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Dreams Made Small
The Education of Papuan Highlanders in Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
For the last five decades, the Dani of the central highlands of West Papua, along with other Papuans, have struggled with the oppressive conditions of Indonesian rule. Formal education holds the promise of escape from stigmatization and violence. Dreams Made Small offers an in-depth, ethnographic...
Life as a Hunt
Thresholds of Identities and Illusions on an African Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
The "extensive wilderness" of Zambia’s central Luangwa Valley is the homeland of the Valley Bisa whose cultural practices have enriched this environment for centuries. Beginning with the intrusions of warlords and later British colonials, successive generations have experienced the callousness...
Methodologies of Mobility
Ethnography and Experiment
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Research into mobility is an exciting challenge for the social sciences that raises novel social, cultural, spatial and ethical questions. At the heart of these empirical and theoretical complexities lies the question of methodology: how can we best capture and understand a planet in flux? Methodologies...
Momentous Mobilities
Anthropological Musings on the Meanings of Travel
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2018
Grounded in scholarly analysis and personal reflection, and drawing on a multi-sited and multi-method research design, Momentous Mobilities disentangles the meanings attached to temporary travels and stays abroad and offers empirical evidence as well as novel theoretical arguments to develop an anthropology...
Crude Domination
An Anthropology of Oil
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Crude Domination is an innovative and important book about a critical topic – oil. While there have been numerous works about petroleum from ‘experience-far’ perspectives, there have been relatively few that have turned the ‘experience-near’ ethnographic gaze of anthropology on the topic....
Border Encounters
Asymmetry and Proximity at Europe's Frontiers
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Among the tremendous changes affecting Europe in recent decades, those concerning political frontiers have been some of the most significant. International borders are being opened in some regions while being redefined or reinforced in others. The social relationships of those living in these borderland...
Environment and Citizenship in Latin America
Natures, Subjects and Struggles
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Scholarship related to environmental questions in Latin America has only recently begun to coalesce around citizenship as both an empirical site of inquiry and an analytical frame of reference. This has led to a series of new insights and perspectives, but few efforts have been made to bring these...
Stategraphy
Toward a Relational Anthropology of the State
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Stategraphy—the ethnographic exploration of relational modes, boundary work, and forms of embeddedness of actors—offers crucial analytical avenues for researching the state. By exploring interactions and negotiations of local actors in different institutional settings, the contributors explore...
Embers of Empire
Continuity and Rupture in the Habsburg Successor States after 1918
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
The collapse of the Habsburg Monarchy at the end of World War I ushered in a period of radical change for East-Central European political structures and national identities. Yet this transformed landscape inevitably still bore the traces of its imperial past. Breaking with traditional histories that...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Using an entirely new conceptual vocabulary through which to understand men’s experiences and expectations at the dawn of the twenty-first century, this path-breaking volume focuses on fatherhood around the globe, including transformations in fathering, fatherhood, and family life. It includes new...
Reproducing Class
Education, Neoliberalism, and the Rise of the New Middle Class in Istanbul
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
Middle classes are by definition ambiguous, raising all sorts of paradoxical questions, perceived and real, about their power and place relative to those above and below them in a class-structured society. Focusing on families of the new middle class in Istanbul, the authors of this study address...
Creativity in Transition
Politics and Aesthetics of Cultural Production Across the Globe
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
In an era of intensifying globalization and transnational connectivity, the dynamics of cultural production and the very notion of creativity are in transition. Exploring creative practices in various settings, the book does not only call attention to the spread of modernist discourses of creativity,...
Talking Stones
The Politics of Memorialization in Post-Conflict Northern Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
If memory was simply about past events, public authorities would never put their ever-shrinking budgets at its service. Rather, memory is actually about the present moment, as Pierre Nora puts it: “Through the past, we venerate above all ourselves.” This book examines how collective memory and...
The Patient Multiple
An Ethnography of Healthcare and Decision-Making in Bhutan
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
In the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan, medical patients engage a variety of healing practices to seek cures for their ailments. Patients use the expanding biomedical network and a growing number of traditional healthcare units, while also seeking alternative practices, such as shamanism and other religious...