Transforming Academia: Challenges and Opportunities for an Engaged Anthropology

By Linda G. Basch, Lucie Wood Saunders, Jagna Wojcika Sharff, and James Peacock, eds.

Transforming Academia is an ethnography of higher education by authors located at the highest levels of academic administration and teaching. It addresses the structural and cultural transformations presently challenging academia, and identifies ways anthropologists, using the tools of the discipline, can bring anthropological analyses and perspectives to the discourse of higher education. It also urges and provides several examples of how anthropologists can become part of the solution in their own institutions.  read more »

Finding A Moral Heart for U.S. Immigration Policy

By Josiah McC. Heyman

Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Summary of the Immigration Policy Proposal and its Rationale Anthropology, Morality, and Immigration: An Overview of the Monograph
• Values, Activism, and Anthropology
• Foundational Values and Real World Challenges
• Recent Immigration to the United States: From Superficial Debates to Underlying Disorders
• Anti-Immigrationism
• The Basic Plan: Recruitment and the Receiving Situationb Local Compacts: Basic Format, Process, and Examples
• Long Term Settlement Via Local Compacts
• Border Control in a New Immigration Policy
• A New Policy, A New INS
• Foreign Relations
• Unresolved Challenges and Dilemmas
• Concluding Observations
• References Cited

Marriage and Mandatory Abortion among the 17th-century Siraya

By John Robert Shepherd

Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Sirayan Mandatory Abortion
• European Exegeses: Montesquieu and Malthus
• Demographic Perspectives
• Institutional Analysis
• Symbolic Analysis: Sirayan Pregnancy Taboos in Comparative and Historical Context
• Complementary Perspectives
• The Abolition of Abortion under Dutch Rule
• Conclusions
• Appendixes
• Freudian Perspectives
• Uxorilocality, Endogamy, and Male Age Grades: An Organizational Nexus
• References Cited

Moralizing States and the Ethnography of the Present

Sally Falk Moore, Editor

Contents

• Introduction: Moralizing States and the Ethnography of the Present
  Sally Falk Moore
• Contesting the Future: Indian Ethnic Politics and the Competing Moral Discourses of Nonracialism and Multiracialism in South Africa
  Paul E. H. Dhalla
• Aboriginality, Morality, and the Law: Reconciling Popular Western Images of Australian Aborigines
  Eve Darian-Smith
• De-Moralizing Economies: African Socialism, Scientific Capitalism and the Moral Politics of "Structural Adjustment"
  James Ferguson
• Trouble in the Kitchen: Totalitarianism, Love, and Resistance to Authority
  John Borneman
• A Global Affair: Nationalism and Internationalism as Cultural and Moral Practices
  Liisa Malkki

The Politics of Time

Henry J. Rutz, Editor

Contents

• Part I: A Politics of Time
• Introduction: The Idea of a Politics of Time
  Henry J. Rutz
• The Power to Time and the Time to Power
  Robert Rotenberg
• Part II: Appropriations of Time
• The "Etatization" of Time in Ceausescu's Romania
  Katherine Verdery
• Never on Sunday: Time-discipline and Fijian Nationalism
  Henry J. Rutz and Erol M. Balkan
• Seizing the Moment: Power, Contingency, and Temporality in Street Life
  Anne M. Lovell
• Part III: The Institutionalization of a Dominant Time
• Time, Talk, and Class: New York Puerto Ricans as Temporal and Linguistic Others
  Bonnie Urciuoli
• Temporality and the Domestication of Homelessness
  Kostas Gounis
• Part IV: Time and Legitimation
• Jewish Ontologies of Time and Political Legitimation in Israel
  Robert Paine
• Centralizing Agricultural Time: A Case from South Sulawesi
  John R. Bowen

At Work in Homes: Household Workers in World Perspective

Roger Sanjek and Shellee Cohen, Editors

Contents

• Introduction
• At Work in Homes I: Orientations
  Shellee Cohen and Roger Sanjek
• Indigenous African and Asian Forms of Household Work
• Service and Status: Slaves and Concubines in Kano, Nigeria
  Beverly B. Mack
• Maid Servants and Market Women's Apprentices in Adabraka
  Roger Sanjek
• Household Workers in Nyishang, Nepal
  M. T. Cooke
• Euroamerican Forms of Household Work
• Ideology and Servitude
  Judith Rollins
• "Housekeeping" for the Green Card: West Indian Household
• Workers, the State, and Stratified Reproduction in New York
  Shellee Cohen
• Neocolonial Forms of Household Work
• Part of the Household Inventory: Men Servants in Zambia
  Karen Tranberg Hansen
• Female Household Workers in Industrializing Malaysia
  M. Jocelyn Armstrong
• Household Workers in Urban Martinque
  Michel S. Laguerre
• Conclusion
• At Work in Homes II: Directions
  Shellee Cohen and Roger Sanjek
• Household Workers in World Perspective
  Roger Sanjek and Shellee Cohen