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> From: Michael Tomolonis <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 6 January 2009 17:05:52 GMT
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Jacob Copeman's New Book
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> Hello:
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> Would it be possible to have the message below posted to the
> listserv? It is with regards to member Jacob Copeman's new book
> "Veins of Devotion."
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> Best,
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> Michael Tomolonis
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> Dear ANTHROPOLOGY-MATTERS Subscribers,
>
> I hope the following new medical anthropology titles - specially
> discounted for ANTHROPOLOGY-MATTERS subscribers - will be of
> interest to you:
>
> Veins of Devotion: Blood Donation and Religious Experience in North
> India
> Author: Jacob Copeman, University of Cambridge
>
> “No book covers the same terrain or anything close to what Copeman
> accomplishes with 'Veins of Devotion.' It is an extraordinarily
> smart book that sets the standard for future work on biomoral
> exchange in anthropology.”
> —Lawrence Cohen, University of California, Berkeley
>
> "A very impressive achievement. Copeman quite brilliantly
> illuminates some of the most dramatic and important developments in
> contemporary Indian public life."
> —James Laidlaw, University of Cambridge
>
> “An excellent piece of scholarship that synthesizes classic themes
> in the indological literature—sacrifice, gift-giving, caste,
> asceticism, guru/chela relationships—with the very contemporary
> and iconically modern, biomedical procedure of blood donation.”
> —Joseph S. Alter, University of Pittsburgh
>
>
> Description:
>
> "Veins of Devotion" tells the story of recent remarkable
> collaborations between guru-led devotional movements and public
> health campaigns to encourage voluntary blood donation in northern
> India. Focusing primarily on Delhi, Jacob Copeman carefully
> situates blood donation practices within the context of religious
> gift-giving, sacrifice, caste, kinship, and nationalism. The book
> analyzes the operations of several high-profile religious orders
> that organize large-scale public blood-giving events and argues
> that blood donation has become a site not only of frenetic
> competition between different devotional movements, but also of
> intense spiritual creativity.
>
> Despite significant tensions between blood banks and these
> religious groups, their collaboration is a singular success story—
> the nation’s blood supply is replenished while blood donors
> discover new devotional possibilities.
>
> Drawing on the rich tradition of South Asian scholarship, while
> also engaging with recent innovations in social theory, "Veins of
> Devotion" represents a striking and original contribution to the
> anthropology of South Asia and to medical anthropology and
> religious studies more generally.
>
> Rutgers University Press. $25.95. ($20.76 with discount)
> 2009. 264 pages, 13 illustrations. Paper ISBN 978-0-8135-4449-6
> Series: Studies in Medical Anthropology
>
> To order a copy online please visit http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/
> acatalog/Veins_of_Devotion.html
>
> To order by phone please call Longleaf Services directly at
> +1-800-848-6224
>
> (IN EITHER CASE PLEASE QUOTE REF NUMBER: 02WVD09 for 20% discount)
>
>
> An Uncertain Cure: Living with Leprosy in Brazil
> Author: Cassandra White, Georgia State University
>
> "This carefully and thoroughly researched book presents a
> sensitive, insightful, and welcome contribution to the study of
> leprosy treatment and the treatment by society of those affected by
> the disease."
> -Judith Justice, author of "Policies, Plans, and People: Foreign
> Aid and Health Development"
>
> "An Uncertain Cure is a captivating and revealing ethnography of
> leprosy in Brazil that interrogates and clarifies the complex
> connections between illness and inequality in the context of public
> health. Intelligent and well-written, this account illuminates the
> ways in which a variety of actors-transnational institutions,
> government, medical personnel, and patients-struggle to make sense
> of and treat a disease long stigmatized in the human record."
> -Donna Goldstein, author of "Laughter Out of Place: Race, Class,
> Violence, and Sexuality in a Rio Shantytown"
>
> "White poignantly illustrates how the stigma of leprosy in Brazil
> is more virulent and contagious than the disease itself. The
> 'uncertain cure' arises from a disjuncture between the social and
> clinical experiences of a notorious yet treatable medical
> condition. This book explores the possible reasons why this is the
> case."
> -Ron Barrett, Emory University Author of Aghor Medicine: Pollution,
> Death, and Healing in Northern India
>
>
> Description:
>
> In many cultures, leprosy elicits fear, stigma, and
> misunderstanding. Historically, people affected by leprosy were
> banished or isolated from the rest of society. Although the
> worldwide incidence of leprosy has declined markedly over the past
> quarter century with the advent of new multidrug therapies,
> developing nations are still encountering a high number of cases.
>
> In "An Uncertain Cure," Cassandra White goes deep into the
> shantytowns of Rio de Janeiro to give a riveting account of the
> contemporary leprosy experience among poor and working class
> Brazilians. In this ethnographic treatment of leprosy sufferers,
> White exposes the web of historical, socioeconomic, religious, and
> political forces that complicate the path to wellness and
> perpetuate high rates of infection. Drawing on nearly ten years of
> research, White shows how anthropological research can contribute
> to more effective treatment of chronic infectious diseases around
> the world.
>
> Rutgers University Press. $23.95. ($19.16 with discount)
> 2009. 224 pages. Paper 978-0-8135-4457-1
> Series: Studies in Medical Anthropology
>
> To order a copy online please visit http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/
> acatalog/An_Uncertain_Cure.html
>
> To order by phone please call Longleaf Services directly at
> +1-800-848-6224
>
> (IN EITHER CASE PLEASE QUOTE REF NUMBER: 02WVD09 for 20% discount)
>
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