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Around the Tuscan Table: Food, Family, and Gender in Twentieth-Century Florence
Renowned food scholar Carole Counihan serves up a delicious narrative about family and food in twentieth-century Florence. By looking at how family, and especially gender relations, have changed in Florence since the ending of World War II and …
This case study examines emigrants from Namoluk Atoll in the Eastern Caroline Islands of Micronesia, in the Western Pacific. Most members of the Namoluk community ("chon" Namoluk) do not currently live there - some 60% of them have moved to Chuuk,…
Terror and Taboo: The Follies, Fables, and Faces of Terrorism
'Terror and Taboo' examines the complicity of governments, the media, the arts, academia, and violent activists themselves in constituting 'terrorism' as a substitute for genuine political debate. The authors draw upon the lessons and …
Barbecued Husbands: And Other Stories from the Amazon
These are the stories of indigenous tribes of the Brazilian rainforests that are on the verge of extinction. Mindlin recorded these tales that read like a novel, and are infused with a magic realism.
The Woodland Indians and their ancestors are North America's 'missing link.' An understanding of who these prehistoric inhabitants were and how they lived would unlock the secret of our continent's past. Because there are no written records of …
beautifully presented new version of a classic from the Illustrated Living History Series that offers: an informed and fascinating account of the 18 major tribes that lived in pre-Colonial New England; a new feature that provides extensive …
Blood, Bones and Spirit: Aboriginal Christianity in an East Kimberley Town
This fascinating book examines the Aboriginal people's experiences of colonialism and postcolonialism in the 19th and 20th centuries. It analyzes how Aboriginal people have appropriated Biblical stories of land inheritance, expansion, and loss in …
foundational work in the study of the globalization of culture. First published in 1991, Culture, Globalization and the World-System is one of the inaugural books discussing the increasing tendency of cultural practices to cross national …
Race in Mind: Race, IQ, and Other Racisms
In "Race in Mind," Alexander Alland challenges the idea that intelligence is related to race, offering critiques of the biological determinism of Carlton Coon, Arthur Jensen, Cyril Burt, Robert Ardrey, Konrad Lorenz, William Shockley, and others. …
From Thanksgiving to fast food to anorexia nervosa, "Food in the USA" brings together essential reading on these topics and is the only substantial collection of essays on food and culture in America. The broad range of essay topics include: the …
Evolutionism in Cultural Anthropology: A Critical History
"Evolutionism in Cultural Anthropology"traces the interaction of evolutionary thought and anthropological theory from Herbert Spencer to the twenty-first century. It is a focused examination of how the idea of evolution has continued to provide …
Mimesis and Alterity: A Particular History of the Senses
In Mimesis and Alterity Taussig undertakes and eccentric history of the mimetic faculty. He moves easily from the nineteenth-century invention of mimetically capacious machines, such as the camera, backwards to the fable of colonial first contact'…
Focusing on India's emergency of 1975-1977 when Indian democracy was temporarily suspended, this work traces the experiences of men and women who found themselves the key targets of the infamous slum clearance and sterilization campaigns which …
One of the most influential figures in documentary and ethnographic filmmaking, Jean Rouch has made more than one hundred films in West Africa and France. In such acclaimed works as Jaguar, The Lion Hunters, and Cocorico, Monsieur Poulet, Rouch …
Women Out of Place: The Gender of Agency and the Race of Nationality
Building on the work of anthropologists, historians, sociologists, literary critics, and feminist philosophers of science, the essays in" Women Out of Place: the Gender of Agency and Race of Nationality" investigate the linkages between agency …
Ideologies and Technologies of Motherhood: Race, Class, Sexuality, Nationalism
"Ideologies and Technologies of Motherhood" charts new territory by exploring the notion of motherhood for women of differing classes, races, religions and nations in the light of various strategies and new technologies used to attain motherhood. …
African-American Pioneers in Anthropology
This pathbreaking collection of intellectual biographies is the first to probe the careers of thirteen early African-American anthropologists, detailing both their achievements and their struggle with the latent and sometimes blatant racism of …
Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America
Pregnancy. For many women it is an exhilarating period of their lives. Having already made the decision to conceive, now women are confronted with a more encumbering choice, one riddled with emotional and moral implications: the option to test …
Burmese expatriate reflects on his homeland
Biographical Objects: How Things Tell the Stories of Peoples' Lives
In this innovative study, six women and men from Eastern Indonesia narrate their own lives by talking about their possessions—domestic objects used to construct a coherent identity through a process of identification and "self-historicizing." …
Pastoralists: Equality, Hierarchy, and the State
Drawing upon the author's extensive field research among pastoral peoples in the Middle East, India, and the Mediterranean, and on more than 30 years of comparative study of pastoralists around the world, "Pastoralists" is an authoritative …
Exactly where is the common ground between religion and medicine in phenomena described as "religious healing?" In what sense is the human body a cultural phenomenon and not merely a biological entity? Drawing on over twenty years of research on …
Mayan Visions: The Quest for Autonomy in an Age of Globalization
significant work by one of anthropology's most important scholars, this book provides an introduction to the Chiapas Mayan community of Mexico, better known for their role in the Zapatista Rebellion. June Nash updates the status of this centuries-…
Deviant Desires: Incredibly Strange Sex
An anthropological look at the explosion of extreme fetishes and post-modern eroticisms at the beginning of the new millennium. Illustrations.
Motherhood Lost: A Feminist Account of Pregnancy Loss in America
Nearly 20% of all pregnancies in the U.S. end in miscarriage or stillbirth. Yet pregnancy loss is seldom acknowledged and rarely discussed. Opening the topic to a thoughtful and informed discussion, Linda Layne takes a historical look at …
In The Sociology Of Religion, first published in the United States in 1963, he looks at the significant role religion has played in social change throughout history. This book was a formative text of the new disciple of sociology and has gone on …
"Embodying Colonial Memories" is the first in-depth study of the West African "Hauka," spirits in the body of (human) mediums which mimic and mock Europeans of the colonial epoch. Paul Stoller, who was initiated into a spirit possession troupe, …
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What's really going on in the kitchen? Whilst cookery programmes are broadcast at peak viewing times and chefs regularly claim celebrity status, food writers announce the death of cooking. Parents, experts, campaigners and policymakers grow …
Food Culture in Southeast Asia
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This title details the popular cuisines produced by the diverse peoples and countries of Southeast Asia. Southeast Asian cuisines, such as Thai, have become popular because it is tasty, attractive, and generally healthy, with plentiful vegetables,…
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The first edition of The Cultural Studies Reader established itself as a leading textbook in the field, providing the ideal introduction for students to this exciting and influential discipline. This expanded second edition offers a wider …