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The University of Michigan Press At the Risk of Being Heard
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£37.44
LUP - University of Michigan Press Capitalism and Confrontation in Sumatras
Book SynopsisA fascinating ethnographic history that analyses how popular resistance actively molded both the form of colonialism and the social, economic, and political experience of the Javanese laboring communities on Sumatra's plantation borders.Trade ReviewFrom written historical records, as well as from very broad and intensive field work, Ann Laura Stoler has pieced together an eminently rich and meaningful episode of Indonesian history. . . . What makes for its quality is the remarkable balance, maintained throughout the study, between description, analysis and interpretation." —Pacific Affairs"Stoler has produced a stunning and seminal study. . . . This is a superb piece of interdisciplinary research. . . ." —World Development". . . intellectually provocative and significant." —Journal of Asian Studies". . . an interesting and valuable book . . . " —Times Literary Supplement". . . a reissue of a fine field study together with a smaller . . . fascinating preface which explores the context of the production of academic scholarship." —Pacific Affairs"From written historical records, as well as from very broad and intensive field work, Ann Laura Stoler has pieced together an eminently rich and meaningful episode of Indonesian history. . . . What makes for its quality is the remarkable balance, maintained throughout the study, between description, analysis and interpretation." —Pacific Affairs "A well-crafted and expertly researched history . . . exhibits a brand of intellectual integrity that is rare in a work so critical and this makes it a major contribution to the literature of the impact of imperialism and capitalism on the traditional populations of the Third World." —Peasant Studies
£35.41
The University of Michigan Press From Culture to Ethnicity to Conflict
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£31.52
The University of Michigan Press Contesting Cultural Rhetorics
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£69.30
The University of Michigan Press Dancing Histories
Book SynopsisIn Ohafia, Nigeria, histories are danced. McCall’s ethnography, Dancing Histories, focuses on these performative representations of history and ethnicity to suggest new possibilities for theorizing social processes.
£68.95
Alfred A. Knopf Goliaths Curse
£23.19
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Polity Reader in Cultural Theory
Book SynopsisThe field of cultural and media studies is one of the most important and rapidly developing areas in the social sciences and humanities today. This new text provides an overview of some of the key issues and debates in the field. The book is designed in such a way that it can be used either as a supplement to other texts or as an integral volume in itself. Among the topics covered are: theories of media, communication and ideology; the influence of electronic communication; popular and high culture; the interpretation of art and literature; the impact of feminism in cultural studies; advertising and the consumer culture; and theories of modernism and postmodernism. The contributors include many of the major figures involved in current debates, including Jean Baudrillard, Pierre Bourdieu, Peter Burger, Mary-Ann Caws, Joanne Finkelstein, Jürgen Habermas, Stuart Hall, J. F. Lyotard, John B. Thompson, Janet Wolff and others.Trade Review'An incisive contribution to the history of ideas and their relation to social and political change.' The Tribune (India) Table of ContentsPart I: Theoretical Considerations:. 1. Social Theory, Mass Communication and Public Life:. John Thompson. 2. Saussure and the Origin of Semiotics:. Robert Hodge and Gunther Kress. 3. The Field of Cultural Production: Pierre Bourdieu. 4. Critique of Commodity Aesthetics: W. F. Haug. 5. Critical Theory and the Consumer Society: Douglas Kellner. 6. The Emergence of the Public Sphere: Jürgen Habermas. 7. The Theory of the Public Sphere:. A Critical Appraisal: John Thompson. 8. The Dynamics of Electronic Networks: G. J. Mulgan. 9. The Masses: The Implosion of the Social in the Media:. Jean Baudrillard. 10. The Question of Cultural Identity: Stuart Hall. 11. Baudrillard and TV Ads: Mark Poster. 12. Postmodernist Sensibility: Scott Lash and John Urry. 13. The Decline of Modernism: Peter Burger. Part II: Media Representation:. 14. Media Sport: John Hargreaves. 15. Ten Theses on Children and Television:. Bob Hodge and David Tripp. 16. The Emergence of the Consumer Society: Robert Bocock. 17. Women and Soap Opera: Christine Geraghty. 18. Feminist Romance: Anne Cranny-Francis. 19. The Invisable Flaneuse:. Women and the Literature of Modernity: Janet Wolff. 20. The Myth of Marilyn Monroe: Graham McCann. Part III: Reading Popular Culture:. 21. A Message from Kakania:. Freud, Music, Criticism: Malcom Bowie. 22. The Analysis of Popular Music: John Shepherd. 23. Music for Pleasure: Simon Frith. 24. Comic Subversions:. Comedy as Strategy in Feminist Theatre: Lizbeth Goodman. 25. Gilbert and Sullivan:. The Making and Unmaking of a British 'Tradition': David Cannadine. 26. The Great Reception:. Surrealism and Kandinsky's Inner Eye: Mary Ann Caws. 27. Barthes on Theatre: Michael Moriarty. 28. Fashion, Taste and Eating Out: Joanne Finkelstein. 29. The Sublime and the Avant Garde: Jean Francois Lyotard. 30. The Exorcist and The Omen or Modern and Postmodern Limits to Knowledge: Zygmunt Bauman.
£24.64
Government of British Columbia The Indian History of British Columbia
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£16.16
Royal British Columbia Museum Plant Technology of the First Peoples of British
Book SynopsisBesides being sources of food, plants provided heat, shelter, transportation, clothing, implements, nets, ropes and containers - the necessities of life - for the First Peoples of British Columbia and adjacent territories. They also made good decorations and ornaments, scents, cleansing agents, insect repellents, and many other items.Trade ReviewAnyone interested in ethnographic, archeological, biogeographical, botanical, and economic aspects of people's relationship with the land, should read this book. Although technically a handbook providing clear and detailed botanical data, its incorporation of concepts involving people's use of plants make this volume more. It breaks new ground in that, unlike many ethnobiological studies that concentrate on food or medicine, this book addresses the understudied technological uses of plants, such as their use in the construction of houses, kitchen utensils, fishing gear, bedding and storage containers. Maria G. Fadiman, Southeastern Geographer Vol. 46
£20.79
MN - University of British Columbia Press Emerging from the Mist Studies in Northwest Coast Culture History
Book SynopsisThis book brings together the most recent research on the culture history and archaeology of a region of longstanding anthropological importance, whose complex societies represent the most prominent examples of hunters and gatherers.Table of ContentsIllustrationsAcknowledgments1 Introduction: The Northwest Coast in Perspective / R.G. Matson2 A Hunter-Gatherer Paramount Chiefdom: Tsimshian Developments through the Contact Period / Andrew R.C. Martindale3 Northwest Coast Wet-Site Artifacts: A Key to Understanding Resource Procurement, Storage, Management, and Exchange / Dale R. Croes4 The Coast Salish House: Lessons from Shingle Point, Valdes Island, British Columbia / R.G. Matson5 Nuu-chah-nulth Houses: Structural Remains and Cultural Depressions on Southwest Vancouver Island / Alexander P. Mackie and Laurie Williamson6 Preliminary Analysis of Socioeconomic Organization at the McNichol Creek Site, British Columbia / Gary Coupland, Roger Colten, and Rebecca Case7 Dimensions of Regional Interaction in the Prehistoric Gulf of Georgia / Colin Grier8 The Cultural Taphonomy of Nuu-chah-nulth Whale Bone Assemblages / Gregory G. Monks9 The Thin Edge: Evidence for Precontact Use and Working of Metal on the Northwest Coast / Steven Acheson10 A Stitch in Time: Recovering the Antiquity of a Coast Salish Basket Type / Kathryn Bernick11 Reviewing the Wakashan Migration Hypothesis / Alan McMillan12 Location-Allocation Modelling of Shell Midden Distribution on the West Coast of Vancouver Island / Quentin Mackie13 The Northwest Coast as a Study Area: Natural, Prehistoric, and Ethnographic Issues / Leland DonaldEpilogue / Leland DonaldReferencesNotes on ContributorsIndex
£82.65
Johns Hopkins University Press Plain Diversity Amish Cultures and Identities
Book SynopsisChallenging the plain and simple view of Amish identity, this study raises the intriguing question of how such a diverse people successfully share a common identity in the absence of uniformity.Trade ReviewThis is an informative book for anyone interested in our Amish spiritual relatives, fellow heirs of the Anabaptist heritage. -- Marlin Jeschke Mennonite Weekly Review 2007 A helpful frame work... Recommended. Upper-Divison undergraduates and above. Choice 2008 Accessible to those new to the study of the Amish but challenging for those engaged in the on-going study of Anabaptist cultures, Plain Diversity: Amish Cultures and Identities is a welcome and important contribution to the study of Old Order communities, and the insights it offers will add much to the more general discussion of the construction of cultural identity. -- Karen M. Johnson-Weiner Journal of Mennonite Studies 2008 Plain Diversity is a vital and valuable contribution to our understanding of the Old Order Amish. Mennonite Quarterly Review 2008Table of ContentsPreface1. Introduction: Amish Images and IdentitiesPart I: Patterns of Peoplehood2. Migration3. Ordnung4. EthnicityPart II: Comparative Communities5. Elkhart-LaGrange and Nappanee Settlements6. Swiss Settlements of Eastern Indiana7. Transplants from Lancaster, Pennsylvania8. The Paoli-Salem CommunitiesPart III: Diversity9. Diverse Amish Worlds10. Amish Community as ConversationAppendix: Extinct Indiana Amish SettlementsNotesReferencesIndex
£999.99
John Wiley & Sons An Uncertain Cure Living with Leprosy in Brazil
Book SynopsisTakes you into the shantytowns of Rio de Janeiro to give an account of the contemporary leprosy experience among poor and working class Brazilians. This ethnographic exposes the web of historical, socioeconomic, religious, and political forces that complicate the path to wellness and perpetuate high rates of infection.Trade ReviewWhite poignantly illustrates how the stigma of leprosy in Brazil is morevirulent and contagious than the disease itself. The 'uncertain cure'arises from a disjuncture between the social and clinical experiences of anotorious yet treatable medical condition. This book explores the possiblereasons why this is the case. -- Ron Barrett * Emory University Author of Aghor Medicine: Pollution, Death, and Healing in Nort *
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John Wiley & Sons Indianizing Film Decolonization the Andes and the
Book SynopsisLatin American indigenous media production has recently experienced a noticeable boom, specifically in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Colombia. This title encourages readers to consider how indigenous media contributes to a wider understanding of decolonization and anticolonial study against the universal backdrop of the twenty-first century.Trade ReviewSchiwy's analysis of indigenous media contributes provocative, rich, close readings of several key concepts from Latin American literary and cultural studies, including: transculturation, literacy, testimonio, the lettered city, and global multiculturalism. . . . Her compelling analysis of the thematic, discursive, and structural components of individual videos is nuanced and smart. -- Marcia Stephenson * Purdue University *"Schiwy's analyses of how indigenous populations in Latin America have met the challenge of decolonizing knowledge will set the stage for any future work on the 'indianizing' of audiovisual technology. Given its comparative scope, intellectual breadth and theoretical acuity, I predict the concepts in Indianizing Film will become as influential for twenty-first century discussions of post-colonialism as Edward SaidÆs ôOrientalismö was for the twentieth." -- Ana Lopez * Tulane University *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments — vii Introduction — The Question of Technology — 1 1 Indigenous Media and the Politics of Knowledge — 33 2 Casting New Protagonists — 63 3 Cinematic Time and Visual Economy — 85 4 Gender, Complementarity, and the Anticolonial Gaze — 109 5 Nature, Indians, and Epistemic Privilege — 139 6 Specters and Braided Stories — 163 7 Indigenous Media and the Market — 185 Afterword — 212 Notes — 223 Bibliography — 249 Filmography — 267 Index — 273
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Rutgers University Press Revolutionizing Romance Interracial Couples in
Book SynopsisRevolutionizing Romance is an account of the continuing significance of race in Cuba as it is experienced in interracial relationships.Trade Review"This excellent work breaks new ground in our understanding of Cuban society by focusing on interracial relationships, the sites where mestizaje is produced. Fernandez analyzes these interactions and exchanges with all their contradictions and complexities, making for a compelling read." -- Alejandro de la Fuente * author of A Nation for All: Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth-Century *"This extremely insightful book addresses a major paradox in Cuban society. Fernandez's ethnography and sophisticated analysis dives deep into the contradictory meanings of interracial romance, providing much-needed sociocultural analysis." -- Faye Harrison * author of Outsider Within: Reworking Anthropology in the Global Age *"Because of its accessible style and the succinct background chapters on Cuban racial history and the topic of romantic love, the book is a fine resource for introductory courses on race in Latin America and the Caribbean." * New West Indian Guide *Table of ContentsInterracial couples from colony to revolution Socialist equality and the color-blind revolution Mapping interracial couples: race and space in Havana The everyday presence of race Blackness, Whiteness, class, and the emergent economy Interracial couples and racism at home
£38.25
University of Arizona Press The Hatchets Blood
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£25.60
University of Arizona Press SeventeenthCentury Metallurgy on the Spanish
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£20.85
University of Minnesota Press Exchange Concepts in Social Thought
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£27.23
MP - University Of Minnesota Press Academia and the Luster of Capital
Book SynopsisAn incisive critique of "business as usual" in the academy and a sweeping proposal for changing the structure of intellectual work.Table of ContentsWhat is criticism for?; The academic thing; Habermas's bureaucratization of the final solution; The disappearance of history; Criticism and art events: reading with Lyotard and Baudrillard.
£25.96
MP - University Of Minnesota Press Archaeology of Minnesota The Prehistory of the
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Tools of the Trade1.Environments of MinnesotaPaleoindian and Archaic Period, ca. 11,200 to 500 BC2First People: Paleoindian and Early Archaic Adaptations3Prairie Everywhere: Middle and Late Archaic AdaptationsInitial Woodland Period, ca. 1000–500 BC to AD 500–7004Southern Deer Hunters, Gardeners, and Bison Hunters: Initial Woodland Adaptations in Southern Minnesota5Northern Hunters, Fishers, and Wild Rice Harvesters: Initial Woodland Adaptations in Central and Northern MinnesotaTerminal Woodland and Mississippian Period, ca. AD 500–700 to 16506Terminal Woodland Effigy Mound Builders and Bison Hunters: Terminal Woodland Adaptations in Southern Minnesota7First Tribes in Southern Minnesota: Mississippian and Plains Village Adaptation8.First Tribes in Central and Northern Minnesota: Terminal Woodland AdaptationsConclusion: Long-Term Pattern in the PastNotesBibliographyIndex
£25.19
The University of Alabama Press Opening Doors Perspectives on Race Relations in
Book SynopsisThis text contains essays presented during a national race relations conference at the University of Alabama. It explores the progess that has been made in the last 25 years in America in the relationships between and amongst the races.
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The University of Alabama Press Bioarchaeological Studies of Life in the Age of
Book SynopsisThis work draws on the rich bioarchaeological record of the southeastern USA to explore variability in health and behaviour within the age of agriculture. It offers perspectives on human adaptation to various geographic and cultural landscapes across the southeast, from Texas to Virginia.
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The University of Alabama Press Bioarchaeology of the American Southeast
Book SynopsisBuilding on the 1991 publication What Mean These Bones? Studies in Southeastern Bioarchaeology, this new edited collection from Shannon Chappell Hodge and Kristrina A. Shuler marks steady advances over the past three decades in the theory, methodology, and purpose of bioarchaeology in the southeastern United States and across the disciplineTrade ReviewBioarchaeology of the American Southeast compares favorably with other Southeastern-focused bioarchaeology volumes that survey the various archaeological populations in the American southeast. It belongs on bookshelves next to volumes such as Bioarchaeological Studies of Life in the Age of Agriculture: A View from the Southeast and What Mean These Bones? Studies in Southeastern Bioarchaeology."" - Michelle D. Hamilton, associate professor of anthropology at Texas State University""A wonderful successor to What Mean These Bones?, Bioarchaeology of the American Southeast demonstrates the current diversity seen in theoretical approaches in the discipline, from traditional population-based analyses of health to more socially focused studies of the individual. It will be a valuable addition to courses in both bioarchaeology as well as Southeastern prehistory."" - Marie Danforth, professor of anthropology at the University of Southern Mississippi
£57.60
University of Alabama Press The Americas That Might Have Been
Book SynopsisThis work answers the hypothetical question: What would the Americas be like today - politically, economically, culturally - if Columbus and the Europeans had never found them, and how would American peoples interact with the world's other societies?Trade ReviewGranberry takes a postprocessual approach to analyze the native cultures of the Americas, focusing on kin systems and linguistics. He has done a fine job of tackling an immensely complex and controversial subject, weaving his conclusions into a very readable and thought-provoking narrative. - John Worth, Randell Research Center
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The University of Alabama Press Biocultural Histories in La Florida A
Book SynopsisExamines the effects of the Spanish mission system on population structure and genetic variability in indigenous communities living in northern Florida and southern Georgia during the 16th and 17th centuries. This book highlights the specificity with which indigenous communities responded to European contact and the resulting transformations.Trade ReviewStojanowski's work is like man's DNA, the structure of a lifeform, but here it is the structure or glue that holds together the historic puzzle with its Apalachee, Timucua, Guale, and Spanish pieces that other scholars have been trying to put together. - Keith P. Jacobi, author of Last Rites for the Tipu Maya
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The University of Alabama Press Mayas in Postwar Guatemala Harvest of Violence
Book SynopsisLike the original Harvest of Violence, published in 1988, this volume reveals how the contemporary Mayas contend with crime, political violence, internal community power struggles, and the broader impact of transnational economic and political policies in Guatemala.
£25.95
MJ - Ohio University Press Claim to the Country The Archive of Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd with DVD
Book SynopsisIn the 1870s, facing cultural extinction and the death of their language, several San men and women told their stories to two pioneering colonial scholars in Cape Town, Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd. The narratives of these San—or Bushmen—were of the land, the rain, the history of the first people, and the origin of the moon and stars.Trade Review“At $65, this remarkable book and accompanying DVD is a treasure well worth its surprisingly modest price. Highly recommended.” * CHOICE *“It is quite possible, while turning page after wonderful page of this amazing book, to begin, almost trancelike, to feel as if one is actually holding in one's hands the original notebooks, illustrations, drawings, photos, essays, letters and other materials that make up the Lucy Lloyd and Wilhelm Bleek |Xam and !Kun (Cape San, or Bushmen) archive.” * International Journal of African Historical Studies *“To say that this book of text and images has a highly tactile quality would be a gross understatement. Better would be that it is a visual hymn to tactility itself…Its gorgeously reproduced paper fragments…testify not only to the disappearance of the /Xam San people of South Africa and their cognitive universe, but to nearly 150 pre-digital years of attempts to honour and communicate that universe by scholarly ‘faithful workers’.” * Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa *“A remarkable achievement.... This book is truly a major scholarly contribution.... The overall graphic design and presentation of this volume is a work of art in itself.... The essays by the contributors are uniformly outstanding....” * Journal of Archival Organization *“A dazzling work of archival reproduction and interpretation.... Highly recommended for all academic and large public libraries.” * Library Journal *
£90.85
MJ - Ohio University Press Unconquerable Spirit George Stows History Painting of the San
Book SynopsisGeorge Stow was a Victorian man of many parts—poet, historian, ethnographer, artist, cartographer, and prolific writer. A geologist by profession, he became acquainted, through his work in the field, with the extraordinary wealth of rock paintings in the caves and shelters of the South African interior.Trade Review“The distinctive style of book design that Pippa Skotnes has developed to a fine art is a holistic mix of carefully selected old and new text that stimulates the reader to interact with rich seams of visual material in full-page spreads and marginal asides…. More than most books, the outstanding quality of the thoughtful design and beautiful reproduction of the documents creates a palpable sense of drama. When you reach the end you want to page through the pictures again and again.” * Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa *“(T)his book, along with Pippa Skotnes’ Claim to the Country: The Archive of Lucy Lloyd and Wilhelm Bleek (2007) are seminal new works that provide true interdisciplinary insights into how individual artist/scientists can bring alive historical events, rituals, and everyday life of the San who are believed to be the earliest indigenous people of South Africa…. (Skotnes’) reverence for methodical curatorial work and archival scholarship is evident on every page of this beautifully designed book.” * Journal of Archival Organization *
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MJ - Ohio University Press Thinking Outside the Girl Box
Book SynopsisWritten in an accessible, engaging style and drawing on collaborative ethnographic research that the girls themselves helped conduct, Thinking Outside the Girl Box tells the true story of an innovative program determined to challenge the small, disempowering “boxes” girls and women are so often expected to live in.Trade Review“Written with great tenderness and insight, this book portrays West Virginia through the eyes of those who seldom appear in the literature about Appalachia: rural girls.”“Thinking Outside the Girl Box reads as a delicious, compelling, collaborative ethnography that escorts readers into the delicate, rugged human terrain of life in Appalachia…. This book is beautifully accessible to undergraduates or graduates. Spatig and Amerikaner are gifted story-tellers. Together, with the young women and their mentors, they have crafted a sweet jewel, opening the box of ethnography, challenging the girdle of evaluation, asking us to peer inside the intimacy of growing up girl in rural America.”“Thinking Outside the Girl Box will change the way you look at words like resiliency, development, democracy, girls. Spatig and Amerikaner remind their readers that a real feminist analysis begins with love and that its methodology is necessarily one of loving collaboration. In a period in which multinational agency after multinational agency is `discovering’ that girls exist, the story of the Girls Resiliency Program is a necessary one.”“This is an extraordinary collaborative ethnography, one that authentically involves research participants in multiple stages of the research and writing processes. But it is also much more than this. It is, as Spatig and Amerikaner suggest, a love story that both warms and breaks the heart.”“The Girls’ Resiliency Program helped middle- and high- school-aged girls find their voices through community building and social activism. In telling this story, authors Linda Spatig and Layne Amerikaner demonstrate what can happen when people are given the tools to build their strengths, speak out, and engage in changing the world. Good research opens questions for further study, and that is what makes Thinking Outside the Girl Box a vital work.” * Nonprofit World *“Far too often theories become abstract and convoluted—losing connection to reality in the pursuit of ever higher levels of elaboration. Theorists cite other theorists to prove their erudition. This book, however, is a story that advances theory. Spatig and Amerikaner take life experience that they have felt—love, disappointment and suffering—and conceptualize that knowledge into critical theory. This book is not just about Appalachian girls. This book is about how we study and think about life around us. This book is about how scholars should expose social inequality and oppression and then write about it. When all is said and done what will be remembered are their conclusions about how we do our work and why.”“This book exemplifies the possibilities of what can happen when outsiders tell stories about Appalachia.… It is a life history of an organization told through strong characters about lessons learned, loving and leaving, poetry and song, and questions of power, voice and language. I recommend it to those interested in Appalachian studies, girlhood studies, community based activism, and collaborative ethnography.”“The aim of this book is to tell the story of rural, Appalachia girls in a youth development program –their lives presented through their own words, and the words of the authors, Spatig and Amerikaner, highlighting the girls’ challenges, struggles, fears, likes, and dislikes.… Situating these girls’ voices in a framework of ‘collaborative ethnography’ amidst a preferred research focus in the U.S. on quantitative, standardized, accountability models is refreshing, timely, accurate, and serves to highlight what we need to know most about girls’ and schooling.”“Writing between hope and despair, and with tremendous grace, this extraordinary pair of mother-daughter researchers reveal the limits that young Appalachian women face in breaking free of the strictures of gender and the injury of being working class in America.”Table of Contents* Preface The Nutshell. Or,The What, When, How,Where,Who, and Why * Introduction When I Fell in Love with Shelley Gaines * 1 RIC Context Matters. Or, Lincoln County, West Virginia: "I Love It. I'll Leave Someday." * 2 Shelley The Birth of the GRP. It's a Girl (-Driven Program)! * 3 Teresa The Girls Have More to Say Than They Thought They Did * 4 Cassi "They Will Make You Eat That." Or, Tales of New Experiences and Adventure * 5 Irene And Virginia Girls Take the Lead, but "It's Hard Coming from a Participant to Staff" * 6 Leanne And Betty The GRP Collapses, but the Learning Goes On (and On) * 7 Ashley Life after the GRP. Or,"College Is a Big Smack in the Face." * 8 Linda And Layne There's a (Research) Method to Our Madness * Notes * References * Index
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University of Missouri Press A History of Missouri 1875 to 1919 v 4 History of
Book SynopsisThis is the last volume in the five-volume ""History of Missouri"" series. It focuses on social, economic, and political life and provides an in-depth analysis of both rural Missouri and urban development during a time of rapid growth and change in the state.Trade ReviewThis volume of A History of Missouri is a solid piece of scholarship. The coverage is sensible. Indeed, the book is what it purports to be, a thorough-going history of the Show-me State, and it exhibits a good feeling for the state and its people.... This volume should be widely used and will surely have lasting value.-Journal of Southern History; ""The fourth installation of the History of Missouri series provides a useful... synthesis of the state's annals from the Constitution of 1875 to the conclusion of the Great War. For students and scholars interested in obtaining an overview of the key themes, challenges, and solutions proffered by Missourians during these years, Lawrence O. Christensen and Gary R. Kremer's publication offers a well-written and well-researched addition to other anthologies.""-Illinois Historical Journal; ""A highly readable history of Missouri... that is enlivened with a wealth of anecdotal material and conveys a strong sense of the variety of life experiences in the state. By maintaining a reasonably tight focus on the economic modernization of the state and on the evolving political response to that historical process, [the authors] have fashioned a conceptual framework that lends a high degree of thematic unity to what is essentially the story of amazing transformation.""-Annals of Iowa
£55.10
Quest Books,U.S. UP FROM EDEN
Book SynopsisThis book chronicles humanity's cultural and psychospiritual evolutionary journey over some six million years from its primal past into its dazzling cosmic future.
£18.90
Rowman & Littlefield China Live People Power and the Television
Book SynopsisA unique insider's view of the most important forces shaping our era-the rise of global satellite news and the rise of China.Trade ReviewThe book is not just a definitive account of the 1989 pro-democracy movement, but a revealing tale of the education—and loss of innocence—of a foreign correspondent. * Time *[Chinoy] has combined a moving chronicle of his experiences with a sense of what is meant to deal with a totalitarian regime’s uncertainty in coming to grips with both the movement and CNN. . . . A fine and unusually truthful revelation of the changes America’s technology is making throughout the world. * Kirkus *Mr. Chinoy recreates a rapid-fire, day-by-day account of Beijing’s spring of 1989. * The Washington Times *For any reader in search of a compelling account of the life of a first-rate television newsman, CNN correspondent Mike Chinoy has produced just the book. As an eyewitness account of the tumultuous weeks in Beijing eight years ago, it is lively and gripping. * Asiaweek *China Live [is] a book worth reading. It is a dramatic, first-hand, and personal account that focuses solely on events in Beijing. * South China Morning Post *China Live is the fast-paced tale of a career that has taken [Chinoy] from sectarian violence in Northern Ireland and the U.S. Marine barracks bombing in Lebanon to the war in Afghanistan and the fall of Marcos in the Philippines—and to dozens of hot spots in between. Mostly, though, it is about the author’s complicated two-decade relationship with China, which he studied at Yale and quickly fell in love with. * USA Today *CNN is arguably the most famous television network in the world, and Mike Chinoy was its justly famed Beijing bureau chief for eight years. He kept his cameras rolling throughout the Tiananmen uprising, filming live, until the Chinese forced CNN off the air, and millions of screens around the world went blank. The core of the book . . . is the excellent running account of Tiananmen from its first day in mid-April to weeks after the massacre. -- Jonathan Mirsky * Times Literary Supplement *This superb book is far more than a 'China volume.' While bringing China’s recent history alive, Chinoy also provides a fascinating, inside view of the development of CNN as a major force. In the process, he conveys the dynamic interplay between the medium and the message and makes the reader understand what is involved in covering the major events of the era. Chinoy’s coverage of Tiananmen shaped the way the world understood this complex event, and this book provides a detailed, compelling, honest behind-the-scenes account of this journalistic feat. Overall, Chinoy’s frank reflections reveal the maturing of an idealistic reporter in the crucible of Asian and Middle Eastern politics of the 1970s to the 1990s. Chinoy has become one of the best, and his fluid writing makes the journey portrayed in this book a pleasure to travel. I enthusiastically recommend China Live to anyone interested in China, in the role of television in global politics, or simply in a very good read about an individual and his times. -- Kenneth G. Lieberthal, University of MichiganI could not put the book down. It is an extraordinarily vivid account of what it was like covering China from the front lines. Chinoy has a wonderful capacity for capturing the sounds and sights of China, but he is unique in that he keeps looking for the broad perspective and has an intellectual honesty and openness that allow the reader to understand the ‘lens’ as well as the scene itself. A wonderful book. -- Ezra F. Vogel, Harvard UniversityThis fascinating odyssey of a moderately radical child of the '70s whose wide-eyed admiration for Mao’s China evolves into a clear-eyed, perceptive and thoroughly engaging account of his own passage into personal and professional maturity. Largely autobiographical, this is not another reporter’s account of 'famous people who have known me,' but rather a compelling story of how on different levels, Mike Chinoy, CNN, and the People’s Republic of China obliged thoughtful Americans to take them seriously. -- Ted Koppel, ABC NewsIn its dramatic narrative detail and descriptive power, particularly of the notorious Tiananmen Square massacre, Mike Chinoy’s China Live deserves a place alongside the great China watching books. But it is much more than that, this stirring personal testimony of an eyewitness reporter describes not only the tormented maturing of China in the past two decades, but also the rapid rise of CNN into one of the world’s most influential news gathering organizations—a status that Mike Chinoy’s live reports from China helped create. -- Peter Arnett, CNNFor anyone interested in how foreign correspondents are born or in how to unravel the enigma of China’s crypto Maoist/capitalist revolution, Chinoy’s book is a fine place to start. -- Orville Schell, University of California, BerkeleyTable of ContentsChapter 1: The Whole World is Watching Chapter 2: We Have Friends All Over the World Chapter 3: Year of the Dragon Chapter 4: Good Guys and Bad Guys Chapter 5: Fireman Chapter 6: Beijing Bureau Chief Chapter 7: The Soul of China: Tiananmen Square Chapter 8: The Big Lie Chapter 9: A Tale of Two Chinas Chapter 10: Inside the Hermit Kingdom Chapter 11: End of the Dynasty Chapter 12: Conclusion
£17.31
Monthly Review Press,U.S. In Defense of History Marxism and the Postmodern
Book SynopsisIntellectuals on the left are returning to historical materialism, to class analysis. This collection reflects that move, and challenges the limits imposed on action and resistance by those who see liberating "new times" in the contradictions of contemporary capitalism.Table of ContentsPart 1 Introduction - what is the "postmodern" agenda? Ellen Meiksins Wood. Part 2 Postmodernism and intellectuals: where do postmodernists come from? Terry Eagleton; language, history and class struggle, David McNally; the politics of cultural studies, Francis Mulhern; culture, nationalism, and the role of intellectuals, Aijaz Ahmad interviewed I; old positions/new necessities - history, class and Marxist metanarrative, Bryan D. Palmer; against social de(con)struction of science - cautionary tales from the Third World, Meera Nanda. Part 3 Postmodernism and movements: issues of class and culture, Aijaz Ahmad interviewed II; the mirror of race - postmodernism and the celebration of difference, Kenan Malik; postmodernism, feminism and Marx - notes from the abyss, Carol A. Stabile; Marx and the environment, John Bellamy Foster; northern intellectuals and the EZLN, Daniel Nugent; five thesis on actually existing Marxism, Frederic Jameson. Part 4 Afterword: in defense of history, John Bellamy Foster.
£73.00
Monthly Review Press,U.S. Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War
Book SynopsisThis volume describes for US readers the centuries of transformation that have taken Canada from British colonial status to the high ranks of industrial power. Addressing present-day political and economic issues, it covers social infrastructure, Quebec nationalism and indigenous movements.
£72.60
British Museum Press Torajan Ricebarn 72 British Museum Press
Book SynopsisA study of the Torajan ricebarn, a traditional Indonesian structure where the rice crop is stored, and where the main social life of the village takes place. This paper was stimulated by the construction of a ricebarn for the Museum of Mankind at the British Museum in 1987.
£19.77
University of Wisconsin Press Germans in Wisconsin People of the Heartland
Book SynopsisThis work traces Wisconsin's German population from the territorial days to the arrival of the intellectual "49ers", and the devastating effect of the World Wars on German American culture. Today's ethnic culture bears little relationship to Germany, but has instead become distinctly "Wisconsin".
£11.09
MP-NEV University of Nevada Where Coyotes Howl and Wind Blows Free Growing
Book SynopsisThis anthology seeks to reflect the heterogeneity of the American West. Balancing gender and cultural diversity, it provides 35 selections from writers representing a wide variety of ethnic groups, including Native Americans, Hispanic-Americans and a number of Euro-American ethnic groups.
£18.66
Utah State University Press Creative Ethnicity
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John Wiley & Sons Aggregate Analysis in Chipped Stone
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book promotes the right way of doing lithic analysis. It clearly defines the problems and provides some solutions. Any and all lithic analysts who are wondering about how to conduct analysis on a given project should consider the major points of this book."—Journal of Middle Atlantic ArchaeologyTable of ContentsList of FiguresList of TablesI. Aggregate Studies in Chipped Stone Analysis1. Chipped Stone Aggregate Analysis in Archaeology ~ Mary Lou LarsonII. Evaluation of Aggregate Analysis Methods2. Exploring Mass Analysis, Screens, and Attributes ~ Philip J. Carr and Andrew P. Bradbury3. The Role of Small-Sized Debitage in Aggregate Lithic Analysis ~ Mark F. Baumler and Leslie B. Davis4. Technological Analysis of Flake Debris and the Limitations of Size-Grade Techniques ~ Matthew J. Root5. Seeing the Trees but Missing the Forest: Production Sequences and Multiple Linear Regression ~ Mary Lou Larson and Judson B. Finley6. Debitage Taphonomy ~ Jeffrey T. RasicIII. Alternate Approaches to Aggregate Analysis7. Evaluating Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherer Mobility, Land Use, and Technological Organization Strategies Using Minimum Analytical Nodule Analysis ~ Christopher T. Hall8. Coarse-Scale Chipped Stone Aggregates and Technological Organization Strategies in the Hell Gap Locality V Cody Complex Component, Wyoming ~ Edward J. Knell9. Refiitting as Aggregate Analysis ~ Peter BleedIV. The Current State of Aggregate Analysis10. Partitioning the Aggregate: Mass Analysis and Debitage Assemblages ~ William Andrefsky Jr.11. Aggregate Methods and the Future of Debris Analysis ~ Michael J. ShottReferencesContributorsIndex
£48.60
Orbis Books (USA) Church and Cultures New Perspectives in
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Undena Publications,U.S. Anthroponymie et Anthropologie de Nuzi Volume 1
Book SynopsisDetails the personal names found on cuneiform tablets from the ancient Mesopotamian city of Nuzi.
£39.90
Undena Publications,U.S. On Linguistic Anthropology
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Undena Publications,U.S. On the Evolution of Complex Societies
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£16.50
Museum of New Mexico Press San Cristobel
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£32.39
Ohio University Press Imagining Indonesia
Book SynopsisIncreased interest in Indonesian culture and politics is reflected in this work's effort to advance and reject various notions of what it means to be Indonesian. It also addresses perceptions of how Indonesia's citizens and state officials should interact.
£37.99
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Applied Anthropologist and Public Servant The
Book Synopsis* peer reviewed publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology * dedicated to the practical problem-solving and policy applications of anthropological knowledge and methods * most editions available for course adoption.Table of ContentsPreface. Introduction. Anthropologist in the White House. The Education of an Applied Anthropologist (Philleo Nash). Anthropologist as Administrator/Philleo Nash and American Indian People (Philleo Nash). Celebrating Philleo's Life. Philleo Nash's Contributions to Anthropology and Beyond at American University. Model Applied Anthropologist and Public Servant (Philleo Nash). Philleo Nash and Georgetown Day School. References Cited (Ralph J. Bishop, Philleo Nash, Fred Eggan, James E. Officer, Nancy Oestreich Lurie, Ada Deer, Ruth Landman, Pearl Walker-McNeil, Edith Rosenfels). About the Authors. Appendix 1. Appendix 2.
£23.95
University of Pennsylvania Press Tepe Gawra The Evolution of a Small Prehistoric
Book SynopsisThis volume presents the complex evolutionary history of an ancient town, Tepe Gawra, located in present-day northeastern Iraq, over a thousand-year period, from the Terminal Ubaid period to the Late Chalcolithic or Uruk period, during the fourth millennium B.C. The site itself is a linchpin for the chronology and study of evolutionary trends.In examining Gawra''s transformation, Mitchell S. Rothman analyzes local processes of change and the connection between changes at this small town and transformations of the general Mesopotamian region—southwestern Iran, the western Zagros, the northern Jazirah, and the upper Euphrates. He also carefully documents the raw data from the site and includes previously unpublished excavation records in the University of Pennsylvania Museum''s archives (the excavation began in 1927 in cooperation with the Baghdad School of the American School of Oriental Studies), making major additions to our understanding of the stratigraphy of the site
£72.20
North Atlantic Books,U.S. Wizard of the Upper Amazon The Story of Manuel
Book SynopsisA richly-detailed real-life account of ancient tribal life and the fascinating role of Ayahuasca in the heart of the Amazon.Wizard of the Upper Amazon provides an insightful depiction of a South American tribal society at the turn of the 20th century. It delves into the captivating world of the Huni Kui tribe and their deep-seated connection with Ayahuasca, a powerful hallucinogenic plant. With the resurging interest in Ayahuasca today, this account offers a valuable and historical perspective, unveiling its traditional uses in day-to-day tribal life.Our narrator, Manuel Córdova-Rios, takes the reader along on his extraordinary journey from a young boy taken in by the tribe to a respected healer. His accounts illustrate a unique societal fabric where plant medicine is a teacher, telepathy a communication mode, and clairvoyance a revered skill. In comparison to the modern ceremonial use of Ayahuasca, Córdova-Rios paints an enlightening
£16.16
The University of Arizona Press The Social Organization of Hohokam Irrigation in
Book SynopsisThe seventh volume in the Gila River Indian Community Anthropological Research Papers series by M. Kyle Woodson examines the social organization of Hohokam canal irrigation management along the middle Gila River in south-central Arizona.
£31.30
