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Taylor & Francis Student Mobility and Narrative in Europe
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Taylor & Francis The Making of Global and Local Modernities in Melanesia
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Taylor & Francis Signs of Change Urban Iconographies in San Francisco 18801915 6 Routledge Library Editions Urban History
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Taylor & Francis Managing the Return of the Wild Human Encounters with Wolves in Europe
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Taylor & Francis Trans Vitalities Mapping Ethnographies of Trans Social and Political Coalitions Theorizing Ethnography
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Taylor & Francis Democracy Corruption and the Politics of Spirits in Contemporary Indonesia
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Taylor & Francis Reconstructing Adult Masculinities
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Taylor & Francis Affected Labour in a Cafà Culture
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Taylor & Francis Identities in Central and Eastern Europe
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Taylor & Francis Inc Race Anthropology and Politics in the Work of
Book SynopsisThis book reinterprets Wifredo Lamâs work with particular attention to its political implications, focusing on how these implications emerge from the artistâs critical engagement with 20th-century anthropology. Field work conducted in Cuba, including the witnessing of actual Afro-Cuban religious ritual ceremonies and information collected from informants, enhances the interpretive background against which we can construe the meanings of Lam's art. In the process, Claude Cernuschi argues that Lam hoped to fashion a new hybrid style to foster pride and dignity in the Afro-Cuban community, as well as counteract the acute racism of Cuban culture.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Chapter I: Picasso; Chapter II: Surrealism;Chapter III: Abstract Expressionism; Chapter IV: The Lévy-Bruhl/Lévi-Strauss Debate; Chapter V: Detotalization, Retotalization, and Atemporality; Chapter VI: Négritude; Chapter VII: Cuba
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Taylor & Francis Glocal Languages and Critical Intercultural Awareness
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Taylor & Francis Indian Tribes in Transition The Need for Reorientation
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Human Adaptability
Book SynopsisDesigned to help students understand the multiple levels at which human populations respond to their surroundings, this essential text offers the most complete discussion of environmental, physiological, behavioral, and cultural adaptive strategies available. Among the unique features that make Human Adaptability outstanding as both a textbook for students and a reference book for professionals are a complete discussion of the development of ecological anthropology and relevant research methods; the use of an ecosystem approach with emphasis on arctic, high altitude, arid land, grassland, tropical rain forest, and urban environments; an extensive and updated bibliography on ecological anthropology; and a comprehensive glossary of technical terms. - There is enhanced emphasis throughout on the role of gender in human adaptability research and on global environmental change as it affects particular ecosystems. - Students are guided to websites that provide access Trade Review"Moran draws on his extensive knowledge of several disciplines and his wide-ranging field experience to offer a clear, and accessible account of human interactions with natural ecosystems. He provides an understanding of human adaptability that will be of interest to students, to professionals, and to the broad reading public that is concerned with human adaptation to global environmental change."Benjamin Orlove, Professor of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California at Davis"Rich in information … Eminently suitable as a text for courses in human ecology from either the biological or anthropological viewpoint."BioScience"Solid scholarship … a well-written book that should be read by anyone with interests in this diverse field, students and professionals alike."Annals of Human Biology"One of the clearest statements to date of the systems approach in ecological anthropology … Superb."Reviews in AnthropologyTable of ContentsPart OneEnvironmental Anthropology History, Theory, and Method1 People in Ecosystems 2 Theories of Human-Habitat Interaction 3 Fundamental Concepts and Methods 4 Environmental Change and Spatial Analysis Part TwoStudies of Human Adaptability5 Human Adaptability to Arctic Zones 6 Human Adaptability to High Altitudes 7 Human Adaptability to Arid Lands 8 Human Adaptability to Grasslands 9 Human Adaptability to the Humid Tropics Part Three Urban Sustainability and New Directions in Human Adaptability10 Urban Ecology and Urban Sustainability 11 New Directions in Human Adaptability ResearchGlossary
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Do Funerals Matter
Book SynopsisDo Funerals Matter? is a creative interweaving of historical, sociocultural, and research-based perspectives on death rituals, drawing from myriad sources to create a picture of what death rituals have been; and where, especially in the Western world, they are going. The Classic Edition includes a new preface from the author reflecting on changes in the field since the book's initial publication. Death educators, researchers, counselors, clergy, funeral-service professionals, and others will appreciate the book's theory- and research-based approach to the ways in which different cultural groups memorialize their dead. They will also find clear clinical and practical applications in the author's exploration of the five ritual anchors of death-related ceremonial practice and help for professionals counseling the bereaved surrounding funerals. Based on nearly four decades of research and teaching on funeral rites, this volume promises to fill an important gap in tTrade Review"Do funerals ‘matter’ anymore? Bill Hoy resoundingly answers ‘Yes!’ in what I think will become the definitive book on the topic. Hoy blends his personal experience with ritual as a minister, a clinician, and a mourner with a vast palette of research. I thought I knew a lot about funerals, but this book kept me reading and it has strengthened my appreciation for the elements of a good funeral. Rare among academic books, this one is a page-turner!"Harold Ivan Smith, DMin, FT, Saint Luke's Hospital, USA"Bill Hoy’s remarkable book combines elements that one would not expect to find coexisting happily within a single cover. It introduces a five-part template for performing proper grief rituals that proves extraordinarily useful, then extends this study to include knowledgeable discussions of the death rituals of many cultures. It is remarkable to find so many topics covered with such proficiency and competence in a single volume, and funeral and grief professionals will benefit from his suggestions. I recommend this book without a single reservation."Kevin O’Neill, PhD, University of Redlands, USA"Bill Hoy’s masterful volume on the importance of funerals and death rituals is refreshing, enlightening, and, yes, entertaining. Illustrated with stories gathered from around the world, Hoy finishes with practical suggestions on how therapeutic rituals can be incorporated into the bereavement process. Although this is an invaluable tool for grief counselors, the book is engaging reading for anyone who wishes to understand the ‘how’ and ‘why’ of funerals and death rituals."Janet S. McCord, PhD, FT, Marian University, USA"Hoy has made a substantial study of funeral customs across many cultures for several decades... [Very] useful to bereavement counselors in helping grievers."Paul A. Metzler, DMin, ADEC Forum"In Do Funerals Matter? [Hoy] brings his research forward in ten chapters in which he seems to move easily between personal experiences, his observations of and readings about the customs of many cultures across the global village, and a deep familiarity with the thanatological professional literature... [This] book can contribute to a reconsideration of the current tendency to avoid or minimize funeral rituals so that grievers are better served by adequate funeral activities and practices."Paul A. Metzler, DMin, book review editor, Omega – Journal of Death and DyingTable of Contents1. Funerals—Where We Have Been and Where We Are Going 2. More Treasured Than Words: The Anchor of Significant Symbols 3. Getting Everybody Together: The Anchor of Gathered Community 4. Walk Out What You Can’t Talk Out: The Anchor of Ritual Action 5. Looking Back to Look Forward: The Anchor of Cultural Heritage 6. Taking the Dead to the Party: The Anchor of the Body’s Presence 7. North American Quests to Personalize Funeral Rituals 8. The Business of Funerals 9. Clinical Perspectives on the Value of Funerals 10. Farther Down the Road: Using Ritual in Grief Counseling
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Anne Frank on the Postwar Dutch Stage
Book SynopsisThis book is a case study into the affective history of Holocaust drama offering a new perspective on the impact of The Diary of Anne Frank, the pivotal 1950s play that was a turning point in Holocaust consciousness. Despite its overwhelming success, criticism of the Broadway makeover has been harsh, suggesting that the alleged Americanization would not do justice to the violence of the Holocaust or Anne Frank's budding Jewishness. This study revisits these issues by focusing on the play's European appropriation delving into the emotional intensity with which the play was produced and received. The core of the exploration is a history of the Dutch staging in ethnographic detail, based on unique archival material such as correspondence with Otto Frank, prompt books, original tapes, blueprints of the set and oral history. The microhistory of the first Dutch performance of the stage adaptation of Anne Frank's diary examines the staging in the context of the poTable of Contents1. Time out of Joint: Theaters of Destruction 2. Under Erasure: From Diary to Script 3. A Holocaust Performative: From Script to Play 4. Driven by Affect: Opening Night and Beyond 5. Shibbolet: Postwar Jewishness Onstage
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge Handbook of Race and Ethnicity in Asia
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of Race and Ethnicity in Asia introduces theoretical approaches to the study of race, ethnicity and indigeneity in Asia beyond those commonly grounded in the Western experience.The volume's twenty-eight chapters consider not only the relationship between ethnic or racial minorities and the state, but social relations within and between individual and transnational communities. These shape not only the contours of governance, but also the means by which knowledge of national identity, self ', and other' have been constructed and reconstructed over time. Divided into four sections, it provides holistic and comparative coverage of South, South East, and East Asia, as well as Australasia and Oceania; an area that extends from Pakistan in the West to Hawai'i in the East.Contributors to this handbook offer a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives, opening a domain of scholarship wherein the relationship between phenotype and Table of ContentsChapter 1. Race and Ethnicity in Asia Part 1: South Asia Chapter 2. "Race in Contemporary India Chapter 3. Ethnic Violence in India Chapter 4. Ethnopolitics in Nepal Chapter 5. Ethnicity and Identity Politics in in Sri Lanka Chapter 6. Ethnic Movements and the State in Pakistan: A Politics of Ethnicity Perspective Part 2: Southeast Asia Chapter 7. Asian Federalism, Race and Ethnicity Chapter 8. Race Relations and Ethnic Minorities in Contemporary Myanmar Chapter 9. Ethnicity in Cambodia, Vietnam, and Laos Chapter 10. Ethnic Conflict in Southeast Asia Chapter 11. Ethnicity and Electoral Systems in Southeast Asia Chapter 12. Ethnic and National Identity in Malaysia and Singapore: Origins, Contestation, and Polarization Part 3: East Asia Chapter 13. Ethnicity in China Chapter 14. Being Muslim and Chinese hapter 15. Tibet: from conflict to protest hapter 16. Ethnic Conflict in Xinjiang and Its International Connections hapter 17. Ethnic Chinese (Hwagyo) Identity Formation and Transformation in South Korea hapter 18. Multiculturalism in Korea hapter 19. Racial and Ethnic Identities in Japan Chapter 20. Ethnicity, Indigeneity and Education: The Ainu of Japan Chapter 21. Burakumin: A Discursive History of Difference Chapter 22. "Conceptualizing and Re-conceptualizing Ethnic Identities in Taiwan Part 4: Australasia and Oceania Chapter 23. The Preservation of Indigenous Cultures in Hawai’i Chapter 24. Race and Multiculturalism in Australia Chapter 25. Mobility and Migration in Remote Oceania: World Enlargement meets the Cartographic Imaginary Chapter 26. Race and Ethnicity in the Bonin Islands Chapter 27. Indigenous peoples: citizenship and self-determination – Australia, Fiji and New Zealand Chapter 28. Okinawan-Japanese-Hawaiian Identities
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Speaking my Soul
Book SynopsisSpeaking My Soul is the honest story of linguist John R. Rickford's life from his early years as the youngest of ten children in Guyana to his status as Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Stanford, of the transformation of his identity from colored or mixed race in Guyana to black in the USA, and of his work championing Black Talk and its speakers.This is an inspiring story of the personal and professional growth of a black scholar, from his life as an immigrant to the USA to a world-renowned expert who has made a leading contribution to the study of African American life, history, language and culture. In this engaging memoir, Rickford recalls landmark events for his racial identity like being elected president of the Black Student Association at the University of California, Santa Cruz; learning from black expeditions to the South Carolina Sea Islands, Jamaica, Belize and Ghana; and meeting or interviewing civil rights icons like Huey P. Newton, Rosa Parks and SoutTrade ReviewSpeaking my Soul: Race, Life and Language is a fascinating account of a life that started in colonial British Guiana (now Guyana) but is transformed by emigration to the United States in the turbulent late 1960s. Arrival here as a college student challenges Rickford to the core. The embracing Black Power movement presents him with a chance to discover a self essentially misled in British Guiana; seizing that chance, he exorcises some of the main colonialist demons, especially those involving the privilege of possessing a "light" skin color that is often a barrier between him, and others like him, and the black masses. Finding in the study of sociolinguistics a field of inquiry that reinforces his new self-perception, he becomes an expert above all on the dignity and integrity of "Black English." In a crucial way, this is an act of love, and love is a crucial feature here: above all, love of family and love of academia but also love of the masses of people everywhere. This is a notable, instructive story of a remarkable life and career.Arnold Rampersad, author of biographies of Jackie Robinson, Langston Hughes, and Ralph Ellison, and co-author of Arthur Ashe: Days of Grace, a MemoirIn this remarkable and compelling story about love, family, poetry, language, education, activism, and the evolution of identity and acceptance, John R. Rickford illuminates the transatlantic ties that bind Caribbean, African, and African American cultures, and the complexities of race that informed his own journey from Guyana to the U.S.Tracey L. Weldon, author, Middle Class African American EnglishRickford is not just one of the first scholars of color to study modern sociolinguistics. His model as an educator, family member, and friend has made our profession more humble, kinder, and more caring. He is a transformative figure who has written a captivating account of his journey from the single bedroom with nine kids in Guyana to the leader of the sociolinguistic world. A riveting, inspirational account!Walt Wolfram, author of Dialects and American English, Appalachian English, and Talkin’ Tar HeelSpeaking my Soul: Race, Life and Language is such a moving memoir—at once a highly personal family story, and yet one with insights that make this book also an invaluable contribution to Black Studies, Diasporic Studies, and the emerging field of Critical Mixed Race Studies. Rickford’s intimate family account of his own complex racial heritage, paired with an insider’s view of a field of research that he himself shaped, is a wholly engrossing read. The divine irony that this world-renowned pioneer in sociolinguistics temporarily lost his speech after a stroke makes this memoir an even more poignant reflection on life and language.Michele Elam, author of The Souls of Mixed Folk and editor of The Cambridge Companion to James BaldwinThis moving and honest memoir is crucial to understanding the wider reaches of identity in a multi-racial former British colony, and by extension, to the much- discussed question of identity in today’s instantly connected global world. Having himself in 2019 suffered an unexpected stroke (an illness that had killed his father), Rickford was motivated to further explore his family tree…This leads Rickford to discover a web of ancestral connections (African, East Indian, Amerindian, Scottish) that bear witness to Guyana’s diverse racial heritage. … in this memoir, Rickford invites us to sit with the unseen ancestors that inhabit his house of memory.From the Foreword by John Agard, author of Half-Caste, numerous other books of poetry, and winner of the 2012 Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry…it is Rickford’s humanity that shines through these pages, showing how diversity is one of the world’s most valuable resources, how diversity arises from the chances and challenges of ordinary people’s lives, and how academic study, far from meaning elite confinement in an ivory tower, can show how knowledge is not only power but enrichment of everybody’s lives.Michael Mitchell, University of Warwick, UKDr. John Rickford is the heart of Black language and linguistics scholarship because of what you see and feel in Speaking My Soul from the very beginning: family and friends. I am glad John made his way from Guyana to the U.S. and developed his "Black complex" that led him to expand our knowledge and understanding of Black languages and Black lives. The homage to his award-winning book co-authored with his son only serves to enshrine him as the heart and soul for those of us who do (Black) language. And though he may have often been the "runt of the litter" in various instances in his life, he is definitely our rock. Thank you for speaking to my soul. Sonja L. Lanehart, University of Arizona, USA, author of Sista, Speak! Black Women Kinfolk Talk about Language and Literacy and editor of The Oxford Handbook of African American LanguageTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsForeword by John AgardPrologue: The gift of Stroke1 Youngest of ten, and my monkey and rabbit2 Forebears and cousins3 Baby Wade, my mum4 Siblings: Patricia(s) and Peter5 Queen’s College (my high school)6 Friends and Girlfriends7 Johnny and Johnny (Agard) and the police8 Going to America9 U of California, Santa Cruz & summer 196910 Forgive me, my son, Thank you my parents11 How I fell in love with Linguistics & Black Talk12 The Sea Islands: Dashiki in suitcase if required13 Rosa Parks at Stanford14 Stanford in Oxford: David Dabydeen & Dennis Brutus 15 African and African American Studies, Learning Expeditions, Kongo Cosmograms16 Ebonics, Rachel Jeantel, Trayvon Martin, Black Lives MatterEpilogue: The gift of Love Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Word from the Mother
Book SynopsisThis classic text by Geneva Smitherman, pioneering scholar of Black Talk, is a definitive statement on African American Language (AAL). Enriched by her inimitable writing style, the book outlines past debates on the speech of African Americans and provides a vision for the future. As global manifestations of AAL increase, she argues that we must broaden our conception of the language and its speakers, and further examine the implications of gender, age and class on AAL. Perhaps most of all we must appreciate the artistic and linguistic genius of AAL, from Hip Hop lyrics to the rhyme and rhetoric of the broader Black speech community. Smitherman explores AAL''s contribution to American English, includes a summary of expressions as a suggested linguistic core of AAL, and features cartoons that educate readers on the broader relationship between language, race, and racism. This classic edition features a new foreword by H. Samy Alim, celebrating Smitherman''s contiTrade Review"Many scholars, students and laypersons across the globe have an informed appreciation for the Language of Black America, because they got the Word from the Mother, Dr. Geneva Smitherman. Like no other, 'Dr. G,' the Signifying mother, captures the wit, humor, joy and critical edge that speaks forth from this language of history, culture and experience of the descendants of enslaved African people in these 'United' States of America. This is a classic text and precious gem from an OLE SKOOL Womanist scholar of the people that should be read by generations to come!"Elaine Richardson, Ohio State University, USA, author of Hiphop Literacies and African American Literacies"As Aretha Franklin is the Queen of Soul, 'Dr. G,' as she’s affectionately known, is the Queen of Black Language. She gave us the name 'African American Language' to express the expansiveness of language use in African American communities. Word from the Mother is a must-read in any course that includes African American Language in conveying our language, linguistics, and cultural journey that honors our ancestors and strengthens us by confirming their worth and ours." Sonja L. Lanehart, University of Arizona, USA , author of Sista, Speak! Black Women Kinfolk Talk about Language and LiteracyTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsForeword to the Routledge Linguistics Classics Edition: She Do It for the Culture: The Deep Structure of Geneva Smitherman’s Radical Linguistics of Black Love - H. Samy Alim1 African American Language: So good it’s bad2 Words and Expressions, Proverbs and Familiar Sayings3 The N-words4 Honeyz and Playaz Talkin that Talk5 "I used to love H.E.R.": Hip Hop, in its Essence and Real6 "All Around the World, Same Song"7 "Negro Dialect, the Last Barrier to Integration"?NotesReferencesDiscographyIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Poetics and Politics of Relationality in
Book SynopsisThis is the first sustained study of the formal particularities of works by Bruce Pascoe, Kim Scott, Tara June Winch, and Alexis Wright. Drawing on a rich theoretical framework that includes approaches to relationality by Aboriginal thinkers, Edouard Glissant, and Jean-Luc Nancy, and recent work in New Formalism and narrative theory, the book illustrates how they use a broad range of narrative techniques to mediate, negotiate, and temporarily create networks of relations that interlink all elements of the universe. Through this focus on relationality, Aboriginal writing gains both local and global significance. Locally, these narratives assert Indigenous sovereignty by staging an unbroken interrelatedness of people and their land. Globally, they intervene into current discourses about humanity's relationship with the natural environment, urging readers to acknowledge our interrelatedness with and dependence on the land that sustains us.Trade Review"Poetics and Politics of Relationality in Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Fiction is an absolutely outstanding study that pushes the specifically literary aspects of indigenous Australian fiction into the centre of interest. By focussing on the interrelations between narrative forms and political attitudes, it also contributes to the further development of a postcolonial narratology. And the book demonstrates convincingly how the prose narratives by Bruce Pascoe, Kim Scott, Tara June Winch, and Alexis Wright negotiate relationality. What I find particularly impressive is the sensitive ways in which Dorothee Klein reflects upon and comments on the (not at all unproblematic) reception of indigenous Australian literature by a Western reader. Klein treats the texts with caution, modesty, and respect. This is how to do it." Dr. Jan Alber, Professor of English Literature and Cognitive Studies at RWTH Aachen University and Past President of the International Society for the Study of Narrative"This new book by Dorothee Klein takes a fresh look at Australian Aboriginal literature through a New Formalist lens. Her innovative readings of canonical writers Bruce Pascoe, Kim Scott, Tara June Winch and Alexis Wright focus on the poetics and politics of relationality. They attend meticulously to the narrative techniques of each writer, analysing the ways in which the language carves out the relational space of reading.Yet this book is in no way dry. Klein links narratological analysis to historical, social and political issues and argues passionately that Aboriginal literatures address globally urgent themes such as climate change and other catastrophes. She demonstrates through her readings of the fiction that Aboriginal onto-epistemologies insist on the interconnectedness of humans, non-human actors and the environment. This book is beautifully written. Impressively erudite and well-researched it fearlessly grapples with Big Ideas but in a way that is always accessible and a great pleasure to read. It is an important book and a must read for anyone interested in Indigenous literatures."Dr. Anne Brewster, honorary Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales"Unprecedented in scope and content, this study discovers a common aim in contemporary Australian Aboriginal fiction that has so far not been discussed at length: relationality. It considers how Aboriginal fictions use narrative form to create a tight knitted feeling of connectedness among its indigenous characters and a sense of relatedness to their local environment. By delving into the narrative techniques of authors like Bruce Pascoe, Kim Scott, Tara June Winch, and Alexis Wright, we learn how relationality offers a productive alternative to a wide-spread individualistic care of self. Although the study engages with the aesthetic qualities of these narratives in an in-depth-manner unusual in postcolonial criticism, it does not ignore the socio-political context. Indeed, its main premise lies in the theoretically advanced conceiving of form as a way of knowing. Working with the concept of a "poetics of relationality" that functions to analyse perspective-taking, plot-design and landscape description, it is able to elaborate how a broad range of narrative techniques in Aboriginal fictions creates a sense of relations that reach beyond the human to interlink all elements of the cosmos. Besides this achievement in the narratives, the study elucidates how the narratives also have the potential to engage the reader in imagined temporary communities that share its dynamic, non-hierarchical and diverse ways of knowing. At a time like today, when social distancing is the order of the day, practising an imagination of communality may constitute a key to ethical and politically sensitive awareness. Given these responsive effects, this book goes beyond most academic studies in challenging notions of human centrality and emphasising our role as care-takers of the environment."Prof. Dr. Renate Brosch, University of StuttgartTable of ContentsIntroduction: Towards a Poetics and Politics of RelationalityChapter 1: Non-Human (Narrative) Authority in Bruce Pascoe’s EarthChapter 2: Place-Based Storytelling in Kim Scott’s Benang and That Deadman DanceChapter 3: Precarious Relations in Tara June Winch’s Swallow the AirChapter 4: Non-Egocentric Relations and Ambiguity in Alexis Wright’s CarpentariaChapter 5: Travelling Narratives and Community in Alexis Wright’s The Swan BookChapter 6: Stories, Language, and Sharing in Kim Scott’s TabooConclusion: Experiencing Relationality
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Cultural Evolution
Book SynopsisSince the dawn of social science, theorists have debated how and why societies appear to change, develop and evolve. Today, this question is pursued by scholars across many different disciplines and our understanding of these dynamics has grown markedly. Yet, there remain important areas of disagreement and debate: what is the difference between societal change, development and evolution? What specific aspects of cultures change, develop or evolve and why? Do societies change, develop or evolve in particular ways, perhaps according to cycles, or stages or in response to survival necessities? How do different disciplinesfrom sociology to anthropology to psychology and economicsapproach these questions? This book provides complex and nuanced answers to these, and many other, questions. First, the book invites readers to consider the broad landscape of societal dynamics across human history, beginning with humanity's origins in small nomadic bands of hunter gatherers through to Table of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1. The Social Environment of Evolutionary AdaptednessChapter 2. "Cultural Evolution," DescriptivelyChapter 3. Evolutionary SociologyChapter 4. Cyclic TheoriesChapter 5. Cumulative Cultural EvolutionChapter 6. MemeticsChapter 7. The Evolution of Norms, Values and IdentitiesChapter 8. Toward an Integration and Theoretical Extension
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Making Mixed Race
Book SynopsisBy examining Black mixed-race identities in the city through a series of historical vantage points, Making Mixed Race provides in-depth insights into the geographical and historical contexts that shape the possibilities and constraints for identifications.Whilst popular representations of mixed-race often conceptualise it as a contemporary phenomenon and are couched in discourses of futurity, this book dislodges it from the current moment to explore its emergence as a racialised category, and personal identity, over time. In addition to tracing the temporality of mixed-race, the contributions show the utility of place as an analytical tool for mixed-race studies. The conceptual framework for the book place, time, and personal identity offers a timely intervention to the scholarship that encourages us to look outside of individual subjectivities and critically examine the structural contexts that shape Black mixed-race lives.The book centres around the life hisTable of Contents1. Introduction2. Introducing Birmingham3. The making of mixed-race in place4. From bun down Babylon to melting pot Britain: the manifestations of mixed-race over time5. Mixed-race privilege and precarious positionalities: the personal politics of identity6. The making of mixed-race families: past, present and future7. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Racial Legacies
Book SynopsisThis essential new book presents a discussion of racial relations, Jungian psychology and politics as a dialogue between two Jungian analysts of different nationalities and ethnicities, providing insight into a previously unexplored area of Jungian psychology.Racial Legacies explores themes and historical events from the perspective of each author, and through the lens of psychology, politics and race, in the hopes of creating meaningful racial relationships. The historical ways the past has affected the authors'' ancestors and their own lives today is explored in detail through essays and dialogue, demonstrating that past racial legacies continue to bind on both conscious and unconscious levels.This book distinguishes itself from other texts as the first of its kind to present a racial dialogue in the context of Jungian psychology. It will be of great value to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and students of Depth and Analytical Psychology.Trade ReviewBrewster and Morgan dare to enter this powerful conversation in exploring the assumptions and challenges about race. Dialoguing from within their own cultural, social-political context exploring European and African diaspora histories as Jungian analysts, they consider the intergenerational context and its relevance for us today. In this important text they create a rich psychological space in which to meet, reflect and share experiences finding a soulful meeting place. This important discussion invites us to re-think and critically interrogate our shared histories, collective memories, psychic disenfranchisement, through radical honesty and to encounter each other through opening dialogue. Anthea Benjamin, Psychotherapist, Supervisor and Group Analyst UKCP & BACP registered This is a brilliant and creative piece of work that examines raciality from an Africanist and White perspective. It is also an act of empowerment and response to Jung excising the black experience. A self-identified Africanist, Fanny Brewster, PhD centers Africanist traditions and the healing arts in the treatment room. She takes us on a journey of mapping out her ancestral origins with imaginings of her ancestor standing on a pier. Her poem to her ancestor took my breath away. We are reminded that we are not outside of history as we live these horrors today. This is a valuable model of how to weave cultural Africanist traditions, spirituality and history in an analytic psychological treatment. Rossanna Echegoyén, LCSW, Founder and Co-Chair of the Committee for Race and Ethnicity at the Manhattan Institute for PsychoanalysisRacial Legacies is the poetic and scholarly outcome of a deep, courageous, transatlantic engagement with racial complex by Fanny Brewster and Helen Morgan. This is an essential book for 21st century Jungians, with two distinct voices to guide engagement with systems of racism and white privilege and their implications for the theory and practice of Analytical Psychology. Jane Johnson, Senior member British Psychotherapy Foundation and British Jungian Analytic Association In this unique work, Brewster and Morgan collaborate to intertwine their voices and stories - reaching across the Atlantic bringing the different UK and US cultures into the mix - in the service of exploring our relationships to race. Brewster and Morgan take the field to the cutting edge of where and how analysts need to be addressing race head on in the era following the murder of George Floyd. Their dualogue models respectful interaction while confronting history, theory and politics head on. They rightly alert us: "In our contemporary practice of psychology we must be aware of the racialized foundations of Modern Psychology". Brewster alerts us: "The voice of members of the African Diaspora when expressed says that the whiteness of psychoanalysis does not see them, cannot see them and include their cultural identity of blackness". If Jungian analysis is to dig itself out of its at times racist silo, it needs to pay attention to this book. The authors challenge us to have "sufficient confidence in the robustness of the core principles of psychoanalytic and Jungian analytic theory to trust that they can withstand some rattling". The book ends by turning back on itself to provide a meta view of the writing and process of managing the intrinsic challenges of co-writing from both a black and a white perspective which is profoundly honest, transparent and moving. A model for us all.Ruth Williams, Jungian Training and Supervising Analyst (AJA). Author of Jung: The Basics (Routledge 2019)Jungian Analysts Fanny Brewster, an African American Black and Helen Morgan, a Caucasian from England joined in a courageous endeavor to explore the complexities of racism, politics, culture and psychology. Through their trust, mistrust, struggles and openness they display a willingness and vulnerability to hold different perspectives while continuing to talk. This book is a recommended read for those who are interested in understanding how to hold different perspectives while engaging in heartfelt conversations around difficult subject matter. The authors open conversations provide a psychological model that can improve racial relationships and help create a future just society.Jane Selinske, Ed.D., LCSW, NCPsyA, President C. G. Jung Foundation for Analytic Psychology, NYI find myself between loud applause and profound sadness and tears as I finish reading Racial Legacies: Jung, Politics and Culture. I am in tears of white guilt, of compassion for the years and years of personal and political struggle on the part of black people. Fanny Brewster and Helen Morgan clarify a picture of how hard it is to address systemic racism without an empathic understanding of the centuries of greed, torture, white power and unconsciousness suffered by Africanist people, particularly in the south of the United States. In her book, Caste, Isabel Wilkerson talks of class consciousness as "the worn grooves of comforting routines and unthinking expectations, patterns of a social order that have been in place for so long that (they) look like the natural order of things". It is this cruel complacency that Jungian psychology has the potential to expose by helping to make clear the power of unconscious archetypes, such as equating whiteness with goodness and righteousness, blackness with evil and badness. How long must we wait?Elizabeth Stevenson, M.Div. Jungian PsychoanalystEvery few years, a book comes along that revitalizes, restores, renews our faith in womankind, taking us by the hand, leading us into the dream world of our collective past from which we emerge more wholly ourselves – which is, Racial Legacies: Jung, Politics and Culture. Generous, precise and unsentimental, Fanny Brewster and Helen Morgan offer a brilliant collaboration that achieves this and more. Brewster and Morgan have created a deeply personal and moving book, perfectly suited for the times we are living, the authors compare their own ethnic backgrounds with others to create a ‘sharing space’ of enlightenment . . . A thought-provoking must read book.Dianne Travis-Teague, Director, Alumni Relations, Pacifica Graduate InstituteWhat a wonderful idea to bring disparate voices together to explore how each approaches the history and experience of cultural differences within the field of psychoanalysis. Racial Legacies: Jung, Politics and Culture by Fanny Brewster and Helen Morgan provides a thoughtful, fresh discussion of the presence of the Other both within and outside of the consulting room. Recounting their individual experiences of their own races in childhood, Brewster and Morgan go on to examine and compare their first notable encounters with others from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds and share their "wonderment and concern" for race in analytic relationships. Beth Boardman, RN, MA, PhD, Lecturer, Mythologist, Author, Chair, PGIAA Advisory Board'Brewster and Morgan dare to enter this powerful conversation in exploring the assumptions and challenges about race. Dialoguing from within their own cultural, social-political context exploring European and African diaspora histories as Jungian analysts, they consider the intergenerational context and its relevance for us today. In this important text they create a rich psychological space in which to meet, reflect and share experiences finding a soulful meeting place. This important discussion invites us to re-think and critically interrogate our shared histories, collective memories, psychic disenfranchisement, through radical honesty and to encounter each other through opening dialogue.' Anthea Benjamin, Psychotherapist, Supervisor and Group Analyst UKCP & BACP registered 'This is a brilliant and creative piece of work that examines raciality from an Africanist and White perspective. It is also an act of empowerment and response to Jung excising the black experience. A self-identified Africanist, Fanny Brewster, PhD centers Africanist traditions and the healing arts in the treatment room. She takes us on a journey of mapping out her ancestral origins with imaginings of her ancestor standing on a pier. Her poem to her ancestor took my breath away. We are reminded that we are not outside of history as we live these horrors today. This is a valuable model of how to weave cultural Africanist traditions, spirituality and history in an analytic psychological treatment.' Rossanna Echegoyén, LCSW, Founder and Co-Chair of the Committee for Race and Ethnicity at the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis'Racial Legacies is the poetic and scholarly outcome of a deep, courageous, transatlantic engagement with racial complex by Fanny Brewster and Helen Morgan. This is an essential book for 21st century Jungians, with two distinct voices to guide engagement with systems of racism and white privilege and their implications for the theory and practice of Analytical Psychology.' Jane Johnson, Senior member British Psychotherapy Foundation and British Jungian Analytic Association 'In this unique work, Brewster and Morgan collaborate to intertwine their voices and stories – reaching across the Atlantic bringing the different UK and US cultures into the mix – in the service of exploring our relationships to race. Brewster and Morgan take the field to the cutting edge of where and how analysts need to be addressing race head on in the era following the murder of George Floyd. Their dialogue models respectful interaction while confronting history, theory and politics head on. They rightly alert us: "In our contemporary practice of psychology we must be aware of the racialized foundations of Modern Psychology". Brewster alerts us: "The voice of members of the African Diaspora when expressed says that the whiteness of psychoanalysis does not see them, cannot see them and include their cultural identity of blackness". If Jungian analysis is to dig itself out of its at times racist silo, it needs to pay attention to this book. The authors challenge us to have "sufficient confidence in the robustness of the core principles of psychoanalytic and Jungian analytic theory to trust that they can withstand some rattling". The book ends by turning back on itself to provide a meta view of the writing and process of managing the intrinsic challenges of co-writing from both a black and a white perspective which is profoundly honest, transparent and moving. A model for us all.'Ruth Williams, Jungian Training and Supervising Analyst (AJA). Author of Jung: The Basics 'Jungian Analysts Fanny Brewster, an African American Black and Helen Morgan, a Caucasian from England joined in a courageous endeavor to explore the complexities of racism, politics, culture and psychology. Through their trust, mistrust, struggles and openness they display a willingness and vulnerability to hold different perspectives while continuing to talk. This book is a recommended read for those who are interested in understanding how to hold different perspectives while engaging in heartfelt conversations around difficult subject matter. The authors open conversations provide a psychological model that can improve racial relationships and help create a future just society.'Jane Selinske, Ed.D., LCSW, NCPsyA, President C. G. Jung Foundation for Analytic Psychology, NY'I find myself between loud applause and profound sadness and tears as I finish reading Racial Legacies: Jung, Politics and Culture. I am in tears of white guilt, of compassion for the years and years of personal and political struggle on the part of black people. Fanny Brewster and Helen Morgan clarify a picture of how hard it is to address systemic racism without an empathic understanding of the centuries of greed, torture, white power and unconsciousness suffered by Africanist people, particularly in the south of the United States. In her book, Caste, Isabel Wilkerson talks of class consciousness as "the worn grooves of comforting routines and unthinking expectations, patterns of a social order that have been in place for so long that (they) look like the natural order of things". It is this cruel complacency that Jungian psychology has the potential to expose by helping to make clear the power of unconscious archetypes, such as equating whiteness with goodness and righteousness, blackness with evil and badness. How long must we wait?'Elizabeth Stevenson, M.Div. Jungian Psychoanalyst'Every few years, a book comes along that revitalizes, restores, renews our faith in womankind, taking us by the hand, leading us into the dream world of our collective past from which we emerge more wholly ourselves – which is, Racial Legacies: Jung, Politics and Culture. Generous, precise and unsentimental, Fanny Brewster and Helen Morgan offer a brilliant collaboration that achieves this and more. Brewster and Morgan have created a deeply personal and moving book, perfectly suited for the times we are living, the authors compare their own ethnic backgrounds with others to create a ‘sharing space’ of enlightenment . . . A thought-provoking must read book.'Dianne Travis-Teague, Director, Alumni Relations, Pacifica Graduate Institute'What a wonderful idea to bring disparate voices together to explore how each approaches the history and experience of cultural differences within the field of psychoanalysis. Racial Legacies: Jung, Politics and Culture by Fanny Brewster and Helen Morgan provides a thoughtful, fresh discussion of the presence of the Other both within and outside of the consulting room. Recounting their individual experiences of their own races in childhood, Brewster and Morgan go on to examine and compare their first notable encounters with others from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds and share their "wonderment and concern" for race in analytic relationships.'Beth Boardman, RN, MA, PhD, Lecturer, Mythologist, Author, Chair, PGIAA Advisory BoardTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Imagining our ancestors 3. The legacy of the Atlantic slave trade 4. The Ties that Bind: The Racial Complex 5. The creation of the ‘Other’ 6. Modern psychology and its influences 7. Colour Matters 8. The Politics of Race 9. Closing Reflections.
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Taylor & Francis People Places and Practices in the Arctic
Book SynopsisThis collection follows anthropological perspectives on peoples (Canadian Inuit, Norwegian SÃmi, Yupiit from Alaska, and Inuit from Greenland), places, and practices in the Circumpolar North from colonial times to our post-modern era. This volume brings together fresh perspectives on theoretical concepts, colonial/imperial descriptions, collaborative work of non-Indigenous and Indigenous researchers, as well as articles written by representatives of Indigenous cultures from an inside perspective. The scope of the book ranges from contributions based on unpublished primary sources, missionary journals, and fairly unknown early Indigenous sources and publications, to those based on more recent Indigenous testimonies and anthropological fieldwork, museum exhibitions, and (self)representations in the fields of fashion, marketing, and the arts.The aim of this volume is to explore the making of representations for and/or by Circumpolar North peoples. The authors follow what representations have been created in the past and in some cases continue to be created in the present, and the Indigenous employment of representations that has continuity with the past and also goes beyond traditional utilization. By studying these representations, we gain a better understanding of the dynamics of a society and its interaction with other cultures, notably in the context of the dominant cultureâs efforts to assimilate Indigenous people and erase their story. Peopleâs ideas about themselves and of the Other are never static, not even if they share the same cultural background. This is even more the case in the contact zone of the intercultural arena. Images of the Other vary according to time and place, and perceptions of others are continuously readjusted from both sides in intercultural encounters.This volume has been prepared by the Research Group Circumpolar Cultures (RGCC) which is based in the Netherlands. Its members conduct research on social and cultural change focusing on topics that are of interest to the Indigenous peoples of the Arctic. The RGCC builds on a long tradition in Arctic studies in the Netherlands (Nico Tinbergen, Geert van den Steenhoven, Gerti Nooter, and Jarich Oosten) and can rely on rich Arctic collections of artefacts and photographs in anthropological museums and extensive library collections. The expertise of the RGCC in Arctic studies is internationally acknowledged by academics as well as circumpolar peoples.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Anthropology and Responsibility
Book SynopsisThis book explores the role and implications of responsibility for anthropology, asking how responsibility is recognised and invoked in the world, what relations it draws upon, and how it comes to define notions of the person, institutional practices, ways of knowing and modes of evaluation. The category of responsibility has a long genealogy within the discipline of anthropology and it surfaces in contemporary debates as well as in anthropologists' collaboration with other disciplines, including when anthropology is applied in fields such as development, medicine, and humanitarian response. As a category that unsettles, challenges and critically engages with political, ethical and epistemological questions, responsibility is central to anthropological theory, ethnographic practice, collaborative research, and applied engagement. With chapters focused on a variety of cultural contexts, this volume considers how anthropology can contribute to a better understanding of responsibility,Table of ContentsIntroduction: Anthropology and responsibilityMelissa Demian, Mattia Fumanti and Christos Lynteris1 Edgy imaginaries: "Ghost’"orangutans, extinction, and responsibility in a plantation landscapeLiana Chua2 The responsibility to consume: Excessive ‘environmentourism’ against rhinoceros extinction in South AfricaStasja Koot 3 Responsibility versus responsibilization: Mafiacraft, witchcraft and the rise of conspiracy thinking todayPeter Geschiere 4. In the wake of disenchantment: Silence and the limits of ethnographic attentivenessYana Stainova 5 The vulnerability vortex: Health, exclusion, and social responsibilityDavid Napier and Anna-Maria Volkmann6 Keeping things under control: Responsibilities towards things, homes, people in hoarding disorderRebecca Henderson and Laurin Baumgardt7 Racialized positionalities: Ethnographic responsibility and the anthropology of racism and white supremacySofía Ugarte8 Of Calcutta, death and the South: Juxtaposing three Calcuttas/KolkatasDebarun Sarkar9 The countess’ diaries and taonga Māori: Twenty-first century collaborations around nineteenth century collectingKirsty Kernohan10 Responsibility and complicity in the UK "hostile environment"Joel White
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Folklore People and Places
Book SynopsisFolklore, People and Place is a contribution towards better understanding the complex interconnectivity of folklore, people and place, across a range of different cultural and geographical contexts. The book showcases a range of international case studies from different cultural and ecological contexts showing how folklore can and does mediate human relationships with people and place.Folklore has traditionally been connected to place, telling tales of the land and the real and imaginary beings that inhabit storied places. These storytelling traditions and practices have endured in a contemporary world, yet the role and value of folklore to people and places has changed. The book explores a broad range of international perspectives and considers how the relationship between folklore, people, and place has evolved for tourists and indigenous communities. It will showcase a range of international case studies from different cultural and ecological contexts showing how Table of ContentsIntroduction: Mapping the TerritoryPART I: Re-making and Re-shaping the Past Rebuilding The Sacred Union with Basque Fountains and Springs by María Martínez Pisón Bedecked in Ribbons and Bows: Dressed Trees as Markers of Heritage, Hope, and Faith in Southern England by Ethan Doyle White ‘Unite and Unite, and Let Us All Unite’: The Social Role of the Calendar Custom in English Communities by Sophie Parkes-Nield ‘The spik o the place’: dialect and its place in the folkloric cultures and traditions of North-East Scotland by Peter H. Reid Folklore, Story and Place: An Irish Tradition with Vast Touristic Value by Shane Broderick PART II: Folklore and Indigenous Landscapes Sacred Anishinaabeg Folklore: Okikendawt Mnisiing, the Island of the Sacred Kettles by Renée E. Mazinegiizhigoo-kwe Bédard Break in the Reef of Time: An Indigenous Science approach to the Olowalu petroglyphs on Maui by Apela Colorado and Ryan Hurd Creating La Cuna del Folklore Nacional: The Colonization of Indigenous Celebrations, Legends, and Landscapes in Nicaraguan State Heritage Tourism by Paul Edward Montgomery Ramírez Tasting the Intangible: Examples of Communication from Sápmi by Kajsa G. Åberg and Doris A. Carson Wildness Makes This World by Matthew Cowan PART III: Reimagining folklore in a globalised world: tourism, placemaking and re-enchantment A City Made of Stories: Re-enchantment and Narrative Placemaking in Madrid by Leticia Cortina Aracil The Folklore of the Subterranean: The Spectres of the Underground in Dudley Tourist Sites by Sian MacFarlane Ghosts, Extraterrestrials and (Re-)Enchantment: Possibilities and Challenges in Post-Secular Tourism by Eva Kingsepp Mythical Park: Reflections on Folklore, its Natural Environment and Tourism by Katja Hrobat Virloget Virtually Haunted Places: Armchair Ghost Tours Through Weird Space by Alicia Edwards-Boon Concluding Remarks: Exploring Further
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Burial of the Dead
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1920, The Burial of the Dead emerged from the idea that the primitive man did not imagine graves as receptacles for the dead, but refuges for the living. The book is an anthropological and a philosophical quest to understand when and how the custom of burial came about within primitive society. The book does not limit itself to the customs and traditions of burial, but also engages with the concepts of death, life, and afterlife as conceived by the primitive man. In doing so, the author traces a continuity between the strength of beliefs in a primitive society and in a modern one, as well as the development of those beliefs into universal principles. This book will be of interest to anyone trying to unravel the mystery of death and especially to students of anthropology, history, philosophy and religion.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. The Cave of Aurignac 2. The journey of the Dead 3. Funeral Offerings 4. Orientation of Graves 5. The Land of the Dead 6. Lost Atlantis 7. Underground Regions of the Dead 8. Dwellings and Graves 9. The Breton Lake of the Dead 10. Change and Forgetting 11. The Life of the Dead 12. Funeral Offerings 13. Ghosts 14. Ancestor Worship 15. Concurrent Methods of Burial 16. Tree Burial 17. Mourning 18. Relics of Voluntary Outlawry 19. Prison 20. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Creative Ethnographers Notebook
Book SynopsisThe Creative Ethnographer''s Notebook offers emerging and trained ethnographers exercises to spark creativity and increase the impact and beauty of ethnographic study.With contributions by emerging scholars and leading creative ethnographers working in various social science fields (e.g., anthropologists, educators, ethnomusicologists, political scientists, geographers, and others), this volume offers readers a variety of creative prompts that ethnographers have used in their own work and university classrooms to deepen their ethnographic and artistic practice. The contributions foreground different approaches in creative practice, broadening the tools of multimodal ethnography as one designs a study, works with collaborators and landscapes, and renders ethnographic findings through a variety of mediums. Instructors will find dozens of creative prompts to use in a wide variety of classroom settings, including early beginners to e
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Taylor & Francis Exploring Ethnography of Outer Space
Book SynopsisThis book explores new methods and perspectives in the anthropology of outer space. For the past ten years, scholarship of outer space has grown significantly in the social sciences. Now, an international community of anthropologists is starting to produce significant contributions to this work. This is pushing the conversations around the future of humanity, technology, and outer space beyond the realm of speculative theory into concrete challenges to established norms within anthropology. Each chapter in this volume introduces a unique take on what constitutes an ethnographic field in anthropology. They signal a reimagination of the central concept for the discipline and offer a timely meditation on the shift in anthropologyâs understanding of fieldwork from its inception until now. The volume consists of eleven ethnographic chapters, plus an introduction by the editors, and two invited responses. Each of the main body chapters presents a distinct approach to situating outer space
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