Anthropology and Sociology – October and November 2012
Anthropology & Sociology
- The SAGE handbook of social anthropology / edited by Richard Fardon, Olivia Harris, Trevor H.J. Marchand, Mark Nuttall, Cris Shore, Veronica Strang and Richard A. Wilson.
- Fashioning Japanese subcultures / Yuniya Kawamura.
- Ancestors in Borneo societies : death, transformation, and social immortality / edited by Pascal Couderc and Kenneth Sillander.
- An approach to the cultural mapping of North-East India in respect of tribal tales / Pratibha Mandal.
- South Asian transnationalisms : cultural exchange in the twentieth century / edited by Babli Sinha.
- Caste in life : experiencing inequalities / edited by D. Shyam Babu, R. S. Khare.
- Songs of travel, stories of place : poetics of absence in an Eastern Indonesian society / by Timo Kaartinen.
- Changing contexts, shifting meanings : transformations of cultural traditions in Oceania / edited by Elfriede Hermann.
- Moving images : John Layard, fieldwork and photography on Malakula since 1914 / Haidy Geismar and Anita Herle ; with contributions by Kirk Huffman and John Layard.
- Ogata-mura : sowing dissent and reclaiming identity in a Japanese farming village / Donald C. Wood.
- Organizational ethnography : studying the complexities of everyday life / edited by Sierk Ybema [et al.].
- Applications of anthropology : professional anthropology in the twenty-first century / edited by Sarah Pink.
Medical Anthropology
- Medical anthropology at the intersections : histories, activisms, and futures / Marcia C. Inhorn and Emily A. Wentzell, editors.
- Ritual and recovery in post-conflict Sri Lanka : eloquent bodies / Jane Derges.
- Healing elements : efficacy and the social ecologies of Tibetan medicine / Sienna R. Craig.
- Evidence, ethos and experiment : the anthropology and history of medical research in Africa / edited by P. Wenzel Geissler and Catherine Molyneux.
Food
- A theory of grocery shopping : food, choice and conflict / Shelley L. Koch.
- The rhetoric of food : discourse, materiality, and power / edited by Joshua J. Frye and Michael S. Bruner.
- From modern production to imagined primitive : the social world of coffee from Papua New Guinea / Paige West.
- Fear of food : a history of why we worry about what we eat / Harvey Levenstein.
- Accounting for hunger : the right to food in the era of globalisation / edited by Olivier de Schutter and Kaitlin Y. Cordes.
- How food made history / B. W. Higman.
- The struggle for maize : campesinos, workers, and transgenic corn in the Mexican countryside / Elizabeth Fitting.
- Planet taco : a global history of Mexican food / Jeffrey M. Pilcher.
Gender
- The gender of memory : rural women and China’s collective past / Gail Hershatter.
- A woman of Bangkok / Jack Reynolds.
- The Buddha side : gender, power, and Buddhist practice in Vietnam / Alexander Soucy.
- The social and gender politics of Confucian nationalism : women and the Japanese nation-state / Nicole L. Freiner.
- Demographic change and inequality in Japan / edited by Sawako Shirahase.
- The authority of influence : women and power in Burmese history / Jessica Harriden.
- A brief history of sexuality in premodern Japan / Saeko Kimura.
- Women in Islam : reflections on historical and contemporary research / Terence Lovat, editor.
- Sexuality in Muslim contexts / edited by Anissa Hélie and Homa Hoodfar.
- Culture, diaspora, and modernity in Muslim writing / edited by Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, Amina Yaqin.
- Civil society and women activists in the Middle East : Islamic and secular organizations in Egypt / Wanda Krause.
- Spaces between us : queer settler colonialism and indigenous decolonization / Scott Lauria Morgensen.
- Language, sex and social structure : Analyzing Discourses of Sexuality.
Migration & Diaspora
- China’s internal and international migration / edited by Li Peilin and Laurence Roulleau-Berger.
- Heritage, nationhood, and language : migrants with connections to Japan / edited by Neriko Musha Doerr.
- Politics, culture and the Lebanese diaspora / edited by Nathalie Nahas and Paul Tabar.
- Thailand’s hidden workforce : Burmese migrant women factory workers / Ruth Pearson & Kyoko Kusakabe.
- The family in flux in Southeast Asia : institution, ideology, practice / ed. by Yoko Hayami …
- Mother pious lady : making sense of everyday India / Santosh Desai.
- Bollywood weddings : dating, engagement, and marriage in Hindu America / Kavita Ramdya.
- The global grapevine : why rumors of terrorism, immigration, and trade matter / Gary Alan Fine, Bill Ellis.
- Song of Umm Dalaila : the story of the Sahrawis / Dakkuma Productions produced and directed by Danielle Smith. [DVD]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108190/ - Blind pig who wants to fly / een film van Edwin. [DVD]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1129405