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Suffering and sentiment
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ISBN: 1282556266 9786612556265 052094593X 9780520945937 9780520260573 0520260570 9780520260580 0520260589 6612556269 9781282556263 Year: 2010 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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Suffering and Sentiment examines the cultural and personal experiences of chronic and acute pain sufferers in a richly described account of everyday beliefs, values, and practices on the island of Yap (Waqab), Federated States of Micronesia. C. Jason Throop provides a vivid sense of Yapese life as he explores the local systems of knowledge, morality, and practice that pertain to experiencing and expressing pain. In so doing, Throop investigates the ways in which sensory experiences like pain can be given meaningful coherence in the context of an individual's culturally constituted existence. In addition to examining the extent to which local understandings of pain's characteristics are personalized by individual sufferers, the book sheds important new light on how pain is implicated in the fashioning of particular Yapese understandings of ethical subjectivity and right action.

Life Exposed
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ISBN: 9780691090191 0691090181 069109019X 0691151660 1400845092 1299387861 9781400845095 9780691151663 9781299387867 Year: 2013 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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On April 26, 1986, Unit Four of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in then Soviet Ukraine. More than 3.5 million people in Ukraine alone, not to mention many citizens of surrounding countries, are still suffering the effects. Life Exposed is the first book to comprehensively examine the vexed political, scientific, and social circumstances that followed the disaster. Tracing the story from an initial lack of disclosure to post-Soviet democratizing attempts to compensate sufferers, Adriana Petryna uses anthropological tools to take us into a world whose social realities are far more immediate and stark than those described by policymakers and scientists. She asks: What happens to politics when state officials fail to inform their fellow citizens of real threats to life? What are the moral and political consequences of remedies available in the wake of technological disasters? Through extensive research in state institutions, clinics, laboratories, and with affected families and workers of the so-called Zone, Petryna illustrates how the event and its aftermath have not only shaped the course of an independent nation but have made health a negotiated realm of entitlement. She tracks the emergence of a "biological citizenship" in which assaults on health become the coinage through which sufferers stake claims for biomedical resources, social equity, and human rights. Life Exposed provides an anthropological framework for understanding the politics of emergent democracies, the nature of citizenship claims, and everyday forms of survival as they are interwoven with the profound changes that accompanied the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobyl', Ukraine, 1986 --- Radioactive pollution --- Tchernobyl, Accident nucléaire de, Ukraine, 1986 --- Accident nucléaire de Tchernobyl, Tchernobyl, Ukraine, 1986 --- Pollution radioactive --- Health aspects --- Aspect sanitaire --- #SBIB:39A4 --- #SBIB:39A72 --- #SBIB:328H263 --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Etnografie: Europa --- Instellingen en beleid: andere GOS-staten --- Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986 --- Environmental radioactivity --- Nuclear pollution --- Radioactivity, Environmental --- Pollution --- Radioactive substances --- Radioecology --- Radioactive waste disposal --- Health aspects. --- Environmental aspects. --- Tchernobyl, Accident nucléaire de, Ukraine, 1986 --- Accident nucléaire de Tchernobyl, Tchernobyl, Ukraine, 1986 --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General. --- Social aspects. --- Chernobyl aftermath. --- Chernobyl disaster. --- Chernobyl explosion. --- Chernobyl nuclear reactor. --- Chernobyl sufferers. --- Exclusion Zone. --- Radiation Research Center. --- Safe Living Concept. --- Soviet Union. --- Ukraine. --- accountability. --- biological citizenship. --- biological injury. --- bioscientific collaboration. --- catastrophe. --- clinicians. --- compensation. --- corruption. --- disability claims. --- disability. --- doctorаatient relations. --- environment. --- ethics. --- families. --- family histories. --- health. --- human rights. --- human welfare. --- illness. --- in utero research. --- lichnost'. --- life narratives. --- medical classification. --- medical surveillance. --- medical-labor committees. --- nonsufferers. --- nuclear hazard. --- patients. --- personhood. --- post-Soviet Ukraine. --- public health. --- radiation dose exposure. --- radiation research. --- radiation scientists. --- radiation. --- radioactive fallout. --- self. --- sick role sociality. --- social equity. --- social health. --- social identity. --- social protection. --- social welfare goods. --- state building. --- sufferers. --- suffering. --- technological disasters. --- violence. --- welfare claims.


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American Jewry and the Holocaust : The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1939-1945
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ISBN: 0814343473 0814343481 Year: 1981 Publisher: Wayne State University Press

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In this volume Yehudi Bauer describes the efforts made to aid European victims of World War II by the New York-based American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, American Jewry's chief representative abroad. Drawing on the mass of unpublished material in the JDC archives and other repositories, as well as on his thorough knowledge of recent and continuing research into the Holocaust, he focuses alternately on the personalities and institutional decisions in New York and their effects on the JDC workers and their rescue efforts in Europe. He balances personal stories with a country-by-country account of the fate of Jews through ought the war years: the grim statistics of millions deported and killed are set in the context of the hopes and frustrations of the heroic individuals and small groups who actively worked to prevent the Nazis' Final Solution. This study is essential reading for anyone who seeks to understand the American Jewish response to European events from 1939 to 1945. Bauer confronts the tremendous moral and historical questions arising from JDC's activities. How great was the danger? Who should be saved first? Was it justified to use illegal or extralegal means? What country would accept Jewish refugees? His analysis also raises an issue which perhaps can never be answered: could American Jews have done more if they had grasped the reality of the Holocaust?

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American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. --- G'oinṭ (Organization) --- AJDC --- JDC (Organization) --- American Joint Distribution Committee --- A.J.D.C. --- J.D.C. (Joint Distribution Committee) --- Joint Distribution Committee --- Jewish Joint Distribution Committee --- Joint (Organization) --- J.D.C. Israel --- G'oinṭ Yiśraʼel --- AJJDC --- JDC-Israel --- Dzshonṭ disṭribyushon ḳomiṭe --- Американский еврейский распределительный комитет --- Amerikanskiĭ evreĭskiĭ raspredelitelʹnyĭ komitet --- Джойнт (Organization) --- Dzhoĭnt (Organization) --- Благотворительный фонд "Джойнт" --- Blagotvoritelʹnyĭ fond "Dzhoĭnt" --- American Jewish Distribution Committee --- Американский еврейский объединенный распределительный комитет "Джойнт" --- Amerikanskiĭ evreĭskiĭ obʺedinennyĭ raspredelitelʹnyĭ komitet "Dzhoĭnt" --- ג׳וינט --- ג׳וינט ישראל --- ג'וינט-ישראל. --- דזאינט --- דזשאינט --- דזשאינט דיסטריביושאן קאמיטע --- דזשינט --- ועד המרכזי של היהודים המשוחררים באיזור האמריקאי --- Joint Distribution Committee of the American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers --- Jews --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Charities. --- Rescue. --- Catastrophe, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Destruction of the Jews (1939-1945) --- Extermination, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Holocaust, Nazi --- Ḥurban (1939-1945) --- Ḥurbn (1939-1945) --- Jewish Catastrophe (1939-1945) --- Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945) --- Nazi Holocaust --- Nazi persecution of Jews --- Shoʾah (1939-1945) --- Genocide --- Kindertransports (Rescue operations) --- Rescue of Jews, 1939-1945 --- Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Nazi persecution --- Persecutions --- Atrocities --- Jewish resistance --- Rescue, 1939-1945 --- Holocaust, Nazi (Jewish Holocaust) --- Nazi Holocaust (Jewish Holocaust) --- Nazi persecution (1939-1945) --- Social groups: religious groups & communities

Farming the red land : Jewish agricultural colonization and local Soviet power, 1924-1941
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ISBN: 1281722987 9786611722982 0300133928 9780300133929 9781281722980 9780300103311 030010331X Year: 2005 Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press,

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This is the first history of the Jewish agricultural colonies that were established in Crimea and Southern Ukraine in 1924 and that, fewer than 20 years later, ended in tragedy. Jonathan Dekel-Chen opens an extraordinary window on Soviet rural life during these turbulent years, and he documents the remarkable relations that developed among the American-Jewish sponsors of the ambitious project, the Soviet authorities, and the colonists themselves.Drawing on extensive and largely untouched archives and a wealth of previously unpublished oral histories, the book revises what has been understood about these agricultural settlements. Dekel-Chen offers new conclusions about integration and separation among Soviet Jews, the contours of international relations, and the balance of political forces within the Jewish world during this volatile period.

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Jews --- Agricultural colonies --- Jewish farmers --- Farmers, Jewish --- Jews as farmers --- Farmers --- Labor colonies --- Colonies --- Land settlement --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Colonization --- Economic conditions. --- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. --- Joint Distribution Committee of the American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers --- G'oinṭ (Organization) --- AJDC --- JDC (Organization) --- American Joint Distribution Committee --- A.J.D.C. --- J.D.C. (Joint Distribution Committee) --- Joint Distribution Committee --- Jewish Joint Distribution Committee --- Joint (Organization) --- J.D.C. Israel --- G'oinṭ Yiśraʼel --- AJJDC --- JDC-Israel --- Dzshonṭ disṭribyushon ḳomiṭe --- Американский еврейский распределительный комитет --- Amerikanskiĭ evreĭskiĭ raspredelitelʹnyĭ komitet --- Джойнт (Organization) --- Dzhoĭnt (Organization) --- Благотворительный фонд "Джойнт" --- Blagotvoritelʹnyĭ fond "Dzhoĭnt" --- American Jewish Distribution Committee --- Американский еврейский объединенный распределительный комитет "Джойнт" --- Amerikanskiĭ evreĭskiĭ obʺedinennyĭ raspredelitelʹnyĭ komitet "Dzhoĭnt" --- ג׳וינט --- ג׳וינט ישראל --- ג'וינט-ישראל. --- דזאינט --- דזשאינט --- דזשאינט דיסטריביושאן קאמיטע --- דזשינט --- ועד המרכזי של היהודים המשוחררים באיזור האמריקאי --- Crimea (Ukraine) --- Ukraine, Southern --- Soviet Union --- Pivdenna Ukraïna --- Southern Ukraine --- Stepova Ukraïna --- Steppe Ukraine --- Советский Союз --- Ber. ha-M. --- Zwia̦zek Socjalistycznych Republik Radzieckich --- Szovjetunió --- TSRS --- Tarybų Socialistinių Respublikų Sąjunga --- SRSR --- Soi︠u︡z Radi︠a︡nsʹkykh Sot︠s︡ialistychnykh Respublik --- SSSR --- Soi︠u︡z Sovetskikh Sot︠s︡ialisticheskikh Respublik --- UdSSR --- Shūravī --- Ittiḥād-i Jamāhīr-i Ishtirākīyah-i Shūrāʼīyah --- Russia (1923- U.S.S.R.) --- Sovetskiy Soyuz --- Soyuz SSR --- Sovetskiĭ Soi︠u︡z --- Soi︠u︡z SSR --- Uni Sovjet --- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics --- USSR --- SSṚM --- Sovetakan Sotsʻialistakan Ṛespublikaneri Miutʻyun --- SSHM --- Sovetakan Sotsʻialistakan Hanrapetutʻyunneri Miutʻyun --- URSS --- Unión de Repúblicas Socialistas Soviéticas --- Berit ha-Moʻatsot --- Rusyah --- Ittiḥād al-Sūfiyītī --- Rusiyah --- Rusland --- Soṿet-Rusland --- Uni Soviet --- Union soviétique --- Zȯvlȯlt Kholboot Uls --- Związek Radziecki --- ESSD --- Sahaphāp Sōwīat --- KhSHM --- SSR Kavširi --- Russland --- SNTL --- PSRS --- Su-lien --- Sobhieṭ Ẏuniẏana --- FSSR --- Unione Sovietica --- Ittiḥād-i Shūravī --- Soviyat Yūniyan --- Russian S.F.S.R. --- Krym (Ukraine) --- Krim (Ukraine) --- Krimm (Ukraine) --- Republic of Krym (Ukraine) --- Taurida (Ukraine) --- Republic of Crimea (Ukraine) --- Respublika Krym (Ukraine) --- Crimean Republic (Ukraine) --- Avtonomna Respublika Krym (Ukraine) --- Autonomous Republic of Crimea (Ukraine) --- ARK (Ukraine) --- Krymskai︠a︡ oblastʹ (Ukraine) --- Colonization. --- Social conditions. --- Związek Socjalistycznych Republik Radzieckich --- ZSRR --- Związek Socjalistycznych Republik Sowieckich --- ZSRS --- History of Eastern Europe --- anno 1920-1929 --- anno 1930-1939 --- anno 1940-1949 --- Russia --- Ukraine --- Крим (Ukraine) --- Krym-Tavrida (Ukraine) --- Крым-Таврида (Ukraine) --- Tavrida (Ukraine) --- Таврида (Ukraine) --- Республіка Крим (Ukraine) --- Автономна Республіка Крим (Ukraine) --- АРК (Ukraine)

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