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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Adrian's Desire Work -- 1 Cultural Convergences -- 2 Building Godly Emotional Intimacy -- 3 Becoming Spiritual Warriors: Learning How to Fight Demonic Sexual Desires -- 4 Mastering Romance and Sexual Feelings -- 5 "I Didn't Fall. I'm Free": Leaving Healing Revelation Ministries -- Afterword -- Notes -- References -- Index

Human behavioral ecology (HBE) applies the principles of evolutionary theory and optimisation to the study of human behavioural and cultural diversity. Among other things, HBE attempts to explain variation in behaviour as adaptive solutions to the competing life-history demands of growth, development, reproduction, parental care, and mate acquisition. This book is a comprehensive introduction to the theoretical orientation and specific findings of HBE. It consolidates the insights of evolution and human behaviour into a single volume that reflects the current state and future of the field. It brings together leading scholars from across the evolutionary social sciences to provide a comprehensive and thought-provoking review of the state of the topic. Throughout, the authors explain the latest developments in theory and highlight critical debates in the literature, while also engaging readers with ethnographic insights and field-based studies that remain at the core of human behavioral ecology.

"Politics of Piety" is a groundbreaking analysis of Islamist cultural politics through the ethnography of a thriving, grassroots women`s piety movement in the mosques of Cairo, Egypt. Unlike those organized Islamist activities that seek to seize or transform the state, this is a moral reform movement whose orthodox practices are commonly viewed as inconsequential to Egypt`s political landscape. Saba Mahmood`s compelling exposition of these practices challenges this assumption by showing how the ethical and the political are indelibly linked within the context of such movements. Not only is this book a sensitive ethnography of a critical but largely ignored dimension of the Islamic revival, it is also an unflinching critique of the secular-liberal assumptions by which some people hold such movements to account. The book addresses three central questions: How do movements of moral reform help us rethink the normative liberal account of politics?

This article focuses on efforts to overcome the divide between state legality and local practices. It explores a pragmatic effort to deal with witchcraft accusations and occult-related violence in customary courts among the Miskitu people in Eastern Nicaragua, taking into account both indigenous notions of justice and cosmology, and the laws of the state. In this model, a community court (elected by the community inhabitants and supported by a council of elders), watchmen known as 'voluntary police' and a 'judicial facilitator' play intermediary roles. Witchcraft is understood and addressed in relation to Miskitu cultural perceptions and notions of illness afflictions, and disputes are settled through negotiations involving divination, healing, signing a legally binding 'peace' contract, a fine, and giving protection to alleged witches. This decreases tensions and the risk of vigilante justice is reduced. The focus is on settling disputes, conciliation and recreating harmony instead of retribution.

This book thinks through modernity and its representations by exploring critical considerations of time and space. Drawing on anthropology, history and social theory, it investigates the oppositions and enchantments, the contradictions and contentions, and the identities and ambivalences spawned under modernity. Crucially, it understands these antinomies not as errors, but as constitutive elements of modern worlds. The book questions routine portrayals of homogeneous time and antinomian blueprints of cultural space, while acknowledging the production of time and space by social subjects. Instead of assuming a straightforward, singular trajectory for the phenomena, it views modernity as involving checkered, contingent and contended processes of meaning and power, which have found heterogeneous historical elaborations over the past five centuries. Bringing together past and present, theory and narrative, it sows the historical, ethnographic and methodological deep into its critical procedures, offering an innovative understanding of cultural identities and imaginatively exploring the relationship between history and anthropology.

ABSTRACT  Anthropologists have tended to portray their discipline as in crisis and ask whether "the end of anthropology" is near. I offer indicators to suggest that the discipline is alive and well as far as its internal activities are concerned. I then turn to the more worrying question of its external image, understandings and stereotypes more or less common among a wider public: the anthropologist as antiquarian and insensitive, slightly lost in real life. Anthropologists have been ineffective in offering a simple, coherent view of what the discipline is and what holds it together. I propose that a consistent emphasis on "diversity" as what anthropology is about best matches our combined interests and practices. To have a strong "brand" is essential under present‐day cultural and political conditions, in and out of academic life. The foregrounding of "diversity" goes with the anthropological concern with ethnography, comparison, and cultural critique.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Transliteration, Terminology, and Pseudonyms -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Understanding Transnational Korean Adoption -- 1. ''Waifs'' and ''Orphans' -- 2. Adoptee Kinship -- 3. Adoptee Cultural Citizenship -- 4. Public Intimacies and Private Politics -- 5. Our Adoptee, Our Alien -- 6. Made in Korea -- 7. Beyond Good and Evil -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

Section I: Historical and Cultural Background of Beliefs and Norms Governing Behavior -- 1. Selfhood and Authority in Neo-Confucian Political Culture -- 2. Suicide and the Family in Pre-modern Chinese Society -- 3. Normal and Deviant Drinking in Rural Taiwan -- 4. In the Presence of Authority: Hierarchical Roles in Chinese Spirit Medium Cults -- 5. Insanity in Imperial China: A Legal Case Study -- 6. Traditional Chinese Medical Beliefs and Their Relevance for Mental Illness and Psychiatry -- Section II: Child Development and Childhood Psychopathology -- 7. Conformity and Deviance Regarding Moral Rules in Chinese Society: A Socialization Perspective -- 8. Childhood Psychopathology: A Dialogue with Special Reference to Chinese and American Cultures -- 9. Sex Difference in School Adjustment in Taiwan -- Section III: Family Studies -- 10. Deviant Marriage Patterns in Chinese Society -- 11. Family and Community in the People's Republic -- 12. The Effect of Family Pathology on Taipei's Juvenile Delinquents -- Section IV: Psychiatric Studies: Epidemiological and Clinical -- 13. Overview of Mental Disorders in Chinese Cultures: Review of Epidemiological and Clinical Studies -- 14. Sex Roles, Social Status, and Psychiatric Symptoms in Urban Hong Kong -- 15. Mental Health Status of Chinese in the United States -- 16. The American Experience of the Chinese Student: On Being Normal in an Abnormal World -- 17. Mental Illness and Psychosocial Aspects of Medical Problems in China -- 18. Shen-K'uei Syndrome: A Culture-Specific Sexual Neurosis in Taiwan -- 19. Culture-Bound Syndromes among Overseas Chinese -- 20. Love, Denial and Rejection: Responses of Chinese Families to Mental Illness -- Epilogue -- List of Contributors -- Citation Index.

In an era of heightened global interconnectedness and cultural exchange, social cleavages and dynamics of alienation become increasingly apparent. This necessitates a closer look at the intricate relationship between translations and participations as they unfold together. The contributors to this volume spark a cross-disciplinary dialogue on the interdependencies between translational practices - lingustic as well as cultural - and social participation. Authors from diverse fields, including interpreting, translation and education research as well as anthropology and sociology, share their perspectives on this vital yet often overlooked issue.

This article is a personal account of the intertwining of one female anthropologist's professional and personal experience. It describes the process of composing a life that accommodated field research, marriage to a partner anthropologist, children in the field, professional service, and national and international applied research. It outlines the evolution of an approach to developing community‐based research organizations that conduct applied ethnographic research for purposes of research, community education, policy change, and advocacy. This approach, which can be used in ethnic or substantively specific settings or in cross‐ethnic and cross‐national environments, fuses basic, applied, and cultural conservation research and material culture and is positioned as a model for community‐based research in health, community development, and cultural conservation. The approach highlights the Hispanic Health Council and the Institute for Community Research as examples of such organizations, developing from the same roots but different in their orientation and actualization of research and social change. Each of these organizations is embedded in anthropological theory and practice, largely developed and supported by anthropologists. Both are based in Hartford, using innovative mixed methods research and working nationally and internationally. The paper concludes with lessons learned that apply to anthropology and across applied social sciences and to the development of career directions in applied anthropology.

List of Figures Acknowledgements, Introduction 1. Freedom Park: Visualising the Post-Apartheid Nation 2. Touching Memorials: Ruination, Public Feeling and the Sunday Times Heritage Project 3. Fragrances and Forced Removal: Memory, Smell and Urban Displacement in Cape Town 4. Vuvuzela Magic: Sound, Football and Plastic Post-Apartheid Heritage 5. Braai Nation: Taste, Consumption and South African Commemorative Days, Conclusion

"Displaced Things in Museums and Beyond looks anew at the lives, effects and possibilities of things. Starting from the perspectives of things themselves, it outlines a particular approach - a displacement anthropology - to the museum, anthropology and material culture. The book explores the ways in which the objects are experienced in their present, displaced settings, and the implications and potentialities they carry. It offers insights into matters of difference and the hope that may be offered by transformative encounters between persons and things. Drawing on anthropological studies of ritual to conceptualise and examine displacement and its implications and possibilities, Dudley develops her arguments through exploration of displaced objects now in museums and dislocated or exiled from their prior geographical, historical, cultural, intellectual and personal contexts. The book's approach and conclusions are relevant far beyond the museum, showing that even in the most difficult of circumstances there is agency, distinction and dignity in the choices and impacts that are made, and that things and places as well as people have efficacy and potency in those choices. In Displaced Things, displacement emerges as fundamental to understanding the lives of things and their relationships with human beings, and the places, however defined, that they make and pass within. The book will be essential reading for academics and students engaged in the study of museums, heritage, anthropology, culture and history"--

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Figures; Table; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: pulling back the curtain; A few secrets I wish I'd known; Paths into the field; Gendered relations and other challenges in the field; The observer and the observed: the metamorphosis of research, methods, and the researcher; Dangerous fields; Ethics, advocacy, and other everyday moral dilemmas of research; Conclusion; References; Part I; Paths into the field; 1 Learning fields; The long walk into the field

Anthropology and tourism melded at a symposium at the 1974 American Anthropological Association meeting in Mexico City, believed to be the first social science discussion of tourism in the Western Hemisphere. Tourism has increased dramatically to become one of the world's largest industries, and anthropology has also extended its interests in theory and methodology. Few articles have linked career options for anthropologists to the tourism workplace. Our disciplinary strengths in heritage conservation, economic development—especially among indigenous cultures—and conflict resolution, as well as our cross‐cultural orientation, lead to employment with governments, NGOs, visitor and convention bureaus, and management. Regrettably, many industry employers are unfamiliar with our professional skills; a job search in the tourism workplace may become a personal quest, often bolstered by a sales pitch and with bilingualism as a major asset.