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Table of Contents
About the series
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New releases
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Thomas Hylland Eriksen
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New in paperback
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Recent titles
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Backlist
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Index
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Anthropology,
Culture and
Society
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Unique glimpse into the disorderly and
contingent world of global commodity
chains
Vered Amit is Professor of Anthropology at
Concordia University in Montreal.
Innovative, insightful, and by turns disturbing
and inspiring. Caroline Knowles leads a
journey through globalisation’s backroads that
will inform and engage students and push
professors to connect human experience and
political economy.
Christina Garsten is Professor of Social
Anthropology at Stockholm University.
Professor Craig Calhoun, Director of the London
School of Economics and Political Science
Series Editors
his series has a particular mission: to publish
work that moves away from old-style descriptive
ethnography – that is strongly area-studies oriented
– and offer genuine theoretical arguments that are
of interest to a much wider readership but which
are nevertheless located and grounded in solid
ethnographic research.
We start from the question: ‘what can this
ethnographic material tell us about the bigger
theoretical issues that concern the social sciences?’;
rather than ‘what can these theoretical ideas tell
us about the ethnographic context?’. Put this way
round, such work becomes about large issues, set
in a (relatively) small place, rather than a detailed
description of a small place for its own sake.
By ‘place’ we mean not only geographical locale, but
also other types of ‘place’ – within political, economic,
religious or other social systems. We therefore publish
work based on ethnography within political and
religious movements, occupational or class groups,
youth, development agencies, nationalists; but also
work that is more thematically based – on kinship,
landscape, the state, violence, corruption, the self. The
series publishes four kinds of volume – ethnographic
monographs; comparative texts; edited collections; and
shorter, polemic essays.
We publish work from all traditions of
anthropology, and all parts of the world, which
combines theoretical debate with empirical evidence
to demonstrate anthropology’s unique position in
contemporary scholarship and the contemporary world.
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his book follows the global trail of one of the world’s
most unremarkable and ubiquitous objects: flip-flops.
Through this unique lens, Caroline Knowles takes a ground
level view of the lives and places of globalisation’s back roads,
providing new insights that challenge contemporary accounts
of globalisation.
Rather than orderly product chains, the book shows
that globalisation along the flip-flop trail is a tangle of
unstable, shifting, ad hoc and contingent connections. This
book displays both the instabilities of the ‘chains’ and the
complexities, personal topographies and skills with which
people navigate these global uncertainties.
Flip-Flop provides new ways of thinking about
globalisation from the vantage point of the shifting landscape
crossed by a seemingly ordinary and everyday commodity.
Caroline Knowles is Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University
of London. She is the co-author of Hong Kong: Migrant Lives,
Landscapes and Journeys (2009).
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Collection of anthropological studies
revealing the overwhelming presence of
security systems across modern Europe
Explores the formation of a distinctive
working class identity among low-paid
manual workers in Botswana
This powerful volume sounds the call for
a critical anthropological consideration
of security as a fundamental analytic of the
contemporary. The authors push the boundaries
not only of security studies but of anthropology
itself: its theories, its methods, and its ethical
entailments.
There is no account that rivals Werbner’s
astute understanding of the marriage of
worker militancy and civic activism in Africa.
Daniel Goldstein, Professor of Anthropology at
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
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n a post-Cold War world of political unease and economic
crisis, processes of securitisation are transforming nationstates, their citizens and non-citizens in profound ways.
The book shows how contemporary Europe is now home
to a vast security industry which uses biometric identification
systems, CCTV and quasi-military techniques to police
migrants and disadvantaged neighbourhoods. This is the
first collection of anthropological studies of security with a
particular but not exclusive emphasis on Europe.
The Anthropology of Security draws together studies on
the lived experiences of security and policing from the
perspective of those most affected in their everyday lives. The
anthropological perspectives in this volume stretch from the
frontlines of policing and counter-terrorism to border control.
This is a formidable achievement.
Professor Robin Cohen, Department of International
Development, University of Oxford
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t is now 50 years since E.P. Thompson published his classic,
The Making of the English Working Class. The Making of an
African Working Class follows Thompson in exploring the
formation of working class identity among low-paid African
workers. In arguing for a radical public anthropology of
worker identity, the book seeks to analyse the cultural, legal,
ideological and experiential dimensions of labour activism
often neglected in other labour studies.
Pnina Werbner shows that by fusing cosmopolitan and
local popular cultural forms of protest, trade unionists have
created a distinctive, vernacular way of being a worker in
Botswana: one that does not deny workers’ roots at home or
in the countryside, while being cognisant of a wider world
of cosmopolitan labour rights. The assertion of working
class dignity, honour and respect, Pnina argues, is a powerful
motivating force for manual workers.
Against legal-sceptical approaches, The Making of
an African Working Class argues that in challenging the
government - their employer - in court, manual workers’
protests and mobilisation are deeply embedded in ethics,
social justice and the law.
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Editors
Mark Maguire is Head of Anthropology at the
National University of Ireland Maynooth.
Catarina Frois is Assistant Professor at the
Department of Anthropology, Lisbon University.
Nils Zurawski is Visiting Professor in Security, Social
Conflicts and Regulation at the University of Hamburg.
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Pnina Werbner is Professor Emerita of Social Anthropology, Keele
University, author of ‘The Manchester Migration Trilogy’ - The Migration
Process (1990/2002), Imagined Diasporas (2002) and Pilgrims of
Love (2003) - and editor of several theoretical collections including
Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism and The Political
Aesthetics of Global Revolt.
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Explores the dreams and desired
futures of workers, farmers and
politicians that sustain and disrupt
capitalism in contemporary India
A study of the contradictory role of
religion in Sri Lanka as a force that is
both stabilising whilst also acting as a
source of conflict
This is an important and fascinating book
which is likely to become a key text in
the anthropology of neo-liberal capitalism,
development and industrialisation in South
Asia. Engagingly written and ethnographically
rich, Dream Zones reveals the multiple
meanings, contestations and realities of Special
Economic Zones in India, showing how large
scale infrastructure projects are built upon an
‘economy of anticipation’ that deals in dreams
of the future as much as dystopian nightmares
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of rupture and loss.
Katy Gardner, Professor of Anthropology at
the London School of Economics and Political
Science
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ream Zones explores the dreamed-of and desired futures
that constitute, sustain and disrupt capitalism in
contemporary India.
Drawing on five years of research in and around India’s
Special Economic Zones (SEZs), the book follows the
stories of regional politicians, corporate executives, rural
farmers, industrial workers and social activists to show
how the pursuit of growth, profit and development shapes
the politics of industrialisation and liberalisation.
This book offers a timely reminder that the global
economy is shaped by sentiment as much as reason and
that un-realised expectations are the grounds on which
new hopes for the future are sown.
Jamie Cross is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology and
Development at the University of Edinburgh.
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s religion best seen as only a cause of war, or is it a source of
comfort for those caught up in conflict?
Checkpoint, Temple, Church and Mosque is based on
fieldwork in Sri Lanka’s most religiously diverse and politically
troubled region in the closing years of the civil war. It
provides a series of new and provocative arguments about the
promise of a religiously-based civil society, and the strengths
and weaknesses of religious organisations and religious leaders
in conflict mediation. It argues that for people trapped in
long and violent conflicts, religion plays a contradictory
role, often acting as a comforting and stabilising force but
also, in certain situations, acting as a source of new conflict.
Additionally, war itself can lead to profound changes in
religious institutions: Catholic priests engage with Buddhist
monks and new Muslim leaders, while Hindu temples and
Pentecostal churches offer the promise of healing.
This book will provoke new debate about the role
of religious organisations and leaders in situations of
extreme conflict, and will be of great interest to students of
anthropology, development studies, religious studies and
peace/conflict studies.
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Jonathan Spencer is Professor of the Anthropology
of South Asia at the University of Edinburgh.
Jonathan Goodhand is Professor of Development
Studies at the University of Melbourne.
Shahul Hasbullah is Professor of Geography at the
University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.
Bart Klem is a Lecturer in Geography at the
University of Zurich.
Benedikt Korf is Professor of Geography at the
University of Zurich.
Kalinga Tudor Silva is Professor of Sociology at the
University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.
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Identifies the micro-social processes
and complexities within multilateral
organisations which have, up to now,
been largely invisible
Looks at the ways in which the
alternative food movement is reacting
to crises in the global food system
This fascinating book is an anthropological
foray into international institutions, reveal[ing]
a world of equal sovereignty cross-cut by deep
This is a hugely rich account of the local
food movement as it manifests itself across
Europe, offering compelling case studies of
creative alternatives outside the capitalist
mainstream. Fascinating, inspiring and a delight
inequalities of power.
Sally Engle Merry, author of Human Rights
and Gender Violence
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he Gloss of Harmony focuses on agencies of the
United Nations, examining the paradox of entrusting
relatively powerless and underfunded organisations with the
responsibility of tackling some of the essential problems of
our time. The book shows how international organisations
shape the world in often unexpected and unpredictable ways.
The authors of this collection look not only at the official
objectives and unintended consequences of international
governance but also at how international organisations
involve collective and individual actors in policy making,
absorb critique, attempt to neutralise political conflict and
create new political fields with local actors and national
governments.
The Gloss of Harmony identifies the micro-social processes
and complexities within multilateral organisations which
have, up to now, been largely invisible. This book will
have wide appeal not only to students and academics in
anthropology, business studies and sociology but also to all
practitioners concerned with international governance.
Birgit Müller (Editor) is a senior researcher at the
CNRS and teaches at the École des hautes études
en sciences sociales in Paris. She is the author of
many books including Disenchantment with Market
Economics: East Germans and Western Capitalism
(2008).
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to read.
John Hilary, Executive Director of War on Want and
author of The Poverty of Capitalism (2013)
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oncern about our food system is growing, from the
costs of industrial farming to the dominant role of
supermarkets and recurring scandals about the origins and
content of what we eat.
Food for Change documents the way alternative food
movements respond to these concerns by trying to create
more closed economic circuits within which people know
where, how, and by whom their food is produced.
Jeff Pratt, Peter Luetchford and other contributors
explore the key political and economic questions of food
through the everyday experience and vivid insights of farmers
and consumers, using fieldwork from case studies in four
European countries (France, Spain, Italy and England). Food
for Change is an insightful consideration of connections
between food and wider economic relations and draws on a
rich vein of anthropological writing on the topic.
Jeff Pratt is Senior Research Fellow in Anthropology at the University
of Sussex. He is the author of Class, Nation and Identity: The
Anthropology of Political Movements (Pluto, 2003).
Pete Luetchford is Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of
Sussex. He is the author of Fair Trade and a Global Commodity:
Coffee in Costa Rica (Pluto, 2007).
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Eriksen
Thomas Hylland
Eriksen
Thomas Hylland Eriksen is Professor of
Social Anthropology at the University of
Oslo. He is the author of a number of recent
classics in Anthropology, including Ethnicity
and Nationalism, A History of Anthropology,
Small Places, Large Issues, Tyranny of the
Moment and Globalisation, all available from
Pluto Press.
Thoroughly updated and revised
edition of a popular classic of modern
anthropology
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n this second edition of A History of Anthropology, the
authors provide summaries of ‘Enlightenment’, ‘Romantic’
and ‘Victorian’ anthropology, from the cultural theories of
Morgan and Taylor to the often neglected contributions
of German scholars. The ambiguous relationship between
anthropology and national cultures is also considered.
The book provides an unparalleled account of theoretical
developments in anthropology from the 1920s to the present,
including functionalism, structuralism, hermeneutics, neoMarxism and discourse analysis. There are brief biographies of
major anthropologists and coverage of key debates including
totemism, kinship and globalisation.
This essential text on anthropology is highly engaging,
authoritative and suitable for students at all levels.
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New edition of this
core text for all
students of social
anthropology.
Additions include
cultural property
rights and
commercialisation
of identity
New edition of the
classic introduction
to anthropology,
focusing on central
topics such as
kinship, ethnicity,
ritual and political
systems
A pioneering
contribution to
the emergent
anthropology of
human security
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Analyses the challenges feminists
face as they seek to engage with new
spaces of participatory democracy in
Latin America
A pioneering analysis of doing
ethnographic fieldwork in different
types of complex organisations
This is a thought provoking volume that
promises to appeal to students and scholars,
and also to a broader public of activists and
This excellent and timely book shows that
the anthropological gaze continues to shed
light on all things human in surprising ways, as
well as providing a much needed alternative
analytical perspective on bureaucracies and
other formal organisations.
intellectuals.
Florence E. Babb, Professor of Women’s Studies,
University of Florida
Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Professor of Social
Anthropology, University of Oslo
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hrough ethnographic cases and activists’ narratives,
Contesting Publics analyses the challenges feminists
face as they seek to engage with new spaces of participatory
democracy in Latin America.
Lynne Phillips and Sally Cole analyse how new silences,
exclusions and re-inscriptions of inequalities have emerged
alongside these new spaces of participation. The book reexamines the relationship between public and private and
speaks to a larger theoretical question: what is the meaning of
‘the public’ within democracy projects?
Contesting Publics considers current debates among
feminists from different generations on the merits of a variety
of strategies, goals and issues, drawing out vital lessons for
students, researchers and activists in anthropology, gender
studies and Latin American studies.
Lynne Phillips is Dean of Arts and Professor
of Anthropology at the Memorial University of
Newfoundland. She is the editor of The Third Wave of
Modernization in Latin America: Cultural Perspectives
on Neoliberalism (1998).
Sally Cole is Professor of Anthropology at Concordia
University, Montreal. She is the author of Ruth Landes:
A Life in Anthropology (2003).
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rganisational Anthropology, newly published in
paperback, is a pioneering analysis of doing ethnographic
fieldwork in different types of complex organisations. The
book focuses on the process of initiating contact, establishing
rapport and gaining the trust of the organisation’s members.
The contributors work from the premise that doing
fieldwork in an organisation shares essential characteristics
with fieldwork in more ‘classical’ anthropological
environments, but that it also poses some particular challenges
to the ethnographer. These include the ideological or financial
interests of the organisations, protection of resources and
competition between organisations.
Organisational Anthropology brings together and highlights
crucial aspects of doing anthropology in contemporary
complex settings, and will have wide appeal to students,
researchers and academics in anthropology and organisation
studies.
Christina Garsten is Professor at the Department of Social
Anthropology at Stockholm University and Chair of the Stockholm
Centre for Organizational Research (Score) at Stockholm University
and Stockholm School of Economics.
Anette Nyqvist is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social
Anthropology at Stockholm University and holds a research position at
Stockholm Centre for Organizational Research at Stockholm University
and Stockholm School of Economics.
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Humans and Other Animals:
Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Human-Animal Interactions
Border Watch:
Cultures of Immigration, Detention and Control
by Samantha Hurn
by Alexandra Hall
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umans and Other Animals is about the myriad and evolving ways in which humans
and animals interact, the divergent cultural constructions of humanity and
animality found around the world, and individual experiences of other animals.
Samantha Hurn explores the work of anthropologists and scholars from related
disciplines concerned with the growing field of anthrozoology. Case studies from a wide
range of cultural contexts are discussed, and readers are invited to engage with a diverse
range of human-animal interactions including blood sports (such as hunting, fishing
and bull fighting), pet-keeping and ‘petishism’, eco-tourism and wildlife conservation,
working animals and animals as food. The idea of animal exploitation raised by the
animal rights movements is considered, as well as the anthropological implications
of changing attitudes towards animal personhood, and the rise of a posthumanist
philosophy in the social sciences more generally.
Key debates surrounding these issues are raised and assessed and, in the process,
readers are encouraged to consider their own attitudes towards other animals and, by
extension, what it means to be human.
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uestions over immigration and asylum face almost all Western countries. Should
only economically useful immigrants be allowed? What should be done with
unwanted or ‘illegal’ immigrants? In this bold and original intervention, Alexandra Hall
shows that immigration detention centres offer a window onto society’s broader attitudes
towards immigrants.
Despite periodic media scandals, remarkably little has been written about the
everyday workings of the grassroots immigration system, or about the people charged
with enacting immigration policy at local levels. Detention, particularly, is a hidden side
of border politics, despite its growing international importance as a tool of control and
security. This book fills the gap admirably, analysing the everyday encounters between
officers and immigrants in detention to explore broad social trends and theoretical
concerns.
This highly topical book provides rare insights into the treatment of the ‘other’ and
will be essential for policy makers and students studying anthropology and sociology.
Discordant Development:
Global Capitalism and the Struggle for Connection in Bangladesh
Community, Cosmopolitanism and the Problem of Human Commonality
by Katy Gardner
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hat happens when a vast multinational mining company operates a gas plant
situated close to four densely populated villages in rural Bangladesh? How does
its presence contribute to local processes of ‘development’? And what do corporate claims
of ‘community engagement’ involve? Drawing from author Katy Gardner’s longstanding
relationship with the area, Discordant Development reveals the complex and contradictory
ways that local people attempt to connect to, and are disconnected by, foreign capital.
Everyone has a story to tell: whether of dispossession and scarcity, the success of
Corporate Social Responsibility, or imperialist exploitation and corruption. Yet as
Gardner argues, what really matters in the struggles over resources is which of these
stories are heard, and the power of those who tell them.
Based around the discordant narratives of dispossessed land owners, urban activists,
mining officials and the rural landless, Discordant Development touches on some of the
most urgent economic and political questions of our time, including resource ownership
and scarcity, and the impact of foreign investment and industrialisation on global
development.
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n this follow up to their widely read earlier volume, The Trouble with Community, Vered
Amit and Nigel Rapport ask: ‘Do notions of community remain central to our sense of
who we are in the dislocating context of globalisation, or can we see beyond community
closures to a human whole?’
This volume explores the variable nature of contemporary sociality. It focuses on
the ethical, organisational and emotional claims and opportunities sought or fashioned
for mobilizing and evading social collectivities in a world of mobile subjects. Here is an
examination of the tensions and interactions between everyday forms of fluid fellowship,
culturally normative claims to identity, and opportunities for realising a universal
humanity.
The book offers a new perspective on human commonality through a dialogue
between two eminent anthropologists who come from distinct, but complementary
positions.
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The Capability of Places:
Methods for Modelling Community Response to Intrusion and Change
by Sandra Wallman
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ow can we assess the ability of a place to respond to challenges like migration,
recession and disease? Places which seem similar can respond very differently, and
with varying degrees of success, to external threats and to the interventions designed to
manage them.
In this magisterial work, drawing on decades of research, Sandra Wallman explores
how we can measure and compare the resilience of communities, looking in detail at
neighbourhoods in London, Rome and Zambia. Each locale is examined as a system
which is more or less open or closed; open systems tend to be more resilient when faced
with external challenges.
As well as being a fascinating study in its own right, the book includes detailed
accounts of the research methods used, as well as a user-friendly typology for classifying
local systems, making it an invaluable tool for students, researchers and policy-makers.
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n Foreign Fields examines the lives, decisions and challenges faced by transnational sport
migrants - those professionals working in the sports industry who cross borders as part
of their professional lives.
Despite a great deal of romance surrounding international celebrity athletes, the vast
majority of transnational sport migrants - players, journalists, coaches, administrators
and medical personnel - toil far away from the limelight. Based on twelve years of
ethnographic research conducted on three continents, Thomas F. Carter traces their lives,
routes and experiences, documenting their travels and travails. He argues that far from
the ease of mobility that celebrity sports stars enjoy, the vast majority of transnational
sports migrants make huge sacrifices and labour under political restrictions, often
enforced by sport’s governing bodies.
This unique and clearly written study will make fascinating reading for
anthropologists, sociologists and anyone interested in the lives of those who follow their
sporting dreams.
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They and We:
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Justice Against Epistemicide
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he first edition of They and We appeared shortly after the March on Washington,
where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his memorable “I Have a Dream” speech. It was
published just before the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed by Congress.
The book, read by tens of thousands, has been updated and expanded five times, each
edition maintaining the original intention of the author to provide grounding in the
sociological study of inter-group relations: examining prejudice, discrimination, minority
status and other core concepts in straightforward, jargon-free prose, as well as tracking
social, economic, political and legal developments.
The new, 7th (50th anniversary) edition of They and We continues the tradition,
depicting recent demographic changes and persisting patterns (such as the ‘leapfrog’
phenomenon, where, as in the past, many African-Americans are left behind as newer
groups move in, up, and over). It also covers new developments, including the rise of
Islamophobia in the wake of 9/11. An entirely new chapter compares perspectives in the
United States with situations overseas, particularly with regard to nativist and nationalist
movements and the rise of xenophobia in this society and in many others.
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n a world of appalling social inequalities people are becoming more aware of the
multiple dimensions of injustice. Rarely acknowledged is another vital dimension:
cognitive injustice, the failure to recognise the different ways of knowing by which people
across the globe run their lives. This book argues that global social justice is not possible
without global cognitive justice.
Boaventura de Sousa Santos argues that colonialism and global capitalism have
profoundly devalued the knowledge and wisdom that had been in existence in the global
South. He argues that hegemonic globalisation can be challenged and a new kind of
bottom-up cosmopolitanism established.
Epistemologies of the South is a defence of humankind, solidarity and life against the
logic of market-driven greed and individualism.
Social Change:
Globalization from the Stone Age to the Present
Selves, Societies & Emotions:
Understanding the Pathways of Experience
by Christopher Chase-Dunn and Bruce Lerro
by Thomas S. Henricks
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rom the Stone Age to the Internet Age, Social Change tells the story of human
sociocultural evolution. It describes the conditions under which hunter-gatherers,
horticulturalists, agricultural states and industrial capitalist societies formed, flourished
and declined.
Drawing evidence from archaeology, ethnography, linguistics, historical documents,
statistics and survey research, Christopher Chase-Dunn traces the growth of human
societies and their complexity, and probes the conflicts in hierarchies both within and
among societies.
The book also explains the macro-micro links that connect cultural evolution and
history with the development of the individual self, thinking processes and perceptions.
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uilding on contributions from sociology, psychology, anthropology, philosophy,
literature and neuroscience, Thomas S. Henricks develops a general account of how
people discover and reproduce the ‘meaning’ of their involvement with others.
Among its many themes are treatments of selves as ‘projections of personhood,’
the ways in which self-expression has changed historically and is experienced in our
electronically mediated era and ritual, play, communities and work as four distinctive
‘pathways of experience’.
In the era of digital technology and online social networking Selves, Societies and
Emotions is a highly topical exploration of the self and identity.
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Paradigm Publishers - key titles
Paradigm Publishers - key titles
In and Out of Each Other’s Bodies:
Theory of Mind, Evolution, Truth, and the Nature of the Social
Save the Humans?:
Common Preservation in Action
by Maurice Bloch
by Jeremy Brecher
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hat is human sociality? How are universals such as truth and doubt variously
demonstrated and negotiated in different cultures?
This book offers an accessible introduction to these and other fundamental human
questions. Bloch shows that the social consists of two very different things. One is a
matter of continual adjustments between individuals who read each others’ minds and
thus, as in sex and birth, “go in and out of each other’s minds and bodies.” The other is a
time defying system of roles and groups. Interaction at this level is created by ritual and is
unique to humans. What is referred to by the word ‘religion’ is a part of this, but it is not
separate. The study of ‘religion’ as such is therefore theoretically misleading.
A second major theme is the way truth is established in different cultures. Bloch’s
arguments go against recent approaches in anthropology which have sought to relativize
ideas of the social and religion.
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oday our individual self-interest depends on what the author calls common
preservation – cooperation to provide for mutual well-being. But is that possible?
As world leaders fail to cooperate to address climate change, nuclear proliferation,
economic meltdown and other threats to our survival, more and more people experience
a pervasive sense of denial and despair. But common preservation can reshape the human
future.
Jeremy Brecher has seen common preservation in action, and in Save the Humans?
he shows how it works. From Gandhi’s civil disobedience campaigns in India, to the
Solidarity movement that initiated the end of Communism in Eastern Europe, to the
2011 uprisings throughout the Middle East and in the US Middle West, Brecher shows
what we can learn from the history of past social movements to help us confront today’s
global threats of climate change, war and domination, and economic chaos.
Medicine and Public Health at the End of Empire
Theory from the South:
Or, How Euro-America is Evolving Toward Africa
by Howard Waitzkin
by Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff
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he recent financial meltdown has brought notable changes to the global practice of
healthcare - changes that have often escaped the media. Although Western managed
care corporations previously had strengthened their influence abroad, now many
countries are considering new approaches to healthcare for their citizens.
The untold story of how corporations have influenced global healthcare - and the
impacts now in America as the system rapidly shifts - is Dr. Waitzkin’s subject in his
provocative new book. We now live in a new era in which the prospects for more
humane approaches to healthcare are taking root. Strengthening access and improving
public health are at the heart of the many previously little-noted struggles and actions by
individuals, groups, and whole nations to put control back in the hands of patients and
practitioners.
The impacts of these changes in the United States are considerable, and they are amply
illustrated by Dr. Waitzkin as the United States attempts to reorient its own system of
care.
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s nation-states in the Northern Hemisphere experience economic crisis, political
corruption and racial tension, it seems as though they might be ‘evolving’ into the
kind of societies normally associated with the ‘Global South’.
Anthropologists Jean and John Comaroff draw on their long experience of living in
Africa to address a range of familiar themes – democracy, national borders, labour and
capital, and multiculturalism. They consider how we might understand these issues by
using theory developed in the Global South.
Challenging our ideas about ‘developed’ and ‘developing’ nations, Theory from the
South provides new insights into key problems of our time.
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index
index
Abramson, Allen 22
A History of Anthropology 12
Aid Effect, The 21
Amit, Vered 17, 20, 23
Anthropological Perspectives on Kinship 23
Anthropology, Art and Cultural Production 21
Anthropology and Cultural Studies 23
Anthropology and the Will to Meaning 22
Anthropology at the Dawn of the Cold War 20
Anthropology, Development and the Post-modern Challenge 20
Anthropology of Security, The 6
Anthropology of the Self 23
Anthropology’s World 19
Argyrou, Vassos 22
A World of Insecurity 13, 19
Rankin, Katharine Neilson 23
Rapport, Nigel 17, 23
Rew, Alan 22
Risk Revisited 22
Rose, Peter I. 24
Ross, Fiona C. 21
Kurti, Laszlo 22
Day, Sophie 21
Discordant Development 16
Donahue, Katherine C. 20
Dream Zones 8
Dyck, Noel 20
Epistemologies of the South 25
Eriksen, Thomas Hylland 12, 19, 20, 21
Ethnic Distinctions, Local Meanings 20
Ethnicity and Nationalism 13, 19
Ethnography and Prostitution in Peru 22
Fair Trade and a Global Commodity 20
Flip-Flop 5
Food for Change 11
Frois, Catarina 6
Fuglerud, Oivind 22
Bal, Ellen 13, 19
Bank, Leslie J. 19
Bearing Witness 21
Being There 21
Bicker, Alan 21
Bloch, Maurice 26
Border Watch 17
Brecher, Jeremy 27
Bryan, Dominic 23
Gardner, Katy 16, 20
Garsten, Christina 15
Gledhill, John 22
Globalisation 21
Gloss of Harmony, The 10
Goodhand, Jonathan 9
Hall, Alexandra 17
Haller, Dieter 20
Hannerz, Ulf 19
Harris, Colette 21
Hasbullah, Shahul 9
Henricks, Thomas S. 25
Holy, Ladislav 23
Homes Spaces, Street Styles 19
Human Rights, Culture & Context 23
Humans and Other Animals 16
Hurn, Samantha 16
Campbell, John R. 22
Capability of Places, The 18
Caplan, Pat 22
Carter, Thomas F. 18
Chase-Dunn, Christopher 24
Checkpoint, Temple, Church and Mosque 9
Claiming Individuality 20
Class, Nation and Identity 23
Cole, Sally 14
Comaroff, Jean 27
Comaroff, John L. 27
Community, Cosmopolitanism and the Problem of Human
Commonality 17
Contesting Publics 14
Control and Subversion 21
Cord of Blood 21
Corruption 20
Cross, Jamie 8
Cultivating Development 20
Cultural Politics of Markets, The 23
Culture and Well-Being 20
Cultures of Fear 19
Land, Law and Environment 22
Landscape, Memory and History 21
Lerro, Bruce 24
Lewis, David 20, 21
Liep, John 22
Life on the Outside 22
Linke, Uli 19
Locating Cultural Creativity 22
Lovell, Nadia 21
Luetchford, Pete 11, 20
Maeckelbergh, Marianne 19
Maguire, Mark 6
Medicine and Public Health at the End of Empire 26
Morris, Brian 23
Mosse, David 20, 21
Müller, Birgit 10
Narotzky, Susana 23
Negotiating Local Knowledge 21
Nencel, Lorraine 22
New Directions in Economic Anthropology 23
Niehaus, Isak 22
Nielsen, Finn Sivert 12
Nuijten, Monique 21
Nugent, Stephen 23
Nustad, Knut 21
Nyqvist, Anette 15
Terror & Violence 20
Theodossopoulus, Dimitrios 22
Theory from the South 27
They and We 24
Trouble with Community, The 23
Wade, Peter 19, 22
Waitzkin, Howard 26
Wallman, Sandra 18
Watson, C. W. 21
Wax, Dustin M. 20
What is Anthropology? 20
Wilson, Richard A. 23
Whitaker, Mark P. 20
Whitehead, Neil L. 20
Will of the Many, The 19
Witchcraft, Power and Politics 22
On the Game 21
Organisational Anthropology 15
Orange Parades 23
Osella, Caroline 22
Osella, Filippo 22
Jimenez, Alberto 20
Phillips, Lynne 14
Politics from Sivaram 20
Pottier, Johan 21
Power and its Disguises 22
Power, Community and the State 21
Pratt, Jeff 11, 23
Klem, Bart 9
Knowles, Caroline 5
Korf, Benedikt 9
Krohn-Hansen, Christian 21
Race and Ethnicity in Latin America 19
Race and Sex in Latin America 19
Race, Nature and Culture 22
Rack, Mary 20
Identity and Affect 22
In and Out of Each Other’s Bodies 26
In Foreign Fields 18
Salemink, Oscar 13, 19
Save the Humans? 27
Selves, Societies & Emotions 25
Santos, Boaventura de Sousa 25
Shore, Cris 20, 23
Sillitoe, Paul 21
Silva, Kalinga Tudor 9
Slave of Allah 20
Small Places, Large Issues 13, 19
Smith, Danielle Taana 19
Social Change 24
Social Mobility in Kerala 22
Spencer, Jonathan 9
State Formation 21
Stewart, Pamela J. 20, 21
Strathern, Andrew 20, 21
Svasek, Maruska 21
Youth and the State in Hungary 22
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Zurawski, Nils 6
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