Decolonisation Books
Princeton University Press Modernization and Postmodernization
Book SynopsisRonald Inglehart argues that economic development, cultural change, and political change go together in coherent and even, to some extent, predictable patterns. This is a controversial claim. It implies that some trajectories of socioeconomic change are more likely than others--and consequently that certain changes are foreseeable. Once a society has embarked on industrialization, for example, a whole syndrome of related changes, from mass mobilization to diminishing differences in gender roles, is likely to appear. These changes in worldviews seem to reflect changes in the economic and political environment, but they take place with a generational time lag and have considerable autonomy and momentum of their own. But industrialization is not the end of history. Advanced industrial society leads to a basic shift in values, de-emphasizing the instrumental rationality that characterized industrial society. Postmodern values then bring new societal changes, including democratic politicTrade Review"[This is] Inglehart's most convincing demonstration of the theory of intergenerational value change, the cornerstone of his scholarship... With data from 43 societies collected over nearly three decades, and representing 70 percent of the world's population ...the analysis of Inglehart's unprecedented comparative dataset is nuanced, sophisticated, and certain to stimulate the kind of criticism that will deepen our understanding of social change."--The Review of Politics "Ronald Inglehart is one of the very few scholars to have remained consistently engaged with both the study of political culture and the development of modernization theory over the past few decades. In Modernization and Postmodernization, he presents the cumulative results of decades of research on the interrelationships among cultural values, democracy, and capitalism. His findings are consistently thought-provoking and often surprising and should inspire prolonged and productive controversy... Overall, Inglehart's fascinating book raises tantalizing questions about the long-term trajectory of value change in modern society."--Stephen E. Hanson, Comparative PoliticsTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Changing Values and Changing Societies3Ch. 1Value Systems: The Subjective Aspect of Politics and Economics7Ch. 2Individual-Level Change and Societal-Level Change51Ch. 3Modernization and Postmodernization in 43 Societies67Ch. 4Measuring Materialist and Postmaterialist Values108Ch. 5The Shift toward Postmaterialist Values, 1970-1994131Ch. 6Economic Development, Political Culture, and Democracy: Bringing the People Back In160Ch. 7The Impact of Culture on Economic Growth216Ch. 8The Rise of New Issues and New Parties237Ch. 9The Shift toward Postmodern Values: Predicted and Observed Changes, 1981-1990267Ch. 10The Erosion of Institutional Authority and the Rise of Citizen Intervention in Politics293Ch. 11Trajectories of Social Change324App. 1A Note on Sampling: Figures A.1 and A.2343App. 2Partial 1990 WVS Questionnaire, with Short Labels for Items Used in Figure 3.2351App. 3Supplementary Figures for Chapters 3, 9, and 10; Figures A.3 (Chapter 6), A.4-A.21 (Chapter 9), A.22-A.26 (Chapter 10), and A.27 (Chapter 11)357App. 4Construction of Key Indices Used in This Book389App. 5Complete 1990 WVS Questionnaire, with Variable Numbers in ICPSR Dataset393References431Index445
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Columbia University Press After the Last Sky
Book SynopsisA searing portrait of Palestinian life and identity that is at once an exploration of Edward Said's dislocated past and a testimony to the lives of those living in exile.Trade ReviewWhen Said shows us the Palestinian experience min al-dakhil, from the inside, he means not the inside of the place, but the inside of the mind. Palestine becomes a state of mind. And that is what makes the book so exceptional. It is an extended voyage through the mind of exile. The Nation The power and magic of [Said and Mohr's] collective statement lies in this--no matter how displaced or dispossessed, a decisive border separates the native and the tourist. Jerusalem Post A very personal text, and a very moving one, about an internal struggle: the anguish of living with displacement, with exile... The most beautiful piece of prose... about what it means to be a Palestinian. The Guardian
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OR Books Decolonize Drag
Book SynopsisAlthough imagined as a queer subcultural practice, drag seems to be everywhere we look: from AI filters on TikTok to brunchtime entertainment, from state legislations to political rallies. Yet as drag enters the mainstream—largely due to the intense, global popularity of reality TV competition RuPaul’s Drag Race—some kinds of gender-based performance fall out of the purview of what we (could) call drag. Decolonize Drag details the ways that gender is used as a form of colonial governance to eliminate various types of expression, and tracks how contemporary drag, including that on Drag Race, both replicates and disrupts these institutional hierarchies. This book focuses on several gender performers that resist and laugh at colonial projects through their aesthetic practices. It also features the voice of Khubchandani's drag alter ego, judgmental South Asian aunty LaWhore Vagistan. From the firsthand perspective of a drag artist, LaWhore describes encounters with depoliticized versions of drag that leave her disappointed and perplexed, and prompts Khubchandani for context and analysis. Their dynamic sets the tone for the book, investigating how drag—and gender more broadly—has been privatized and delimited so that it's only available to certain people. Decolonize Drag argues for more abundance in and access to fashioning gender, and considers how drag changes meaning and efficacy as it shifts across geographies.Trade Review"Who knew a critique of the political economy of drag could be so fun? Every chapter packs a pun(ch)! This multi-layered analysis is timely, worldmaking, and most importantly—glamorous."—Alok Vaid-Menon, poet, artist, comedian, fashion icon, and author of Beyond the Gender Binary “LaWhore Vagistan is everyone's favorite South Asian drag academic auntie. She brings the nightclub to the classroom and vice-versa.”—Hyperallergic “Sassy and wicked smart, Decolonize Drag is essential reading for those seeking to understand the global and historical expanse of drag performance as well as the current anti-drag furor in the U.S. Kareem Khubchandani demonstrates how the intersections of drag and colonialism, left uninterrogated, risk resuturing rather than destabilizing gender binaries. Ultimately, though, this book is an invitation to revel in the unlimited joys of non-binary world making that drag can offer.”—Jasbir Puar, author of The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability and Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times “We've needed this book . . . Khubchandani describes legendary drag acts, interweaves personal experiences, and formulates unflinching critiques of systemic inequalities that shape how all drag is received . . . An absolute must-read for fans, practitioners, and scholars of drag alike.”—Sasha Velour, winner of Season 9 of RuPaul's Drag Race and author of The Big Reveal: An Illustrated Manifesto of Drag
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The University of Chicago Press Master and Disciple The Cultural Foundations of
Book SynopsisIn the postcolonial era, Arab societies have been ruled by a variety of authoritarian regimes. Focusing on his native Morocco and building on the work of Foucault, the author of this text explores the ideological and cultural foundations of this persistent authoritarianism.
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Yale University Press Mary Through the Centuries Her Place in the
Book SynopsisThe Virgin Mary has been a figure of inspiration to Catholics, Protestants, Jews and Muslims, artists, musicians, writers, and men and women everywhere. This text examines how Mary has been depicted and venerated through the ages.Trade Review“After finishing Pelikan’s book, one must surely conclude that the Virgin is as fortunate in the ‘subtlety and discrimination’ of her 20th-century chronicler as she has been in her composers.”—John B. Breslin, Washington Post Book World"There can be no doubt that the Queen of Heaven would be pleased with this accolade, and no reader will come away from the work without profit."—Jo Ann Kay McNamara, New York Times Book Review“A lively and visually beautiful volume that any thoughtful reader can enjoy. . . . For anyone seeking an introduction to the cultural history of the figure of Mary, . . . this book is indispensable, delightful in its intelligence, learning, and remarkable beauty.”—David Myers, Chicago Tribune"This inclusive work covers it all, and in doing so helps explain the importance and attraction Mary has had over the centuries for various cultures and religions."—Publishers Weekly"Even the general reader with an interest in the subject will be mesmerized by [Pelikan's] lucidity and analysis. As a writer, Pelikan has an enviable way with words."—Dorothy A. Boyd-Rush, History"A remarkable tapestry enriched by superb illustrations. Its author's constructive approach should do much towards a better understanding and appreciation of one whom he describes in the final chapter as 'a woman for all seasons.'"—Gordon Huelin, Expository Times"This is a fascinating and stimulating book for teachers and others who wish to refresh and broaden their ideas about he history of Christian belief and devotion."—Leslie Houlden, Theological Book Review"This is a book of outstanding interest and outstanding quality, beautifully produced and beautifully illustrated."—A.M. Allchin, Journal of Ecclesiastical History"His scholarly acumen gives academic substance to Mary through the Centuries, although it is a book which is likely to appeal to general readers as well as to academics. . . . For those willing to entertain the notion that Mary might still have some significance in the modern world, I would recommend it as a most enjoyable and informative read."—Tina Beattie, Religion"It is rare for a non-expert audience to be allowed to participate in this type of etymological deconstruction, and it is a pleasure to see it done so deftly."—Michael Michael, Apollo
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The University of Chicago Press The Work of Culture Symbolic Transformation in
Book Synopsis""The Work of Culture" is the product of two decades of field research by Sri Lanka's most distinguished anthropological interpreter, and its combination of textual analysis, ethnographic sensitivity, and methodological catholicity makes it something of a blockbuster."--Arjun Appadurai, "Journal of Asian Studies"
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Princeton University Press Religion after Religion
Book SynopsisScholem, Eliade, and Corbin are the twentieth century's legendary scholars in the respective fields of Judaism, History of Religions, and Islam. This book compares the paths taken by these thinkers, exploring how they overturned traditional approaches to studying religion by de-emphasizing law, ritual, and social history.Trade Review"A powerful and evocative work for mature and informed readers."--Library Journal "Religion after Religion is rich with quotes from--as well as observations about--Eliade, Henry Corbin, and Gershom Scholem... it recombines them in a masterful, insightful performance that evokes in the sympathetic reader ... wondering admiration... Virtually anyone could learn a great deal by reading this book."--Journal of ReligionTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments ix Author's Note xi Introduction 3 PART 1: Religion after Religion 21 Chapter 1. Eranos and the "History of Religions" 23 Chapter 2. Toward the Origins of History of Religions: Christian Kabbalah as Inspiration and as Initiation 37 Chapter 3. Tautegorical Sublime: Gershom Scholem and Henry Corbin in Conversation 52 Chapter 4. Coincidentia Oppositorum: An Essay 67 PART II: Poetics 83 Chapter 5. On Symbols and Symbolizing 85 Chapter 6. Aesthetic Solutions 100 Chapter 7. A Rustling in the Woods: The Turn to Myth in Weimar Jewish Thought 112 PART III: Politics 125 Chapter 8. Collective Renovatio 127 Chapter 9. The Idea of Incognito: Authority and Its Occultation According to Henry Corbin 145 PART IV.- History 157 Chapter 10. Mystic Historicities 159 Chapter 11. The Chiliastic Practice of Islamic Studies According to Henry Corbin 172 Chapter 12. Psychoanalysis in Reverse 183 PART V: Ethics 201 Chapter 13. Uses of the Androgyne in the History of Religions 203 Chapter 14. Defeating Evil from Within: Comparative Perspectives on "Redemption through Sin" 215 Chapter 15. On the Suspension of the Ethical 225 Conclusion 237 Abbreviations Used in the Notes 251 Notes 255 Index 355
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Princeton University Press Warriors of the Cloisters The Central Asian
Book SynopsisShows how the key cultural innovations from Central Asia revolutionized medieval Europe and gave rise to the culture of science in the West. This title traces how the recursive argument method was first developed by Buddhist scholars and was spread by them throughout ancient Central Asia.Trade Review"[W]arriors of the Cloisters convincingly establishes the Central Asian origins of both the scholastic method and the university."--Choice "To follow Beckwith is an enjoyable journey through many countries, civilizations, cultures and religions. This book is well worth reading for those who are interested in the spread of ideas and the interweaving of cultures, ideas and beliefs."--John Bowman, Middle Way "[T]his is a major work of great significance."--Jeremy Black, European Review of HistoryTable of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xv Abbreviations and Transcription of Foreign Languages xvii Chapter One Introduction 1 Chapter Two The Recursive Argument Method of Medieval Science 11 Chapter Three From College and Universitas to University 37 Chapter Four Buddhist Central Asian Invention of the Method 50 Chapter Five Islamization in Classical Arabic Central Asia 76 Chapter Six Transmission to Medieval Western Europe 100 Chapter Seven India, Tibet, China, Byzantium, and Other Control Cases 121 Chapter Eight Conclusion 147 Appendix A: On the Latin Translations of Avicenna's Works 167 Appendix B: On Peter of Poitiers 171 Appendix C: The Charter of the College des Dix-huit 186 References 187 Index 199
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Princeton University Press The Domestication of Desire
Book SynopsisFocuses on Laweyan, a production center of batik textiles that had embraced modernity under Dutch colonial rule, only to fend off the modernizing forces of Indonesia during the twentieth century. This book portrays a merchant enclave clinging to its forms of social life and highlights the power of women in the marketplace and the home.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2000 Harry J. Benda Prize, Southeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies "Brenner has made an intelligent use of her ethnographic experiences to formulate a compelling and highly readable text on issues of current theoretical concern. Her work displays an admirable grasp of the complex social and economic transformations which have taken place in Java over the last century ...[A] timely and impressive book."--Jennifer Alexander, Pacific Affairs "Suzanne Brenner's book is an engaging account of the making of modernity and its reversals ... In the batik-producing district of Laweyan, Solo, Java."--Maila Stivens, Journal of the Royal Anthropological InstituteTable of ContentsList of FiguresAcknowledgmentsA Note on the Use of Foreign Terms and Proper NamesIntroduction3Ch. 1A Neighborhood Comes of Age24Ch. 2Hierarchy and Contradiction: Merchants and Aristocrats in Colonial Java52Ch. 3The Specter of Past Modernities87Ch. 4Gender and the Domestication of Desire134Ch. 5The Value of the Bequest: Spiritual Economies and Ancestral Commodities171Ch. 6The Mask of Appearances: Disorder in the New Order206Ch. 7Disciplining the Domestic Sphere, Developing the Modern Family225Notes255Glossary281Bibliography283Index295
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Cool Memories V
Book SynopsisProphet of the apocalypse, hysterical lyric poet, obsessive recounter of the desolation of the postmodern scene and currently the hottest property on the New York intellectual circuit. The Guardian A sharp-shooting lone-ranger from the post-Marxist left. New York Times The most important French thinker of the past twenty years. J.Trade Review"Prophet of the apocalypse, hysterical lyric poet, obsessive recounter of the desolation of the postmodern scene..." The Guardian "A sharp-shooting lone-ranger from the post-Marxist left." New York Times "An international, intellectual superstar." Salon.com
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The University of Chicago Press The Conquest of Cool
Book SynopsisAn evocative symbol of the 1960s was its youth counterculture. This study reveals that the youthful revolutionaries were augmented by such unlikely allies as the advertising industry and the men's clothing business. The ad industry celebrated irrepressible youth and promoted defiance and revolt.
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Princeton University Press The Necessary Nation
Book SynopsisLooking at nationalism, this title offers a defense of the nation as a protector of cultural difference and a catalyst for modernization. It reveals how nationalism enables people to defend their distinctive ways of life, to fight colonial oppression, and to build an independent society of citizens.Trade Review"This is an exceptionally erudite and thoughtful book on one of the major subjects of our day—the future of the nation-state. Gregory Jusdanis offers a wide-ranging discussion of culture and nationalism that raises important questions for cultural critics, political theorists, and historians, among other readers."—Barry S. Strauss, Cornell University"Thoughtful, balanced and urgent, Jusdanis's study acknowledges the double-edged nature of nationalism. It resists the wholesale rejection of nationalism that has become characteristic of an historically ill-informed, conceptually impoverished, and politically correct anti-nationalism. Drawing upon a range of disciplines and national histories, he offers a rich and flexible discourse of nationalism and its others."—Khachig Tololyan, Wesleyan University"Gregory Jusdanis has written a provocative book that challenges the nearly universal opinion among cultural studies and postcolonial theorists that the nation-form must and should be overcome. Strongly critical of the presentist biases of much current writing on the nation, Jusdanis provides an historical theory essential to all those interested in a variety of important problems: the role of the intellectual in nation-building; the nation in the era of globalization; the nation in a post-colonial world; and the origins of nationalism. Daring and lucid at the same time, The Necessary Nation is basic reading for scholars in all the humanistic and social science disciplines."—Paul A. Bové, University of PittsburghTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix INTRODUCTION 3 CHAPTER ONE On Nationalism 17 The Union of Nation and State 18 Nations as Self-Institutions 23 Emotional Attachments 28 Ancient Roots 36 National Integration 39 CHAPTER TWO The Autonomy of Culture? 44 Culture as a Totality 46 Culture as Way of Life 49 Absolute States and Religious Wars 52 Culture as Secondary Agent 55 Nationalism as a Reactive Force 58 The Chicken or the Egg? 65 CHAPTER THREE The Bastion of National Culture 71 Fortress Culture 77 National Culture in Aspiration 83 Intellectuals and Class Interest 86 The Perils of Comparisons 89 National Intellectuals 93 CHAPTER FOUR Progress and Belatedness 102 Being Late 105 Catching Up 108 Greece: Postcolonial Narratives 110 Of Backwardness and Change 114 The Greek Culture Wars 118 The Discovery of Tardiness 122 CHAPTER FIVE Political Nations 134 England 137 Canada 143 Brazil 148 Egypt 151 The United States 155 Civic Identity 162 CHAPTER SIX The End of Identities? 166 The Disconnecting of America 166 Of Two Multiculturalisms 169 Racial Panethnicities 177 Culture, Culture Everywhere 185 Does Globalization Spell the End? 192 CHAPTER SEVEN Federal Unions 197 Private Identities, Public Assimilation 201 Endless Diaspora 205 Liberal Nationalism 211 Federalism 215 REFERENCES 225 INDEX 259
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The University of Chicago Press Black Critics and Kings The Hermeneutics of Power
Book SynopsisHow can we account for the power of ritual? This is the guiding question of Black Critics and Kings, which examines how Yoruba forms of ritual and knowledge shape politics, history, and resistance against the state. Focusing on deep knowledge in Yoruba cosmology as an interpretive space for configuring difference, Andrew Apter analyzes ritual empowerment as an essentially critical practice, one that revises authoritative discourses of space, time, gender, and sovereignty to promote political-and even violent-change. Documenting the development of a Yoruba kingdom from its nineteenth-century genesis to Nigeria's 1983 elections and subsequent military coup, Apter identifies the central role of ritual in reconfiguring power relations both internally and in relation to wider political arenas. What emerges is an ethnography of an interpretive vision that has broadened the horizons of local knowledge to embrace Christianity, colonialism, class formation, and the contemporary Nigerian state. In this capacity, Yoruba òrìsà worship remains a critical site of response to hegemonic interventions. With sustained theoretical argument and empirical rigor, Apter answers critical anthropologists who interrogate the possibility of ethnography. He reveals how an indigenous hermeneutics of power is put into ritual practice-with multiple voices, self-reflexive awareness, and concrete political results. Black Critics and Kings eloquently illustrates the ethnographic value of listening to the voice of the other, with implications extending beyond anthropology to engage leading debates in black critical theory.
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The University of Chicago Press Jamaica Genesis Religion and the Politics of
Book SynopsisExamines how Pentecostalism has managed to achieve such ascendancy in a former British colony among people of predominantly African descent. This book argues that it has flourished because it successfully mediates between two historically central themes in Jamaican religious life.
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The University of Chicago Press Black Studies Rap the Academy Black Literature
Book SynopsisIn this explosive book, Houston Baker takes stock of the current state of Black Studies in the university and outlines its responsibilities to the newest form of black urban expression--rap. A frank, polemical essay, Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy is an uninhibited defense of Black Studies and an extended commentary on the importance of rap.Table of ContentsPreface 1: Black Studies: A New Story 2: The Black Urban Bear: Rap and the Law 3: Expert Witnesses and the Case of Rap 4: Hybridity, Rap, and Pedagogy for the 1990s: A Black Studies Sounding of Form Afterword Index
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University of Chicago Press Black Studies Rap the Academy Paper Black
Book SynopsisIn this explosive book, Houston Baker takes stock of the current state of Black Studies in the university and outlines its responsibilities to the newest form of black urban expressionrap. A frank, polemical essay, Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy is an uninhibited defense of Black Studies and an extended commentary on the importance of rap. Written in the midst of the political correctness wars and in the aftermath of the Los Angeles riots, Baker's meditation on the academy and black urban expression has generated much controversy and comment from both ends of the political spectrum.
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The University of Chicago Press Symbolic Interaction and Cultural Studies
Book SynopsisRecognizing that the humanities have engaged many of the important intellectual currents of the last twenty-five years in ways that sociology has not, the contributors to this volume fully acknowledge that the boundary between the social sciences and the humanities has begun to dissolve. This challenging volume explores that border area.Table of Contents1 Introduction, Michal M. McCall and Howard S. Becker 2 Social Interaction, Culture, and Historical Studies, John R. Hall 3 The Good News about Life History, Michal M. McCall and Judith Wittner 4 Studying Religion in the Eighties, Mary Jo Neitz 5 Why Philosophers Should Become Sociologists (and Vice Versa), Kathryn Pyne Addelson 6 Art Worlds: Developing the Interactionist Approach to Social Organization, Samuel Gilmore 7 Symbolic Interactionism in Social Studies of Science, Adele E. Clarke and Elihu M. Gerson 8 Fit for Postmodern Selfhood, Barry Glassner 9 People Are Talking: Conversation Analysis and Symbolic Interaction, Deirdre Boden
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The University of Chicago Press Childerley
Book SynopsisFor this study, Bell held interviews with over 100 of Childerley's residents, exploring their perspectives on class, gender and politics. He found that most felt a moral ambivalence over class and felt that by living close to nature they had an alternative - the identity of a "country person".
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University of Chicago Press Fate and Honor Family and Village
Book SynopsisThe Italian peasantry has often been described as tragic, backward, hopeless, downtrodden, static, and passive. In Fate and Honor, Family and Village, Rudolph Bell argues against the characterizationmore by reconstructing the complete demographic history of four country villages since 1800. He analyzes births, marriages, and deaths in terms of four concepts that capture mroe accurately and sympathetically the essence of the Italian peasant life: fortuna (fate), onore (honor, dignity), famiglia (family), and campanilismo (village). Fortuna is the cultural wellspring of Italian peasant society, the world view from which all social life flows. The concept of fortuna does not refer to philosophical questions, predestination, or value judgments. Rather, fortuna is the sum total of all explanations of outcomes perceived to be beyond human control. Thus, in Bell's view, high mortality does not lead peasants to a resigned acceptance of their fate; instead, they rely on honor, reciprocal exchanges of favors, and marriage to forge new links in their familial and social networks. With thorough documentation in graphs and tables, the author evaluates peasant reactions to time, work, family, space, migration, and protest to portray rural Italians as active, flexible, and shrewd, participating fully in shaping their destinies. Bell asserts that the real problem of the Mezzogiorno is not one of resistance to technology, of high birth rates, or even of illiteracy. It is one of solving technical questions in ways that foster dependency. The historical and sociological practice of treating peasant culture as backward, secondary, and circumscribed only encourages disruption and ultimately blocks the road to economic and political justice in a postmodern world.
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The University of Chicago Press Knowledge and Social Imagery Second Edition
Book SynopsisThe first edition of this book profoundly challenged and divided students of philosophy, sociology, and the history of science when it was published in 1976. In this second edition, Bloor responds in a substantial new Afterword to the heated debates engendered by his book.
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University of Chicago Press Freak Show
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The University of Chicago Press Affinities and Extremes Crisscrossing the
Book SynopsisExamining representations of Balinese culture in complex contexts of Indonesia's colonial history, Hindu ritual practice as opposed to Islam, and comparative Indo-European hierarchies, Boon offers a powerful critique of doctrinal approaches to culture, religion, literature, politics, and the history of ideas and disciplines.
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The University of Chicago Press Crossing the Postmodern Divide
Book SynopsisA guide to the meanings of the postmodern era, that charts the options before us as we seek alternatives to the joyless and artificial culture of consumption.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Closure and Transition Introduction Sullenness Hyperactivity 2. Modernism The Rise of Modernism Aggressive Realism Methodical Universalism Ambiguous Individualism 3. Postmodernism The Postmodern Critique The Postmodern Economy 4. Hypermodernism The Power and Ambiguity of Postmodernism Hyperreality Hyperactivity Hyperintelligence 5. Postmodern Realism Moral Decisions and Material Culture Focal Realism Patient Vigor Communal Celebration Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press The Art of Being a Parasite
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University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Readings in Western
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The University of Chicago Press Misery and Company
Book SynopsisCandace Clark here seeks to identify the role sympathy plays in constructing the social order of American society. She explores the difference it makes for individuals, for relationships and for group solidarity if one person gives or withholds sympathy from another.
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The University of Chicago Press Body of Power Spirit of Resistance The Culture
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The University of Chicago Press Modernity and Its Malcontents Ritual and Power in
Book SynopsisWhat role does ritual play in the lives of modern Africans? How are "traditional" cultural forms deployed by people seeking empowerment in a world where "modernity" has failed to deliver. In this collection of essays, the authors address such concepts as modernity, ritual, power and history.
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The University of Chicago Press Of Revelation and Revolution Volume 2 The
Book SynopsisThe second in a three-volume study, this volume explores colonial evangelism and modernity in South Africa. It shows how the relationship between the British evangelists and the Southern Tswana created complex exchanges of goods, signs and cultural markers which affected both Africans and Britons.
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University of Chicago Press Beyond Progress An Interpretive Odyssey to the
Book SynopsisThis analysis of the future of the human community suggest that new social and political identities and regional associations will be needed to solve global problems. It shows how such "mutualism" will require a change in the way institutions interact on local, national and international levels.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: The New Ideology 2: Endism and the American Self-Image 3: The Meaning of Historical Change 4: The Search for Order 5: Modernity and the Messiah of Progress 6: The End of Progress 7: The New Realities 8: The Epoch of Mutualism 9: Facing the Future Notes Index
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University of Chicago Press Performances
Book SynopsisThroughout this text the author shows his awareness that the actual past remains fundamentally irreplicable. He asserts all histories to be culturally crafted artifacts, commensurate with folk tales, stage plays, or films.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes to the Reader Prelude: Ethnograpy on My Mind Making a Present out of the Past: History's Anthropology A Poetric for Histories Sharks that Walk on the Land The Face of Battle: Valparaiso, 1814 Presenting the Past: History's Theatre The Theatricality of History Making and the Paradoxes of Acting Possessing Tahiti Hollywood Makes History Inventing Others Returning to the Past Its Own Present: History's Empowering Force Songlines and Seaways Anzac Day School at War Postlude: Soliloquy in San Giacomo References
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The University of Chicago Press Papi A Novel
Book SynopsisThroughout this text the author shows his awareness that the actual past remains fundamentally irreplicable. He asserts all histories to be culturally crafted artifacts, commensurate with folk tales, stage plays, or films.
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The University of Chicago Press Splitting the Difference Gender and Myth in
Book SynopsisHindu and Greek mythologies teem with stories of women and men who are doubled, this text recounts and compares a vast range of these tales from ancient Greece and India. The comparisons show that differences in gender are more significant than differences in culture.
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The University of Chicago Press From Art to Politics How Artistic Creations Shape
Book SynopsisIn this book, Murray Edelman continues his quest to understand the influence of perception on the political process by turning to the role of art.Table of Contents1: The Cardinal Political Role of Art. 2: Art - Political Messages and Illusions. 3: Art - Meanings, Constructions, Threats. 4: Art - Transformations and Challenges. 5: Architecture, Spaces, and Social Order. 6: Art as a Component of Government. 7: Contestable Categories and Public Opinion. 8: A Reassessment of Influence on Public Policy. 9: Some Concluding Reflections.
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The University of Chicago Press Steppin Out New York Nightlife and the
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The University of Chicago Press Chicago 68
Book SynopsisA reconstruction of the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago. Farber tells the story of the protests from the perspectives of the major protagonists--the Yippies, the National Mobilization to End the War, and Mayor Richard J. Daley and his police.
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University of Chicago Press Genii of the River Niger
Book SynopsisThe river Niger, a source of life and danger for the people in impoverished eastern Mali, is also the origin of elaborate mythology. From his travels through Mali and down the Niger in a dugout canoe, Jean-Marie Gibbal has created a personal documentary of the cultures of the region.
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The University of Chicago Press Parallel Worlds An Anthropologist and a Writer
Book SynopsisA memoir of Africa recounting the experiences of Alma Gottlieb, an anthropologist, and Philip Graham, a fiction writer, as they lived in two remote villages in the rain forest of Cote d'Ivoire.Table of ContentsMap: Cote d'Ivoire Map: Beng Region Cast of Characters Preface Pt. 1: Arriving 1: Premonitions (October 1-November 5, 1979) 2: Choosing a Host (November 6-November 28, 1979) 3: Trespassing (November 29-December 20, 1979) 4: Adrift (December 21, 1979-February 19, 1980) 5: The Elusive Epiphany (February 20-April 30, 1980) 6: Bedazzled, Beleaguered (May 1-June 30, 1980) 7: Divination and Trial (July 1-August 2, 1980) 8: Transgressions (August 3-October 3, 1980) 9: Metamorphoses (October 4, 1980-Spring 1981) Pt. 2: Returning 10: A Parallel World (June 11-August 13, 1985) Glossary Acknowledgments Index
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University of Chicago Press Chinese State Enterprises A Regional Property
Book SynopsisAn empirically documented study of the Chinese state industrial enterprise.
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The University of Chicago Press Guardians of the Flutes Volume 1 Idioms of
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsA Note on Language Foreword Robert A. LeVine Preface to the 1994 edition Preface Introduction 1: People of the Mountain Forest 2: Idioms and Verbal Behavior 3: The Inward Cosmos 4: Genderizing the Pandanus Tree 5: The Phantom Cassowary 6: Femininity 7: Masculinity 8: Male Parthenogenesis: A Myth and Its Meaning 9: Conclusion Appendix A: "Tali Says": On the problem of symbolic meaning and its relationship to field conditions among the Sambia Appendix B: Nilutwo's Dreams Appendix C: The Myth of Cassowary Appendix D: On the Origins of Warfare and Initiation Appendix E: The Myth of Gandei References Name Index Subject Index
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The University of Chicago Press The Autumn of the Middle Ages
Book SynopsisThis volume presents the life, thought and art of 14th and 15th-century France and the Netherlands. For the author, this period marked an important phase of medieval life and thought. First published in 1919, this English edition has all previous mis-translations corrected.
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The University of Chicago Press The Autumn of the Middle Ages
Book SynopsisThis is a portrait of life, thought and art in 14th- and 15th-century France and the Netherlands. Regarded as an historical classic by many scholars, it has also been criticized and incorrectly translated. This edition corrects changes made by other translators to the original Dutch text of 1919.
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The University of Chicago Press Discourses of the Vanishing
Book SynopsisAnxieties about the potential loss of national identity and continuity disturb many in Japan, despite widespread insistence that it has remained culturally intact. This ethnographic, historical and cultural study examines marginalized events, sites and cultural practices in Japan.
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The University of Chicago Press The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology
Book SynopsisExplores the invention of sodomy in medieval Christendom, examining its conceptual foundations in theology and gauging its impact on Christian sexual ethics both then and now. The text traces the genealogy of this cultural construct through many of the idiosyncratic worldviews of the Middle Ages.
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University of Chicago Press The Hungry Soul Eating and the Perfecting of Our
Book SynopsisAn exploration of the natural and cultural act of eating. The author reveals how the various aspects of this phenomenon, and the customs, rituals, and taboos surrounding it, relate to universal and profound truths about the human animal and its deepest yearnings.
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The University of Chicago Press Custom and Confrontation The Kwaio Struggle for
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University of Chicago Press The Death of the Child Valerio Marcello
Book SynopsisThe death of Valerio Marcello, in 1490, left his father in a state of despair so profound that it occasioned an outpouring of consoling letters, orations, treatises and poems. Through these sources, King traces the story of a 15th-century family, as well as the cultural trends of the time.
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University of Chicago Press Asia in the Making of Europe Volume III A
Book SynopsisAsia in the Making of Europe traces European encounters with Asia, and the ways in which those encounters have altered the development of western society, art, literature, science, and religion since the Renaissance. In doing so, this work provides a much-needed perspective necessary for a balanced view of European and Asian history. A Century of Advance, the third volume of this monumental work, is devoted to the seventeenth century. Donald F. Lach and Edwin Van Kley have researched virtually all the writings on Asia published in Europe at this time, in an effort to understand how contemporaries saw Asian societies and peoples. During this century, more and better information became available as merchants and missionaries pushed deeper into the interiors of the Asian lands previously known only on their peripheries. While conducting commerce and spreading Christianity, westerners discovered Manchuria, Korea, Tibet, Formosa, and Australia; they also learned much more than their predecessors about Buddhism, Hinduism, and Confucianism and about their importance in Asian life. Their countrymen, eager for news from the East, read of their exploits in the widely published Jesuit letterbooks, mission reports, and merchant travelogues. These sources are valuable to modern scholars for the insights they provide on the development of European culture. They also provide details of everyday life not included in native Asian sources, and aspects of Asian culture that have passed out of existence and thus are unfamiliar to modern scholars. The authors' extraordinarily detailed and insightful readings of the documents of discovery, contribute greatly to a more balanced understanding of Asian history, in addition to deepening our understanding of this critical era in European history.
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