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This volume traces the developments in Cuba following the fall of
the Berlin Wall in November 1989 and the subsequent definitive
demise of state socialism. Working from the premise that most
non-European countries did not undergo the economic and political
regime changes experienced by their European counterparts, this
volume examines the nature of Cuban socialism. Topics covered
include: the reasons for the persistence of "the Cuban model," and
an examination of the complex interaction between elite and
non-elite actors, as well as between domestic and international
forces.
This innovative contribution to comparative area studies
evaluates Latin America's distinctiveness, and shows how 'large
regions' can be compared. The overwhelming impact of Europe
followed by precocious independence produced an exceptional outward
orientation, which has prompted successive waves of reform 'from
above and without', often resisted and superceded rather than fully
assimilated. This book explores the resulting patterns that can be
observed in multiple domains, through the optic of a 'mausoleum of
modernity.' By applying this perspective to state organization, the
politics of expertise, privatization, poverty and inequality, and
citizenship insecurity, it generates an overall new interpretation
of Latin America's regional distinctiveness.
"Stake[s] out a position that will affect future discussions of the
emergence of chiefdoms. . . . promises to greatly increase our
understanding of the emergence of inequality and institutionalized
leadership positions."--John Scarry, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill These compelling essays about Native American chiefs
and their rise to power break new ground in the study of chiefdoms
and their origins. Archaeologists, historians, and anthropologists
bring up to date the information about many complex chiefdoms that
flourished throughout the Americas, in which numerous villages and
regions were ruled single-handedly by hereditary chiefs. The book's
focus on the leadership of chieftains offers a new perspective for
examining the development of complex chiefly societies in the
Americas. The geographically and chronologically diverse case
studies highlight the dynamics of the temporary chieftaincy and the
development of permanent, hereditary chiefdoms. Contents Foreword
by Neil L. Whitehead Preface by Elsa M. Redmond Introduction: The
Dynamics of Chieftaincy and the Development of Chiefdoms, by Elsa
M. Redmond 1. What Happened at the Flashpoint? Conjectures on
Chiefdom Formation at the Very Moment of Conception, by Robert L.
Carneiro 2. Less than Meets the Eye: Evidence for Protohistoric
Chiefdoms in Northern New Mexico, by Winifred Creamer and Jonathan
Haas 3. In War and Peace: Alternative Paths to Centralized
Leadership, by Elsa M. Redmond 4. Investigating the Development of
Venezuelan Chiefdoms, by Charles S. Spencer 5. Tupinamba Chiefdoms?
by William C. Sturtevant 6. Colonial Chieftains of the Lower
Orinoco and Guayana Coast, by Neil L. Whitehead 7. War and
Theocracy, by Pita Kelekna 8. The Muisca: Chiefdoms in Transition,
by Doris Kurella 9. Social Foundations of Taino Caciques, by
William Keegan, Morgan Maclachlan, and Brian Byrne 10. Native
Chiefdoms and the Exercise of Complexity in Sixteenth-Century
Florida, by Jerald T. Milanich 11. The Evolution of the Powhatan
Paramount Chiefdom in Virginia, by Helen C. Rountree and E.
Randolph Turner III Elsa M. Redmond, research associate in the
Department of Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural
History in New York, is the author of Tribal and Chiefly Warfare in
South America and A Fuego y Sangre: Early Zapotec Imperialism in
the Cuicatlan Canada, Oaxaca.
This book traces the twin processes of economic liberalization and political democratization in Bolivia since the 1980s placing both processes in their historical context. The essays focus on the issue of democratic viability, and raise broader questions of the relationship between democratization and its socio-economic context.
"Heartfelt, incisive, and worthy of thoughtful
consideration."--Library Journal Power. Fear. Violence. These three
idols of Christian nationalism are corrupting American
Christianity. Andrew Whitehead is a leading scholar on Christian
nationalism in America and speaks widely on its effects within
Christian communities. In this book, he shares his journey and
reveals how Christian nationalism threatens the spiritual lives of
American Christians and the church. Whitehead shows how Christians
harm their neighbors when they embrace the idols of power, fear,
and violence. He uses two key examples--racism and xenophobia--to
demonstrate that these idols violate core Christian beliefs.
Through stories, he illuminates expressions of Christianity that
confront Christian nationalism and offer a faithful path forward.
American Idolatry encourages further conversation about what
Christian nationalism threatens, how to face it, and why it is
vitally important to do so. It will help identify Christian
nationalism and build a framework that makes sense of the
relationship between faith and the current political and cultural
context.
This innovative contribution to comparative area studies
evaluates Latin America's distinctiveness, and shows how 'large
regions' can be compared. The overwhelming impact of Europe
followed by precocious independence produced an exceptional outward
orientation, which has prompted successive waves of reform 'from
above and without', often resisted and superceded rather than fully
assimilated. This book explores the resulting patterns that can be
observed in multiple domains, through the optic of a 'mausoleum of
modernity.' By applying this perspective to state organization, the
politics of expertise, privatization, poverty and inequality, and
citizenship insecurity, it generates an overall new interpretation
of Latin America's regional distinctiveness.
The book traces the twin processes of economic liberalization and
political democratization in Bolivia since the 1980s, placing both
in their historical context. By focusing on the issue of democratic
'viability', it seeks to raise the broader question of the
relationship between democratization and the socio-economic context
in which it takes place. In particular, it examines the
institutional reforms of the early 1990s - praised by the World
Bank and others - and considers their achievements and limitations.
"Virtual War and Magical Death" is a provocative examination of the
relations between anthropology and contemporary global war. Several
arguments unite the collected essays, which are based on
ethnographic research in varied locations, including Guatemala,
Uganda, and Tanzania, as well as Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, and
the United States. Foremost is the contention that modern high-tech
warfare--as it is practiced and represented by the military, the
media, and civilians--is analogous to rituals of magic and sorcery.
Technologies of "virtual warfare," such as high-altitude bombing,
remote drone attacks, night-vision goggles, and even music videoes
and computer games that simulate battle, reproduce the imaginative
worlds and subjective experiences of witchcraft, magic, and assault
sorcery long studied by cultural anthropologists.
Another significant focus of the collection is the U.S.
military's exploitation of ethnographic research, particularly
through its controversial Human Terrain Systems (HTS) Program,
which embeds anthropologists as cultural experts in military units.
Several pieces address the ethical dilemmas that HTS and other
counterinsurgency projects pose for anthropologists. Other essays
reveal the relatively small scale of those programs in relation to
the military's broader use of, and ambitions for, social scientific
data.
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Contributors." Robertson Allen, Brian Ferguson, Sverker Finnstrom,
Roberto J. Gonzalez, David H. Price, Antonius Robben, Victoria
Sanford, Jeffrey Sluka, Koen Stroeken, Matthew Sumera, Neil L.
Whitehead
This volume's contributors explore the links among sexuality,
ethnography, race, and colonial rule through an examination of
ethnopornography-the eroticized observation of the Other for
supposedly scientific or academic purposes. With topics that span
the sixteenth century to the present in Latin America, the United
States, Australia, the Middle East, and West Africa, the
contributors show how ethnopornography is fundamental to the
creation of race and colonialism as well as archival and
ethnographic knowledge. Among other topics, they analyze
eighteenth-century European travelogues, photography and the
sexualization of African and African American women,
representations of sodomy throughout the Ottoman empire, racialized
representations in a Brazilian gay pornographic magazine, colonial
desire in the 2007 pornographic film Gaytanamo, the relationship
between sexual desire and ethnographic fieldwork in Africa and
Australia, and Franciscan friars' voyeuristic accounts of
indigenous people's "sinful" activities. Outlining how in the
ethnopornographic encounter the reader or viewer imagines direct
contact with the Other from a distance, the contributors trace
ethnopornography's role in creating racial categories and its
grounding in the relationship between colonialism and the erotic
gaze. In so doing, they theorize ethnography as a form of
pornography that is both motivated by the desire to render knowable
the Other and invested with institutional power. Contributors.
Joseph A. Boone, Pernille Ipsen, Sidra Lawrence, Beatrix McBride,
Mireille Miller-Young, Bryan Pitts, Helen Pringle, Pete Sigal, Zeb
Tortorici, Neil L. Whitehead
In today's industrialized societies, the majority of parents work
full time while caring for and raising their children and managing
household upkeep, trying to keep a precarious balance of fulfilling
multiple roles as parent, worker, friend, & child. Increasingly
demands of the workplace such as early or late hours, travel,
commute, relocation, etc. conflict with the needs of being a
parent. At the same time, it is through work that people
increasingly define their identity and self-worth, and which
provides the opportunity for personal growth, interaction with
friends and colleagues, and which provides the income and benefits
on which the family subsists. The interface between work and family
is an area of increasing research, in terms of understanding
stress, job burn out, self-esteem, gender roles, parenting
behaviors, and how each facet affects the others.
The research in this area has been widely scattered in journals in
psychology, family studies, business, sociology, health, and
economics, and presented in diverse conferences (e.g., APA, SIOP,
Academy of Management). It is difficult for experts in the field to
keep up with everything they need to know, with the information
dispersed. This Handbook will fill this gap by synthesizing theory,
research, policy, and workplace practice/organizational policy
issues in one place.
The book will be useful as a reference for researchers in the area,
as a guide to practitioners and policy makers, and as a resource
for teaching in both undergraduate and graduate courses.
This volume's contributors explore the links among sexuality,
ethnography, race, and colonial rule through an examination of
ethnopornography-the eroticized observation of the Other for
supposedly scientific or academic purposes. With topics that span
the sixteenth century to the present in Latin America, the United
States, Australia, the Middle East, and West Africa, the
contributors show how ethnopornography is fundamental to the
creation of race and colonialism as well as archival and
ethnographic knowledge. Among other topics, they analyze
eighteenth-century European travelogues, photography and the
sexualization of African and African American women,
representations of sodomy throughout the Ottoman empire, racialized
representations in a Brazilian gay pornographic magazine, colonial
desire in the 2007 pornographic film Gaytanamo, the relationship
between sexual desire and ethnographic fieldwork in Africa and
Australia, and Franciscan friars' voyeuristic accounts of
indigenous people's "sinful" activities. Outlining how in the
ethnopornographic encounter the reader or viewer imagines direct
contact with the Other from a distance, the contributors trace
ethnopornography's role in creating racial categories and its
grounding in the relationship between colonialism and the erotic
gaze. In so doing, they theorize ethnography as a form of
pornography that is both motivated by the desire to render knowable
the Other and invested with institutional power. Contributors.
Joseph A. Boone, Pernille Ipsen, Sidra Lawrence, Beatrix McBride,
Mireille Miller-Young, Bryan Pitts, Helen Pringle, Pete Sigal, Zeb
Tortorici, Neil L. Whitehead
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Anthropologist Neil L. Whitehead presents a collection of recent
fieldwork and the latest theoretical perspectives that illuminate
how a range of Native communities in the Amazon River basin, and
those they encounter, use the past to make sense of their world and
themselves. In recent decades, scholars have become increasingly
aware of the role the past plays in the construction of culture and
identity. Not only can the past be represented and codified overtly
in various ways and media as a "history," it also operates more
fundamentally and pervasively in cultures as a mode of
consciousness or way of thinking about the world, a "historicity."
In addition to examining the particular foundations and
significance of history and historicity in such communities as the
Guaja, Wapishana, Dekuana, and Patamuna, the contributors to this
volume consider more broadly how different natural and cultural
features can help shape historical consciousness: landscape and
territory; rituals such as feasting; genealogy and kinship; and
even the practice of archaeology. Also of interest are activist
uses of historicity to promote and legitimize the cultural
integrity and political agendas of Native communities, especially
in contact situations past and present where multiple and often
competing forms of history and historicity play important political
roles in articulating relations between colonizers and the
colonized. As this volume makes clear, understanding the powerful
cultural role of the past helps scholars better appreciate the
inherent dynamic quality of all cultures and recognize a rich
resource of agency that can be used both to comprehend and to
transform the present
On the little-known and darker side of shamanism there exists an
ancient form of sorcery called kanaimà , a practice still
observed among the Amerindians of the highlands of Guyana,
Venezuela, and Brazil that involves the ritual stalking,
mutilation, lingering death, and consumption of human victims. At
once a memoir of cultural encounter and an ethnographic and
historical investigation, this book offers a sustained, intimate
look at kanaimà , its practitioners, their victims, and the
reasons they give for their actions. Neil L. Whitehead tells of his
own involvement with kanaimà —including an attempt to kill
him with poison—and relates the personal testimonies of
kanaimà shamans, their potential victims, and the victims’
families. He then goes on to discuss the historical emergence of
kanaimà , describing how, in the face of successive modern
colonizing forces—missionaries, rubber gatherers, miners, and
development agencies—the practice has become an assertion of
native autonomy. His analysis explores the ways in which
kanaimà mediates both national and international impacts on
native peoples in the region and considers the significance of
kanaimà for current accounts of shamanism and religious
belief and for theories of war and violence. Kanaimà appears
here as part of the wider lexicon of rebellious terror and exotic
horror—alongside the cannibal, vampire, and zombie—that haunts
the western imagination. Dark Shamans broadens discussions of
violence and of the representation of primitive savagery by
recasting both in the light of current debates on modernity and
globalization.
Can we understand violence not as evidence of cultural rupture but
as a form of cultural expression itself? Ten prominent scholars
engage this question across geographies as diverse at their
theoretical positions, in cases drawn from fieldwork in Indonesia,
Cambodia, Mozambique, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, South
America, Sri Lanka, Spain, and the United States. This research
makes clear that within specific cultures, violent acts are
expressions of cultural codes imbued with great meaning for both
perpetrator and victim. "Unless the perpetrator's view is part of
our own understanding," editor Neil L. Whitehead observes, "how to
address the sources of violence will escape us." Covering
wide-ranging regimes of violence, these essays examine various
aspects of state violence, legitimate and illegitimate forms of
violence, the impact of anticipatory violence on daily life, and
its effects long after the events themselves have passed. In the
marginal spaces of global ethnoscapes, violence becomes a form of
cultural affirmation and expression in the face of a loss of
"tradition" and dislocations of ethnic communities. This book is
dedicated to the memory of BegoOa Aretxaga.
In 1550 the German adventurer Hans Staden was serving as a gunner
in a Portuguese fort on the Brazilian coast. While out hunting, he
was captured by the Tupinamba, an indigenous people who had a
reputation for engaging in ritual cannibalism and who, as allies of
the French, were hostile to the Portuguese. Staden's True History,
first published in Germany in 1557, tells the story of his nine
months among the Tupi Indians. It is a dramatic first-person
account of his capture, captivity, and eventual escape. Staden's
narrative is a foundational text in the history and European
"discovery" of Brazil, the earliest European account of the Tupi
Indians, and a touchstone in the debates on cannibalism. Yet the
last English-language edition of Staden's True History was
published in 1929. This new critical edition features a new
translation from the sixteenth-century German along with
annotations and an extensive introduction. It restores to the text
the fifty-six woodcut illustrations of Staden's adventures and
final escape that appeared in the original 1557 edition. In the
introduction, Neil L. Whitehead discusses the circumstances
surrounding the production of Staden's narrative and its
ethnological significance, paying particular attention to
contemporary debates about cannibalism. Whitehead illuminates the
value of Staden's True History as an eyewitness account of Tupi
society on the eve before its collapse, of ritual war and sacrifice
among Native peoples, and of colonial rivalries in the region of
Rio de Janeiro. He chronicles the history of the various editions
of Staden's narrative and their reception from 1557 until the
present. Staden's work continues to engage a wide range of readers,
not least within Brazil, where it has recently been the subject of
two films and a graphic novel.
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