Original link: https://tyingknots.net/2023/07/booklist-en-new-2023-0304/
This column will organize and introduce anthropology-related works on a regular basis, so that everyone can understand the dynamics of the academic world and stimulate further thinking and discussion. As the summer vacation is approaching or already approaching, we have compiled a total of 17 new English anthropological works published in March and April. Happy reading!
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alternative death
anne allison
Duke University Press, March 2023
Faced with an aging population, declining marriage and birth rates, and an increase in people living alone, more and more Japanese are living and dying alone. They are no longer buried in traditional cemeteries, and more individuals are preparing for their own future funeral ceremonies alone. Anne examines the urgency of new death practices in Japanese society in the face of the decline of old funeral practices. She pointed out that many new industries, services, programs, and businesses that can provide funeral alternatives have proliferated in Japanese society, including automated graves, mass graves, crematoria, one-stop funeral combination services and robot priests. . New funeral practices offer alternatives to long-standing traditions of burial and death memorialization. While charting this new and changing ecology of death, Alison also argues for the enormous influence of these practices, which have radically changed Japanese sociality, and which will profoundly affect our thinking about the end of life, identity, tradition, and culture in Japanese society. Even topics beyond these. Anne Allison is a professor of cultural anthropology at Duke University.
activism empowerment
How people with disabilities can create a more liveable world
Ashley Dokumaki
Duke University Press, March 2023
Daily activities such as picking up a glass of water and taking off your coat can be difficult and sometimes impossible for people with disabilities, chronic diseases and chronic pain. In this book, author Arseli Dokumaci uses ethnographic research to show how the wisdom, creativity and skills of people with disabilities can help them complete these seemingly simple daily activities. Dokumaki shows how, through the tiniest act and moment of movement, everyday improvisation by people with disabilities can help them imagine and create a world better suited to them. She calls these little things “activist affordances.” When a certain environment no longer means opportunities but multiple constraints, the exhibition of improvised spaces enables people with disabilities to imagine different possibilities of the same space. This book thus explores how “activist empowerment” by people with disabilities can create a more livable and accessible world for each of us.
news
People’s Sovereignty in the Age of Deep Media
Francis Curdy
University of Chicago Press, April 2023
In “News Events”, Francis Cody, a professor of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto, based on long-term field observations, focused on the state of Tamil Nadu in the southern tip of India, and asked: How does the local government’s defamation lawsuit aimed at suppressing journalists Start the media political wrestling of various actors? When the rights and interests guaranteed by the law are easily shaken in reality, how can a judge’s correct decision be supported by the media? When a bandit becomes a long-running legend in the media, how does his fame complement the needs of journalists? Through his research, Cody let us see that news is not outside the “reported world”. The so-called “news event” is not simply a reproduction of an event with words and pictures, because the report itself can affect how the event unfolds, and even The technology used in the report may also become the content of the report. In fact, the “report on the event” and the “reported event” have been interacting. In such an era of deep mediaization, all kinds of imaginations about popular sovereignty are being reshaped by the production and experience of media events at any time; while the subjects involved in democracy must constantly reflect on how images and texts in public circulation should be created its own subjectivity.
Hong Kong Food Culture
Zhang Zhanhong
University of Chicago Press, April 2023
This book is an in-depth anthropological study of eating habits and culinary practices in Hong Kong’s changing cultural landscape. As cornerstones of cultural identity formation, food culture and regional cuisine clearly reflect the complex geopolitical forces shaping Hong Kong. As Hong Kong’s history is intertwined with state power struggles and colonial rule, Hong Kong’s food often reflects a collision between demographic shifts, cultural forces and a turbulent economy. Food Culture in Hong Kong examines the social relationships, cultural trends and economics of food production that shape Hong Kong’s food culture at different stages of social and political development. This book advances an anthropological exploration of Hong Kong, East Asia’s most rapidly changing society, by addressing issues of identity, immigration, consumerism, globalization, and innovations in local cuisine. The author, Zhang Zhanhong, is a professor at the Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
support and assistance
International development and transnational exploitation in the name of caring
Dinah Hannaford
Stanford University Press, March 2023
“International aid” and “domestic work”, what is the connection between these two apparently disparate concepts and occupations? What is the relationship between international aid workers and local domestic workers like? Must international aid as an industry be pure, noble, and non-exploitative? In this book, Dinah Hannaford focuses on these issues, which are ignored by mainstream values and public opinion. No matter what international aid workers intend to develop or aid, there must be domestic workers in their development life to ensure that their work and life can be carried out in a foreign country in an orderly manner. This also promotes the continuous production of cheap labor to provide international aid and development of this seemingly grand and beautiful industry. Hannaford focuses on the issues of race, class, and gender under this unequal political and economic relationship, and emphasizes that this unequal relationship is built on and continues postcolonial inequality. Hannaford is a cultural anthropologist who teaches in the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Houston. Her research focuses on issues related to the political economy of intimate relationships in the 21st century, mobility, technology, and inequality. Her research geographically covers Africa, Asia and South America.
real-time aboriginality
Digital Fabrication in Oaxaca, California
Incleti Kamos
Rutgers University Press, March 2023
Long before the COVID-19 crisis, with extrajudicial immigration and border restrictions between the U.S. and Mexico, Indigenous Mexicans faced the challenge of organizing their lives from afar, needing to organize their lives between their immigrant destination — downtown Los Angeles — and their hometown — — the villages in the mountains of Northern Oaxaca — connecting lives. By building cutting-edge Internet radio stations and multimedia platforms, Zapotec and Ayok people, as community opinion leaders, have paved their own way of transnational life in the Trump era. They learn to adapt digital technology to their needs, including building their own infrastructure, and designing new digital archives to reorganize rituals between two widely separated communities, such as healing, funerals, and mourning , collective celebrations, sports competitions and political meetings, etc. Author Ingrid Kummels shows how media producers and users in the village of Cervela Norte and Los Angeles created a transnational media space and unified time system. By networking from multiple places, they practiced a communal way of life known as the Comunalidad and a localized American Dream in real time. In this book, Camos vividly demonstrates the profound meaning of Indigenous identity in a globalized and changing world. Kamos is professor of cultural and social anthropology at the Latin American Institute of the Free University of Berlin. She is also the author of Media Spaces Across Borders: Ayok Video Production Between the United States and Mexico.
web of cancer
Foresight, Accelerated Deterioration and the Danish State
Luc Sander Anderson, Mary Louise Thering (Editors)
Rutgers University Press, April 2023
Cancer Web explores the dramatic shifts that took place in millennium Denmark as health workers sought to minimize delays in the diagnosis of cancer in order to improve survival rates for cancer patients. Most existing research is more concerned with the productive role of technology in cancer control, and the life and risks of living with cancer. In the book, editors Rikke Sand Andersen and Marie Louise Tørring suggest that we need to redefine “cancer control” temporally, focusing on declaring a diagnosis or predicting Before you get cancer, focus on how potential patients and healthcare professionals experience and anticipate cancer. Rich in ethnographic insights, Cancer Web covers the birth of the first cancer vaccine, the signs and symptoms of cancer, the public discourse about delays in diagnosis, how people of all walks of life and social classes seek care, and From suspected cancer in the clinic to urgent hospital referral. By exploring the phenomena that cancer has entwined, this book positions “cancer control” as an ethical foothold that focuses on accelerated deterioration and time, showing how the waiting time for a cancer diagnosis has become an indicator of the “state of the nation.” Anderson is an anthropologist and Distinguished Professor at the Department of Anthropology at Aarhus University, Denmark, and at the Department of Public Health and Institute of General Practice at the University of Southern Denmark, where he works on cancer diagnosis, conceptual production of cancer symptoms, and care-seeking There are a large number of works in practice. Trin is an associate professor and director of research programs at the Department of Anthropology at Aarhus University in Denmark. Over the past decade, she has conducted epidemiological and anthropological research on the transformation of modern cancer, with a particular focus on how cancer has been redefined as an “acute disease”.
dead green
The journey towards end-of-life medicine in pursuit of sustainable care
Kristen Watovic
Rutgers University Press, April 2023
Humanity’s slow violence against the environment — from carbon emissions to plastic pollution — also represents a looming public health catastrophe. However, general medical practice is more concerned with short-term results than long-term sustainability. Every resource used in healthcare, from IV tubing to antibiotics to electricity, has a significant impact on the environment. This raises a pressing ethical dilemma: In striving to improve individual patient health outcomes, are we compromising human health on a global scale? In Die Green, award-winning educator Christine Vatovec offers a fascinating study that challenges us to consider broader environmental sustainability in healthcare. Through a comparative analysis of care for terminally ill patients in traditional cancer wards, palliative care units, and acute hospice facilities, she shows how decisions made at the bedside affect the healthcare industry’s environmental footprint. Likewise, Dying Green also discusses the many potential ways to reduce the ecological impact of medical practice and improve end-of-life care at the same time. By envisioning more sustainable care, this book offers a better way forward for both patient care and the planet. Kristen Watovic is an assistant professor at the University of Vermont, an award-winning lecturer, and a researcher at the Gund Institute for the Environment.
persistent polygamy
Remarriage and social change in an African metropolis
bruce whitehouse
Rutgers University Press, April 2023
Why isn’t polygamy in Africa’s metropolises disappearing as experts predicted? Polygamy Persistence explores this issue using the example of Bamako, the capital of Mali, one of Africa’s fastest growing cities. In Bamako, one in four wives is in a polygamous marriage. Using polygamy as its entry point, this book offers ethnographic and demographic insights into the conventions, gender norms, patriarchy, kinship, and law that shape marriage, and places polygamy in the shaping unequal structures of marriage choices, especially for young women in Mali, to examine fundamental shifts in African urban life. From the standpoint of cultural relativism, “Persisting Polygamy” takes an open and bold perspective on this controversial form of marriage. Why polygamy is still more beneficial in everyday life. This allows readers to make informed judgments and appreciate the full spectrum of human cultural diversity. Bruce Whitehouse is an associate professor of anthropology at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, USA, and a member of the African and Global Studies Program at the school. He is the author of Immigrants and Strangers in African Cities: Exile, Dignity, and Belonging .
move forward
How I Learned to Love (and Mourn) Anthropology
peter benson
University of California Press, April 2023
This is a unique literary and conceptual experiment in anthropology – doing anthropology in all the wrong ways: no fieldwork, no other cultures, a private journey explored only within anthropology itself or Love Story; is a critical, frank, or witty look at academia culture and contemporary society. Bound Feet Forward tells the story of a bipolar, drug-addicted, and hopeless professor who finds meaning and purpose in the midst of a sacred discipline and a chaotic society. Anthropologists often see themselves as outside observers of a chaotic world, and this book blasts this pompous sound-centrism, turning the usual analytical perspectives upside down: behind the scenes of scholars’ work and life, and the nondescript selves behind academic research. Expose it. This book integrates cultural research, psychological analysis, comedy, and script, lyrics, and poetry creation, abandoning the rigid genre conventions of anthropology, suffocating solemnity, and protracted colonial and intrusive knowledge production mode. By satirizing anthropology’s function as a cultural resource for global health and the neoliberal university, the book refutes anthropology’s supposed role in social change. The author, Peter Benson, is a professor of anthropology at the University of Delaware.
nuclear ghost
Atomic life in Fukushima’s gray area
Ryo Morimoto
University of California Press, April 2023
“Nuclear Ghost” tells the story of how the elderly residents of Minamisoma City, Fukushima Prefecture try to continue struggling to live in their homes that have been contaminated by nuclear pollution after the Fukushima nuclear leak. The Fukushima nuclear disaster occurred after the earthquake and tsunami, and became a media event that was highly exposed in media reports. For a time, the local people were understood by the world as tragic victims. However, as anthropologist Ryo Morimoto walked through the fields, he found that the state and various public institutions, as well as local residents, had very different perceptions of the disaster. Many residents of Minamisoma City have stayed because of various emotional or life reasons even though their living environment has been polluted by nuclear weapons, and they are not just expressing their choices in the image of victims. After the author has a deep understanding of the choices of local residents, the nuclear ghosts of Fukushima are no longer just cold nuclear radiation data, but include more factors of life and other lost things and relatives and friends. Ryo Morimoto is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at Princeton University. His research focuses on clarifying the past and present effects of human use of nuclear matter on Earth. Morimoto’s field is mainly Japan. He hopes to use research to create space, use archives and language to think about how nuclear substances and other pollutants have become an inevitable existence in post-industrial life.
Perceived Disaster
Local Knowledge and Vulnerability in Oceania
Matthew Lauer
University of California Press, March 2023
In 2007, a magnitude 8.1 earthquake occurred in the Solomon Islands in the northeast of Australia, and a three-storey tsunami swept across the island country; in Simbo Island (Simbo Island) in the center of the country, although residents had never experienced a tsunami, many Most people fled to shelters before the waves hit, how did they do it? Matthew Lauer, a professor of anthropology at the University of California, San Diego, wrote this book through more than ten years of research accumulation. How, human-animal communication, the spirituality of religion, ancestral territories, and science and technology, along with the waves, shaped the outcome of this catastrophe. Lauer examines the concept of “indigenous knowledge” more critically, pointing out that simply affirming “indigenous knowledge” is not beneficial. If the ecological perception of Sinbo Islanders is to be described, a more accurate concept should be It is “knowledge in situ” or “knowledge of situation,” which are situational practices involving people, places, and various “non-human others.” In this age of ecological crisis, when natural disasters occur more and more frequently, different forms of knowledge will help people cope with disasters.
go all out
Resilience of Latino immigrant mothers
Jessica Sedner
University of California Press, April 2023
This book focuses on mothers who immigrated from Latin America to the United States and now live in New Haven, Connecticut, telling the stories of how they overcome trauma and adversity and build a future for their children. These immigrant mothers have self-generated resilience that cannot be underestimated, using cognitive and social strategies to resist oppression based on race, economy, and gender, and continue to move forward. In addition to chronicling the ongoing impact of immigration enforcement (such as deportation or blocking entry) and inequalities in the health care system on immigrant mothers, “Struggling to Go” is a timely example of how the recent COVID-19 pandemic is affecting racial minorities. Using ethnography, this book tells the great story of a struggle and persistence amidst a long period of structural violence. Author Jessica P. Cerdeña is an anthropologist and trainee family physician.
The Rubber Boot Method of the Anthropocene
Doing Fieldwork in a Multi-Species World
Nils Bubant, Astrid Anderson, Rachel Seifer (Editors)
University of Minnesota Press, April 2023
Since the birth of the term “Anthropocene”, whether there should be a corresponding methodological system for research on the Anthropocene has always been a lingering question in the minds of relevant researchers. The Rubber Boot Approach to the Anthropocene addresses such methodological challenges. It attempts to break through the traditions of art, human science, and natural science in the study of things, starting from the holism of anthropology, emphasizing the comprehensive research of multi-species and cross-disciplinary knowledge systems, and surpassing the human-centered stereotype . This, the book argues, is the only way to address the environmental and climate crises of our time, which are multispecies in nature and global disruptions to the fabric of life as a whole. Based on the claims of the “Anthropocene” and the characteristics of the rubber boot method, this book is divided into three parts, namely, critical description, curiosity (to discover new questions) and collaboration (interdisciplinary). The metaphor of “rubber boots” comes from the Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene (AURA), which initiated this research method. Their research on the ecological restoration of Danish mine pits requires wearing rubber boots. Rain boots are required to enter the field full of water and mud. Consisting of 13 field reports in three parts, the book focuses on environments ranging from the high Arctic to the deserts of southern Africa, from the pampas of Argentina to the coral reefs of the western Pacific, and demonstrates how a multispecies approach can be used to Study a multi-species world. This book is also the research methodology of another Anthropocene work “Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene” (2017). Companion works. Editor Nils Bubandt is a professor of anthropology at Aarhus University in Denmark and the author of Empty Shells: Witchcraft and Doubt on an Indonesian Island, The Art of Living on a Damaged Planet and Philosophy of Fieldwork: Case Studies in Anthropological Analysis. Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen is an associate professor of technical anthropology at Aalborg University in Denmark and co-author of Anthropology Inside Out: Note-taking Fieldworkers. Rachel Cypher is a researcher at the Penn Environmental Humanities Program at the University of Pennsylvania.
inner and outer world
A Field Guide to the Journey of Thought
michael jackson
Cornell University Press, April 2023
The World Inside and Without is the intellectual autobiography of renowned anthropologist Michael Jackson, which is funny, honest, and full of insight. He described his rich life journey and academic exploration path, from his youthful curiosity about the world and his infinite desire for life, to his confusion and enlightenment during his school days, to his experiences in New Zealand, Sierra Leone and Australia. The knowledge and insight of field work, his life course is colorful and thought-provoking. This book is deeper than ordinary autobiography or travel notes, more poetic than field notes, and more vivid than academic works. As critics say, this is a precious gift from Jackson to readers. As an emeritus professor at Harvard Divinity School, the founder of existential anthropology, as well as a writer and poet, Jackson has rich research and innovation in the field of anthropology. In addition to his extensive research in the anthropology of religion and culture, he has also published three novels and six collections of poetry. This book is a perfect combination of his unique life and academic experience, which will undoubtedly bring readers an unforgettable reading journey.
record impossible reality
Ethnography, memory and paradox
Susan Bibber-Curdin, Barbara Igwisson
Cornell University Press, April 2023
In society, there are always mainstream groups living on the ground and illegal immigrants, political exiles, deportees, and adopted transnational orphans and other immigrants or separated groups underground. It seems that the two are incompatible. This dichotomy exists precisely because people are more accepting of some senses of belonging and identity than others of dependency. “Recording the Impossible Reality” hopes to put aside the traditional description of belonging to these underground groups in the past, and use the differences and spaces between groups to understand these different relationships. In contrasting and cutting through these wobbling footprints, different legal or illegal identities, the authors attempt to unpack the emotional experiences embedded in these intricate realities. Author Susan Bibler Coutin is a professor of criminology, law, and sociology and anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. Barbara Yngvesson is professor emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at Hampton College in Massachusetts.
premature sacrifice
Work and death in Finland
Funabashi Dana
Cornell University Press, April 2023
This book raises the question of why individuals are willing to sacrifice their own interests and give up their time and energy for the collective. In Finland, where public health officials have identified occupational burnout as a “new hazard” in the new economy, author Daena Aki Funahashi asks: What drives people from work to pathological stress ( pathological stress). Health experts always emphasize self-management and energy storage, but Zhouqiao does the opposite, questioning the premise of cognitive psychology, that is, individuals can “economize” their own energy to save themselves. By juxtaposing sacrifice from an anthropological perspective with clinical approaches to stress, work, and coping, Zhouqiao provides a new way to re-examine the source of stress. The book also provides a powerful critique of state welfare and political economy, separating gift economies from the forces that drive the redistribution of state welfare, and arguing about this trend. This book shows that those forces that cannot be assimilated by the traditional economy are playing a role that cannot be ignored in issues such as labor, pressure and welfare. Zhou Qiao is currently working as an assistant professor in the School of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.
Reference:
Allison, A. (2023). Being Dead Otherwise. Duke University Press.
Andersen, AO, Bubandt, N., & Cypher, R. (Eds.). (2023). Rubber Boots Methods for the Anthropocene: Doing Fieldwork in Multispecies Worlds. University of Minnesota Press.
Benson, P. (2023). Stuck Moving: Or, How I Learned to Love (and Lament) Anthropology. University of California Press.
Cerdeña, JP (2023). Pressing Onward: The Imperative Resilience of Latina Migrant Mothers. University of California Press.
Cheung, SC (2023). Hong Kong Foodways. University of Chicago Press.
Cody, F. (2023). The News Event: Popular Sovereignty in the Age of Deep Mediatization. University of Chicago Press.
Coutin, SB, & Yngvesson, B. (2023). Documenting Impossible Realities: Ethnography, Memory, and the as If. Cornell University Press.
Dokumaci, A. (2023). Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improve More Habitable Worlds. Duke University Press.
Funahashi, DA (2023). Untimely Sacrifices: Work and Death in Finland. Cornell University Press.
Hannaford, D. (2023). Aid and the Help: International Development and the Transnational Extraction of Care. Stanford University Press.
Jackson, M. (2023). Worlds Within and Worlds Without: Field Guide to an Intellectual Journey. Cornell University Press.
Kummels, I. (2023). Indigeneity in Real Time: The Digital Making of Oaxacalifornia. Rutgers University Press.
Lauer, M. (2023). Sensing Disaster: Local Knowledge and Vulnerability in Oceania. University of California Press.
Morimoto, R. (2023). Nuclear Ghost: Atomic Livelihoods in Fukushima’s Gray Zone. University of California Press.
Nielsen, SH, Frumer, M., Offeren, SMH, Merrild, CH, Aarhus, R., & Kristensen, BM (2023). Cancer Entangled: Anticipation, Acceleration, and the Danish State. Rutgers University Press.
Vatovec, C. (2023). Dying Green: A Journey through End-of-Life Medicine in Search of Sustainable Health Care. Rutgers University Press.
Whitehouse, B. (2023). Enduring Polygamy: Plural Marriage and Social Change in an African Metropolis. Rutgers University Press.
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