Anthropology supplement (November 2014)

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FORTHCOMING TITLEBETWEEN MAGIC & RATIONALITYOn the Limits of Reason in the Modern WorldEdited by Vibeke Steffen, Steffen Jöhncke, Kirsten Marie Raahauge

In Between Magic and Reality, Vibeke Steffen, Steffen Jöhncke, and Kirsten Marie Raahaugebring together a diverse range of ethnographies that examine and explore the forms ofreflection, action, and interaction that govern the ways different contemporary societies createand challenge the limits of reason.

The essays here visit an impressive array of settings, including international scientificlaboratories, British spiritualist meetings, Chinese villages, Danish rehabilitation centers, andUzbeki homes, where they encounter a diverse assortment of people whose beliefs andconcerns exhibit an unusual but central contemporary dichotomy: scientific reason versusspiritual/paranormal belief. Exploring the paradoxical way these modes of thought push againstreason's boundaries, they offer a deep look at the complex ways they coexist, contest oneanother, and are ultimately intertwined.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Vibeke Steffen is associate professor in the department of

anthropology at the University of Copenhagen. Steffen Jöncke is senior advisor in thedepartment of anthropology at the University of Copenhagen. Kirsten Marie Raahauge isassociate professor in the School of Design at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts inCopenhagen.

PB 9788763542135 £39.99 December 2014 Museum Tusculanum Press 350 pages


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FORTHCOMING TITLESOUTHEAST ASIAN MIGRATIONPeople on the Move in Search of Work, Marriage & RefugeEdited by Khatharya Um, Sofia Gaspar

Southeast Asia has long been a crossroad of cultural influence and transnational movement,but the massive migration of Southeast Asians throughout the world in recent decades ishistorically unprecedented. Dispersal, compelled by economic circumstance, political turmoil,and war, engenders personal, familial, and spiritual dislocation, and provokes a questioning ofidentity and belonging. This volume features original works by scholars from Asia, America,and Europe that highlight these trends and perspectives on Southeast Asian migration withinand beyond the Asia-Pacific region.

Adopting an interdisciplinary approach - with contributions from sociology, political science,anthropology, and history - and anchored in empirical case studies from various SoutheastAsian countries, it extends the scope of inquiry beyond the economic concerns of migration,and beyond a single country source or destination, and disciplinary focus. Analytic focus isplaced on the forces and factors that shape migration trajectories and migrant incorporationexperiences in Asia and Europe; the impact of migration and immigration status on individuals,families, and institutions, on questions of equity, inclusion, and identity; and the triangulatedrelationships between diasporic communities, the sending and receiving countries. Ofparticular importance is the scholarly attention to lesser known populations and issues such asVietnamese in Poland, children and the 1.5 generation immigrants, health and mentalconsequences of state sponsored violence and protracted encampment, ethnic media, and thechallenges of both transnational parenting and family reunification.

In examining the complex and creative negotiations that immigrants engage locally andtransnationally in their daily lives, it foregrounds immigrant resilience in the strategies theyadopt not only to survive but thrive in displacement.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Khatharya Um is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies and Chair

of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She has publishedextensively on Southeast Asia and on refugee communities. Sofia Gaspar is Assistant Professorof Sociology at ISCSP-ULisboa, Portugal. She has published numerous articles on migration, bi-national marriages and transnational families.

HB 9781845196653 £60.00 November 2014 Sussex Academic Press 256 pages


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NOW AVAILABLE IN THE UKCARIBBEAN FOOD CULTURESCulinary Practices & Consumption in the Caribbean & Its DiasporasEdited by Wiebke Beushausen, Anne Brüske, Ana-Sofia Commichau, Patrick Helber, Sinah Kloß

Caribbean Food Cultures approaches the matter of food from the perspectives of anthropology,sociology, cultural and literary studies. Its strong interdisciplinary focus provides new insightsinto symbolic and material food practices beyond eating, drinking, cooking, or etiquette. Thecontributors discuss culinary aesthetics and neo/colonial gazes on the Caribbean in literarydocuments, audiovisual media, and popular images. They investigate the negotiation ofcommunities and identities through the preparation, consumption, and commodification of»authentic« food. Furthermore, the authors emphasize the influence of underlyingsocioeconomic power relations for the reinvention of Caribbean and Western identities in thewake of migration and transnationalism.

The anthology features contributions by renowned scholars such as Rita De Maeseneer andFabio Parasecoli who read Hispano-Caribbean literatures and popular culture through the lensof food studies.

PB 9783837626926 £41.50 June 2014 Transcript Verlag 304 pages

NOW AVAILABLE IN THE UKCONTESTING VISIBILITYPhotographic Practices on the East African CoastHeike Behrend

Since the introduction of photography by commercial studio photographers and the colonialstate in Kenya, this global medium has been intensely debated and contested among Muslimson the cosmopolitan East African coast. This book does not only explore the making,circulation, and consumption of popular photographs, but also the other side, their rejectionand obliteration, an essential aspect of a medium's history that should not be neglected. Itdeals with various social spaces of refusal in the local Muslim milieu and in that of »traditional«spirit mediums in which (gendered) visibility was (and is) contested in various and creativeways. It focuses on the aesthetics of withdrawal: the various ways and techniques that processthe photographic act as well as the photographic image to theatricalize the surface of theimage in new ways by veiling, masking, and concealing. In a fragmented historical perspective,Heike Behrend seeks to complement, decenter, and counter the history of photography as ithas been told by the West and to narrate another history beginning with preceding local mediasuch as textiles and spirit possession.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Heike Behrend worked as a Professor of Social Anthropology

and African Studies at the University of Cologne, Germany. Her research interests are newmedia (photography and video), religion, and violence. She is retired now and lives in Berlin.



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NOW AVAILABLE IN THE UKTHE COP & THE SOCIOLOGISTInvestigating Diversity in German Police ForcesBarbara Thériault

Drawing on the sociology of Max Weber, Barbara Thériault investigates today's relationstoward difference within German police forces. Accompanying and interviewing police officerswhose job it is to contribute to the acknowledgement of difference, the sociologist outlinesthree ideal types of actors – an empathetic, a principled, and an opportunist one – and themotives underlying their actions. A fourth type, the specialist, is conspicuously absent. Why isthat so? Solving this enigma helps depicting the relations to difference within police forces: itpoints to a specific spirit of diversity and a singular way to apprehend the individual inGermany.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Barbara Thériault is Associate Professor of Sociology and

Director of the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies at the University ofMontreal. She holds a PhD from the Max Weber Centre for Cultural and Social Studies(University of Erfurt). She received her habilitation from the European University Viadrina.

PB 9783837623109 £37.99 April 2013 Transcript Verlag 222 pages

NOW AVAILABLE IN THE UKCOUCHSURFING COSMOPOLITANISMSCan Tourism Make a Better World?Edited by David Picard, Sonja Buchberger

The book provides unique insights into the culture of computer-mediated hospitality and howthis has begun to transform contemporary tourism and travel practice. Focusing onCouchsurfing.org, one of the largest online hospitality communities worldwide, the authorsexplore how social relations, intimacy and trust are built in the online environment and thenextended into the offline contexts of actual tourism and travel. Being active couchsurfersthemselves, the authors scrutinise the candid claim by much of the online hospitalitycommunity that couchsurfing creates a better world. The book is key reading for anyoneinterested in how computer mediated communication is changing contemporary forms ofcontact, travel and hospitality, and the kinds of cosmopolitism it brings into being.

Authors: David Picard, Sonja Buchberger, Jennie Germann Molz, Dennis Zuev, De-Jung Chen,Bernard Schéou, Jun-E Tan, Paula Bialski and Nelson Graburn.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: David Picard (PhD) is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for

Research in Anthropology at the New University of Lisbon, Portugal. His research in La Réunionand Madagascar has been focused on tourism development, environmental policy, NGOs,divination, healing and witchcraft, and hospitality. Sonja Buchberger lectures at the EcoleHôtelière de Lausanne (EHL) and the School for Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), Universityof London, where she is currently completing her doctorate. Working in Tunisia and Morocco,she focuses her research on the tourism/hospitality nexus, the politics of new travel andintimacy in the Maghreb.

PB 9783837622553 £27.50 June 2013 Transcript Verlag 192 pages 225x148mm


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NOW AVAILABLE IN THE UKLIFE BEYOND SURVIVALSocial Forms of Coping After the Tsunami in War-affected Eastern Sri LankaKatharina Thurnheer

At the heart of this in-depth ethnographic study lie the daily life situations of tsunami survivorsin war-torn, eastern Sri Lanka. Each chapter is built around the empirical themes derived fromthe stories and recollections of Tamil women and their families during their stay in relief camps,anticipating relocation. The specifics of the socio-cultural context are firmly embedded in thediscussions. Ten years after the tsunami, this publication offers a timely contribution to a betterunderstanding of what it means to cope with the combined effects of disaster, war, andinternational aid in this matri-focal region of the island.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Katharina Thurnheer (PhD) is an associate researcher at the

Institute for Social Anthropology, University of Bern. Her research interests focus on war,disaster, international aid, and gender.


NOW AVAILABLE IN THE UKPRAYER IN THE CITYThe Making of Muslim Sacred Places and Urban LifeEdited by Patrick A. Desplat, Dorothea E. Schulz

This volume envisions social practices surrounding mosques, shrines and public spaces in urbancontexts as a window on the diverse ways in which Muslims in different regional and historicalsettings imagine, experience, and inhabit places and spaces as sacred. Unlike most studies onMuslim communities, this volume focuses on cultural, material and sensuous practices andurban everyday experience. Drawing on a range of analytical perspectives, the contributionsexamine spatial practices in Muslim societies from an interdisciplinary perspective, an approachwhich has been widely neglected both in Islamic studies and social sciences.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Patrick A. Desplat (Dr.) is lecturer at the Department of Social

Anthropology in Cologne. He is interested in Muslim religious practices, migration, translocality,urban life and has been doing fieldwork in Ethiopia, Kenya and currently Madagascar.Dorothea E. Schulz (PhD) is professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cologne. Herresearch interests include Muslim religious practices and everyday life, gender, media andpublic culture in Mali and Uganda.

PB 9783837619454 £36.99 May 2012 Transcript Verlag 314 pages


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NOW AVAILABLE IN THE UKTHE SOUNDING MUSEUM - BOX OF TREASURESHein Schoer

The Sounding Museum fuses anthropology, acoustic ecology, soundscape composition, andtrans-cultural communication inside the context of museum education.

Based on the piece Two Weeks in Alert Bay, it supplies researchers, practitioners, andaudiences with an instrument to gain an acoustic image of the contemporary cultural andeveryday life of the Kwakwaka'wakw of Alert Bay, BC. The project mediates interculturalcompetence thorough the affective agency of sound.

With the coeval Session Musician's Approach, introduced and analysed in text, audio, andinteractive form, it also bridges the gap between art, science, and education.

With a foreword by Barry Truax.

The box includes a book, 2 DVD and 1 CD.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Hein Schoer (PhD) is a soundscaper and musician. Affiliated with

Maastricht University, he researches, teaches, exhibits and performs on identity, auditoryanthropology, and cultural heritage and art.


NOW AVAILABLE IN THE UKTRANSATLANTIC CARIBBEANDialogues of People, Practices, IdeasEdited by Ingrid Kummels, Claudia Rauhut, Stefan Rinke, Birte Timm

Transatlantic Caribbean widens the scope of research on the Caribbean by focusing on itstransatlantic interrelations with North America, Latin America, Europe and Africa and byinvestigating long-term exchanges of people, practices and ideas. Based on innovativeapproaches and rich empirical research from anthropology, history and literary studies thecontributions discuss border crossings, south-south relations and diasporas in the areas ofpopular culture, religion, historical memory as well as national and transnational social andpolitical movements. These perspectives enrich the theoretical debates on transatlanticdialogues and the Black Atlantic and emphasize the Caribbean's central place in the world.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Ingrid Kummels (Prof.) teaches anthropology at the Institute for

Latin American Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Claudia Rauhut (PhD) teachesanthropology at the Institute for Latin American Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin,Germany. Stefan Rinke (Prof.) teaches history at the Institute for Latin American Studies at theFreie Universität Berlin, Germany. Birte Timm (PhD) is a Marie Curie fellow of the Gerda-Henkel-Foundation, at the Department of History and Archaeology, University of the WestIndies, Mona, in Jamaica.

PB 9783837626070 £41.50 October 2014 Transcript Verlag 300 pages


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NOW AVAILABLE IN THE UKURBAN LIFE-WORLDS IN MOTIONAfrican PerspectivesEdited by Hans Peter Hahn, Kristin Kastner

Urban agglomerations host the most vital and creative societies. This applies particularly toAfrica, where cities have the highest growth rates world-wide and where the urban populationis younger than anywhere else. Urban life-worlds are the basis for the development of newlifestyles and new cultural phenomena. Based on empirical ethnographic research, this bookpresents case studies that enhance our understanding of the dynamics of urbanity in Africa andbeyond - by envisioning cities as crossroads where cultures, biographies and networks meet.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Hans Peter Hahn (Prof. Dr. phil.) teaches Anthropology at the

Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main (Germany). His research interests include urban societiesin Africa, migration and mobility and the impact of globalization in Africa. Kristin Kastner (Dr.phil.) is research assistant at the Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main (Germany). She hasrecently completed her doctoral thesis on Nigerian migrants on their way to Europe. Herresearch interests include the anthropology of the body, anthropology of borders, mobility andmigration.

PB 9783837620221 £34.99 April 2012 Transcript Verlag 228 pages

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ACCULTURATIONPsychology, Processes and Global PerspectivesEdited by Jack Merton

Acculturation has been broadly defined as any change that results from contact betweenindividuals, or groups of individuals, and those from different cultural backgrounds. The conflictand stress that arises adversely affects the health and status of the immigrant, although nativepopulations may also be affected. Current research focuses mainly on behaviors, beliefs andattitudes found in different social, ethnic, religious, age, and other groups. However, there is nogeneral consensus as to the components or characteristics of acculturation, or how they shouldbe measured and assessed. Other fundamental concerns include the wide variability in themeasurement of human thought and response, the lack of generalizability and uniformityevidenced by the many survey instruments and scales used for different groups andpopulations today, and the difficulty in demonstrating a clear relationship betweencomponents of acculturation and health and other outcomes. This book discusses thepsychology, processes and global perspectives of acculturation.

HB 9781633213470 £158.50 September 2014 Nova Science 271 pages


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GUEST WORKER PROGRAMSSelect Analyses from Around the GlobeEdited by Stanley G. Temple

This book describes programs for the admission and employment of guest workers in fourteenselected countries, the European Union, the Association Agreement between the EuropeanUnion and Turkey, and the Multilateral Framework of the International Labour Organization. Itincludes a comparative analysis and individual sections on each country, the EU, and relevantinternational arrangements. The book provides a general overview of a variety of immigrationsystems, and addresses issues such as eligibility criteria for the admission of guest workers andtheir families, guest workers' recruitment and sponsorship, and visa conditions.

PB 9781629487564 £43.50 February 2014 Nova Science 154 pages

MINORITY GROUPSCoercion, Discrimination, Exclusion, Deviance & the Quest for EqualityEdited by Dan Soen, Sarah Ben-David

Society consists of numerous interconnected, interacting, and interdependent groups, whichinvariably differ in both power and status. Inequality and conflict between social groups entailseconomic as well as sociological and political factors. The tensions that arise between thesegroups are the root of society's most difficult problems - sometimes, the root of itsdisintegration. Ethnic and minority conflict is an inherent part of social life. The study of specificethnic and minority groups reflects the fact that people live in very powerful competitivemodern or traditional societies; also, that group conflict and inequality is generally the socialnorm rather than the exception.

PB 9781631179563 £137.50 August 2014 Nova Science 302 pages

NIGERIAN IMMIGRANTS IN GREECELow-Status Work, Community & DecollectivizationTheodoros Fouskas

In the first part of the book, the clarification of the theoretical concepts of community,occupational community and low-status work in the migration context is attempted. Theimpact that low-status/paid work has on immigrant collectivities is analysed and the types ofimmigrant community associations and the attitude of the Greek trade unions of towards theimmigrants are discussed. Moreover, an overview of international empirical research onNigerian immigrants, as well as on studies that focus on the investigation of immigrantcommunity associations in Greece is endeavoured.

The second part of the book concentrates on the consequences low-status/paid work has onthe collective organisation and representation of the immigrant workforce. The micro-sociological research and analysis examines the case of Nigerian immigrants in Greece and howthe frame of their work and their employment affects their participation in the immigranthometown association Nigerian Community in Greece and in Greek trade unions. The resultsbased on in-depth interviews demonstrate that due to the ramifications of their work,Nigerians are cut off, do not claim established workers’ rights and do not seek membership inany community associations or unions. In contrast, Nigerian immigrant workers depend oninformal and impersonal social networks in search of solidarity and thus resort to alternativemeans of ensuring survival in Greek society, choosing individualistic and materialisticperceptions and attitudes of regulating their difficulties and workers’ rights, far fromcollectivities, often resigning from them completely.

HB 9781633216747 £154.50 December 2014 Nova Science 335 pages


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CARIBBEAN FOOD CULTURES 2014 PB 9783837626926 £41.50

CONTESTING VISIBILITY 2013 PB 9783837624564 £30.50

COP & THE SOCIOLOGIST, THE 2013 PB 9783837623109 £37.99

COUCHSURFING COSMOPOLITANISMS 2013 PB 9783837622553 £27.50

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NIGERIAN IMMIGRANTS IN GREECE 2014 HB 9781633216747 £154.50

PRAYER IN THE CITY 2012 PB 9783837619454 £36.99

SOUNDING MUSEUM - BOX OF TREASURES, THE 2014 PB 9783837628562 £47.50

SOUTHEAST ASIAN MIGRATION 2014 HB 9781845196653 £60.00

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