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This article explores the way in which community belonging may be imagined and enacted. It begins with an introduction to a small Inner Hebridean island community and a discussion of the invisibility of incomers in representations of Scotland's past and present. It describes how the island came to be populated as it is today with people of diverse backgrounds. Drawing on three years of fieldwork, it shows how progression along an 'incomer/islander continuum' may be demonstrated through social action in the present. It suggests that while such everyday action may not be consciously equated with ethnic or 'island' identity, it is often a more revealing and lasting marker of local identity than overtly constructed symbolic markers of ancestry, locality, or blood relationship. Consciously waved 'flags' of island (or national or class) belonging which include, sometimes, the wearing of kilts, recounting of local history, or public celebration of local event/ritual, have been fairly common focal points in anthropological description. While these displays of identity are telling, the evidence in this article suggests that people who manipulate such symbols remain outside the living and changing community unless they also engage in appropriate everyday social action. This raises critical issues about methodology and focus in the social anthropology of identity and change.

The burgeoning social scientific study of tourism has emphasized the effects of the post-industrial economy on travel and place. However, this volume takes some of these issues into a different area of leisure: the spare-time carved out by people as part of their everyday lives - time that is much more intimately juxtaposed with the pressures and influences of work life, and which often involves specific bodily practices associated with hobbies and sports. An important focus of the book is the body as a site of identity formation, experience, and disciplined recreation of the self. Contributo

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Why Do We Care Who Cares? -- Part 1 Embodying Care: Giving Voice to Experience -- 1 Love, Care and Diagnosis -- 2 Triplets: Who Cares? -- Part 2 Controlling Care: Rights and Responsibilities -- 3 Taking Care? The Depo-Provera Debate -- 4 Medical Care as Human Right: The Negation of Law, Citizenship and Power? -- Part 3 Framing Care: Alternative Visions in Dialogue -- 5 Caring for the Well: Perspectives on Disease Prevention -- 6 Identifying Boundaries in Care: Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Men Who Have Sex With Men -- Part 4 Nursing Care: Theory and Practice -- 7 Ethics as Question -- 8 Relative Strangers: Caring for Patients as the Expression of Nurses' Moral/Political Voice -- Index.

List of Sound Cues and Audio Blog Posts -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Text/Translations -- Introduction: Sounding out Japan -- Sonic Japan -- Sound as Control -- Sound in Embodied Practice -- Silence and Transformation -- Sonic Bloom -- Conclusion: Listening Well into the Future -- References cited -- index.

"Death and Digital Media provides a critical overview of how people mourn, commemorate and interact with the dead through digital media. It maps the historical and shifting landscape of digital death, considering a wide range of social, commercial and institutional responses to technological innovations. The authors examine multiple digital platforms and offer a series of case studies drawn from North America, Europe and Australia. The book delivers fresh insight and analysis from an interdisciplinary perspective, drawing on anthropology, sociology, science and technology studies, human-computer interaction, and media studies. It is key reading for students and scholars in these disciplines, as well as for professionals working in bereavement support capacities."--Provided by publisher

Death and digital media: an introduction -- Pre-digital mediums, media, and mediations -- The materialities of gravesites and websites -- Death and social media: entanglements of policy and practice -- Mixing repertoires: commemoration in digital games and online worlds -- The funeral as a site of innovation -- Looking to the future of life after death -- Death and digital media: an afterword

The burgeoning social scientific study of tourism has emphasized the effects of the post-industrial economy on travel and place. However, this volume takes some of these issues into a different area of leisure: the spare-time carved out by people as part of their everyday lives - time that is much more intimately juxtaposed with the pressures and influences of work life, and which often involves specific bodily practices associated with hobbies and sports. An important focus of the book is the body as a site of identity formation, experience, and disciplined recreation of the self. Contributors examine the ways rituals, sports, and forms of bodily transformation mediate between contemporary ideologies of freedom, choice and self-control

Anthropology lies at the heart of the human sciences, tackling questions having to do with the foundations, ethics, and deployment of the knowledge crucial to human lives. The Ethics of Knowledge Creation focuses on how knowledge is relationally created, how local knowledge can be transmuted into 'universal knowledge', and how the transaction and consumption of knowledge also monitors its subsequent production. This volume examines the ethical implications of various kinds of relations that are created in the process of 'transacting knowledge' and investigates how these transactions are also situated according to broader contradictions or synergies between ethical, epistemological, and political concerns

The pursuit and practice of discipline have become near ubiquitous elements of contemporary social life and parlance, as discipline has become a commonplace and ever sought-after social technology. From the celebrated "discipline of the market" proclaimed by neo-liberal politicians, to self-actualizing experiences of embodied discipline proffered by martial arts instructors, this volume showcases highly varied and complex disciplinary practices and relationships in a set of ethnographic studies. Interrogating the respective fields of work, religion, governance, leisure, education and child rearing, together the essays in this volume explore and offer new ways of thinking about discipline in everyday life

Across spatial, bodily, and ethical domains, music and dance both emerge from and give rise to intimate collaboration. This theoretically rich collection takes an ethnographic approach to understanding the collective dimension of sound and movement in everyday life, drawing on genres and practices in contexts as diverse as Japanese shakuhachi playing, Peruvian huayno, and the Greek goth scene. Highlighting the sheer physicality of the ethnographic encounter, as well as the forms of sociality that gradually emerge between self and other, each contribution demonstrates how dance and music open up pathways and give shape to life trajectories that are neither predetermined nor teleological, but generative