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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Plates and Figures -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: beyond boundaries -- 2. Mediations in the global ecumene -- 3. Doves, hawks and anthropology: the Israeli debate on Middle Eastern settlement proposals -- 4. Foreign myths and sagas in Japan: the academics and the cartoonists -- 5. The anthropologist as shaman: interpreting recent political events in Armenia -- 6. Household words: attention, agency, and the ethnography of fishing -- 7. Acting cool and being safe: the definition of skill in a Swedish railway yard -- 8. Interpreting and explaining cultural representations -- 9. Beyond the words: the power of resonance -- 10. The art of translation in a continuous world -- References -- Index -- Notes on the Contributors.

Because they are right under our nose, taken-for-granted, and essential to every person everywhere, personal names have often eluded the theoretical and analytical scrutiny they deserve. To what extent do naming practices exemplify or parallel the biopolitics of bodily inscriptions and markings such as tattoos, birthmarks, and presumed racial signatures? To what extent do names represent "technologies of the self" (Foucault 1988) in the broadest sense, as both means of domination and empowerment, facilitating collective surveillance and subjugation, and the individual fashioning of identity and subjectivity? Partly drawing upon indigenous contexts in the North American Arctic (Inuit and Yup'ik), this commentary discusses personal names and genealogies in relation to other technologies of belonging. Practices of naming, it is argued, are not only key elements of identification and personhood, embodied in the biosocial habitus much like other biomarkers, also they situate people in genealogies, social networks, and states. Clashes, I suggest, between different traditions and practices of naming, especially in the context of slavery and empires, illuminate with striking clarity the relevance of names as technologies of exclusion, subjugation, and belonging.

The contributors to this book focus on the relationship between nature and society from a variety of theoretical and ethnographic perspectives. Their work draws upon recent developments in social theory, biology, ethnobiology, epistemology, sociology of science, and a wide array of ethnographic case studies -- from Amazonia, the Solomon Islands, Malaysia, the Mollucan Islands, rural comunities from Japan and north-west Europe, urban Greece, and laboratories of molecular biology and high-energy physics. The discussion is divided into three parts, emphasising the problems posed by the nature-cul

All human life unfolds within a matrix of relations, which are at once social and biological. Yet the study of humanity has long been divided between often incompatible 'social' and 'biological' approaches. Reaching beyond the dualisms of nature and society and of biology and culture, this volume proposes a unique and integrated view of anthropology and the life sciences. Featuring contributions from leading anthropologists, it explores human life as a process of 'becoming' rather than 'being', and demonstrates that humanity is neither given in the nature of our species nor acquired through culture but forged in the process of life itself. Combining wide-ranging theoretical argument with in-depth discussion of material from recent or ongoing field research, the chapters demonstrate how contemporary anthropology can move forward in tandem with groundbreaking discoveries in the biological sciences

Rémi Mongruel, Gisli Palsson — The proprietor, the operator, the wage earner and the marginalized : The social consequences of fishing management through the rights-market system This article examines the social consequences of fishing management through individually transferable quota systems, hereby termed itq. The rise of the itq to the status of a privileged management tool, despite persistent scientific controversies, may be explained by profound economic and institutional mutations accompanying the internationalisation of fishing. As past experiences however demonstrate, the itq practice modifies production relations to the extent of provoking the breakdown of social contracts specific to the sector. The implications of the tool for fishing- dependent societies in developing countries thus need to be envisaged with caution.

The Anthropology of Iceland presents the first perspectives on Icelandic anthropology from both Icelandic and foreign anthropologists. The thirteen essays in this volume are divided into four themes: ideology and action; kinship and gender; culture, class, and ethnicity; and the Commonwealth period of circa 930 to 1220, which saw the flowering of sagas. Insider and outsider viewpoints on such topics as the Icelandic women's movement, the transformation of the fishing industry, the idea of mystical power in modern Iceland, and archaeological research in Iceland merge to form an international, comparative discourse. Individually and collectively, by bringing the insights of anthropology to bear on Iceland, the native and foreign authors of this volume carry Iceland into the realm of modern anthropology, advancing our understanding of the island's people and the practice of anthropology.