Books and Edited Volumes by Dianna Shandy
When significant numbers of college-educated American women began, in the early twenty-first cent... more When significant numbers of college-educated American women began, in the early twenty-first century, to leave paid work to become stay-at-home mothers, an emotionally charged national debate erupted. Karine Moe and Dianna Shandy, a professional economist and an anthropologist, respectively, decided to step back from the sometimes overheated rhetoric around the so-called mommy wars. They wondered what really inspired women to opt out, and they wanted to gauge the phenomenon's genuine repercussions. Glass Ceilings and 100-Hour Couples is the fruit of their investigation-a rigorous, accessible, and sympathetic reckoning with this hot-button issue in contemporary life. Drawing on hundreds of interviews from around the country, original survey research, and national labor force data, Moe and Shandy refocus the discussion of women who opt out from one where they are the object of scrutiny to one where their aspirations and struggles tell us about the far broader swath of American women who continue to juggle paid work and family. Moe and Shandy examine the many pressures that influence a woman's decision to resign, reduce, or reorient her career. These include the mismatch between child-care options and workplace demands, the fact that these women married men with demanding careers, the professionalization of stay-at-home motherhood, and broad failures in public policy. But Moe and Shandy are equally attentive to the resilience of women in the face of life decisions that might otherwise threaten their sense of self-worth. Moe and Shandy find, for instance, that women who have downsized their careers stress the value of social networks-of "running with a pack of smart women" who've also chosen to emphasize motherhood over paid work
Traditionally a community of cattle farmers in Sudan, the Nuer are one of anthropology’s most cel... more Traditionally a community of cattle farmers in Sudan, the Nuer are one of anthropology’s most celebrated peoples. Half a century after social anthropologist Sir Edward E. Evans-Pritchard introduced the Nuer people to the global consciousness, they began arriving in the United States as refugees. Approximately 25,000 settled in such cities as Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Nashville, Tennessee, and Saint Paul, Minnesota. In this study of their migration from a war-torn society to North America, Shandy asks how the diaspora Nuer, especially Nuer-Americans, deal with changing kin obligations and privileges to maintain their Nuerness. What parts of a people’s culture are left behind when they move to another country? How much of the home culture and coping strategies continue to aid refugees trying to fit into a new society? These questions are not only crucial for understanding how best to view refugees, but all kinds of global migrants. Assumptions that refugees fleeing to Western countri...
Conformity and Conflict: Readings in Cultural Anthropology seeks to teach students the importance... more Conformity and Conflict: Readings in Cultural Anthropology seeks to teach students the importance of culture and its influence on human life. By including examples of Western, North American cultures, the text makes cultural understanding and comparison more relatable to student audiences. The inclusion of current information and articles allows students to connect with major anthropological concepts through relevant events.
The Fifteenth Edition reflects the changing nature of the discipline of anthropology by shifting its focusing to the more concerning issues of today. Useful features like a glossary of key terms help students understand basic concepts discussed in the readings.. Articles throughout the text touch on all major subfields, including environmental, global, and medical topics, giving students a comprehensive introduction to the field.
The Cultural Experience: Ethnography in Complex Society, 2nd Edition
The Cultural Experience has helped generations of undergraduates discover the excitement of ethno... more The Cultural Experience has helped generations of undergraduates discover the excitement of ethnographic research through participation in relatively familiar cultures in North American society. Grounded in the interviewing-based ethnographic technique known as ethnosemantics, the latest edition continues to treat ethnography as a discovery process. Students are taught how to set up an ethnographic field study, choose a microculture, and find and approach an informant, as well as how to ask ethnographic questions, record data, and organize and analyze what they have learned. Detailed instruction on how to write an ethnography is also provided. The guidelines are followed by ten short but substantive, well-written student ethnographies on such microcultures as exotic dancing, firefighting, pest extermination, and the work of midwives and police detectives. The Second Edition of this popular classroom volume has been expanded to include boxed inserts that offer suggestions to aid in t...
Anthropological Quarterly, 2008
The papers here examine the global circulation of both ideologies and practices that underlie the... more The papers here examine the global circulation of both ideologies and practices that underlie the notion of “childhood,” as well as the circulation or migration of children themselves. We ask what are the implications of the global circulation of constructions and practices of children and childhood, and how does the state involve itself in these processes? Specifically, the papers look at children and childhood in light of what Bock, Gaskins, and Lancy (2008:4) term “disruptive experiences.” Collectively, the papers examine the experiences of Romanian street children in Paris (Terrio), trafficked children in the U.S. (Uehling), the unborn and the recently born children of African asylum seekers in Ireland (Shandy), and the children of Mexican migrants on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border (Boehm). In these settings children have roles
as individual actors, but this agency is tempered by the notion that adult oversight of these youth is frequently a function of the state or a negotiated reality between parents and the state. The articles, social commentary and book reviews therefore provide fodder for recent debates within anthropology that emphasize the role of children as independent actors by highlighting the tension between “structure and agency,” and problematizing these terms and their interaction in important ways. [Keywords: migration, immigration, state, children, childhood, global childhood, youth]
Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 81, No. 4, pp. 765–776, ISSN 0003-549. © 2008 by the Institute for Ethnographic Research (IFER) a part of the George Washington University. All rights reserved. Kids at the Crossroads: Global Childhood and the State
Journal of Refugee Studies, 2002
Despite the diversity of religious and spiritual beliefs and practices that sustain many refugees... more Despite the diversity of religious and spiritual beliefs and practices that sustain many refugees and forced migrants in their processes of displacement, migration, and integration into the host society, contemporary considerations among both researchers and policy makers tend to neglect the role of religion and spirituality as a source of emotional and cognitive support, a form of social and political expression and mobilization, and a vehicle for community building and group identity. Despite the fact that religious persecution figures prominently in the UN definition of a refugee and faith-based organizations provide emergency relief to refugees, facilitate the settlement of refugees and
provide them with a wide range of social services, public debates about
migration and displacement on the international and national levels have
tended to ignore religious issues. This neglect can also be seen in scholarly treatments of religion and spirituality among refugee populations.
When we first issued a call for papers seeking submissions to this volume, we received numerous e-mails from researchers and policy-makers encouraging us to proceed with the planned volume, but expressing regret that they never pursued these topics in any systematic way and had only anecdotal information confirming the significance of religious beliefs and practices in refugees’ journeys. Most authors who did submit manuscripts for consideration, indicated a dearth of research on this issue and struggled to place their own studies in a broader analytical context. These experiences appear to reflect a more widespread state of affairs. For instance, the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) and the International Center for Migration, Ethnicity, and
Citizenship (ICMEC) (see http://www.newschool.edu/icmec) at the New
School for Social Research, both in New York City, launched preliminary
efforts in recent years to encourage research among scholars to understand the myriad intersections between religion and migration. It is not yet clear whether these seed initiatives will develop into any sort of systematic or enduring inquiry.
The idea for this volume dates back to a session on the role of religion and
spirituality in refugee resettlement and adaptation that we organized for the 2000 Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in San
Francisco, California. Our combined experiences working on special initiatives with Buddhist Khmer refugees in Long Beach, California, and Iraqi Shia Muslims and southern Sudanese Christians resettled throughout the United States, highlighted a paradox: religion, in both its socio-political and affective sense, crosscuts the experiences of refugees at every stage of the refugee journey, and yet there is relatively little attention to this subject in the forced migration literature.
Rethinking Refuge and Displacement, 2000
Peer reviewed articles on: detainment of Haitian refugees at the Guantanamo Naval Base; Somali in... more Peer reviewed articles on: detainment of Haitian refugees at the Guantanamo Naval Base; Somali integration and diasporic consciousness in Finland; Tibetan immigration to the United States; nationality and citizenship among Mexicans in the United States; environmentally forced migrants in rural Bangladesh; Operation Provide Refuge; Asylum Seeker Centers in the Netherlands; forced migration and return of Kosovar Albanians; transnational research; anthropology and the representations of recent migrations from Afghanistan; anthropology of mobility; and gender and wartime migration in Mozambique.
2000 Rethinking Refuge and Displacement In Rethinking Refuge and Displacement Committee on Refugees and Immigrants Selected Papers, Volume VIII. Pp. 1-10. Elzbieta Gozdziak and Dianna Shandy, eds. Arlington, VA: American Anthropological Association.(with Elzbieta M. Gozdziak.)
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Books and Edited Volumes by Dianna Shandy
The Fifteenth Edition reflects the changing nature of the discipline of anthropology by shifting its focusing to the more concerning issues of today. Useful features like a glossary of key terms help students understand basic concepts discussed in the readings.. Articles throughout the text touch on all major subfields, including environmental, global, and medical topics, giving students a comprehensive introduction to the field.
as individual actors, but this agency is tempered by the notion that adult oversight of these youth is frequently a function of the state or a negotiated reality between parents and the state. The articles, social commentary and book reviews therefore provide fodder for recent debates within anthropology that emphasize the role of children as independent actors by highlighting the tension between “structure and agency,” and problematizing these terms and their interaction in important ways. [Keywords: migration, immigration, state, children, childhood, global childhood, youth]
Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 81, No. 4, pp. 765–776, ISSN 0003-549. © 2008 by the Institute for Ethnographic Research (IFER) a part of the George Washington University. All rights reserved. Kids at the Crossroads: Global Childhood and the State
provide them with a wide range of social services, public debates about
migration and displacement on the international and national levels have
tended to ignore religious issues. This neglect can also be seen in scholarly treatments of religion and spirituality among refugee populations.
When we first issued a call for papers seeking submissions to this volume, we received numerous e-mails from researchers and policy-makers encouraging us to proceed with the planned volume, but expressing regret that they never pursued these topics in any systematic way and had only anecdotal information confirming the significance of religious beliefs and practices in refugees’ journeys. Most authors who did submit manuscripts for consideration, indicated a dearth of research on this issue and struggled to place their own studies in a broader analytical context. These experiences appear to reflect a more widespread state of affairs. For instance, the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) and the International Center for Migration, Ethnicity, and
Citizenship (ICMEC) (see http://www.newschool.edu/icmec) at the New
School for Social Research, both in New York City, launched preliminary
efforts in recent years to encourage research among scholars to understand the myriad intersections between religion and migration. It is not yet clear whether these seed initiatives will develop into any sort of systematic or enduring inquiry.
The idea for this volume dates back to a session on the role of religion and
spirituality in refugee resettlement and adaptation that we organized for the 2000 Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in San
Francisco, California. Our combined experiences working on special initiatives with Buddhist Khmer refugees in Long Beach, California, and Iraqi Shia Muslims and southern Sudanese Christians resettled throughout the United States, highlighted a paradox: religion, in both its socio-political and affective sense, crosscuts the experiences of refugees at every stage of the refugee journey, and yet there is relatively little attention to this subject in the forced migration literature.
2000 Rethinking Refuge and Displacement In Rethinking Refuge and Displacement Committee on Refugees and Immigrants Selected Papers, Volume VIII. Pp. 1-10. Elzbieta Gozdziak and Dianna Shandy, eds. Arlington, VA: American Anthropological Association.(with Elzbieta M. Gozdziak.)