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"Dagestan: History, Ethnography, Identity provides an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of Dagestan, a strategically important republic of the Russian Federation which borders Chechnya, Georgia and Azerbaijan, and its people. It outlines Dagestan's rich and complicated history, from 5th c ACE to post USSR, as seen from the viewpoint of the Dagestani people. Chapters feature the new age of social media, urban weddings, modern and traditional medicine, innovative food cultivation, the little-known history of Mountain Jews during the Soviet period, flourishing heroes of sport and finance, emerging opportunities in ethno-tourism and a recent Dagestani music revival. In doing so, the authors examine the large number of different ethnic groups in Dagestan, their languages and traditions, and assess how the people of Dagestan are coping and thriving despite the changes brought about by globalisation, new technology and the modern world: through which swirls an increasing sense of identity in an indigenous multi-ethnic society"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction: "The Past Is Written on My Body": Bodies and History -- PART I The Liminal Body -- 1 Fortunio Liceti's Strategic Use of Lusus Naturae in De Monstris (1634-1665) and the Self-Assured Semiology of Naturalized Early Modern Science -- 2 A Tlaxcalan Midwife's Toolkit: The Body, Medicine, Childbirth, and Contact Zone in Early to Mid-Colonial New Spain -- 3 Ecstasies, Stigmata, and Visions: Body and Sanctity in La Civiltà Cattolica in the Age of Positivism (1888-1890) -- PART II The Modern Body -- 4 Making the Body Productive/Making "the Body" Productive -- 5 Corpulence, Modernity, and Transcendence in the Early Twentieth Century -- PART III The Visual Body -- 6 The Visual Politics of the Body in Germany Between the Two World Wars -- 7 Representing AIDS: KS Lesions, US Visual Culture, and the Body as Canvas (1983-1993) -- PART IV The Punished Body -- 8 The Criminal's Hair: Forensic Practices (1600-1945) -- 9 Citizen to Convict: The Consumption of the Body in the Age of Prisoner Reentry -- PART V The Entangled Body -- 10 Aesth/Ethical Bodies: Bracha Ettinger's Eurydices and the Encounter With the Other's History -- 11 The King's Four Bodies: Kantorowicz, Schmitt, Henry, and Hal -- List of Contributors -- Index.

In this paper, I explore the emergence of happiness and well-being as keystones of contemporary EuroAmerican culture. Drawing on the relationship between disciplinary enterprises and forms of governance, as well as on cross-cultural comparison with fa'asamoa (the Samoan Way), I work to situate the current EuroAmerican obsession with happiness and well-being as a cultural formation – that is, as an artifact of a historically and culturally unique set of patterns and forces – thus problematizing its taken-for-granted status, in academic and policy-making circles, as a self-evident and universal goal with universal characteristics. I pay particular attention to the forms of governance that the contemporary orientation to happiness inaugurates and instantiates.

Actuality. Management as a phenomenon of culture and an exclusively unique object of scientific knowledge occupies a special place in the life of society. As historical development of mankind is complicated as organizational structures, as well as the culture of management and a set of theories that describe them. However, modern science does not take into account that radical changes in organizational reality occur not continuously, but during the bifurcation of civilization. A specific culture that arose precisely in such conditions is mechanistic management, the study of which is devoted to this article. Purpose and methods. The purpose of the article is a theoretical and historical analysis of the culture of mechanistic management, the identification of the basic determinants of the genesis of this management culture and the formation of the main directions of its development in conditions of industrialism. The methodological basis of the research is the dialectical principle of cognition, systemic, civilization, historical approaches to the study of social phenomena and processes, and the fundamental provisions of the theory of management. Results. The objective preconditions of the formation of a culture of mechanistic management are determined: European science and mechanism arising from the Newtonian picture of the world – the presentation of organizational reality as a machine, as well as atomism, rationalism and social Darwinism as a "natural law" about inter-species struggle; Protestant ethics as a justification of profit; political economy, which introduced the economy in the form of a machine operating under the laws of Newtonian mechanics; great scientific and technical discoveries, demanding new forms of organization of production. The essence of the article is given, comparative characteristics are given and prospects of further application of the main directions of culture of mechanistic management: scientific organization of labor and management are outlined; administrative management; the ...