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Norfolk has a wealth of important archaeological sites, historic
buildings and landscapes. This guide is the first to use them to
tell the county's rich history. Starting with real footprints of
people who lived here nearly 1 million years ago, A History of
Norfolk in 100 Places will take you on a chronological journey
through prehistoric monuments, Roman forts, medieval churches and
Nelson's Monument, right up to twentieth-century defensive sites.
With detailed entries illustrated by aerial photographs and
ground-level shots, here you will find a reliable guide to historic
places that are either open to the public, or are visible from
public roads or footpaths for you to explore.
The intersection of race, ethnicity and genomics has recently been
a focus of debate and concern. The key areas of debate are
pharmacogenomics and, to a lesser extent, racial profiling in the
criminal justice system. The former poses the question as to
whether certain "races" are genetically predisposed towards given
diseases and whether they metabolize drugs differently; with the
latter debating whether DNA analyses accurately identify the "race"
of an individual. This book takes a different approach, while
acknowledging the importance of these debates and their role in
shaping what the issues are perceived to be in thinking about the
intersection of race, ethnicity and genomics. We are interested in
exploring the interconnections between race, ethnicity and nation
and kinship, always bearing in mind that kinship, as a domain of
human experience and a field of social study, has been reshaped by
the genomic and biotechnological revolution. Peter Wade is
Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester.
His publications include Blackness and Race Mixture (1993), Race
and Ethnicity in Latin America (1997), Music, Race and Nation:
Musica Tropical in Colombia (2000), Race, Nature and Culture: An
Anthropological Perspective (2002). His current research focuses on
issues of racial identity, embodiment and new genetic and
information technologies.
Race, ethnicity and nation are all intimately linked to family and
kinship, yet these links deserve closer attention than they usually
get in social science, above all when family and kinship are
changing rapidly in the context of genomic and biotechnological
revolutions. Drawing on data from assisted reproduction,
transnational adoption, mixed race families, Basque identity
politics and post-Soviet nation-building, this volume provides new
and challenging ways to understand race, ethnicity and nation.
This book questions the political logic of foregrounding cultural
collectives in a world shaped by globalization and
neoliberalization. Throughout the world, it is no longer only
individuals, but increasingly collective "cultures" who are made
responsible for their own regulation, welfare and enterprise. This
appears as a surprising shift from the tenets of classical
liberalism which defined the ideal subject of politics as the
"unencumbered self"- the free, equal and self-governing individual.
The increasing promotion and recognition of cultural rights in
international legislation, multiculturalism, and public debates on
"culture" as a political problem more generally indicate that
culture has become a more central terrain for governance and
struggles around rights and citizenship. On the basis of case
studies from China, Latin America, and North America, the
contributors of this book explore the links between culture,
civility, and the politics of citizenship. They argue that official
reifications of "culture" in relation to citizenship, and even the
recognition of cultural rights, may obey strategies of governance
and control, but that citizens may still use new cultural rights
and networks, and the legal mechanisms that have been created to
protect them, in order to pursue their own agendas of empowerment.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Economy
and Society.
This book questions the political logic of foregrounding cultural
collectives in a world shaped by globalization and
neoliberalization. Throughout the world, it is no longer only
individuals, but increasingly collective "cultures" who are made
responsible for their own regulation, welfare and enterprise. This
appears as a surprising shift from the tenets of classical
liberalism which defined the ideal subject of politics as the
"unencumbered self"- the free, equal and self-governing individual.
The increasing promotion and recognition of cultural rights in
international legislation, multiculturalism, and public debates on
"culture" as a political problem more generally indicate that
culture has become a more central terrain for governance and
struggles around rights and citizenship. On the basis of case
studies from China, Latin America, and North America, the
contributors of this book explore the links between culture,
civility, and the politics of citizenship. They argue that official
reifications of "culture" in relation to citizenship, and even the
recognition of cultural rights, may obey strategies of governance
and control, but that citizens may still use new cultural rights
and networks, and the legal mechanisms that have been created to
protect them, in order to pursue their own agendas of empowerment.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Economy
and Society.
The intersection of race and sex in Latin America is a subject
touched upon by many disciplines but this is the only book that
deals soley with these issues. Interracial sexual relations are
often a key mythic basis for Latin American national identities,
but these concepts are underexplored in English language works.
Peter Wade provides a pioneering overview of the growing literature
on race and sex in the region, covering historical aspects and
contemporary debates. He includes both black and indigenous people
in the frame, as well as mixed and white people, avoiding the
implication that "race" means "black-white" relations. Challenging
but accessible, this book will appeal across the social sciences,
particularly to students of anthropology, gender studies and Latin
American studies.
What does it mean to know something - scientifically,
anthropologically, socially? What is the relationship between
different forms of knowledge and ways of knowing? How is knowledge
mobilised in society and to what ends? Drawing on ethnographic
examples from across the world, and from the virtual and global
"places" created by new information technologies, Anthropology and
Science presents examples of living and dynamic epistemologies and
practices, and of how scientific ways of knowing operate in the
world. Authors address the nature of both scientific and
experiential knowledge, and look at competing and alternative ideas
about what it means to be human. The essays analyze the politics
and ethics of positioning "science," "culture" or "society" as
authoritative. They explore how certain modes of knowing are made
authoritative and command allegiance (or not), and look at
scientific and other rationalities - whether these challenge or are
compatible with science.
What does it mean to know something - scientifically,
anthropologically, socially? What is the relationship between
different forms of knowledge and ways of knowing? How is knowledge
mobilised in society and to what ends? Drawing on ethnographic
examples from across the world, and from the virtual and global
"places" created by new information technologies, Anthropology and
Science presents examples of living and dynamic epistemologies and
practices, and of how scientific ways of knowing operate in the
world. Authors address the nature of both scientific and
experiential knowledge, and look at competing and alternative ideas
about what it means to be human. The essays analyze the politics
and ethics of positioning "science," "culture" or "society" as
authoritative. They explore how certain modes of knowing are made
authoritative and command allegiance (or not), and look at
scientific and other rationalities - whether these challenge or are
compatible with science.
Taking a comparative approach, this textbook is a concise
introduction to race. Illustrated with detailed examples from
around the world, it is organised into two parts. Part I explores
the historical changes in ideas about race from the ancient world
to the present day, in different corners of the globe. Part II
outlines ways in which racial difference and inequality are
perceived and enacted in selected regions of the world. Examining
how humans have used ideas of physical appearance, heredity and
behaviour as criteria for categorising others, the text guides
students through provocative questions such as: what is race? Does
studying race reinforce racism? Does a colour-blind approach
dismantle, or merely mask, racism? How does biology feed into
concepts of race? Numerous case studies, photos, figures and tables
help students to appreciate the different meanings of race in
varied contexts, and end-of-chapter research tasks provide further
support for student learning.
The modern world is saturated with images. Scientific knowledge of
the human body (in all its variety) is highly dependent on the
technological generation of visual data - brain and body scans,
x-rays, diagrams, graphs and charts. New technologies afford
scientists and medical experts new possibilities for probing and
revealing previously invisible and inaccessible areas of the body.
The existing literature has been successful in mapping the impact
and implications of new medical technologies and in marrying the
visual and the body but thus far has focused only narrowly on
particular kinds of technology or taken only a purely
textual/visual (cultural studies) approach to images of the body.
Combining approaches from three of the most dynamic and popular
fields of contemporary social anthropology - the study of the
visual, the study of the technological and the study of the human
body - this volume draws these together and interrogates their
intersection using insights from ethnographic approaches. Offering
a fascinating and wide range of perspectives, the chapters in this
volume bring an innovative focus that reflects the authors' shared
interest in 'the body' and visualising technologies.
Jeanette Edwards is Professor of Social Anthropology at the
University of Manchester. She is author of Born and Bred: Idioms of
Kinship and New Reproductive Technologies in England (2000);
co-author of Technologies of Procreation: Kinship in the Age of
Assisted Conception (2nd edition, 1999); co-editor of European
Kinship in the Age of Biotechnology (2009); and coeditor, with
Harvey and Wade, of Anthropology and Science (2007).
Penelope Harvey is Professor of Anthropology at the University
of Manchester and co-Director of CRESC (ESRC Centre for Research on
Socio- Cultural Change). She has done ethnographic research in
Peru, Spain and the UK, and published on engineering practice,
state formation, information technologies and the politics of
communication.
Peter Wade is Professor of Social Anthropology at the
University of Manchester. His publications include Race and
Ethnicity in Latin America (1997); Music, Race and Nation (2000);
Race, Nature and Culture (2002); and Race and Sex in Latin America
(2009).
Race mixture, or mestizaje, has played a critical role in the
history, culture, and politics of Latin America. In Degrees of
Mixture, Degrees of Freedom, Peter Wade draws on a
multidisciplinary research study in Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia.
He shows how Latin American elites and outside observers have
emphasized mixture's democratizing potential, depicting it as a
useful resource for addressing problems of racism (claiming that
race mixture undoes racial difference and hierarchy), while Latin
American scientists participate in this narrative with claims that
genetic studies of mestizos can help isolate genetic contributors
to diabetes and obesity and improve health for all. Wade argues
that, in the process, genomics produces biologized versions of
racialized difference within the nation and the region, but a
comparative approach nuances the simple idea that highly racialized
societies give rise to highly racialized genomics. Wade examines
the tensions between mixture and purity, and between equality and
hierarchy in liberal political orders, exploring how ideas and
scientific data about genetic mixture are produced and circulate
through complex networks.
Taking a comparative approach, this textbook is a concise
introduction to race. Illustrated with detailed examples from
around the world, it is organised into two parts. Part I explores
the historical changes in ideas about race from the ancient world
to the present day, in different corners of the globe. Part II
outlines ways in which racial difference and inequality are
perceived and enacted in selected regions of the world. Examining
how humans have used ideas of physical appearance, heredity and
behaviour as criteria for categorising others, the text guides
students through provocative questions such as: what is race? Does
studying race reinforce racism? Does a colour-blind approach
dismantle, or merely mask, racism? How does biology feed into
concepts of race? Numerous case studies, photos, figures and tables
help students to appreciate the different meanings of race in
varied contexts, and end-of-chapter research tasks provide further
support for student learning.
For over ten years, "Race and Ethnicity in Latin America" has been
an essential text for students studying the region. This second
edition adds new material and brings the analysis up to date. Race
and ethnic identities are increasingly salient in Latin America.
Peter Wade examines changing perspectives on Black and Indian
populations in the region, tracing similarities and differences in
the way these peoples have been seen by academics and national
elites. Race and ethnicity as analytical concepts are re-examined
in order to assess their usefulness. This book should be the first
port of call for anthropologists and sociologists studying identity
in Latin America.
Long a favorite on dance floors in Latin America, the "porro,
cumbia, " and "vallenato" styles that make up Colombia's "musica
tropical" are now enjoying international success. How did this
music--which has its roots in a black, marginal region of the
country--manage, from the 1940s onward, to become so popular in a
nation that had prided itself on its white heritage? Peter Wade
explores the history of "musica tropical," analyzing its rise in
the context of the development of the broadcast media, rapid
urbanization, and regional struggles for power. Using archival
sources and oral histories, Wade shows how big band renditions of
"cumbia" and "porro" in the 1940s and 1950s suggested both old
traditions and new liberties, especially for women, speaking to a
deeply rooted image of black music as sensuous. Recently,
nostalgic, "whitened" versions of "musica tropical" have gained
popularity as part of government-sponsored multiculturalism.
Wade's fresh look at the way music transforms and is transformed by
ideologies of race, nation, sexuality, tradition, and modernity is
the first book-length study of Colombian popular music.
Race mixture, or mestizaje, has played a critical role in the
history, culture, and politics of Latin America. In Degrees of
Mixture, Degrees of Freedom, Peter Wade draws on a
multidisciplinary research study in Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia.
He shows how Latin American elites and outside observers have
emphasized mixture's democratizing potential, depicting it as a
useful resource for addressing problems of racism (claiming that
race mixture undoes racial difference and hierarchy), while Latin
American scientists participate in this narrative with claims that
genetic studies of mestizos can help isolate genetic contributors
to diabetes and obesity and improve health for all. Wade argues
that, in the process, genomics produces biologized versions of
racialized difference within the nation and the region, but a
comparative approach nuances the simple idea that highly racialized
societies give rise to highly racialized genomics. Wade examines
the tensions between mixture and purity, and between equality and
hierarchy in liberal political orders, exploring how ideas and
scientific data about genetic mixture are produced and circulate
through complex networks.
Drawing on extensive anthropological fieldwork, Peter Wade shows
how the concept of "blackness" and discrimination are deeply
embedded in different social levels and contexts--from region to
neighborhood, and from politics and economics to housing, marriage,
music, and personal identity.
In genetics laboratories in Latin America, scientists have been
mapping the genomes of local populations, seeking to locate the
genetic basis of complex diseases and to trace population
histories. As part of their work, geneticists often calculate the
European, African, and Amerindian genetic ancestry of populations.
Some researchers explicitly connect their findings to questions of
national identity and racial and ethnic difference, bringing their
research to bear on issues of politics and identity. Drawing on
ethnographic research in Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico, the
contributors to Mestizo Genomics explore how the concepts of race,
ethnicity, nation, and gender enter into and are affected by
genomic research. In Latin America, national identities are often
based on ideas about mestizaje (race mixture), rather than racial
division. Since mestizaje is said to involve relations between
European men and indigenous or African women, gender is a key
factor in Latin American genomics and in the analyses in this book.
Also important are links between contemporary genomics and recent
moves toward official multiculturalism in Brazil, Colombia, and
Mexico. One of the first studies of its kind, Mestizo Genomics
sheds new light on the interrelations between "race," identity, and
genomics in Latin America. Contributors. Adriana Diaz del Castillo
H., Roosbelinda Cardenas, Vivette Garcia Deister, Verlan Valle
Gaspar Neto, Michael Kent, Carlos Lopez Beltran, Maria Fernanda
Olarte Sierra, Eduardo Restrepo, Mariana Rios Sandoval, Ernesto
Schwartz-Marin, Ricardo Ventura Santos, Peter Wade
Most professionals who are currently involved with people, regarded
as having Asperger's syndrome, would recognize the condition as
high-functioning autism. Because of the level of intelligence,
related to people with Asperger's syndrome, the condition enables
the sufferer to develop coping strategies, with the support of
professionals. At present, there are professionals who have limited
knowledge of Asperger's syndrome, despite the availability of
information about the condition. The purpose of this book is to
give clear, concise information, from those who know about
Asperger's syndrome, at first hand.
One of the principal areas of difficulty for Aspergers lies in
social awareness and cohesion. This is referred to throughout this
book. This book also provides strategies for professionals, as well
as a map, to navigate through that which will facilitate a greater
comprehension of the difficulties faced by those with this
condition. This information is given with the proviso that
professional people work with people with the condition and meet
them half way, so that the AS person can fill-in the gaps on how
the condition affects them personally.
We believe that there is every reason for early intervention in
Asperger's syndrome. Early diagnoses of the condition will help to
avoid difficulties, which could effectively hamper an Asperger
child's development. It is unfortunate that people are being
diagnosed with the condition well into adulthood, by which time
other mental health problems have arisen, making it harder to
create strategies for the future.
In genetics laboratories in Latin America, scientists have been
mapping the genomes of local populations, seeking to locate the
genetic basis of complex diseases and to trace population
histories. As part of their work, geneticists often calculate the
European, African, and Amerindian genetic ancestry of populations.
Some researchers explicitly connect their findings to questions of
national identity and racial and ethnic difference, bringing their
research to bear on issues of politics and identity. Drawing on
ethnographic research in Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico, the
contributors to Mestizo Genomics explore how the concepts of race,
ethnicity, nation, and gender enter into and are affected by
genomic research. In Latin America, national identities are often
based on ideas about mestizaje (race mixture), rather than racial
division. Since mestizaje is said to involve relations between
European men and indigenous or African women, gender is a key
factor in Latin American genomics and in the analyses in this book.
Also important are links between contemporary genomics and recent
moves toward official multiculturalism in Brazil, Colombia, and
Mexico. One of the first studies of its kind, Mestizo Genomics
sheds new light on the interrelations between "race," identity, and
genomics in Latin America. Contributors. Adriana Diaz del Castillo
H., Roosbelinda Cardenas, Vivette Garcia Deister, Verlan Valle
Gaspar Neto, Michael Kent, Carlos Lopez Beltran, Maria Fernanda
Olarte Sierra, Eduardo Restrepo, Mariana Rios Sandoval, Ernesto
Schwartz-Marin, Ricardo Ventura Santos, Peter Wade
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