Making Things Happen

Making Things HappenDrawing on the Pakistan Earthquake Reconstruction and Recovery Project (PERRP), this volume explores the sociocultural side of post disaster infrastructure reconstruction. As the latter is often fraught with delays and even abandonmentone cause being ineffective interactions between construction and local peoplePERRP used anthropological and participatory approaches. Along with strong construction management, such approaches led to the rebuilding

a frail village woman whose only child has died years before

Largely maligned in reproductive anthropological literature as callous—if not brutal—self-serving effectors of the over-medicalization of childbirth

the first of nine popular Patricia Murphy's Candlelight Restaurants that opened over the course of four decades in New York and Florida

Based on interviews of the PLO's top women leaders in the Palestinian diaspora and the West Bank and Gaza Strip

According to the new view of language offered in these works

The book comprehensively describes the parameters and theoretical issues of relevance in evaluating and developing opinions in forensically oriented matters

and most systematically collected of those of any museum in the United States

and sits at the intersection of medical anthropology

this new edition of William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land is a classic work of science fiction reimagined for modern readers

The author draws on new archival research to reveal the preoccupations of nineteenth-century relief workers

The volume includes papers on Ethiopian painting (manuscript illuminations and murals)

Uses a social-psychoanalytic model to argue that collective identity shapes foreign policy changes