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1. Writing the history of Russian anthropology / Sergey Sokolovskiy -- 2. Female taboos and concepts of the unclean among the Nenets / Elena Liarskaya -- 3. "The wrong nationality" : ascribed identity in the 1930s Soviet Union / Albert Baiburin -- 4. The queue as narrative : a Soviet case study / Konstantin Bogdanov -- 5. "I didn't understand, but it was funny" : late Soviet festivals and their impact on children / Catriona Kelly, Svetlana Sirotinina -- 6. The practices of "privacy" in a South Russian village (a case study of Stepnoe, Krasnodar region) / Alexander Manuylov -- 7. Believers' letters as advertising : St. Xenia of Petersburg's "national reception centre" / Jeanne Kormina and Sergei Shtyrkov -- 8. "The yellow peril" as seen in contemporary church culture / Mariya Akhmetova -- 9. "Don't look at them, they're nasty" : photographs of funerals in Russian culture / Olga Boitsova -- 10. Historical Zaryadye as remembered by locals : cultural meanings of city spaces / Pavel Kupriyanov and Lyudmila Sadovnikova -- 11. Yerevan : memory and forgetting in the organisation of post-Soviet urban space / Levon Abrahamian.

A visually striking intercultural exploration of the use of mobile phones in Aboriginal communities in Australia. Yuta is the Yolngu word for new. Phone & Spear: A Yuta Anthropology is a project inspired by the gloriously cheeky and deeply meaningful audiovisual media made with and circulated by mobile phones by an extended Aboriginal family in northern Australia. Building on a ten-year collaboration by the community-based arts collective Miyarrka Media, the project is an experiment in the anthropology of co-creation. It is a multivoiced portrait of an Indigenous society using mobile phones inventively to affirm connections to kin and country amid the difficult and often devastating circumstances of contemporary remote Aboriginal life. But this is not simply a book about Aboriginal art, mobile phones, and social renewal. If old anthropology understood its task as revealing one world to another, yuta anthropology is concerned with bringing different worlds into relationship. Following Yolngu social aesthetics—or what Miyarrka Media translate as "the law of feeling"—the book is a relational technology in its own right: an object that combines color, pattern, and story to bring once distant worlds into new sensuously mediated connections.

"This book presents innovative and creative ethnographic perspectives on the intersection between art, anthropology, and contested cultural heritage resulting from ethnographic and artistic research by the TRACES project (an interdisciplinary research project funded by the EU's Horizon 2020 programme involving a collaboration between institutional partners in 11 European countries). The case studies in this volume critically assess and evaluate how and in which arrangements artistic/aesthetic methods and creative everyday practices contribute to strengthening communities both culturally and economically. They also explore the extent to which these methods emphasize minority voices and ultimately set in motion a process of reflexive Europeanisation from below which unfolds within Europe and beyond its borders. At the heart of these ethnographic case studies is the development of a new way of transmitting contentious cultural heritage, which responds to the present situation in Europe of unstable political conditions and a sense of Europe in crisis. With chapters looking at difficult art exhibitions on colonialism, death masks, Holocaust memorials and skull collections, the contributors articulate a response to the crisis in current economic-political conditions in Europe and advances brand new theoretical groundwork on the configuration of a renewed European identity. Through combining studies of heritage within museums, this volume will appeal to students and scholars of anthropology, heritage and museum studies, and visual culture"--

Intro -- General Editor's Preface -- Introduction: Critical versus Ideological Marxism -- PART ONE: AN EXISTENTIAL OPENING -- Marxist Anthropology and the Critique of Everyday Life -- From Discourse to Silence: The Structuralist Impasse -- PART TWO: THE STRUCTURALIST CONSTRAINT -- Epistemological Comments on the Problems of Comparing Modes of Production and Societies -- Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose: The Dilemma of the French Structural Marxists -- Genetic Epistemology, Marxism, and Anthropology -- On the Dialectic of Exogamic Exchange -- PART THREE: PRIMITIVE COMMUNISM AS THEORY AND CRITIQUE -- The Ethnological Notebooks of Karl Marx: A Commentary -- The Position of the Primitive-Communal Social Order in the Soviet-Marxist Theory of History -- Class, Commodity, and the Status of Women -- Problems of Primitive Society in Soviet Ethnology -- The Anthropology of Work -- Living Legal Customs of the Common People of Europe -- PART FOUR: AFRICAN PERSPECTIVES -- Urban Ethnology in Africa: Some Theoretical Issues -- Long-Distance Trade and the Formation of the State: The Case of the Abron Kingdom of Gyaman -- "Tribal" Elite: A Base for Social Stratification in the Sudan -- Feudalism in Nigeria -- PART FIVE: IDEOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS -- British Social Anthropology -- Reminiscences of Primitive Divisions of Labor Between Sexes and Age Groups in the Peasant Folklore of Modern Times -- The Production of Aesthetic Values -- The Conscience of the West: Job and the Trickster -- PART six: SOME ACADEMIC AND BOURGEOIS ILLUSIONS -- The Revolutionary Potential of the Mexican Peasant -- Social Evolution, Population, and Production -- Population Pressure and Methods of Cultivation: A Critique of Classless Theory -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.

This book presents major texts by Prof. Dr. Lourdes Arizpe Schlosser, a pioneering Mexican anthropologist, on the occasion of her 70th birthday. She is a leading researcher into indigenous peoples, an innovator in women's studies and a global scientific leader who has inspired the international research and policy communities. Throughout her distinguished career she has analysed ethnicism and indigenous peoples, women in migratory flows, cultural and social sustainability and intangible cultural heritage as social capital, placing these issues on the world agenda for research and policy. Several of the 12 major texts in this volume have been published since 1972 in the US, Europe, Latin America and India; some were first published in Spanish and are available in English for the first time. This anthology also includes recent unpublished texts on culture, development and international cultural policy delivered at high-level international meetings

Political movements across the world have such diverse characteristics and aims that it is difficult to examine them as a collective group. Movements that are class-based are usually portrayed as formed by economic categories of people driven by material interests. By contrast the study of ethnic or nationalist movements has concentrated on the complexities of identity formation within culturally defined groups driven by strong passions. In this unusual book, Jeff Pratt argues for the need to set up a new analytical framework that extends the study of identity formation, and the ethnographic analysis of economic and social processes, to all political movements. Setting up a new analytical framework, he argues that political processes involve two linked components: a 'discourse' (an identity narrative which positions us within social history) and a 'movement' (the process of organization whereby local social divisions are transformed by their incorporation into a wider movement). He illustrates his arguments with a vivid mix of case studies from across the last century including Basque nationalism, Andalusian anarchism, Italian communism, the break-up of Yugoslavia, to the 'newer' political movements in Europe, in French Occitania and the Italian Lega Nord

Studying religion through practice -- The twin transformations of "religion" -- Domains and boundaries of "religion" -- Rituals of transition -- Healing through religion -- Sorcery, witchcraft, and modernity -- Worship, hierarchy, conflict : focus on Hinduism -- Imagery, faith, and politics : focus on Catholicism in Europe -- Transatlantic religion -- Speech and power -- Authority and leaders -- New religious movements -- Migration and adaptation : focus on Muslims in Europe -- Virtual religion -- Secularism and religious pluralism

Events and effects : intensive transnationalism among Pakistanis in Denmark / Mikkel Rytter -- The cartoon controversy : creating Muslims in a Danish setting / Anja Kublitz -- Values at work : ambivalent situations and human resource embarrassment / Jakob Krause-Jensen -- Figurations of the future : on the form and temporarily of protests among Left radical activists in Europe / Stine Krøijer -- Mimesis of the state : from natural disaster to urban citizenship on the outskirts of Maputo, Mozambique / Morten Nielsen.