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****************************************************** * http://www.anthropologymatters.com * * A postgraduate project comprising online journal, * * online discussions, teaching and research resources * * and international contacts directory. * ****************************************************** I would like to announce the publication of my new book "HIV is God's Blessing": Rehabilitating Morality in Neoliberal Russia. The book description can be found below. All the best, Jarrett Zigon Assistant Professor Dept of Anthropology University of Amsterdam http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/j.zigon/ "HIV is God's Blessing": Rehabilitating Morality in Neoliberal Russia (University of California Press, 2011) Jarrett Zigon, University of Amsterdam Book Description: This provocative study examines the role of today’s Russian Orthodox Church in the treatment of HIV/AIDS. Russia has one of the fastest-growing rates of HIV infection in the world—80 percent from intravenous drug use—and the Church remains its only resource for fighting these diseases. Jarrett Zigon takes the reader into a Church-run treatment center where, along with self-transformational and religious approaches, he explores broader anthropological questions—of morality, ethics, what constitutes a “normal” life, and who defines it as such. Zigon argues that this rare Russian partnership between sacred and political power carries unintended consequences: even as the Church condemns the influence of globalization as the root of the problem it seeks to combat, its programs are cultivating citizen-subjects ready for self-governance and responsibility, and better attuned to a world the Church ultimately opposes. Jarrett Zigon is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of Morality: An Anthropological Perspective and Making the New Post-Soviet Person: Moral Experience in Contemporary Moscow. "Over the last decade, anthropologists have increasingly come to study the role of morality in shaping the course of social life. Within anthropological debates around morality, Zigon has been developing one of the most creative and challenging positions. In this book, he pushes his project to a whole new level, working it out carefully through an important ethnographic case. Those interested in morality in any field will want to read this striking exemplification of the way an anthropology of morality can help us think about social life in new ways."—Joel Robbins, University of California, San Diego Table of Contents Introduction Part I Chapter 1 – HIV, drug use, and the politics of indifference Chapter 2 – The Church-run program Chapter 3 - The Russian Orthodox Church, HIV and Injecting Drug Use Chapter 4 – Moral and Ethical Assemblages Chapter 5 – Synergeia and Simfoniia: Orthodox morality, human rights, and the State Chapter 6 - Working on the self Part II Chapter 7 – Enchurchment Chapter 8 – Cultivating a normal life Chapter 9 – Normal sociality: obshchenie and controlling emotions Chapter 10 – Disciplining responsibility – labor and gender Some closing words References ************************************************************* * Anthropology-Matters Mailing List * * To join this list or to look at the archived previous * * messages visit: * * http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/Anthropology-Matters.HTML * * If you have ALREADY subscribed: to send a message to all * * those currently subscribed to the list,just send mail to: * * [log in to unmask] * * * * Enjoyed the mailing list? Why not join the new * * CONTACTS SECTION @ www.anthropologymatters.com * * an international directory of anthropology researchers * ***************************************************************