Eastern Christians in Anthropological Perspective (Volume 9) (The Anthropology of Christianity)

Sociocultural anthropologists have taken increasing interest in the global communities established by Roman Catholic and Protestant churches, but the many streams of Eastern Christianity have so far been neglected. Eastern Christians in Anthropological Perspective fills this gap in the literature. The essays in this pioneering collection examine the primary distinguishing features of the Eastern traditions―iconography, hymnology, ritual, and pilgrimage―through meticulous ethnographic analysis. Particular attention is paid to the revitalization of Orthodox and Greek Catholic churches that were repressed under Marxist-Leninist regimes.

Politics & Social Sciences

Hann, Chris

Goltz, Hermann

Anthropology

University of California Press

Economic Anthropology

This book is a new introduction to the history and practice of economic anthropology by two leading authors in the field. They show that anthropologists have contributed to understanding the three great questions of modern economic history: development, socialism and one-world capitalism. In doing so, they connect economic anthropology to its roots in Western philosophy, social theory and world history. 
Up to the Second World War anthropologists tried and failed to interest economists in their exotic findings. They then launched a vigorous debate over whether an approach taken from economics was appropriate to the study of non-industrial economies. Since the 1970s, they have developed a critique of capitalism based on studying it at home as well as abroad. The authors aim to rejuvenate economic anthropology as a humanistic project at a time when the global financial crisis has undermined confidence in free market economics. They argue for the continued relevance of predecessors such as Marcel Mauss and Karl Polanyi, while offering an incisive review of recent work in this field. Economic Anthropology is an excellent introduction for social science students at all levels, and it presents general readers with a challenging perspective on the world economy today. Selected by Choice as a 2013 Outstanding Academic Title

Hart, Keith

Polity

Business & Money

Economics

Turkish Region: Culture and Civilization on the East Black Sea Coast (World Anthropology)

Based on fieldwork carried out between 1983 and 1999, this is an exploration of contemporary social identities in a little-known region of Turkey's eastern Black Sea coast abutting the border with the Republic of Georgia. Recent developments have included the promotion of tea as a cash crop, disappointments in this market, and the opening of a border crossing to Georgia shortly before the collapse of the Soviet Union. These are analyzed in the context of more general changes in Turkish civil society and widespread doubts about the continued viability of the secular institutions of Ataturk's republic.

Literature & Fiction

Bellér-Hann, Ildikó

History & Criticism

James Currey

Based on fieldwork carried out between 1983 and 1999, this is an exploration of contemporary social identities in a little-known region of Turkey's eastern Black Sea coast abutting the border with the Republic of Georgia. Regional developments have included the promotion of tea as a cash crop, disappointments in this market, and the opening of a border crossing to Georgia shortly before the collapse of the Soviet Union. These are analysed in the context of more general changes in Turkish civil society and widespread doubts about the continued viability of the secular institutions of Ataturk's republic. Series Editors: Wendy James & N.J. Allen

Ethnicity, language, and religion are significant aspects of contemporary social identities in Turkey's little-known eastern Black Sea coast. Based on fieldwork carried out between 1983 and 1999, the authors analyze recent economic and political developments in the region in the context of more general changes in Turkish civil society and widespread doubt about the continued viability of the secular institutions of Atati 1/2rk's republic."

Turkish Region: Culture & Civilization on the East Black Sea Coast (World Anthropology (Hardcover SAR Press))

School of American Research Press

Ethnicity, language, and religion are significant aspects of contemporary social identities in Turkey’s little-known eastern Black Sea coast. Based on fieldwork carried out between 1983 and 1999, the authors analyze recent economic and political developments in the region in the context of more general changes in Turkish civil society and widespread doubt about the continued viability of the secular institutions of Atatürk’s republic.

Turkish Region: State, Market & Social Identities on the East Black Sea Coast (World Anthropology (Paperback SAR Press))

The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of northwest China, where the authors of this book have worked since 1986, has become increasingly unstable in recent decades. The Uyghurs are the easternmost people of the Turkic-Islamic civilizational belt that stretches across Central Eurasia. The incorporation of this population into the Chinese nation state has been fraught with difficulty. Central policies under socialism have fluctuated between generous encouragement of a distinct Uyghur identity and harsh repression justified with accusations of separatism and religious fundamentalism. Based on field research in the prefecture of Qumul in 2006-2009, this book explores how macro-level tensions are played out locally and regionally in the fields of actualized history and identity, social support and economic development, and the political regulation of socio-cultural life and religion.

The Great Dispossession: Uyghurs Between Civilizations (Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia)

Social Sciences

LIT Verlag

Realising Eurasia. Empire and Connectivity during Three Millennia

Leipziger Universitätsvlg

Karl Polanyi's "substantivist" critique of market society has renewed topicality in the era of neoliberal globalization. Polanyi (1886–1964) is popular among critical theorists and radical political economists, but also with ecological activists, anti-globalization campaigners and all who sense that ongoing financial turmoil is symptomatic of a deeper crisis threatening the compatibility of capitalism and democracy. The author reclaims the polymath Karl Polanyi for contemporary anthropology, especially economic anthropology. The book furthermore takes his ideas back to Central Europe, where he grew up. The Polanyian approach is applied to the communist economy, with particular reference to the "market socialist" economy which evolved under János Kádár in Hungary. The same lens is used to investigate the consequences of the demise of communist power since 1990, primarily on the basis of ethnographic investigations in Hungary and South-East Poland. Stretching the discussion on Polanyi's great transformation – for which there is considerable international interest – in the context of neoliberalization onto the concept of Eurasia, and then bringing this into conversation with the rise of neo-nationalism in Hungary and Poland and beyond as the form that the great transformation is currently taking in the region, relates Hann's work powerfully to the current political turbulence.

Repatriating Polanyi: Market Society in the Visegrád States

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Central European University Press

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Eastern Christians in Anthropological Perspective (Volume 9) (The Anthropology of Christianity)

Economic Anthropology

Economic Anthropology

Turkish Region: Culture and Civilization on the East Black Sea Coast (World Anthropology)

Turkish Region: Culture and Civilization on the East Black Sea Coast (World Anthropology)

Turkish Region: Culture & Civilization on the East Black Sea Coast (World Anthropology (Hardcover SAR Press))

Turkish Region: State, Market & Social Identities on the East Black Sea Coast (World Anthropology (Paperback SAR Press))

The Great Dispossession: Uyghurs Between Civilizations (Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia)

Realising Eurasia. Empire and Connectivity during Three Millennia

Repatriating Polanyi: Market Society in the Visegrád States