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Content: It is a classical anthropological paradox that symbols of rebirth and fertility are frequently found in funerary rituals throughout the world. The original essays collected here re-examine this phenomenon through insights from China, India, New Guinea, Latin America, and Africa. The contributors, each a specialist in one of these areas, have worked in close collaboration to produce a genuinely innovative theoretical approach to the study of the symbolism surrounding death, an outline of which is provided in an important introduction by the editors. The major concern of the volume is the way in which funerary rituals dramatically transform the image of life as a dialectic flux involving exchange and transaction, marriage and procreation, into an image of a still, transcendental order in which oppositions such as those between self and other, wife-giver and wife-taker, Brahmin and untouchable, birth and therefore death have been abolished. This transformation often involves a general devaluation of biology, and, particularly, of sexuality, which is contrasted with a more spiritual and controlled source of life. The role of women, who are frequently associated with biological processes, mourning and death pollution, is often predominant in funerary rituals, and in examining this book makes a further contribution to the understanding of the symbolism of gender. The death rituals and the symbolism of rebirth are also analysed in the context of the political processes of the different societies considered, and it is argued that social order and political organisation may be legitimated through an exploitation of the emotions and biology.

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). , Introduction / Maurice Bloch and Jonathan Parry -- The dead and the devils among the Bolivian Laymi / Olivia Harris -- Sacrificial death and the necrophagous ascetic / Jonathan Parry -- Witchcraft, greed, cannibalism and death / Andrew Strathern -- Lugbara death / John Middleton -- Of flesh and bones / James L. Watson -- Social dimensions of death in four African hunting and gathering societies / James Woodburn -- Death, women, and power / Maurice Bloch.

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ISBN: 9780511621659 (ebook)

Content: This volume deals with the way in which money is symbolically represented in a range of different cultures, from South and South-east Asia, Africa and South America. It is also concerned with the moral evaluation of monetary and commercial exchanges as against exchanges of other kinds. The essays cast radical doubt on many Western assumptions about money: that it is the acid which corrodes community, depersonalises human relationships, and reduces differences of quality to those of mere quantity; that it is the instrument of man's freedom, and so on. Rather than supporting the proposition that money produces easily specifiable changes in world view, the emphasis here is on the way in which existing world views and economic systems give rise to particular ways of representing money. But this highly relativistic conclusion is qualified once we shift the focus from money to the system of exchange as a whole. One rather general pattern that then begins to emerge is of two separate but related transactional orders, the majority of systems making some ideological space for relatively impersonal, competitive and individual acquisitive activity. This implies that even in a non-monetary economy these features are likely to exist within a certain sphere of activity, and that it is therefore misleading to attribute them to money. By so doing, a contrast within cultures is turned into a contrast between cultures, thereby reinforcing the notion that money itself has the power to transform the nature of social relationships.

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). , Introduction: Money and the morality of exchange / , Misconceiving the grain heap: a critique of the concept of the Indian jajmani system / , On the moral perils of exchange / , Money, men and women / , Cooking money: gender and the symbolic transformation of means of exchange in a Malay fishing community / , Drinking cash: the purification of money through ceremonial exchange in Fiji / , The symbolism of money in Imerina / , Resistance to the present by the past: mediums and money in Zimbabwe / , Precious metals in the Andean moral economy / , The earth and the state: the sources and meanings of money in Northern Potosi, Bolivia /

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Content: Classes of Labour: Work and Life in a Central Indian Steel Town is a classic in the social sciences. The rigour and richness of the ethnographic data of this book and its analysis is matched only by its literary style. This magnum opus of 732 pages, an outcome of fieldwork covering twenty-one years, complete with diagrams and photographs, reads like an epic novel, difficult to put down. Professor Jonathan Parry looks at a context in which the manual workforce is divided into distinct social classes, which have a clear sense of themselves as separate and interests that are sometimes opposed. The relationship between them may even be one of exploitation; and they are associated with different lifestyles and outlooks, kinship and marriage practices, and suicide patterns. A central concern is with the intersection between class, caste, gender and regional ethnicity, with how class trumps caste in most contexts and with how classes have become increasingly structured as the structuration' of castes has declined. The wider theoretical ambition is to specify the general conditions under which the so-called working class' has any realistic prospect of unity.

Note: 11.2: Ankalu's errant wife , Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on the Text -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Glossary -- Part 1: Context -- Chapter 1: Introduction: A Symbol and a Portent -- 1.1: Preamble -- 1.2: A 'tragedy of development'? -- 1.3: An instantiation of the dream? -- 1.4: A short guide to the text -- Chapter 2: Classes of Labour -- 2.1: The temptations of teleology -- 2.2: On the concept of class -- 2.3: Citadel or mountain? -- 2.4: Naukri and kam -- 2.5: Jobs as property , 2.6: A summary conclusion -- Chapter 3: Building Bhilai -- 3.1: An Industrial 'monoculture' -- 3.2: Pioneer stories and the development of class differentiation -- 3.3: The space of the town -- 3.4: Peripheral bastis -- 3.5: Of settlers and sojourners -- 3.6: A summary conclusion -- Chapter 4: The Price of Modernity -- 4.1: Preamble -- 4.2: Displacement -- 4.3: Churning -- 4.4: In the happy world of the fields -- 4.5: Sacrifice -- 4.6: A summary conclusion -- Part 2: Work -- Chapter 5: A Post in the Plant -- 5.1: Framing -- 5.2: Recruitment and the reproduction of the workforce , 5.3: Reservations -- 5.4: Compassionate appointments -- 5.5: 'Source' and 'note' -- 5.6: Promotions -- 5.7: The size of the purse -- 5.8: Moonlighting -- 5.9: The status situation of BSP workers -- 5.10: A summary conclusion -- Chapter 6: The Work Situation of BSP Labour -- 6.1: Preamble -- 6.2: On the shop floor in the 1990s -- 6.3: Changes on the shop floor (2006) -- 6.4: Contract labour in the Plant -- 6.5: The working world of contract labour -- 6.6: Union politics in the Plant -- 6.7: The unions in the mines -- 6.8: A summary conclusion -- Chapter 7: Private Sector Industry -- 7.1: Framing , 7.2: Private industry and the public sector -- 7.3: The unions, the employers and the state -- 7.4: The Kedia unions -- 7.5: On the shop floor -- a case history -- 7.6: Differentiation -- 7.7: Demand labour -- 7.8: A summary conclusion -- Chapter 8: Informal Sector Labour and the Construction of Class -- 8.1: Framing -- 8.2: The character of construction labour -- 8.3: The labour chauris -- 8.4: Sex on site -- 8.5: Sex and class -- 8.6: A comparative note on recycling work -- 8.7: A summary conclusion -- Part 3: Life -- Chapter 9: Caste and Class in the Neighbourhood -- 9.1: Framing , 9.2: From village to labour colony -- 9.3: Livelihoods -- 9.4: Indebtedness -- 9.5: Conflict and violence in the neighbourhood -- 9.6: Class differentiation in the basti -- 9.7: Caste in the neighbourhood -- 9.8: Caste 'atrocities' -- 9.9: A summary conclusion -- Chapter 10: Growing Up -- Growing Apart -- 10.1: Preamble -- 10.2: The changed context of childhood -- 10.3: Childhood as a ticking clock -- 10.4: The work children do -- 10.5: Shalini's class -- 10.6: The end of childhood -- 10.7: Caste, class and childhood: A summary conclusion -- Chapter 11: Marriage and Remarriage -- 11.1: Framing

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Series Statement: Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy ; Volume 4

Additional Edition: Print version: Industrial labor on the margins of capitalism : precarity, class, and the neoliberal subject. New York, [New York] ; Oxford, [England] : Berghahn Books, c2018 ISBN 9781785336782

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Series Statement: London School of Economics monographs on social anthropology Volume 76

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Content: Bringing together ethnographic case studies of industrial labor from different parts of the world, Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism explores the increasing casualization of workforces and the weakening power of organized labor. This division owes much to state policies and is reflected in local understandings of class. By exploring this relationship, these essays question the claim that neoliberal ideology has become the new ‘commonsense’ of our times and suggest various propositions about the conditions that create employment regimes based on flexible labor.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , List of Illustrations -- , Preface -- , Introduction. Precarity, Class, and the Neoliberal Subject -- , Chapter 1. Varieties of Capital, Fracture of Labor -- , Chapter 2. Miners and Their Children -- , Chapter 3. Work, Precarity, and Resistance -- , Chapter 4. Regular Work in Decline, Precarious Households, and Changing Solidarities in Bulgaria -- , Chapter 5. Precarious Labor and Precarious Livelihoods in an Indian Company Town -- , Chapter 6. Regimes of Precarity -- , Chapter 7. Between God and the State -- , Chapter 8. The (Un-)Making of Labor -- , Chapter 9. Relative Precarity -- , Chapter 10. From Avtoritet and Autonomy to Self-Exploitation in the Russian Automotive Industry -- , Chapter 11. Precarity, Guanxi, and the Informal Economy of Peasant Workers in Contemporary China -- , Chapter 12. From Dispossessed Factory Workers to “Microentrepreneurs” -- , Chapter 13. Towards a Political Economy of Skill and Garment Work -- , Chapter 14. From Casual to Permanent Work -- , Afterword. Third Wave Marketization -- , Index , In English.

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Content: A history of the British Empire's early involvement in the Middle East. Charting the development of Britain's political interest in the Middle East from the Napoleonic Wars to the Crimean War in the 1850s, Jonathan Parry examines the various strategies employed by British and Indian officials, describing how they sought influence with local Arabs, Mamluks, Kurds, Christians, and Jews.

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Format: 1 online resource (xiv, 432 pages)

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ISBN: 9781315146973 , 9781351378055

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Content: A major history of the British Empire's early involvement in the Middle EastNapoleon's invasion of Egypt in 1798 showed how vulnerable India was to attack by France and Russia. It forced the British Empire to try to secure the two routes that a European might use to reach the subcontinent-through Egypt and the Red Sea, and through Baghdad and the Persian Gulf. Promised Lands is a panoramic history of this vibrant and explosive age.Charting the development of Britain's political interest in the Middle East from the Napoleonic Wars to the Crimean War in the 1850s, Jonathan Parry examines the various strategies employed by British and Indian officials, describing how they sought influence with local Arabs, Mamluks, Kurds, Christians, and Jews. He tells a story of commercial and naval power-boosted by the arrival of steamships in the 1830s-and discusses how classical and biblical history fed into British visions of what these lands might become. The region was subject to the Ottoman Empire, yet the Sultan's grip on it appeared weak. Should Ottoman claims to sovereignty be recognised and exploited, or ignored and opposed? Could the Sultan's government be made to support British objectives, or would it always favour France or Russia?Promised Lands shows how what started as a geopolitical contest became a drama about diplomatic competition, religion, race, and the unforeseen consequences of history.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , List of Maps -- , Preliminary Note -- , Introduction -- , The Lands, Their Rulers, and Their Aggressors -- , Strategies and Visions -- , The Claims of Chronology -- , A Tale of Two Obelisks -- , Chapter 1 -- , Napoleon, India, and the Battle for Egypt -- , Grenville, the Eurocentric Approach, and Sidney Smith -- , Dundas, India, and the Blue Water Strategy -- , Chapter 2 -- , Sealing off Egypt and the Red Sea -- , The Search for Stability in Egypt, 1801-3 -- , Egyptian Chaos, the French Threat, and the British Response, 1803-7 -- , The Red Sea: Popham and Valentia, Arabs and Abyssinians -- , Chapter 3 -- , Striving for Leverage in Baghdad -- , Harford Jones: Failure of the Dundas Strategy -- , Claudius Rich: Pomp and Mediation in an Indian Outstation -- , The Wahhabi, the Qawasim, and British Sea Power in the Gulf -- , "Our Koordistan": The Extraordinary Ambitions of Claudius Rich -- , Rich's Legacy -- , Chapter 4 -- , Filling the Arabian Vacuum: Steam, the Arabs, and the Defence of India in the 1830s -- , Ottoman Collapse and Russian Threat -- , Steam and Plague: Progress and Decay -- , Steamers and Arabs in Mesopotamia -- , Steam, the Red Sea, and Southern Arabia -- , Hobhouse, Palmerston, the Middle East, and India -- , Chapter 5 -- , Britain, Egypt, and Syria in the Heyday of Mehmet Ali -- , Samuel Briggs and the Afterlife of the Levant Company -- , Economic and Cultural Exchanges -- , Steam and the Two Faces of Mehmet Ali's Egypt -- , Benthamism, Islam, and the Pursuit of Good Government in Egypt -- , Syria, Liberalism, and the Russian Threat to Asia -- , New Voices on Syria: Embassy Ottomanists and Christian Tourists -- , Chapter 6 -- , Constantinople, London, the Eastern Crisis, and the Middle East -- , David Urquhart, Islam, and Free Commerce -- , Factional Gridlock at Constantinople -- , Ending the Stalemate -- , Britain, France, and the Future of Syria -- , Reshid, Richard Wood, and the Edict of Gülhane -- , Napier or Wood, Smith or Elgin, Cairo or Constantinople? -- , Chapter 7 -- , The Brief History of British Religious Sectarianism in Syria and Kurdistan -- , Protestant Missions and Eastern Christians -- , Jerusalem, City of Sin -- , The Appeal to Jews and Its Limits -- , The War of Institutional Christianity over Syria -- , The Druze and the Perils of Sectarianism in Syria -- , The Nestorians of Kurdistan -- , Chapter 8 -- , Confining the Sectarian Problem: Syria, Kurdistan, France, and the Porte -- , Finding a Balance in Lebanon -- , Persecution, Protestantism, and the Tanzimat -- , Institutionalising Protestant Weakness -- , The Problem of Order in Kurdistan -- , Britain, France, and Religious Protection in the New Kurdistan -- , Chapter 9 -- , Stratford Canning and the Politics of Christianity and Islam -- , Canning, Russia, and Islam -- , Palmerston, Canning, and the Liberal Project -- , Henry Layard and the Lessons of Nineveh -- , Chapter 10 -- , The Ring of Steam, the Lands of Islam, and the Search for Order -- , Ottoman Sovereignty and the Persian Border -- , Conflicts with Ottomanism: Muhammara and the Gulf -- , Steam Power, Economic Improvement, and Regional Security in Baghdad -- , Aden: A New Centre of Stability -- , The French, the Ottomans, and the Western Red Sea Harbours -- , Chapter 11 -- , The British Corridor in Egypt -- , England in Egypt, Egypt in England -- , Mehmet Ali and the Transit -- , Abbas and the Railway Project -- , A Rage for Order -- , The French and the Sultan -- , Chapter 12 -- , Jerusalem and the Crimean War -- , Unholy Places -- , Whose War? -- , Conclusion -- , Acknowledgments -- , Bibliography -- , Index , Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English.

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