Nationalism, Politics, and the Practice of Archaeology

Nationalism, Politics, and the Practice of Archaeology. Philip L. Kohl and Clare Fawcett. eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. 329 pp.     

Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan

Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan. Jennifer Robertson. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.278 pp.     

The Taste of Nationalism: Food Politics in Postsocialist Moscow

In this article I consider how Muscovites cultivate and express nationalist sentiments through their food choices. During the last ten years of the post-socialist transition, Russian consumers have encountered an expanding and increasingly transnational commodity market. Locally produced elements of Russian cuisine both compete with and imitate foreign food products. In response to perceptions that foreign cultures are displacing or subsuming local cultural forms, Russian officials have launched a 'Buy Russian' campaign. Domestic food producers, store clerks, and customers collaborate to classify foods and other products as either 'Ours'(Nash) or 'Not Ours' (Ne nash) and describe local goods as superior to foreign goods in terms of taste, quality, and healthfulness. In their own narratives about consumption choices, Muscovites echo these nationalist themes by explicitly linking their personal food experiences with broader political issues. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork on foodpractices in Moscow(1995-2001), I suggest that consumption strategies mediate Muscovites' experiences with growing nationalist sentiments in the context of a globalizing Russia.     

Under the Shadow of Nationalism: Politics and Poetics of Rural Japanese Women

Under the Shadow of Nationalism: Politics and Poetics of Rural Japanese Women. Mariko Asano Tamanoi. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1998. 273 pp.     

Against Culture: Development, Politics, and Religion in Indian Alaska

Against Culture: Development, Politics, and Religion in Indian Alaska. Kirk Dombrowski. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. 247 pp.     

Culture of Politics, Politics of Cultures: Re-visioning Latin American Social Movements

Culture of Politics, Politics of Cultures: Re-visioning Latin American Social Movements. Sonia E. Alvarez. Evelina Dagnino. and Arturo Escobar. eds. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998.459 pp.     

Contesting Art: Politics and Identity in the Modern World

Contesting Art: Politics and Identity in the Modern World. Jeremy MacClancy. ed. New York: New York University Press, 1997.254 pp.     

Children and the Politics of Culture

Children and the Politics of Culture. Sharon Stephens. ed Princeton, NJ; Princeton University Press, 1995.366 pp.     

Being Góral: Identity Politics and Globalization in Postsocialist Poland

Being Góral: Identity Politics and Globalization in Postsocialist Poland . Deborah Cahalen Schneider. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006. 212 pp.     

Introduction: Culture in the Politics of Mental Health Research

Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry -