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Over the last decade, Peru has experienced a spectacular mining boom and astronomical economic growth. Yet, for villagers in Peru's southern Andes, few have felt the material benefits. With this book, Eric Hirsch considers what growth means—and importantly how it feels. Hirsch proposes an analysis of boom-time capitalism that starts not from considerations of poverty, but from the premise that Peru is wealthy. He situates his work in a network of villages near new mining sites, agricultural export markets, and tourist attractions, where Peruvian prosperity appears tantalizingly close, yet just out of reach. This book centers on small-scale development investments working to transform villagers into Indigenous entrepreneurs ready to capitalize on Peru's new national brand and access the constantly deferred promise of national growth. That meant identifying as Indigenous, where few actively did so; identifying as an entrepreneur, in a place where single-minded devotion to a business went against the tendency to diversify income sources; and identifying every dimension of one's daily life as a resource, despite the unwelcome intimacy this required. Theorizing growth as an affective project that requires constant physical and emotional labor, Acts of Growth follows a diverse group of Andean residents through the exhausting work of making an economy grow.

Economic development --- Rural development --- Social aspects --- Andes. --- Peru. --- abundance. --- affect. --- development. --- entrepreneurship. --- extraction. --- growth. --- indigeneity. --- neoliberalism.

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The »Sounding Museum« fuses anthropology, acoustic ecology, soundscape composition, and trans-cultural communication inside the context of museum education. Based on the piece »Two Weeks in Alert Bay«, it supplies researchers, practitioners, and audiences with an instrument to gain an acoustic image of the contemporary cultural and everyday life of the Kwakwaka'wakw of Alert Bay, BC. The project mediates intercultural competence thorough the affective agency of sound. With the coeval »Session Musician's Approach«, introduced and analysed in text, audio, and interactive form, it also bridges the gap between art, science, and education. With a foreword by Barry Truax. The box includes a book, 2 DVD and 1 CD. »Eine spannende Fundgrube für die Soundscape-Forschung.« Britta Sweers, Die Musikforschung, 69/2 (2016)

Soundscape Composition; Indigeneity; Coevalness; Intangible Cultural Heritage; Ethnographic Museum; Museum; Education; Sound; Museum Education; Museology; Cultural Education --- Coevalness. --- Cultural Education. --- Education. --- Ethnographic Museum. --- Indigeneity. --- Intangible Cultural Heritage. --- Museology. --- Museum Education. --- Museum. --- Sound.

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"Between 1944 and 1949 the United States Navy held a war crimes tribunal that tried Japanese nationals and members of Guam's indigenous Chamorro population who had worked for Japan's military government. In Sacred Men Keith L. Camacho traces the tribunal's legacy and its role in shaping contemporary domestic and international laws regarding combatants, jurisdiction, and property. Drawing on Giorgio Agamben's notions of bare life and Chamorro concepts of retribution, Camacho demonstrates how the U.S. tribunal used and justified imprisonment, torture, murder, and exiling of accused Japanese and Chamorro war criminals in order to institute a new American political order. This U.S. disciplinary logic in Guam, Camacho contends, continues to directly inform the ideology used to justify the Guantanamo Bay detention center, the torture and enhanced interrogation of enemy combatants, and the American carceral state."--Provided by publisher.

War crime trials --- World War, 1939-1945 --- History --- Atrocities --- Guam --- Trials (War crimes) --- Trials (Crimes against humanity) --- Trials (Genocide) --- Trials --- Giorgio Agamben --- empire --- indigeneity --- militarism --- sovereignty

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Erneuerbare Energien werden weltweit ausgebaut. Dies betrifft vermehrt auch indigene Gruppen, deren Lebensweisen und Weltanschauungen dadurch herausgefordert werden. So betrachten die in Mexiko lebenden Ikojts Windenergie als kontaminierend und deshalb als Bedrohung für die Ökologie ihrer Lagune. Oliver D. Liebig untersucht ihre Sichtweise und denkt das Verhältnis von Natur, erneuerbarer Energie und sozialem Leben neu - nicht zuletzt aus Sicht des Windes. Auf diese Weise entsteht ein Entwurf von erneuerbarer Energie, der diese - jenseits von einer Fixierung als Ressource - mit den lokalen Gegebenheiten in Zusammenhang stehend betrachtet. Besprochen in: www.spektrum.de, 23.11.2020, Ulrike Prinz https://www.matze-msh.eu, 27.11.2020

Energy policy --- Social aspects. --- Contamination. --- Cultural Anthropology. --- Cultural Studies. --- Culture. --- Environment. --- Environmental Sociology. --- Ethnology. --- Huave. --- Indigeneity. --- Latin America. --- Mexico. --- Nature. --- Wind Energy. --- Wind Power.

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In 1999, off the coast of the Pacific Northwest, the first gray whale in seven decades was killed by Makah whalers. The hunt marked the return of a centuries-old tradition and, predictably, set off a fierce political and environmental debate. Whalers from the Makah Indian Tribe and antiwhaling activists have clashed for over twenty years, with no end to this conflict in sight. In Contesting Leviathan, anthropologist Les Beldo describes the complex judicial and political climate for whale conservation in the United States, and the limits of the current framework in which whales are treated as "large fish" managed by the National Marine Fisheries Service. Emphasizing the moral dimension of the conflict between the Makah, the US government, and antiwhaling activists, Beldo brings to light the lived ethics of human-animal interaction, as well as how different groups claim to speak for the whale-the only silent party in this conflict. A timely and sensitive study of a complicated issue, this book calls into question anthropological expectations regarding who benefits from the exercise of state power in environmental conflicts, especially where indigenous groups are involved. Vividly told and rigorously argued, Contesting Leviathan will appeal to anthropologists, scholars of indigenous culture, animal activists, and any reader interested in the place of animals in contemporary life.

Whaling --- Makah Indians --- Whaling --- Whales --- Whaling --- Fishing. --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Conservation --- Government policy --- Makah. --- Native American. --- activism. --- antiwhaling. --- bureaucracy. --- identity. --- indigeneity. --- morality. --- whales. --- whaling.