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1. Making Bodies Kosher: The Politics of Reproduction among Haredi Jews in England

Author:
Ben Kasstan
Publication Date:
01-2019
Content Type:
Book
Institution:
Berghahn Books
Abstract:
For Haredi Jews, reproduction is entangled with issues of health, bodily governance and identity. This is an analysis of the ways in which Haredi Jews negotiate healthcare services using theoretical perspectives in political philosophy. It is the first archival and ethnographic study of Haredi Jews in the UK and sits at the intersection of medical anthropology, social history and Jewish studies. It will allow readers to understand how reproductive care issues affect this growing minority population.
Topic:
Health, Religion, Anthropology, and Anti-Semitism
Political Geography:
United Kingdom, Europe, England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Wales

2. Difficult Folk?: A Political History of Social Anthropology

Author:
David Mills
Publication Date:
01-2010
Content Type:
Book
Institution:
Berghahn Books
Abstract:
How should we tell the histories of academic disciplines? All too often, the political and institutional dimensions of knowledge production are lost beneath the intellectual debates. This book redresses the balance. Written in a narrative style and drawing on archival sources and oral histories, it depicts the complex pattern of personal and administrative relationships that shape scholarly worlds. Focusing on the field of social anthropology in twentieth-century Britain, this book describes individual, departmental and institutional rivalries over funding and influence. It examines the efforts of scholars such as Bronislaw Malinowski, Edward Evans-Pritchard and Max Gluckman to further their own visions for social anthropology. Did the future lie with the humanities or the social sciences, with addressing social problems or developing scholarly autonomy? This new history situates the discipline's rise within the post-war expansion of British universities and the challenges created by the end of Empire.
Topic:
Anthropology, Empire, and Knowledge Production
Political Geography:
Britain, United Kingdom, and Europe