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Introduction: Archipelagos, a voyage in writing / Paper Boat Collective -- Ambivalent archive / Angela Garcia -- Writing with care / Michael Jackson -- After the fact : the question of fidelity in ethnographic writing / Michael Jackson -- Walking and writing / Anand Pandian -- Anthropoetry / Adrie Kusserow -- Poetry, uncertainty, and opacity / Michael Jackson -- Taʻbīr : ethnography of the imaginal / Stefania Pandolfo -- Writing through intercessors / Stuart McLean -- Desire in cinema / Anand Pandian -- Flows and interruptions, or, So much for full stops / Stuart McLean -- Denial : A visit in four ethnographic fictions / Tobias Hecht -- Ethnography and fiction / Anand Pandian -- SEA / Stuart McLean -- Writing otherwise / Lisa Stevenson -- Origami conjecture for a Bembé / Todd Ramón Ochoa -- Ethnographic excess / Daniella Gandolfo and Todd Ramón Ochoa -- Conversations with a hunter / Daniella Gandolfo -- On writing and surviving / Lisa Stevenson -- A proper message / Lisa Stevenson -- Fidelity and invention / Angela Garcia

A common image of migration in the early twenty-first century features young women from poor countries who are drawn into low paid, and often intimate, labor in wealthy countries. While aligning with scholarship critical of such inequalities, From Istanbul with Love traces how new mobilities are fundamentally reshaping emotional worlds and social ties between women and men, women and work, women and their households of origin, and women and children in the region. Based on ethnographic fieldwork spanning over a decade carried out primarily in Istanbul, but also in Russia and southern Moldova, Alexia Bloch moves between the lives of post-Soviet migrant women employed in three distinct spheres—sex work, the garment trade, and domestic work—to consider how they negotiate emotion, intimate relationships, and unpredictable state power shaping their labor and their relationships.

How does ideology function during periods of political and economic turmoil? This book, based on long-term ethnographic research in a destitute former mining town in Kyrgyzstan, testifies to the precariousness of life in the former Soviet republics in the decades after the collapse of the USSR. It follows inhabitants as they make sense of a radically changing world and as they try to imbue their lives with relevance and direction, while concentrating in depth on their engagement with a range of religious ideas and other ideological currents, including scientific atheism, evangelical Christianity, Sunni Islamic revivalism, and traditional shamanistic beliefs. By examining such a broad variety of belief systems and how they manifest themselves in daily life, the author provides new insights into how ideology works (or fails to work) and how cultural and religious convictions are collectively produced and shaped

Since the growth of social media, human communication has become much more visual. This book presents a scholarly analysis of the images people post on a regular basis to Facebook. By including hundreds of examples, readers can see for themselves the differences between postings from a village north of London, and those from a small town in Trinidad. Why do women respond so differently to becoming a mother in England from the way they do in Trinidad? How are values such as carnival and suburbia expressed visually? Based on an examination of over 20,000 images, the authors argue that phenomena such as selfies and memes must be analysed in their local context. The book aims to highlight the importance of visual images today in patrolling and controlling the moral values of populations, and explores the changing role of photography from that of recording and representation, to that of communication, where an image not only documents an experience but also enhances it, making the moment itself more exciting.

Introduction / Nataša Gregorič Bon and Jaka Repič -- The (im)mobility of merantau as a sociocultural practice in Indonesia / Noel B. Salazar -- Away, within and forward : wayfaring towards better lives / Aija Lulle -- Rooting routes : (non)movements in southern Albania / Nataša Gregorič Bon -- Tracing roots : Slovenian diaspora in Argentina and return mobilities / Jaka Repič -- Festival organisers as locals-cosmopolitans : triggering movement toward and within home place / Miha Kozorog -- Relational centers in the Amazonian landscape of movement / Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen -- Displaced in the native city : movement and locality in post-war Sarajevo / Zaira Lofranco -- From a tent to a house, from nomads to settlers : constructions of space and place through Romany narratives / Alenka Janko Spreizer -- Movement versus roots? : Ivory Coast from transnational brotherhood to autochthony / Thomas Fillitz -- Epilogue / Sarah Green.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Part I. Subalternity, Intellectuals, and Common Sense -- 1 Subalternity -- 2 Intellectuals -- 3 Common Sense -- 4 What Subalterns Know -- Part II. Case Studies -- 5 Adam Smith -- 6 The Common Sense of the Tea Party -- 7 Common Sense, Good Sense, and Occupy -- Conclusion. Reading Gramsci in the Twenty-First Century -- Bibliography -- Index

We Shall Not Be Moved: The Trail Blazed by a Song from the U.S. South to Spain and South America details the history of "We Shall Not Be Moved" from its birth as a slave spiritual in the U.S. South and its subsequent adoption as a standard hymn by the U.S. labor, civil rights, and farmworker movements, to its singing in the student movement opposing the Franco dictatorship in Spain in the 1960s, and finally to its arrival in the South American country of Chile during its experiment with democratic socialism in the early 1970s. The book outlines the role the song has played in each of the movements in which it has been sung and analyzes its dissemination, function, and meaning through a number of different sociological and anthropological lenses.

This book points out a novel pattern in colonial intimacy - that Catholic colonizers tended to leave behind significant mixed communities while Protestant colonizers were more likely to police relations with local women. The varied genetic footprints of Catholic and Protestant colonizers, while subject to some exceptions, holds across world regions and over time. Having demonstrated that this pattern exists, this book then seeks to explain it, looking to religious institutions, political capacity, and ideas of nation and race