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Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1 Identity Confl icts and Their Regulation: An Introduction -- 2 Uncertain Connections: Globalization, Localization, Identities, and Violence -- 3 The Musha Rebellion as Unthinkable: Coloniality, Aboriginality, and the Epistemology of Colonial Difference -- 4 Dispossession and Possession: The Maya, Identi/ ties, and " Post" War Guatemala -- 5 Public Islam as an Antidote to Violence?* -- 6 Cyber- Separatism, Islam, and the State in China -- 7 Re- Evaluating the Kurdish Question*

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction to Key Concepts / Stefanie Wickstrom and Philip D. Young -- I. Constructing Mestizaje -- 1. The Revolutionary Encounter / Rex Wirth -- 2. Mestizaje in Colonial Mexican Art / Sofía Irene Velarde Cruz -- 3. The Tradition of La Chaya in Vallenar, Chile: The Search for Imaginaries in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / Iván Pizarro Díaz -- II. Barriers to Empowerment Through Identity -- 4. Born Indigenous, Growing Up Mestizos: Schooling and Youth in Arequipa, Peru / Mariella I. Arredondo -- 5. Questioning the Nation: Affirmative Action and Racial Quotas in Brazilian Universities / Paulo Alberto dos Santos Vieira -- 6. Political Subjectification, Mestizaje, and Globalization: Constructing Citizenship in Aid and Development Programs in the Peruvian Andes / Jorge Legoas P. and Fabrizio Arenas Barchi -- 7. The Door to the Future: Cultural Change and the Cheyenne Sun Dance / Jennifer Whiteman -- III. Empowerment -- 8. From Mestizos to Mashikuna: Global Infl uences on Discursive, Spatial, and Performed Realizations of Indigeneity in Urban Quito / Kathleen S. Fine-Dare -- 9. Indigenous Peoples as a New Category of Transnational Social Actors: An Analysis Based on the Case of Argentina / Sabine Kradolfer -- 10. Divine Design: Crafting and Consuming the Sacredin Afro-Brazilian Candomblé / Angela Castañeda -- 11. Women's Roles and Responses to Globalization in Ngäbe Communities / Philip D. Young -- 12. Politicizing Ethnicity: Strategies in Panama and Ecuador / Víctor Bretón Solo de Zaldívar and Mònica Martínez Mauri -- 13. Beyond Mestizaje: Andean Interculturality in Ecuador / John Stolle-McAllister -- References -- Contributors -- Index.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Kierkegaard's Existential Anthropology and the Search for Self -- 1. Judge William: Strong Evaluative Identity -- 2, Johannes Climacus: Spiritual Existence Intensified by Reflection -- 3. Anti-Climacus: Theological Selfhood and the Dialectics of Despair -- 4. In the Twilight of Modernity: Kierkegaard and Contemporary Reflections on Existential Identity -- Conclusion: Reconstructing Kierkegaard -- Works Cited -- Index.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Religion and Society -- 1. Western Creed, Western Identity -- 2. Christian Philosophy: A Sociological Category or an Oxymoron? -- 3. What Was Religion? The Demise of a Prodigious Power -- 4. Marx, Dewey, and Maritain: The Role of Religion in Society -- 5. John Courtney Murray on the Truths We Hold -- 6. Separating Church and State -- 7. Thomas on Natural Law: What Judge Thomas Did Not Say -- Part II. The Law and Society -- 8. Collective Responsibility -- 9. Accountability without Causality: Tort Litigation Reaches Fairy-Tale Levels -- 10. On the Justification of Rights Claims -- 11. The Necessity of Punishment -- 12. Professional Responsibility -- Part III. Faith and Reason -- 13. Edith Stein: The Convert in Search of Illumination -- 14. Maritain at the Cliff's Edge: From Antimoderne to Le Paysan -- 15. John Paul II, Defender of Faith and Reason -- 16. The Interior Life -- Bibliography -- Index.

"Remennick . . . charts the Jewish emigration from the former Soviet Union (FSU) and the issues it has raised in three main destinations: Israel, the US, and Europe. As the book's title suggests, the author seeks to explore the types of identities Soviet Jews have constructed as they adapt to their new homes. . . . Using modern technology, FSU Jews have preserved aspects of their Russian heritage and culture across national borders. . . . While the themes of the book are familiar, the material provides valuable insight into the inner workings of FSU Jews and raises important questions for the

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1: The Paradox of Ethnolinguistic Identity: Essentialisms, State-Sponsored Violence, and Cultural Rights -- 2: Political Linguistics: Expert Linguists and Modernist Epistemologies in the Guatemalan Nation -- 3: Traditional Histories, Local Selves, and Challenges to Linguistic Unification -- 4: Modernity and Local Linguistic Ideologies in Chimaltenango -- 5: Traditional Maya Women and Linguistic Reproduction -- 6: Conclusion: Vernacular Modernities and the Objectification of Tradition -- Appendix: Transcription Conventions -- Notes -- References -- Index.

The research included in this volume examines the competing pressures felt by black women as political agents in the domains of elections, public policy, and social activism. Their challenges and initiatives are explored in public spaces, institutional behaviors, and public policy. The volume features cutting-edge research exploring black women's political engagement

"Crafting Identity" explores the complex interplay of social relations, values, dominations, and performances present in the world of Mexican mask making. The book examines how art, media, and tourism mediate Mexican culture from the margins ("arte popular"), making Mexican indigeneity "palatable" for Mexican nationalism and American and global markets for folklore.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Social Regulation of Male Identity and Intimacy -- 2. Disputes over the Meaning of "Being a Man" in Mexico: Applications of Queer Theory -- 3. Acá Entre Nos (Just Between Us): Cultural Notions About Rajarse, the Body, and the Negotiation of Male Intimacy -- 4. Male Intimacy and Homophobia: Different Subjectivities, Powers, and Resistances -- 5. Acknowledging Pleasures, Deconstructing Identities: Anthropology, Patriarchy, and Homoerotic Experience in Mexico -- Epilogue -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Each chapter of this book is written by individual authors which are ed in the front matter. As the 'Publisher's Note' sets out, the purpose of this book was to detail "the treatment of all the larger subjects which today interest and concern women" in the hope that it "will become a thoroughly home book, to be read, consulted, and relied upon in thousands of households". A contents and of illustrations included in the book are presented at the front