Sociology 2014_web

ANTHROPOLOGYDrugs in AfricaHistories and Ethnographies of Use, Trade, and ControlEdited by Gernot Klantschnig, University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China, NeilCarrier, African Studies Centre, Oxford, Charles Ambler, University of Texas, El Paso,USAThis cutting-edge volume is the first to address the burgeoning interest in drugs andAfrica among scholars, policymakers, and the general public. It brings together aninterdisciplinary group of leading academics and practitioners to explore the use,trade, production, and control of mind-altering substances on the continent.Contents: Africa’s Ambiguous Substances - Charles Ambler, Neil Carrier, and Gernot Klantschnig* PART I: CONSUMPTION * Pleasure, Profits, and Harm: Alcohol and Africa in the 21st Century- Isidore ObotEast African Drug Users as Idlers, Workers, and Business People - Susan Beckerleg* Tanzanian Heroin Users and the Realities of Addiction’ - Sheryl McCurdy * Drug Addiction andTrafficking in Postcolonial Ghana - Owusu-Darkwa * PART II: TRADE AND PRODUCTION * TheRise of Branded Alcoholic Drinks in West Africa - Dimitri van den Bersselaar * and more...August 2014 UKAugust 2014 US220 ppHardback £60.00 / $90.00 / CN$104.00 9781137321893Paperback £19.00 / $30.00 / CN$34.50 9781137321909Canadian Rightsebooks availableAttachment ReconsideredCultural Perspectives on a Western TheoryEdited by Naomi Quinn, Duke University, USA, JeannetteMarie Mageo, Washington State University, USA"Naomi Quinn and Jeannette Marie Mageohave guided the development of a stunninginterdisciplinary book! Attachment Reconsideredchallenges exclusive attention to the mother-infantbond in classical attachment theory and the universalapplicability of a single measuring instrument, theStrange Situation. For example, systematic naturalobservation reveals that, for Aka children, it is thesensitivity of nonmaternal rather than maternalcare that determines their degree of distressduring separation from their mothers." - Patricia M.Greenfield, Distinguished Professor of Psychology,University of California, Los Angeles, USASince the 1950s, the study of early attachment and separation has been dominatedby a school of psychology that is Euro-American in its theoretical assumptions.Based on ethnographic studies in a range of locales, this book goes beyondprior efforts to critique attachment theory, providing a cross-cultural basis forunderstanding human development.Contents: PART I: A FRAMEWORK * Introduction: Situating and Summarizing Our Critiques;Naomi Quinn and Jeannette Mageo * 1. The Puzzle of Attachment: Unscrambling Maturationaland Cultural Contributions to the Development of Early Emotional Bonds; Suzanne Gaskins *PART II: CAREGIVING * 2. Cooperative Care among the Hadza: Situating Multiple Attachment inEvolutionary Context; Alyssa N. Crittenden and Frank W. Marlowe * 3. Cooperative Breeding andAttachment in Early Childhood: A Case Study Among the Aka Foragers; Courtney L. Meehan andSean Hawks * and more...Culture, Mind and SocietyDecember 2013 UKDecember 2013 US272 pp 14 b/w illustrationsHardback £59.50 / $95.00 / CN$109.00 9781137386717Paperback £19.00 / $30.00 / CN$34.50 9781137386748Canadian Rightsebooks available78