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Post-Ottoman Topographies NEW IN PAPERBACK
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Edited by Nicolas Argenti Anthropology and Public Service
The UK Experience
With contributions from several of the Balkan
Edited by Jeremy MacClancy
countries that once were united under the aegis of the
Ottoman Empire, this [book] proposes new theoretical
“A good contribution to mainstream anthropological
approaches to the experience and transmission of the
literature. Anthropology and Public Service will be
past through time.
a valuable and interesting resource for applied and
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Nicolas Argenti is a Senior Lecturer at Brunel University practicing anthropology.” · Riall Nolan, Purdue University
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London.
Jeremy MacClancy is Professor of Anthropology and
Volume 8, Studies in Social Analysis Director of the Anthropological Centre for Conservation,
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April 2019, 142 pages the Environment, and Development, Oxford Brookes
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University.
ISBN 978-1-78920-239-7 Hb $95.00/£67.00
January 2019, 202 pages, bibliog., index
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eISBN 978-1-78533-403-0
PC Worlds
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Political Correctness and Rising Elites at the
End of Hegemony Rethinking Civil-Military Relations
Jonathan Friedman Anthropological Perspectives
Edited by Birgitte Refslund Sørensen and Eyal Ben-Ari
This provocative work offers an anthropological analysis
of the phenomenon of political correctness, both as This volume traces out the ripples, reverberations and
a general phenomenon of communication, in which resonations of civil-military entanglements which allow
associations in space and time take precedence over the for an understanding of the roles war, violence and the
content of what is communicated, and as specific critical military play in shaping contemporary societies and the
historical conjunctures in which new elites attempt to everyday life of its citizens.
redefine social reality.
Birgitte Refslund Sørensen is Associate Professor at the
Jonathan Friedman, Distinguished Professor Emeritus Department of Anthropology in Copenhagen.
Department of Anthropology, University of California
San Diego and Directeur d’études, EHESS Paris. Eyal Ben-Ari is Director of the Center for Society,
Security and Peace at Kinneret College on the Sea of
Volume 2, Loose Can(n)ons Galilee.
December 2018, 348 pages, 14 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78533-672-0 Hb $150.00/£107.00 March 2019, 324 pages, bibliog., index
eISBN 978-1-78533-673-7 ISBN 978-1-78920-195-6 Hb $130.00/£92.00
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Edges, Fringes, Frontiers
Integral Ecology, Indigenous Knowledge and
Law, History, and Justice
Debating German State Crimes in the Long
Sustainability in Guyana
Twentieth Century
Thomas B. Henfrey
Annette Weinke
Based on an ethnographic account of subsistence forest Translated from the German by Nicholas Evangelos Levis
use by Wapishana people in Guyana and developing
an original analytical framework, Edges, Frontiers, Fringes Law, History, and Justice investigates the changing
examines the social, cultural and behavioral bases for nature of international humanitarian law and explores
sustainability and resilience in indigenous resource use. the entanglements between historical experience,
historiography, and law and (moral) politics by focusing
Thomas Henfrey is Senior Research Fellow at the on the effects of international law violations during the
Schumacher Institute for Sustainable Systems and a First World War, the National Socialist mass crimes, the
collaborator at the Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Holocaust, as well as the systematic wrongdoings of the
Environmental Change at Lisbon University. GDR.
Volume 23, Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology Annette Weinke is an Assistant Professor of History at
September 2018, 270 pages, 6 illus., bibliog., index
the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena.
ISBN 978-1-78533-988-2 Hb $120.00/£85.00
eISBN 978-1-78533-989-9 December 2018, 418 pages, bibliog., index
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Orders direct from USA: Tel: 1(800) 343-4499 Fax: 1(800) 351-5073 e-mail: IPSJacksonOrders@ingramcontent.comThe Rite of Urban Passage NEW IN PAPERBACK
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The Spatial Ritualization of Iranian Urban Who Knows Tomorrow?
Transformation Uncertainty in North-Eastern Sudan
Reza Masoudi Sandra Calkins
Focusing on the spatial dynamics of Muharram This ethnography shows how Rashaida in north-eastern
processions in the Iranian city, this book offers an Sudan deal with unknowns, which at times present
alternative approach to understanding the process debilitating problems, but also may offer opportunities
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of urban transformation, and puts forward a spatial to create other futures.
genealogy of Muharram rituals that provides a platform
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for developing a fresh spatial approach to ritual studies. Sandra Calkins is assistant professor for anthropology at
the Free University of Berlin and a member of the Law,
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Reza Masoudi is a native southwestern Iranian who lives Organization, Science, and Technology group at the
in London, where he is currently a Research Associate at
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University of Halle.
SOAS, University of London.
October 2018, 282 pages, 11 illus., bibliog., index
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Volume 2, Articulating Journeys: Festivals, Memorials, and ISBN 978-1-78920-089-8 Pb $34.95/£24.00
Homecomings eISBN 978-1-78533-016-2
August 2018, 198 pages, 35 illus., bibliog., index
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ISBN 978-1-78533-976-9 Hb $110.00/£78.00
eISBN 978-1-78533-977-6 Pacific Realities
Changing Perspectives on Resilience
Searching for a Better Life and Resistance
Growing Up in the Slums of Bangkok Edited by Laurent Dousset and Mélissa Nayral
Sorcha Mahony
In the context of dramatic changes and processes of
“glocalization” across the Pacific region, and avoiding
This book offers an ethnographic account of young
conventional “local-global” dichotomies, this volume
people growing up in the slums of Bangkok, exploring
explores the new and multifaceted forms of resistance
their struggles to get by in conditions of severe
and resilience through which communities attempt to
structural constraint and the outcomes and side effects
regain their original social, political, and economic status
of their endeavours; in doing so, it offers an antidote to
and structure after disruption or displacement.
neoliberal assumptions about personal responsibility.
Laurent Dousset is Professor at the EHESS (School for
Sorcha Mahony works as Senior Researcher at The
Advanced Studies in Social Sciences) and member of
Children’s Society, a charity that supports vulnerable
the CREDO (Centre for Research and Documentation on
children and young people in their search for a better life
Oceania, Marseilles).
in England and Wales.
Mélissa Nayral holds a PhD in Anthropology from the
May 2018, 206 pages, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78533-858-8 Hb $110.00/£78.00 French University of Aix-Marseille (2013).
eISBN 978-1-78533-859-5 Volume 6, Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for
Oceanists
November 2018, 180 pages, 21 illus., bibliog., index
Cash Transfers in Context ISBN 978-1-78920-040-9 Hb $110.00/£78.00
An Anthropological Perspective eISBN 978-1-78920-041-6
Edited by Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan and
Emmanuelle Piccoli
Management by Seclusion
A Critique of World Bank Promises
Cash transfer programs have become the preferred
channel for delivering emergency aid or tackling poverty to End Global Poverty
in low-and middle-income countries. This book sheds Glynn Cochrane
light on their unpredicted consequences worldwide,
detailing how they are used by actors to pursue their Assessing the World Bank’s attempts to combat global
own strategies and how local populations relate to the poverty over the past 50 years, anthropologist and
external norms they impose. former World Bank Advisor Glynn Cochrane argues that
instead of the Bank’s prevailing strategy of “management
Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan is Professor of
by seclusion,” poverty alleviation requires personal
Anthropology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en
engagement with the poorest by helpers with hands-on
Sciences Sociales and Emeritus Director of Research at
local and cultural skills.
the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.
Glynn Cochrane was World Bank Advisor on Public
Emmanuelle Piccoli is an Assistant Professor of
Administration in Papua New Guinea.
Development Studies at the Université Catholique de
Louvain, Belgium. January 2019, 230 pages, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78920-133-8 Pb $29.95/£21.00
September 2018, 342 pages, 15 illus., bibliog., index ISBN 978-1-78920-131-4 Hb $150.00/£107.00
ISBN 978-1-78533-957-8 Hb $140.00/£100.00 eISBN 978-1-78920-132-1
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Twenty-First Century A Handbook
Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives Neriko Musha Doerr
Edited by Paul Collinson, Iain Young, Lucy Antal, and Helen
Macbeth Written for study abroad practitioners, this book
approaches key study abroad concepts – such as
Examines food sustainability from a multidisciplinary “culture”, “native speaker”, and “immersion” – from a
perspective. Includes contributions from scholars number of theoretical perspectives, and considers study
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working in social, cultural and biological anthropology, abroad not as an encounter with cultural others, but as
an occasion to analyze constructions of “differences” in
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sociology, ecology, environmental biology, food and
nutrition sciences and development studies. daily life.
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Paul Collinson, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, U.K. Neriko Musha Doerr is an Assistant Professor at
Ramapo College.
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Iain Young, Institute of Risk and Uncertainty, University
December 2018, 226 pages, 1 illus., bibliog., index
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of Liverpool.
ISBN 978-1-78920-115-4 Hb $120.00/£85.00
Lucy Antal, The Food Domain, Liverpool. eISBN 978-1-78920-116-1
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Helen Macbeth, Oxford Brookes University.
Volume 9, Anthropology of Food and Nutrition The Experience of Neoliberal Education
June 2019, 226 pages Edited by Bonnie Urciuoli
ISBN 978-1-78920-237-3 Hb $120.00/£85.00
eISBN 978-1-78920-238-0
The college experience is increasingly positioned
to demonstrate its value as a worthwhile return
NEW IN PAPERBACK on investment. Specific, definable activities, such
as research experience, first-year experience, and
Re-orienting Cuisine experiential learning, are marketed as delivering precise
East Asian Foodways in the Twenty-First skill sets in the form of an individual educational
Century package.
Edited by Kwang Ok Kim Bonnie Urciuoli is Leonard C. Ferguson Professor of
Anthropology Emerita at Hamilton College.
“The chapters provide thought-provoking ethnographic
Volume 4, Higher Education in Critical Perspective: Practices and
material and theoretically rich insights into cuisine, place, Policies
identity, authenticity, borders, and taxonomy in Asian May 2018, 252 pages, bibliog., index
foodways in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries… ISBN 978-1-78533-863-2 Hb $120.00/£85.00
[They] are ethnographically rich, analytically sharp, and eISBN 978-1-78533-864-9
cover a wide range of topics to ensure that this book will
be read, taught, and cited by scholars interested in food,
identity, globalization, and regionalism.” · Journal of NEW IN PAPERBACK
Anthropological Research Death of the Public University?
Foods are changed by those who produce and supply Uncertain Futures for Higher Education in the
them, and also by those who consume them. The Knowledge Economy
contributors of this volume have expanded the Edited by Susan Wright and Cris Shore
discussion of food to include its social and cultural
meanings and functions, thereby using it as a way to
Continuous government reforms to make universities
explain a culture and its changes.
‘world class’, entrepreneurial and drivers of the
Kwang Ok Kim, D.Phil. Oxon. is Professor Emeritus knowledge economy, are transforming the traditional
of Anthropology at Seoul National University, Yongje mission and meaning of the public university and
Distinguished Professor at Yonsei University and also its ability to act as ‘critic and conscience’ of society.
Distinguished Chair Professor of Humanities and Social This collection explores the new landscapes of higher
Sciences at Shandong University, China. education emerging across Europe and Australasia.
Volume 3, Food, Nutrition, and Culture Susan Wright is Professor of Educational Anthropology
September 2018, 310 pages, 29 illus., bibliog., index at Aarhus University and Director of the Centre for
ISBN 978-1-78920-067-6 Pb $29.95/£21.00 Higher Education Futures (CHEF).
eISBN 978-1-78238-563-9
Cris Shore is Professor of Social Anthropology at the
University of Auckland.
Volume 3, Higher Education in Critical Perspective: Practices and
Policies
October 2018, 350 pages, 7 illus., 2 figures, 6 tables, bibliog.,
index
ISBN 978-1-78920-091-1 Pb $34.95/£24.00
eISBN 978-1-78533-543-3
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Order direct for the UK and Europe on: Tel: +44(0)1767 604976 Fax: +44(0)1767 601640 e-mail: berghahnbooks@turpin-distribution.comRethinking and Unthinking Planning Labour
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Development Time and the Foundations of Industrial
Perspectives on Inequality and Poverty in South Socialism in Romania
Africa and Zimbabwe Alina-Sandra Cucu
Edited by Busani Mpofu and Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni Foreword by Dan Kalb
Through theoretical contributions and case studies “An important addition to the history and understanding of
focusing on South Africa and Zimbabwe, this volume socialist transformation. Alina-Sandra Cucu covers in much
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attempts to rethink (and unthink) development detail territories that have been largely excluded from the
literature of the socialist transformation of Romania, if
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discourses and practices in southern Africa. The authors
explore how Africa can adapt Western development not Eastern Europe itself.” · David A. Kideckel, Central
Connecticut State University
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models suited to its political, economic, social and
cultural circumstances, while rejecting development Planning Labour explores the early socialist
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practices and discourses based on exploitative capitalist industrialization and the implementation of central
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and colonial tendencies. economic planning in Romania between 1945 and 1955.
Busani Mpofu is a senior researcher at AMRI, College Alina-Sandra Cucu is a junior researcher at Max Planck
of Graduate Studies, University of South Africa, and a
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for the History of Science in Berlin.
Research Associate in the Human Economy program,
Volume 32, International Studies in Social History
University of Pretoria.
April 2019, 300 pages, 6 tables, bibliog., index
Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni is a Professor and Acting ISBN 978-1-78920-185-7 Hb $120.00/£85.00
Executive Director of Change Management Unit (CMU), eISBN 978-1-78920-186-4
University of South Africa.
March 2019, 276 pages, 11 illus., bibliog., index The Global Life of Austerity
ISBN 978-1-78920-176-5 Hb $120.00/£85.00
eISBN 978-1-78920-177-2
Comparing Beyond Europe
Edited by Theodoros Rakopoulos
Barter and Social Regeneration in the Using historical analysis and ethnographically-grounded
Argentinean Andes research, this volume shows the similarities of the
European conundrum with realities outside Europe,
Olivia Angé
seeing austerity in a non-Eurocentric fashion. In doing
so, it offers novel insights as to how economic crises are
“Olivia Angé has crafted an engaging, insightful, and experienced at a global level.
timely work that constitutes an important contribution to
Andean/Latin American Studies, economic and religious Theodoros Rakopoulos is Associate Professor of Social
anthropology, and the study of exchange. The author Anthropology at the University of Oslo.
artfully weaves an edifying tapestry of the performativity Volume 17, Critical Interventions: A Forum for Social Analysis
of regional fairs among Kolla people of Argentina.” June 2018, 136 pages, Pocket Size 4.25’’ x 7’’
· David Berliner, Université Libre de Bruxelles ISBN 978-1-78533-870-0 Pb $14.95/£10.95
eISBN 978-1-78533-871-7
Drawing on ethnographic data from fairs in the
Southern Andes involving highland herders and
lowland cultivators, Barter and Social Regeneration in Democracy’s Paradox
the Argentinean Andesadvances an anthropology of the Populism and its Contemporary Crisis
practice of barter, contributing to a fuller understanding Edited by Dimitrios Theodossopoulos and Bruce Kapferer
of how social groups create themselves through material
circulation. Does populism indicate a radical crisis in Western
Olivia Angé is Associate Professor in Economic democratic political systems? Is it a revolt by those who
Anthropology at the Université libre de Bruxelles. feel they have too little voice in the affairs of state or are
otherwise marginalized or oppressed? Or are populist
September 2018, 236 pages, 22 illus., bibliog., index
movements part of the democratic process? Bringing
ISBN 978-1-78533-682-9 Hb $120.00/£85.00
together different anthropological experiences of current
eISBN 978-1-78533-683-6
populist movements, this volume makes a timely
contribution to these questions.
Dimitrios Theodossopoulos is Professor of Social
Anthropology at the University of Kent.
Bruce Kapferer is Honorary Professor University College
London and Professor Emeritus, University of Bergen.
Volume 18, Critical Interventions: A Forum for Social Analysis
February 2019, 130 pages, Pocket Size 4.25” x 7”
ISBN: 978-1-78920-155-0 Pb $14.95/£10.95
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Landscapes of Migration, Violence and the State The Political Economy of Border
Narmala Halstead Drawing
Arranging Legality in European Labor
“This book looks at the phenomenon of Guyanese
Migration Policies
migration with elegance and sensibility, bringing to light
the intricate relationship between intimate affects and Regine Paul
broader socio-economic issues. Competing Power is
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timely, well-written, and engaging.” · Federica Guglielmo, “The Political Economy of Border Drawing is an
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine interesting and relevant read for anyone interested in
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migration management and policies in Europe. The book
Drawing from ethnographic material based on long-term contains key statistics on legal migration in each country
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research in Guyana, Competing Power shows how the and clearly summarizes each chapter’s main analytical
local is occupied and re-occupied by various powerful
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points and findings, making it very reader-friendly. It can
and powerless people and entities (“big ones” and be recommended for both academic scholars and policy
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“small ones”), and how it becomes the site of intense practitioners seeking better understanding of the methods
power negotiations in relation to external ideas of and management of labor migration.” · International
empowerment. Migration Review
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Narmala Halstead is a Research Associate at the The conditions for non-EU migrant workers to gain legal
University of Sussex. entry to Britain, France, and Germany are at the same
October 2018, 268 pages, bibliog., index time similar and quite different. To explain this variation
ISBN 978-1-78533-992-9 Hb $120.00/£85.00 this book compares the fine-grained legal categories
eISBN 978-1-78533-993-6 for migrant workers in each country, and examines the
interaction of economic, social, and cultural rationales in
determining migrant legality.
An Australian Indigenous Diaspora
Regine Paul is a postdoc scholar with
Warlpiri Matriarchs and the Refashioning
the HowSAFE project on comparative risk regulation at
of Tradition the University of Bielefeld.
Paul Burke
February 2019, 244 pages, 23 illus., 10 tables, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78920-083-6 Pb $29.95/£21.00
“This is a remarkable empirical study of the Warlpiri eISBN 978-1-78238-542-4
diaspora. It concerns a fascinating and as yet untold story
of those ‘exceptional’ Indigenous people from remote
communities who successfully make lives in towns All or None
and cities… [It] is a delight to read and tremendously Cooperation and Sustainability in Italy’s
engaging.” · Emma Kowal, Deakin University
Red Belt
“This book charts novel territory, and presents path- Alison Sánchez Hall
breaking and significant new research. The insights the
author provides into the lives of Warlpiri matriarchs in the At once a social history and anthropological study of the
diaspora are a timely, welcome, and much needed addition world’s oldest voluntary collective farms, All or None
to the study of Australian Indigenous people.” · Yasmine is a story of how landless laborers joined together in
Musharbash, University of Sydney Ravenna, Italy to acquire land, sometimes by occupying
This book is a multi-sited ethnography of the migration private land in what they called a “strike in reverse,” and
of a minority of the aboriginal Warlpiri away from their how they developed sophisticated land use plans, based
traditional homeland to distant towns and cities. It not only on the goal of profit, but on the human value of
follows a number of Warlpiri matriarchs into their new providing work where none was available. It addresses
locations, exploring how they sustain their independent the question of the viability of cooperative enterprise as
lives and examining their changing relationship with the a potential solution for displaced workers, and as a more
traditional culture they represent. humane alternative to capitalist agribusiness.
Paul Burke is currently a Visiting Fellow at the School Alison Sánchez Hall retired from the University of
of Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National Central Arkansas in 2014, but is still engaged in her
University. lifelong pursuit as a political and community activist.
July 2018, 248 pages, 11 illus., bibliog., index Volume 3, Anthropology of Europe
ISBN 978-1-78533-388-0 Hb $120.00/£85.00 August 2018, 300 pages, 39 illus., bibliog., index
eISBN 978-1-78533-389-7 ISBN 978-1-78533-980-6 Hb $130.00/£92.00
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Series Editor: Aleksandar Bošković, University of Belgrade NEW IN PAPERBACK
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Published in Association with the European Association of World Heritage on the Ground
Social-Anthropologists (EASA) Ethnographic Perspectives
Edited by Christoph Brumann and David Berliner
Non-Humans in Amerindian
South America “This is a fascinating volume whose contributions analyze,
Ethnographies of Indigenous Cosmologies, highly critically for the most part, various aspects of the
effects of World Heritage nominations. It enables new
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Rituals and Songs
insights into the problematic nature of World Heritage and
Edited by Juan Javier Rivera Andía
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shows in what way different interest groups for different
reasons get involved in World Heritage locations, be it out
“This exciting collection of essays by a wonderful group of of nostalgia, financial interests, political opportunism or as
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authors, anchored by an extensive theoretical introduction, location for religious activities.” · Sociologus
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engages with some of the most heatedly debated subjects
of South American ethnography today.” · Anthony Seeger, The UNESCO World Heritage Convention of 1972
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UCLA is a key arena for contemporary cultural and natural
conservation. In case studies from across the globe,
Drawing on fieldwork from diverse Amerindian societies, anthropologists with situated expertise in specific
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and presenting ethnographies of non-human entities World Heritage sites explore the consequences of the
emerging in ritual, oral tradition, cosmology, shamanism World Heritage framework and the global spread of this
and music, this book offers new insights into the heritage regime.
indigenous constitutions of humanity, personhood,
and environment characteristic of the South American Christoph Brumann is Head of Research Group at the
highlands and lowlands. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle,
Germany.
Juan Javier Rivera Andía is an anthropologist. He has
carried out research at various international research David Berliner is Professor of Anthropology at the
centres in Europe, and has published widely on Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
contemporary Andean Quechua indigenous worlds. Volume 28
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Afterword by Keir Martin
“Truly outstanding in every respect… [the volume] shows
that anthropologists can productively complicate our view “This volume comprises a series of insightful essays that
of contemporary issues whilst simultaneously advancing apply existing debates in anthropology . . . to new empirical
our understanding of what is going on in our world in a contexts of work under flexible capitalism. While each
very revealing and ethnographically grounded way.” of the chapters makes a valuable contribution in itself,
· John Gledhill, University of Manchester taken together the essays raise a wealth of new issues and
question some long-standing assumptions within economic
This volume examines the relationship between
anthropology about work and its lived experience.”
corporate and economic wrong-doing and the neoliberal
· Geert De Neve, University of Sussex
policies and practices that have been influential in
Western societies since around 1980, considering Introducing anthropological exchange theory to a
whether neoliberalism has affected the likelihood that wider readership, this volume explores sociality in work
people and firms will act in ways that many would environments marked by the kind of structural changes that
consider wrong – and even fragmented our very ideas of have come to define contemporary “flexible” capitalism.
economic right and wrong. It makes a novel contribution to a trans-disciplinary
scholarship on contemporary economic practice, and to the
James G. Carrier is Associate at the Max Planck
anthropological literature on work and on exchange.
Institute for Social Anthropology, and Adjunct Professor
of Anthropology at Indiana University. Jens Kjaerulff is a social anthropologist who has held
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Don Kalb, University of Bergen & Utrecht University Anti-Gypsyism and Right-Wing Politics in
Linda Green, University of Arizona Hungary
Kristóf Szombati
Foreword by Ivan Szelenyi
Democracy Struggles
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Right in Central and Eastern Europe, The Revolt of the
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PrecAnthro Union and FOCAAL’s editorial collective. between social antagonisms emerging on the local level
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Worldwide Mobilizations
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June 2018, 288 pages, 30 illus., bibliog., index
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the volume… will spark a much-needed debate about class Government and Hegemony in Serbia
and social transformation in the 21st century.” · Lesley Gill, Marek Mikuš
Vanderbilt University
“A very important contribution to understanding popular “A significant contribution to a number of fields—
movements in late capitalism.” · Winnie Lem, Trent postsocialist “transition” studies, the emerging forms of
University social organization in the Former Republic of Yugoslavia,
and debates about civil society. It is welcome on all
Viewing the significant urban insurrections of past
those fronts, and contributes via a strong combination of
decades with an anthropological eye, Worldwide
very rich empirical work in Serbia and a commitment to
Mobilizations argues that transformations of urban class
theorizing the patterns, relations, and formations that the
relationships must be approached in a way that is both
fieldwork reveals.” · John Clarke, The Open University
globally and locally informed, and contends that every
case of urban mobilization should be understood against Frontiers of Civil Society is a historical anthropological
its precise context in the global capitalist transformation. analysis of the roles of ‘civil society’ in Serbia’s
postsocialist and postauthoritarian transformation,
Don Kalb is Professor of Social Anthropology at the
focusing mainly on a set of interventions through which
University of Bergen.
various civil society forces supported neoliberalization
Massimiliano Mollona is Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths and transnational integration as part of a hegemonic
College, University of London. project of social transformation after the rule of
Slobodan Miloševi?.
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a Basic Human Condition
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Playing the Marginality Game
Identity Politics in West Africa “On Retaliation is impressive, exciting and full of insight.
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Anita Schroven
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extremely critical area of national and global concern.” ·
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work and reflection on the evidence collected, and for sure
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it will enrich our knowledge of Guinea Conakry, one of the Retaliatory logics are associated with all types of
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African countries which are today on the development social and political organization. Deriving a concept
priority list of the European Union”. · Alice Bellagamba, of retaliation from the overall notion of reciprocity,
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University of Milan-Bicocca contributors to this volume touch upon the interaction
between retaliation and violence, the state’s monopoly
In Guinea, situated in the background of central on legitimate punishment, socio-political frameworks,
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government struggles, rural elites, through the use of religious interpretations, and economic processes.
identity politics, employ history and contemporary
political reforms to maintain their privileges and Bertram Turner is an anthropologist and a senior
perpetuate a generation-old local social contract that researcher in the department ‘Law and Anthropology’
bridges ethnic and religious divides. at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in
Halle, Germany.
Anita Schroven is Research Fellow at the Max Planck
Institute for Social Anthropology. Günther Schlee is one of the Founding Directors of the
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle,
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Rhetoric and Ethnicity in the Omo Valley
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in Astana
evolution of our understanding of South Omo societies is
path-breaking… The writing is fresh, clear and evocative.” · Mateusz Laszczkowski
John G. Galaty, McGill University
“The book can serve as the perfect companion to post-
Through the theoretical lens of rhetoric, this book offers graduate studies in many fields, because its methodology is
an interactionalist analysis of how the Kara – a small brilliant, clear, transparent, and utterly reflexive. No doubt
population in southern Ethiopia – negotiate ethnic and non- it will become a major reference text on many syllabi to
ethnic differences among themselves, the relations with come.” · Central Asian Affairs
their various neighbors, and eventually their integration
in the Ethiopian state. The model of the “Wheel of The long-awaited comprehensive account of the rise of
Autonomy” captures the interplay of distinction, agency Astana, the capital city of Kazakhstan, this book argues
and autonomy that drives these dynamics and offers an for an understanding of space as inextricably material-
innovative perspective on social relations. and-imaginary, and unceasingly dynamic – allowing for a
plurality of incompatible pasts and futures materialized
Felix Girke is a social/cultural anthropologist and a in spatial form.
post-doctoral researcher at the University of Konstanz,
Germany. Mateusz Laszczkowski is Assistant Professor at the
Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, at the
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University of Warsaw, Poland.
August 2018, 308 pages, 22 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78533-950-9 Hb $140.00/£100.00 Volume 14
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David Parkin, Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford
Anthropological Identification David Gellner, Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford
Allen Chun
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“Allen Chun’s book is a wide-ranging, intelligent, critical Engaging Evil
and required manifesto for a reconfigured anthropology- A Moral Anthropology
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cultural studies-social sciences.” · John Hutnyk, Ton Duc Edited by William C. Olsen and Thomas Csordas
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Thang University Afterword by David Parkin
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Allen Chun has been a Research Fellow in the Institute
of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, since 1982 and “The various contributions offer a rich and highly
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serves jointly as Professor in the Institute for Social variegated overview of how anthropologists have dealt
Research and Cultural Studies, National Chiao Tung with ‘evil’ and thus give a good idea of the baffling variety
University, Taiwan. hiding behind this notion.” • Peter Geschiere, University
of Amsterdam
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April 2019, 196 pages, bibliog., index William C. Olsen is the Principal Social Sciences
ISBN 978-1-78920-203-8 Hb $120.00/£85.00 Bibliographer and is adjunct faculty in Anthropology and
eISBN 978-1-78920-204-5 African Studies at Georgetown University.
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Thomas Csordas is Professor of Anthropology and
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The Human Condition as an Ontological Volume 36
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Reflexivity is fundamental to human social life. This
A Historical Anthropology of Kingship in East
volume analyzes reflexivity on two analytical planes.
On one is the role reflexivity plays in human life and the and Central Africa
study of it. The other plane is anthropo-philosophical, Koen Stroeken
which maintains that reflexivity definitively distinguishes
the being and becoming of the human. “Admirably clearly written… [the volume exhibits] high
scholarship, methodological ingenuity, and sound use of
Terry Evens is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the
history.” · David Parkin, University of Oxford
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Koen Stroeken is Associate Professor in Africanist
Don Handelman is Sarah Allen Shaine Professor
anthropology at Ghent University (CARAM).
Emeritus of Anthropology at the Hebrew University.
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Christopher Roberts is Professor of Humanities and September 2018, 328 pages, 14 illus., bibliog., index
Religion at Lewis and Clark College. ISBN 978-1-78533-984-4 Hb $130.00/£92.00
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eISBN 978-1-78238-753-4 Who are ‘We’?
Reimagining Alterity and Affinity in
Contemplating Historical Consciousness Anthropology
Notes from the Field Edited by Liana Chua and Nayanika Mathur
Afterword by Mwenda Ntarangwi
Edited by Anna Clark and Carla L. Peck
“[This volume] raises awareness about existing
Contemplating Historical Consciousness draws on three
inequalities in knowledge production, and at the same time
decades of applied research to tease out what has been
contributes to the theoretical discussions on knowledge
learned from the field.
production in anthropology.” · Michal Buchowski, Adam
Anna Clark is an Australian Research Council Future Mickiewicz University
Fellow at the Australian Centre for Public History at the
Liana Chua is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at Brunel
University of Technology Sydney.
University London.
Carla L. Peck is Professor of Social Studies Education at
Nayanika Mathur is Associate Professor in the
the University of Alberta, Canada.
Anthropology of South Asia and Fellow of Wolfson
Volume 36, Making Sense of History College at the University of Oxford.
December 2018, 240 pages, 9 illus., bibliog., index
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This volume provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary This volume is the first extensive study in
survey of the struggles over abortion rights in Europe cyberneuroethics, a subject matter which is certain to
from the immediate postwar era to the present era. have a significant impact in the 21st century and beyond.
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Silvia De Zordo is a Senior Researcher at the University Calum MacKellar is Director of Research of the Scottish
of Barcelona (UB), Department of Anthropology. Council on Human Bioethics, Edinburgh, and Visiting
Lecturer of Bioethics at St.
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Joanna Mishtal is an Associate Professor of
Anthropology at the University of Central Florida. April 2019, 310 pages, bibliog., index
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2017), where she develops a project on abortion
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Volume 20, Protest, Culture & Society
September 2018, 304 pages, 2 illus., bibliog., index Anthropology in Life and Medicine
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of ethnopharmacology and biomedicine.” · Medical
“[this book] provides an effective and timely response Anthropology Quarterly
to the current comparative biomedical focus within
Julie Laplante is Associate Professor of Anthropology in
medical anthropology, by reconnecting with its social
the School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies
origins.” · Anthropology & Medicine
at the University of Ottawa.
Roland Littlewood is Professor of Anthropology and Volume 15, Epistemologies of Healing
Psychiatry at UCL. July 2018, 302 pages, 25 illus., bibliog., index
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Living Before Dying
Imagining and Remembering Home
Janette Davies
The Global Age-Friendly Community Foreword by Lord Nigel Crisp
Movement
A Critical Appraisal SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 BBC THINKING
ALLOWED ETHNOGRAPHY AWARD
Philip B. Stafford
“Living Before Dying is an important and timely
This book provides an introduction to the global contribution to a rising body of social scientific
phenomenon of the age-friendly community movement, and bioethical work about dementia, including the
through an extensive collection of international case anthropology of senility. It should be read by all those who
studies by researchers and practitioners. want care to improve for older people, with and without
dementia.” · Times Higher Education
Philip B. Stafford is Adjunct Professor of Anthropology
at Indiana University in Bloomington, and was Janette Davies is a social and medical anthropologist at
Director of the Indiana University Center on Aging and the International Gender Studies Centre, Lady Margaret
Community until 2017. Hall, University of Oxford.
Volume 5, Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations Volume 41, New Directions in Anthropology
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Marcia C. Inhorn, Yale University Love and Marriage, Family and Care in
Philip Kreager, University of Oxford Precarious Times
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Elite Malay Polygamy
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Through anthropological accounts of Muslim men’s
Wives, Wealth and Woes in Malaysia everyday lives in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and
Miriam Koktvedgaard Zeitzen diasporic settings, Reconceiving Muslim Men explores
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the creative ways in which Muslim men care for and
An ethnography of elite polygamy in urban Malaysia, nurture their families and communities. By focusing on
this volume explores the impact this growing practice reproduction, love, and care, this volume showcases
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has on Malay gender relations, examining the varied Muslim men’s humanity.
and often-conflicted polygamy narratives of elite Malay
Marcia C. Inhorn is the William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor
women, who manage their lives and loves under the
of Anthropology and International Affairs in the
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“threat” of husbands able to marry another woman
Department of Anthropology and Whitney and Betty
without their knowledge or consent.
MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at
Miriam Koktvedgaard Zeitzen is Curator in Modern Yale University.
History and World Cultures at the National Museum of
Nefissa Naguib is Professor of Anthropology at the
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Denmark.
Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo.
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Masculinity, Sexuality, and Biosociality
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Zsuzsa Berend
Sebastian Mohr
“This is a much awaited contribution to the surrogacy
Through ethnographic explorations of the everyday lives
scholarship as it is the first ethnographic study to look at
of Danish sperm donors, Being a Sperm Donor explores
surrogacy in the United States since the early 1990’s…
how masculinity and sexuality are reconfigured in a
Berend’s book is also cutting edge in its methodology, since
time in which the norms and logics of (reproductive)
it is based on “online ethnography.” · Elly Teman, author of
biomedicine have become ordinary, and examines
Birthing a Mother: the Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self
how the latter’s socio-cultural and political dimensions
become intertwined with men’s intimate sense of self. Zsuzsa Berend presents a methodologically innovative
ethnography of SurroMomsOnline.com, the largest
Sebastian Mohr is Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies at
surrogacy support website in the United States.
Karlstad University, Sweden.
Surrogates’ views emerge from the stories, debates,
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themes of interest across the social sciences, including
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Global Fluids reproductive loss, altruism, and the moral valuation of
The Cultural Politics of Reproductive Waste relationships.
and Value
Zsuzsa Berend teaches sociology at the University
Charlotte Kroløkke of California, Los Angeles and is the academic
administrator of the sociology departmental Honors
“This is sophisticated scholarship that offers original program.
insights into notions of waste and value and their insertion
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September 2018, 270 pages, bibliog., index
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Whittaker, Monash University eISBN 978-1-78533-275-3
Charlotte Kroløkke is a Professor in the Department
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Denmark.
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ISBN 978-1-78533-892-2 Hb $110.00/£78.00
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