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Love, Sorrow, and Rage gives powerful voice to women like Nora Gaines and Dixie Register, who tell use what it's like to live on the streets of New York, how it feels to lose your mind, about the taste of crack cocaine and the sweetness of friendship. In this novel-like narrative of homelessness and hope, poor women share a table, their meals, and their intimacies with author Alisse Waterston. On the pages of this impassioned ethnography, Waterston puts mythic, demonized bag ladies to rest, and in so doing, brings ordinary women to life. From drug addiction and the spread of AIDS to the growin

In this book, Alisse Waterston reveals the economic, political, and ideological forces that shape the nature of street-addict life. Disputing the view that hard-core, low-income drug users are social marginals situated in deviant subcultures, the author dispels popular images of the mythic, dark dope fiend haunting our city streets. Using dramatic, first-person accounts from New York City addicts, Waterston analyzes their position in the social structure, the kind of work -- both legal and illegal -- they perform, and their relations with family, friends, and lovers. She presents a moving acco

Introduction: On war and accountability / Alisse Waterston -- Points on war / R. Brian Ferguson -- Global warring today : "maybe somebody needs to explain" / Stephen Reyna -- Global fractures / Carolyn Nordstrom -- Seeing green : visual technology, virtual reality, and the experience of war / Jose N. Vasquez -- Military occupation as carceral society : prisons, checkpoints, and walls in the israeli- palestinian struggle / Avram Bornstein -- War and peace in Colombia / Lesley Gill -- The continuum of violence in post-war Guatemala / Beatriz Manz -- Mother courage and the future of war / Paul E. Farmer

As we move deeper into the twenty-first century, power, lethal force, and injustice continue to explode violently into war, and the prospects for lasting peace look even bleaker. The horrors of modern warfare - the death, dehumanization, and destruction of social and material infrastructures - have done little to bring an end to armed conflict. In this volume, leading chroniclers of war provide thoughtful and powerful essays that reflect on their ethnographic work at the frontlines. The contributors recount not only what they have seen and heard in war zones but also what is being rea

ABSTRACTThe following is the text of the presidential address presented on December 2, 2017, at the 116th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Washington, DC. I took the opportunity of this talk to reflect on this moment of being in anthropology. No doubt these are dark times, which prompts my questions: "What of us, as anthropologists, in these times? How will we pass the time that is given us?" Referring back to and in dialogue with Hannah Arendt and Bertolt Brecht, I consider some meanings of being introspective, of thinking in dark times, of the trivial, and of envisioning an alternative world, as these relate to anthropology. Comprising the four stories of the title, this reflection embraces deep feelings and the great promise of the discipline. [radical evil, dark anthropology, resistance, introspection, thinking, anthropological knowledge, Arendt, Brecht]

This is a story of an old man whose travels through the 20th century were marked by sorrow, humor, tragedy, and transformation. The author follows in anthropology's tradition of writing an individual's biography, locating one man's life in space and time. It is also an experiment in autoethnography since this anthropologist is the old man's daughter. The personal, intimate narrative recounts a father's history (child in Jedwabne, Poland, young man in Havana, old man in San Juan, Puerto Rico) which is also a story about peasantry, fascism, patriarchy, dictatorship, migration, transnationalism, revolution, and diaspora. In the strands of this tale, we see processes of structural violence and social suffering. Memory, interpretation and narrative can take us towards destruction, ethnocentrism, the worst of nationalism and war, or towards understanding, empathy, justice. My hope is that this experiment in autoethnography be a means towards becoming mindful, towards awakening—a necessary but insufficient condition in preventing genocidal violence.

There's No Place like Home: Anthropological Perspectives on Housing and Homelessness in the United States. Anna Lou Dehavenon. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 1996.206 pp.Ttie Unequal Homeless: Men on tlie Street, Women in Their Place. Joanne Passaro. New York: Routledge, 1996. 128 pp.Homesteading in New York City, 1978‐1993: The Divided Heart of Loisaida. Malve von Hassell. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 1996. 205 pp.

Introduction: contextualizing gender in Georgia : nation, culture, power and politics / Alisse Waterston -- Power and politics -- Pioneer women : "herstories" of feminist movements in Georgia / by Lela Gaprindashvili -- "The country of the happiest women"? : gender and ideology in soviet Georgia / by Maia -- Barkaia -- "The West" and Georgian "difference" : discursive politics of gender and sexuality in Georgia / by Tamar Tskhadadze -- Overcoming the "delay" paradigm : new approaches to socialist women's activism in Georgia and Poland / by Magdalena Grabowska -- Women's political representation in post-soviet Georgia / by Ketevan Chkheidze -- Violence -- The domestic violence challenge to soviet women's empowerment policies / by Tamar Sabedashvili -- Domestic violence in Georgia : state and community responses, 2006-2015 / by Nino Javakhishvili and Nino Butsashvili -- Remembering the past : narratives of displaced women from Abkhazia / by Nargiza Arjevanidze -- Displacement, state violence and gender roles : the case of internally displaced and violence-affected Georgian women / by Joanna Regulska, Beth Mitchneck, and Peter -- Kabachnik -- Identities, representations, resistance -- Images of "the new woman" in soviet Georgian silent films / by Salome Tsopurashvili -- Gender equality : still a disputed value in Georgian society / by Nana Sumbadze -- Georgian women migrants : experiences abroad and at home / by Tamar Zurabishvili, Maia Mestvirishvili and Tinatin Zurabishvili -- Being transgender in Georgia / by Natia Gvianishvili -- Tracing the LGBT movement in the Republic of Georgia : stories of activists / by Anna Rekhviashvili -- Afterword / by Elizabeth Dunn -- Index