ABU-LUGHOD, LILA.

Silent Sentiments: Honor And Poetry In A Bedouin Society.

University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles: 1988. Softcover. Good condition. Anthropologist Lila Abu-Lughod lived with a community of Bedouins in the Western Desert of Egypt for nearly two years, studying the oral lyric poetry through which women and young me express personal feelings that violate their moral code. What begins as a puzzle about a single poetic genre becomes a reflection on the politics of sentiment and the relationship between ideology and human experience. Includes an Index. One of the most insightful and convicing works of person-centerd ethnography in recent years. It provides a model of how contextual knowledge can be used to interpret personal experience in another culture. - Robert LeVine, Harvard University
¶ 317 pages.

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ALLAND, JR., ALEXANDER.

Evolution And Human Behavior.

Natural History Press, Garden City: 1967. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition. Presents the new physical anthropology: it offers an original view of the human process and prepares the student of anthropology with a concise introductory background in Darwinian evolutionary theory, Mendelian genetics, and the biochemical structure of the hereditary materials, especially DNA. Includes an Index.
¶ 245 pages.

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ARCHER, W. G.; WALEY, ARTHUR (FOREWORD).

The Blue Grove: The Poetry Of The Uraons.

Grove Press, New York. Hardcover, no dustjacket. Good condition. The author's main objective in translating these songs of the Uraons, an aboriginal tribe of Dravidian stock concentrated in the western half of Chota Nagpur in Central India, was to convey as much as possible of their beauty. Concentrates on Dance Poems, Marriage Poems and Riddles. Includes an Index.
¶ 210 pages.

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ARDREY, ROBERT; ARDREY, BERDINE (DRAWINGS).

African Genesis: A Personal Investigation Into The Animal Origins And Nature Of Man.

Dell Publishing, New York: 1971. Softcover. Reading copy. Both covers are tattered. Presents the thesis that Homo sapiens developed from carnivorous, predatory killer apes and that man's age-old affinity for war and weapons is the natural result of this inherited animal instinct. Includes an Index. ...the most enjoyable and stimulating book on the evolution of man ... that has been published for some time. - The Nation.
¶ 384 pages.

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ARDREY, ROBERT; ARDREY, BERDINE (DRAWINGS).

African Genesis: A Personal Investigation Into The Animal Origins And Nature Of Man.

Dell, New York: 1961. Softcover. Reading copy. Presents the thesis that Homo sapiens developed from carnivorous, predatory killer apes and that man's age-old affinity for war and weapons is the natural result of this inherited animal instinct. Includes an Index. ...the most enjoyable and stimulating book on the evolution of man ... that has been published for some time. - The Nation.
¶ 380 pages.

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ARDREY, ROBERT; ARDREY, BERDINE (DRAWINGS).

African Genesis: A Personal Investigation Into The Animal Origins And Nature Of Man.

Atheneum, New York: 1961. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition. Presents the thesis that Homo sapiens developed from carnivorous, predatory killer apes and that man's age-old affinity for war and weapons is the natural result of this inherited animal instinct. Includes an Index. ...the most enjoyable and stimulating book on the evolution of man ... that has been published for some time. - The Nation.
¶ 380 pages.

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ARDREY, ROBERT; ARDREY, BERDINE (DRAWINGS).

The Territorial Imperative: A Personal Inquiry Into The Animal Origins Of Property And Nations.

Dell Publishing, New York: April 1971. Softcover. Reading copy. An intensive study of man's evolutionary nature and its profound implications. Includes an Index. Ardrey has made a remarkably thorough survey of what we know about territory in animals, and has boldly faced its possible implications for human behavior. . . . He has dramatized - but after all he is a dramatist, and what better subject could he have than life itself? His facts, as far as I can see, are accurate. And where he ventures opinions they are plainly labeled such. -Marston Bates, Professor Of Zoology, University Of Michigan.
¶ 355 pages.

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ARDREY, ROBERT; ARDREY, BERDINE (DRAWINGS).

The Territorial Imperative: A Personal Inquiry Into The Animal Origins Of Property And Nations.

Dell Publishing, New York: April 1968. Softcover. reading copy. An intensive study of man's evolutionary nature and its profound implications. Includes an Index. Ardrey has made a remarkably thorough survey of what we know about territory in animals, and has boldly faced its possible implications for human behavior. . . . He has dramatized - but after all he is a dramatist, and what better subject could he have than life itself? His facts, as far as I can see, are accurate. And where he ventures opinions they are plainly labeled such. -Marston Bates, Professor Of Zoology, University Of Michigan.
¶ 390 pages.

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BALIKCI, ASEN.

The Netsilik Eskimo

The Natural History Press, Garden City: 1970. Softcover. Good condition. An in depth study of the Netsilik Eskimo people, their technical ingenuity, their courage and sheer endurance in surviving one of the earth's harshest climates. Includes an Index.
¶ 264 pages.

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BARLEY, NIGEL; ROOUM, DONALD (ILLUSTRATOR).

Adventures In A Mud Hut: An Innocent Anthropologist Abroad.

The Vanguard Press, New York: 1983. Hardcover, no dustjacket. Good condition. An anthropologist writes about his time spent among a strangely neglected group of mountain pagans in North Cameroon, the Dowayos.
¶ 189 pages.

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BARNOUW, VICTOR.

Culture And Personality: The Dorsey Series In Anthropology.

The Dorsey Press, Homewood: 1976. Hardcover, no dustjacket. Good condition.
¶ 511 pages.

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BARNOUW, VICTOR.

An Introduction To Anthropology: Ethnology, Volume 2.

The Dorsey Press, Homewood: 1971. Softcover. reading copy.
¶ 358 pages.

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LA BARRE, WESTON.

The Human Animal.

University of Chicago Press, Chicago: 1954. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition. Some underlining in pencil. Dustjacket is worn and torn. Man's human nature is the result of the kind of body he has; and his culture is simply the most significant and conspicuous of his animal adaptations. Insisting upon this clear continuity between the physicl and the cultural, the author unites, with striking results, the biological discoveries of physical anthropology. Includes an Index.
¶ 372 pages.

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BASEDOW, HERBERT.

The Australian Aboriginal.

F. W. Preece and Sons, Adelaide: 1929. Hardcover, no dustjacket. good condition. Name of previous owner appears on front endpaper. Discusses the habits, laws, beliefs, and legends of the Australian aboriginals as well as the disastrous effects of those who have settled there on the native population. Includes 146 illustrations and photographs as well as an Index.
¶ 422 pages.

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BEATTIE, JOHN.

Other Cultures: Aims, Methods And Achievements In Social Anthropology.

The Free Press, New York: 1968. Softcover. Reading copy. Notes and undelining on pages.
¶ 283 pages.

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BEIDELMAN, T. O.

The Kaguru: A Matrilineal People Of East Africa.

Holt, Reinhart and Winston, NY: 1971. Softcover. Reading copy. An anthropological study of the Kaguru, a people living in east central Tanzania. Includes photographs.
¶ 134 pages.

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BENEDICT, RUTH.

The Chrysanthemun And The Sword: Patterns Of Japanese Culture.

New American Library, New York: 1974. Softcover. Reading copy. Covers the view of life of the people of Japan and their many-faceted view of themselves. Here are the main outlines of Japanese society, their curious system of practical ethics, their ideas of good and evil, and the structured disciplines that make the Japanese able to live according to their code. Includes an Index.
¶ 324 pages.

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BENEDICT, RUTH.

The Chrysanthemun And The Sword: Patterns Of Japanese Culture.

New American Library, New York: 1974. Softcover. Reading copy. Covers the view of life of the people of Japan and their many-faceted view of themselves. Here are the main outlines of Japanese society, their curious system of practical ethics, their ideas of good and evil, and the structured disciplines that make the Japanese able to live according to their code. Includes an Index.
¶ 324 pages

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BENEDICT, RUTH.

Patterns Of Culture.

Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston: 1959. Softcover. Reading copy. An indispensable introduction to the field of anthropology and a study of three sharply contrasting cultures. Includes an Index.
¶ 291 pages.

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BENEDICT, RUTH.

Patterns Of Culture.

The New American Library, New York: May 1949. Softcover. Reading copy. An analysis of our social structure as related to primitive civilizations and an indispensable introduction to the field of anthropology. Discusses a study of three sharply contrasting cultures. Includes an Index.
¶ 272 pages.

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BENEDICT, RUTH.

Patterns Of Culture.

Penguin Books, New York: January 1946. Softcover. Reading copy. An analysis of our social structure as related to primitive civilizations and an indispensable introduction to the field of anthropology. Discusses a study of three sharply contrasting cultures. Includes an Index.
¶ 272 pages.

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BENEDICT, RUTH.

Patterns Of Culture.

The New American Library, New York: 1958. Softcover. Fair condition. An analysis of our social structure as related to primitive civilizations and an indispensable introduction to the field of anthropology. Discusses a study of three sharply contrasting cultures. Includes an Index.
¶ 272 pages.

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BERNAL, IGNACIO.

The Mexican National Museum Of Anthropology.

Ediciones Lara, Yucatan: 1970. Softcover. Good condition.
¶ 216 pages.

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BESNIER, NIKO.

On The Edge Of The Global: Modern Anxieties In A

Stanford University Press, Palo Alto: 2011. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. Life in twenty-first century Tonga is rife with uncertainties. Though the postcolonial island kingdom may give the appearance of stability and order, there is a malaise that pervades everyday life, a disquiet rooted in the feeling that the twin forces of progress and development: and the seemingly inevitable wealth distribution that follows from them: have bypassed the society. Niko Besnier's illuminating ethnography analyzes the ways in which segments of this small-scale society grapple with their growing anxiety and hold on to different understandings of what modernity means. How should it be made relevant to local contexts? How it should mesh with practices and symbols of tradition? In the day-to-day lives of Tongans, the weight of transformations brought on by neoliberalism and democracy press not in the abstract, but in individually significant ways: how to make ends meet, how to pay lip service to tradition, and how to present a modern self without opening oneself to ridicule. Adopting a wide-angled perspective that brings together political, economic, cultural, and social concerns, this book focuses on the interface between the different forms that modern uncertainties take. Niko Besnier is Professor of Cultural Anthropology in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. He has also taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Yale University, Victoria University of Wellington, and UCLA. He is the author of five books, most recently, Gossip and the Everyday Production of Politics (2009). Niko Besnier is Professor of Cultural Anthropology in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. He has also taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Yale University, Victoria University of Wellington, and UCLA. He is the author of five books, most recently, Gossip and the Everyday Production of Politics (2009). Besnier takes us to Tongan beauty parlors, pageants, pawn shops, outdoor markets, church services and gyms to show how local 'modernities' and 'traditionalities' are enacted within disparate sites. His book, remarkable in its nuanced, respectful depiction of the emotional lives and intellectual perspectives of diverse informants, is wonderful in argument and ethnography.: Deborah Gewertz, Amherst College Ethnographically acute and open-eared, interpretively imaginative and principled, and always engaging, Besnier's book takes Tonga from 'the edge' to the center of new ways of thinking about 'the global.' Besnier's subtle attentiveness to the shape of both ordinary and extraordinary lives and events makes for a rich and theoretically provocative examination indeed.: Don Brenneis, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz This is a study of how modernity renders one anxious: anxious to be a part of it, and anxious not to lose oneself, or one's traditions, along the way. Keenly situated on the global edge, and on the edges of bodies and things, Besnier's study of Tonga as a nervous kaleidoscope: of make-up, make-over, bodybuilding, and the pawning and reselling of everyday things: is sharply observed and beautifully drawn. Clear, smart, witty, and touching.: Anne Allison, Professor of Anthropology, Duke University Life in twenty-first century Tonga is rife with uncertainties. Though the postcolonial island kingdom may give the appearance of stability and order, there is a malaise that pervades everyday life, a disquiet rooted in the feeling that the twin forces of progress and development: and the seemingly inevitable wealth distribution that follows from them: have bypassed the society. Niko Besnier's illuminating ethnography analyzes the ways in which segments of this small-scale society grapple with their growing anxiety and hold on to different understandings of what modernity means. How should it be made relevant to local contexts? How it should mesh with practices and symbols of tradition? In the day-to-day lives of Tongans, the weight of transformations brought on by neoliberalism and democracy press not in the abstract, but in individually significant ways: how to make ends meet, how to pay lip service to tradition, and how to present a modern self without opening oneself to ridicule. Adopting a wide-angled perspective that brings together political, economic, cultural, and social concerns, this book focuses on the interface between the different forms that modern uncertainties take. Niko Besnier is Professor of Cultural Anthropology in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. He has also taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Yale University, Victoria University of Wellington, and UCLA. He is the author of five books, most recently, Gossip and the Everyday Production of Politics (2009). Besnier takes us to Tongan beauty parlors, pageants, pawn shops, outdoor markets, church services and gyms to show how local 'modernities' and 'traditionalities' are enacted within disparate sites. His book, remarkable in its nuanced, respectful depiction of the emotional lives and intellectual perspectives of diverse informants, is wonderful in argument and ethnography.: Deborah Gewertz, Amherst College Ethnographically acute and open-eared, interpretively imaginative and principled, and always engaging, Besnier's book takes Tonga from 'the edge' to the center of new ways of thinking about 'the global.' Besnier's subtle attentiveness to the shape of both ordinary and extraordinary lives and events makes for a rich and theoretically provocative examination indeed.: Don Brenneis, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz This is a study of how modernity renders one anxious: anxious to be a part of it, and anxious not to lose oneself, or one's traditions, along the way. Keenly situated on the global edge, and on the edges of bodies and things, Besnier's study of Tonga as a nervous kaleidoscope: of make-up, make-over, bodybuilding, and the pawning and reselling of everyday things: is sharply observed and beautifully drawn. Clear, smart, witty, and touching.: Anne Allison, Professor of Anthropology, Duke University Life in twenty-first century Tonga is rife with uncertainties. Though the postcolonial island kingdom may give the appearance of stability and order, there is a malaise that pervades everyday life, a disquiet rooted in the feeling that the twin forces of progress and development: and the seemingly inevitable wealth distribution that follows from them: have bypassed the society. Niko Besnier's illuminating ethnography analyzes the ways in which segments of this small-scale society grapple with their growing anxiety and hold on to different understandings of what modernity means. How should it be made relevant to local contexts? How it should mesh with practices and symbols of tradition? In the day-to-day lives of Tongans, the weight of transformations brought on by neoliberalism and democracy press not in the abstract, but in individually significant ways: how to make ends meet, how to pay lip service to tradition, and how to present a modern self without opening oneself to ridicule. Adopting a wide-angled perspective that brings together political, economic, cultural, and social concerns, this book focuses on the interface between the different forms that modern uncertainties take. Niko Besnier is Professor of Cultural Anthropology in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. He has also taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Yale University, Victoria University of Wellington, and UCLA. He is the author of five books, most recently, Gossip and the Everyday Production of Politics (2009). Besnier takes us to Tongan beauty parlors, pageants, pawn shops, outdoor markets, church services and gyms to show how local 'modernities' and 'traditionalities' are enacted within disparate sites. His book, remarkable in its nuanced, respectful depiction of the emotional lives and intellectual perspectives of diverse informants, is wonderful in argument and ethnography.: Deborah Gewertz, Amherst College Ethnographically acute and open-eared, interpretively imaginative and principled, and always engaging, Besnier's book takes Tonga from 'the edge' to the center of new ways of thinking about 'the global.' Besnier's subtle attentiveness to the shape of both ordinary and extraordinary lives and events makes for a rich and theoretically provocative examination indeed.: Don Brenneis, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz This is a study of how modernity renders one anxious: anxious to be a part of it, and anxious not to lose oneself, or one's traditions, along the way. Keenly situated on the global edge, and on the edges of bodies and things, Besnier's study of Tonga as a nervous kaleidoscope: of make-up, make-over, bodybuilding, and the pawning and reselling of everyday things: is sharply observed and beautifully drawn. Clear, smart, witty, and touching.: Anne Allison, Professor of Anthropology, Duke University Life in twenty-first century Tonga is rife with uncertainties. Though the postcolonial island kingdom may give the appearance of stability and order, there is a malaise that pervades everyday life, a disquiet rooted in the feeling that the twin forces of progress and development: and the seemingly inevitable wealth distribution that follows from them: have bypassed the society. Niko Besnier's illuminating ethnography analyzes the ways in which segments of this small-scale society grapple with their growing anxiety and hold on to different understandings of what modernity means. How should it be made relevant to local contexts? How it should mesh with practices and symbols of tradition? In the day-to-day lives of Tongans, the weight of transformations brought on by neoliberalism and democracy press not in the abstract, but in individually significant ways: how to make ends meet, how to pay lip service to tradition, and how to present a modern self without opening oneself to ridicule. Adopting a wide-angled perspective that brings together political, economic, cultural, and social concerns, this book focuses on the interface between the different forms that modern uncertainties take. Niko Besnier is Professor of Cultural Anthropology in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. He has also taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Yale University, Victoria University of Wellington, and UCLA. He is the author of five books, most recently, Gossip and the Everyday Production of Politics (2009). Besnier takes us to Tongan beauty parlors, pageants, pawn shops, outdoor markets, church services and gyms to show how local 'modernities' and 'traditionalities' are enacted within disparate sites. His book, remarkable in its nuanced, respectful depiction of the emotional lives and intellectual perspectives of diverse informants, is wonderful in argument and ethnography.: Deborah Gewertz, Amherst College Ethnographically acute and open-eared, interpretively imaginative and principled, and always engaging, Besnier's book takes Tonga from 'the edge' to the center of new ways of thinking about 'the global.' Besnier's subtle attentiveness to the shape of both ordinary and extraordinary lives and events makes for a rich and theoretically provocative examination indeed.: Don Brenneis, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz This is a study of how modernity renders one anxious: anxious to be a part of it, and anxious not to lose oneself, or one's traditions, along the way. Keenly situated on the global edge, and on the edges of bodies and things, Besnier's study of Tonga as a nervous kaleidoscope: of make-up, make-over, bodybuilding, and the pawning and reselling of everyday things: is sharply observed and beautifully drawn. Clear, smart, witty, and touching.: Anne Allison, Professor of Anthropology, Duke University Life in twenty-first century Tonga is rife with uncertainties. Though the postcolonial island kingdom may give the appearance of stability and order, there is a malaise that pervades everyday life, a disquiet rooted in the feeling that the twin forces of progress and development: and the seemingly inevitable wealth distribution that follows from them: have bypassed the society. Niko Besnier's illuminating ethnography analyzes the ways in which segments of this small-scale society grapple with their growing anxiety and hold on to different understandings of what modernity means. How should it be made relevant to local contexts? How it should mesh with practices and symbols of tradition? In the day-to-day lives of Tongans, the weight of transformations brought on by neoliberalism and democracy press not in the abstract, but in individually significant ways: how to make ends meet, how to pay lip service to tradition, and how to present a modern self without opening oneself to ridicule. Adopting a wide-angled perspective that brings together political, economic, cultural, and social concerns, this book focuses on the interface between the different forms that modern uncertainties take. Niko Besnier is Professor of Cultural Anthropology in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. He has also taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Yale University, Victoria University of Wellington, and UCLA. He is the author of five books, most recently, Gossip and the Everyday Production of Politics (2009). Besnier takes us to Tongan beauty parlors, pageants, pawn shops, outdoor markets, church services and gyms to show how local 'modernities' and 'traditionalities' are enacted within disparate sites. His book, remarkable in its nuanced, respectful depiction of the emotional lives and intellectual perspectives of diverse informants, is wonderful in argument and ethnography.: Deborah Gewertz, Amherst College Ethnographically acute and open-eared, interpretively imaginative and principled, and always engaging, Besnier's book takes Tonga from 'the edge' to the center of new ways of thinking about 'the global.' Besnier's subtle attentiveness to the shape of both ordinary and extraordinary lives and events makes for a rich and theoretically provocative examination indeed.: Don Brenneis, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz This is a study of how modernity renders one anxious: anxious to be a part of it, and anxious not to lose oneself, or one's traditions, along the way. Keenly situated on the global edge, and on the edges of bodies and things, Besnier's study of Tonga as a nervous kaleidoscope: of make-up, make-over, bodybuilding, and the pawning and reselling of everyday things: is sharply observed and beautifully drawn. Clear, smart, witty, and touching.: Anne Allison, Professor of Anthropology, Duke University
¶ 328 pages.

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On The Edge Of The Global: Modern Anxieties In A

Stanford University Press, Palo Alto: 2011. Softcover. Brand new book. Life in twenty-first century Tonga is rife with uncertainties. Though the postcolonial island kingdom may give the appearance of stability and order, there is a malaise that pervades everyday life, a disquiet rooted in the feeling that the twin forces of progress and development: and the seemingly inevitable wealth distribution that follows from them: have bypassed the society. Niko Besnier's illuminating ethnography analyzes the ways in which segments of this small-scale society grapple with their growing anxiety and hold on to different understandings of what modernity means. How should it be made relevant to local contexts? How it should mesh with practices and symbols of tradition? In the day-to-day lives of Tongans, the weight of transformations brought on by neoliberalism and democracy press not in the abstract, but in individually significant ways: how to make ends meet, how to pay lip service to tradition, and how to present a modern self without opening oneself to ridicule. Adopting a wide-angled perspective that brings together political, economic, cultural, and social concerns, this book focuses on the interface between the different forms that modern uncertainties take. Niko Besnier is Professor of Cultural Anthropology in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. He has also taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Yale University, Victoria University of Wellington, and UCLA. He is the author of five books, most recently, Gossip and the Everyday Production of Politics (2009). Niko Besnier is Professor of Cultural Anthropology in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. He has also taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Yale University, Victoria University of Wellington, and UCLA. He is the author of five books, most recently, Gossip and the Everyday Production of Politics (2009). Besnier takes us to Tongan beauty parlors, pageants, pawn shops, outdoor markets, church services and gyms to show how local 'modernities' and 'traditionalities' are enacted within disparate sites. His book, remarkable in its nuanced, respectful depiction of the emotional lives and intellectual perspectives of diverse informants, is wonderful in argument and ethnography.: Deborah Gewertz, Amherst College Ethnographically acute and open-eared, interpretively imaginative and principled, and always engaging, Besnier's book takes Tonga from 'the edge' to the center of new ways of thinking about 'the global.' Besnier's subtle attentiveness to the shape of both ordinary and extraordinary lives and events makes for a rich and theoretically provocative examination indeed.: Don Brenneis, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz This is a study of how modernity renders one anxious: anxious to be a part of it, and anxious not to lose oneself, or one's traditions, along the way. Keenly situated on the global edge, and on the edges of bodies and things, Besnier's study of Tonga as a nervous kaleidoscope: of make-up, make-over, bodybuilding, and the pawning and reselling of everyday things: is sharply observed and beautifully drawn. Clear, smart, witty, and touching.: Anne Allison, Professor of Anthropology, Duke University Life in twenty-first century Tonga is rife with uncertainties. Though the postcolonial island kingdom may give the appearance of stability and order, there is a malaise that pervades everyday life, a disquiet rooted in the feeling that the twin forces of progress and development: and the seemingly inevitable wealth distribution that follows from them: have bypassed the society. Niko Besnier's illuminating ethnography analyzes the ways in which segments of this small-scale society grapple with their growing anxiety and hold on to different understandings of what modernity means. How should it be made relevant to local contexts? How it should mesh with practices and symbols of tradition? In the day-to-day lives of Tongans, the weight of transformations brought on by neoliberalism and democracy press not in the abstract, but in individually significant ways: how to make ends meet, how to pay lip service to tradition, and how to present a modern self without opening oneself to ridicule. Adopting a wide-angled perspective that brings together political, economic, cultural, and social concerns, this book focuses on the interface between the different forms that modern uncertainties take. Niko Besnier is Professor of Cultural Anthropology in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. He has also taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Yale University, Victoria University of Wellington, and UCLA. He is the author of five books, most recently, Gossip and the Everyday Production of Politics (2009). Besnier takes us to Tongan beauty parlors, pageants, pawn shops, outdoor markets, church services and gyms to show how local 'modernities' and 'traditionalities' are enacted within disparate sites. His book, remarkable in its nuanced, respectful depiction of the emotional lives and intellectual perspectives of diverse informants, is wonderful in argument and ethnography.: Deborah Gewertz, Amherst College Ethnographically acute and open-eared, interpretively imaginative and principled, and always engaging, Besnier's book takes Tonga from 'the edge' to the center of new ways of thinking about 'the global.' Besnier's subtle attentiveness to the shape of both ordinary and extraordinary lives and events makes for a rich and theoretically provocative examination indeed.: Don Brenneis, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz This is a study of how modernity renders one anxious: anxious to be a part of it, and anxious not to lose oneself, or one's traditions, along the way. Keenly situated on the global edge, and on the edges of bodies and things, Besnier's study of Tonga as a nervous kaleidoscope: of make-up, make-over, bodybuilding, and the pawning and reselling of everyday things: is sharply observed and beautifully drawn. Clear, smart, witty, and touching.: Anne Allison, Professor of Anthropology, Duke University Life in twenty-first century Tonga is rife with uncertainties. Though the postcolonial island kingdom may give the appearance of stability and order, there is a malaise that pervades everyday life, a disquiet rooted in the feeling that the twin forces of progress and development: and the seemingly inevitable wealth distribution that follows from them: have bypassed the society. Niko Besnier's illuminating ethnography analyzes the ways in which segments of this small-scale society grapple with their growing anxiety and hold on to different understandings of what modernity means. How should it be made relevant to local contexts? How it should mesh with practices and symbols of tradition? In the day-to-day lives of Tongans, the weight of transformations brought on by neoliberalism and democracy press not in the abstract, but in individually significant ways: how to make ends meet, how to pay lip service to tradition, and how to present a modern self without opening oneself to ridicule. Adopting a wide-angled perspective that brings together political, economic, cultural, and social concerns, this book focuses on the interface between the different forms that modern uncertainties take. Niko Besnier is Professor of Cultural Anthropology in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. He has also taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Yale University, Victoria University of Wellington, and UCLA. He is the author of five books, most recently, Gossip and the Everyday Production of Politics (2009). Besnier takes us to Tongan beauty parlors, pageants, pawn shops, outdoor markets, church services and gyms to show how local 'modernities' and 'traditionalities' are enacted within disparate sites. His book, remarkable in its nuanced, respectful depiction of the emotional lives and intellectual perspectives of diverse informants, is wonderful in argument and ethnography.: Deborah Gewertz, Amherst College Ethnographically acute and open-eared, interpretively imaginative and principled, and always engaging, Besnier's book takes Tonga from 'the edge' to the center of new ways of thinking about 'the global.' Besnier's subtle attentiveness to the shape of both ordinary and extraordinary lives and events makes for a rich and theoretically provocative examination indeed.: Don Brenneis, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz This is a study of how modernity renders one anxious: anxious to be a part of it, and anxious not to lose oneself, or one's traditions, along the way. Keenly situated on the global edge, and on the edges of bodies and things, Besnier's study of Tonga as a nervous kaleidoscope: of make-up, make-over, bodybuilding, and the pawning and reselling of everyday things: is sharply observed and beautifully drawn. Clear, smart, witty, and touching.: Anne Allison, Professor of Anthropology, Duke University Life in twenty-first century Tonga is rife with uncertainties. Though the postcolonial island kingdom may give the appearance of stability and order, there is a malaise that pervades everyday life, a disquiet rooted in the feeling that the twin forces of progress and development: and the seemingly inevitable wealth distribution that follows from them: have bypassed the society. Niko Besnier's illuminating ethnography analyzes the ways in which segments of this small-scale society grapple with their growing anxiety and hold on to different understandings of what modernity means. How should it be made relevant to local contexts? How it should mesh with practices and symbols of tradition? In the day-to-day lives of Tongans, the weight of transformations brought on by neoliberalism and democracy press not in the abstract, but in individually significant ways: how to make ends meet, how to pay lip service to tradition, and how to present a modern self without opening oneself to ridicule. Adopting a wide-angled perspective that brings together political, economic, cultural, and social concerns, this book focuses on the interface between the different forms that modern uncertainties take. Niko Besnier is Professor of Cultural Anthropology in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. He has also taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Yale University, Victoria University of Wellington, and UCLA. He is the author of five books, most recently, Gossip and the Everyday Production of Politics (2009). Besnier takes us to Tongan beauty parlors, pageants, pawn shops, outdoor markets, church services and gyms to show how local 'modernities' and 'traditionalities' are enacted within disparate sites. His book, remarkable in its nuanced, respectful depiction of the emotional lives and intellectual perspectives of diverse informants, is wonderful in argument and ethnography.: Deborah Gewertz, Amherst College Ethnographically acute and open-eared, interpretively imaginative and principled, and always engaging, Besnier's book takes Tonga from 'the edge' to the center of new ways of thinking about 'the global.' Besnier's subtle attentiveness to the shape of both ordinary and extraordinary lives and events makes for a rich and theoretically provocative examination indeed.: Don Brenneis, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz This is a study of how modernity renders one anxious: anxious to be a part of it, and anxious not to lose oneself, or one's traditions, along the way. Keenly situated on the global edge, and on the edges of bodies and things, Besnier's study of Tonga as a nervous kaleidoscope: of make-up, make-over, bodybuilding, and the pawning and reselling of everyday things: is sharply observed and beautifully drawn. Clear, smart, witty, and touching.: Anne Allison, Professor of Anthropology, Duke University Life in twenty-first century Tonga is rife with uncertainties. Though the postcolonial island kingdom may give the appearance of stability and order, there is a malaise that pervades everyday life, a disquiet rooted in the feeling that the twin forces of progress and development: and the seemingly inevitable wealth distribution that follows from them: have bypassed the society. Niko Besnier's illuminating ethnography analyzes the ways in which segments of this small-scale society grapple with their growing anxiety and hold on to different understandings of what modernity means. How should it be made relevant to local contexts? How it should mesh with practices and symbols of tradition? In the day-to-day lives of Tongans, the weight of transformations brought on by neoliberalism and democracy press not in the abstract, but in individually significant ways: how to make ends meet, how to pay lip service to tradition, and how to present a modern self without opening oneself to ridicule. Adopting a wide-angled perspective that brings together political, economic, cultural, and social concerns, this book focuses on the interface between the different forms that modern uncertainties take. Niko Besnier is Professor of Cultural Anthropology in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. He has also taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Yale University, Victoria University of Wellington, and UCLA. He is the author of five books, most recently, Gossip and the Everyday Production of Politics (2009). Besnier takes us to Tongan beauty parlors, pageants, pawn shops, outdoor markets, church services and gyms to show how local 'modernities' and 'traditionalities' are enacted within disparate sites. His book, remarkable in its nuanced, respectful depiction of the emotional lives and intellectual perspectives of diverse informants, is wonderful in argument and ethnography.: Deborah Gewertz, Amherst College Ethnographically acute and open-eared, interpretively imaginative and principled, and always engaging, Besnier's book takes Tonga from 'the edge' to the center of new ways of thinking about 'the global.' Besnier's subtle attentiveness to the shape of both ordinary and extraordinary lives and events makes for a rich and theoretically provocative examination indeed.: Don Brenneis, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz This is a study of how modernity renders one anxious: anxious to be a part of it, and anxious not to lose oneself, or one's traditions, along the way. Keenly situated on the global edge, and on the edges of bodies and things, Besnier's study of Tonga as a nervous kaleidoscope: of make-up, make-over, bodybuilding, and the pawning and reselling of everyday things: is sharply observed and beautifully drawn. Clear, smart, witty, and touching.: Anne Allison, Professor of Anthropology, Duke University
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