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Wilfrid Laurier University Press Aboriginal Peoples in Canadian Cities: Transformations and Continuities
Book SynopsisSince the 1970s, Aboriginal people have been more likely to live in Canadian cities than on reserves or in rural areas. Aboriginal rural-to-urban migration and the development of urban Aboriginal communities represent one of the most significant shifts in the histories and cultures of Aboriginal peoples in Canada. The essays in Aboriginal Peoples in Canadian Cities: Transformations and Continuities are from contributors directly engaged in urban Aboriginal communities; they draw on extensive ethnographic research on and by Aboriginal people and their own lived experiences. The interdisciplinary studies of urban Aboriginal community and identity collected in this volume offer narratives of unique experiences and aspects of urban Aboriginal life. They provide innovative perspectives on cultural transformation and continuity and demonstrate how comparative examinations of the diversity within and across urban Aboriginal experiences contribute to broader understandings of the relationship between Aboriginal peoples and the Canadian state and to theoretical debates about power dynamics in the production of community and in processes of identity formation.Trade Review"the spread of topics is considerable and their conceptual grounding offers potential for future theoretical development through comparative research. This is a valuable collection which effectively achieves its purpose of demonstrating the agency of urban Aboriginal communities, their diversity and the contribution of cultural innovations to contemporary urban indigeneity." - Roy Todd, University of Leeds, British Journal of Canadian Studies Vol. 25 No.1 2012``An important, well-written collection of papers which ought to be compulsory reading for all serious scholars of contemporary Aboriginal affairs.'' -- John Loxley, University of Manitoba -- The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, Volume XXXII, No 1, 2012``In some respects, this comprehensive anthology represents the cutting edge in a growing field of study related to urban Aboriginal communities in Canada. With a focus ranging from Toronto to Vancouver, the book contains fascinating new studies, including the experiences of Aboriginal employees at Ontario's Casino Rama, the rebuilding of Papaschase First Nation in Edmonton, and how Plains culture has been adopted as a form of healing in Vancouver. While the authors acknowledge the absence of voices addressing the Atlantic provinces and Quebec, this is offset by the strength of offerings from the Prairies, which include a textual analysis of media racism, a focus on Aboriginal street gangs, and an exploration of hip-hop culture. Notably, in a context in which Inuit communities are often ignored, the book includes a study of Inuit communities in Ottawa.'' -- Bonita Lawrence, York University -- Great Plains Research, Vol. 23, no. 1, 2013Table of ContentsTable of Contents for Aboriginal Peoples in Canadian Cities: Transformations and Continuities , edited by Heather Howard and Craig Proulx Transformations and Continuities: An Introduction | Heather A. Howard and Craig Proulx Urban Life: Reflections of a Middle-Class Indian | David R. Newhouse Nomadic Legacies and Contemporary Decision-Making Strategies between Reserve and City | Regna Darnell The Papaschase Band: Building Awareness and Community in the City of Edmonton | Jaimy L. Miller âRegaining the childhood I should have hadâ: The Transformation of Inuit Identities, Institutions, and Community in Ottawa | Donna Patrick, Julie-Ann Tomiak, Lynda Brown, Heidi Langille, and Mihaela Vieru The Friendship Centre: Native People and the Organization of Community in Cities | Heather A. Howard Neoliberalism and the Urban Aboriginal Experience: A Casino Rama Case Study | Darrel Manitowabi Challenges to and Successes in Urban Aboriginal Education in Canada: A Case Study of Wiingashk Secondary School | Sadie Donovan A Critical Discourse Analysis of John Stackhouseâs âWelcome to Harlem on the Prairiesâ | Craig Proulx Urban Aboriginal Gangs and Street Sociality in the Canadian West: Places, Performances, and Predicaments of Transition | Kathleen Buddle âWhy Is My People Sleeping?â: First Nations Hip Hop between the Rez and the City | Marianne Ignace Plains Indian Ways to Inter-tribal Cultural Healing in Vancouver | Lindy-Lou Flynn Contributors Index Contributorsâ Biographies Lynda Brown was born in Nunavut, and her family originates from Pangnirtung and Scotland. She lived mainly in Alberta and Ontario while growing up. Upon graduating from Trent University with an Honours B.A. in Native studies and psychology, she moved to Ottawa. Lynda volunteers her time, focusing on Inuit women, children and affordable housing. Lynda is a traditional throat singer and drummer, and shares her cultural knowledge through demonstrations and workshops. Kathleen Buddle is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Manitoba. Her research addresses First Nations media activism in Canada; cultural performance and politics in urban Aboriginal localities; Native street gangs, the manufacturing of prairie lawlessness and disciplining of the bodies of criminal others; and the authorizing of new social categories by Native womenâs organizations as they struggle to shift public debates about Native families onto more productive terrain. Regna Darnell is Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and First Nations Studies at the University of Western Ontario and holds a cross-appointment in ecosystem health in the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry. She has published widely in First Nations languages and cultures, especially Anishinaabeg and Plains Cree. Sadie Donovan is a Ph.D. student of Anglo-Celtic settler ancestry. She is completing her degree at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia and is interested in research pertaining to the equitable education of Aboriginal youth. Lindy-Lou Flynn is a cultural anthropologist who has conducted fieldwork in Aboriginal communities for over twenty years, primarily in western Canada. Her focus is on the healing and empowerment movement initiated by Native people in their ongoing recovery from colonialism. She is a full-time instructor of anthropology and Native studies at Keyano College in Fort McMurray, Alberta. Marianne Boelscher Ignace teaches at Simon Fraser University. Her interests include the politics and negotiation of meaning in indigenous-language discourse and knowledge systems, including ecological knowledge. She has carried out long-term collaborative ethnographic and linguistic research with the Secwepemc and Haida peoples, which has resulted in various monographs, journal articles, and book contributions. Heather A. Howard teaches at Michigan State University and is affiliated faculty with the Centre for Aboriginal Initiatives at the University of Toronto. Her research examines the politics of knowledge production and practice in community-based health education, social service delivery, and indigenous historiographies of urban space. She is the co-editor of Feminist Fields: Ethnographic Insights (1999) and Keeping the Campfires Going: Native Womenâs Activism in Urban Areas (2009). Heidi Langille, with roots in Nunatsiavut (Northern Labrador), has been a âlife-long Urban Inuk.â She has travelled across the North in different capacities, meeting new people and learning from them. Heidi volunteers her time, with a focus on children and affordable housing. She has given many presentations and interactive demonstrations on Inuit culture, heritage, values, and beliefs, including traditional throat singing. Darrel Manitowabi is an assistant professor of Native studies at the University of Sudbury College, Laurentian University. He is a citizen of the Wikwemikong Unceded First Nation and currently resides on the Whitefish River First Nation. Manitowabiâs research interests include indigenous well-being, indigenous anthropology, Anishinabe Kendasawin (Ojibwa knowledge), and indigenous-state relations. Jaimy L. Miller is from Edmonton, Alberta, and is a descendent of the Papaschase Band. She completed her M.A. in anthropology in 2006 and her master of public administration in 2010. She is currently working in the field of Aboriginal relations in Edmonton. David Newhouse is Onondaga from the Six Nations of the Grand River near Brantford, Ontario. He is chair of the Department of Indigenous Studies at Trent and an associate professor in the Business Administration Program. His research interests focus on the development of modern Aboriginal society. He visits Starbucks as often as possible. Donna Patrick is a professor in the School of Canadian Studies and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University, Ottawa. Her current research focuses on urban Inuit and more specifically on Inuit literacies and community-based activities, which connect Inuit in Ottawa to the arctic. Other interests include indigenous rights and language rights, and language endangerment discourse, including the political, social, and cultural aspects of language use among indigenous peoples in Canada. Craig Proulx is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick. His research focuses on Aboriginal peoples in Canada (urban and rural), legal anthropology, anthropology of sport, anthropology of media, and critical discourse analysis. His book Reclaiming Aboriginal Justice, Identity and Community is based on fieldwork with the Community Council Project in Toronto. Julie Tomiak is a Ph.D. candidate in Canadian Studies, with a specialization in political economy, at Carleton University. Her research focuses on the changing relationships between indigeneity, space, public policy, and rights. Her dissertation examines how neoliberal state rescaling and indigenous struggles for self-determination intersect in Ottawa and Winnipeg. Mihaela Ecaterina Vieru is a Ph.D. candidate in the program of Canadian Studies, with a specialization in political economy, at Carleton University, Ottawa. She has an M.A. degree in Canadian studies from Carleton University (2006). Her research interests focus on ethnicity, multiculturalism, integration, citizenship, and national security in Canadian and international contexts.
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press The Eighteenth-Century Wyandot: A Clan-Based Study
Book SynopsisThe Wyandot were born of two Wendat peoples encountered by the French in the first half of the seventeenth century - the otherwise named Petun and Huron - and their history is fragmented by their dispersal between Quebec, Michigan, Kansas, and Oklahoma. This book weaves these fragmented histories together, with a focus on the mid-eighteenth century. Author John Steckley claims that the key to consolidating the stories of the scattered Wyandot lies in their clan structure. Beginning with the half century of their initial diaspora, as interpreted through the political strategies of five clan leaders, and continuing through the eighteenth century and their shared residency with Jesuit missionaries - notably, the distinct relationships different clans established with them - Steckley reveals the resilience of the Wyandot clan structure. He draws upon rich but previously ignored sources - including baptismal, marriage, and mortuary records, and a detailed house-to-house census compiled in 1747, featuring a list of male and female elders - to illustrate the social structure of the people, including a study of both male and female leadership patterns. A recording of the 1747 census as well as translated copies of letters sent between the Wyandot and the French is included in an appendix.Trade Review"John Steckley's detailed research on the Wyandot/Wendat clan system is the culmination of a lifetime pursuit to unearth and untangle the complicated history of North America's Indigenous peoples. This book is a goldmine for all those interested in exploring the organic and evolutionary nature of First Nation communities and will contribute greatly to our understanding of Indigenous strategies of resistance and survival against colonial regimes." -- Kathryn Labelle, University of Saskatchewan, author of 'Dispersed but Not Destroyed: A History of the Seventeenth-Century Wendat People' (2013)"Steckley's central thesis is that clans kept the Wyandot strong, enabling them to survive forced migration and the splitting up of ancestral villages and tribes. Steckley demonstrates that the Wyandot clan structure was dynamic in nature, despite its static depiction in classic anthropological literature. The author's uniquely personalized writing style makes this work accessible to interested readers outside of academia.... This work makes an invaluable contribution to a better understanding of Wyandot history. Summing up: Highly recommended." -- B.F.R. Edwards, ALA -- Choice, 20141001"Using documentation about clan structure, residences, and history, as well as individual stories, Steckley peers deeply into Wyandot/Wendat culture, especially their political systems, gender roles, relations with various Jesuits, and interactions with non-Wyandot/Wendat First Nation People throughout the Great Lakes, from the Iroguoian Confederacy in the east to the Fox Nation to the west. Steckley's book is most significant in two areas for which he is particularly well-known and professional esteemed. The first is his singular understanding and interpretation of the Wyandot/Wendat language.... Steckley's easy to understand orthography of the Wyandot/Wendat language literally keeps the language alive. Secondly, Steckley's use of individual case studies, both male and female, keeps the memory of individuals alive, people who otherwise would have been 'lost to history.' In other words, Steckley's book is extraordinarily dynamic on many accounts. It is not surprising therefore that Steckley, who has devoted his life's work to understanding and unravelling the cultures and kinship of Great Lakes native cultures, was adopted by the Wyandot people of Kansas--a compliment of brotherhood that is unquestionably the greatest accolade of his professional life; more importantly, Steckley, as a human being, is helping to counter the terrible effects of cultural genocide and ethnocide that occurred throughout the Great Lakes, and all of the Americas, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.The Eighteenth-Century Wyandot makes major contributions to the academic fields of Great Lakes and Native American history, anthropology (and archaeology), sociology, and anthropological linguistics. Indeed, Steckley's book is the best kinship/clan based historical study I have ever read." -- Kenneth C. Carstens -- Michigan Historical Review, 20141103Table of Contents The Eighteenth-Century Wyandot: A Clan-Based Study by John L. Steckley Preface Chapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: Two Questions Chapter Three: Five Wyandot Strategists of the Late Seventeenth Century: Sastaretsi, Kandiaronk, Sk8tache, the Baron, and Quarante Sols Chapter Four: Other Nations and the Clans of the Wyandot: Missionaries and Other Strangers Enter Their Midst Chapter Five: Wyandot Participation in ""Christian"" Rituals Chapter Six: Wyandot Leadership: Male Political Roles Chapter Seven: The Political Roles of Wyandot Women Chapter Eight: A Summary Appendices Appendix A: The Census Appendix B: Wyandot Correspondance B1: Father Richardie's Introduction to Father Potier B2: Govenor Longueuil B3: The Wendat Response B4: Father Richardie to the Huron of Wendake B5: Father Richer to Father Potier Appendix C: N'endi Appendix D: Festin des Noces Notes References Index
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Wipf & Stock Publishers Speaking in Tongues
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Markus Wiener Publishing Inc Life in a Haitian Valley
Trade ReviewAn authoritative view of the extent to which the African culture has survived in the New World setting. ""Herskovits traces the majority of the [Haitians'] cultural ways to the region of Dahomey. The word Voodoo is best translated as 'God.' The names of gods, and social and economic institutions, point their origin to the same Dahoman source.... This book has a glossary of Creole terms and is carefully documented. It is a valuable volume for students, and significant [for the general reader]."" - New York Times ""The best book on Haiti"" - Books ""The book is highly readable and of distinct value."" - Atlantic ""No one who has a real interest in the Caribbean countries...can afford to neglect this intelligent and penetrating study."" - New Republic
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Markus Wiener Publishing Inc The Akan People in Africa and the Diaspora: A Historical Reader
Book SynopsisThis is a collection of key essays about the Akan people, their history, and their culture. The Akans are an ethnic group from West Africa, predominately Ghana and Togo, of roughly 25 million people. From the twelfth century on, Akans created numerous states based largely on gold mining and the trading of cash crops. This brought wealth to many states such as Akwamu, which stretched all the way to modern Benin, and ultimately led to the rise of the best known Akan empire, the Empire of Ashanti. Throughout history, Akans were a highly educated group; notable Akan people in modern times include Ghanaian president Kwame Nkrumah and U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan. This volume features a new array of primary sources that provide fresh and nuanced perspectives. This collection is the first of its kind.
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University of Tennessee Press Indian Knoll
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Prometheus Books Reason and Revolution: Hegel and the Rise of
Book SynopsisIt is of the very definition of any "classic" work that it will not only introduce a new depth and direction of thought, but that its original insights endure. When it first appeared in 1940, Reason and Revolution by Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) was acclaimed for its profound and undistorted reading of Hegel's social and political theory. Today, the appreciation of Marcuse's work has remained high, more relevant now than ever before. In the rapidly changing context of post-Cold War political realities, there is no better guide than Marcuse to where we have been and to what we might expect. As he well understood, turbulent and spectacular political events always ran within channels earlier set by political theory; and he equally understood that it was Hegel's often unappreciated and misunderstood theory which actually set a fundamental path of modern political life. It is a fortunate combination to have a scholar of Marcuse's brilliance and lucid honesty addressing the sources and consequences of Hegel's social theory.
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Black Classic Press Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite
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Pennsylvania State University Press Studying Gender in the Ancient Near East
Book SynopsisThis volume explores how the interpretation of material from the ancient Near East is enriched through the application of diverse methodological and theoretical approaches to studying gender. The contributors to this collection include both established and up-and-coming scholars whose work brings gender studies theories—from Butler’s theory of gender as a performance to more recent theories that consider gender as a spectrum—to bear on varied materials and contexts. Their essays increase the visibility of women in ancient history, untangle constructions of masculinity and femininity in diverse contexts, and grapple with big-picture questions, such as the suitability of applying third-wave or postfeminist theories to the ancient Near East. Studying Gender in the Ancient Near East points to a need for—and provides a model of—a more productive agenda for gender studies in furthering our understanding of ancient Near Eastern societies. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Julia M. Asher-Greve, Stephanie Lynn Budin, Megan Cifarelli, M. Érica Couto-Ferreira, Amy Rebecca Gansell, Katrien De Graef, Amélie Kuhrt, Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper, Brigitte Lion, Natalie N. May, Beth Alpert Nakhai, Martti Nissinen, Omar N’Shea, María Rosa Oliver, Frances Pinnock, Eleonora Ravenna, Allison Karmel Thomason, Luciana Urbano, Niek Veldhuis, and Ilona Zsolnay. Trade Review“This volume succeeds in the editors’ broad goal of moving gender studies in the ANE forward. The editors deserve praise for organizing the workshops that led to this volume and publishing a collection of strong papers written by such a diverse group of scholars. One can only hope that the tools offered here will be adopted broadly and not only by researchers—most of them women—with a specific interest in gender issues.”—Jennie Ebeling Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies“The diverse backgrounds of the contributors allow for a range of fruitful discussions on gender methodologies and provide important reflections on the future of the field. This volume will have significant impact for those researching and challenging assumptions about gender in the ANE.”—Karina Atudosie Society for Old Testament Study Booklist (JSOT)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Theoretical Approaches, Gender, and the Ancient Near East: An Introduction Agnès Garcia-Ventura and Saana SvärdFrom La Femme to Multiple Sex/Gender Julia M. Asher-GreveGender in the Tale of Aqhat Stephanie Lynn BudinGender, Personal Adornment, and Costly Signaling in the Iron Age Burials of Hasanlu, Iran Megan CifarelliWhen Women Get Ill: Gendered Constructions of Health and Disease in Cuneiform Texts on Healing M. Érica Couto-Ferreira Puppets on a String? On Female Agency in Old Babylonian EconomyKatrien de Graef In Pursuit of Neo-Assyrian Queens: An Interdisciplinary Methodology for Researching Ancient Women and Engendering Ancient History Amy Rebecca GansellPostfeminism and Assyriology: An (Im)possible Relationship? Agnès Garcia-VenturaGender Experiments in Hellenistic Babylonian Figurines Stephanie M. Langin-HooperGender and Methodology in the Study of 2nd-Millennium B.C.E. Family Archives Brigitte LionNeo-Assyrian Women, Their Visibility, and Their Representation in Written and Pictorial Sources Natalie N. MayFactors Complicating the Reconstruction of Women’s Lives in Iron Age Israel (1200–587 B.C.E.) Beth Alpert NakhaiEmpire of the Surveilling Gaze: The Masculinity of King SennacheribOmar N’SheaRethinking Gender Relationships in a Sociopolitical Context during the Time of Zimri-LimMaría Rosa Oliver and Eleonora RavennaBuilding Up a History of Art of the Ancient Near East: The Case of Ebla and the Third-Millennium b.c.e. Court LadiesFrances Pinnock(Re)constructing the Image of the Assinnu Saana Svärd and Martti NissinenAfter “Profits”: Methodological and Historiographic Remarks on the Study of Women, Textiles, and Economy in the Ancient Near EastAllison Karmel ThomasonMarriage Policy in Mari: A Field of Power between Domination and ResistanceLuciana UrbanoGender Studies and Assyriology: Expectations of an OutsiderNiek VeldhuisAnalyzing Constructs: A Selection of Perils, Pitfalls, and Progressions in Interrogating Ancient Near Eastern Gender Ilona ZsolnayGender and Methodology in the Ancient Near East: Final Thoughts Amélie KuhrtContributorsIndex of Authors
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Wipf & Stock Publishers Melanesians and Missionaries: An Ethnohistorical Study of Social and Religious Change in the Southwest Pacific
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Sudan's Blood Memory: The Legacy of War, Ethnicity, and Slavery in South Sudan
Book SynopsisA history of Southern Sudan, from pre-colonial times to the present. Many societies worldwide possess oral histories and long memories, reaching back many centuries, particularly of wars and events of great trauma. Labeling them "blood memories" in this book, Stephanie Beswick presents a pre-colonial history of Southern Sudan, a region that, according to some, "has no history." Beginning in the fourteenth century, the book follows the region's largest ethnic group today, the Dinka, from their original homelands in the central Sudanese Gezira between the Blue and White Niles, into their more recently adopted homelands in Southern Sudan. Beswick demonstrates how early pre-colonial stresses play a critical role in modern-day South Sudan, in what has since become the world's longest civil war, fought externally against the fundamentalist Islamic Northern Sudanese government as well as internally within the South itself. Stephanie Beswick is professor of history at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. She was born in Khartoum, Sudan.Trade ReviewBroad in scope, and based on rigorous research and extensive fieldwork, [Beswick's] book makes a lasting contribution to Sudanese studies and will appeal broadly to scholars of African oral history and migration. * INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES *This book is full of big ideas and detailed commentary, resulting in a satisfying intellectual experience. Highly recommended. * CHOICE *This book is a remarkable achievement that establishes a definitive standard for all future Dinka studies, a foundation of clarity, comprehension, and creativity. It should be required reading in all government, nongovernment, and humanitarian agencies whose employees work with the Dinka. * AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW *Clearly an important and original contribution to the study of the history of Sudan and of Dinka history in particular. * MODERN AFRICAN STUDIES *Table of ContentsIntroduction Geography and Brief History of Sudan The Changing Nilotic Frontier Slave Raids, Wars, and Migrations Communities of the Sobat/Nile Confluence: The Padang Communities of the Eastern Nile: The Bor Communities in the Southwest: The Southern Bahr el-Ghazal Communities in the Northwest: The Northern Bahr el-Ghazal Grain, Cattle, and Economic Power Totemic Religion Human Sacrifice, Virgins, and River Spirits Priests, Politics, and Land Ethnic Expansion by Marriage Sovereign Nations within the Dinka Eighteenth-Century Slavers and Traders Nilotic Chaos: Dinka, Nuer, Atwot, and Anyuak Politics and Stratification among Stateless Peoples Summary and History Legacy of the Precolonial Era
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Autonomedia Archeology of Violence
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Book Tree,US Ancient Symbol Worship: The Influence of the Phallic Idea in the Religions of Antiquity
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Prometheus Books Culture and Conflict in the Middle East
Book SynopsisIn an era of increasing interaction between the United States and the countries of the Middle East, it has become ever more important for Americans to understand the social forces that shape Middle Eastern cultures. Based on years of his own field research and the ethnographic reports of other scholars, anthropologist Philip Carl Salzman presents an incisive analysis of Middle Eastern culture that goes a long way toward explaining the gulf between Western and Middle Eastern cultural perspectives. Salzman focuses on two basic principles of tribal organization that have become central principles of Middle Eastern life—balanced opposition (each group of whatever size and scope is opposed by a group of equal size and scope) and affiliation solidarity (always support those closer against those more distant). On the positive side, these pervasive structural principles support a decentralized social and political system based upon individual independence, autonomy, liberty, equality, and responsibility. But on the negative side, Salzman notes a pattern of contingent partisan loyalties, which results in an inbred orientation favoring particularism: an attitude of my tribe against the other tribe, my ethnic group against the different ethnic group, my religious community against another religious community. For each affiliation, there is always an enemy. Salzman argues that the particularism of Middle Eastern culture precludes universalism, rule of law, and constitutionalism, which all involve the measuring of actions against general criteria, irrespective of the affiliation of the particular actors. The result of this relentless partisan framework of thought has been the apparently unending conflict, both internal and external, that characterizes the modern Middle East.Trade Review"While tribalism is in one sense culturally pervasive in the Middle East, tribal practices are less swathed in sacredness than explicitly Koranic symbols and commandments--and are therefore more susceptible to criticism and debate. Even jihad and suicide bombing can be interpreted through a tribal lens. We've taught ourselves a good deal about Islam over the past seven years. Yet tribalism is at least half the cultural battle in the Middle East, and the West knows little about it. Learning how to understand and critique the Islamic Near East through a tribal lens will open up a new and smarter strategy for change. The way to begin is by picking up Salzman's Culture and Conflict in the Middle East." -- Stanley Kurtz, Weekly Standard, 14th April 2008. "Salzman has made an important contribution that is must reading." --Jewish Voice and Opinion, Englewood, NJ, September 2008Table of ContentsIntroduction; Making a Living in the Middle East: Life in the Valleys, Deserts, and Mountains; Friends and Enemies: Security and Defence in the Middle East; Defence and Offence: Honour and Rank in the Middle East; Turning Toward the World: Tribal Organisation and Predatory Expansion; Tribe and State: The Dynamics of Incompatibility; Root Causes: The Middle East Today and Tomorrow; References; Index.
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University of Tennessee Press From Cahokia to Larson to Moundville: Death, World Renewal, and the Sacred in the Mississippian Social World of the Late Prehistoric Woodlands
Book SynopsisThe orthodox view of the Mississippian social world hinges on the idea that chiefdoms—dominance- based hierarchical societies in the Eastern Woodlands of North America—vied for power, often violently but at times cooperatively, through political and economic avenues. These chiefdoms represented something of a feudal state in prehistoric North America, which lasted up to the contract period with Europeans around 1500 AD. In From Cahokia to Larson to Moundville, noted archaeologist A. Martin Byers challenges these assumptions and offers a contrasting view by deconstructing the chiefdom model and offering instead an autonomous social world that focused on spiritual renewal and sacred rituals. Byers presents his case through the archaeological record of Cahokia, Larson, and Moundville’s monumental earthworks and, in doing so, reveals the Mississippian social community to be more complex, and more cooperative, than previously envisioned.
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University of Tennessee Press Archaeological Adaptation: Case Studies of Cultural Transformation from the Southeast and Caribbean
Book SynopsisArchaeological Adaptation: Case Studies of Cultural Transformation from the Southeast and Caribbean honors the work of longtime University of Tennessee anthropology professor Gerald Schroedl, whose career encompassed fieldwork and research in both prehistoric and historic archaeology. Schroedl's early career often focused its analysis on Mississippian and Cherokee sites, while his later years found him delving into historic archaeology in the Caribbean. Revisiting these touchstones of Schroedl's work, editor C. Clifford Boyd here gathers essays around the disciplinary theme of documentation and analysis of change. Contributors study excavations in Tennessee, Virginia, South Carolina, wider southern Appalachia, and the Caribbean, providing insight into Native American, African American, and English civilizations. Artifacts, architecture, human and structural remains, and climatic and environmental factors yield insight into changing settlement patterns, tribal practices, material culture, economic and political power relations, and health and nutrition. A preface tracing Schroedl's career and an afterword addressing developments in archaeological theory round out the volume.
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Vernon Press Art, Theory and Practice in the Anthropocene
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Strategic Book Publishing A Bridge Too Far or Seldom Crossed: The Value of Work Means Different Things to Different People, Spanning Cultural Disparity in a Globalising Labou
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC How Narrative Shapes Culture and Society
Book SynopsisJames E. Siburt is associate professor of sociology of leadership and the Director of Graduate Leadership at Immaculata University.
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Lexington Books A Critical Companion to David Lynch
Book SynopsisA Critical Companion to David Lynch builds on the vast debate of one of the most discussed and researched directors of the present era, with commercial and critical success across multiple mediums and genres. This edited volume provides a wide-ranging exploration of Lynch's films, practices, and collaborations, with nineteen original chapters examining themes including narrativity, aesthetics, artistry, sound, experimentation, metafiction, and patriarchy from the disciplinary perspectives of film studies, art studies, gender studies, literary studies, and philosophy. Lynch's entire thought-provoking oeuvre, spanning over fifty years, will be examined, including his shorts and films, animations, TV series, paintings, and commercials.
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Lexington Books A Critical Companion to Jane Campion
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Lexington Books Shaped by Vegetal Matters
Book SynopsisTracing lines of vegetal influence and affect, Shaped by Vegetal Matters: Phyto-Influence on Humans, Other Animals, and Place describes how plants influence and shape humans, their relations with other animals, and place. Highlighting vegetal matters related to four plant species and the triad of plants-elephants-humans in Sri Lanka, each case study opens up multi-directional influences across situated multispecies social milieus. From jacaranda trees in Australia, to wapato on a river island in the United States, to willow and weavers in Denmark, to sugarcane plantations in Sri Lanka, to dying yet mythic ash trees, features emerge of human-plant social intimacies, power dynamics, and intersubjectivities. A central glue of plant-human relations is poiesis, meaning the creation of something new, yet etymologically related to the poetic. Beyond explorations of poiesis, the vegetal offers an epistemology of recursion that is relevant for understanding place-based relationships. Elizabeth Oriel presents vegetal influence in analytical and descriptive styles, reflecting multispecies ethnography and other analytics brought to vegetal matters.
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Lexington Books The Future of the Humanities
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Lexington Books Mobility in North American Surrogacy
Book SynopsisThe United States is a bastion of commercial surrogacy. Intended parents from all over the globe travel to the United States seeking to build a family. However, they must navigate a complicated, convoluted industry that consists of hundreds of fertility clinics, surrogacy, and egg donor agencies, as well as new forms of business that have appeared to ease the efficiency of a long, drawn-out process. Mobility in North American Surrogacy: A Fertile Global Industry examines the multiple players involved in global surrogacy contracts between international intended parents who opt to create a family with the help and labor of surrogates from the United States. This market remains the final frontier of commercial surrogacy, while other reproductive hubs only allow for altruistic surrogacy. The author considers the mobility and immobility experienced by intended parents, egg donors, surrogates, and professionals whose intimate labor fosters connections across economic, geographic, and social divisions. Based on four years of ethnographic research that also spans the globe, the author argues for a more nuanced consideration of the ethics of surrogacy.
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Lexington Books Longing for Belonging among the Marginalized in
Book SynopsisLonging for Belonging among the Marginalized in Urban Australia examines how Indigenous people, African refugees, and impoverished Whites in urban Australia, who are deemed undesirable citizens under neoliberal governance, experience citizenship in their everyday lives. Drawing on ethnography conducted in Adelaide and Sydney from 2014 to 2020, along with digital ethnography, it elucidates a new sense of belonging being developed across these groups that is mediated by their shared experiences of displacement and predicaments. While individuals of these groups are marginalized due to the reinforcement of race and homogenization of welfare beneficiaries as morally deficient and are ashamed to be aware of their norm violations, a cross-group sense of belonging has emerged that transverses racial and ethnic differences. It is based on mutual care, compassion, and empathy or a community mediated by the ethics of care, fostering a sense of belonging among members who, according to other paradigms of relatedness, might be seen as separate or unequal. The author maintains that this new sense of belonging, rooted in caring for others, can contribute to the development of horizontal citizenship by temporarily bridging differences in race, ethnicity, class, and gender, which can challenge neoliberal citizenship that values economic rationality, self-autonomy, and individualism.
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