Introduction -- From “Blind Susan” to Incidents in the Life of a Blind Girl: How Mary L. Day Disabled Domesticity -- Crossing the Threshold: Disability and Modernist Housing -- The Largest Occupational Group of All the Disabled: Homemakers with Disabilities and Vocational Rehabilitation in Postwar America -- Rethinking the American Dream Home: The Disability Rights Movement and the Cult…
This book is a reflection on the nature of confinement, experienced by some people as everyday life. It explores the meanings, purposes, and consequences involved with spending every day inside prison. Female Imprisonment results from an ethnographic study carried out in a small prison facility located in the south of Portugal, and Frois uses the data to analyze how incarcerated women talk abou…
1. Introduction -- 2. Current Trends -- 3. Coming Out and Being Out -- 4. Religion and Spirituality -- 5. Family Life -- 6. The SJS Project: Phases of Research.This book utilizes personal narratives and survey data from over 2,100 respondents to explore the diversity of experiences across Black LGBT communities within the United States. The authors document and celebrate many of the everyday st…
Kinship, Love, and Life Cycle in Contemporary Havana, Cuba focuses on the lives of low-income Havana residents over the life cycle from birth to death. The book documents how kinship and love relations are created, reproduced, and negotiated at different life stages through gendered dialectics of care, important to both individuals' relationships and state politics. In the process, through a va…
Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Water Supply Systems in Central Iran -- Chapter 3: Social Aspects of Water in Central Iran -- Chapter 4- Cain and Abel in the Heaven of Water Cooperation -- Chapter 5- Cooperation in Lieu of Water -- Chapter 6: Conclusion.This book tries to answer the question how different communities in such an arid area as the Iranian central plateau could have shared th…
This volume explores recent developments in the practice of hospitality, as well as the curious, precarious relationship between guests and their hosts. Drawing from personal interactions with an aging innkeeper called Herr Klaus and modern Airbnb hostess Gretchen, Amitai Touval offers a touching and illuminating account of how the rise of Airbnb has forged new standards of generosity, hostilit…
1. Introduction -- 2. Leisure: Between Structure and Agency -- 3. Context of the Study -- 4. Meaning of Leisure for Women in Mannheim -- 5. Leisure Planning and Execution -- 6. Women and Mannheim as Leisure Space -- 7. Migration background and Leisure -- 8. Conclusion.This book deals with the concept of leisure and the everyday leisure practices of a group of diverse single women in an urban …
1. Framing History -- 2. Change -- 3. Processes -- 4. Individuals -- 5. Nature vs. Culture: A Mistaken Conundrum -- 6. Retreat of the Social? Where to? -- 7. Religion and Cognition -- 8. Language and Culture -- 9. Against -isms -- 10. For a Mindful Anthropology. .This book argues that the breaking and re-making of frames of analysis underlie the history of theorizing in anthropology. Pamela J. …
Chapter 1:- Introduction: The View from the ground; Annabelle Mooney and Evi Sifaki -- I. Money and Childhood -- Chapter 2: Stories of value: The nature of money in three classic British picture books; Astrid Van den Bossche -- Chapter 3: The treatment of money and wealth in the Harry Potter series; Tanweer Ali and Eva Lebdušková -- II. Money and the Everyday -- Chapter 4: Money Talk at the M…
1. Introduction -- 2. Fear and Prayers: Negotiating with the Dead in Apiao, Chiloé (Chile) -- 3. Quelling the “Unquiet Dead”: Popular Devotions in the Borderlands of the USSR -- 4. Life After Death/Life Before Death and Their Linkages: The United States, Japan, China -- 5. Reincarnation, Christianity and Controversial Coffins in Northwestern Benin -- 6. For the Solace of the Young and the …