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This book breaks new ground in its representation of the voices of people in a superdiverse city as they go about their everyday lives. Poetic, polyphonic, and compelling, it places the reader at the heart of the market hall, surrounded by the translanguaging voices of people from all over the world. Based on four years of ethnographic research, the book is a gift to the senses, evoking the smells, sights, and sounds of the multilingual city. This is a book that reimagines the conventions of both ethnographic writing and academic discourse.

Markets --- Sociolinguistics. --- Social aspects. --- Ethnography. --- Markets. --- Multilingualism. --- Translanguaging. --- academic writing. --- ethnographic research. --- polyphonic. --- superdiversity.

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Out of War draws on Mariane C. Ferme's three decades of ethnographic engagements to examine the physical and psychological aftereffects of the harms of Sierra Leone's civil war. Ferme analyzes the relationship between violence, trauma, and the political imagination, focusing on "war times"-the different qualities of temporality arising from war. She considers the persistence of precolonial and colonial figures of sovereignty re-elaborated in the context of war, and the circulation of rumors and neologisms that freeze in time collective anxieties linked to particular phases of the conflict (or "chronotopes"). Beyond the expected traumas of war, Ferme explores the breaks in the intergenerational transmission of farming and hunting techniques, and the lethal effects of remembering experienced traumas and forgetting local knowledge. In the context of massive population displacements and humanitarian interventions, this ethnography traces strategies of survival and material dwelling, and the juridical creation of new figures of victimhood, where colonial and postcolonial legacies are reinscribed in neoliberal projects of decentralization and individuation.

War --- Psychological aspects. --- Sierra Leone --- History --- anthropology. --- anxiety. --- civil war. --- conflict. --- culture. --- displacement. --- ethnographic research. --- ethnography. --- farming. --- humanitarian. --- hunting. --- intergenerational trauma. --- neoliberal. --- political imagination. --- politics. --- population displacement. --- post colonial. --- postcolonial legacies. --- precolonial. --- psychology. --- shared experience. --- shared trauma. --- sierra leone. --- social. --- sovereignty. --- trauma. --- victimhood. --- violence. --- war. --- wartime.

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What happens to people, places and objects that do not fit the ordering regimes and progressive narratives of modernity? Conventional understandings imply that progress leaves such things behind, and excludes them as though they were valueless waste. This volume uses the concept of indeterminacy to explore how conditions of exclusion and abandonment may give rise to new values, as well as to states of despair and alienation. Drawing upon ethnographic research about a wide variety of contexts, the chapters here explore how indeterminacy is created and experienced in relationship to projects of classification and progress.

Social evolution. --- Marginiality, Social. --- Waste products --- Determinism (Philosophy) --- Civilization, Modern --- Social aspects. --- abandonment. --- alienation. --- capitalism. --- conditions of exclusion. --- cultural anthropology. --- cultural progress. --- culture. --- economic. --- economics. --- engaging. --- ethnic studies. --- ethnographic research. --- ethnographic studies. --- ethnography. --- historical. --- history. --- human condition. --- indeterminacy. --- modernity. --- ordering regimes. --- political economy. --- politics. --- progressive narratives. --- social anthropology. --- social change. --- social issues. --- social science. --- sociology.

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How the legalization of assisted dying is changing our lives. Over the past five years, medical aid-in-dying (also known as assisted suicide) has expanded rapidly in the United States and is now legally available to one in five Americans. This growing social and political movement heralds the possibility of a new era of choice in dying. Yet very little is publicly known about how medical aid-in-dying laws affect ordinary citizens once they are put into practice. Sociological studies of new health policies have repeatedly demonstrated that the realities often fall short of advocacy visions, raising questions about how much choice and control aid-in-dying actually affords. Scripting Death chronicles two years of ethnographic research documenting the implementation of Vermont's 2013 Patient Choice and Control at End of Life Act. Author Mara Buchbinder weaves together stories collected from patients, caregivers, health care providers, activists, and legislators to illustrate how they navigate aid-in-dying as a new medical frontier in the aftermath of legalization. Scripting Death explains how medical aid-in-dying works, what motivates people to pursue it, and ultimately, why upholding the "right to die" is very different from ensuring access to this life-ending procedure. This unprecedented, in-depth account uses the case of assisted death as an entry point into ongoing cultural conversations about the changing landscape of death and dying in the United States.

Assisted suicide --- 2013 Patient Choice and Control at End of Life Act. --- United States. --- Vermont. --- activists. --- assisted suicide. --- biomedicalization. --- bureaucratic regulation. --- care. --- caregivers. --- choice. --- coercion. --- control. --- ethnographic research. --- existential uncertainty. --- healthcare. --- legal. --- legislators. --- local policies. --- medical aid in dying. --- moral. --- patients. --- political movement. --- social. --- state. --- terminally ill.

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In Stambeli, Richard C. Jankowsky presents a vivid ethnographic account of the healing trance music created by the descendants of sub-Saharan slaves brought to Tunisia during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Stambeli music calls upon an elaborate pantheon of sub-Saharan spirits and North African Muslim saints to heal humans through ritualized trance. Based on nearly two years of participation in the musical, ritual, and social worlds of stambeli musicians, Jankowsky’s study explores the way the music evokes the cross-cultural, migratory past of its originators and their encounters with the Arab-Islamic world in which they found themselves. Stambeli, Jankowsky avers, is thoroughly marked by a sense of otherness—the healing spirits, the founding musicians, and the instruments mostly come from outside Tunisia—which creates a unique space for profoundly meaningful interactions between sub-Saharan and North African people, beliefs, histories, and aesthetics. Part ethnography, part history of the complex relationship between Tunisia’s Arab and sub-Saharan populations, Stambeli will be welcomed by scholars and students of ethnomusicology, anthropology, African studies, and religion.

Spirit possession --- Black people --- Music --- Sṭambālī (Rite) --- Rites and ceremonies. --- History and criticism. --- Religious aspects. --- music, musical studies, trance, tunisia, tunisian, ethnography, ethnographic research, healing trances, sub-saharan, north africa, muslims, religion, religious study, faith, islam, ritualized, ritualization, social worlds, migration, migratory, otherness, spirits, instruments, cultural, culture, aesthetics, history, historical, arab, rites, ceremony, possession, slave trade, slavery, movement, pilgrimage, vocality, displacement, emplacement.