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Publications: Department of Anthropology


book chapters

"Margaret Lock and Medical Anthropology," co-authored with Leslie Butt and Karina Kielmann. In: Troubling Natural Categories: Engaging the Medical Anthropology of Margaret Lock. Naomi Adelson, Leslie Butt and Karina Kielmann, eds. McGill-Queen's University Press. Adelson, Naomi
"Digital Landscapes of Health." In: Troubling Natural Categories: Engaging the Medical Anthropology of Margaret Lock. Naomi Adelson, Leslie Butt and Karina Kielmann, eds. McGill-Queen's University Press. Adelson, Naomi
"Inequalities and Health Care." In: Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior and Society, William C. Cockerham, Robert Dingwall, & Stella Quah, eds. Wiley- Blackwell. Adelson, Naomi
Lisa Schwartz, Matthew Hunt, Christina Sinding, Laurie Elit, Lynda Redwood-Campbell, Naomi Adelson, Sonya De Laat, Jennifer Ranford. "La déontologie des activités cliniques occidentales est-elle applicable aux contextes humanitaires a l'étranger?" In: Jeux de Miroir: Réflexions sur MSF et l'action humanitaire, Caroline Abu-Sada, ed. Antipodes: Lausanne, Switzerland, 77-92. (French version of: Western clinical health ethics: How well do they travel to humanitarian contexts?) Adelson, Naomi
"Western Clinical Health Ethics: How Well do they Travel to Humanitarian Contexts?" Co-authored with: Lisa Schwartz, Matthew Hunt, Chris Sinding, Laurie Elit, Lynda Redwood-Campbell, Sonya De Laat, Jennifer Ranford. In: Dilemmas, Challenges and Ethics of Humanitarian Action: Reflections on Médicins San Frontières' Perception Project, Caroline Abu-Sada, ed. McGill-Queen's UP, 73-88 Adelson, Naomi
"Cree Communications Technologies Past and Present." In: Aboriginal History: A Reader, Kristin Burnett and Geoffrey Read, eds. Oxford University Press. Adelson, Naomi
"Towards a Recuperation of Souls and Bodies: Community Healing and the Complex Interplay of Faith and History." In: The Mental Health of Canadian Aboriginal Peoples: Transformations of Identity and Community, Gail Valaskakis and Laurence Kirmayer, eds. Vancouver: UBC Press. Pp. 272-288 Adelson, Naomi
"Models and Metaphors of Healing in a Maritime First Nations Community." (with Amanda Lipinski) In: James Waldram, ed. Aboriginal Healing in Canada: Studies in Therapeutic Meaning and Practice. Montreal: Aboriginal Healing Foundation, pp. 9-30. Adelson, Naomi
"The Shifting Landscape of Cree Well-Being." In: Pursuits of Happiness: Well-Being in Anthropological Perspective. Gordon Matthews and Carolina Izquierdo, eds. Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp. 109-123. Adelson, Naomi
"Visible/Human/Project: Visibility and Invisibility at the Next Anatomical Frontier." In: Figuring it Out: Science, Gender, and Visual Culture. Ann B. Shteir and B. Lightman, eds. University Press of New England, 358-376. Adelson, Naomi
"Appreciation of the Goose: The Relationship Between of Food, Gender and Respect amongst the Iiyiyu’ch of Great Whale, Québec." In: Gendered Intersections: An Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies. Lesley Biggs and Pamela Downe, eds. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, pp. 276-279. Adelson, Naomi
"Cree." In: Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology: Health and Illness in the World's Cultures. Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember, eds. Kluwer/Plenum Press, 614-622. Adelson, Naomi
Kirmayer, L. J., Boothroyd, L. J., Tanner, A., Adelson, N. & Robinson, E. "Psychological distress among the Cree of James Bay." In: P. Boss (ed.), Family Stress: Classic and Contemporary Readings. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 249-264. (Reprint of article.) Adelson, Naomi
“Re-imagining Aboriginality: An Indigenous People’s Response to Social Suffer­ing.” In: Remaking A World: Violence, Social Suffering, and Recovery. Veena Das, Arthur Kleinman, Margaret Lock, Mamphela Ramphele, Pamela Reynolds, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press, 76-101. (Expanded version of TP article.) Adelson, Naomi
“Gathering Knowledge: Reflections on the Anthropology of Identity, Aboriginality, and the Annual Gatherings in Whapmagoostui, Quebec.” In: Aboriginal Autonomy and Development in Northern Quebec and Labrador. Colin Scott, ed. Vancouver: University of British Colum­bia Press, pp. 289-303. Adelson, Naomi
Archives and Cultural Legibility: Objects and Subjects of Neoliberal Heritage Technologies (with Eugenia Kisin). In Tord Larson et al. eds., Objectification and Standardisation: On the Limits and Effects of ritually fixing and measuring life (Ritual Studies Series, Carolina Academic Press), pp. 257-292. Coombe, Rosemary
Ownership of Intangibles: Intellectual Property and the Contested Commons (with S. Ali Malik). In Kamala Clarke, Eve Darien Smith, and Mariana Valverde, eds., Routledge Handbook on Law and Society. (London: Routledge), 203-208. Coombe, Rosemary
Aboriginal Community Research: Government and Neoliberal Self-Determination (with Daniel Huizenga). In Deborah Brock, ed., Re-making Normal: Governing the Social in Neoliberal Times (UBC Press), 109-132. Coombe, Rosemary
Frontiers of Cultural Property in the Global South. In Haidy Geismar & Jane Anderson, eds., Routledge Companion to Cultural Property (London: Routledge), 374-400 Coombe, Rosemary
Rethinking the Work Of Geographical Indications in Asia: Addressing Hidden Geographies of Gendered Labour (with Ali Malik). In Irene Calboli & Ng-Loy Wee Loon, eds., Geographic Indications at the Crossroads of Trade and Development in Asia (Cambridge University Press), 87-121. Coombe, Rosemary
The Limits of Heritage: Corporate Interests and Cultural Rights on Resource Frontiers (with Melissa Baird). In William Logan, Mairead Nic Craith & Ullrich Kockel eds., The Blackwell Companion to the New Heritage Studies (Wiley-Blackwell), 337-354. Coombe, Rosemary
Neoliberalism, Heritage Regimes, and Cultural Rights (with Lindsay Weiss). In Lynn Meskell, ed., Global Heritage: A Reader (Wiley-Blackwell), 43-69. Coombe, Rosemary
Geographical Indications: The Promise, Perils and Politics of Protecting Place-Based Products
(with Sarah Ives and Daniel Huizenga). In Matthew David & Deborah Halbert eds., Sage Handbook on Intellectual Property (Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications), 207-223. Coombe, Rosemary
The Social Imaginary of Geographical Indicators in Contested Environments: The Politicized Heritage and the Racialized Landscapes of South African Rooibos Tea (with Sarah Ives and Daniel Huizenga). In Matthew David & Deborah Halbert eds., Sage Handbook on Intellectual Property (Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications), 224-237. Coombe, Rosemary
Introducing Dynamic Fair Dealing: Creating Canadian Digital Culture. In Rosemary J. Coombe, Darren Wershler & Martin Zeilinger (eds.) Dynamic Fair Dealing: Creating Canadian Culture Online (University of Toronto Press), 3-43. Coombe, Rosemary
book reviews

2008 “Rethinking Creativity and Value,” Review of Johanna Gibson, Creating Selves: Intellectual Property and the Narration of Culture (Dartmouth: Ashgate, 2006). Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice 3 (12): 804. Coombe, Rosemary
2003 Review of Carol Greenhouse (with Roshanak Kheshti), Democracy and Ethnography (Albany: SUNY Press, 1998). American Ethnologist 30: 625-6. Coombe, Rosemary
2013 Tacit Subjects: Belonging and Same Sex Desire Among Dominican Immigrant Men (Carlos U. Decena) in GLQ 19(1):131-133 Murray, David A. B.
2010 Native Men Remade: Gender and Nation in Contemporary Hawaii (Ty P. Kawika Tengan) in American Ethnologist 37:4 Murray, David A. B.
2008 Caribbean Pleasure Industry: Tourism, Sexuality and AIDS in the Dominican Republic (Mark Padilla) in Anthropologica 50(2):434-436 Murray, David A. B.
2007 Theatre and Political Process: Staging Identities in Tokelau and New Zealand (Ingjerd Hoem) in Ethnos 72(1):136-137 Murray, David A. B.
2005 The Culture of Gender and Sexuality in the Caribbean (Linden Lewis, ed.) in The New West Indian Guide 79(1&2):27-29 Murray, David A. B.
2005 Queer Globalizations: Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism (Cruz-Malave and Manalansan, eds) in The Journal of Homosexuality 49(2):169-172 Murray, David A. B.
2003 The Anthropology of Media (K. Askew and R. Wilk, eds.) in The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology 40(2):238-240 Murray, David A. B.
1999 American Gay (S.O. Murray) in The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 5 (2):293-294 Murray, David A. B.
1998 A Day For the Hunter, A Day for the Prey, Popular Music and Power in Haiti (Gage Averill) in The Australian Journal of Anthropology 9 (3):327-328 Murray, David A. B.
1998 Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body (Rosemarie Garland Thomson ed.) in American Ethnologist 25 (1):20-21 Murray, David A. B.
1998 Condor Qatay: Anthropology in Performance (Catherine J. Allen and Nathan Garner) in American Anthropologist 100 (1):34-35 Murray, David A. B.
Sally Merry, “Human Rights and Gender Violence: Translating International Law into Social Justice, Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association, On Line Book Reviews. Van Esterik, Penelope
“From Opium to Chrysanthemums” and “ Drug Story”. (video review) News and Reviews, Asian Education Media Services 8 (1): 1-3 Van Esterik, Penelope
Martin Stuart-Fox, “Historical Dictionary of Laos”. Journal of the Siam Society 89(1&2):132 Van Esterik, Penelope
Sid Brown, “The Journey of One Buddhist Nun”. Journal of the Siam Society 89 (1&2):132-3. Van Esterik, Penelope
Carol J. Ireson.” Field, Forest and Family: Women's Work and Power in Rural Laos" and "Mya Than and Joseph L. H. Tan (eds.). Laos' Dilemmas and Options". Journal of Asian Studies 57(1):281-282. Van Esterik, Penelope
Susan Bordo. “Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture and the Body". The Communicator. Washington, D.C.: American Anthropology Association. Van Esterik, Penelope
V. Maher. Anthropology of Breastfeeding." American Anthropologist 95:728-729. Van Esterik, Penelope
Snit Smuckarn and Kennon Breazeale. “A Culture in Search of Survival: The Phuan of Thailand and Laos." Journal of Asian History 24(2):220-221. Van Esterik, Penelope
Josephine Reynell. “Political Pawns: Refugees on the Thai-Kampuchean Border." Refuge 9(3):15-16. Van Esterik, Penelope
Irene Tinker. “Street Foods: Testing Assumptions About Informal Sector Activity by Women and Men." Food and Foodways 3(4):377-378. Van Esterik, Penelope
A. Eisen. “Women and Revolution in Vietnam” and M. Khaing. “The World of Burmese Women." Canadian Women’s Studies Journal 7:216-217. Van Esterik, Penelope
Pierre Bourdieu. “Distinction." American Anthropologist 88(2):456-457. Van Esterik, Penelope
books

Troubling Natural Categories: Engaging the Medical Anthropology of Margaret Lock. Naomi Adelson, Leslie Butt and Karina Kielmann, eds. McGill-Queen's University Adelson, Naomi
“Being Alive Well”: Health and the Politics of Cree Well-Being. University of Toronto Press (Reprinted 2002, 2004), 141pp. Adelson, Naomi
Othon Alexandrakis. 2022. Radical Resilience: Athenian Topographies of Precocity and Possibility. Cornell University Press: Ithaca and London. Alexandrakis, Othon
Alexandrakis, Othon (Editor). 2016. Impulse to Act: A New Anthropology of Resistance and Social Justice. Indiana University Press. Alexandrakis, Othon
The Cultural Life of Intellectual Properties: Authorship, Appropriation and the Law. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998) 462 pp. Reprinted in 2008. Coombe, Rosemary
Denielle Elliott and Matthew Wolf-Meyer, eds. 2024 Naked Fieldnotes: A rough guide to ethnographic writing. University of Minnesota Press. Elliott, Denielle A
Denielle Elliott and Dara Culhane, eds. 2021 November Réinventer L’ethnographie: pratiques imaginatives et méthodologies créatives. Quebec City: University of Laval Press. Elliott, Denielle A
2018 Reimagining Science and Statecraft in Postcolonial Kenya: Stories from an African Scientist. London: Routledge Press. Elliott, Denielle A
Denielle Elliott and Dara Culhane, eds. 2016 A Different Kind of Ethnography. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Elliott, Denielle A
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/borderless-higher-education-for-refugees-9781350151239/ Giles, Wenona
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108655101 Giles, Wenona
https://www.routledge.com/Refugees-in-Extended-Exile-Living-on-the-Edge/Hyndman-Giles/p/book/9781138348790 Giles, Wenona
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520237919/sites-of-violence Giles, Wenona
2021 Special Issue. Engaging the Urban from the Periphery. South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal. SAMAJ. Volume 26. Co-edited with Loraine Kennedy and Ashima Sood. Gururani, Shubhra
2021 Special Issue. Agrarian Urbanisation: Emerging Entanglements of Land, Labour and Capital. Urbanisation. Volume 6:1. Co-edited with Sai Balakrishnan. Gururani, Shubhra
2018 Special Issue. Frontier Urbanism: Urbanisation Beyond Cities in South Asia. Co-edited with Rajarshi Dasgupta. Review of Urban Affairs. Economic and Political Weekly. Volume 53. Issue No. 12. March 24. Gururani, Shubhra
2015 Special Issue. Ethnographies of the Political: Honouring Malcolm
Blincow. Anthropologica. Volume 57: 1. Co-edited with Karl Schmid Gururani, Shubhra
2015 Gender in the Himalaya: Feminist Explorations of Identity, Place, and Positionality. Himal Books. Co-edited with Kim Berry. Gururani, Shubhra
2014 Themed Issue. Gender in the Himalaya. Himalaya: The Journal of the
Association of Nepal and Himalayan Studies. Co-edited with Kim Berry. Vol. 34: No. 1 Gururani, Shubhra
2014 Special Issue New Frontiers of Ecological Knowledge: Co-producing
Knowledge and Governance in Asia. Conservation and Society. Co-edited
with Peter Vandergeest. Winter Gururani, Shubhra
Approaches to the Qur'an in Sub-Saharan Africa. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198840770. Covering a period from the eighteenth century to the early twenty-first century, this multidisciplinary volume examines Muslim engagements with the Qur'an in a variety of geographical locations in sub-Saharan Africa including Burkina Faso, Kenya, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, and Tanzania. The volume's twelve case studies use different frameworks and methodological approaches from the academic disciplines of philology, historiography, anthropology, and art history. These studies explore a variety of media and modalities that Muslims in sub-Saharan Africa, as elsewhere, use in their engagements with the Qur'an. These include: manuscripts; commentaries; translations; recitations and invocations; music and poetry; magical squares and symbolic repertoire; medicinal and curative acts; textiles, ink, paper, and wooden boards; spaces of education, healing and prayer, as well as spaces of dreams and spirit worlds. As such, the case studies move well beyond the materiality of the Qur'an as a physical book to explore the ways in which the Qur'an is understood, felt and imagined, as well as the contestations and debates that arise from these diverse engagements. Hirji, Zulfikar
Islam: An Illustrated Journey. Farhad Daftary and Zulfikar Hirji. 2018. Azimuth Editions in Association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies. ISBN: 1898592357. Beginning in the world of late antiquity and the pre-Islamic period, the book takes the reader through Islam’s formative era and early development in the Arabian Peninsula, the rise and decline of major Muslim dynasties and finally into its place in the modern world. Lavishly illustrated and written in an accessible style, Islam: An Illustrated Journey tells the story of Islam, a faith that is today practised by more than a billion people and is the fastest growing religion in the world. The book contains a multitude of images, graphics, maps and charts, features many of the masterpieces of art, architecture and literature produced by Muslims along with an easy-to-use glossary and a detailed bibliography that will appeal to both general audiences and enthusiasts of Islamic societies and cultures and world civilizations. Hirji, Zulfikar
Between Empires: Sheikh-Sir Mbarak al-Hinawy (1896-1959). Azimuth Editions. 2012. ISBN: 1898592099. An illustrated biography of one of the most famous governors of the East African coast. This scholarly publication uses numerous photographs and is based on newly discovered family archives and other primary sources. It also explores the growth and development of Mombasa from the 19th century up to the 1950s, its Arab and Swahili communities, and its unique cosmopolitain culture. Hirji, Zulfikar
Diversity and Pluralism in Islam and Muslim Contexts: Historical and Contemporary Discourses amongst Muslims I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd, 2010 ISBN: 9781848853027 For more than fourteen hundred years Muslims have held multiple and diverging views about their religious tradition. This divergence encompasses such matters as authority; ritual practice; political power; law and governance; civic life; and the form and content of individual and communal expressions of their faith. Over the centuries Muslims have regularly debated these issues amongst themselves. However, despite the remarkable diversity of the Islamic tradition, and the plurality of understandings about Islam, Muslims are regularly and erroneously portrayed as internally homogeneous and dogmatic. This important book challenges such propositions by examining the ways in which matters of common concern to Muslims have been discussed by them and examined. The volume explores the processes by which Muslims construct notions of the self, the other and community, and addresses the socio-cultural tools that they employ in so doing. Offering contributions by world-class scholars, "Diversity and Pluralism in Islam" applies insights from a range of disciplines, including anthropology, history, literature, political theory, comparative literature and Islamic studies. Hirji, Zulfikar
The Ismailis: An Illustrated History. Azimuth Editions in Association with Institute of Ismaili Studies. 2008. ISBN-10: 1898592268. Farhad Daftary and Zulfikar Hirji. This book contains some 400 images of manuscripts, artifacts and monuments, community documents as well as important historical and contemporary photographs. Based on modern scholarship in the fields of Ismaili and Islamic Studies, the book offers a comprehensive and accessible account of Ismaili history and intellectual achievements, set in the wider contexts of Islamic and world history. Hirji, Zulfikar
monographs