Anthropology and Sociology – August to November 2013
- An anthropology of images : picture, medium, body / Hans Belting ; translated by Thomas Dunlap.
- Carnival and cannibal ; Ventriloquous evil / by Jean Baudrillard ; translated by Chris Turner.
- The spirit of mourning : history, memory and the body / by Paul Connerton.
- Material memories / by edited by Marius Kwint, Christopher Breward and Jeremy Aysnley.
From Berg’s Materializing culture series…“This book is an attempt to understand the intersection of memory and material culture by providing an interdisciplinary forum for its analysis.” - Ethnographic fieldwork : an anthropological reader / by edited by Antonius C.G.M. Robben and Jeffrey A. Sluka. New edition
- Digital anthropology / edited by Heather A. Horst and Daniel Miller.
- Untangling the Web : what the virtual revolution is doing to you / Aleks Krotoski. World Wide Web — Social aspects.
- Insurgent encounters : transnational activism, ethnography, and the political / by edited by Jeffrey S. Juris, Alex Khasnabish.
“This important collection represents the best work by anthropologists who are reshaping ethnography ‘of’ and ‘for’ social movements. No other book addresses the present-day intersection and increasingly mutual identification of anthropological research and social-movement activism as thoroughly or comprehensively as this does.” – George E. Marcus - Glimpses into my own black box : an exercise in self-deconstruction / George W. Stocking, Jr.
This book is the twelfth and final volume of the influential History of Anthropology series. - Beyond methodological nationalism : research methodologies for cross-border studies / edited by Anna Amelina … [et al.].
- A faraway, familiar place : an anthropologist returns to Papua New Guinea / by Michael French Smith.
- Making Sense of Micronesia : The Logic of Pacific Island Culture / by Hezel, Francis X.
- The Death of the Big Men and the Rise of the Big Shots : Custom and Conflict in East New Britain / by Martin, Keir
- Shifting borders : European perspectives on creolisation / by edited by Tommaso Sbriccoli and Stefano Jacoviello.
- Lijiang stories : shamans, taxi drivers, and runaway brides in reform-era China /by Emily Chao.
- A Localized Culture of Welfare : Entitlements, Stratification, and Identity in a Chinese Lineage Village / Chan, Kwok-shing
- Cultural heritage politics in China / by edited by Tami Blumenfield and Helaine Silverman.
- Youth and Internet addiction in China / Trent Bax.
- Everyday Arab identity : the daily reproduction of the Arab world / by Christopher Phillips.
- Conservative Islam : A Cultural Anthropology / Kolig, Erich
- Understanding Iraq : society, culture, and personality / Ali Wardi ; translated with a foreword by Fuad Baali.
- The Bedouin of Mount Sinai : an anthropological study of their political economy / Emanuel Marx.
- Political oratory and cartooning : an ethnography of democratic processes in Madagascar / by Jennifer Jackson.
- Promoting abstinence, being faithful, and condom use with young Africans : qualitative findings from an intervention trail in rural Tanzania / Mary Louisa Plummer.
- Encountering Morocco : fieldwork and cultural understanding / edited by David Crawford, Rachel Newcomb.
- An uncertain glory : India and its contradictions / by Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen.
Gender
- New South Asian feminisms : paradoxes and possibilities / edited by Srila Roy.
- Transpacific femininities : the making of the modern Filipina / Denise Cruz.
- Fallgirls : gender and the framing of torture at Abu Ghraib / by Ryan Ashley Caldwell.
- The World Is a Carpet : Four Seasons in an Afghan Village / Badkhen, Anna
Social life and conditions of women weavers in afghanistan - The queer art of failure / Judith Halberstam.
- Our sisters’ promised land : women, politics, and Israeli-Palestinian coexistence / Ayala Emmett.
- Gender violence : a cultural perspective / Sally Engle Merry.
- African Spirituality in Black Women’s Fiction : Threaded Visions of Memory, Community, Nature and Being / West, Elizabeth J.
- Sex trafficking : a global perspective / edited by Kimberly A. McCabe and Sabita Manian.
- Reel to real : race, class and sex at the movies / Bell Hooks.
Food
- The handbook of food research / edited by Anne Murcott, Warren Belasco, and Peter Jackson ; with a foreword by Sidney W. Mintz.
“This impressive compendium introduces readers to research in food history and sociology on diverse topics including food technologies, adulteration, marketing, and waste; nutrition, food security, and famine; farming, terroir, meals, and media; eating disorders, obesity, and food politics. It will be an invaluable resource for both beginning and established scholars seeking a comprehensive overview of foodways research.” – Carole Counihan, - A cultural history of food / general editors, Fabio Parasecoli, Peter Scholliers.
“A Cultural History of Food presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. This set of six volumes covers nearly 3,000 years of food and its physical, spiritual, social and cultural dimensions.” - Cooked : a natural history of transformation / by Michael Pollan.
- Cuisine, colonialism and Cold War : food in twentieth-century Korea / Katarzyna J. Cwiertka.
- Factions, friends and feasts : anthropological perspectives on the Mediterranean / Jeremy Boissevain.
- Critical Perspectives in Food Studies / Koc, Mustafa
- Foodways and empathy : relatedness in a Ramu Riber society, Papua New Guinea / Anita von Poser.
The fourth offering in Berghahn Books’ Person, space and memory in the contemporary pacific series - Sustainable culinary systems : local foods, innovation, tourism and hospitality / edited by C. Michael Hall and Stefan Gössling.
Migration
- Migration and new media : transnational families and polymedia / Mirca Madianou and Daniel Miller.
- Imperial migrations : colonial communities and diaspora in the Portuguese world / edited by Eric Morier-Genoud and Michel Cahen.
- Migration and Social Upheaval in the Face of Globalization in Central Asia / Laruelle, Marlene
Volume 34 in Brill’s Social sciences in Asia series. - Witches, Tea Plantations, and Lives of Migrant Laborers in India : Tempest in a Teapot / Chaudhuri, Soma
- Reproducing Chinese culture in diaspora : sustainable agriculture and petrified culture in Northern Thailand / Shu-min Huang.
- Family upheaval : generation, mobility and relatedness among Pakistani migrants in Denmark / Mikkel Rytter.
- The price of rights : regulating international labor migration / Martin Ruhs.
- Diaspora as a Resource : Comparative Studies in Strategies, Networks and Urban Space / edited by Waltraud Kokot, Christian Giordano and Mijal Gandelsman-Trier.
Tourism
- Heritage Management, Tourism, and Governance in China : Managing the Past to Serve the Present / Shepherd, Robert J.
- Faith in Heritage : Displacement, Development and Religious Tourism in Contemporary China / Shepherd, Robert J.
- Cultural heritage politics in China / edited by Tami Blumenfield and Helaine Silverman.
- Inconvenient Heritage : Erasure and Global Tourism in Luang Prabang / Dearborn, Lynne M.
- Tourism and souvenirs : global perspectives from the margins / edited by Jenny Cave, Lee Jolliffe, and Tom Baum ; with contributions by Tom Baum
- Sustainable culinary systems : local foods, innovation, tourism and hospitality / edited by C. Michael Hall and Stefan Gössling.
- The British on holiday : charter tourism, identity and consumption / Hazel Andrews.
Also available as an ebook (SOAS staff & students only) here.