...Custom in Oaxaca’s Courts of First Instance<subtitle>Seventeenth through Eighteenth Centuries</subtitle> ...

... Anthropological fieldwork’s intersection with the needs of intelligence agencies includes instances of anthropologists’ writings or field notes being used without their permission or knowledge; instances of archaeologists, including John Dimick, using pretexts of fieldwork for espionage...

... in the book and ends with a glance at Terence Davies’s The Long Day Closes as a perfect instance of the argument of the book. ...

...Preface The concept of dual use science is introduced as instances in which unintended, negative applications of scientific research are realized and used; often these are relationships in which academic theoretical developments are transformed into commercial products or military...

... This essay is composed of a series of thought images or scenes that draw together historical and contemporary instances of sending and receiving “messages” in the Inuit communities of Nunavut, Canada. It is an experiment with textual montage that attempts to produce resonances between...

... To consider the relation between vulnerability and resistance, this chapter looks at those instances where the kind of precarity and exclusion described by the term “late colony” defines the position of the subject. The chapter argues that such a position compels Kurdish subjects in Turkey...

... This chapter examines two important aspects of his political writings, as they are developed in Žižek’s “communist writing series”: the idea of communism and the critique of ideology, which in a certain instance of analysis, are correlative with one another. This analysis is divided in three...

... This chapter examines one exemplary instance of the optical unconscious that lies latent in Freud’s interpretation of the “R is my uncle dream” as recounted in his Interpretation of Dreams . Drawing on the work of Freud, Benjamin, Gilman, Schmitt, and others, Fardy discusses how the dream...

... vocabulary is indispensable, since it introduced the analysis of hybridity, traveling culture, and cross-cultural translation into art criticism, but that with the institutionalization of such terms, it is all the more important for historical research, for instance, on the Caribbean Artists Movement, to go...

... occurs outside historical context. In the specific historical context of slavery, the attribution of disability to the female captive body, for instance, enabled this body to become a site where the flesh became the prime commodity of exchange in the violent conflation of profit and pleasure. The essay...

... distinction, with media markets split along linguistic and regional lines (Bollywood versus Sandalwood, for instance) as well as religious, class, and caste lines. In discussing place and scale in the Indian context, this chapter draws upon Amin’s “nonterritorial” way of conceptualizing place, where place...

... of the film as fiction and chronicle considers the history of San Francisco as mediated by anxieties of black diasporic absence that are compelled by a romance conceit. In this instance of film blackness there is a complicated sense of how place impacts blackness in tandem with negotiations of futurity...

... to contemplate the segregation of leprosy patients. This chapter explores transformations in the political economy of healthcare in Nigeria in the 1950s and 1960s, using as its lens the spatial, social, policy, and technological ramifications of leprosy control and, specifically, the instance of the clinical...

... in particular instances through situated and singular practices. This book engages Guatemalans’ experiences via number but also strives to unsettle readers’ relations to counting, especially the idea that mathematics is the only true universal language. ...

... This essay explores the relation of critical ethnic studies to the neoliberal corporate university. It argues that the corporate university participates in neoliberalism’s effort to enclose or accumulate the common means to life, of which education is one instance. Critique disassociated from...

.... The chapter links the performativity of the roundtable to The Tale of Ch’unhyang (discussed in chapter 6) both on the level of content and as performance. These two events, then, provide important examples, embodied instances, of the performing of and mutual negotiation with the location of Korean culture...

... and failure to which this historical process often seems to lend itself have not only eclipsed other instances of resistance but also encouraged the development of a one-dimensional focus on autonomy and rebellion that denies the complexity of those various sites seen as dynamic “terrains of struggle...

... articulated a changing set of governmental rationalities that detailed the freedoms and limits of the Māori population. We illustrate how “the Maori as he was” was, in the first instance, linked to the shift away from salvage and racial assimilationist projects and toward Clark Wissler’s notion of culture...