represents a new
critical approach to the questions of public space, citizenship
and urban regeneration as well as a broader methodological
critique of how we write about contemporary cities.
Nick Dines lived and worked in Naples for seven years.
Volume 13, remapping Cultural History
March 2015, 344 pages, 20 ﬁgures & maps, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-0-85745-279-5 Hardback $120.00/£75.00 (2012
)ISBN 978-1-78238-911-8 Paperback $34.95/£22.00
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New
O
C
I
O
L O
THE POWER OF DEATH
CULTURE, SUICIDE, AND
THE HUMAN CONDITION
Contemporary Reﬂections
on Death in Western Society
Edited by Marja-Liisa Honkasalo and Miira Tuominen
Afterword by Arthur Kleinman
Edited by Maria-José Blanco and Ricarda Vidal
“The conceptual and methodological concerns contained within
this collection are very wide ranging and…there is something for
every reader who hails from an arts and humanities or social
science background.” Hannah Rumble, University of Bath
The social and cultural changes of the last century have
transformed death from an everyday fact to something
hidden from view. Shifting between the practical and the
theoretical, the professional and the intimate, the real and the
ﬁctitious, this collection of essays explores the continued
power of death over our lives.
Maria-José Blanco is a Lecturer and Language teacher in the
Department of Spanish Portuguese and Latin American
Studies (SPLAS) at King’s College London. Ricarda Vidal
teaches at the department of Culture, Media and Creative
Industries at King’s College London.
G
Suicide is a puzzling phenomenon. Not only is its demarcation
problematic but it also eludes simple explanation. The cultures
in which suicide mortality is high do not necessarily have
much else in common, and neither is a single mental illness
such as depression suﬃcient to lead a person to suicide. In a
word, despite its statistical regularity, suicide is unpredictable
on the individual level. The main argument emerging from
this collection is that suicide should not be understood as a
separate realm of pathological behavior but as a form of
human action. As such it is always dependent on the decision
that the individual makes in a cultural, ethical and socioeconomic context, but the context never completely
determines the decision. This book also argues that cultural
narratives concerning suicide have a problematic double
function: in addition to enabling the community to make
sense of self-inﬂicted death, they also constitute a blueprint
depicting suicide as a solution to common human problems.
October 2014, 272 pages, 17 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-433-5 Hardback $100.00/£63.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-434-2
Marja-Liisa Honkasalo is Professor of Culture and Health at
the University of Turku, Finland. Miira Tuominen is a Lecturer
in Philosophy at the University of Jyväskylä.
New
WEARY WARRIORS
Available, 230 pages, 4 illus., 2 tables, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-234-8 Hardback $85.00/£53.00 (2014)
eISBN 978-1-78238-235-5
Power, Knowledge, and the
Invisible Wounds of Soldiers
N e w i N pa p e r B aC k
Pamela Moss and Michael J. Prince
“This is a solid piece of scholarship. The authors successfully apply
key concepts from Foucault, along with those of his feminist
critics, to the analysis of soldiers returning from war. in so doing,
they deepen our understanding of how weary warriors are
constructed through time and space, and what his/her diagnosis,
treatment, and release says about wider relations of power in,
between, and across the state, the military, psychiatry, and the
body itself.” Carolyn Gallaher, American University
As seen in military documents, medical journals, novels, ﬁlms,
television shows, and memoirs, soldiers’ invisible wounds are
not innate cracks in individual psyches that break under the
stress of war. Instead, the generation of weary warriors is
caught up in wider social and political networks and
institutions—families, activist groups, government
bureaucracies, welfare state programs—mediated through a
military hierarchy, psychiatry rooted in mind-body sciences,
and various cultural constructs of masculinity. This book oﬀers
a history of military psychiatry from the American Civil War to
the latest Afghanistan conﬂict. The authors trace the eﬀects of
power and knowledge in relation to the emotional and
psychological trauma that shapes soldiers’ bodies, minds, and
souls, developing an extensive account of the emergence,
diagnosis, and treatment of soldiers’ invisible wounds.
Pamela Moss is a Professor in Human and Social Development
at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Michael
J. Prince is Lansdowne Professor of Social Policy at the
University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
Y
Sociology
S
EUROPEAN FOUNDATIONS
OF THE WELFARE STATE
Franz-Xaver Kaufmann
Translated from the German by John Veit-Wilson
Foreword by Anthony B. Atkinson, Nuﬃeld College,
University of Oxford
"This collected edition of professor kaufmann's essays, written over
many years and now translated into english, oﬀers a way of
thinking about the welfare state that may not be familiar to an
international readership; indeed it exposes the distinctively
diﬀerent intellectual foundations that have shaped the
continental european notion of state welfare compared with
those of the english-speaking, or anglo-Saxon, world…[a]
splendidly eloquent set of essays."
Journal of Contemporary European Studies
Oﬀering the ﬁrst accessible account in English of the historical
development of the European idea of the welfare state, this
book reviews the intellectual foundations which underpinned
the road towards the European welfare state, formulates some
basic concepts for its understanding, and highlights the
diﬀerences in the underlying structural and philosophical
conditions between continental Europe and the Englishspeaking world.
December 2014, 406 pages, 3 ﬁgures, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-0-85745-476-8 Hardback $120.00/£75.00 (June 2012)
ISBN 978-1-78238-687-2 Paperback $39.95/£25.00
eISBN 978-0-85745-477-5
June 2014, 286 pages, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-346-8 Hardback $95.00/£60.00
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REFUGEE &
MIGRATION
STUDIES
Child and Youth Studies/Refugee and Migration Studies
CHILD & YOUTH
STUDIES
N e w i N pa p e r B aC k
BORDER ENCOUNTERS
LEARNING FROM THE CHILDREN
Asymmetry and Proximity at Europe’s Frontiers
Childhood, Culture and Identity
in a Changing World
Edited by Jutta Lauth Bacas and William Kavanagh†
Edited by Jacqueline Waldren and Ignacy-Marek Kaminski
“The greatest strength of the volume lies in the diverse mix of
perspectives represented by the authors. These come from a range
of disciplines, including anthropology and sociology. Many have
practical experience of the issues discussed through backgrounds
in community and NgO work, and through roles including as
policy oﬃcers and development consultants. Often both
consultants and academics, the authors deliver unique
testimonies and insights based on their personal and direct
involvement in the cases they discuss.”
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
As a result of the advances in technology and media as well as
the eﬀects of globalization, the transmission of social and
cultural practices from parents to children is changing. Based
on a number of qualitative studies, this book oﬀers insights
into the lives of children and youth in Britain, Japan, Spain,
Israel/Palestine, and Pakistan. Attention is focused on the
child’s perspective within the social-power dynamics involved
in adult–child relations, which reveals the dilemmas of policy,
planning and parenting in a changing world.
Jacqueline Waldren is Research Associate, Lecturer and Tutor
in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology and
International Gender Studies. Ignacy-Marek Kaminski is a
Lecturer in Social Anthropology at Mejiro University, Tokyo.
Volume 35, New Directions in anthropology
September 2014, 204 pages, 3 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-0-85745-325-9 Hardback $99.00/£60.00 (2012)
ISBN 978-1-78238-675-9 Paperback $24.95/£15.50
eISBN 978-0-85745-326-6
“as beﬁts anthropology, Border Encounters is rich in empirical
detail. However, it is also an excellent introduction to border
theory, with a helpful literature review. The theoretical framework
clearly set out in the introduction and the individual chapters do
collectively illustrate why borders should be seen as constructs
and as sites of asymmetrical social relationships…all in all, this is
an intriguing and well-structured volume which will be of interest
to students and scholars from a variety of academic disciplines.”
LSE Review of Books
This volume investigates, from a local, ground-up perspective,
what is happening at some of the border encounters in
Europe: face-to-face interactions and relations of compliance
and confrontation, where people are bargaining, exchanging
goods and information, and maneuvering beyond state
boundaries. Anthropological case studies from a number of
European borderlands shed light on the questions of how,
and to what extent, the border context inﬂuences the
changing interactions and social relationships between
people at a political frontier.
Jutta Lauth Bacas holds a doctorate in Social Anthropology
from the University of Zurich. William Kavanagh† held a
doctorate in Social Anthropology from the University of
Oxford.
Available, 302 pages, 26 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-84545-396-1 Hardback $95.00/£60.00 (2013)
eISBN 978-1-78238-138-9
THE HADRAMI DIASPORA
Community-Building on the Indian Ocean Rim
Leif Manger
PLAYING WITH LANGUAGES
Children and Change in a Caribbean Village
Amy L. Paugh
“[The author] provides her readers with a nuanced longitudinal
ethnographic and discourse analytic investigation that features
the roles that children, as caretakers and agents of language
socialization, play in language shift and maintenance.”
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology
Drawing on detailed ethnographic ﬁeldwork and analysis of
video-recorded social interaction in naturalistic home, school,
village and urban settings, the study explores this paradox and
examines the role of children and their social worlds. It oﬀers
much-needed insights into the study of language
socialization, language shift and Caribbean children’s agency
and social lives, contributing to the burgeoning
interdisciplinary study of children’s cultures. Further, it
demonstrates the critical role played by children in the
transmission and transformation of linguistic practices, which
ultimately may determine the fate of a language.
Amy L. Paugh is Associate Professor of Anthropology at James
Madison University.
“in highlighting the multiple identities of Hadrami communities in
the diaspora and the degree of their adaptability in host countries,
Manger produces rich historical and ethnographic accounts that
address their situations in Singapore, Hyderabad, Sudan, and
ethiopia through the colonial, postcolonial, nation-state
formation, and globalization periods.”
American Anthropologist
The author expertly elucidates the complexity of the diasporic
process, showing how it contrasts with the conventional
understanding of the Hadrami diaspora as an unchanging
society with predeﬁned cultural characteristics originating in
the homeland. Exploring ethnic, social, and religious aspects,
the author oﬀers a deepened understanding of links between
Yemen and Indian Ocean regions (including India, Southeast
Asia, and the Horn of Africa) and the emerging international
community of Muslims.
Leif Manger is a Professor in the Department of Social
Anthropology at the University of Bergen.
Available, 216 pages, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-84545-742-6 Hardback $120.00/£75.00 (2010)
ISBN 978-1-78238-397-0 Paperback $29.95/£19.50
eISBN 978-1-84545-978-9
Available, 264 pages, 20 illus. & tables, 3 maps, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-0-85745-760-8 Hardback $90.00/£56.00 (2012)
ISBN 978-1-78238-516-5 Paperback $34.95/£22.00
eISBN 978-0-85745-761-5
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SERIES
New
BLOOD AND FIRE
Toward a Global Anthropology of Labor
General Editors:
August Carbonella, Memorial
University of Newfoundland
Don Kalb, Central European
University & Utrecht University
Linda Green, University of Arizona
N e w i N pa p e r B aC k
COMMUNITIES OF COMPLICITY
Everyday Ethics in Rural China
Edited by Sharryn Kasmir and August Carbonella
Hans Steinmüller
“… an outstanding collection of essays that address formative
questions that are of great import to anthropologists and social
scientists more generally, historians among others. This volume is
exemplary…[in that] all the essays are striking for their clarity of
prose and argumentation.” Linda Green, University of Arizona
“…a fascinating and vivid ethnography which examines the
ethical reﬂexivity of the everyday lives of ordinary people in rural
China. it…provides a rich and nuanced account of the rapid
social change faced by villagers there. Steinmüller’s work is
theoretically extremely rich.” LSE Review of Books
“This is a collection of highly original pieces which, taken together,
make an important contribution…to the anthropology of labor.
anthropologists wishing to engage with the ever more complex
relations and forms of labor will rush to read it, and nonanthropologists ever more fascinated by the insights ethnography
aﬀords to an increasingly messy and ill-formed socio-economy
will likewise be drawn to the book.”
Gavin Smith, University of Toronto
Everyday life in contemporary rural China is characterized by
an increased sense of moral challenge and uncertainty.
Ordinary people often ﬁnd themselves caught between the
moral frameworks of capitalism, Maoism and the Chinese
tradition. This ethnographic study of the village of Zhongba (in
Hubei Province, central China) is an attempt to grasp the
ethical reﬂexivity of everyday life in rural China. Drawing on
descriptions of village life, interspersed with targeted
theoretical analyses, the author examines how ordinary
people construct their own senses of their lives and their
futures in everyday activities: building houses, working,
celebrating marriages and funerals, gambling and dealing
with local government. The villagers confront moral
uncertainty; they creatively harmonize public discourse and
local practice; and sometimes they resolve incoherence and
unease through the use of irony. In so doing, they perform
everyday ethics and re-create transient moral communities at
a time of massive social dislocation.
Six historical ethnographies stemming from ﬁeldwork around
the world oﬀer a comparative perspective on the uneven
consequences of and reactions to the anthropology of labor.
The contributors’ vivid accounts show in how dispossession
was lived by local working classes illustrates the defeat and
unmaking of particular working classes.
Sharryn Kasmir is Professor of Anthropology at Hofstra
University. August Carbonella is Associate Professor of
Anthropology at Memorial University, Newfoundland.
Volume 13, Dislocations
August 2014, 306 pages, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-363-5 Hardback $95.00/£60.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-364-2
INTELLECTUALS AND
(COUNTER-) POLITICS
Essays in Historical Realism
Hans Steinmüller is Lecturer in the Department of
Anthropology at the London School of Economics.
Volume 10, Dislocations
March 2015, 290 pages, 19 ills, 6 ﬁgs & tables, 3 maps, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-0-85745-890-2 Hardback $120.00/£75.00 (2013)
ISBN 978-1-78238-914-9 Paperback $34.95/£22.00
eISBN 978-0-85745-891-9
Gavin Smith
FOrTHCOMiNg
“in Intellectuals and (Counter-) Politics, gavin Smith reaﬃrms his
stature as one of the most important anthropologists writing
today. By way of a tightly woven set of arguments, he
simultaneously challenges and inspires us to expand our
historical, geographical, and theoretical imaginations to meet the
pressing interpretive and political challenges of the global
present. The publication of intellectuals and (Counter-) politics
will constitute a major event within anthropological circles and
well beyond.”
August Carbonella, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Kyrgyzstan, A Global Political Arena
Gavin Smith suggests a research agenda designed to
maximize the political leverage of ordinary people faced with
ever more remote states and technologies that make
capitalism increasingly rapacious. He tackles the political
conundrums of our times and asks what roles intellectuals
might play therein.
Gavin Smith is Professor Emeritus in the Department of
Anthropology at the University of Toronto.
Volume 12, Dislocations
Available, 254 pages, 1 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-300-0 Hardback $90.00/£56.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-301-7
Dislocations
Dislocations
WHERE ARE ALL OUR SHEEP?
Boris Petric
Translated by Cynthia Schoch
“. . . the best book to date on post-Soviet kyrgyzstan. it combines
personal observations with careful, critical analysis. The style is at
times humorous and conversational, creating the impression at
ﬁrst glance that it might be a somewhat superﬁcial account of the
region. in fact, however, it is an extraordinarily perceptive analysis
of the process of transition and re-adjustment in a highly complex
society.”
Shirin Akiner, University of Cambridge and University of London
After the USSR collapsed, Kyrgyzstan followed a path of
economic liberalization, but after a few years, they produced
little, and the country’s principal industry of sheep breeding
was decimated. This led to dependence on international aid,
and ensuing comical encounters between the local
population and well-meaning foreigners who help them.
Boris Petric is a Social Anthropologist and a Senior Researcher
at the CNRS in Marseilles.
Volume 16, Dislocations
August 2015, 204 pages, 2 ills, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-783-1 Hardback ca $90.00/£56.00
E-ISBN 978-1-78238-784-8
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Religion
RELIGION
New
FOrTHCOMiNg
THE POLYNESIAN ICONOCLASM
WITCHCRAFT, WITCHES,
AND VIOLENCE IN GHANA
Religious Revolution and
the Seasonality of Power
Jeﬀrey Sissons
“The book is an ethnographic tour de force describing in great
detail the conversion to Christianity in a number of polynesian
societies. The ethnographic argument is solid and the book would
be excellent addition to the interpretations of religious conversion,
cultural change and polynesian ethnography in general.”
Jukka Siikala, University of Helsinki
Seeking an answer to why the event occurred the way that it
did, The polynesian iconoclasm explores the ten years in the
early nineteenth century during which inhabitants of Tahiti,
Hawaii and ﬁfteen related societies destroyed or desecrated
their temples and god-images. In the aftermath, hundreds of
architecturally innovative churches were constructed, and
oppressive laws and courts were introduced — and rebelled
against.
Jeﬀrey Sissons is Associate Professor of Anthropology at
Victoria University of Wellington.
Volume 5, aSaO Studies in paciﬁc anthropology
September 2014, 170 pages, 20 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-413-7 Hardback $85.00/£53.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-414-4
A PROPHETIC TRAJECTORY
Ideologies of Place, Time and Belonging
in an Angolan Religious Movement
Ruy Llera Blanes
“…a welcome and valuable study of contemporary Christianity
and the circulation of religion and culture. it also adds to our
crystallizing emphasis on history and memory as resources and
constructions rather than sheer ‘facts’.”
Anthropology Review Database
“Blanes’ multi-sited ethnographic-cum-historical study of a
prominent Christian prophetic church of angolan origin is an
excellent piece of scholarship, and makes a unique contribution to
the literature on Christianity in africa and on african Christianity
in europe. More than other scholars in the emerging anthropology
of Christianity, Blanes gives detailed attention to the interlocking
of temporal and spatial dimensions in the context of diasporic
religion and religious self-identiﬁcation.”
Thomas Kirsch, University of Konstanz
Combining ethnographic and historical research conducted in
Angola, Portugal, and the United Kingdom, a prophetic
Trajectory tells the story of Simão Toko, the founder and leader
of one of the most important contemporary Angolan religious
movements. The book explains the historical, ethnic, spiritual,
and identity transformations observed within the movement,
and debates the politics of remembrance and heritage left
behind after Toko’s passing in 1984. Ultimately, it questions the
categories of prophetism and charisma, as well as the
intersections between mobility, memory, and belonging in
the Atlantic Lusophone sphere.
Ruy Llera Blanes is an anthropologist and currently
Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Bergen, Norway.
Available, 248 pages, 20 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-272-0 Hardback $90.00/£55.00 (2014)
eISBN 978-1-78238-273-7
Mensah Adinkrah
“The book is notable for its empirical focus as reﬂected in the use
of case studies. These underscore the author’s claim that the
phenomenon of ‘witchcraft’ is not a legacy of the past, but a
modern phenomenon that must be considered in contemporary
terms.” Gerrie ter Haar, Erasmus University Rotterdam
“The book is thorough and well-documented. The wide range of
sources, from music to newspapers to ﬁrst-hand experiences,
make this book a rich resource for scholars.”
Laura Cochrane, Central Michigan University
Witchcraft violence is a feature of many contemporary African
societies. In Ghana, belief in witchcraft and the malignant
activities of putative witches is prevalent. This book provides a
detailed account of Ghanaian witchcraft beliefs and practices
and their role in fueling violent attacks on these alleged
witches.
Mensah Adinkrah, Ph.D., is Professor of Sociology and
Criminal Justice at Central Michigan University.
September 2015, 344 pages, 19 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-560-8 Hardback $110.00/£68.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-561-5
FOrTHCOMiNg
THE LIVING ANCESTORS
Shamanism, Cosmos and Cultural Change
among the Yanomami of the Upper Orinoco
Zeljko Jokic
“…the work as a whole is superb…a meticulous documentation
of shamanistic experience and practices.”
Jadran Mimica, University of Sydney
"a captivating and original ethnographic description of
religious/healing practices among the Yanomani of the Upper
Orinoco. . . The author has achieved a deep understanding of the
culture, worldviews, ideologies, and cosmology during his
ﬁeldwork in two communities. The writing is articulate, ﬂuent, and
incisive, and still remains plain enough to attract a wide range of
academic and non-academic public."
Diana Riboli, Panteion University
This phenomenologically oriented ethnography focuses on
experiential aspects of Yanomami shamanism, including
shamanistic activities in the context of cultural change. The
author interweaves ethnographic material with theoretical
components of a holographic principle, or the idea that the
“part is equal to the whole,” which is embedded in the nature
of the Yanomami macrocosm, human dwelling, multiple-soul
components, and shamans’ relationships with embodied
spirit-helpers. This book ﬁlls an important gap in the regional
study of Yanomami people, and, on a broader scale, enriches
understanding of this ancient phenomenon by focusing on
the consciousness involved in shamanism through ﬁrsthand
experiential involvement.
Zeljko Jokic is Lecturer at the School of Archaeology and
Anthropology, Australian National University.
August 2015, 316 pages, 20 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-817-3 Hardback $110.00/£68.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-818-0
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New
RELIGION AND SCIENCE
AS FORMS OF LIFE
Anthropological Insights
into Reason and Unreason
Edited by Carles Salazar and Joan Bestard
“Drawing on an eclectic range of ethnographic, empirical and
theoretical sources, this book is a fascinating and timely
contribution to contemporary scholarly debates about that most
troubled of interfaces, between religion and science.”
Alexander Smith, The University of Warwick
“The conceptualization of the volume in terms of science, religion
and forms of life (although public life might also work) is original
and compelling as a means of exploring the complex terrains and
scales at which religion and science meet, are received and
transform one another.”
Paul-François Tremlett, The Open University
The relationships between science and religion are about to
enter a new phase in our contemporary world. This volume
analyzes the relationships between religion and science as
forms of life: ways of engaging human experience that
originate in particular social and cultural formations.
Carles Salazar is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology
at the University of Lleida. Joan Bestard is Professor of Social
Anthropology at the University of Barcelona.
January 2015, 248 pages, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-488-5 Hardback $90.00/£56.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-489-2
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THE MAKING OF THE
PENTECOSTAL MELODRAMA
Religion, Media and Gender in Kinshasa
Katrien Pype
“pype’s book is a contribution to ‘anthropology of media’, an
upcoming sub-discipline of cultural studies, and this (but not only
this) makes this publication so important.,,[and] inspiring.”
PentecoStudies
How religion, gender, and urban sociality are expressed in and
mediated via television drama in Kinshasa is the focus of this
ethnographic study. Inﬂuenced by Nigerian ﬁlms and
intimately related to the emergence of a charismatic Christian
scene, these teleserials integrate melodrama, conversion
narratives, Christian songs, sermons, testimonies, and
deliverance rituals to produce commentaries on what it
means to be an inhabitant of Kinshasa.
Katrien Pype is Assistant Professor at University of Leuven and
a Fellow with the Department of African Studies &
Anthropology at University of Birmingham.
Volume 6, anthropology of Media
October 2014, 348 pages, 28 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-0-85745-494-2 Hardback $120.00/£75.00 (2012)
ISBN 978-1-78238-681-0 Paperback $34.95/£22.00
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ANIMISM IN RAINFOREST
AND TUNDRA
Personhood, Animals, Plants and Things
in Contemporary Amazonia and Siberia
Edited by Marc Brightman, Vanessa Elisa Grotti,
and Olga Ulturgasheva
Foreword by Stephen Hugh-Jones, Cambridge University
Afterword by Piers Vitebsky, Scott Polar Research Institute,
Cambridge University
Religion
R
"This is an extremely interesting collection of papers which takes
our understanding of animism forward considerably. pre-scientiﬁc
ideas abound in religion. The Bible's focus on sacriﬁce has roots
here, and what is 'idolatry' but nature religion giving human
characteristics to divinities and even trees, the asherah."
Journal of Beliefs and Values
The contributors describe here fundamental relational modes
that are being tested in the face of change, presenting
groundbreaking research on personhood and agency in
shamanic societies and contributing to our global
understanding of social and cultural change and continuity.
Marc Brightman is Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow at the
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies,
Geneva. Vanessa Elisa Grotti is British Academy Postdoctoral
Fellow at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology.
Olga Ulturgasheva is Research Fellow in Social Anthropology
at the Scott Polar Research Institute.
Available, 226 pages, 6 ﬁgures, 2 maps, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-0-85745-468-3 Hardback $90.00/£56.00 (2012)
ISBN 978-1-78238-524-0 Paperback $27.95/£17.50
eISBN 978-0-85745-469-0
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THE NEOLIBERAL LANDSCAPE
AND THE RISE OF ISLAMIST
CAPITAL IN TURKEY
Edited by Neşecan Balkan, Erol Balkan and Ahmet Öncü
“This is a strong and important collection. The unifying thesis
throughout refers to the ascendancy of a speciﬁcally Turkish form
of islamic capitalism. The main emphasis throughout concerns
the contested character of this ascendancy at the highest levels of
Turkish state and society. These are important and intimately
interwoven themes…The collection leaves a clear impression that
the roots of the recent battles over Taksim Square run deep; their
implications will continue to simmer throughout the country.
Nothing has been resolved.” Sidney Plotkin, Vassar College
By providing a long-term historical perspective on Turkey’s
economy and its relationship to Islamism, this volume
explores how Islamism as a political ideology has been utilized
by the conservative bourgeoisie in Turkey, and elsewhere, to
establish hegemony over labor.
Neşecan Balkan is a Senior Lecturer of Economics at Hamilton
College. Erol Balkan teaches Economic Development,
International Finance and Political Economy of the Middle East
at Hamilton College in New York. Ahmet Öncü is Professor of
Sociology at the Sabancı University School of Management.
Volume 14, Dislocations
February 2015, 316 pages, 1 illus., 12 tables, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-638-4 Hardback $95.00/£60.00
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SERIES
Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology
Environmental
Anthropology
and Ethnobiology
General Editor:
Roy Ellen, FBA, Emeritus Professor of
Anthropology and Human Ecology,
University of Kent at Canterbury
New
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
N e w i N pa p e r B aC k
An Appraisal from the Gulf Region
ENVIRONMENTAL ANTHROPOLOGY
ENGAGING ECOTOPIA
Edited by Paul Sillitoe
Bioregionalism, Permaculture, and Ecovillages
“This is clearly the most comprehensive overview of sustainable
development in the gulf, a strategic region within the global
economy.” Carl Maida, University of California, Los Angeles
Edited by Joshua Lockyer and James R. Veteto
“[This volume] amounts to a well edited, comprehensive,
collection of sustainable development papers, strongly introduced
and concluded by the editor, on a region that surely no one could
doubt can only gain from the salutary environmental analysis
time after time it oﬀers.”
Raymond Apthorpe, SOAS University of London
With growing evidence of unsustainable use of the world’s
resources, such as hydrocarbon reserves, and related
environmental pollution, as in alarming climate change
predictions, sustainable development is arguably the
prominent issue of the 21st century. Bringing together
university faculty and government personnel from the Gulf,
Europe, and North America this volume gives a wide ranging
introduction focusing on the arid Gulf region and beyond,
where the challenges of sustainable development are starkly
evident.
Paul Sillitoe FBA is Professor of Anthropology at Durham
University.
Volume 19, environmental anthropology and ethnobiology
August 2014, 572 pages, 71 illus., 37 tables, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-371-0 Hardback $95.00/£60.00
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BEYOND THE LENS
OF CONSERVATION
Malagasy and Swiss Imaginations of One Another
Eva Keller
“The book is well structured, engaging and highly topical; it brings
together a range of academics and practitioners—itself a
potentially interesting and seldom examined dialogue—around
three main areas which form the book’s structure: Bioregionalism;
permaculture; ecovillages.”
Malcolm Miles, University of Plymouth
In order to move global society towards a sustainable
“ecotopia,” solutions must be engaged in speciﬁc places and
communities, and the authors here argue for re-orienting
environmental anthropology from a problem-oriented
towards a solutions-focused endeavor. Using case studies
from around the world, the contributors—scholar-activists
and activist-practitioners— examine the interrelationships
between three prominent environmental social movements:
bioregionalism, a worldview and political ecology that
grounds environmental action and experience; permaculture,
a design science for putting the bioregional vision into action;
and ecovillages, the ever-dynamic settings for creating
sustainable local cultures.
Joshua Lockyer is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at
Arkansas Tech University. James R. Veteto is Assistant Professor
of Anthropology at the University of North Texas.
Volume 17, environmental anthropology and ethnobiology
February 2015, 326 pages, 10 ﬁgures & tables, 1 map, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-0-85745-879-7 Hardback $120.00/£75.00 (2013)
ISBN 978-1-78238-905-7 Paperback $34.95/£22.00
eISBN 978-0-85745-880-3
URBAN POLLUTION
Cultural Meanings, Social Practices
Edited By Eveline Dürr and Rivke Jaﬀe
“what sets [the book] apart…is the study’s greatest hook: its
approach to the obvious connection between ‘little Masoala’ in
Zurich and the real Masoala in Madagascar. rather than include
discussion of the zoo exhibit in a provocative preamble or
epilogue, the author considers it with well-deserved seriousness
and care, connecting her extensive study of it to that of the
Malagasy communities in which she worked.”
Andrew Walsh, University of Western Ontario
This ethnography examines how the cooperation between a
national park in Madagascar and a Swiss zoo is perceived by
ordinary people at either end. One view focuses on power and
history, the other on morality and progress. Nature
conservation therefore widens the gap between people in the
North and South.
Eva Keller is a Research Fellow at the Department of Social
Anthropology at the University of Zurich.
Volume 20, Environmental anthropology and ethnobiology
February 2015, 272 pages, 21 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-552-3 Hardback $95.00/£60.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-553-0
“…this volume oﬀers a range of useful accounts of cultural
construction of pollution, deployed as an idiom in the ordering
and negotiating of social relations in a range of urban settings.
The illustration of how assertions of pollution are racialized,
gendered, and classed, and the range of debates in which
pollution is deployed as a discursive as well as material form,
usefully broaden the frame of urban and environmental
anthropology.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
Re-examining Mary Douglas’ work on pollution and concepts
of purity, this volume explores modern expressions of these
themes in urban areas, examining the intersections of material
and cultural pollution. It presents ethnographic case studies
from a range of cities aﬀected by globalization processes such
as neoliberal urban policies, privatization of urban space,
continued migration and spatialized ethnic tension.
Eveline Dürr is Professor at the Institute of Social and Cultural
Anthropology, Ludwig- Maximilians-University, Munich. Rivke
Jaﬀe is Associate Professor at the Centre for Urban Studies,
University of Amsterdam.
Volume 15, Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology
Available, 216 pages, 16 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-84545-692-4 Hardback $99.00/£60.00 (2010)
ISBN 978-1-78238-508-0 Paperback $27.95/£17.50
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HUNTERS, PREDATORS AND PREY
THE SOCIAL LIFE OF WATER
Inuit Perceptions of Animals
Edited by John Richard Wagner
Frédéric Laugrand and Jarich Oosten
“The strength of the text lies in its use of extensive quotes from the
inuit. This allows the inuit voice to be heard clearly through the
discourses of western thought.”
Christopher Trott, University of Manitoba
Inuit hunting traditions are rich in perceptions, practices and
stories relating to animals and human beings. The authors
examine key ﬁgures such as the raven, an animal that has a
central place in Inuit culture as a creator and a trickster, and
qupirruit, a category consisting of insects and other small life
forms. After these non-social and inedible animals, they
discuss the dog, the companion of the hunter, and the fellow
hunter, the bear, considered to resemble a human being. A
discussion of the renewal of whale hunting accompanies the
chapters about animals considered ‘prey par excellence’: the
caribou, the seals and the whale, symbol of the whole. By
giving precedence to Inuit categories such as ‘inua’ (owner)
and ‘tarniq’ (shade) over European concepts such as ‘spirit ‘and
‘soul’, the book compares and contrasts human beings and
animals to provide a better understanding of human-animal
relationships in a hunting society.
Frédéric Laugrand is Professor in the Department of
Anthropology, Université Laval. Jarich Oosten is Emeritus
Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Leiden
University, The Netherlands.
October 2014, 418 pages, 34 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-405-2 Hardback $120.00/£75.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-406-9
New
RECLAIMING THE FOREST
The Ewenki Reindeer Herders of Aoluguya
Edited by Åshild Kolås and Yuanyuan Xie
“This is an exciting, ﬁnely crafted edited collection which focuses
upon a group of evenki who are poorly known in the english
language literature. . .The volume is evenly balanced with both
academic and literary contributions by local evenki authors.”
David Anderson, University of Aberdeen
The reindeer herders of Aoluguya, China, are a group of former
hunters who today see themselves as “keepers of reindeer.” To
some, their future seems troubled, but this volume’s literary
and academic contributions instead focus on the present, as
the Ewenki attempt to reclaim their forest lifestyle and
develop new forest livelihoods.
Åshild Kolås is Research Professor at the Peace Research
Institute Oslo. Yuanyuan Xie is Lecturer in the Department of
Sociology, College of Humanities and Development Studies,
China Agricultural University.
April 2015, 220 pages, 12 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-630-8 Hardback $80.00/£50.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-631-5
“This book ﬁlls an important niche on water related issues in
anthropology by focusing on social and cultural manifestations of
water management, use, and conﬂict…The organization is
appropriate and eﬀective.”
Benedict J. Colombi, American Indian Studies Program,
University of Arizona
Everywhere in the world communities and nations organize
themselves in relation to water. We divert water from rivers,
lakes, and aquifers to our homes, workplaces, irrigation canals,
and hydro-generating stations. We use it for bathing,
swimming, recreation, and it functions as a symbol of purity in
ritual performances. Relying on ﬁrst-hand ethnographic
research, the contributors to this volume examine the social
life of water in diverse settings and explore the impacts of
commodiﬁcation, urbanization, and technology on the
availability and quality of water supplies. Each case study
speaks to a local set of issues, but the overall perspective is
global, with representation from all continents.
Environmental Studies
ENVIRONMENTAL
STUDIES
John R. Wagner is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at
the University of British Columbia, Okanagan.
March 2015, 336 pages, 24 ills, 18 tables, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-0-85745-966-4 Hardback $120.00/£75.00 (2013)
ISBN 978-1-78238-910-1 Paperback $34.95/£22.00
eISBN 978-0-85745-967-1
POWERLESS SCIENCE?
Science and Politics in a Toxic World
Edited by Soraya Boudia and Nathalie Jas
“each chapter is written by an authority on the topic and contains
primary bibliographic sources. Overall, the scientiﬁc content is
accurate and free of obvious partiality.” Choice
In spite of decades of research on toxicants, along with the
growing role of scientiﬁc expertise in public policy and the
unprecedented rise in the number of national and
international institutions dealing with environmental health
issues, problems surrounding contaminants and their eﬀects
on health have never appeared so important, sometimes to
the point of appearing insurmountable. This calls for a
reconsideration of the roles of scientiﬁc knowledge and
expertise in the deﬁnition and management of toxic issues,
which this book seeks to do. It looks at complex historical,
social, and political dynamics, made up of public
controversies, environmental and health crises, economic
interests, and political responses, and demonstrates how and
to what extent scientiﬁc knowledge about toxicants has been
caught between scientiﬁc, economic, and political
imperatives.
Soraya Boudia is Professor of Science, Technology, and
Innovation Studies at the University of Paris-Est Marne-laVallée. Nathalie Jas is a Senior Researcher at the French
National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA).
Volume 2, environment in History: international perspectives
Available, 290 pages, 18 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-236-2 Hardback $95.00/£60.00 (2014)
eISBN 978-1-78238-237-9
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Urban Studies
URBAN
STUDIES
New
New
THE GREAT REIMAGINING
HOUSING AND BELONGING
IN LATIN AMERICA
Public Art, Urban Space, and the Symbolic
Landscapes of a 'New' Northern Ireland
Bree T. Hocking
Edited by Christien Klaufus and Arij Ouweneel
“This is a timely, relevant and thorough examination of how
urban space is constructed and contested in ‘post-conﬂict’ Northern ireland. Hocking shows through deft engagement with ethnographic and documentary material how post-good Friday
agreement policy has been dominated by attempts to create
spaces that are amenable to tourists and capital, but also the limits of such initiatives in a context where ethno-national division
remains a salient feature of everyday life for many.”
Peter Geoghegan, University of Edinburgh
The intricacies of living in contemporary Latin American cities
include cases of both empowerment and restriction. In Lima,
residents built their own homes and formed community
organizations, while in Rio de Janeiro inhabitants of the favelas
needed to be “paciﬁed” in anticipation of international
sporting events. Aspirations to “get ahead in life” abound in the
region, but so do multiple limitations to realizing the dream of
upward mobility. This volume captures the paradoxical
histories and experiences of urban life in Latin America,
oﬀering new empirical and theoretical insights to scholars.
Oﬀering a detailed ethnographic account of Northern Ireland’s
post-conﬂict visual transformation, this book examines the
oﬃcial eﬀort to produce new civic images against a backdrop
of ongoing political and social struggle.
Christien Klaufus is Assistant Professor of Human Geography
at CEDLA. Arij Ouweneel is an Associate Professor at CEDLA.
Bree T. Hocking is an anthropologist and journalist who writes
on the intersection of art, spatial politics, and society.
Volume 4, Material Mediations: people and Things in a world of Movement
February 2015, 264 pages, 30 illus., 2 tables, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-621-6 Hardback $95.00/£60.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-622-3
N e w i N pa p e r B aC k
POST-COSMOPOLITAN CITIES
Explorations of Urban Coexistence
Edited by Caroline Humphrey and Vera Skvirskaja
“what emerges as common features of these cities mark their
unique contribution to an understanding of cosmopolitanism as
ideal and practice, raising crucial questions about who is or can
be cosmopolitan and where cosmopolitanism is in the world.
Loosely connected by their orientation to both europe and asia,
the shifting valences of this outlook over time have important
consequences for the cities’ respective cosmopolitan-ness, as well
as the meaning and nature of cosmopolitanism.” Urban History
Examining the way people imagine and interact in their cities,
this book explores the post-cosmopolitan city. The
contributors consider the eﬀects of migration, national, and
religious revivals (with their new aesthetic sensibilities), the
dispositions of marginalized economic actors, and globalized
tourism on urban sociality. The case studies here share the
situation of having been incorporated in previous political
regimes (imperial, colonial, socialist) that one way or another
created their own kind of cosmopolitanism, and now these
cities are experiencing the aftermath of these regimes while
being exposed to new national politics and migratory ﬂows of
people.
Volume 105, CeDLa Latin america Studies
May 2015, 376 pages, 48 illus., 7 tables, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-740-4 Hardback $120.00/£75.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-741-1
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YEARNINGS IN THE MEANTIME
‘Normal Lives’ and the State
in a Sarajevo Apartment Complex
Stef Jansen
“…an engaging, well-written and thought-provoking manuscript
highlighting a sliver of everyday life from the perspective of
ordinary people living in an apartment complex located on the
outskirts of Sarajevo.” Linda Green, University of Arizona
An ethnographic account, this book looks into a Sarajevo
apartment building as its inhabitants yearn for “normal lives,”
over a decade after the war and the disintegration of Socialist
Yugoslavia. Starting from everyday concerns, it freshly explores
how the time and place in which we are caught shape our
hopes and fears.
Stef Jansen is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the
University of Manchester.
Volume 15, Dislocations
June 2015, 264 pages, 17 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-650-6 Hardback $90.00/£56.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-651-3
Caroline Humphrey is a Research Director in the Department
of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. Vera
Skvirskaja is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of
Anthropology at Copenhagen University.
Volume 9, Space and place
October 2014, 260 pages, 14 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-0-85745-510-9 Hardback $120.00/£75.00 (2012)
ISBN 978-1-78238-677-3 Paperback $29.95/£18.50
eISBN 978-0-85745-511-6
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MAPPING DIFFERENCE
NEGOTIATING IDENTITY
IN SCANDINAVIA
The Many Faces of Women in
Contemporary Ukraine
Women, Migration, and the Diaspora
Edited by Marian J. Rubchak
Foreword by Catherine Wanner
“Notably the authors resist the temptation to proclaim varied
strategies proof of an actually existing feminism, oﬀering instead
a multi-voiced and rich narrative of the transformation of
women’s position in post-Soviet Ukraine.” Social Analysis
Drawn from various disciplines and a broad spectrum of
research interests, these essays reﬂect on the challenging
issues confronting women in Ukraine today. The contributors
are an interdisciplinary, transnational group of scholars from
gender studies, feminist theory, history, anthropology,
sociology, women’s studies, and literature. Among the issues
they address are: the impact of migration, education, early
socialization of gender roles, the role of the media in
perpetuating and shaping negative stereotypes, the gendered
nature of language, women and the media, literature by
women, and local appropriation of gender and feminist
theory. Each author oﬀers a fresh and unique perspective on
the current process of survival strategies and postcommunist
identity reconstruction among Ukrainian women in their
current climate of patriarchalism.
Marian J. Rubchak is a Senior Research Professor of History at
Valparaiso University.
August 2014, 240 pages, 2 ﬁgures, 4 tables, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-0-85745-118-7 Hardback $120.00/£75.00 (2011)
ISBN 978-1-78238-673-5 Paperback $29.95/£18.50
eISBN 978-0-85745-119-4
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Edited by Haci Akman
“The anthology provides careful analysis based on rich empirical
material that illuminates the complexity of the region (and of the
migration processes that have occurred in the last thirty years)
represented and acted upon as the Nordic…[its] strength lies in its
ability to pose central research questions at the crossroad
between the making of the ‘Nordic’ and the original ways through
which diasporic communities create gendered forms of belonging
that transcend the nation-state. This ability to move between the
local and the global through original and reﬂexive methodologies
locates the anthology’s work within a broader international
scholarship.”
Diana Mulinari, Center for Gender Studies, University of Lund
Gender Studies
GENDER
STUDIES
Gender has a profound impact on the discourse on migration
as well as various aspects of integration, social and political
life, public debate, and art. This volume focuses on
immigration and the concept of diaspora through the
experiences of women living in Norway, Sweden, and
Denmark. Through a variety of case studies, the authors
approach the multifaceted nature of interactions between
these women and their adopted countries, considering both
the local and the global. The text examines the “making of the
Scandinavian” and the novel ways in which diasporic
communities create gendered forms of belonging that
transcend the nation state.
Haci Akman is Associate Professor in the Faculty of the
Humanities, at the University of Bergen, Norway.
Available, 206 pages, 9 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-306-2 Hardback $49.95/£32.00 (2014)
eISBN 978-1-78238-307-9
AMBIGUOUS PLEASURES
WRAPPED IN THE FLAG OF ISRAEL
Sexuality and Middle Class
Self-Perceptions in Nairobi
Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture
Rachel Spronk
Smadar Lavie
“…an interesting and well-written book…a strong contribution to
the scholarship of african sexualities and gender, due not least to
its clear focus and methodological approach…i would
recommend it to anyone interested in gender and sexualities in
the african context.” African Aﬀairs
“Wrapped in the Flag of Israel is a passionately iconoclastic text.
it is at once an insider’s guide to israeli society, a political tract, and
a theoretical reﬂexion on the moment when “agency” ends. Lavie’s
analysis of the fusion of bureaucratic and religious power is
without equal in the classics of political anthropology.”
Martha Mundy, London School of Economics
By focusing on public debates and their preoccupations with
issues of African heritage, gerontocratic power relations and
conventional morality on the one hand, and personal sexual
relationships, intimacy and self-perceptions on the other, this
study works out the complexities of sexuality and culture in
the context of modernity in an African society. It moves
beyond an investigation of a health or development
perspective of sexuality and instead examines desire, pleasure
and eroticism, revealing new insights into the methodology
and theory of the study of sexuality within the social sciences.
Rachel Spronk is Assistant Professor at the Sociology and
Anthropology Department at the University of Amsterdam.
October 2014, 322 pages, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-0-85745-478-2 Hardback $120.00/£75.00 (2012)
ISBN 978-1-78238-530-1Paperback $34.95/£22.00
eISBN 978-0-85745-479-9
What is the relationship between social protest movements in
the State of Israel, violence in Gaza, and the possibility of an
Israeli attack on Iran? Why did the mass social protests in the
State of Israel of summer 2011 ultimately fail? wrapped in the
Flag of israel discusses social protest movements from the
2003 Single Mothers’ March led by Mizrahi Vicky Knafo, to the
“Tahrir is Here” Israeli mass protests of summer 2011. Equating
bureaucratic entanglements with pain—what, arguably, can
be seen as torture, Smadar Lavie explores the conundrum of
loving and staying loyal to a state that repeatedly inﬂicts pain
on its non-European Jewish women citizens through its
bureaucratic system.
Smadar Lavie is a visiting professor at the Center for Middle
Eastern Studies, U.C. Berkeley.
Available, 214 pages, 20 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-222-5 Hardback $39.95/£25.00 (2014)
eISBN 978-1-78238-223-2
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SERIES
Integration and Conflict Studies
Integration and
Conflict Studies
Series Editor:
Günther Schlee, Director at the Max
Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
FRIENDSHIP, DESCENT
AND ALLIANCE IN AFRICA
Anthropological Perspectives
Edited by Martine Guichard, Tilo Grätz, and Youssouf Diallo
Foreword by Günther Schlee
Afterword by Stephen P. Reyna
Friendship, descent and alliance are basic forms of relatedness
that have received unequal attention in social anthropology.
Oﬀering new insights into the ways in which friendship is
conceptualized and realized in various sub-Saharan African
settings, the contributions to this volume depart from the
recent tendency to study friendship in isolation from kinship.
In drawing attention to the complexity of the interactions
between these two kinds of social relationships, the book
suggests that analyses of friendship in Western societies
would also beneﬁt from research that explores more
systematically friendship in conjunction with kinship.
Martine Guichard is a Senior Researcher at the Max Planck
Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale. Tilo Grätz is
Vice-Director for Research at the Centre of Modern Oriental
Studies, Berlin. Youssouf Diallo is a Lecturer in Anthropology
and Cross-Cultural Competencies at the German Armed
Forces Command and Staﬀ College in Hamburg.
Volume 10, integration and Conﬂict Studies
Available, 220 pages, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-286-7 Hardback $95.00/£60.00 (2014)
eISBN 978-1-78238-287-4
DOMESTICATING YOUTH
Youth Bulges and their Socio-political
Implications in Tajikistan
Sophie Roche
Foreword by Günther Schlee
“[This] is an interesting and valuable study of Tajikistan, but its
lessons have much broader implications. roche has illustrated
powerfully that age is a central structural issue in society and that
each particular age-category has its own history, interests, and
experiences…Fieldworkers and theorists [should] absorb this
message and investigate age concepts, relationships, institutions,
and practices in all cultures, where no doubt many valuable
things will be learned.” Anthropology Review Database
This book introduces the discussion about youth bulge into
social anthropology using Tajikistan, a post-Soviet country that
experienced civil war in the 1990s, which is in the middle of
such a demographic transition. Sophie Roche develops a
social anthropological approach to analyze demographic and
political dynamics, and suggests a new way of thinking about
social change in youth bulge societies.
Sophie Roche studied Central Asian Studies and Social
Anthropology in Berlin and did long-term ﬁeldwork in
Tajikistan while at the Max Planck Institute for Social
Anthropology in Halle, Germany, between 2005 and 2010.
Volume 8, integration and Conﬂict Studies
Available, 296 pages, 21 illus., 8 tables, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-262-1 Hardback $95.00/£60.00 (2014)
eISBN 978-1-78238-263-8
Published in association with
Max Planck Institute for Social
Anthropology, Halle/Saale
CREOLE IDENTITY IN
POSTCOLONIAL INDONESIA
Jacqueline Knörr
“Creole Identity in Postcolonial Indonesia reveals some
fundamental aspects of ethnicity, nationalism, and the
transethnicity that bind them…the sort of transethnic
creolization that knorr describes is probably common in the
modern world, if not the very nature of modern culture- and
identity-making processes. Her book is a valuable description of
phenomena in one postcolonial setting that can and should be
applied as widely as possible.” Anthropology Review Database
Contributing to identity formation in ethnically and religiously
diverse postcolonial societies, this book examines the role
played by creole identity in Indonesia, and in particular its
capital, Jakarta. While, on the one hand, it facilitates
transethnic integration and promotes a speciﬁcally
postcolonial sense of common nationhood due to its
heterogeneous origins, creole groups of people are often
perceived ambivalently in the wake of colonialism and its
demise, on the other. In this book, Jacqueline Knörr analyzes
the social, historical, and political contexts of creoleness both
at the grassroots and the State level, showing how diﬀerent
sections of society engage with creole identity in order to
promote collective identiﬁcation transcending ethnic and
religious boundaries, as well as for reasons of self-interest and
ideological projects.
Jacqueline Knörr is Head of Research Group at the Max Planck
Institute for Social Anthropology.
Volume 9, integration and Conﬂict Studies
Available, 236 pages, 15 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-268-3 Hardback $90.00/£55.00 (2014)
eISBN 978-1-78238-269-0
VARIATIONS ON UZBEK IDENTITY
Strategic Choices, Cognitive Schemas and
Political Constraints in Identiﬁcation Processes
Peter Finke
“an excellent study of Uzbek ethnicity and identity ﬁnds four quite
diﬀerent concepts of Uzbekness and systems of group
membership in four locations around Uzbekistan, radically calling
into question our presumptions about ethnicity, identity, and
social boundaries.” Anthropology Review Database
This book combines an historical analysis with thorough
ethnographic ﬁeld research, looking at diﬀerences in the
conceptualization of group boundaries and the social
practices they entail. It does so by analysing decision-making
processes by Uzbeks on the individual as well as cognitive
level and the political conﬁgurations that surround them.
Peter Finke is Professor for Social Anthropology at the
University of Zurich and Co-director of the Centre for
Anthropological Studies on Central Asia (CASCA).
Volume 7, integration and Conﬂict Studies
Available, 288 pages, 37 illus., 23 tables, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-238-6 Hardback $95.00/£60.00 (2014)
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Dance and Performance Studies
General Editors:
Jonathan Skinner, Queen’s University Belfast
Helena Wulff, Stockholm University
Eleni Bizas
“ a short study of dance instruction and learning in three settings
(two in New York as well as in Dakar, Senegal) raises important
issues of globalization, the commoditization of dance and culture
in general, and the complex embodied process of learning or
‘enskilment.” Anthropology Review Database
Based on extensive ethnographic ﬁeldwork in New York and
Dakar, this book explores the Senegalese dance-rhythms
Sabar from the research position of a dance student. It
features a comparative analysis of the pedagogical techniques
used in dance classes in New York and Dakar, which in turn
shed light on diﬀerent aesthetics and understandings of
dance, as well as diﬀerent ways of learning, in each context..
Eleni Bizas is a Research Fellow at the Programme for the
Study of Global Migration, Graduate Institute of International
and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland.
Volume 6, Dance and performance Studies
Available, 168 pages, 3 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-256-0 Hardback $70.00/£44.00 (2014)
eISBN 978-1-78238-257-7
DANCE CIRCLES
Movement, Morality and
Self-fashioning in Urban Senegal
Hélène Neveu Kringelbach
wInnER of thE 2013 dE lA toRRE BuEno SPEcIAl
cItAtIon foR ScholARShIP In dAncE AwARd
“This is an absolutely ﬁrst-class study. it ranges across space, genre
and time, though with contemporary Senegalese perspectives
always to the fore. it is artfully narrated, and the voice of a wellqualiﬁed and extremely thoughtful author is clear and distinct
throughout. i would put it at the forefront of dance studies today,
and it also makes a valuable contribution both to anthropological
thinking about expressive culture, and to west africa studies in
general.” Martin Stokes, King’s College, London
“i enjoyed reading this book, which is very well written, focuses on
a well-selected range of performance practices in Senegal and
makes an interesting contribution to studies in that ﬁeld. [it]
provides intelligent analysis of performances by relating them in
interesting and innovative ways, but its main strength lies in…
oﬀering wonderful ethnographic detail that brings out the
contested nature of dance in relations between dancers and their
audiences.” Ferdinand de Jong, University of East Anglia
A historically informed ethnography of creativity, agency, and
the fashioning of selves through the diﬀerent life stages in
urban Senegal, this book explores the signiﬁcance of multiple
engagement with dance in a context of economic uncertainty
and rising concerns over morality in the public space.
Hélène Neveu Kringelbach is a researcher at the African
Studies Centre in Oxford.
Volume 5, Dance and performance Studies
Available, 252 pages, 17 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-147-1 Hardback $95.00/£60.00 (2013)
eISBN 978-1-78238-148-8
N e w i N pa p e r B aC k
PERFORMING PLACE,
PRACTISING MEMORIES
Aboriginal Australians, Hippies and the State
Rosita Henry
“rosita Henry skillfully dissects the relations among indigenes,
“locals,” incomers, and the various government
Jurisdictions…[She] maintains a balanced view and succeeds in
illuminating the very real diﬀerence generating conﬂicts that exist
within an overall ‘village’ identity as a homogeneous community.”
American Ethnologist
During the 1970s a wave of ‘counter-culture’ people moved
into rural communities in many parts of Australia. This study
focuses in particular on the town of Kuranda in North
Queensland and the relationship between the settlers and the
local Aboriginal population, concentrating on a number of
linked social dramas that portrayed the use of both public and
private space. Through their public performances and in their
everyday spatial encounters, these people resisted the
bureaucratic state but, in the process, they also contributed to
the cultivation and propagation of state eﬀects.
Rosita Henry is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and a
Fellow of the Cairns Institute, James Cook University, Australia.
Volume 8, Space and place
November 2014, 284 pages, 17 illus., 3 maps, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-0-85745-508-6 Hardback $120.00/£75.00 (2012)
ISBN 978-1-78238-683-4 Paperback $34.95/£22.00
eISBN 978-0-85745-509-3
Dance and Performance Studies
LEARNING SENEGALESE SABAR
Dancers and Embodiment in New York and Dakar
PERFORMANCE
STUDIES
DANCING CULTURES
Globalization, Tourism and Identity
in the Anthropology of Dance
Edited by Hélène Neveu Kringelbach and Jonathan Skinner
“The presentation quality of this volume is of a high standard. The
photographs are clear and they work well to support to relevant
arguments. it is a successful research-oriented volume with very
good links between theories and practice in relation to
ethnographic studies, tourism, and dance. This book is
appropriate and worthwhile for undergraduate and postgraduate
students for their in-depth research on social, cultural, and
tourism studies. in particular, the excellent case studies in this
volume provide insights in to how dance performance is relevant
to other diﬀerent disciplines. its examples are also relevant for
practitioners who work in the creative, culture, and tourism
sectors.” Annals of Tourism Research
Through innovative and wide-ranging case studies, the
contributors explore the central role dance plays in culture as
leisure commodity, cultural heritage, cultural aesthetic or
cathartic social movement.
Hélène Neveu Kringelbach is an Oxford Diaspora Programme
Researcher at the University of Oxford. Jonathan Skinner is
Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of
Roehampton.
Volume 4, Dance and performance Studies
Available, 236 pages, 11 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-0-85745-575-8 Hardback $90.00/£56.00 (2012)
ISBN 978-1-78238-522-6 Paperback $29.95/£18.50
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Asia/Asia-Pacific
ASIA/ASIA-PACIFIC
New
New
MAKING A DIFFERENCE?
TRAPPED IN THE GAP
Social Assessment Policy and
Praxis and its Emergence in China
Doing Good in Indigenous Australia
Edited by Susanna Price and Kathryn Robinson
“...an excellent collection of essays and case studies oﬀering both a
critical and nuanced look at how projects are produced from a
practitioner’s perspective. Contributing authors...reﬂect work within
a development enterprise where economic determinism reigns
supreme...with an emphasis on highlighting the lessons learned,
this book is an engaging, educational, and provocative read.”
Barbara Rose Johnston, Environment, Health and Human
Rights, Center for Political Ecology
This collection of essays locates recent Chinese experience
with development in a historical and comparative perspective.
Contributors − social scientists employed by international
development banks, national government agencies, and subcontracting groups – use real-life experience to examine
development policies from a practitioner’s perspective.
Susanna Price is a Research Associate in the College of Asia
and the Paciﬁc at the Australian National University. Kathryn
Robinson is Professor in Anthropology at the Australian
National University, in the School of Culture, History &
Language, College of Asia and the Paciﬁc; and is a Fellow of
the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia.
Volume 6, asia-paciﬁc Studies: past and present
January 2015, 320 pages, 3 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-457-1 Hardback $95.00/£60.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-458-8
New
LIVING TRANSLATION
Language and the Search for
Resonance in U.S. Chinese Medicine
Sonya E. Pritzker
“pritzker’s work makes a critical contribution to an otherwise
largely unexamined phenomenon: the embodied, personal, social,
and cultural nature of translation. The transmission of a tradition
from one complex cultural environment into another engages the
deep—and not always congruent—commitments of many
diﬀerent parties. pritzker deftly integrates insights from key
theories and disciplines to illuminate the many experiential and
moral layers involved in the translation of concepts and texts from
Chinese medicine.” Linda L. Barnes, Boston University
Based on a close examination of heated international debates
as well as speciﬁc texts, classroom discussions, and interviews
with publishers, authors, teachers, and students, Sonya Pritzker
demonstrates the “living translation” of Chinese medicine as a
process unfolding through interaction, inscription, embodied
experience, and clinical practice.
Sonya Pritzker is an anthropologist in the Department of
Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine & Health
Services Research, at the UCLA David Geﬀen School of
Medicine.
June 2014, 228 pages, 1 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-310-9 Hardback $95.00/£60.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-311-6
Emma Kowal
“This is an excellent forensic analysis of the dilemmas of well
intentioned white development workers in the intercultural, postcolonial setting of a region of a settler society that is still unsettled.
it is well written and engaging . . . it is scrupulously balanced,
strives to be complete, and is consistently well argued.”
Patrick Sullivan, University of Notre Dame
"This book breaks new ground in the study of postcolonial identity
politics. its analysis of the complex motivations, aspirations and
ethical ambiguities arising from the legacy of colonialism is both
compelling and certain to prompt productive debate."
David Trigger, University of Queensland
Trapped in the gap explores what happens when a group of
state-supported, intelligent and well-meaning people attempt
to help without harming. This group of “white anti-racists” ﬁnd
themselves trapped by endless ambiguities, contradictions,
and double binds, a microcosm of the broader dilemmas of
postcolonial societies.
Emma Kowal is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Deakin
University, Melbourne.
February 2015, 232 pages, 7 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-599-8 Hardback $95.00/£60.00
ISBN 978-1-78238-604-9 Paperback $24.95/£15.50
eISBN 978-1-78238-600-1
HINDI IS OUR GROUND,
ENGLISH IS OUR SKY
Education, Language, and Social
Class in Contemporary India
Chaise LaDousa
Foreword by Krishna Kumar
“The painstaking, thorough study presented in this book
comfortably straddles disciplinary boundaries. Judicious and
imaginative selection of material and methods drawn from social
anthropology and linguistics enables LaDousa to take readers to
the intersection of ideology, status, and education. They stay long
enough at this intersection to get over the emotive illusion of the
term ‘mother tongue.’” SirReadaLot
Schools are institutions on which class mobility depends, and
they are divided by Hindi and English in the rubric of
“medium,” the primary language of pedagogy. This book
demonstrates that the school division allows for diﬀerent
visions of what it means to belong to the nation and what is
central and peripheral in the nation. It also shows how the
language-medium division reverberates unevenly and
unequally through the nation, and that schools illustrate the
tensions brought on by economic liberalization and middleclass status.
Chaise LaDousa is Associate Professor of Anthropology at
Hamilton College in Clinton, New York.
Available, 236 pages, 16 illus., 2 tables, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-232-4 Hardback $85.00/£53.00 (2014)
eISBN 978-1-78238-233-1
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SERIES
New
LIVING KINSHIP IN THE PACIFIC
Edited by Christina Toren and Simonne Pauwels
“...studying kinship is like vitamins for anthropologists: it’s always
beneﬁcial, and we don’t get enough. This book provides strong
and useful accounts of contemporary understandings of kinship
in the paciﬁc.” Matt Tomlinson, Australian National University
Unaisi Nabobo-Baba observed that for the various peoples of
the Paciﬁc, kinship is generally understood as “knowledge that
counts.” It is with this observation that the volume begins, and
it continues with a straightforward objective to provide case
studies of Paciﬁc kinship. In doing so, contributors share an
understanding of kinship as a lived and living dimension of
contemporary human lives, in an area where deep historical
links provide for close and useful comparison. The
ethnographic focus is on transformation and continuity over
time in Fiji, Tonga, and Samoa with the addition of three
instructive cases from Tokelau, Papua New Guinea, and Taiwan.
The book ends with an account of how kinship is constituted
in day-to-day ritual and ritualized behavior.
Christina Toren is Professor of Anthropology and Founding
Director of the Centre for Paciﬁc Studies at the University of St.
Andrews. Simonne Pauwels is a Researcher at CNRS and the
Adjunct Director of CREDO.
Volume 4, paciﬁc perspectives: Studies of the european Society for Oceanists
April 2015, 300 pages, 17 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-577-6 Hardback $95.00/£60.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-578-3
New
PACIFIC FUTURES
Series Editors:
Christina Toren, Dept. of Social
Anthropology, University
of St. Andrews
Edvard Hviding, University of Bergen
New
BELONGING IN OCEANIA
Movement, Place-Making
and Multiple Identiﬁcations
Edited by Elfriede Hermann, Wolfgang Kempf
and Toon van Meijl
“i am impressed by the direction and content of this book. it oﬀers
a timely engagement with the important social science concepts
of movement, place-making, and multiple-identiﬁcations. But
whereas in other recent studies these notions have usually been
theorized and empiricised as isolates, here they are triangulated in
an intellectually original and productive way.”
Tom Ryan, University of Waikato
Belonging can be understood by considering the
intersections of movement, place-making and cultural
identiﬁcations. The contributions present ethnographic case
studies of such intersections in Oceania. Investigated are
ongoing formations of place, self and community in
connection with travelling, as well as with internal and
international migration.
Elfriede Hermann is Professor at the Institute of Cultural and
Social Anthropology at the University of Göttingen. Wolfgang
Kempf has taught Cultural Anthropology at the Universities of
Tübingen, Heidelberg and Göttingen. Toon van Meijl is
Professor of Anthropology and Head of the Department of
Anthropology and Development Studies at Radboud
University Nijmegen in the Netherlands.
Volume 3, paciﬁc perspectives: Studies of the european Society for Oceanists
September 2014, 232 pages,
ISBN 978-1-78238-415-1 Hardback $95.00/£60.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-416-8
Projects, Politics and Interests
Edited by Will Rollason
“This book makes an important contribution to studies of the
paciﬁc island nations and societies by asking scholars to
demonstrate how the activities of paciﬁc islanders can be better
understood by analysing the future as a ﬁeld of possibility, action,
and hopes.” Karen Sykes, Manchester University
paciﬁc Futures asks how our understanding of social life in the
Paciﬁc would be diﬀerent if we approached it from the
perspective of the futures which Paciﬁc people dream of,
predict or struggle to achieve, not the reproduction of cultural
tradition. From Christianity to gambling, marriage to cargo
cult, military coups to reﬂections on childhood ﬁshing trips,
the contributors to this volume show how Paciﬁc people are
actively shaping their lives with the future in mind.
Will Rollason is Lecturer in Anthropology at Brunel University,
UK.
Volume 2, paciﬁc perspectives: Studies of the european Society for Oceanists
July 2014, 256 pages, 2 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-350-5 Hardback $95.00/£60.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-351-2
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THE ETHNOGRAPHIC EXPERIMENT
A.M. Hocart and W.H.R. Rivers
in Island Melanesia, 1908
Edited by Edvard Hviding and Cato Berg
“it has been quite a while since i encountered a collection of essays
that was as well coordinated, topically consistent, and
thematically linked as this one. The end result is an intellectually
rigorous examination of an overlooked but nonetheless extremely
important event in the history of anthropology…The volume,
taken as a whole, has a refreshingly critical and reﬂective quality
about it.” David Hanlon, University of Hawai`i at Mānoa
In 1908 Arthur Maurice Hocart and William Halse Rivers Rivers
brought about a turning point in modern anthropology. The
two pioneers’ ﬁeldwork in Island Melanesia brought about the
development of participant observation as a methodological
hallmark of social anthropology. Contributors to this
volume—who have all carried out ﬁeldwork in Melanesian
locations—situate the scholars’ eﬀorts in the contexts of
colonial history, imperialism, the history of ideas and scholarly
practice within and beyond anthropology.
Edvard Hviding is Professor of Social Anthropology at the
University of Bergen. Cato Berg is an Associate Senior Scholar
of the Bergen Paciﬁc Studies Research Group.
Volume 1, paciﬁc perspectives: Studies of the european Society for Oceanists
June 2014, 336 pages, 20 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-342-0 Hardback $95.00/£60.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-343-7
Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for Oceanists
Pacific Perspectives:
Studies of the
European Society for
Oceanists
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Africa
AFRICA
New
New
MORALITY AND ECONOMIC
GROWTH IN RURAL WEST AFRICA
MULTIDIMENSIONAL CHANGE IN THE
REPUBLIC OF SUDAN (1989-2011)
Indigenous Accumulation in Hausaland
Reshaping Livelihoods, Conﬂicts, and Identities
Paul Clough
Edited by Barbara Casciarri, Munzoul Assal
and François Ireton
“The [author’s] period of ﬁeldwork results in an amazingly dense
description of economic processes. Quantitative and qualitative
data is analysed and presented in a fascinating manner. The
chapters on money lending, on labour relations and on trade i
rate superb… the theoretical analysis and modeling is highly
signiﬁcant and important.” Michael Bollig, University of Cologne
Based on ﬁeldwork conducted in two national economic
cycles in Nigeria - the petroleum-boom prosperity (in 19771979), and the macro-economic decline (in 1985, 1996 and
1998) - this book unveils a new paradigm of economic change
in the West African savannah, demonstrating how rural
accumulation in a polygynous society actually limits the
extent of inequality while at the same time promoting
technical change.
Paul Clough is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the
University of Malta.
June 2014, 468 pages, 28 illus., 113 tables, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-270-6 Hardback $120.00/£75.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-271-3
FOrTHCOMiNg
MASKS AND STAFFS
Identity Politics in the Cameroon Grassﬁelds
“This book brings together sixteen original, detailed ﬁeld studies
… [which] focus on localities across the northerly provinces of the
Sudan as it was then constituted . . . the events and processes of
this ‘interim period’ following the civil war themselves have deep
roots in the past of the whole region, and continuing relevance to
‘both Sudans’ today.” Wendy James, University of Oxford
Based on original ﬁeldwork collected in Sudan from 2006 to
2011, contributors’ look at “access to resources” from various
disciplinary approaches — socio-anthropology, geography,
politics, history, linguistic. The book analyzes major
transformations, from the 1980s to South Sudan’s
independence in 2011, which aﬀected the country in the
framework of “globalization.”
Barbara Casciarri is Associate Professor at the Department of
Sociology, University Paris 8. Munzoul A.M. Assal is Associate
Professor of Social Anthropology and Deputy Director of the
Peace Research Institute, University of Khartoum. François
Ireton is a Socio-economist and Researcher at French National
Center of Scientiﬁc Research, working in the Centre Jacques
Berque, Rabat.
April 2015, 400 pages, 23 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-617-9 Hardback $110.00/£68.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-618-6
Michaela Pelican
The Cameroon Grassﬁelds, home to three ethnic groups –
Grassﬁelds societies, Mbororo, and Hausa – provide a valuable
case study for the anthropological examination of identity
politics and interethnic relations. In the midst of the political
liberalization of Cameroon in the late 1990s and 2000s, local
responses to political and legal changes took the form of a
series of performative and discursive expressions of ethnicity.
Confrontational encounters stimulated by economic and
political rivalry, as well as socially integrative processes,
transformed collective self-understanding in Cameroon in
conjunction with recent global discourses on human,
minority, and indigenous rights. The book provides a vital
contribution to the study of ethnicity, conﬂict, and social
change in the anthropology of Africa.
Michaela Pelican is Junior Professor of Cultural and Social
Anthropology at the University of Cologne.
Volume 11, integration and Conﬂict Studies
July 2015, 264 pages, 22 illus., 7 tables, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-728-2 Hardback $95.00/£60.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-729-9
FOrTHCOMiNg
BUSH BOUND
Young Men and Rural Permanence
in Migrant West Africa
Paolo Gaibazzi
“Bush Bound is, to my knowledge, the only scholarly monograph
to examine so extensively the eﬀects of mobility (and restricted
mobility) on a migrant-sending community. as such it oﬀers a
crucial complement and counter-weight to the many case studies
of migrant communities in the social science literature.”
Bruce Whitehouse, Lehigh University
Many young men in a Gambian village, although eager to
travel for money and experience, settle as farmers, family
heads, businessmen, civic activists or, alternatively, as
employed, demoted youth. This ethnography focuses on
these “stayers,” who enable others to migrate while preserving
the values and traditions of rural, sedentary life.
Paolo Gaibazzi is a Social Anthropologist and a Research
Fellow at the Centre for Modern Oriental Studies (ZMO).
August 2015, 244 pages, 16 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-779-4 Hardback $90.00/£56.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-780-0
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New
F
R
I
C
A
FOrTHCOMiNg
THE FRANCO-MAURITIAN ELITE
AT HOME IN THE OKAVANGO
Power and Anxiety in the Face of Change
White Batswana Narratives
of Emplacement and Belonging
Tijo Salverda
“. . .this book oﬀers signiﬁcant contributions to the anthropology of
elites — whereas anthropology has historically tended towards
subaltern studies — and to the ethnography of FrancoMauritians, who have been neglected in previous ethnographic
studies of Mauritius.” Laura Jeﬀery, University of Edinburgh
“This monograph based on serious ethnographic ﬁeld research is
also a remarkable contribution to the comparative study of elites
and power. it should be compulsory reading for anyone interested
in the ﬁeld.” Jean-Pascal Daloz, University of Strasbourg
Mauritian Independence in 1968 marked the end of the
heyday of the island’s Franco-Mauritian elite, who are now
faced with a more diverse power constellation. This book
focuses on the power of these white elites still lingering on in
postcolonial realities, and addresses how this group aims to
prolong its position over time.
Tijo Salverda is Research Fellow at the University of Cologne’s
Global South Studies Center and a Research Associate of the
University of Pretoria’s Human Economy Programme.
Volume 37, New Directions in anthropology
April 2015, 252 pages, 1 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-640-7 Hardback $95.00/£60.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-641-4
FOrTHCOMiNg
Africa
A
Catie Gressier
“[This book] is a beautifully written, well-argued, and insightful
piece of work, full of fascinating and important observations. it
addresses key issues in africa, including those surrounding
questions of identity, belonging, and citizenship.”
Robert K. Hitchcock, University of New Mexico at Albuquerque
“The ethnography presented in this important book is original and
rich, analyzed in a theoretically well-informed way. it reveals very
well how a white minority in this region — which is marred by
ethnic violence and racism — have developed a sense of
belonging and peaceful relationships with a larger community,
where black people form the great majority.”
Ørnulf Gulbrandsen, University of Bergen
An ethnography of the lives of white citizens of the Okavango
Delta, Botswana, this book examines their relationships with
the natural and social environments of the region. In response
to the insecurity of their European descent in a postcolonial
African state, the white Batswana have developed values and
practices that allow them high levels of belonging.
Catie Gressier is a McArthur Research Fellow at the University
of Melbourne.
August 2015, 260 pages, 4 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-773-2 Hardback $100.00/£62.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-774-9
DEVELOPMENTALITY
An Ethnography of the World
Bank-Uganda Partnership
New
Jon Harald Sande Lie
Screening the German Colonies
“This is an original, interesting, timely book...the author has been
able to get inside deliberations between the world Bank and one
of its clients. [The book] demonstrates how the Bank’s modus
operandi essentially dictates how states work around it, where the
Bank’s operations drive development. This book is unique in
putting the puzzle together in a fresh way.”
Susan Park, University of Sydney
Drawing on ethnographic ﬁeldwork within the World Bank
and a Ugandan ministry, this book critically examines how the
new aid architecture recasts aid relations as a partnership.
While intended to alter an asymmetrical relationship by
fostering greater recipient participation and ownership, this
book demonstrates how donors still seek to retain control
through other indirect and informal means. The concept of
developmentality shows how the World Bank’s ability to steer
a client’s behavior is disguised by the underlying ideas of
partnership, ownership, and participation, which come with
other instruments through which the Bank manipulates the
aid recipient into aligning with its own policies and practices.
Jon Harald Sande Lie is a Senior Research Fellow at the
Norwegian Institute of International Aﬀairs (NUPI).
September 2015, 288 pages, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-840-1 Hardback $110.00/£68.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-841-8
IMPERIAL PROJECTIONS
Wolfgang Fuhrmann
“Imperial Projections is a pioneering exploration of the
intersection of early ﬁlm history, the study of popular visual
culture, and german colonial history in the years before the First
world war…By showing that colonial images could, and did,
mean diﬀerent things to diﬀerent people, imperial projections
oﬀers a refreshing rethinking of monolithic terms such as ‘the
colonial gaze’ or ‘the imperialist imagination.’”
Christian Rogowski, Amherst College
The beginning of ﬁlmmaking in the German colonies
coincided with colonialism itself coming to a standstill.
Scandals and economic stagnation in the colonies demanded
a new and positive image of their value for Germany. By
promoting business and establishing a new genre within the
fast growing ﬁlm industry, ﬁlms of the colonies were
welcomed by organizations such as the Deutsche
Kolonialgesellschaft (German Colonial Society). The ﬁlms
triggered patriotic feelings but also addressed the audience as
travelers, explorers, wildlife protectionists, and participants in
unique cultural events. This book is the ﬁrst in-depth analysis
of colonial ﬁlmmaking in the Wilhelmine era.
Wolfgang Fuhrmann is Senior Assistant at the University of
Zurich’s Institute for Cinema Studies.
Volume 17, Film europa
May 2015, 308 pages, 19 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78238-697-1 Hardback $120.00/£75.00
eISBN 978-1-78238-698-8
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ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY
Advances in Research
advances in research responds to the growing need for a
rigorous, in-depth review of current work in the social
sciences and humanities and seeks to stimulate advanced
research and action on particularly critical issues of today.
The annuals provide an overview of the latest
developments in their area from an interdisciplinary
perspective and encourage international communication
and exchange among all relevant disciplines.
New iN 2015
CONFLICT AND SOCIETY
Advances in Research
Editorial Team: Erella Grassiani, university of Amsterdam,
Alexander Horstmann, university of copenhagen, Lotte Buch
Segal, university of copenhagen, Ronald S. Stade (founding
editor), Malmö university, and Henrik Vigh, university of
copenhagen
Conﬂict and Society expands the ﬁeld of conﬂict studies by
using ethnographic inquiry to establish new ﬁelds of research
and interdisciplinary collaboration. With special attention paid
to ongoing debates on the politics and ethics of conﬂict
studies research, including military-academic cooperation,
Conﬂict and Society will be an essential forum for scholars,
researchers, and policy makers in the ﬁelds of anthropology,
sociology, political science, and development studies.
ISSN: 2164-4543 (Print) • ISSN: 2164-4551 (Online)
Volume 1/2015, 1 issue p.a.
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MUSEUM WORLDS
Editors: Paige West, Barnard college, columbia university
and Dan Brockington, university of Manchester
The ﬁeld of research on environment and society is growing
rapidly and becoming of ever-greater importance not only in
academia but also in policy circles and for the public at large.
The growth reﬂects the urgency of debate and the pace and
scale of change with respect to the water crisis, deforestation,
biodiversity loss, the looming energy crisis, nascent resource
wars, environmental refugees, climate change, and
environmental justice, which are just some of the many
compelling challenges facing society today and in the future.
It also reﬂects the richness and insights of scholarship
exploring diverse cultural forms, social phenomena, and
political-economic formations in which society and nature are
intricately intertwined, if not indistinguishable.
environment and Society publishes critical reviews of the latest
research literature on environmental studies, including
subjects of theoretical, methodological, substantive, and
applied signiﬁcance. Articles also survey the literature
regionally and thematically and reﬂect the work of
anthropologists, geographers, environmental scientists, and
human ecologists from all parts of the world in order to
internationalize the conversations within environmental
anthropology, environmental geography, and other
environmentally oriented social sciences
ISSN: 2150-6779 (Print) • ISSN: 2150-6787 (Online)
Volume 6/2015, 1 issue p.a.
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INTRODUCING ENVIROSOCIETY
A new site featuring the latest commentary and news
about the environment and society.
www.envirosociety.org
Advances in Research
Editors: Sandra Dudley, university of leicester and
Kylie Message, Australian national university
Museum worlds is a multi-disciplinary, peer-reviewed journal
that publishes work that signiﬁcantly advances knowledge of
global trends, case studies and theory relevant to museum
practice and scholarship around the world. Responding to the
need for a rigorous, in-depth review of current work in the
broad ﬁeld of Museum Studies, Museum worlds will contribute
to the ongoing formation of Museum Studies, as an academic
and practical ﬁeld of research which is rapidly expanding and
alive with potential, opportunity and challenge that parallels
the rapid growth of museums in just about every part of the
world.
RELIGION AND SOCIETY
Advances in Research
Editors: Simon Coleman, university of toronto
and Ruy Llera Blanes, university of Bergen
religion and Society responds to the need for a rigorous,
in-depth review of current work in the expanding
sub-discipline of the anthropology of religion. In addition, this
important annual aims to provide a dynamic snapshot of
developments in the study of religion as a whole and
encourages inter-disciplinary perspectives.
Museum worlds aims to trace and comment on major regional,
theoretical, methodological and topical themes and debates,
and encourage comparison of museum theories, practices,
and developments in diﬀerent global settings. Each issue
includes a conversation piece on a current topic, as well as
peer reviewed scholarly articles and review articles, book and
exhibition reviews, and news on developments in museum
studies and related curricula in diﬀerent parts of the world.
Each volume contains proﬁle of a senior scholar of religion,
alongside invited papers produced by authorities in their
respective subﬁelds. The contributions provide overviews of a
given topic with critical, ‘positioned’ views of the subject and
of relevant research. In the Debate section, scholars of religion
reﬂect on a high-proﬁle issue or event, and the Author Meets
Critics section invites discussants to comment on a recently
published volume, followed by a response from the author.
Other sections cover teaching, news, and—vitally—reviews of
new books and ethnographic ﬁlms.
ISSN: 2049-6729 (Print) • ISSN: 2049-6737 (Online)
Volume 3/2015, 1 issue p.a.
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BOYHOOD STUDIES
An Interdisciplinary Journal
Editor: Diederik F. Janssen
Boyhood Studies: an interdisciplinary Journal is a peer-reviewed
journal providing a forum for the discussion of boyhood,
young masculinities, and boys’ lives by exploring the full scale
of intricacies, challenges, and legacies that inform male and
masculine developments. Boyhood Studies is committed to a
critical and international scope and solicits both articles and
special issue proposals from a variety of research ﬁelds
including, but not limited to, the social and psychological
sciences, historical and cultural studies, philosophy, and social,
legal, and health studies.
ISSN: 2375-9240 (Print) • ISSN: 2375-9267 (Online)
Volume 1/2015, 2 issues p.a.
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ASIA PACIFIC WORLD
The Journal of the International
Association for Asia Paciﬁc Studies
Chief Editor: Malcolm J.M. Cooper, Ritsumeikan Asia Paciﬁc
university
asia paciﬁc world is a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal that
focuses on the social, political, cultural and economic
development of the Asia Paciﬁc region. The Journal discusses
issues of current and future concern for the Asia Paciﬁc, and its
relations with the rest of the world.
A forum for scholars carrying out research on the region, asia
paciﬁc world presents cutting edge analysis and invites
contributions from a wide range of disciplines to explore their
impact on the region. These areas include, but are not limited
to, Sociology and Cultural Studies, History, Politics and
International Relations, Finance, International Business
Management, Innovation, Economic Development, Social
Welfare, Tourism, Environment, ICT, New Media, Management,
and Linguistics.
ISSN: 2042-6143 (Print) • ISSN: 2042-6151 (Online)
Volume 6/2015, 2 issues p.a.
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ANTHROPOLOGICAL JOURNAL
OF EUROPEAN CULTURES
Editor: Ullrich Kockel, Intercultural Research centre,
heriot-watt university, Edinburgh, Scotland
aJeC serves as an important forum for ethnographic research
in and on Europe, which in this context is not deﬁned
narrowly as a geopolitical entity but rather as a meaningful
cultural construction in people's lives, which both legitimates
political power and calls forth practices of resistance and
subversion. By presenting both new ﬁeld studies and
theoretical reﬂections on the history and politics of studying
culture in Europe anthropologically, aJeC encompasses
diﬀerent academic traditions of engaging with its subject,
from social and cultural anthropology to European ethnology
and empirische Kulturwissenschaften.
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Journal for Applied Anthropology
in Policy and Practice
Published in association with the Association
of Social Anthropologists’ (ASA) Apply network
Editor: Christine McCourt, city university london
Journals
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anthropology in action is a peer-reviewed journal publishing
articles, commentaries, research reports, and book reviews in
applied anthropology. Contributions reﬂect the use of
anthropological training in policy- or practice-oriented work
and foster the broader application of these approaches to
practical problems. The journal provides a forum for debate
and analysis for anthropologists working both inside and
outside academia and aims to promote communication
amongst practitioners, academics and students of
anthropology in order to advance the cross-fertilisation of
expertise and ideas.
Recent themes and articles have included the anthropology of
welfare, transferring anthropological skills to applied health
research, design considerations in old-age living, museumbased anthropology education, cultural identities and British
citizenship, feminism and anthropology, and international
student and youth mobility.
ISSN: 0967-201X (Print) • ISSN: 1752-2285 (Online)
Volume 22/2015, 3 issues p.a.
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ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE MIDDLE EAST
Editor-in-chief: Soheila Shahshahani, Shahid Beheshti
university, Iran
Recent political events have shown an alarming lack of
awareness in western countries of life in the Middle East.
Anthropologists, trained in analysing local discourses and
social actions and their socio-political and historical contexts,
play an important role in making social and cultural
developments in the Middle East more comprehensible to a
wider world.
This important journal provides a forum for scholarly
exchange between anthropologists and other social scientists
working in and on the Middle East. The journal's aim is to
disseminate, on the basis of informed analysis and insight, a
better understanding of Middle Eastern cultures and thereby
to achieve a greater appreciation of Middle Eastern
contributions to our culturally diverse world.
ISSN: 1746-0719 (Print) • ISSN: 1746-0727 (Online)
Volume 10/2015, 2 issues p.a.
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ISSN: 1755-2923 (Print) • ISSN: 1755-2931 (Online)
Volume 24/2015, 2 issues p.a.
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CAMBRIDGE ANTHROPOLOGY
Editor-in-chief: Maryon McDonald, university of
cambridge, uK
Cambridge anthropology is an international, peer-reviewed
journal committed to publishing leading scholarship in
contemporary anthropology. Geographically diverse articles
provide a range of theoretical or ethical perspectives, from the
traditional to the mischievous or subversive, and aim to oﬀer
new insights into the worlds in which we live. The journal will
publish challenging ethnography and push hard at the
boundaries of the discipline in addition to examining or
incorporating ﬁelds — from economics to neuroscience —
with which anthropology has long been in dialogue. The
original remit of the journal, as an in-house publication based
at Cambridge University, was to provide a space in which
innovative material and ideas could be tested; the new
Cambridge anthropology will build on that tradition to
produce new analytical tool-kits for anthropology or to take all
such intellectual exploration to task.
ISSN: 0305-7674 (Print) • ISSN: 2047-7716 (Online)
Volume 33/2015, 2 issues p.a.
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Editor: W. Watts Miller
Durkheimian Studies / etudes Durkheimiennes is the scholarly
journal of the British Centre for Durkheimian Studies. It is
concerned with all aspects of the work of Durkheim and his
group, such as Marcel Mauss and Robert Hertz, and with the
contemporary development and application of their ideas to
issues in the social sciences, religion and philosophy. The
journal is unique in often featuring ﬁrst-time or new English
translations of their French works otherwise not available to
English-language scholars.
ISSN: 1362-024X (Print) • ISSN: 1752-2307 (Online)
Volume 21/2015, 1 issue p.a.
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Anthropology collection. Please contact Berghahn Journals
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Collection includes the following journals:
Asia Paciﬁc World Anthropological Journal of European
Cultures Anthropology in Action Anthropology of the
Middle East Cambridge Anthropology Conﬂict and
Society Durkheimian Studies Environment and Society
Focaal Girlhood Studies Journeys Learning and Teaching
Museum Worlds Nature and Culture Religion and Society
Regions and Cohesion Sibirica Social Analysis Transfers
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GIRLHOOD STUDIES IS MOVING TO
3 ISSUES PER YEAR IN 2015!
GIRLHOOD STUDIES
An Interdisciplinary Journal
Editors-in-chief: Claudia Mitchell, McGill university and
Jacqueline Reid-Walsh, Penn State university
WINNER OF THE 2009 AAP/PSP PROSE AWARD FOR BEST
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Focaal is a peer-reviewed journal advocating an approach
that rests in the simultaneity of ethnography, processual
analysis, local insights, and global vision. It is at the heart of
debates on the ongoing conjunction of anthropology and
history as well as the incorporation of local research settings in
the wider spatial networks of coercion, imagination, and
exchange that are often glossed as 'globalization' or 'empire'.
The journal therefore strives for the resurrection of an
'anthropology at large', that can accommodate issues of the
global south, post-socialism, mobility, metropolitan
experience, capitalist power and popular resistance into
integrated perspectives.
FocaalBlog aims to accelerate and intensify
anthropological conversations beyond what a regular
academic journal can do, and to make them more
widely, globally, and swiftly available. - See more at:
www.focaalblog.com
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Managing Editor: Luisa Steur, university of copenhagen
Editors: Don Kalb, central European university and utrecht
university, Christopher Krupa, university of toronto, Mathijs
Pelkmans, london School of Economics, Oscar Salemink,
university of copenhagen, Gavin Smith, university of toronto,
Oane Visser, Institute of Social Studies, the hague
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girlhood Studies is a peer-reviewed journal providing a forum
for the critical discussion of girlhood from a variety of
disciplinary perspectives, and for the dissemination of current
research and reﬂections on girls' lives to a broad,
cross-disciplinary audience of scholars, researchers,
practitioners in the ﬁelds of education, social service and
health care and policy makers. International and
interdisciplinary in scope, it is committed to feminist, antidiscrimination, anti-oppression approaches and solicits
manuscripts from a variety of disciplines. The mission of the
journal is to bring together contributions from and initiate
dialogue among perspectives ranging from medical and legal
practice, ethnographic inquiry, philosophical reﬂection,
historical investigations, literary, cultural and media research to
curriculum design and policy-making.
ISSN: 1938-8209 (Print) • ISSN: 1938-8322 (Online)
Volume 8/2015, 3 issues p.a.
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL
OF SOCIAL QUALITY
Published in partnership with Zhejiang university and the
International Association of Social Quality
Editor: Ka Lin, Zhejiang university
The international Journal of Social Quality is a peer reviewed,
scholarly journal which has a primary focus on the
interpretation of social quality through a wide range of
disciplines, including social policy, economics, sociology, law
and legal studies, philosophy, political science, geography,
health sciences, and public administration. The journal seeks
to create a forum for scientists, researchers, policy makers, and
practitioners to discuss issues related to social quality based
on qualitative and quantitative methods, normative debate
and action-oriented case studies. The journal discusses issues
such as the quality of life, social capital, human security, the
capability approach, and the human development or social
harmony approach. Special attention is given to global
sustainability challenges addressed from the social quality and
human security approach.
ISSN: 1757-0344 (Print) • ISSN: 1757-0352 (Online)
Volume 5/2015, 2 issues p.a.
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JOURNEYS
The International Journal of
Travel & Travel Writing
Editors: Maria Pia Di Bella, cnRS-IRIS-EhESS, Paris and Brian
Yothers, university of texas at El Paso
Journeys is an interdisciplinary journal that explores travel as a
practice and travel writing as a genre, reﬂecting the rich
diversity of travel and journeys as social and cultural practices
as well as their signiﬁcance as metaphorical processes. The
dual focus on experience and genre makes Journeys unique
among scholarly journals concerning travel and is intended to
draw into conversation scholars in such varied disciplines as
anthropology, literary studies, social history, religious studies,
human geography, and cultural studies.
ISSN: 1465-2609 (Print) • ISSN: 1752-2358 (Online)
Volume 16/2015, 2 issues p.a.
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The International Journal of
Higher Education in the Social Sciences
Editors: Penny Welch, School of law, Social Sciences and
communication, university of wolverhampton and Susan
Wright, danish School of Education, university of Århus
Journals
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LaTiSS is a peer-reviewed journal that uses the social sciences
to reﬂect critically on learning and teaching in the changing
context of higher education. The journal invites students and
staﬀ to explore their education practices in the light of
changes in their institutions, national higher education
policies, the strategies of international agencies and
developments associated with the so-called international
knowledge economy.
The disciplines covered include politics and international
relations, anthropology, sociology, criminology, social policy,
cultural studies and educational studies. Recent topics include
curriculum innovation, students’ academic writing, PhD
research ethics, neo-liberalism and academic identity, and
marketisation of higher education.
ISSN: 1755-2273 (Print) • ISSN: 1755-2281 (Online)
Volume 8/2015, 3 issues p.a.
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NATURE AND CULTURE
Editors: Sing C. Chew, humboldt State university, uSA, and
helmholtz centre for Environmental Research - ufZ and
Matthias Gross, helmholtz centre for Environmental Research
- ufZ and university of Jena, Germany
Nature and Culture is a forum for the international community
of scholars and practitioners to present, discuss, and evaluate
critical issues and themes related to the historical and
contemporary relationships that societies, civilizations,
empires, regions, nation-states have with Nature. The journal
contains a serious interpolation of theory, methodology,
criticism, and concrete observation forming the basis of this
discussion. The mission of the journal is to move beyond
specialized disciplinary enclaves and mind-sets toward
broader syntheses that encompass time, space and structures
in understanding the Nature-Culture relationship. The Journal
will furthermore provide an outlet for the identiﬁcation of
knowledge gaps in our understanding of this relationship.
ISSN: 1558-6073 (Print) • ISSN: 1558-5468 (Online)
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REGIONS AND COHESION
SOCIAL ANALYSIS
Regiones y Cohesión / Régions et Cohésion
The International Journal of
Social and Cultural Practice
the journal of the consortium for comparative Research on
Regional Integration and Social cohesion (RISc), a cross-regional, interdisciplinary, and multi-lingual network of socially
conscious and prestigious research institutes in Europe, north
America, South America and Africa.
Editors: Harlan Koﬀ and Carmen Maganda, both of the RISc
consortium
regions and Cohesion is a needed platform for academics and
practitioners alike to disseminate both empirical research and
normative analysis of topics related to human and
environmental security, social cohesion, and governance. It
covers themes, such as the management of strategic
resources, environment and society, social risk and
marginalization, disasters and policy responses, violence, war
and urban security, the quality of democracy, development,
public health, immigration, human rights, organized crime,
and cross-border human security.
Interdisciplinary in nature and multi-lingual in character
(English, French, Spanish), the journal promotes the
comparative examination of the human and environmental
impacts of various aspects of regional integration across
geographic areas, time periods, and policy arenas.
ISSN: 2152-906X (Print) • ISSN: 2152-9078 (Online)
Volume 5/2015, 3 issues p.a.
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SIBIRICA
Interdisciplinary Journal of Siberian Studies
Editor: John P. Ziker, Boise State university
Sibirica is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal covering all
aspects of the region and relations to neighboring areas, such
as Central Asia, China, Japan, Korea, and North America.
The journal publishes articles, research reports, conference
and book reviews on history, politics, economics, geography,
cultural studies, anthropology, and environmental studies. It
provides a forum for scholars representing a wide variety of
disciplines from around the world to present ﬁndings and
discuss topics of relevance to human activities in the region or
directly relevant to Siberian studies. The editors aim to foster a
scholarly discussion among people with the most varied
backgrounds and points of view. Thus, submissions are
welcomed from scholars ranging from the humanities to the
natural sciences, as well as from politicians and activists.
Articles focused on places such as Alaska, Mongolia, Karelia, or
anywhere else where direct contacts or even direct
comparisons with Siberians is obvious and useful in the
advancement of Siberian studies will be considered.
ISSN: 1361-7362 (Print) • ISSN: 1476-6787 (Online)
Volume 14/2015, 3 issues p.a.
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Editor-in-chief: Bruce Kapferer, university of Bergen
Co-editors: Bjørn Enge Bertelsen, Ørnulf Gulbrandsen, and
Knut Mikjel Rio, all of the university of Bergen
Social analysis has long been at the forefront of
anthropology's engagement with the humanities and other
social sciences. In forming a critical, concerned, and empirical
perspective, Social analysis encourages contributions that
break away from the disciplinary bounds of anthropology and
suggest innovative ways of challenging hegemonic
paradigms through 'grounded theory', analysis based in
original empirical research.
The journal invites contributions directed toward a critical and
theoretical understanding of cultural, political, and social
processes. It is available for the publication of information and
discussion by active ethnographic researchers into the forces
involved in the production of human suﬀering, poverty,
prejudice, war, and violence. The main thrust of the journal is
toward publishing material that presents a critical and
concerned anthropology.
ISSN: 0155-977X (Print) • ISSN: 1558-5727 (Online)
Volume 59/2015, 4 issues p.a.
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TRANSFERS
Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies
Chief Editor: Gijs Mom, Eindhoven university of technology
Transfers is a peer-reviewed journal publishing cutting-edge
research on the processes, structures and consequences of
the movement of people, resources, and commodities.
Intellectually rigorous, broadly ranging, and conceptually
innovative, the journal combines the empiricism of traditional
mobility history with more recent methodological approaches
from the social sciences and the humanities.
The journal's scholarly essays, book and exhibit reviews,
artwork and photography, as well as special features provide a
rich variety of perspectives that include: analyses of the past
and present experiences of vehicle drivers, passengers,
pedestrians, migrants, and refugees; accounts of the arrival
and transformation of mobility in diﬀerent nations and locales;
and investigations of the kinetic processes of global capital,
technology, chemical and biological substances, images,
narratives, sounds, and ideas.
Convened around a broad conception of mobility, Transfers
provides an interdisciplinary platform to explore the ways in
which experiences of mobility have been enabled, shaped
and mediated across time and through technological
advances.
ISSN: 2045-4813 (Print) • ISSN: 2045-4821 (Online)
Volume 5/2015, 3 issues p.a.
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Abu-Rabia, A.
14
Achieving Procreation
13
Adinkrah, M.
24
Aging and the Digital Life Course 16
Akman, H.
29
Ambiguous Pleasures
29
Americans in Tuscany
4
Amit, V.
2
Angé, O.
7
Animism in Rainforest and Tundra 25
Anthropology and Nostalgia
7
Anthropology and Philosophy
2
Anthropology and Political Science 2
Anthropology Now and Next
1
Anyone
10
Arab Spring
6
Árnason, A.
18
Árnason, J.P.
9
Aronoff, M.J.
2
Assal, M.
34
Assisted Reproductive
Technologies in the
Third Phase
12
Asymmetrical Conversations
15
At Home in the Okavango
35
Bacas, J.L.
Balkan, E.
Balkan, N.
Bechtel, C.
Beck, S.
Being a State and States of
Being in Highland Georgia
Being Human, Being Migrant
Belonging in Oceania
Berg, C.
Berliner,D.
Bestard, J.
Beyond the Lens of Conservation
Bizas, E.
Blanco, M-J.
Blanes, R.L.
Blood and Fire
Body in Balance, The
Border Encounters
Boudia, S.
Breaking Boundaries
Brightman, M.
Brijnath, B.
Bush Bound
22
25
25
13
6
Callan, H.
Carbonella, A.
Carrier, J.G.
Casciarri, B.
Chavkin, W.
Chua, L.
Clough, P.
Collinson, P.
Communities of Complicity
Contemporary Pagan and Native
Faith Movements in Europe
Cooper, M.
Cousin Marriages
Creole Identity in
Post-Colonial Indonesia
Cult and Science of
Public Health, The
Cultural Politics of
Reproduction, The
Culture, Suicide, and the
Human Condition
1
23
5
34
12
7
34
17
23
Dalsgård, A.L.
Dance Circles
Dancing Cultures
Danely, J.
Dark Trophies
Debating Authenticity
Delamaza, G.
Developmentality
Dew,K.
Diallo, Y.
Differentiating Development
Dignity for the Voiceless
2
31
31
16
9
2
20
35
14
30
3
4
19
19
33
33
7
25
26
31
21
24
23
15
22
27
5
25
16
34
19
11
12
30
14
14
21
Dines, N.
Distributed Objects
Domesticating Youth
Dousset, L.
Dumouchel,P.
Durkheim in Dialogue
Durkheimian Quest, A.
Dürr, E.
20
7
30
11
9
11
20
26
Economy and Ritual
Ellen, R.
Elliott, M.
Ellison, N.
Enhancing Democracy
Environmental Anthropology
Engaging Ecotopia
Eriksen, T.H.
Esterik, P. van der
Ethical Consumption
Ethics in the Field
Ethics of the New Eugenics, The
Ethnographic Experiment, The
European Foundations
of the Welfare State
European Products
Extraordinary Encounters
3
10
7
18
20
Family Upheaval
Figuration Work
Figurations of the Future
Fillitz, T.
Finke, P.
Flexible Capitalism
Food in Zones of Conflict
Fosshagen, K.
Franco-Mauritian Elite, The
Friendship, Descent and
Alliance in Africa
Frois, C.
From Virtue to Vice
Fuentes, A.
Fuglerud, Ø
Fuhrmann, W.
Funck, C.
19
18
5
2
30
18
17
6
35
Gaibazzi, P.
Garattini, C.
Garsten,C.
Globalized Fatherhood
Göknar, M.D.
González, R.
Gotoh, R.
Graburn, N.H.H.
Grätz, T.
Great Reimagining, The
Gressier, C.
Grønseth, A.S.
Grotti, V.E.
Gudeman, S.
Guichard, M.
34
16
1
12
13
6
9
11
30
28
35
19
25
3
30
Haar, G. van der
Hadrami Diaspora, The
Hall, A.
Hampshire, K.
Hann, C.
Handler, R.
Hardin, J.
Harrison, S.
Hart, K.
Hartmann, H.
Hausner, S.L.
Healing Roots
Henry, R.
Hermann, E.
Herrmans, I.
Hindi is Our Ground,
English is Our Sky
Hocking, B.T.
Honkasalo, M-L.
Horden, P.
Horvath,A.
Housing and Belonging in
Latin America
Hsu, E.
4
22
4
12
3
7
16
9
3
9
11
15
31
33
15
26
1
14
5
1
13
33
21
7
10
30
18
14
1
8
35
11
32
28
21
15
5
28
15
Humphrey, C.
Hunters, Predators, and Prey
Hviding,E.
Hyatt,S.B.
Identity Politics and
the New Genetics
Imperial Projections
In the Event
Indigenous Medicine among the
Bedouin in the Middle East
Inhorn, M.C.
Intellectuals and
(Counter-) Politics
Introductory Readings
in Anthropology
Ireton, F.
Irving, A.
28
27
33
5
13
35
7
14
12
23
1
34
4
Jackson, M.
Jaffe, R.
Jansen, S.
Japanese Tourism
Jas, N.
Johns, S.E.
Jokic, Z.
Josephides, L.
1
26
28
11
27
10
24
4
Kaminski, I-M.
Kapferer, B.
Kasmir, S.
Kaufmann, F-X.
Kavanagh†, W.
Keller, E.
Kempf, W.
Khanna, S.K.
Kim, K.O.
Kjaerulff, J.
Klaufus, C.
Knörr, J.
Kolås, A.
Kowal,E.
Krøijer,S.
Kubik, J.
22
7
23
21
22
26
33
14
17
18
28
30
27
32
5
2
LaDousa, C.
Landscapes Beyond Land
Laplante, J.
Laugrand, F.
Lavie, S.
Learning from the Children
Learning Senegalese Sabar
Learning under Neoliberalism
Lie, J.H.S.
Liisberg, S.
Lipset, D.
Living Ancestors, The
Living Kinship in the Pacific
Living Translation
Lockyer, J.
Long, N.J.
Luetchford, P.G.
Lycett, S.J.
Lynch, C.
32
18
15
27
29
22
31
5
35
2
7
24
33
32
26
17
5
10
16
Macbeth, H.
MacKellar, C.
MacClancy, J.
Maida, C.A.
Making a Difference?
Making of the Pentecostal
Melodrama, The
Manger, L.
Mapping Difference
Marti i Puig, S.
Masks and Staffs
McCullough, M.
Meijl, T. van,
Meinert, L.
Miller, W.W.
Moore, H.L.
Morality and Economic Growth
in Rural West Africa
Moss, P.
Moving Subjects, Moving Objects
17
13
1
6
32
25
22
29
4
34
16
33
7
20
17
34
21
8
Mühlfried, F.
19
Multidimensional Change in the
Republic of Sudan (1989-2011) 34
Naraindas, H.
Narrating Victimhood
Navarro, J.A.
Negotiating Identity
in Scandinavia
Neoliberal Landscape and the
Rise of Islamist Capital
in Turkey, The
Neveu Kringelbach, H.
New Imaginaries
Nielsen, G.B.
Nighttime Breastfeeding
Nordic Paths to Modernity
15
6
12
Objects and Imagination
O' Connor, R.A.
Oikos and Market
Öncü, A.
Oosten, J.
Ouweneel, A.
8
14
3
25
27
28
Pacific Futures
Paugh, A.L.
Pauwels, S.
Pedersen, E.O.
Pelican, M.
People, Money, and Power in
the Economic Crisis
Peripheral Vision
Performing Place,
Practising Memories
Petric, B.
Piette, A.
Playing With Languages
Polynesian Iconoclasm, The
Power of Death, The
Powerless Science?
Post-Cosmopolitan Cities
Prendergast, D.
Price, S.
Prince, M.J.
Pritzker, S.E.
Prophetic Trajectory, A.
Public Anthropology
in a Borderless World
Pype, K.
33
22
33
2
34
Quack, J.
15
Randeria, S
Rapport, N.
Raulin, A.
Raz, A.
Reclaiming the Forest
Reconstructing Obesity
Religion and Science
as Forms of Life
Re-Orienting Cuisine
Ritual Retellings
Robinson, K.
Roche, S.
Roger, S.E.
Rollason, W.
Rottenburg, R.
Rountree, K.
Rubchak, M.J.
Rytter, M.
1
10
8
12
27
16
Salazar, C.
Salazar, N.B.
Salman, T.
Salverda, T.
Saris, A.J.
Sax, W.S.
Schäuble,M.
Schiller, N.G.
Schramm, K.
Scope Of Anthropology, The
Sharp, J.
Shaw, A.
Shear, B.W.
29
25
31
20
18
12
9
3
18
31
23
1
22
24
21
27
28
16
32
21
32
24
6
25
25
17
15
32
30
8
33
13
19
20,29
19
25
11
4
35
2
15
6
4
13
11
3
12
5
Shore, C.
Sillitoe, P.
Simpson, B.
Sissons, J.
Skinner, D.
Skinner, J.
Skvirskaja, V.
Smith, G.
Smith, K.
Social Bonds as Freedom
Social Life of Achievement,The
Social Life of Water, The
Sociality
Spronk, R.
Staples, J.
Steinmüller, H.
Street, B.
Stryker, R.
Sustainable Development
Svašek, M.
10
26
12
24
13
31
28
23
10
9
17
27
17
29
10
23
1
6
26
8
Talking Stones
Tcherkézoff, S.
Thai In Vitro
Thinking Through Sociality
Thomassen,B.
Tomori, C.
Toren, C.
Tourism Imaginaries
Trandle, C.
Transatlantic Parallaxes
Transitions and Transformations
Trapped in the Gap
Trnka, S.
Tuff City
Tuominen, M.
8
11
13
2
5
12
33
11
4
8
16
32
10
20
21
Ulturgasheva, O.
Underdown, S.
Understanding Cultural
Transmission in Anthropology
Unforgotten
Unger, C.R.
Unnithan-Kumar, M.
Up Close and Personal
Up, Down, and Sideways
Urban Pollution
25
1
10
16
9
14
10
6
26
Variations on Uzbek Identity
Vehicles
Venkatesan, S.
Vergunst, J.
Veteto, J.R.
Vidal, R.
Viggiani, E.
30
7
3
18
26
21
8
Wagner, J.R.
Wainwright, L.
Waldren,J.
We the Cosmopolitans
Weary Warriors
What is Existential Anthropology?
Where Are All Our Sheep?
Whitehouse, A.
Whittaker, A.
Whose Cosmopolitanism?
Witchcraft, Witches, and
Violence in Ghana
Wittrock, B.
World of Populations, A.
Wrapped in the Flag of Israel
Wright,S.
Wydra, H.
27
8
22
4
21
1
23
18
13
4
24
9
9
29
5
5
Xie, Y.
27
Yarrow, T.
Yearnings in the Meantime
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