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Dear ANTHROPOLOGY-MATTERS Subscribers, We hope the following titles will be of interest to you. Doing Business in Rural China<http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/doing-business-in-rural-china-content> Liangshan's New Ethnic Entrepreneurs Thomas Heberer "Make[s] important contributions to the existing perspectives on China's ethnic minorities not least for their new rich ethnographies and research findings. One... major input is the exploration of the 'big' questions on Chinese national identity, citizenship, and modernity from the perspective of ethnic minorities."-Elena Barabantseva, Asian Ethnicity "This book sheds new light on the dynamics of ethnic China by bringing attention to its enormous complexity and the impact of ethnic entrepreneurs on impoverished minority areas. This book will interest scholars and graduate students in China studies, Asian studies, ethnic studies, and social change."-Journal of Anthropological Research "...A richly detailed and insightful study, bound to appeal to students of contemporary Chinese culture and society."-The China Journal "The great strength of this book lies in its exploration of the idea of the 'ethnic entrepreneur' and his (or, very rarely in the case of the Nuosu, her) role in economic, social and cultural development. Heberer competently applies general theory on entrepreneurship and ethnicity to his case study of Liangshan, and the book should therefore find readers well beyond the clan of China specialists.... Thomas Heberer's work on the Nuosu is highly recommended."-Pacific Affairs "Heberer's focus on Nuosu entrepreneurs as operating between two worlds yields interesting and unanticipated results concerning ethnicity and modernity.... Will be of interest to scholars in a wide range of fields-economics, politics, sociology, anthropology, and business.... A stimulating and original take on market development in China."- China Quarterly Longlisted for the 2009 ICAS Book Award Mountainous Liangshan Prefecture, on the southern border of Sichuan Province, is one of China's most remote regions. Although Liangshan's majority ethnic group, the Nuosu (now classified by the Chinese government as part of the Yi ethnic group), practiced a subsistence economy and were, by Chinese standards, extremely poor, their traditional society was stratified into endogamous castes, the most powerful of which owned slaves. With the incorporation of Liangshan into China's new socialist society in the mid-twentieth century, the Nuosu were required to abolish slavery and what the Chinese government considered to be superstitious religious practices. When Han Chinese moved into the area, competing with Nuosu for limited resources and introducing new cultural and economic challenges, some Nuosu took advantage of China's new economic policies in the 1980s to begin private businesses. In Doing Business in Rural China, Thomas Heberer tells the stories of individual entrepreneurs and presents a wealth of economic data gleaned from extensive fieldwork in Liangshan. He documents and analyzes the phenomenal growth during the last two decades of Nuosu-run businesses, comparing these with Han-run businesses and asking how ethnicity affects the new market-oriented economic structure and how economics in turn affects Nuosu culture and society. He finds that Nuosu entrepreneurs have effected significant change in local economic structures and social institutions and have financed major social and economic development projects. This economic development has prompted Nuosu entrepreneurs to establish business, political, and social relationships beyond the traditional social confines of the clan, while also fostering awareness and celebration of ethnicity. Thomas Heberer is professor of political science and East Asian studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. University of Washington Press March 2014 280pp 14 illus. 9780295993737 PB £25.99 now only £19.49 when you quote CSL0115ASAN when you order http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/doing-business-in-rural-china-content Bodies in Balance<http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/bodies-in-balance> The Art of Tibetan Medicine Edited by Theresia Hofer "We get an even larger understanding of [Tibetan medicine]-including a discussion of contemporary Tibetan pharmacology, the history of Tibetan surgery and the global influence of Tibetan healing - in the imposing exhibition catalog, edited by Ms. Hofer."-Edward Rothstein, The New York Times Bodies in Balance: The Art of Tibetan Medicine is the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary exploration of the triangular relationship among the Tibetan art and science of healing (Sowa Rigpa), Buddhism, and arts and crafts. This book is dedicated to the history, theory, and practice of Tibetan medicine, a unique and complex system of understanding body and mind, treating illness, and fostering health and well-being. Sowa Rigpa has been influenced by Chinese, Indian, and Greco-Arab medical traditions but is distinct from them. Developed within the context of Buddhism, Tibetan medicine was adapted over centuries to different health needs and climates across the region encompassing the Tibetan Plateau, the Himalayas, and Mongolia. Its focus on a holistic approach to health has influenced Western medical thinking about the prevention, diagnoses, and treatment of illness. Generously illustrated with more than 200 images, Bodies in Balance includes essays on contemporary practice, pharmacology and compounding medicines, astrology and divination, history and foundational treatises. The volume brings to life the theory and practice of this ancient healing art. Theresia Hofer , an anthropologist, is the curator of the Bodies in Balance: The Art of Tibetan Medicine exhibition and author of The Inheritance of Change: Transmission and Practice of Tibetan Medicine in Ngamring. Contributors include Pasang Yontan Arya, Sienna R. Craig, Gyurme Dorje, Yang Ga, Frances Garrett, Barbara Gerke, Janet Gyatso, Theresia Hofer, Knud Larsen, Katharina Sabernig, Martin Saxer, Geoffrey Samuel, Inger Vasstveit, and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim. University of Washington Press April 2014 360pp 250 illus., 120 color 9780295993591 HB £54.00 now only £40.50 when you quote CSL0115ASAN when you order http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/bodies-in-balance Consuming Ocean Island<http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/consuming-ocean-island> Stories of People and Phosphate from Banaba Katerina Martina Teaiwa "Teaiwa deals with the great sense of betrayal, loss, and displacement indigenous Banabans suffered through as well as the harsh physical toll decades of excessive mining has taken on the land. With a justified sense of outrage, Teaiwa educates her audience without alienating it, laying bare the consequences of reaping such a natural bounty at the expense of others." -Publishers Weekly "Consuming Ocean Island is an ethnographic and analytic tour-de-force. Writing an intimate cultural history of the island of Banaba, Kiribati, conjoined with a history of phosphate and its extraction, Katerina Teaiwa places us amid unsettling stories of mining and its violent transformations-phosphate turned to fertilizer, a bountiful Pacific homeland left desolate, a people and their island's very earth dispersed around the globe. In part a moving family story, this brilliant ethnography offers new ways to track globalization, dispersal, and creative recovery." -Kirin Narayan, author of Alive in the Writing: Crafting Ethnography in the Company of Chekhov Consuming Ocean Island tells the story of the land and people of Banaba, a small Pacific island, which, from 1900 to 1980, was heavily mined for phosphate, an essential ingredient in fertilizer. As mining stripped away the island's surface, the land was rendered uninhabitable, and the indigenous Banabans were relocated to Rabi Island in Fiji. Katerina Martina Teaiwa tells the story of this human and ecological calamity by weaving together memories, records, and images from displaced islanders, colonial administrators, and employees of the mining company. Her compelling narrative reminds us of what is at stake whenever the interests of industrial agriculture and indigenous minorities come into conflict. The Banaban experience offers insight into the plight of other island peoples facing forced migration as a result of human impact on the environment. Katerina Martina Teaiwa is Co-Convener of Pacific Studies in the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University. Born and raised in the Fiji Islands, she is of Banaban, I-Kiribati, and African American heritage. Indiana University Press December 2014 272pp 38 b&w illus., 2 maps 9780253014528 PB £19.99 now only £14.99 when you quote CSL0115ASAN when you order http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/consuming-ocean-island Ecological Nationalisms<http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/ecological-nationalisms> Nature, Livelihoods, and Identities in South Asia Edited by Gunnel Cederlof & K. Sivaramakrishnan "The editors of this volume have begun a valuable process of understanding which must now be pursued."-Journal of Contemporary Asia "The cases in Ecological Nationalisms- much too rich to summarize here- all take different positions on the relative importance of the ideas, interests, and identities activated or deployed in the politics of nature.... Beautifully produced, rich in content, and important; it is genuinely South Asian in scope and both international and interdisciplinary in execution."-Journal of Asian Studies "Ecological Nationalisms, an edited volume of essays... is an ambitious and successful addition to the steadily growing literature on South Asian environmental history.... This work asks many good questions and should inspire subsequent research."-Environmental History "[Ecological Nationalisms] opens the door to a remarkably wide body of research and enquiry. Most of the studies are not only very detailed but soundly based in an historical and conceptual background. The result is not easy reading but certainly provides an excellent base for understanding the interactive patterns at work in each of the areas studied.. it would be very valuable indeed to post-graduate students focusing on related problems and to senior practitioners."-Electronic Green Journal "Informative and thought-provoking... Ecological Nationalisms is a must-read for serious scholars of South Asia studies."-American Anthropologist The works presented in this collection take environmental scholarship in South Asia into novel territory by exploring how questions of national identity become entangled with environmental concerns in Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, and India. The essays provide insight into the motivations of colonial and national governments in controlling or managing nature, and bring into fresh perspective the different kinds of regional political conflicts that invoke nationalist sentiment through claims on nature. In doing all this, the volume also offers new ways to think about nationalism and, more specifically, nationalism in South Asia from the vantage point of interdisciplinary environmental studies. The contributors to this innovative volume show that manifestations of nationalism have long and complex histories in South Asia. Terrestrial entities, imagined in terms of dense ecological networks of relationships, have often been the space or reference point for national aspirations, as shared memories of Mother Nature or appropriated economic, political, and religious geographies. In recent times, different groups in South Asia have claimed and appropriated ancient landscapes and territories for the purpose of locating and justifying a specific and utopian version of nation by linking its origin to their nature-mediated attachments to these landscapes. The topics covered include forests, agriculture, marine fisheries, parks, sacred landscapes, property rights, trade, and economic development. Gunnel Cederlof is associate professor of history, Uppsala University, Sweden. K. Sivaramakrishnan is professor of anthropology and international studies and director of the South Asia Center, Jackson School of International Studies, at the University of Washington. The other contributors are Nina Bhatt, Vinita Damodaran, Claude A. Garcia, Urs Geiser, Götz Hoeppe, Bengt G. Karlsson, Antje Linkenbach, Wolfgang Mey, Kathleen D. Morrison, J. P. Pascal, and Sarah Southwold-Llewellyn. University of Washington Press July 2014 376pp 9780295993843 PB £25.99 now only £19.49 when you quote CSL0115ASAN when you order http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/ecological-nationalisms Mapping Shangrila<http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/mapping-shangrila> Contested Landscapes in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands Edited by Emily T. Yeh & Christopher R Coggins, Foreword by Stevan Harrell, Afterword by Ralph A. Litzinger In 2001 the Chinese government announced that the precise location of Shangrila-a place that previously had existed only in fiction-had been identified in Zhongdian County, Yunnan. Since then, Sino-Tibetan borderlands in Yunnan, Sichuan, Gansu, Qinghai, and the Tibet Autonomous Region have been the sites of numerous state projects of tourism development and nature conservation, which have in turn attracted throngs of backpackers, environmentalists, and entrepreneurs who seek to experience, protect, and profit from the region's landscapes. Mapping Shangrila advances a view of landscapes as media of governance, representation, and resistance, examining how they are reshaping cultural economies, political ecologies of resource use, subjectivities, and interethnic relations. Chapters illuminate topics such as the role of Han and Tibetan literary representations of border landscapes in the formation of ethnic identities; the remaking of Chinese national geographic imaginaries through tourism in the Yading Nature Reserve; the role of The Nature Conservancy and other transnational environmental organizations in struggles over culture and environmental governance; the way in which matsutake mushroom and caterpillar fungus commodity chains are reshaping montane landscapes; and contestations over the changing roles of mountain deities and their mediums as both interact with increasingly intensive nature conservation and state-sponsored capitalism. Emily T. Yeh is associate professor of geography at the University of Colorado Boulder and the author of Taming Tibet. Chris Coggins is professor of geography and Asian studies at Bard College at Simon's Rock and the author of The Tiger and the Pangolin: Nature, Culture, and Conservation in China. Contributors include Michael Hathaway, Travis Klingberg, Charlene E. Makley, Bob Moseley, Renie Mullen, Michelle Olsgard Stewart, Chris Vasantkumar, Li-hua Ying, John Aloysius Zinda, and Gesang Zeren. University of Washington Press June 2014 348pp 15 illus. 9780295993584 PB £21.99 now only £16.49 when you quote CSL0115ASAN when you order http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/mapping-shangrila Return to the Land of the Head Hunters<http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/return-to-the-land-of-the-head-hunters> Edward S. Curtis, the Kwakwaka'wakw, and the Making of Modern Cinema Edited by Brad Evans & Aaron Glass Foreword by Bill Holm "The benefit of hindsight tempts us to dismiss Curtis's naïveté or his fetishization of authenticity. But the many voices brought together here - art historians both native and non-native, activists, anthropologists, even a renowned modern Kwakwaka'wakw documentary filmmaker - reach for a more nuanced critical appreciation of the film's legacy.... Glass, Evans, and their contributors show Curtis and his native collaborators have left something that can be bent to new uses as a bulwark against cultural erasure."-Christopher F. Roth, Reed Magazine "An important work, dealing with the history of the Kwakwaka'wakw as well as the history of cinema... [with] essays by anthropologists, Native American authorities, artists, musicians, literary scholars, and film historians. The book includes Kwakwaka'wakw perspectives on the film, as well as information about how it was made and distributed."-Dave Obee, Times Colonist The first silent feature film with an "all Indian" cast and a surviving original orchestral score, Edward Curtis's 1914 In the Land of the Head Hunters was a landmark of early cinema. Influential but often neglected in historical accounts, this spectacular melodrama was an intercultural product of Curtis's encounter and collaboration with the Kwakwaka'wakw of British Columbia. In recognition of the film's centennial, and alongside the release of a restored version, Return to the Land of the Head Hunters brings together leading anthropologists, Native American authorities, artists, musicians, literary scholars, and film historians to reassess the film and its legacy. The volume offers unique Kwakwaka'wakw perspectives on the film, accounts of its production and subsequent circulation, and evaluations of its depictions of cultural practice.Like his photographs, Curtis's motion picture was meant to document a supposedly vanishing race. But as this collection shows, the film is not simply an artifact of colonialist nostalgia. Resituated within film history and informed by a legacy of Kwakwaka'wakw participation and response, the movie offers dynamic evidence of ongoing cultural survival and transformation under shared conditions of modernity. Brad Evans is an associate professor of English at Rutgers University. Aaron Glass is an assistant professor of Anthropology at the Bard Graduate Center. University of Washington Press December 2013 392pp 113 illus., 16 in color 9780295993447 HB £36.00 now only £27.00 when you quote CSL0115ASAN when you order http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/return-to-the-land-of-the-head-hunters UK Postage and Packing £2.95, Europe £4.50 (PLEASE QUOTE REF NUMBER: CSL0115ASAN for discount) To order a copy please contact Marston on +44(0)1235 465500 or email [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> or visit our website: http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/ where you can also receive your discount *Offer excludes the USA, South America and Australasia. 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