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Mapping the landscape of national identity in Uzbekistan -- Cultural form : globalization and the spectacular state -- Cultural content and postcolonial civic nationalism -- Culture production and participation in the spectacular state

Outside France, French anthropology is conventionally seen as being dominated by grand theory produced by writers who have done little or no fieldwork themselves, and who may not even count as anthropologists in terms of the institutional structures of French academia. This applies to figures from Durkheim to Derrida, Mauss to Foucault, though there are partial exceptions, such as Lévi-Strauss and Bourdieu. It has led to a contrast being made, especially perhaps in the Anglo-Saxon world, between French theory relying on rational inference, and British empiricism based on induction and generally skeptical of theory. While there are contrasts between the two traditions, this is essentially a false view. It is this aspect of French anthropology that this collection addresses, in the belief that the neglect of many of these figures outside France is seriously distorting our view of the French tradition of anthropology overall. At the same time, the collection will provide a positive view of the French tradition of ethnography, stressing its combination of technical competence and the sympathies of its practitioners for its various ethnographic subjects

What is it to be human? What are our specifically human attributes, our capacities and liabilities? Such questions gave birth to anthropology as an Enlightenment science. This book argues that it is again appropriate to bring "the human" to the fore, to reclaim the singularity of the word as central to the anthropological endeavor, not on the basis of the substance of a human nature – "To be human is to act like this and react like this, to feel this and want this" – but in terms of species-wide capacities: capabilities for action and imagination, liabilities for suffering and cruelty. The contributors approach "the human" with an awareness of these complexities and particularities, rendering this volume unique in its ability to build on anthropology's ethnographic expertise

Spanning the broad spectrum of Colonial-era life, Women's Roles in Eighteenth-Century America is a revealing exploration of how 18-century American women of various races, classes, and religions were affected by conditions of the timesÑwar, slavery, religious awakenings, political change, perceptions about genderÑas well as how they influenced the world around them. ||Women's Roles in Eighteenth-Century America covers the area of North America that became the United States and follows the transformation of the British colonies into a new nation. The book is organized thematically to examine ma

Native American women / Jeffrey M. Schulze -- Women of the colonial period / Amy Meschke Porter -- Daughters of liberty : women and the American Revolution / Pia Katarina Jakobsson -- Women reformers and radicals in Antebellum America / Julie Holcomb -- School girls and college women : female education in the 19th and early 20th centuries / Andrea Hamilton -- Suffragists / Jessica O'Brien Pursell -- Clubwomen, reformers, workers, and feminists of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era / Alison M. Parker -- Modern women in the 1920s / Susan Goodier -- Women facing the emergencies of the Great Depression and World War II : women's rights in the 1930s and 1940s / Gillian Nichols-Smith -- Homemakers and activists in the 1950s / Kathleen A. Laughlin -- Feminists of the 1960s and 1970s / Natasha Zaretsky -- Third wave feminists : the ongoing movement for women's rights / Janice Okoomian

During World War II, Churchill engaged in propaganda in the United States to persuade the American public and President Roosevelt that India should not be granted self-government at that time. Weigold unravels the reasons why this propaganda campaign was deemed necessary by Churchill, revealing the campaign's outcomes for nationalist Indians.