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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Making Sense explores the experiential, ethical, and intellectual stakes of living in, and thinking with, worlds wherein language cannot be taken for granted. In Nepal, many deaf signers use Nepali Sign Language (NSL), a young, conventional signed language. The majority of deaf Nepalis, however, use what NSL signers call natural sign. Natural sign involves conventional and improvisatory signs, many of which recruit semiotic relations immanent in the social and material world. These features make conversation in natural sign both possible and precarious. Sense-making in natural sign depends on signers' skillful use of resources and on addressees' willingness to engage. Natural sign reveals the labor of sense-making that in more conventional language is carried by shared grammar. Ultimately, this highly original book shows that emergent language is an ethical endeavor, challenging readers to consider what it means, and what it takes, to understand and to be understood.

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In Ritual Boundaries, Joseph E. Sanzo transforms our understanding of how early Christians experienced religion in lived practice through the study of magical objects, such as amulets and grimoires. Against the prevailing view of late antiquity as a time when only so-called elites were interested in religious and ritual differentiation, the magical evidence reveals that the desire to distinguish between religious and ritual insiders and outsiders cut across diverse social strata. The magical evidence also offers unique insight into early biblical reception, exposing a textual world in which scriptural reading was multisensory and multitraditional. As they addressed sickness, demonic struggle, and interpersonal conflicts, Mediterranean people thus acted in ways that challenge our conceptual boundaries between the Christian and non-Christian; elites and non-elites; and words, materials, and images. Sanzo helps us rethink how early Christians imagined similarity and difference among texts, traditions, groups, and rituals as they went about their daily lives.

"Mobile Hollywood persuasively encourages major rethinking of how we understand the dynamics of transnational film and television production. Crucially, Kevin Sanson's attention to the lived experiences of media workers illuminates the everyday employment conditions, invisible logistical coordination tasks, and practical organizational frictions inherent in creating screen entertainment across global space."--Paul McDonald, author of George Clooney "Mobile Hollywood deftly excavates the trend toward footloose production in the media industries. In this richly researched and theorized volume, Sanson explores how media workers around the world have adapted to transnational production demands. Every course in global media, media industries, and production studies should adopt this book."--Timothy Havens, author of Black Television Travels: African American Media around the Globe "Mobile Hollywood examines a conspicuous yet taken-for-granted characteristic of contemporary Hollywood: that the industry can be defined by its extraordinary mobility. Based on extensive fieldwork, Sanson provides a fascinating portrait of mobile film and TV productions and how mobility has reshaped Hollywood jobs, craft practices, and workers' lives."--Daniel Gómez Steinhart, author of Runaway Hollywood: Internationalizing Postwar Production and Location Shooting "The first monograph​ to articulate a perspective on Hollywood as international and mobile through a production studies lens, Mobile Hollywood takes on a critical question in the discipline: Are media industries best described as place-based or global? Engagingly written and sharply observed, Sanson's latest book--firmly grounded in the experiences of film workers themselves--will be an invaluable contribution to the field."--Jade L. Miller, author of Nollywood Central: The Nigerian Videofilm Industry

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. What happens to the colonized after colonial industries leave? Set in the cinchona plantations of India's Darjeeling Hills, Quinine's Remains chronicles the history and aftermath of quinine. Harvested from cinchona bark, quinine was malaria's only remedy until the twentieth-century advent of synthetic drugs, and it was vital to the expansion of the British Empire. Today, the cinchona plantations--and the fifty thousand people who call them home--remain, and their futures are unclear. The Indian government has threatened to privatize or shut down this seemingly obsolete and crumbling industry, but local communities, led by strident trade unions, have successfully resisted. Overgrown cinchona fields and shuttered quinine factories may appear the stuff of postcolonial and postindustrial ruination, but quinine's remains are not dead. Rather, they have become the birthplace of urgent political efforts to redefine land and life for the twenty-first century. Quinine's Remains offers a vivid historical and ethnographic portrait of what it means to forge life after empire.

"Ned Randolph weaves together history, geography, environmental philosophy, and narrative storytelling to offer insights that apply to distant geographies and varied cultural contexts. Amid the overwhelming effects of environmental catastrophe and collapse, it is grounding to read a book that is so carefully set in its place and time."--Christopher Schaberg, author of Searching for the Anthropocene: A Journey into the Environmental Humanities "This is a stunning, well-written blend of cultural theory and empirical research. Randolph provides unparalleled insight into the Gulf Coast and the environmental crisis playing out there, in a region with some of the most destructive petrochemical industries in the country and the world."--Toby Miller, author of Greenwashing Culture "This searing portrait of extractivism, riverine geoengineering, and environmental injustice illuminates how New Orleans became one of the world's most vulnerable and also resilient coastal cities. Randolph's embrace of muddy alternatives to the capitalist and technopolitical vectors of the Anthropocene exemplifies beautifully how Energy Humanities can stay with the troubles of these times."--Dominic Boyer, author of No More Fossils "Randolph's fluid story of mineral extraction is in coastal Louisiana, but the social context involves living anywhere without the false contrasts of hope and hopelessness, or flaccid acceptance of doom, living instead within the bubbling humanness and interrelationships of all kinds and pressing forward without dogmatism and with aspiration."--Eugene Turner, Boyd Professor, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Studies, Louisiana State University "Compelled by Hurricane Katrina and the destruction of New Orleans, Randolph develops an exceptionally well-crafted, even poetic analysis of the Mississippi River--as an object through which the state organizes and regulates the circulation of natural, human, and economic resources; as the product of historical and contemporary mapping practices that have been shaped by changing and often conflicting political, economic, social, and cultural imaginaries seeking to produce a stable, predictable artifact; and as a multicentury infrastructure project, repeatedly undone by the disruptive, unpredictable presence of the Mississippi's most basic assemblage, 'mud.' Mud is Randolph's point of departure for understanding the region's past and future--a vehicle of disruption and constraint, certainly, but also, in Randolph's deft reading, the very condition of possibility for sustaining life amid ecological ruin."--Valerie Hartouni, Professor Emerita, UC San Diego "By centering not water or purification but mud and muddiness, Randolph ingeniously tells the story of the Lower Mississippi River region anew, as a nexus of ongoing wild climate contradictions. Muddy Thinking in the Mississippi River Delta describes looping patterns of multivalent extractivism, while witnessing and calling forth righteous resistance, tender coexistence, and hope amid the messy petro-delta-apocalyptic."--Rebecca Snedeker, coauthor of Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas "Among the most vulnerable geographic locations to climate catastrophes, the Mississippi Delta region is often characterized as being especially endangered by the uncontrollable onslaught of water: rising seas, shifting tributaries, and torrential rains. With this book, Randolph urges us to pivot our attention to the profound complexity (and deep historicity) of mud. Using what he calls 'muddy thinking' to excavate the material composition of the Delta's constitutive silts and soils, Randolph highlights how capitalism and politics have collaborated in their extractive efforts to contain and control water in the interest of corporate profits, exacerbating the catastrophic effects of human-caused climate change. In so doing--and despite empty promises of sustainability in the interest of the greater good--they have neglected to consider the literally shifting sands of the land from which they have so greedily extracted their capital. This is a brilliant book, ingeniously conceived, deftly argued, and beautifully written."--Patrick Anderson, author of Autobiography of a Disease

"Higher Powers brings into view novel social technologies to treat addiction. China Scherz, George Mpanga, and Sarah Namirembe's captivating narrative offers insights that translate well beyond Uganda, as overdoses and toxic drug markets ravage disrupted communities across the globe."--Helena Hansen, author of Addicted to Christ: Remaking Men in Puerto Rican Pentecostal Drug Ministries "A brilliant, innovative, and significant contribution. Through evocative ethnographic writing and profound theorizing, the authors illuminate a rich and nuanced assemblage of overlapping worlds that come to life on the pages as one reads. This unique and compelling work will deeply resonate within anthropology and far beyond."--Lauren Coyle Rosen, author of Fires of Gold: Law, Spirit, and Sacrificial Labor in Ghana "Carefully observed and lucidly theorized, Higher Powers is an engaging ethnography of alcohol, alcoholism, and recovery in Uganda that offers a detailed portrayal of distinctive ways of thinking about and acting on addiction."--Jacob Doherty, author of Waste Worlds: Inhabiting Kampala's Infrastructures of Disposability

"In Golden Ages, Jeremiah Lockwood opens a window into the closed circle of Orthodox cantors seeking personal fulfillment and communal connection through a sometimes tense revival of classic cantorial recordings. His deep involvement with his collaborators enriches a study that has implications beyond Jewish life to broader issues of contemporary American spiritual expression and the ethnomusicology of religion."--Mark Slobin, author of Chosen Voices: The Story of the American Cantorate "Lockwood has an unparalleled ear for the intermingled dynamics of loss, creativity, and continuity. His special domain is Jews and their music, but his study speaks clearly to larger processes of cultural rescue and their limits."--Jonathan Boyarin, author of Yeshiva Days: Learning on the Lower East Side

"Conflicts about space and access to resources have shaped queer histories from at least 1965 to the present. As spaces associated with middle-class homosexuality enter mainstream urbanity in the United States, cultural assimilation increasingly erases insurgent aspects of these social movements. This gentrification itself leads to queer displacement. Combining urban history, architectural critique, and queer and trans theories, Queering Urbanism traces these phenomena through the history of a network of sites in the San Francisco Bay Area. Within that urban landscape, Stathis Yeros investigates how queer people appropriated existing spaces, how they expressed their distinct identities through aesthetic forms, and why they mobilized the language of citizenship to shape place and secure space. Here the legacies of LGBTQ rights activism meet contemporary debates about the right to housing and urban life"--

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Almost Futures looks to the people who pay the heaviest price for progress throughout war and capitalist globalization--particularly Vietnamese citizens and refugees--for glimpses of ways to exist at the end of our future's promise. In order to learn from the lives destroyed (and lived) amid our inheritance of modern humanism and its uses of time, Almost Futures asks us to recognize new spectrums of feeling: the poetic, in the grief of protesters dispossessed by land speculation; the allegorical, in assembly line workers' laughter and sorrow; the iterant and intimate, in the visual witnessing of revolutionary and state killing; the haunting, in refugee writing on the death of their nation; and the irreconcilable, in refugees' inhabitation of history.

"A prescient analysis of how we create democratic spaces for engagement in the age of polarization. Governable Spaces is new, impeccably researched, and imaginative."--Zizi Papacharissi, Professor of Communication and Political Science, University of Illinois at Chicago "This visionary book points a way to scrapping capitalist realism for community control over our digital spaces. Nathan Schneider generously brings together disparate wisdom from abolitionists, Black feminists, and cooperative software engineers to spark our own imaginations and experiments."--Lilly Irani, author of Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India "Tackles profound questions of how communities should govern themselves offline and online, engaging with scholarship from feminist theory to blockchain governance. This dizzying array of topics pulls readers out of their comfort zone and forces a novel look at very old questions. These juxtapositions invite us to forget what we know about governance and reconsider basic questions of how consensus, consent, dialogue, and deliberation can scale from small groups to entire nations."--Ethan Zuckerman, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Communication, and Information and Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst

"Saadia Yacoob delves deeply into the categories and logic of her primary sources, contextualizes them within the relevant social history, and probingly explores their ethical and political implications. Beyond the Binary marries philological depth with theoretical sophistication while remaining surprisingly accessible and engaging."--Marion Holmes Katz, author of Wives and Work: Islamic Law and Ethics before Modernity "In this field-changing book, Yacoob shows that for classical Muslim jurists, legal personhood was intersectional, relational, and situational. She pushes back against modern conservative insistence on an Islamic femininity defined in binary opposition to masculinity while also challenging feminist analyses that overemphasize gender as a stable component of identity."--Kecia Ali, author of Marriage and Slavery in Early Islam

"A virtuoso meditation on laughter, music, and sound reproduction, moving from transfixing insights drawn from philosophical texts and recorded sound objects to a bold vision of laughter as a sonorous force that troubles our conceptions of humanity and rationality. How sounds acquire meaning, how they make sense or nonsense or lie somewhere between the two: Delia Casadei's Risible considers these fundamental issues in startling and thought-provoking ways."--Carolyn Abbate, coauthor of A History of Opera "There is something thrillingly unclassifiable about this book. While it indexes music studies, it is clearly a profound work of cultural theory. Casadei reveals how laughter--a deceptively minor though ubiquitous phenomenon--holds relevance for every dimension of life and its biopolitical regulation via gender, race, labor, and reproduction. She also reminds us that there is much genealogical work yet to be done on mediatized, electrified soundworlds of the twentieth century and offers a powerful, welcoming push in new directions."--Amy Cimini, author of Wild Sound: Maryanne Amacher and the Tenses of Audible Life "Casadei's imaginative and provocative book deploys an inventive blend of historical and philosophical modes. By turns incisively argued and methodologically playful, it navigates between musicology, sound studies, and the history of ideas in fascinating, often beguiling ways."--Naomi Waltham-Smith, author of Shattering Biopolitics: Militant Listening and the Sound of Life "Casadei's study of the sound of laughter offers a fresh account of an everyday phenomenon that both fascinates and eludes us."--Anca Parvulescu, author of Laughter: Notes on a Passion

"Sidney Robertson was a pioneering folksong documentarian every bit as accomplished as the legendary Alan Lomax. Focusing on Robertson's late 1930s adventures in Northern California, Catherine Hiebert Kerst's vivid study reveals a brilliant woman and gritty field researcher able to overcome prejudice, win scarce funds from grudging bureaucrats, charm wary working-class immigrant performers, and illuminate the unforgettable singing voices of diverse cultural communities essential to the American experience."--James P. Leary, author of Folksongs of Another America: Field Recordings from the Upper Midwest, 1937-1946 "Combining biography, detailed descriptions of the recording process, and access to the original audio recordings, Kerst's pioneering book on Sidney Robertson is a model for presenting archival material and the motivations of those who recorded the diversity of music in America in the twentieth century."--Anthony Seeger, Director Emeritus of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, Smithsonian Institution "By mining a disorganized and neglected treasure trove of Sidney Robertson's recordings, photographs, and papers, Kerst--archivist and ethnomusicologist at the Library of Congress--has produced a critical intervention into the narratives of ethnomusicology and folklore that privilege the 'founding fathers.' Shining a long overdue spotlight on the 'Lady on Wheels, ' one of the founding mothers of music research and recording, this book brings us onto the stage of American politics and culture during the 1930s, highlighting issues of gender, technology, ethics, immigration, and artistic labor, demonstrating the formative impact of the New Deal and the WPA on the realization and creation of American culture."--Anne K. Rasmussen, coeditor of The Music of Multicultural America