Berghahn Books are pleased to announce the publication of several
titles of interest to the Anth Matters list. The 25% discount code
LLK18, valid through January 2018, can be used to purchase these
titles on the Berghahn website.

 

VEHICLES: Cars, Canoes, and Other Metaphors of Moral Imagination [1],
Edited by David Lipset and Richard Handler

 

Metaphor, as an act of human fancy, combines ideas in improbable ways
to sharpen meanings of life and experience. Theoretically, this arises
from an association between a sign—for example, a cattle car—and
its referent, the Holocaust. These “sign-vehicles” serve as modes
of semiotic transportation through conceptual space. Likewise,
on-the-ground vehicles can be rich metaphors for the moral
imagination. Following on this insight, _Vehicles_ presents a
collection of ethnographic essays on the metaphoric significance of
vehicles in different cultures. Analyses include canoes in Papua New
Guinea, pedestrians and airplanes in North America, lowriders among
Mexican-Americans, and cars in contemporary China, Japan, and Eastern
Europe, as well as among African-Americans in the South. _Vehicles_
not only “carry people around,” but also “carry” how they are
understood in relation to the dynamics of culture, politics and
history.

 

ANTHROPOLOGY & PHILOSOPHY: Dialogues on Trust and Hope [2], Edited by
Sune Liisberg, Esther Oluffa Pedersen and Anne Line Dalsgård

 

The present book is no ordinary anthology, but rather a workroom in
which anthropologists and philosophers initiate a dialogue on trust
and hope, two important topics for both fields of study. The book
combines work between scholars from different universities in the U.S.
and Denmark. Thus, besides bringing the two disciplines in dialogue,
it also cuts across differences in national contexts and academic
style. The interdisciplinary efforts of the contributors demonstrate
how such a collaboration can result in new and challenging ways of
thinking about trust and hope. Reading the dialogues may, therefore,
also inspire others to work in the productive intersection between
anthropology and philosophy.

 

BLOOD AND FIRE: Toward a Global Anthropology of Labor [3], Edited by
Sharryn Kasmir and August Carbonella

 

Based on long-term fieldwork, six vivid ethnographies from Colombia,
India, Poland, Spain and the southern and northern U.S. address the
dwindling importance of labor throughout the world. The contributors
to this volume highlight the growing disconnect between labor
struggles and the advancement of the greater common good, a phenomenon
that has grown since the 1980s. The collection illustrates the defeat
and unmaking of particular working classes, and it develops a
comparative perspective on the uneven consequences of and reactions to
this worldwide project. Blood and Fire charts a course within global
anthropology to address the widespread precariousness and the
prevalence of insecure and informal labor in the twenty-first century.

 

BREAKING BOUNDARIES: Varieties of Liminality [4], Edited by Agnes
Horvath, Bjørn Thomassen, and Harald Wydra

 

Liminality has the potential to be a leading paradigm for
understanding transformation in a globalizing world. As a fundamental
human experience, liminality transmits cultural practices, codes,
rituals, and meanings in situations that fall between defined
structures and have uncertain outcomes. Based on case studies of some
of the most important crises in history, society, and politics, this
volume explores the methodological range and applicability of the
concept to a variety of concrete social and political problems.

 

 


Links:
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[1] http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/LipsetVehicles
[2] http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/LiisbergAnthropology
[3] http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/KasmirBlood
[4] http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/HorvathBreaking


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