Social and cultural anthropology Books
University of Hawai'i Press Living and Working in Wartime China
Book SynopsisCovering the years of Japanese invasion from 1937 to 1945, this collection recounts Chinese experiences of living and working under conditions of war. Through stories of everyday people and mid-level technocrats charged with carrying out the war, this book brings to light the gap between the leadershipâs demands and the reality of everyday life.
£22.36
University of Hawai'i Press Feathered Gods and Fishhooks
Book SynopsisThe first edition of Feathered Gods and Fishhooks was the pioneering synthesis of ancient Hawaiian civilization from an archaeological perspective. This revised edition now brings the field up-to-date, incorporating the results from hundreds of archaeological projects undertaken throughout the Hawaiian Islands over the past thirty-five years.
£35.96
University of Hawaii Press Even in the Rain
Book SynopsisExplores music as constitutive of Uyghur cultural and social life where subaltern experiences of ethnicity, race, and nationhood are indexed. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in the Uyghur homeland in the far Chinese northwest, Chuen-Fung Wong focuses on aspects of Uyghur music making as it faces the state’s management of minority art expressions.Trade Review“The book is the result of successful combination of fieldwork (no longer possible recently), sound understanding of world music, and profound studies on music traditions relevant to Central Asia. Not only is the book important for the studies of Uyghur music, but also in the merging of studies in various closely related but distinct traditions (Turkic, Persian and Arabic), against the predominant backdrop of Han-Chinese music and its Westernization. The book would be of interest to ethnomusicologists, certainly a must-read item for those who are interested in Central Asian music, Uyghur music, Xinjiang, musical instruments, and particularly relevant to political scientists.” - Yu Siu Wah, The Chinese University of Hong Kong“This is beautifully written, engaging, and richly detailed ethnography of Uyghur musical practices in Northwest China. The reader comes away with a nuanced understanding of musical change in Xinjiang through the last century, as musical modernism and the complexities of being an ethnic minority in China collide. Wong carefully dissects his own positioning as an ethnomusicologist from Hong Kong and writes with vulnerability about his ethnographic process. As careful as Wong is with his interlocutors’ voices, one can get a feel for the lives of the Uyghur musicians Wong works with. The stories, scenes of life in different parts of Xinjiang, and the descriptions of the music come through with vivid detail.” - Margarethe Adams, Stony Brook University“In Even in the Rain Wong combines a fine grasp of theoretical approaches in ethnomusicology, relevant literature in Uyghur, Chinese and English, good ethnographic research, and sure-footed musical transcription and analysis. His analysis brings original material, careful research, and an authoritative voice to the topics of popular music and voice, and musical instruments and modernity. The book picks up the approaches of earlier scholarship and extends it into the twentieth-first century, bringing together engagement with Uyghur national canons and staged performance, popular and folk music.” - Rachel Harris, SOAS, University of London“Chuen-Fung Wong’s Even in the Rain offers a compelling examination of the dynamic interplay between tradition and modernity, national identity and global influences, and musical innovation and cultural preservation in the context of Uyghur music. With his insightful analysis, extensive fieldwork, and expertise in the Uyghur language and culture, Wong delivers a must-read book for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the complex relationship between music, society, and identity in contemporary inner Asia.” - Gülnar Eziz, Harvard University
£52.50
University of Hawai'i Press Moolelo
Book SynopsisAn essential contribution to contemporary Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) scholarship, Mo’olelo: The Foundation of Hawaiian Knowledge elevates our understanding of the importance of language and narrative to cultural revitalization.
£16.16
University of Hawaii Press Dialogues with a Trickster
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MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Hearing the Mermaids Song The Umbanda Religion
Book SynopsisThe Umbanda religion summons the spirits of old slaves and Brazilian Indians to speak through the mouths of mediums in trance. This book describes its many aspects and explores its place within the lives of a variety of practitioners. It places Umbanda spiritual beliefs and practices within the broader context of Brazilian history and culture.
£24.71
University of New Mexico Press The Archaeology of Burning Man
Book SynopsisFor nearly a decade Carolyn White has employed archaeological methods to analyse the various aspects of life and community in and around Burning Man and Black Rock City. With a syncretic approach, this work in active-site archaeology provides both a theoretical basis and a practical demonstration of the potential of this new field.Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Chapter One. Black Rock City: A Description of the World Chapter Two. Thinking the World: Social Space, the Accursed Share, and Meshworks Chapter Three. The Rise of the City Chapter Four. Infrastructure at Burning Man Chapter Five. Households at Burning Man Chapter Six. Theme Camps Chapter Seven. Village Life Chapter Eight. The Fall of the City Chapter Nine. Epilogue: The Active Site of Black Rock City References Index
£27.16
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Unburied Lives The Historical Archaeology of
Book SynopsisWith a focus on Fort Davis, Wilkie brings attention to the Black enlisted men and non-commissioned officers. She explores the complexities of post life, racialized relationships, Black masculinity, and citizenship while also exposing the structures and practices of military life that successfully obscured these men’s stories for so long.Trade ReviewWilkie's study of the Buffalo soldiers and military life at Fort Davis is bold and innovative. She reveals a complex web of material and social entanglements that illustrate the military's complicity in anti-black racism while highlighting the various ways that black men--as soldiers, husbands, friends, and fathers--navigated an especially difficult terrain to demonstrate their humanity and rights to citizenship."—Maria Franklin, contributor to Unlocking the Past: Celebrating Historical Archaeology in North America "Wilkie's skillful use of the archaeological and documentary records provides much-needed nuance for understanding the lives of Buffalo soldiers. This book provides a much-needed corrective and complicates previously dichotomous thinking to more accurately represent the challenges and rewards of their military lives."—Edward González-Tennant, author of The Rosewood Massacre: An Archaeology and History of Intersectional ViolenceTable of Contents List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments Important Persons in This Work Prologue Chapter One. Black Soldiering Matters at Fort Davis: Taking an Archaeological Approach to Frontier Life Chapter Two. Corporal Williams's Tent: Frontier Military Spaces Chapter Three. Private Stevenson's Pocketknife and Company K's Tumbler Chapter Four. Sergeant Hewey's Stick Chapter Five. Private Johnson's Letters Chapter Six. Sergeant Sample's Eyesight Chapter Seven. Daniel Tallifero's Cap Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
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Seagull Books London Ltd No Fixed Abode
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University of Tennessee Press Ethnic Regional Foodways United States
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University of Tennessee Press Religion and Wine Cultural History Wine Drinking
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MP-OSU Oregon State Universi The Other Oregon People Environment and History
Book SynopsisA multidisciplinary work that ranges widely through a diverse and often under-appreciated land, drawing on the fields of environmental history, cultural and physical geography, and natural resource management to tell a comprehensive and compelling story.
£23.96
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology,U.S. Human Documents
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MP-MQU Marquette University Bibliography of Metropolitan Milwaukee
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MP-UTA Univ of Utah Press Willard Z. Parks Notes on the Northern Paiute o
Book SynopsisThis paper is the first of two volumes presenting the ethnographic field notes of Willard Z. Parks, who studied the Northern Paiute from 1933 to 1940.
£20.21
Cornell University Press Those Who Touch
Book SynopsisExamines the female-dominated practice of herbalism in the seminomadic Muslim communities of Tuareg. This book takes the reader into this world of medicine women through interviews, guided conversations, life histories, illustrative case studies, and the words of the healers and their patients.Trade ReviewHighly recommended... sure to become the authoritative ethnography of a unique and impressive healing tradition. * AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW *Packed with rich and valuable ethnographic material. This is a valuable and provocative ethnography that merits the attention of medical and psychological anthropologists, as well as anthropologists of religion and gender. * Ethos *The author has intimate knowledge of two generations of [medicine] women, the kind of knowledge unavailable to most anthropologists. The book's strength rests in the quality and quantity of its data. * Choice *Table of ContentsTable of Contents Deconstructing and Recasting Female Healing: Preliminary Remarks PART ONE: Departures—Herbal Medicine and Local and Authoritative Systems of Thought 1. The Vexing Problem of Difference and Classifications in Anthropology and the Local Ethnographic Setting 2. Herbalism, Medicine, and Curing—Medicine Women's Concepts of Wellness, Illness, and Healing PART TWO: Touch and Word—Learning and Transmitting Medicine 3. Touch, Body, and Senses 4. Word and Deed—Oral Traditions and the Mythico-History of Herbal Medicine 5. Medicine Women, Gender, and Physical and Social Reproduction over the Life Course 6. Natural Imagery (Arboreal Tropes) in Herbalism—Plant Uses in Nature and Culture PART THREE: Medicine Women and Wider Systems of Power 7. Medicine Women, Sacred Places, and Al Baraka Ritual Benediction 8. Medicine Women and Islam—Relations with Marabouts 9. Medicine Women and Other "Shamans"—Herbalism, the Spirits of the Wild, Divination, and Power 10. Changes in the Wind—Medicine Women's Relations with Established Biomedicine Conclusions—Herbal Healing, Modes of Thought, and Gender Notes Works Cited Index
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Cornell University Press Farmers of the Golden Bean
Book SynopsisExploring contemporary issues of gender, empowerment, access to resources, and Fair Trade, this book examines how Costa Rican coffee-producing households cope with the complexities of a globalizing world economy. It includes an introduction as well as a chapter on Fair Trade.Trade Review"Offers a formidable blend of quantitative and qualitative evidence, the kind of complementary analysis too often neglected in contemporary ethnography." - American Anthropologist"Table of ContentsContents List of Tables and Figures ix Acknowledgments xi Preface xiii Abbreviations xxiii PART ONE: Coffee and the Family Farmer 1 The Fate of the Family Farmer 5 2 Coffee and the Farming Household 19 3 Los Cafeteros of P\u00e9rez Zeled\u00f3n 34 4 The Political Economy of Coffee-Farming Households 51 PART TWO: Strategies for Survival and Mobility 5 Against the Wind: Local Organizations and Change 75 6 To Market, To Market 89 7 When Coffee Is Not Enough 105 8 Family Farmers, Global Markets, and the State 121 9 Fair Trade: A Way Forward? 132 Glossary 153 Notes 157 References Cited 167 Index 193
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Cornell University Press Race and Rights
Book SynopsisIn the Old Northwest from 1830 to 1870, a bold set of activists battled slavery and racial prejudice. This book is about their expansive efforts to eradicate southern slavery and its local influence in the contentious milieu of four new states carved out of the Northwest Territory: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio. While the Northwest Ordinance outlawed slavery in the region in 1787, in reality both it and racism continued to exert strong influence in the Old Northwest, as seen in the race-based limitations of civil liberties there. Indeed, these states comprised the central battleground over race and rights in antebellum America, in a time when race''s social meaning was deeply infused into all aspects of Americans'' lives, and when people struggled to establish political consensus.Antislavery and anti-prejudice activists from a range of institutional bases crossed racial lines as they battled to expand African American rights in this region. Whether they were antislaveTrade ReviewAnyone interested in the emergence of rights consciousness will benefit from reading this book. * Ohio Valley History *Weiner's book represents a useful expansion of the literature on the abolitionist movement.....[It] is an excellent study of race relations and the struggle over slavery in [the Midwest]. * The Annals of Iowa *Weiner's book is a welcome addition recognizing the Old Northwest as a distinct region and, as such, a distinct voice in the discussion of race and rights in the developing United States in a small collection of such literature. * Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society *Race and Rights is a well-written narrative that gives a good picture of the world of antislavery activism in the Old Northwest. * Indiana Magazine of History *This well-written, deeply researched study of antislavery and proslavery actions in the Old Northwest adds powerful new dimensions to our understanding of evolving antagonisms about human servitude in the decades before the Civil War. * Journal of American History *
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Cornell University Press Feasting and Social Oscillation
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Cornell University Press Possessed by the Spirits
Book SynopsisThe essays in this volume examine the resurgence of the Mother Goddess religion among contemporary Vietnamese following the economic "Renovation" period in Vietnam. Anthropologists explore the forces that compel individuals to become mediums and the social repercussions of their decisions and...
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Cornell University Press Views of SeventeenthCentury Vietnam
Book SynopsisThis volume introduces two of the earliest writings about Vietnam to appear in the English language. The reports come from narrators with different interests who are viewing different parts of Vietnam at an early stage of European involvement in the...
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Cornell University Press Slow Anthropology
Book SynopsisSlow Anthropology considers the history of the Iu Mien, an upland Laotian minority caught in the disruptions of the Vietnam-American war. This study challenges the prevailing academic theory that groups living in the hinterlands of Southeast Asia have traditionally fled to the hills, seeking isolated independence and safety. As part of his challenge, Jonsson highlights the legacies of negotiating difference that have guided the Iu Mien in interactions with their neighbors. Jonsson engages with southern China and Southeast Asia in premodern times, relays individual reports from the war in Laos, describes contemporary village festivals in Thailand, and explores community and identity among Southeast Asian immigrants in the United States. His study questions Western academic narratives that oversimplify Asia''s minorities in order to define and stabilize Western identities.Responding to James C. Scott''s characterization of the Southeast Asian highlands as a zone of refuge soughTrade Review"A brilliant and engaging exploration of the ways in which Asian highland people have been represented in the popular academic imagination. This book will raise important questions about the ethics of representation and the need for negotiations across social difference. The author believes passionately in his subject and calls for a newly reflective and situated anthropology. There is a serious and major ethical sensibility at work here." -- Nicholas Tapp, Australian National University, author of The Hmong of China: Context, Agency, and the Imaginary and The Impossibility of Self: An Essay on the Hmong Diaspora
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MB - Cornell University Press Views of SeventeenthCentury Vietnam
Book SynopsisThis volume introduces two of the earliest writings about Vietnam to appear in the English language. The reports come from narrators with different interests who are viewing different parts of Vietnam at an early stage of European involvement in the...
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Cornell University Press Slow Anthropology
Book SynopsisSlow Anthropology considers the history of the Iu Mien, an upland Laotian minority caught in the disruptions of the Vietnam-American war. This study challenges the prevailing academic theory that groups living in the hinterlands of Southeast Asia have traditionally fled to the hills, seeking isolated independence and safety. As part of his...Trade Review"A brilliant and engaging exploration of the ways in which Asian highland people have been represented in the popular academic imagination. This book will raise important questions about the ethics of representation and the need for negotiations across social difference. The author believes passionately in his subject and calls for a newly reflective and situated anthropology. There is a serious and major ethical sensibility at work here." -- Nicholas Tapp, Australian National University, author of The Hmong of China: Context, Agency, and the Imaginary and The Impossibility of Self: An Essay on the Hmong Diaspora
£999.99
Cornell University Press Indonesia Journal
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Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection The Measure and Meaning of Time in Mesoamerica
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MP-MTB University of Manitoba Press Exactly What I Said Translating Words and Worlds
Book SynopsisYou don't have to use the exact same words. But it has to mean exactly what I said."" Thus began the ten-year collaboration between Innu elder and activist Tshaukuesh Elizabeth Penashue and Memorial University professor Elizabeth Yeoman. Exactly What I Said reflects on that collaboration and what Yeoman learned from it.Table of Contents Introduction Chapter 1: Mapping Chapter 2: Walking Chapter 3: Stories Chapter 4: Looking Chapter 5: Signs Chapter 6: Literacies Chapter 7: Listening Chapter 8: Songs Chapter 9: Wilderness
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MP-MTB University of Manitoba Press Inuit Stories of Being and Rebirth Gender
Book SynopsisFirst published in French in 2006, Inuit Stories of Being and Rebirth contains an in-depth, paragraph-by-paragraph analysis of stories on womb memories, birth, namesaking, and reincarnation. This new English edition introduces this material to a broader audience and contains a new afterword by Saladin d'Anglure.
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MP-MTB University of Manitoba Press Words of the Inuit A Semantic Stroll through a
Book SynopsisAn important compendium of Inuit culture illustrated through Inuit words. The book brings the sum of the author's decades of experience and engagement with Inuit and Inuktitut to bear on what he fashions as an amiable, leisurely stroll through words and meanings.Table of Contents Introduction: Words from the Past, A Stroll Through Inuit Semantics Chapter 1 Words for Speaking About the Environment and Land Chapter 2 Words for Speaking About Animals and Subsistence Activities Chapter 3 Words for Speaking About Humans and Animals Chapter 4 Words for Speaking About Family, Kinship, and Naming Chapter 5 Words for Speaking About the Human Body Chapter 6 Words for Socializing in the Contemporary WorldConclusion: Words for the Future
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MP-WLU Wilfrid Laurier Uni Indian Country Essays on Contemporary Native
Book SynopsisUses a cultural studies approach to offer a unique perspective on Native political struggle and cultural conflict in both Canada and the United States. Gail Guthrie Valaskakis reflects on treaty rights and traditionalism, media warriors, Indian princesses, powwow, museums, art, and nationhood.Trade Review"Illustrated with fascinating images and photographs, Valaskakis' accounts are dense, intensely researched, theoretically sophisticated, and highly personal. The result is impossible to summarize, but tremendously enlightening and interesting to read." -- Margery Fee -- Canadian Literature, 191, Winter 2006"One of the volume's strong points is its elimination of the artificial border we call the 49th parallel dividing Turtle Island into Canada and the United States. Another is that throughout the volume Valaskakis continually gives examples of the relationships between Indian people and non-Indian people ... in a well-balanced manner.... I recommend this volume highly to anyone who wishes to learn ... about the worldview of Indian people." -- William Asikinack"There are books you wait for, patiently, because you know that when they finally arrive, your patience will be rewarded. I have been waiting patiently for Gail Guthrie Valaskakis's Indian Country: Essays on Contemporary Native Culture and my patience has been rewarded! These essays are a joy to read, filled with insights not only on Native culture, experience, and politics but also on the value and practice of cultural studies. Indian Country is one of those books you will share with your colleagues, assign to your students, and recommend to your friends. It is, quite simply, one of the best books on questions of culture, identity, and belonging that I have read in a long time." -- Lawrence Grossberg, Morris Davis Distinguished Professor of Cultural Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill -- 200504"Indian Country is an excellent example of the emerging paradigm of indigenous scholarship in its blend of the personal with indigenous and mainstream academic theory. It is firmly grounded in the personal lived experiences of the author, which ground and inform the theoretical analysis and reflection." -- David Newhouse, Trent University, Peterborough"Creates an intriguing and insightful account of `interrelated realities: individual and collective, past and present, Indian and Other.'... Having read Valaskakis's book, researchers in 'Indian Country' will never again consider Native people and their articulations `transparent' but will extend their research into composite methods of `interpreting practice, decoding silence, and reconstructing absence' -- only to arrive at `truths' [that] are ... changeable and ambiguous." -- Renate Eigenbrod -- University of Toronto Quarterly, Letters in Canada 2006, Volume 77, Number 1, Winter 2008"Indian Country is a perceptive analysis of the interrelated histories and family encounters of Natives in Canada and the United States. Gail Guthrie Valaskakis weaves the distinct narratives of personal experiences, political practices, treaties, and social science observations into a mature, memorable collection of critical essays." -- Gerald Vizenor, Professor Emeritus, University of California, BerkeleyTable of ContentsTable of Contents for Indian Country: Essays on Contemporary Native Culture by Gail Guthrie Valaskakis List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Approaching Indian Country Living the Heritage of Lac du Flambeau: Traditionalism and Treaty Rights Rights and Warriors: Media Memories and Oka Postcards of My Past: Indians and Artifacts Indian Country: Claiming Land in Native America Sacajawea and Her Sisters: Images and Native Women Dance Me Inside: Pow Wow and Being Indian Drumming the Past: Researching Indian Objects Blood Borders: Being Indian and Belonging Conclusion: All My Relations References Index
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MP-WLU Wilfrid Laurier Uni Canadian Cultural Poesis Essays on Canadian
Book SynopsisHow do we make culture and how does culture make us? This book offers new insights into how we make and are made by Canadian culture, each essay contributing to this poetics, inventing new ways to welcome cultural differences of all kinds fo the Canadian cultural community.Trade Review``The introduction, `A Poetics of Canadian Culture,' by co-editor Garry Sherbert, is an excellent and trenchant discussion of `culture' and as such it tackles the vexed issue of its definition and the tricky question of both its specificity and its uncertainty.'' -- Berkeley Kaite -- Canadian Literature, Number 195, Winter 2007, 200805``In taking as their object of study the relations between specific cultural practices or discourses, everyday life and larger structures of power, the essays in this collection together reveal...the basis of the best sort of cultural studies being practiced in this country.... [An] important antholog[y].'' -- Peter Dickinson -- Topia, Volume 18, 200802``Expertly edited...Canadian Cultural Poesis is an outstanding...compendium offering in-depth and subject-specific analysis of Canadian art, film, literature, sociology, technology, regionalism, communication, women's studies, and more...A welcome addition to academic library reference collections, Canadian Cultural Poesis is very highly recommended.'' -- James A. Cox, Wisconsin Bookwatch -- 200606Table of ContentsTable of Contents for Canadian Cultural Poesis: Essays on Canadian Culture , edited by Garry Sherbert, Annie Gérin, and Sheila Petty List of Illustrations Preface | Garry Sherbert Acknowledgements Introduction: A Poetics of Canadian Culture | Garry Sherbert I: Media and Its (Dis)Contents My Grandmotherâs Violin | Frances Dorsey 1. (Im)Possible Exchanges: The Arts of Counter-Surveillance | Gary Genosko 2. Canadian Humour and National Culture: Move Over, Mr. Leacock | Beverly Rasporich 3. Collective Memory on the Airwaves: The Negotiation of Unity and Diversity in a Troubled Canadian Nationalism | Emily West 4. Framing the Local: Canadian Film Policy and the Problem of Place | Zo Druick 5. Framing Culture, Talking Race: Race, Gender, and Violence in the News Media | Yasmin Jiwani II: Performing and Disrupting Identities 20 minute visualization: Sandee, Lee, Sandra, Seema | Joanne Bristol 6. Marketing Ambivalence: Molson Breweries Go Postcolonial | Cynthia Sugars 7. âThe Northâ Intersecting Worlds and World Views | Alastair Campbell and Kirk Cameron 8. Dressed to Thrill: Costume, Body, and Dress in Canadian Performative Art | Jayne Wark 9. Figures of Otherness in Canadian Video | Joanne Lalonde 10. Queerly Canadian: âPerversion Chicââ Cinema and (Queer) Nationalism in English Canada | Jason Morgan III: (Dis)Locating Language Pull/Apart | Rachelle Viader Knowles 11. Out of Psychoanalysis: A Ficto-Criticism Monologue | Jeanne Randolph 12. Some Imaginary Geographies in Quebec Fiction | Ceri Morgan 13. L.M. Montgomery on Television: The Romance and Industry of Adaptation Process | Patsy Aspasia Kotsopoulos 14. The Use of âFisherâ in a Nova Scotian Fishing Community: A Theory of Hegemony for a Complex Canadian Culture | Carol Corbin 15. Thinking the Wonderful: After Rudolf Komorous, beside the Reveries | Martin Arnold 16. Maîtres Chez Nous: Public Art and Linguistic Identity in Quebec | Annie Gérin IV: Cultural Dissidence Belle Sauvage | Lori Blondeau 17. Black History and Culture in Canada: A Celebration of Essence or Presence | Cecil Foster 18. Decolonizing Interpretation at the Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site | Erna L. Macleod 19. Culture and an Aboriginal Charter of Rights | Eric Sherbert 20. Canadian Gothic: Multiculturalism, Indigeneity, and Gender in Prairie Cinema | Susan Lord 21. Through a Canadian Lens: Discourses of Nationalism and Aboriginal Representation in Governmental Photographs | Carol Payne Bibliography Biographical Notes Index Biographical Notes Martin Arnold is a composer and writer based in Toronto. He has studied in Canada and the Netherlands, where his teachers were Alfred Fisher, Frederic Rzewski, John Cage, Louis Andriessen, Gilius van Bergeijk, Rudolf Komorous, Douglas Collinge, and Michael Longton. He holds a doctorate from the University of Victoria. His compositions have been performed in Canada, the United States, the Netherlands, France, Germany, and Slovakia. He publishes in the areas of music and art criticism. Lori Blondeau is a performance artist based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Saskatchewan, where she also teaches. In 1994 Blondeau co-founded, with Bradlee LaRocque, Tribe A Centre for Evolving Aboriginal Media, Visual and Performing Arts. Loriâs performance and visual work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Her current work consists of a series of performances based on memory, home, displacement, and decolonization. Joanne Bristolâs work investigates the interplay between art, science, and history. The work in this book is part of her project, JoJoâs School of Aesthetics: Services in the Arts of Projection, Attention and Photography, a series of performances involving shared activities and conversation with audiences (see www.bentaerial.net). She also teaches at the Alberta College of Art and Design. Kirk Cameron was born in Whitehorse, Yukon, and has studied English and history at Victoria University and Queens. He has published two books and a number of articles on northern political development, the most recent book (co-authored) being Northern Governments in Transition. He has worked for the governments of Yukon, British Columbia, and Canada, and is currently secretary to the Yukon Cabinet. Alastair Campbell has studied history, anthropology, and semiotics in New Zealand, Canada, and Italy and has taught anthropology and sociology courses at the University of Ottawa. He has worked for the Assembly of First Nations and the governments of Canada, Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut. His work has entailed extensive analysis of Aboriginal and northern issues, and the writing of policy and informational booklets. Carol Corbin is an associate professor of communication at the University College of Cape Breton, Sydney, Nova Scotia. She publishes in the areas of community, ecology, and culture, and has edited three books related to the island of Cape Breton, and a fourth on rhetoric and postmodernism with Michael Calvin McGee. She is currently working on the modernist enterprise in China from 1900 to 1949 and spent the fall of 2000 studying and teaching in Beijing. Frances Dorsey is an associate professor of art at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax. Educated in Canada and the United States, her studio practice is based primarily in textiles and printmaking. She exhibits both nationally and internationally. Zoe Druick is an assistant professor in the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, where she teaches film and media studies. She has published in the area of Canadian film policy, with an emphasis on the history of the National Film Board of Canada. She is currently completing a book on the subject, The Surface of Society . Cecil Foster is an author and scholar. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Guelph. His publications include A Place Called Heaven , The Meaning of Being Black in Canada , and the forthcoming books, Where Race Does Not Matter: The New Spirit of Modernity and Multiculturalism: Issues of Citizenship, Culture, and Identity . Gary Genosko teaches cultural sociology at Lakehead University. His books include Baudrillard and Signs (1994), McLuhan and Baudrillard (1999), Undisciplined Theory (1998), and Contest: Essays on Sports, Culture and Politics (1999). He is editor of The Uncollected Baudrillard (2001), Deleuze and Guattari: Critical Assessments , 3 vols. (2001), and The Guattari Reader (1996). He is general editor of The Semiotic Review of Books . Annie Gérin is a curator and assistant professor of art history and art theory at the Department of Visual Arts, the University of Ottawa. Educated in Canada, Russia, and the UK, her research interests encompass the areas of Soviet art and propaganda, Canadian public art, and art on the World Wide Web. She is especially concerned with art encountered by non-specialized publics, outside the gallery space. Yasmin Jiwani is a faculty member in the Department of Communications at Concordia University. Prior to her move to Concordia, she was the executive coordinator of the BC/Yukon Feminist Research, Education, Development and Action (freda) Centre at Simon Fraser University. Rachelle Viader Knowles is a visual artist working in a broad range of contemporary media, including lens, time, and text-based installation. Originally from the UK, Rachelle studied at Cardiff College of Art and the University of Wales before moving to Canada in 1994 to study at the University of Windsor. Recent solo exhibitions include: the MacKenzie Art Gallery in Regina, Chapter Gallery in Wales, Peak Gallery in Toronto, and the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba. Rachelle Viader Knowles heads the intermedia area in the Visual Arts Department at the University of Regina. Patsy Aspasia Kotsopoulos is a doctoral candidate in communications at Simon Fraser University. She is researching and writing her dissertation, âRomance and Industry on the Road to Avonlea,â for which she received a SSHRC doctoral fellowship. She teaches film and interdisciplinary studies at the University of Victoria. Joanne Lalonde is a professor of art history at uqam and the director of the undergraduate program. She received her doctorate in semiotics from UQAM in 1999. Her research deals principally with the relationships between art and technology, media art (Canadian video), and representations of sexual and identitarian hybridization in contemporary art. Susan Lord is an associate professor of film studies at Queenâs University, where she is also cross-appointed with the Institute of Womenâs Studies. Her main teaching and research areas are feminist theory and film culture, and cultural studies of media and technology. She has published on gender and technolo
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Getty Trust Publications Thesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum v 1 Getty
Book SynopsisThesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum (ThesCRA) is a major multi-volume reference on all known aspects of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman cults and rituals. Providing both a sweeping overview and in-depth investigation, ThesCRA covers the period from Homeric times (1000 B.C.) to late Roman times (A.D. 400). A definitive work on the topic, ThesCRA is the culmination of many years of research by scholars from across the United States and Europe and throughout the Mediterranean world. Each of their texts - either in English, French, German, or Italian - is followed by a catalogue entry listing the epigraphical and literary sources cited and referencing ancient iconographical documents related to the topic. Many of these iconographical items are depicted either in line drawings in the texts or in the plate sections of each volume. On completion, ThesCRA will comprise five volumes, a book of abbreviations, and an index volume. The volumes are arranged thematically. The first three deal with dyna
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Getty Trust Publications Thesaurus Cultus Et Rituum Antiquorum
Book SynopsisThesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum (ThesCRA) is a major multi-volume reference on all known aspects of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman cults and rituals. Providing both a sweeping overview and in-depth investigation, ThesCRA covers the period from Homeric times (1000 B.C.) to late Roman times (A.D. 400). A definitive work on the topic, ThesCRA is the culmination of many years of research by scholars from across the United States and Europe and throughout the Mediterranean world. Each of their texts - either in English, French, German, or Italian - is followed by a catalogue entry listing the epigraphical and literary sources cited and referencing ancient iconographical documents related to the topic. Many of these iconographical items are depicted either in line drawings in the texts or in the plate sections of each volume. On completion, ThesCRA will comprise five volumes, a book of abbreviations, and an index volume. The volumes are arranged thematically. The first three deal with dynamic elements of ancient cults, such as cultic ritual and practice, while the last two are devoted to static elements, such as cult places and their personnel. The first two volumes, available in February 2005, discuss processions, sacrifices, libations, fumigations, and dedications (Volume I): and purification, consecration, initiation, heroization, apotheosis, banquets, dance, music, and rites and activities related to cult images (Volume II). Volume III, slated for August of 2005, will deal with divination; prayers and gestures of prayer; gestures and acts of veneration; supplication; asylum; oaths; magic; curses; and descration. Volumes IV and V, along with the Index, are scheduled for publication in February 2006. ThesCRA was developed by the eminent group of scholars who published the eight double-volumes of LIMC (Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae). Among the many contributors to the ThesCRA volumes are Jean Ch. Balty, Sir John Boardman, Walter Burkert, Giovannangelo Camporeale, Tonio Holscher, Anneliese Kossatz, Vassilis Lambrinoudakis, Francois Lissarrague, John H. Oakley, Ricardo Olmos, H. A. Shapiro, Erika Simon, and Marion True.
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Getty Trust Publications Thesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum V3
Book SynopsisA multivolume reference work on various aspects of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman cults and rituals. Providing both an overview and in depth investigation, this work covers the period from Homeric times (1000 BC) to late Roman times (AD 400). It deals with the elements of cult, such as: divination; prayer, gestures, and acts of prayer; and others.
£175.50
Ohio University Press Making the Mark Gender Identity and Genital
Book SynopsisWhy do female genital cutting practices persist? How does circumcision affect the rights of girls in a culture where initiation forms the lynchpin of the ritual cycle at the core of defining gender, identity, and social and political status?Trade Review“Gritty ethnography at its best. Descriptively rich and insightful, it does an excellent job of helping readers gain an understanding of insider perspectives on the practice of female genital cutting, and the socially embedded context of these meanings.”“Making the Mark provides a richly detailed grass-roots perspective of the procedure (and of male circumcision) among the Kuria people in southern Kenya.…While Prazak’s book examines female genital cutting only among one population in Kenya, it provides a model for understanding the grass-roots dynamics shaping the practice. …Whatever one’s opinion, [Prazak] demonstrates the value and importance of seeing the practice through the perspectives of girls, their families and leaders in their communities.” * Washington Post online *“Although many books and articles have been published on this topic in the past two decades, Making the Mark contributes greatly to the literature on genital cutting. …An absolute must-read for those who wish to gain an understanding in the complexities of genital cutting in the social, political, and cultural life of Kuria people in Kenya.” * Africa at LSE *“Prazak provides a richly detailed ethnographic account of the changing practices and understandings of circumcision—both male and female—among the Kuria people of southern Kenya..…A readable, on-the-ground account … Prazak writes clearly and skillfully incorporates arguments from the anthropology of ritual, the anthropology of law, and development studies in a way that will be accessible to students at different levels.…Summing Up: Recommended.” * CHOICE *
£59.40
Ohio University Press Making the Mark Gender Identity and Genital
Book SynopsisWhy do female genital cutting practices persist? How does circumcision affect the rights of girls in a culture where initiation forms the lynchpin of the ritual cycle at the core of defining gender, identity, and social and political status?Trade Review“Gritty ethnography at its best. Descriptively rich and insightful, it does an excellent job of helping readers gain an understanding of insider perspectives on the practice of female genital cutting, and the socially embedded context of these meanings.”“Making the Mark provides a richly detailed grass-roots perspective of the procedure (and of male circumcision) among the Kuria people in southern Kenya.…While Prazak’s book examines female genital cutting only among one population in Kenya, it provides a model for understanding the grass-roots dynamics shaping the practice. …Whatever one’s opinion, [Prazak] demonstrates the value and importance of seeing the practice through the perspectives of girls, their families and leaders in their communities.” * Washington Post online *“Although many books and articles have been published on this topic in the past two decades, Making the Mark contributes greatly to the literature on genital cutting. …An absolute must-read for those who wish to gain an understanding in the complexities of genital cutting in the social, political, and cultural life of Kuria people in Kenya.” * Africa at LSE *“Prazak provides a richly detailed ethnographic account of the changing practices and understandings of circumcision—both male and female—among the Kuria people of southern Kenya..…A readable, on-the-ground account … Prazak writes clearly and skillfully incorporates arguments from the anthropology of ritual, the anthropology of law, and development studies in a way that will be accessible to students at different levels.…Summing Up: Recommended.” * CHOICE *
£23.39
Ohio University Press Africa Every Day
Book SynopsisAfrica Every Day presents an exuberant, thoughtful, and necessary counterpoint to the prevailing emphasis in introductory African studies classes on war, poverty, corruption, disease, and human rights violations on the continent. These challenges are real and deserve sustained attention, but this volume shows that adverse conditions do not prevent people from making music, falling in love, playing sports, participating in festivals, writing blogs, telling jokes, making videos, playing games, eating delicious food, and finding pleasure in their daily lives.Across seven sectionsCelebrations and Rites of Passage; Socializing and Friendship; Love, Sex, and Marriage; Sports and Recreation; Performance, Language, and Creativity; Technology and Media; and Labor and Livelihoodsthe accessible, multidisciplinary essays in Africa Every Day address these creative and dynamic elements of daily life, without romanticizing them. Ultimately, the book shows that forms of leisure and popular cuTrade Review“With its snapshots of a dazzling variety of everyday activities—sports, social media, music, moviegoing, sex and romance, and the use of public spaces are just a few—this bright and readable collection sets out to provide an antidote to the prevailing depiction of Africa as a scene of unmitigated deprivation, disorder, and despair. It will easily intrigue readers who are not African studies specialists, as well as Africanists in a wide range of disciplines (anthropology, politics, cultural studies, history, literature, development studies).”“Written clearly with a refreshing lack of academic rhetoric, these vignettes outline experiences of daily life relating to sports, media, friendship, love, and labor. A welcome contribution. Recommended." * Choice *
£63.00
Ohio University Press Africa Every Day Fun Leisure and Expressive
Book SynopsisAfrica Every Day is a multidisciplinary and accessible counterpoint to the prevailing emphasis on war, poverty, corruption, and other challenges on the continent. Essays address creative and dynamic elements of daily life without romanticizing them, showing that African leisure and popular culture are the product of dynamism and adaptation.Trade Review“With its snapshots of a dazzling variety of everyday activities—sports, social media, music, moviegoing, sex and romance, and the use of public spaces are just a few—this bright and readable collection sets out to provide an antidote to the prevailing depiction of Africa as a scene of unmitigated deprivation, disorder, and despair. It will easily intrigue readers who are not African studies specialists, as well as Africanists in a wide range of disciplines (anthropology, politics, cultural studies, history, literature, development studies).”“Written clearly with a refreshing lack of academic rhetoric, these vignettes outline experiences of daily life relating to sports, media, friendship, love, and labor. A welcome contribution. Recommended." * Choice *
£26.09
Association for Asian Studies Marketing and Social Structure in Rural China
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£15.52
Association for Asian Studies The Great Smog of China A Short Event History of
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£18.00
Association for Asian Studies Waiting Town Life in Transit and Mumbais Other
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£999.99
Association for Asian Studies Found in Translation New People in
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£999.99
University of Chicago Press Respect in the Mosaic Supporting Patients of Many
Book SynopsisA handbook for medical personnel containing papers from leaders of a variety of faiths addressing seven questions about the religious perspectives of their faith, the ways medical personnel should take them into account, when and where to turn for help, and how they should deal with the dying patient and their relatives.
£12.09
University of Chicago Press From Ghetto to Emancipation Historical and
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£17.66
Harvard University, Department of Music,U.S. Out of Bounds
Book SynopsisOut of Bounds examines Kay Kaufman Shelemay’s impact as a pioneer of musical diaspora studies on a generation of scholars. The wide-ranging essays treat such diverse topics as cantorial life in America, gender and fertility among Ethiopians in Israel, transnational performance itineraries of griots and Korean drummers, and video games.
£32.26
Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC The Science of Passionate Interests
Book SynopsisHow can economics become genuinely quantitative? This is the question that French sociologist Gabriel Tarde tackled at the end of his career. This title offers an introduction to the work of that forgotten genius of nineteenth-century social thought.
£11.78
Field Museum of Natural History,U.S. Perú Cerros de Kampankis Rapid Biological and Social Inventories 24
Book SynopsisThe Kampankis Mountains are a knife-thin ridge in northern Peru that rises 1,435 meters above the surrounding Amazon lowlands. This title includes conservation recommendations, a technical report on the biological and social findings, appendices, and an executive summary in Wampis and Awajun.
£24.00
HAU Comparing Impossibilities Selected Essays of
Book SynopsisFew scholars have had a more varied career than Sally Falk Moore. Once a lawyer for an elite New York law firm, her career has led her to the Nuremberg trials where she prepared cases against major industrialists, to Harvard, to the Spanish archives where she studied the Inca political system, and to the mountain of Kilimanjaro where she studied the politics of Tanzanian socialism. This book offers a compelling tour of Moore's diverse experiences, a history of her thought as she reflects on her life and thought in the disciplines of anthropology, law, and politics. The essays range from studies of myths of incest and sexuality to those of economic development projects, from South America to Africa. The result is an astonishing assortment of works from one of the most respected legal anthropologists in the field, one who brought together disparate places and ideas in enriching comparisons that showcase the possibilitiesand impossibilitiesof anthropology.
£26.50
