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Biomedical Entanglements is an ethnographic study of the Giri people of Papua New Guinea, focusing on the indigenous population’s interaction with modern medicine. In her fieldwork, Franziska A. Herbst follows the Giri people as they circulate within and around ethnographic sites that include a rural health center and an urban hospital. The study bridges medical anthropology and global health, exploring how the ‘biomedical’ is imbued with social meaning and how biomedicine affects Giri ways of life.

Public health --- Social medicine --- Social aspects. --- Papua New Guinea --- anthropology. --- biomedical institutions. --- biomedical services. --- biomedical. --- biomedicine. --- diagnosis. --- engaging. --- ethnographic sites. --- ethnographic study. --- ethnography. --- fieldwork. --- giri people. --- global health. --- health care challenges. --- health. --- indigenous population. --- indigenous populations. --- medical anthropology. --- medical conditions. --- modern medicine. --- papua new guinea. --- personhood. --- realistic. --- rural health center. --- rural health. --- social meaning. --- social science. --- tribal cultures. --- urban hospital. --- villages.

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Eating Spring Rice is the first major ethnographic study of HIV/AIDS in China. Drawing on more than a decade of ethnographic research (1995-2005), primarily in Yunnan Province, Sandra Teresa Hyde chronicles the rise of the HIV epidemic from the years prior to the Chinese government's acknowledgement of this public health crisis to post-reform thinking about infectious-disease management. Hyde combines innovative public health research with in-depth ethnography on the ways minorities and sex workers were marked as the principle carriers of HIV, often despite evidence to the contrary.Hyde approaches HIV/AIDS as a study of the conceptualization and the circulation of a disease across boundaries that requires different kinds of anthropological thinking and methods. She focuses on "everyday AIDS practices" to examine the links between the material and the discursive representations of HIV/AIDS. This book illustrates how representatives of the Chinese government singled out a former kingdom of Thailand, Sipsongpanna, and its indigenous ethnic group, the Tai-Lüe, as carriers of HIV due to a history of prejudice and stigma, and to the geography of the borderlands. Hyde poses questions about the cultural politics of epidemics, state-society relations, Han and non-Han ethnic dynamics, and the rise of an AIDS public health bureaucracy in the post-reform era.

AIDS (Disease) --- Acquired immune deficiency syndrome --- Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome --- Acquired immunological deficiency syndrome --- HIV infections --- Immunological deficiency syndromes --- Virus-induced immunosuppression --- Government policy --- Social aspects --- 20th century. --- aids epidemic. --- anthropologists. --- chinese culture. --- chinese government. --- chinese society. --- cultural anthropology. --- cultural politics. --- ethnic discrimination. --- ethnic dynamics. --- ethnographers. --- ethnographic study. --- han. --- history of prejudice. --- hiv aids. --- infectious diseases. --- minority experience. --- post reform era. --- public health crisis. --- public health policies. --- sex workers. --- social historians. --- social stigmas. --- southwest china. --- thailand. --- yunnan province.

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English Heart, Hindi Heartland examines Delhi's postcolonial literary world-its institutions, prizes, publishers, writers, and translators, and the cultural geographies of key neighborhoods-in light of colonial histories and the globalization of English. Rashmi Sadana places internationally recognized authors such as Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai, Vikram Seth, and Aravind Adiga in the context of debates within India about the politics of language and alongside other writers, including K. Satchidanandan, Shashi Deshpande, and Geetanjali Shree. Sadana undertakes an ethnographic study of literary culture that probes the connections between place, language, and text in order to show what language comes to stand for in people's lives. In so doing, she unmasks a social discourse rife with questions of authenticity and cultural politics of inclusion and exclusion. English Heart, Hindi Heartland illustrates how the notion of what is considered to be culturally and linguistically authentic not only obscures larger questions relating to caste, religious, and gender identities, but that the authenticity discourse itself is continually in flux. In order to mediate and extract cultural capital from India's complex linguistic hierarchies, literary practitioners strategically deploy a fluid set of cultural and political distinctions that Sadana calls "literary nationality." Sadana argues that English, and the way it is positioned among the other Indian languages, does not represent a fixed pole, but rather serves to change political and literary alliances among classes and castes, often in surprising ways.

Littérature indienne (de l'Inde) de langue anglaise --- Politique et littérature --- Indic literature (English) --- Publishers and publishing --- Book industries and trade --- Politics and literature --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Postcolonialism --- Histoire et critique. --- History and criticism. --- History --- Book publishing --- Books --- Booksellers and bookselling --- Publishing --- american culture vs indian culture. --- comparing different cultures. --- cultural authenticity. --- delhi culture. --- easy to read. --- engaging. --- english. --- ethnographic study. --- globalization of english. --- great for reluctant readers. --- hindi. --- history of english. --- history of indian culture. --- history of indian languages. --- history. --- indian culture. --- indian linguistic hierarchies. --- learning from experts. --- leisure reads. --- literary culture. --- literary nationality. --- page turner. --- political and literary alliances. --- politics. --- urdu. --- vacation reads.

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What Muscovites get in a soup kitchen run by the Christian Church of Moscow is something far more subtle and complex-if no less necessary and nourishing-than the food that feeds their hunger. In Not by Bread Alone, the first full-length ethnographic study of poverty and social welfare in the postsocialist world, Melissa L. Caldwell focuses on the everyday operations and civil transactions at CCM soup kitchens to reveal the new realities, the enduring features, and the intriguing subtext of social support in Russia today.In an international food aid community, Caldwell explores how Muscovites employ a number of improvisational tactics to satisfy their material needs. She shows how the relationships that develop among members of this community-elderly Muscovite recipients, Russian aid workers, African student volunteers, and North American and European donors and volunteers-provide forms of social support that are highly valued and ultimately far more important than material resources. In Not by Bread Alone we see how the soup kitchens become sites of social stability and refuge for all who interact there-not just those with limited financial means-and how Muscovites articulate definitions of hunger and poverty that depend far more on the extent of one's social contacts than on material factors.By rethinking the ways in which relationships between social and economic practices are theorized-by identifying social relations and social status as Russia's true economic currency-this book challenges prevailing ideas about the role of the state, the nature of poverty and welfare, the feasibility of Western-style reforms, and the primacy of social connections in the daily lives of ordinary people in post-Soviet Russia.

Poor --- Food relief --- Social networks --- Soup kitchens --- Disadvantaged, Economically --- Economically disadvantaged --- Impoverished people --- Low-income people --- Pauperism --- Poor, The --- Poor people --- Persons --- Social classes --- Poverty --- Famine relief --- Food aid programs --- Food assistance programs --- Disaster relief --- Humanitarian assistance --- Public welfare --- Emergency food supply --- Networking, Social --- Networks, Social --- Social networking --- Social support systems --- Support systems, Social --- Interpersonal relations --- Cliques (Sociology) --- Microblogs --- Kitchens, Soup --- Economic conditions --- Russia (Federation) --- Social conditions --- Soupes populaires --- Réseaux sociaux --- Aide alimentaire --- Pauvres --- Russie --- Conditions sociales --- Food distribution programs --- anthropology. --- charity. --- christian church of moscow. --- economic policies. --- ethnographic study. --- ethnography. --- hunger. --- international food aid. --- material needs. --- modern russia. --- moscow. --- muscovites. --- new russia. --- nonfiction. --- post soviet russia. --- postsocialist world. --- poverty. --- refuge. --- russia. --- russian aid workers. --- social currency. --- social practices. --- social relationships. --- social status. --- social support. --- social welfare. --- soup kitchens. --- students and teachers. --- volunteers. --- welfare. --- western reform.

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Strange Harvest illuminates the wondrous yet disquieting medical realm of organ transplantation by drawing on the voices of those most deeply involved: transplant recipients, clinical specialists, and the surviving kin of deceased organ donors. In this rich and deeply engaging ethnographic study, anthropologist Lesley Sharp explores how these parties think about death, loss, and mourning, especially in light of medical taboos surrounding donor anonymity. As Sharp argues, new forms of embodied intimacy arise in response, and the riveting insights gleaned from her interviews, observations, and descriptions of donor memorials and other transplant events expose how patients and donor families make sense of the transfer of body parts from the dead to the living. For instance, all must grapple with complex yet contradictory clinical assertions of death as easily detectable and absolute; nevertheless, transplants are regularly celebrated as forms of rebirth, and donors as living on in others' bodies. New forms of sociality arise, too: recipients and donors' relatives may defy sanctions against communication, and through personal encounters strangers are transformed into kin. Sharp also considers current experimental research efforts to develop alternative sources for human parts, with prototypes ranging from genetically altered animals to sophisticated mechanical devices. These future trajectories generate intriguing responses among both scientists and transplant recipients as they consider how such alternatives might reshape established-yet unusual-forms of embodied intimacy.

Death --- Ethnology --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Kinship --- Medical anthropology --- Memorials --- Mourning customs --- Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. --- Medical transplantation --- Organ transplantation --- Organ transplants --- Organs (Anatomy) --- Surgical transplantation --- Tissue transplantation --- Tissues --- Transplant surgery --- Transplantation surgery --- Transplants, Organ --- Surgery --- Preservation of organs, tissues, etc. --- Procurement of organs, tissues, etc. --- Manners and customs --- Rites and ceremonies --- Medical care --- Medicine --- Anthropology --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Social aspects --- Transplantation --- Anthropological aspects --- Philosophy --- anthropologists. --- anthropology. --- death and mourning. --- denatured bodies. --- donor families. --- ethnographers. --- ethnographic study. --- genetically altered bodies. --- interviews. --- mechanical body replacements. --- medical science. --- medical taboos. --- medical technology. --- modern medicine. --- nonfiction. --- organ donors. --- organ harvesting. --- organ transplantation. --- organ transplants. --- rebirth. --- social analysis. --- social intimacy. --- social science. --- transformation. --- transplant recipients.