Yoruba peoples of southwestern Nigeria conceive of rituals as journeys-sometimes actual, sometimes virtual. Performed as a parade or a procession, a pilgrimage, a masking display, or possession trance, the journey evokes the reflexive, progressive, transformative experience of ritual participation. Yoruba Ritual is an original and provocative ......
In 2014, the so-called Islamic State attacked the Shingal region of northern Iraq, forcing almost the entire Yazidi community to seek refuge in Iraqi Kurdistan. Since then, they have been suspended in humanitarian limbo: Their status as internally displaced persons (IDPs) excludes them from full citizenship of either Iraq or Kurdistan, and ......
In 2014, the so-called Islamic State attacked the Shingal region of northern Iraq, forcing almost the entire Yazidi community to seek refuge in Iraqi Kurdistan. Since then, they have been suspended in humanitarian limbo: Their status as internally displaced persons (IDPs) excludes them from full citizenship of either Iraq or Kurdistan, and ......
Most histories of wounded Civil War veterans construe them as feminized men whose manhood has suffered due to their inability to provide for and raise families or engage in business. Wounded for Life complicates this picture by examining how seven veterans-six soldiers and one physician-coped with their changed bodies in their postwar lives. ......
An Urban Ethnography of Peacekeeping Camps in Goma, DRC
Worlding Home interrogates the social, spatial, and architectural lifeworlds of United Nations (UN) peacekeepers accommodated in contingent camps throughout Goma, the capital of North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. From 2017 to 2019, more than twenty of these camps existed in and around the city, operating as sites of global ......
An Urban Ethnography of Peacekeeping Camps in Goma, DRC
Worlding Home interrogates the social, spatial, and architectural lifeworlds of United Nations (UN) peacekeepers accommodated in contingent camps throughout Goma, the capital of North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. From 2017 to 2019, more than twenty of these camps existed in and around the city, operating as sites of global ......
Nenets Reindeer Herders and Russian Evangelical Missionaries in the Post-Soviet Arctic
Words and Silences tells the story of an extraordinary group of independent Nenets reindeer herders in the northwest Russian Arctic. Under socialism these nomads managed to avoid the Soviet state and its institutions of collectivization, but soon after the atheist regime collapsed, while some staunchly resisted, many of them became fervent ......
Nenets Reindeer Herders and Russian Evangelical Missionaries in the Post-Soviet Arctic
Words and Silences tells the story of an extraordinary group of independent Nenets reindeer herders in the northwest Russian Arctic. Under socialism these nomads managed to avoid the Soviet state and its institutions of collectivization, but soon after the atheist regime collapsed, while some staunchly resisted, many of them became fervent ......
"Devaki Jain opens the doors of the United Nations and shows how it has changed the female half of the world-and vice versa. Women, Development, and the UN is a book that every global citizen, government leader, journalist, academic, and self-respecting woman should read." -Gloria Steinem "Devaki Jain's book nurtures your optimism in this ......
