James G. Carrier - The Handbook of Sociocultural Anthropology

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James G. Carrier, Deborah B. Gewertz, and contributors, 2013

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CONTENTS

James G. Carrier and Deborah B. Gewertz

James G. Carrier

Gsli Plsson

Elizabeth F. Vann

Lesley Gill

Lamont Lindstrom

Josiah McC. Heyman

Andre Gingrich

Caroline Humphrey

Barbara Bodenhorn

Bill Maurer

Barbara Yngvesson

Simon Coleman

Chris A. Gregory

Bruce M. Knauft

Susan Brownell and Niko Besnier

Marc Edelman

Thomas Hylland Eriksen

Katy Gardner

Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld

Melissa A. Johnson

Jonathan Friedman

Paul Basu

Jane I. Guyer

Martha Macintyre

Dorothea Schulz

Douglas Rogers and Katherine Verdery

Veena Das

Beth A. Conklin

Jeff Maskovsky

Andrs Barrera-Gonzlez, Melissa L. Caldwell,

Monica Heintz, and Anna Horolets

Don Brenneis

Deborah Winslow and Kristin Kyk

Jeanne Simonelli and Jonathan Skinner

David Mills

Rena Lederman

Andrs Barrera-Gonzlez is Profesor Titular at Universidad Complutense. His research interests range from the anthropology of kinship and the family, to peasant societies and sharecropping, cultural and national identities, language ideologies, politics and policies, and the anthropology of Europe. His publications include La dialctica de la identidad en Catalua (Centro de Investigaciones Sociolgicas, 1985), Casa, herencia y familia en la Catalua rural (Alianza, 1990), Language, Collective Identities and Nationalism in Catalonia, and Spain in General (European University Institute, 1995), and Domestic Succession, Property Transmission and Family Systems in the Agrarian Societies of Contemporary Spain, in History of the Family, 3(2) (1998). He is currently studying scientific expeditions and their impact in theory advancement in anthropology.

Paul Basu is Reader in Material Culture and Museum Studies at University College London. His anthropological research focuses on three interconnecting areas: the articulation of different regimes of memory that coexist in societies; the spatialization of narratives of the past in place and the associated spatial practices this gives rise to; and the migratory pathways of material culture. His publications include Highland Homecomings (Routledge, 2007), Exhibition Experiments (Blackwell, 2007, ed. with S. Macdonald), and Migrant Worlds, Material Cultures, in a special issue of the journal Mobilities (2008, ed. with S. Coleman).

Niko Besnier is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. His current research focuses on gender and sexuality at the juncture of the local and the global; precarity and value in times of crisis; the global circulation of professional athletes; and utopia and dystopia in American imaginary. He has conducted extensive fieldwork in the Pacific Islands, Japan, and the United States. His last two books are On the Edge of the Global: Modern Anxieties in a Pacific Island Nation (Stanford University Press, 2011) and Gossip and the Everyday Production of Politics (University of Hawaii Press, 2009).

Barbara Bodenhorn is a Newton Trust Lecturer in Social Anthropology and a Pembroke College Lecturer in Social Sciences at Cambridge University. She has worked in Arctic Alaska since 1980 and in Mexico since 2004. Her research interests have included the conjunction of kinship, gender, and economics, and, more recently, the intersection of scientific and other forms of expertise as reflected in environmental knowledge. Publications include The Anthropology of Names and Naming (Cambridge, 2006, ed. with G. Vom Bruck), He Used to Be My Relative, in Cultures of Relatedness (Cambridge, 2006, J. Carsten, ed.), Its Good to Know Who Your Relatives Are, But We Were Taught to Share with Everyone, in The Social Economy of Sharing (National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, 2000, G. W. Wenzel et al., eds.), and Migration, Marriage, Mestizaje: The Race of Kinship? in Kinship Unbound (SAR Press, 2012, F. Cannell and S. McKinnon, eds.).

Don Brenneis is a Linguistic and Social Anthropologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His work has focused on the social life of communicative practice, both in a rural Indo-Fijian community and in an array of sites in the United States and Europe on peer review, assessment, and the ongoing shaping of scholarly and scientific practices within and beyond anthropology. Recent publications include A Partial View of Contemporary Anthropology, in American Anthropologist, 106(3) (2004) and Anthropology In and Of the Academy, in Social Anthropology, 17(3) (2009).

Susan Brownell is Professor of Anthropology at the University of MissouriSt. Louis. Her interests are in the body, gender, sports, and China. Her publications include Training the Body for China: Sports in the Moral Order of the Peoples Republic (University of Chicago Press, 1995), Beijings Games: What the Olympics Mean to China (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008), Chinese Femininities/Chinese Masculinities: A Reader (University of California Press, 2002, ed. with J. N. Wasserstrom), The 1904 Anthropology Days and Olympic Games: Sport, Race, and American Imperialism (University of Nebraska Press, 2008, ed.), and The Olympics in East Asia: The Crucible of Localism, Nationalism, Regionalism, and Globalism (Yale East Asia Monographs, 2011, ed. with W. Kelly).

Melissa L. Caldwell