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BEYOND THE HORIZON
: Essays on Myth, History, Travel & Society
[Clifford Sather & Timo Kaartinen]
Society is never just a localised aggregate of people but exists by virtue of its mem-bers' narrative and conceptual awareness of other times and places. In Jukka Siikala's work this idea evolves into a broad ethnographic and theoretical interest in worlds beyond the horizon, in the double sense of "past" and "abroad". This book is a tribute to Jukka Siikala's contributions to anthropology by his colleagues and students and marks his 60th birthday in January 2007. By exploring the near, distant, inward and outward horizons towards which societies project their reality, the authors aim at developing a new, productive language for addressing culture as a way of experiencing and engaging the world.
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240pp,
180x260mm,
April 2008;
PB,
£23.50,
9517469853:9789517469852
, Finnish Literature Society
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CONCISE COMPANION TO ABORIGINAL HISTORY
[Dr Malcolm Prentis]
Provides an overview of Australian Aboriginal history from creation stories involving the Dreaming through to Aboriginal cultural and political activity in the 21st century. Its alphabetically arranged entries include biographies, historical events, pioneering work by anthropologists, historical controversies, literature and sport, and a number of social issues. Malcolm Prentis has paid a particular attention to covering all regions of Australia and the Torres Strait Islands, and all periods of recorded history. As well, the book includes photographs, maps, population tables, a chronology and bibliography.
{
264pp,
135x210mm,
February 2008;
HB,
£13.00,
1877058629:9781877058622
, Rosenberg Publishing Pty Ltd
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CULTURE, POWER & AGENCY
: Gender in Indian Ethnography
[Lina Fruzzetti & Sirpa Tenhunen (eds)]
Bridging theoretical discussions with fieldwork, these contributions consider social change in various gendered sites: orphan girls, middle class and working class housewives, Dalit Vankars, control of fertility, divorce and domestic violence. Offering ethnographic description and analysis, these articles suggest new ways in which women challenge predominant ideologies. Tellingly, the case studies suggest there is no sharp demarcation between culture as the weapon of domination and as the weapon of the weak.
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231pp,
140x220mm,
February 2006;
HB,
£28.00,
8185604819:9788185604817
, Stree
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DEVELOPING RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS CHILDREN
[Cynthia Price Cohen & Philip Cook (eds)]
December 2004 marked the end of the International Decade of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. The Decade, and the UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations, has brought enormous international attention to the situation of Indigenous People. Developing Rights of Indigenous Children is being published now to give interested readers and human rights advocates a valuable insider’s view of the recent dramatic accomplishments in this rapidly-evolving field. This book is a collection of essays that are divided into four sections: Background (covering treaties -- such as the Convention on the Rights of the Child, national legislation and tribal law); Important Indigenous Child Issues (including cultural identity, land rights and health); Regional Indigenous Child Issues (which includes chapters about the issues concerning indigenous children in specific geographic areas, such as Alaska and Venezuela); and Voices of Youth (with essays by indigenous young people who give their views about their present circumstances and hopes for the future). The book is timely, informative and fascinating, a must-read for anyone interested in knowing more about indigenous issues and indigenous children in particular.
{
500pp,
155x230mm,
May 2006;
HB,
£100.99,
1571053751
, Transnational Publishers
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ETHNOLOGIA EUROPAEA, VOLUME 34/2
: Journal of European Ethnology
[Bjarne Stoklund & Peter Niedermuller (eds)]
Since its start in 1967 Ethnologia Europaea has acquired a central position in the international cooperation between ethnologists in the different European countries. It is, however, a journal of topical interest not only for ethnologists but also for anthropologists, social historians and others studying the social and cultural forms of everyday life in recent and historical European societies. This journal appears twice a year, sometimes as a thematic issue.
{
96pp,
January 2005;
PB,
8763501937
, Museum Tusculanum Press
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INDIAN COUNTRY
: Essays on Contemporary Native Culture
[Gail Guthrie Valaskakis]
Since first contact, Natives and newcomers have been involved in an increasingly complex struggle over power and identity. Modern 'Indian wars' are fought over land and treaty rights, artistic appropriation, and academic analysis while Native communities struggle among themselves over membership, money, and cultural meaning. In cultural and political arenas across North America, Natives enact and newcomers protest issues of traditionalism, sovereignty, and self-determination. In these struggles over domination and resistance, over different ideologies and Indian identities, neither Natives nor other North Americans recognise the significance of being rooted together in history and culture, or how representations of 'Indianness' set them in opposition to each other. In Indian Country: Essays on Contemporary Native Culture, Gail Guthrie Valaskakis uses a cultural studies approach to offer a unique perspective on Native political struggle and cultural conflict in both Canada and the United States. She reflects on treaty rights and traditionalism, media warriors, Indian princesses, powwow, museums, art, and nationhood. According to Valaskakis, Native and non-Native people construct both who they are and their relations with each other in narratives that circulate through art, anthropological method, cultural appropriation, and Native reappropriation. For Native peoples and Others, untangling the past -- personal, political, and cultural -- can help to make sense of current struggles over power and identity that define the Native experience today. Grounded in theory and threaded with Native voices and evocative descriptions of 'Indian' experience (including the author’s), the essays interweave historical and political process, personal narrative, and cultural critique. This book is an important contribution to Native studies that will appeal to anyone interested in First Nations’ experience and popular culture.
{
293pp,
155x230mm,
June 2005;
PB,
£19.50,
0889204799:9780889204799
, Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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KINDLY SCRUTINY OF HUMAN NATURE
: Essays in Honour of Richard Slobodin
[Richard J Preston (ed)]
This is a collection of essays honouring Richard (Dick) Slobodin, one of the great anthropologists of the Canadian North. A short biography is followed by essays describing his formative thinking about human nature and human identities, his humanising force in his example of living a moral, intellectual life, his discernment of people's ability to make informed choices and actions, his freedom from ideological fashions, his writings about the Mackenzie District Métis, his determination to take peoples experience seriously, not metaphorically, and his thinking about social organisation and kinship. An unpublished paper about a 1930s caribou hunt in which he participated finishes the collection, giving Dick the last word.
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172pp,
155x230mm,
July 2008;
HB,
£49.99,
1554580404:9781554580408
, Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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LANDSCAPES IN INDIA
: Forms & Meanings
[Amita Sinha]
In "Landscapes in India", landscape architecture professor Amita Sinha shows that landscapes can be read like languages, as arrangements of symbols that reveal cultural values. South Asian landscapes -- rich with formalised symbols, from the Cosmic Tree in Buddhist landscapes to cities patterned on mandalas -- offer a training ground for reading landscapes everywhere. Sinha introduces readers to significant sacred and secular landscapes in South Asia, identifying archetypal forms that have evolved over millennia in both the built environment and in open spaces. Exploring the interface between nature, culture, and built landscape, she traces the meaning of these forms as manifested in Indic mythology and literature. According to Sinha, landscape symbols express all that a culture holds dear and externalise deeply felt emotions -- of security, kinship, and relationship with the divine. Architects, landscape architects, and planners will rely on this beautifully illustrated book's elucidation of archetypal forms and how they co-evolve with nature and culture. "Landscapes in India" also offers fresh perspectives for travellers and readers interested in geography, anthropology, and religion. Heavily illustrated, including a 48-page colour insert.
{
228pp,
210x230mm,
January 2006;
HB,
£36.99,
0870818155:9780870818158
, University Press of Colorado
} |
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LONG JOURNEY OF A FORGOTTEN PEOPLE
: Métis Identities & Family Histories
[Ute Lischke & David T McNab (eds)]
A significant addition to Métis historiography, it includes Métis voices and personal narratives that address the thorny and complicated issue of Métis identity from historical and contemporary perspectives.
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386pp,
155x230mm,
February 2007;
PB,
£20.99,
088920523X:9780889205239
, Wilfrid Laurier University Press
} |
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NEW WORLD, FIRST NATIONS
: Native Peoples of Mesoamerica & the Andes Under Colonial Rule
[David Cahill & Blanca Tovias (eds)]
The Spanish conquest and colonisation of the Americas dramatically transformed the lives of native peoples in Mesoamerica and the Andes. This revolutionary and multilayered process varied greatly in its intensity and timing from region to region, but in all cases radically changed indigenous societies, their values and beliefs. The encounter between native peoples and the Spanish conquistadors and later settlers was marked by violence and drastic, epidemic-driven population decline. This dislocatory phase gradually gave way to myriad forms of accommodation, resistance, and social, cultural and religious hybridity -- the colonial heritage of Spanish America. The innovative essays in this volume compare the colonial experience of native peoples of the conquered Aztec, Maya and Inca civilisations, from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries. They highlight their creative responses to the challenges posed by colonial rule, its institutions, religion, and legal and economic systems. Interdisciplinary in approach, the essays distil a generation of scholarship and suggest an agenda for future research. This book will be of great interest to historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, and post-colonialists.
{
304pp,
150x230mm,
February 2006;
HB,
£55.00,
1903900638:9781903900635
, Sussex Academic Press
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RADICAL ISLAM
: in Egypt & Jordan
[Nachman Tal]
The rise of the Islamic fundamentalist movement as a social and political force is the most important development in the modern Arab world. Beginning in the late 1970s, radical Islam directly affected Egypt and Jordan, neighbours and co-signatories of peace treaties with Israel. The radical Islamic movement in both these countries assumed two forms -- non-violent, represented mainly by the Muslim Brotherhood, and violent, represented by various terrorist groups. Both groups shared the objective of replacing the existing regimes with Islamic theocracies. Egypt and Jordan responded firmly to the growth of radical Islam, quashing terrorist activity. Successive Egyptian regimes attempted unsuccessfully to arrive at a compromise for coexistence with the Muslim Brotherhood, and resorted to firm countermeasures to strip the movement of its social and political power. In Jordan, where the Muslim Brotherhood enjoyed legal status, the regime kept a strict hold on the movement so that its influence would not exceed government-imposed limits. By the end of the 1990s, the Muslim Brotherhood and terrorist groups no longer posed an existential threat to the Egyptian and Jordanian regimes, since there was little chance of their seizing the government in the foreseeable future. Although they might succeed in toppling a head of state, it is unlikely that they would be able to establish an Islamic regime. At the same time, both regimes acknowledged that it was beyond their power to eradicate Islamic radicalism, and recognised that they would have to face its challenge for many years to come.
REVIEW: "Nachman Tal has written a unique book. It elucidates the variety of streams of radical Islam and the modus operandi of Egypt and Jordan in coping with them. Based on his intimate knowledge of the field, Tal's work is an indispensable source for understanding the relations between the ideology and the strategy of these radical streams." -- Dr Matti Steinberg, former advisor to the head of Israel's General Security Services, and guest lecturer, Princeton University. "Nachman Tal's book presents an extensive review of the rise of violent and non- Islamic groups in Egypt and Jordan. Based on original research and the author's personal interviews with leading figures in the field, the book is a most impressive collection of information and records, covering both the radical groups themselves and the regimes' methods of confronting the Islamic threat." -- Prof. Shaul Mishal (Department of Political Science, Tel Aviv University), co-author of Investment in Peace: The Politics of Economic Cooperation Between Israel, Jordan and the Palestinians, writing in Ha'aretz.
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281pp,
152x229mm,
January 2005;
PB,
£19.50,
184519098X:9781845190989
/
HB,
£55.00,
1845190521:9781845190521
, Sussex Academic Press
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SEPHARDIM OF SYDNEY
: Coping with Political Processes & Social Pressures
[Naomi Gale]
The Sydney Jewish community is dynamic and vibrant, with many communal, social and religious institutions. This book investigates the Sephardic community of Sydney -- their history, their experiences as new immigrants in a host society after arriving from traditional Moslem cultures, as well as the changes they have undergone since they arrived in Australia. The Sephardic community comprises about 3,000 of the 40,000 Jews in Sydney, whose majority reside in the eastern suburbs, in Sydney's multicultural inner-city 'ethnic belt'. Although the Sephardim share some cultural features with the Jewish majority, there are substantial differences: they emphasise their cultural heterogeneity. Their experiences are viewed through the prism of their relationship to both the Ashkenazim and the larger Anglo-Australian society. Their inability to acculturate and assimilate into the Ashkenazi and Australian groups contributes profoundly to their poor self-image and to ethnic marginalisation. A negative ethnic identity and self-rejection, enhanced by rejection from the Ashkenazim and Australians, has a major impact on their everyday life and their perception of their social standing, especially on the younger Sephardic generation. This issue has been particularly relevant since 1988, when the Australian government moved to restrict Asian immigration. This became a media issue, with the Ashkenazim taking the side of white Australians and seeing themselves as superior to the Afro-Asian Jewish Sephardim, who are viewed as 'Asians' by both the Ashkenazim and the white majority. The result is a sense of 'double rejection', which pervades this group's political and social standing.
REVIEW: "Provides valuable insights into the dynamics of the formation of Sephardic Jewish identity..." -- Professor C Kessler, The University of New South Wales. "A valuable study of the problems facing a migrant ethnical community arriving in Australia..." -- Professor R Gabby, The University of Western Australia. "A commendable example of ‘salvage ethnography'..." -- Professor S Deshen, Tel Aviv University.
{
292pp,
152x229mm,
April 2005;
HB,
£49.50,
1845190351:9781845190354
, Sussex Academic Press
} |
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SOCIAL EXPERIENCE OF CHILDHOOD IN ANCIENT MESOAMERICA
[Traci Ardren & Scott Hutson (eds)]
The first book to focus on children in ancient Mesoamerica, this vital reference offers a key methodological guide for archaeologists studying children and their roles not only in Mesoamerica, but also in ancient societies worldwide. Contributors examine material evidence, historical records, and iconography, productively criticising the claim that children are invisible in the archaeological record and elucidating an ancient childhood comprising multiple and complex identities. They explore the methodological and theoretical difficulties created when investigating childhood -- a category defined by each culture -- in the archaeological record. Sure to appeal widely to New World and Old World archaeologists and anthropologists, The Social Experience of Childhood in Ancient Mesoamerica will open up new avenues of research into the lives of this previously overlooked yet remarkably large population.
{
309pp,
155x230mm,
April 2006;
HB,
£29.99,
0870818279:9780870818271
, University Press of Colorado
} |
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TUPAC AMARU & CATARISTA REBELLIONS
: An Anthology of Sources
[Edited & Translated by Ward Stavig & Ella Schmidt; Introduction by Charles Walker]
Through a wide variety of primary sources -- including letters, eyewitness accounts, and governmental documents -- this collection portrays in vivid detail the three indigenous rebellions that threatened Spanish control of its South American colonies more than a quarter century before the Wars of Independence (1808-1825). Headnotes introduce each selection, and a general introduction provides historical, cultural, and political context. Maps, a chronology of the rebellions, and a glossary of terms are included.
{
247pp,
140x215mm,
April 2008;
PB,
£11.95,
0872208451:9780872208452
, Hackett Publishing
} |
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WARFARE & SOCIETY
: Archaeological & Social Anthropological Perspectives
[Ton Otto, Henrik Thrane & Helle Vandkilde (eds)]
This book deals with the interrelationship between society and war seen through the analytical eyes of anthropologists and archaeologists. War is a ghastly thing, which unfortunately thrives almost everywhere in the world today. We need, therefore, to have a better understanding of what war does to people and their societies. War produces change, and archaeologists and anthropologists are analytically equipped to pinpoint its direction, patterning, scale and content. The perspective -- and filter -- of time provides one important tool, while context and comparison provide other tools. Looking at the history of war studies, war is quite often perceived of and treated as something set aside from other practices; almost personified. However, the results published in this book allow us to say that it is never autonomous and self-regulating. War always forms part of something else. Numerous questions arise, and at least some answers -- often tentative and multifaceted -- are provided in the twenty-eight studies included in the book. They certainly add to an ongoing debate, hopefully qualifying it as well.
{
557pp,
170x240mm,
April 2006;
HB,
£22.95,
8779341101:9788779341104
, Aarhus University Press
} |
