Recharting the Caribbean
Author: Bill Maurer
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780472086931
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWeaves a story of statecraft and law making, of power and the construction of identity
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Recharting the Caribbean
Author: William M. Maurer
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 660
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecharting the Black Atlantic
Author: Annalisa Oboe
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011-04-13
Total Pages: 438
ISBN-13: 1135899738
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book focuses on the migrations and metamorphoses of black bodies, practices, and discourses around the Atlantic, particularly with regard to current issues such as questions of identity, political and human rights, cosmopolitics, and mnemo-history.
Globalization Under Construction
Author: Richard Warren Perry
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780816639663
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 'Globalization Under Construction' the authors attempt to discern in the disparateness of contemporary events an emerging pattern of governmentality, techniques of governance & assemblages of intersecting arguments about the history of the present & the nature of the future that our present portends.
Spirited Things
Author: Paul Christopher Johnson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2014-05-07
Total Pages: 351
ISBN-13: 022612293X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe word “possession” is anything but transparent, especially as it developed in the context of the African Americas. There it referred variously to spirits, material goods, and people. It served as a watershed term marking both transactions in which people were made into things—via slavery—and ritual events by which the thingification of people was revised. In Spirited Things, Paul Christopher Johnson gathers together essays by leading anthropologists in the Americas that reopen the concept of possession on these two fronts in order to examine the relationship between African religions in the Atlantic and the economies that have historically shaped—and continue to shape—the cultures that practice them. Exploring the way spirit possessions were framed both by material things—including plantations, the Catholic church, the sea, and the phonograph—as well as by the legacy of slavery, they offer a powerful new way of understanding the Atlantic world.
The Handbook of Sociocultural Anthropology
Author: James G. Carrier
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-06-29
Total Pages: 639
ISBN-13: 1000181499
DOWNLOAD EBOOKhe Handbook of Sociocultural Anthropology presents a state of the art overview of the subject - its methodologies, current debates, history and future. It will provide the ultimate source of authoritative, critical descriptions of all the key aspects of the discipline as well as a consideration of the general state of the discipline at a time when there is notable uncertainty about its foundations, composition and direction. Divided into five core sections, the Handbook: examines the changing theoretical and analytical orientations that have led to new ways of carrying out research; presents an analysis of the traditional historical core and how the discipline has changed since 1980; considers the ethnographic regions where work has had the greatest impact on anthropology as a whole; outlines the people and institutions that are the context in which the discipline operates, covering topics from research funding to professional ethics.Bringing together leading international scholars, the Handbook provides a guide to the latest research in social and cultural anthropology. Presenting a systematic overview - and offering a wide range of examples, insights and analysis - it will be an invaluable resource for researchers and students in anthropology as well as cultural and social geography, cultural studies and sociology.
Rules of Law and Laws of Ruling
Author: Franz von Benda-Beckmann
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-08
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 1317060946
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffering an anthropological perspective, this volume explores the changing relations between law and governance, examining how changes in the structure of governance affect the relative social significance of law within situations of legal pluralism. The authors argue that there has been a re-regulation rather than a de-regulation, propagated by a plurality of regulative authorities and this re-regulation is accompanied by an increasing ideological dominance of rights talk and juridification of conflict. Drawing on insights into such processes, this volume explores the extent to which law is used both as a constitutive legitimation of governance and as the medium through which governance processes take place. Highlighting some of the paradoxes and the unintended consequences of these regulating processes and the ensuing dynamics, Rules of Law and Laws of Ruling will be a valuable resource for researchers and students working in the areas of legal anthropology and governance.
Economics and Morality
Author: Society for Economic Anthropology (U.S.). Meeting
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780759112025
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Economics and Morality, the authors seek to illuminate the multiple kinds of analyses relating morality and economic behavior in particular kinds of economic systems.
European Integration and Postcolonial Sovereignty Games
Author: Rebecca Adler-Nissen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-05-02
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 1135127786
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines how sovereignty works in the context of European integration and postcolonialism. Focusing on a group of micro-polities associated with the European Union, it offers a new understanding of international relations in the context of modern sovereignty. This book offers a systematic and comparative analysis of the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs), the EU and the four affected Member States: UK, France, the Netherlands and Denmark. Contributors explore how states and state-like entities play ‘sovereignty games’ to understand how a group of postcolonial entities may strategically use their ambiguous status in relation to sovereignty. The book examines why former colonies are seeking greater room to manoeuvre on their own, whilst simultaneously developing a close relationship to the supranational EU. Methodologically sophisticated, this interdisciplinary volume combines interviews, participant observation, textual, legal and institutional analysis for a new theoretical approach to understanding the strategic possibilities and subjectivity of non-sovereign entities in international politics. Bringing together research on European integration and postcolonial theory, European Integration and Postcolonial Sovereignty Games will be of interest to students and scholars of International Relations, EU studies, Postcolonial studies, International Law and Political Theory.
Beauty Queens on the Global Stage
Author: Colleen Ballerion Cohen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-09-13
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 1136658262
DOWNLOAD EBOOKModern beauty contests were invented by P.T. Barnum in the United States, but in the 20th century pageants and contests have spread across the entire world from Nepal to Tierra Del Fuego. Why are women (and sometimes men in drag) parading on stage such a universally appealing spectacle, attracting an audience in the billions? This book is the first global comparison of pageants from different parts of the world, at the ways each contest is both intensely local and unique, and simultaneously global and remarkable repetitious. The authors use the latest tools of feminist, ethnographic, and literary scholarship to unpack and interpret one of the greatest and most universal spectacles of modern times.
