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The Partial Revolution
Labour, Social Movements and the Invisible Hand of Mao in Western Nepal
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
Located in the far-western Tarai region of Nepal, Kailali has been the site of dynamic social and political change in recent history. The Partial Revolution examines Kailali in the aftermath of Nepal’s Maoist insurgency, critically examining the ways in which revolutionary political mobilization...
Social Torture
The Case of Northern Uganda, 1986-2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
As Director of the Refugee Law Project at the University of Makerere, Kampala, Uganda, Dolan offers a behind-the-scenes, cross-disciplinary study of one of Africa's longest running and most intractable conflicts. This book shows how, alongside the activities of the Lord's Resistance Army, government...
Burgundy
A Global Anthropology of Place and Taste
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
Drawing on more than twenty years of fieldwork, this book explores the professional, social, and cultural world of Burgundy wines, the role of terroir, and its transnational deployment in China, Japan, South Korea, and New Zealand. It demystifies the terroir ideology by providing a unique long-term...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Multiculturalism has been one of the dominant concerns in political theory over the last decade. To date, this inquiry has been mostly informed by, or applied to, the Canadian, American, and increasingly, the European contexts. This volume explores for the first time how the Australian experience...
Collective Terms
Race, Culture, and Community in a State-Planned City in France
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
The banlieue, the mostly poor and working-class suburbs located on the outskirts of major cities in France, gained international media attention in late 2005 when riots broke out in some 250 such towns across the country. Pitting first- and second-generation immigrant teenagers against the police,...
Transitions and Transformations
Cultural Perspectives on Aging and the Life Course
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Rapid population aging, once associated with only a select group of modern industrialized nations, has now become a topic of increasing global concern. This volume reframes aging on a global scale by illustrating the multiple ways it is embedded within individual, social, and cultural life courses....
Deadly Contradictions
The New American Empire and Global Warring
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
As US imperialism continues to dictate foreign policy, Deadly Contradictions is a compelling account of the American empire. Stephen P. Reyna argues that contemporary forms of violence exercised by American elites in the colonies, client state, and regions of interest have deferred imperial problems,...
Globalization in Southeast Asia
Local, National, and Transnational Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2002
The rapid postwar economic growth in the Southeast Asia region has led to a transformation of many of the societies there, together with the development of new types of anthropological research in the region. Local societies with originally quite different cultures have been incorporated into multi-ethnic...
Shaping Taxpayers
Values in Action at the Swedish Tax Agency
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
How do you make taxpayers comply? This ethnography offers a vivid, yet nuanced account of knowledge making at one of Sweden’s most esteemed bureaucracies – the Swedish Tax Agency. In its aim to collect taxes and minimize tax faults, the Agency mediates the application of tax law to ensure compliance...
The Death of the Big Men and the Rise of the Big Shots
Custom and Conflict in East New Britain
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
In 1994, the Pacific island village of Matupit was partially destroyed by a volcanic eruption. This study focuses on the subsequent reconstruction and contests over the morality of exchanges that are generative of new forms of social stratification. Such new dynamics of stratification are central...
In Search of Legitimacy
How Outsiders Become Part of the Afro-Brazilian Capoeira Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Every year, countless young adults from affluent, Western nations travel to Brazil to train in capoeira, the dance/martial art form that is one of the most visible strands of the Afro-Brazilian cultural tradition. In Search of Legitimacy explores why “first world” men and women leave behind their...
Fortune and the Cursed
The Sliding Scale of Time in Mongolian Divination
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Innovation-making is a classic theme in anthropology that reveals how people fine-tune their ontologies, live in the world and conceive of it as they do. This ethnographic study is an entrance into the world of Buryat Mongol divination, where a group of cursed shamans undertake the ‘race against...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Nostalgia is intimately connected to the history of the social sciences in general and anthropology in particular, though finely grained ethnographies of nostalgia and loss are still scarce. Today, anthropologists have realized that nostalgia constitutes a fascinating object of study for exploring...
The Virago Story
Assessing the Impact of a Feminist Publishing Phenomenon
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
The 1970s witnessed a renaissance in women’s print culture, as feminist presses and bookshops sprang up in the wake of the second-wave women’s movement. At four decades’ remove from that heady era, however, the landscape looks dramatically different, with only one press from the period still...