Social and cultural anthropology Books
Lexington Books Archiving Creole Voices
Book SynopsisThis book examines the history and construction of the Creole voice in twentieth and twenty-first century Caribbean literature and the archivisation of Caribbean Creoles within the literary text.
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Lexington Books The Handloom Industry of Begampur in Transition
Book SynopsisThe Handloom Industry of Begampur in Transition: Technology, Disjuncture and Development provides an ethnographic description of the handloom industry of the Begampur region, which is situated in the Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal. While explaining the process of transformation within the handloom industry of Bengampur region, Abhradip Banerjee explains the uneasy relationship between technology, disjuncture, and development that has been making an impact upon the lives of this particular group of artisans for over two decades. The novelty of this book lies in the particular approach adopted by the author which allowed him to perceive and analyze the process of transition within the handloom weaving tradition of Begampur region from a more inclusive perspective, miles away from the pitfall of gross technological determinism. Viewing the handloom industry of Begampur as a form of sociotechnical system allowed him to gauge, analyze, and incorporate several important but neglected dimensions of this transformation, which otherwise mostly went missing in many historiographic or empirical accounts regarding the process of industrialization /deindustrialization and class formation in India.
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Lexington Books Somali Refugees in America
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Lexington Books Exploring the Interplay of Edward Sapirs
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Lexington Books Islamic Culture and PreIslamic Beliefs in Central
Book SynopsisOver thousands of years, Central Asia has been a bridge between different religions and cultures. The introduction of Islam in the seventh century CE ushered in an era of social and cultural change to the region, which saw both new beliefs and practices, as well as some pre-Islamic sacred places being transformed into Islamic ones, and the cult of saints absorbing elements of both local and Arab mythology. Islamic Culture and Pre-Islamic Beliefs in Central Asia, a project initiated by the Balkan History Association, focuses on Islamic culture, traditions, and pre-Islamic beliefs in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. In a broader sense, it promotes the history and culture of Central Asia in Southeast Europe. The chapters emphasize the importance of religious life, the significance of certain sacred places, which became major places of worship, and their role in the socio-spiritual life of Central Asian society. Local or folk forms of Islam and their historical and cultural background are also discussed. This volume includes research spanning a period from antiquity to the Post-Soviet era to explore how landscapes of religious places and practices were interpreted and reinterpreted through time.
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Bloomsbury Academic The Task of Having to Be
Book SynopsisRicardo Santos Alexandre is an anthropologist and researcher at the Centre for Research in Anthropology, Portugal.
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Academica Press The Oldest Art of Siberia: Technologies, Forms,
Book SynopsisPrimitive art is inseparable from primitive consciousness and can be correctly understood only with the correct socio-cultural context. This book examines the ancient art of Siberia as part of the integral whole of ancient society.
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Academica Press Franz Boas in Translation: Place, Myth, and
Book SynopsisFranz Boas in Translation is the ultimate study of the legendary anthropologist Franz Boas and his work on the American Northwest. This groundbreaking study analyses what Boas did with local Native American legends passed down by the region's tribal groups. Three translations, originally published in 1888 and 1895, are presented here and constitute Boas's early attempts to define the cultural history of Pacific Northwest tribes. Using definitive plots, details, and incidents from a large collection of myths, comparative myths from other indigenous cultures, and a statistical method of multivariant analysis, Boas not only defined the historical relations of the regional tribes but also the role of diffusion in those relations.
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University Press of Florida The Odd, the Unusual, and the Strange: Bioarchaeological Explorations of Atypical Burials
Book SynopsisAbnormal burial practices have long been a source of fascination and debate within the fields of mortuary archaeology and bioarchaeology. The Odd, the Unusual, and the Strange investigates an unparalleled geographic and temporal range of burials that differ from the usual customs of their broader societies, emphasizing the importance of a holistic, context-driven approach to these intriguing cases. From an Andean burial dating to 3500 BC to mummified bodies interred in the Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, Sicily, during the twentieth century, the studies in this volume cross the globe and span millennia. The unusual cases explored here include Native American cemeteries in Illinois, “vampire” burials in medieval Poland, and a mass grave of decapitated soldiers in ancient China. Moving away from the simplistic assumption that these burials represent people who were considered deviant in society, contributors demonstrate the importance of an integrated biocultural approach in determining why an individual was buried in an unusual way. Drawing on historical, sociocultural, archaeological, and biological data, this volume critically evaluates the binary of “typical” versus “atypical” burials. It expands our understanding of the continuum of variation within mortuary practices, helping researchers better interpret burial evidence to learn about the people and cultures of the past.Table of Contents List of Illustrations Foreword Deconstructing "Deviant": An Introduction to the History of Atypical Burials and the Importance of Context in the Bioarchaeological Record 1. Bodies Among Fragments: Non-Normative Inhumations among the Preclassic and Classic Period Hohokam in the Tucson Basin 2. Interpreting a Multiple Burial in an Early Ancestral Pueblo Village 3. A Young Man Twice Burned: A Deviant Burial from West-Central Illinois 4. The Odd Man Out in a Pioneer Cemetery at Seccombe Lake Park, San Bernadino, California 5. Defining Non-Normative Practices in a Diverse Funerary Record: Insights from the Caribbean 6. Good, Bad, or Indifferent? A Unique "Deviant" Burial from the Formative Site of Aranjuez-Santa Lucía, South Central Andes 7. The Hunchback, the Contortionist, the Man with the Stolen Identity, and the One Who Will be Born in the Afterlife: Pre-Hispanic Deviant Burials from Huarmey Valley, Peru 8. Friend or Foe? Investigating a Mass Burial at the Templo de la Piedra Segrada at Túcume, Peru 9. What's the Norm? "Irregular" and "Regular" Burial Practices of the Early Iron Age in Central Europe 10. Burial in a Kiln: Transgression and Punishment in Late Antiquity 11. Variation Beyond the Grave: Contextualizing Unusual Burials in Early Medieval Bohemia 12. Good and Bad Death in Early Medieval Times? Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to Non-Normative Burials in Finland in the Eleventh-Thirteenth Centuries ADU 13. Atypical Burials in Early Medieval Poland: A Critical Overview 14. Does Health Define Deviancy? Non-Normative Burials in Post-Medieval Poland 15. The "Vampires" of Lesvos: Detecting and Interpreting Anti-Revenant Ritual in Greece 16. Natural Mummification as a Non-Normative Mortuary Custom of Modern Period Sicily (1600-1800) 17. Out of Range? Non-normative Funerary Practices from the Neolithic to the early Twentieth Century at Çatalhöyük, Turkey 18. Deviant Treatment of the Body as a Mortuary Ritual: A Case from the Middle Jomon Period in Eastern Japan 19. Ancestors, Conflict, and Criminality in Ancient China and Mongolia 20. Dependent Deviance: Castration and Deviant Burial Afterword Contributors
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University Press of Florida Authority, Autonomy, and the Archaeology of a Mississippian Community
Book SynopsisThis book is the first detailed investigation of the important archaeological site of Parchman Place in the Yazoo Basin, a defining area for understanding the Mississippian culture that spanned much of what is now the United States Southeast and Midwest before the mid-sixteenth century. Refining the widely accepted theory that this society was strongly hierarchical, Erin Nelson provides data that suggest communities navigated tensions between authority and autonomy in their placemaking and in their daily lives. Drawing on archaeological evidence from foodways, monumental and domestic architecture, and the organization of communal space at the site, Nelson argues that Mississippian people negotiated contradictory ideas about what it meant to belong to a community. For example, although they clearly had powerful leaders, communities built mounds and other structures in ways that re-created their views of the cosmos, expressing values of wholeness and balance. Nelson's findings shed light on the inner workings of Mississippian communities and other hierarchical societies of the period.A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series
£76.00
University Press of Florida Contact, Colonialism, and Native Communities in the Southeastern United States
Book SynopsisThe years 1500–1700 AD were a time of dramatic change for the indigenous inhabitants of southeastern North America, yet Native histories during this era have been difficult to reconstruct due to a scarcity of written records before the eighteenth century. Using archaeology to enhance our knowledge of the period, Contact, Colonialism, and Native Communities in the Southeastern United States presents new research on the ways Native societies responded to early contact with Europeans.Table of Contents List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Carden Bottoms: Indigenous Responses to Europeans on the Far Reaches of the Mississippian Shatter — George Sabo III, Jerry E. Hilliard, Leslie C. Walker, Jami J. Lockhart, Ann M. Early, and Rebecca L. F. Wiewel 2. The Early Contact Period in the Black Prairie of Northeast Mississippi — Edmond A. Boudreaux, III, Charles R. Cobb, Emily Clark, Chester B. DePratter, James Legg, Brad R. Lieb, Allison M. Smith, and Steven D. Smith 3. Oliver and Orchard Thumbnail Scrapers, a Technological and Source-Area Analysis — Jay K. Johnson and Ryan M. Parish 4. Tracking an Entrada by Comparative Analysis of sixteenth-Century Archaeological Assemblages from the Southeast — Dennis B. Blanton 5. Spanish Florida and the Southeastern Indians, 1513-1650 — John E. Worth 6. New Frontier, Old Frontier — Ramie A. Gougeon 7. Avoidance Strategies of a Displaced Post-Mississippian Society on the Northern Gulf Coast, circa 1710 — Gregory A. Waselkov and Philip J. Carr 8. An Arc of Interaction, a Flow of People, and Emergent Identity: Early Contact period Archaeology and Early European Interactions in the Middle Nolichucky Valley of Upper East Tennessee — Nathan K. Shreve, Jay D. Franklin, Eileen G. Ernenwein, Maureen A. Hays, and Ilaria Patania 9. From the Coast to the Mountains: Marine Shell Artifacts at Cherokee Towns in the Southern Appalachians —Christopher B. Rodning 10. Life at the Frontier of the sixteenth-seventeenth Century World Economy: Fort Ancient Hide Production at the Hardin Site, Greenup County, Kentucky — Matthew Davidson 11. The Seventeenth-Century Native-Colonial Borderlands of Savannah River Valley —Maureen Meyers 12. Yamasee Mobility: Responding to European Colonization through Old and New Strategies — Denise I. Bossy 13. Differential Responses Across the Southeast to European Incursions: A Conclusion —Robbie Ethridge Bibliography Index Contributors
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University Press of Florida Bears: Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Perspectives in Native Eastern North America
Book SynopsisAlthough scholars have long recognized the mythic status of bears in Indigenous North American societies of the past, this is the first volume to synthesize the vast amount of archaeological and historical research on the topic. Bears charts the special relationship between the American black bear and humans in eastern Native American cultures across thousands of years.These essays draw on zooarchaeological, ethnohistorical, and ethnographic evidence from nearly 300 archaeological sites from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico. Contributors explore the ways bears have been treated as something akin to another kind of human—in the words of anthropologist Irving Hallowell, "other than human persons"—in Algonquian, Cherokee, Iroquois, Meskwaki, Creek, and many other Native cultures. Case studies focus on bear imagery in Native art and artifacts; the religious and economic significance of bears and bear products such as meat, fat, oil, and pelts; bears in Native worldviews, kinship systems, and cosmologies; and the use of bears as commodities in transatlantic trade. The case studies in Bears demonstrate that bears were not only a source of food, but were also religious, economic, and political icons within Indigenous cultures. This volume convincingly portrays the black bear as one of the most socially significant species in Native eastern North America. A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen SeriesTable of Contents Introduction—Heather A. Lapham Chapter 1 Ethnohistorical and Ethnographic Overview of Bear-Human Relationships in Native Eastern North America—Gregory A. Waselkov Chapter 2 "Dear, Honored Guest": Bear Ceremonialism in Minnesota—David Mather Chapter 3 The Great White Bear in Cosmology, Myth, Imagery, and Ritual—Thomas E. Berres Chapter 4 The Multifaceted Bear: Spiritual and Economic Roles of Bears in Meskwaki Society—Ralph Koziarski Chapter 5 Use of Black Bears in the Western Great Lakes Region, and the Riddle of the Perforated Bear Mandibles—Terrance J. Martin Chapter 6 Black Bears and the Iroquoians: Food, Stories, and Symbols—Christian Gates St-Pierre, Claire St-Germain, and Louis-Vincent Laperrière-Désorcy Chapter 7 In Feast and Famine: New Perspectives on Black Bear in the Southern Appalachians and Piedmont, AD 1000–1800—Heather A. Lapham Chapter 8 Better than Butter: Yona Go'i‚ Bear Grease in Cherokee Culture—Heidi M. Altman, Tanya M. Peres, and J. Matthew Compton Chapter 9 Bears, Bear-Grounds, and Bovines in the Lower Southeast—Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman Chapter 10 Re-Examining the Evidence for Bear Ceremonialism in the Lower Mississippi Valley—Ashley Peles and Megan C. Kassabaum Chapter 11 Menageries and Bearskin Caps: Experiencing North American Bears in Post-Medieval Britain—Hannah J. O'Regan Chapter 12 Bear-Human Relationships in Eastern Native North America: An Overview of Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Evidence—Gregory A. Waselkov and J. Lynn Funkhouser Contributors
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University Press of Florida Geopolitics, Culture, and the Scientific Imaginary in Latin America
Book SynopsisChallenging the common view that Latin America has lagged behind Europe and North America in the global history of science, this volume reveals that the region has long been a center for scientific innovation and imagination. It highlights the important relationship among science, politics, and culture in Latin American history.Scholars from a variety of fields including literature, sociology, and geography bring to light many of the cultural exchanges that have produced and spread scientific knowledge from the early colonial period to the present day. Among many topics, these essays describe ideas on health and anatomy in a medical text from sixteenth-century Mexico, how fossil discoveries in Patagonia inspired new interpretations of the South American landscape, and how Argentinian physicist Rolando García influenced climate change research and the field of epistemology.Through its interdisciplinary approach, Geopolitics, Culture, and the Scientific Imaginary in Latin America shows that such scientific advancements fueled a series of visionary utopian projects throughout the region, as countries grappling with the legacy of colonialism sought to modernize and to build national and regional identities.
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University Press of Florida Bioarchaeology and Identity Revisited
Book SynopsisThis volume highlights new directions in the study of social identities in past populations. Building on the field-defining research in Bioarchaeology and Identity in the Americas, contributors expand the scope of the subject regionally, theoretically, and methodologically. This collection moves beyond the previous focus on single aspects of identity by demonstrating multi-scalar approaches and by explicitly addressing intersectionality in the archaeological record.Case studies in this volume come from both New World and Old World settings, including sites in North America, South America, Asia, and the Middle East. The communities investigated range from early Holocene hunter-gatherers to nineteenth-century urban poor. Contributors broaden the concept of identity to include disability or health status, age, social class, religion, occupation, and communal and familial identities. In addition to combining bioarchaeological data with oral history and material artifacts, they use new methods including social network analysis and more humanistic approaches in osteobiography. Bioarchaeology and Identity Revisited offers updated ways of conceptualizing identity across time and space.A volume in the series Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives, edited by Clark Spencer Larsen
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University Press of Florida Repatriation and Erasing the Past
Book SynopsisEngaging a current controversy important to archaeologists and indigenous communities, Repatriation and Erasing the Past takes a critical look at laws that mandate the return of human remains from museums and laboratories to ancestral burial grounds. Anthropologist Elizabeth Weiss and attorney James Springer offer scientific and legal perspectives on the way repatriation laws impact research.Weiss discusses how anthropologists draw conclusions about past peoples through their study of skeletons and mummies and argues that continued curation of human remains is important. Springer reviews American Indian law and how it helped to shape laws such as NAGPRA (the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act). He provides detailed analyses of cases including the Kennewick Man and the Havasupai genetics lawsuits. Together, Weiss and Springer offer a thoughtful critique of repatriation—both the ideology and the laws that support it. Repatriation and Erasing the Past is a helpful assessment for scholars and students who wish to understand both sides of the debate.
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University Press of Florida Modeling Entradas: Sixteenth-Century Assemblages in North America
Book SynopsisIn Modeling Entradas, Clay Mathers brings together leading archaeologists working across the American South to offer a comprehensive, comparative analysis of Spanish entrada assemblages. These expeditions into the interior of the North American continent were among the first contacts between New- and Old-World communities, and the study of how they were organized and the routes they took—based on the artifacts they left behind—illuminates much about the sixteenth-century indigenous world and the colonizing efforts of Spain. Focusing on the entradas of conquistadors Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, Hernando de Soto, Tristán de Luna y Arellano, and Juan Pardo, contributors offer insights from recently discovered sites including encampments, battlefields, and shipwrecks. Using the latest interpretive perspectives, they turn the narrative of conquest from a simple story of domination to one of happenstance, circumstance, and interactions between competing social, political, and cultural worlds. These essays delve into the dynamic relationships between Native Americans and Europeans in a variety of contexts including exchange, disease, conflict, and material production.This volume offers valuable models for evaluating, synthesizing, and comparing early expeditions, showing how object-oriented and site-focused analyses connect to the anthropological dimensions of early contact, patterns of regional settlement, and broader historical trajectories such as globalization. A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series
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University Press of Florida The Making of Mississippian Tradition
Book SynopsisIn this volume, Christina Friberg investigates the influence of Cahokia, the largest city of North America's Mississippian culture between AD 1050 and 1350, on smaller communities throughout the midcontinent. Using evidence from recent excavations at the Audrey-North site in the Lower Illinois River Valley, Friberg examines the cultural give-and-take Audrey inhabitants experienced between new Cahokian customs and old Woodland ways of life.Comparing the architecture, pottery, and lithics uncovered here with data from thirty-five other sites across five different regions, Friberg reveals how the social, economic, and political influence of Cahokia shaped the ways Audrey inhabitants negotiated identities and made new traditions. Friberg's broad interregional analysis also provides evidence that these diverse groups of people were engaged in a network of interaction and exchange outside Cahokia's control. The Making of Mississippian Tradition offers a fascinating glimpse into the dynamics of cultural exchange in precolonial settlements, and its detailed reconstruction of Audrey society offers a new, more nuanced interpretation of how and why Mississippian lifeways developed.A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series.
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University Press of Florida Presidios of Spanish West Florida
Book SynopsisA landmark study of Spain's fortified settlements in West Florida from a lifelong specialist on the periodPresidios of Spanish West Florida provides the first comprehensive synthesis of historical and archaeological investigations conducted at the fortified settlements built by Spain in the Florida panhandle from 1698 to 1763. Combining intensive research by author Judith Bense, a lifelong specialist on the Spanish West Florida period, with a century's worth of additional data, this landmark study brings to light four presidio locations that have long been overshadowed by the presidio at St. Augustine to the east, revealing the rest of the story of early Spanish Florida. Bense details a history fraught with catastrophe—hurricanes, war against France and England, and treaties that forced the Spanish base in West Florida to be uprooted and rebuilt four times. Examining each presidio, including associated military outposts, shipwrecks, and refugee mission villages of the Apalachee and Yamasee Indians, this book provides four discrete, sequential windows into the Spanish presence in the region. Bense compares the population to that of Presidio San Agustin, established 133 years later, revealing very different communities, people, and local customs. Interwoven with these historical findings is an account of how the general public has participated in investigations in the region, providing readers with an understanding of eighteenth-century West Florida and the development of public archaeology in the state from the person who initiated and directed much of the research.
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University Press of Florida The Biocultural Consequences of Contact in
Book SynopsisExamining the long-lasting effects of European colonization on Mexican populationsThe Biocultural Consequences of Contact in Mexico explores how Mexican populations have been shaped both culturally and biologically by the arrival of Spanish conquistadors and the years following the defeat of the Aztec empire in 1521. Contributors to this volume draw on a diverse set of methods from archaeology, bioarchaeology, genetics, and history to examine the response to European colonization, providing evidence for the resilience of the Mexican people in the face of tumultuous change.Essays focus on Central Mexico, Yucatan, and Oaxaca, providing a cross-regional perspective, and they highlight Mexican scholars’ work and viewpoints. They examine the effects of the castas system—which the colonizers used to organize society according to parentage and the social construction of race—on individuals’ and groups’ access to power, social mobility, health, and mate choice. Contributors illuminate the poorly understood extent that this system—and the national identity of mestizaje that replaced it—caused structural inequality and the structural violence of stress and health disparities, as well as genetic admixture.Five hundred years after the Spanish first clashed with Aztec forces and began to influence modern Mexico, this volume adds to discussions of colonialism, the reconstruction of biosocial relationships, and the work of decolonization. Students and scholars in anthropology and history will gain insights into how human populations transform and adapt in the wake of major historical events that result in migration, demographic change, and social upheaval.
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Burning Diagrams in Anthropology
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Punctum Books Urban Liquefaction
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Independently Published L'altra taranta: Annabella Rossi e il tarantismo nel Cilento
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Thomas W. Paradis Living the Palio: A Story of Community and Public Life in Siena, Italy
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Lulu Press Fly
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Anu Press Dregs
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ANU Press Ink and Land
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Anu Press Wild Partners
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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 ReviewJohn Steckleys detailed research on the Wyandot/Wendat clan system is the culmination of a lifetime pursuit to unearth and untangle the complicated history of North Americas 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)Using documentaiton 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. Steckleys 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.... Steckleys easy to understand orthography of the Wyandot/Wendat language literally keeps the language alive. Secondly, Steckleys 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, Steckleys book is extraordinarily dynamic on many accounts. It is not surprising therefore that Steckley, who has devoted his lifes work to understanding and unravelling the cultures and kinship of Great Lakes native cultures, was adopted by the Wyandot people of Kansasa 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, Steckleys book is the best kinship/clan based historical study I have ever read. Kenneth C. Carstens, Institute of Frontier History and Archaeology, Kentucky, The Michigan Historical ReviewSteckleys 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 authors 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, First Nations University of Canada, CHOICETable 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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Must Have Books Argonauts of the Western Pacific
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Wits University Press Like Family: Domestic Workers in South African History and Literature
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Wits University Press Anxious Joburg: The Inner Lives of a Global South City
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Wits University Press Uncovering Memory: Filming in South Africa, Germany, Poland and Bosnia/Herzegovina
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Modest Fashion: Styling Bodies, Mediating Faith
Book SynopsisIncreasing numbers of women are engaging in the development and discussion of modest dressing; a movement matched by a growing media and popular demand for intelligent commentary about the topic. Modest Fashion sets out to meet that need.As a trend, modest dressing is spreading across the world, yet it is rarely viewed as 'fashion'. Studying consumers and producers, retailers and bloggers, Modest Fashion provides an up to the minute account of the art of dressing modestly - and fashionably.Leading scholars in the area, along with journalists, fashion designers, entrepreneurs and bloggers discuss the emergence of a niche market for modest fashion among and between Jewish, Christian and Muslim faith groups as well as secular dressers. Crossing creeds and cultures, analysing commentary alongside commerce, the book probes the personal and the political as well as religious, aesthetic and economic implications of contemporary dress practices and the debates that surround them.Trade Review'This is a wonderful discussion of new configurations of "modest fashions" in the contemporary world, with contributors from academia, business and the media. Focusing on the interrelationships among fashion production and consumption practices of Christian, Jewish and Muslim faith groups, this book is a constant delight.' Ozlem Sandykcy, Bilkent UniversityTable of Contents1 Preface – Linda Woodhead 2 Introduction: Mediating Modesty - Reina Lewis Part One – Faith-based fashion and the commercially fluid boundaries of confession 3 Fashion forward and faith-tastic! Online modest fashion and the development of women as religious interpreters and intermediaries - Reina Lewis 4 ‘Discover the beauty of modesty’: Islamic fashion online – Annelies Moors 5 Meeting through modesty: Jewish-Muslim encounters on the internet – Emma Tarlo 6 Hasidic women’s fashion aesthetic and practice: the long and short of tzniuth – Barbara Goldman Carrel Part Two – Modesty without religion? Secularity, shopping and social status through appearance 7 Modest motivations: religious/secular contestation in the fashion field – Jane Cameron 8 The modesty of clothing and immodesty of religion – Daniel Miller 9 ‘Can we discuss this?’ – Elizabeth Wilson Part Three – Manufacturing and Mediating Modesty: the industry and the press 10 Modesty regulators – punishing and rewarding women’s appearances in mainstream media – Liz Hoggard 11 Insider voices, changing practices: press and industry professionals speak Index
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Benediction Classics Argonauts of the Western Pacific: An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea
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Benediction Classics Argonauts of the Western Pacific. an Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea
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Equinox Publishing Ltd Iconic Books and Texts: 2015
Book SynopsisImages of books appear in art, advertising and commercial logos to symbolize learning, knowledge and wisdom. In religious and secular rituals around the globe, people carry, show, wave, touch and kiss books and other texts, as well as read them. Such images and rituals utilize the iconic dimension of texts. This volume is the first comprehensive survey of iconic books and texts. It traces their development and influence from ancient to modern times and compares their roles in multiple cultures and religious traditions. The twenty-two essays presented here are original, cutting-edge contributions to this new academic field, and will appeal to students and scholars across the study of religions, literature, book history, archives and libraries.Trade ReviewTogether the 22 essays in this volume creatively and effectively draw together different historical epochs, varied religious and cultural traditions and ritual practices, and diverse scholarly methodologies to create a finely woven tapestry depicting the enduring, transcultural, and mutually supportive significances of iconic books and texts. In addition to giving these previously published essays a wider audience, this collection will help foster meaningful cross-disciplinary conversation between readers interested in al aspects of the history of the book.Table of ContentsIntroduction James W. Watts I. Categorizing Iconic Books1. The Three Dimensions of Scriptures James W. Watts 2. "Winged Words": Scriptures and Classics as Iconic Texts William A. Graham, Harvard University 3. Talking about "Iconic Books" in the Terminology of Book History Deirdre C. Stam, Long Island University II. Images and Texts4. The Iconic Book: The Image of the Bible in Early Christian Rituals Dorina Miller Parmenter, Spalding University, Louisville, KY 5. Images to be Read and Words to be Seen: The Iconic Role of the Early Medieval Book Michelle P. Brown, School of Advanced Study, University of London 6. Looking at Words: The Iconicity of the Page S. Brent Plate, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY 7. Between the Textual and the Visual: Borderlines of Late Antique Book Iconicity Zeev Elitzur, Israel Center for Excellence through Education, Jerusalem 8. It Is What It Is (Or Is It?): Further Reflections on the Buddhist Representation of Manuscripts Jacob Kinnard, Iliff School of Theology, Denver 9. The Tell-Tale Iconic Book M. Patrick Graham, Emory University III. Materials and Markets10. Mus h af and the Material Boundaries of the Qur'an Natalia K. Suit, University of North Carolina (PhD candidate) 11. The End of the Word as We Know It: The Cultural Iconicity of the Bible in the Twilight of Print Culture Timothy Beal, Case Western Reserve University 12. Iconic Books from Below: The Christian Bible and the Discourse of Duct Tape Dorina Miller Parmenter 13. Be-Witching Scripture: The Book of Shadows as Scripture within Wicca/Neopagan Witchcraft Shawn Loner, Syracuse University (PhD candidate) IV. Book Rituals14. Engaging with the Guru: Sikh Beliefs and Practices of Guru Granth Sahib Kristina Myrvold, Linnaeus University, Sweden 15. A Birthday Party for a Sacred Text: The Gita Jayanti and the Embodiment of God as the Book and the Book as God Joanne Punzo Waghorne, Syracuse University 16. Possession and Repetition: Ways in which Korean Lay Buddhists Appropriate Scriptures Yohan Yoo, Seoul National University 17. The Bible in British Folklore Brian Malley, University of Michigan V. Power and Scholarship18. The Pride and Prejudice of the Western World: Canonic Memory, Great Books and Archive Fever Karl Ivan Solibakke, Syracuse University 19. Indigenous "Texts" of Inhabiting the Land: George Washington's Wampum Belt and the Canandaigua Treaty Philip P. Arnold, Syracuse University 20. The Gospels as Imperialized Sites of Memory in Late Ancient Christianity Jason T. Larson, The Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, CT 21. Possessing the Iconic Book: Ben Sira as Case Study Claudia V. Camp, Texas Christian University 22. Ancient Iconic Texts and Scholarly Expertise James W. Watts
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Rowman & Littlefield International Creole in the Archive: Imagery, Presence and the
Book SynopsisThe image of the Caribbean figure has been reconfigured by photography from the mid-19th century onwards. Initial images associated with the slave and indentured worker from the locations and legacies associated with plantation economies have been usurped by visual representations emerging from struggles for social, political and cultural autonomy. Contemporary visual artists engaging with the Caribbean as a 21st century globalised space have focused on visually re-imagining historical material and events as memories, histories and dreamscapes. Creole in the Archive uses photographic analysis to explore portraits, postcards and social documentation of the colonial worker between 1850 and 1960 and contemporary, often digital, visual art by post-independent, postcolonial Caribbean artists. Drawing on Derridean ideas of the archive, the book reconceptualises the Caribbean visual archive as contiguous and relational. It argues that using a creolising archive practice, the conjuncture of contemporary artworks, historical imagery and associated locations can develop insightful new multimodal representations of Caribbean subjectivities.Trade ReviewRoshini Kempadoo invites us into a complex space that offers new ways of reading photographs, documents, and letters focusing on the Caribbean. This book is wonderfully researched. An expert reader of the visual, Kempadoo is the voice that is able to view the archive as a performative space that is revisited time and again. An insightful and important contribution to the study of identity, race, memory, and global studies. -- Deborah Willis, Professor of Photography and Imaging, New York University - Tisch School of the ArtsCreole in the Archive persuasively traces the role of the archive in construing and constructing images of colonial spaces across history, while simultaneously identifying the archive itself as a temporally and spatially creole construct. Offering a nuanced analysis of the ‘archive’, this book takes us beyond the hegemonic readings that typically dominate material-cultural discussions of the archive. Richly informed by Kempadoo’s own experiences as a researcher and an artist, Creole in the Archive will provide fertile ground for reflection within both the academy and the creative industries. -- Anthony Mandal, Professor of Print and Digital Cultures, Cardiff University This book harnesses the process of creolisation in a sensitive engagement with the notion of the archive. Kempadoo considers formal and informal repositories, offline and online realms, historical records and contemporary acts of art making – as ways of seeing. She launches the reader into an expanded visual matrix, from which it is possible to discern more complex Caribbean subjectivities. -- Marsha Pearce, Lecturer in Cultural Studies, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and TobagoCreole in the Archive persuasively traces the role of the archive in construing and constructing images of colonial spaces across history, while simultaneously identifying the archive itself as a temporally and spatially creole construct. Offering a nuanced analysis of the ‘archive’, this book takes us beyond the hegemonic readings that typically dominate material-cultural discussions of the archive. Richly informed by Kempadoo’s own experiences as a researcher and an artist, Creole in the Archive will provide fertile ground for reflection within both the academy and the creative industries. -- Anindya Raychaudhuri, Lecturer in English, University of St AndrewsTable of ContentsIntroduction: Notebook of a Return / 1. Creolising Archives: A Relational and Contiguous Practice / 2. Caribbean Spaces: Seeing Her Presence, Exploring Her Past / 3. Controlling Her Image / 4. ‘See We Here’: Determining the Caribbean Self / 5. Visualising Change / Conclusion: Endnote / Index
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Open Book Publishers From Dust to Digital: Ten Years of the Endangered Archives Programme
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Open Book Publishers Cultural Heritage Ethics: Between Theory and Practice
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Pentecostal Republic: Religion and the Struggle for State Power in Nigeria
Book SynopsisThroughout its history, Nigeria has been plagued by religious divisions. Tensions have only intensified since the restoration of democracy in 1999, with the divide between Christian south and Muslim north playing a central role in the country’s electoral politics, as well as manifesting itself in the religious warfare waged by Boko Haram. Through the lens of Christian–Muslim struggles for supremacy, Ebenezer Obadare charts the turbulent course of democracy in the Nigerian Fourth Republic, exploring the key role religion has played in ordering society. He argues the rise of Pentecostalism is a force focused on appropriating state power, transforming the dynamics of the country and acting to demobilize civil society, further providing a trigger for Muslim revivalism. Covering events of recent decades to the election of Buhari, Pentecostal Republic shows that religio-political contestations have become integral to Nigeria’s democratic process, and are fundamental to understanding its future.Trade ReviewThis book achieves its goal of filling gaps created by ahistoric Pentecostal philosophical approaches by remaining entrenched firmly in a movement’s tradition while formulating a Pentecostal rationality. * PentecoStudies *An accessible yet astute analysis of the profound impact that popular forms of Christianity have on the political landscape in Nigeria. A key text for anyone with an interest in contemporary Christianity, democracy and politics in Nigeria, Africa and beyond. * Adriaan van Klinken, University of Leeds *A brilliant exposé of the central role of religion, particularly Pentecostalism, in Nigeria's political landscape. The narrative is gripping and the insights compelling. A must read for any student of religion and politics. * Allan H. Anderson, University of Birmingham *A must read. Clearly argued and highly informative, there is nothing quite like it on the market given its contemporary focus. Tackling questions beyond those focused on a single religious tradition, it will find an avid scholarly readership. * Brandon Kendhammer, Ohio University *The best work on religion in Nigeria that I have read in recent years. It will have a profound impact on African studies, religion and sociology. * Jacob Olupona, Harvard Divinity School *An excellent and provocative analysis of political Pentecostalism in Nigeria. Written in eminently fluid prose, the book stages a new paradigm for the study of democracy and charismatic Christianity. Quite simply, brilliant. * Nimi Wariboko, author of Nigerian Pentecostalism *An authoritative work on the politics of Nigeria’s Pentecostal revolution during the country’s fourth attempt at constitutional democracy. An important text in African political studies. * Olufemi Vaughan, Amherst College *A work that combines theoretical sophistication with an elegant analysis of a complex cultural phenomenon. Obadare is a brilliant writer whose passion, conviction, and deep knowledge of Nigeria’s political and religious terrain comes across vividly and persuasively. * Simeon O. Ilesanmi, Wake Forest University *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Pentecostal Republic, Enchanted Democracy 2. 1999–2007: Pentecostalism Ascendant 3. 2007–2010: A Muslim Interlude? 4. 2010–2015: Pentecostalism Re-Ascendant 5. Electoral Theologies 6. “Kill them before they kill you”: On Violent Pentecostalism 7. Conclusion
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Michael O'Mara Books Ltd Thought Economics: Conversations with the
Book SynopsisA collection of fascinating conversations with business leaders, politicians, entrepreneurs and cultural icons: now fully updated with new interviews including Shaquille O'Neal, Matthew McConaughey, Tim Peake, Brian Eno, Daniel Kahneman, Jessica Ennis-Hill and many more. We often talk of war and conflict, the economy, culture and revolutions as if they are something other than us. But all these things are a product of us – of our ideas, our dreams and our fears. We live in extraordinary times, and the changes we’re experiencing now, in these first decades of the twenty-first century, feel particularly poignant as decisions are made that will inform our existence for years to come. What started out as a personal interest in the mechanisms that shape our views of the world and a passion for understanding has grown into a phenomenal compilation of once-in-a-lifetime conversations. In this incredible collection, Shah shares some of his most emotive and insightful interviews to date.
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Benediction Books The Island of Desire: The Story of a South Sea Trader
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Pantianos Classics Anthropology and Modern Life: The Classic of Human Social Study, covering Ideas of Race, Education, Culture and Nationalism
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Pantianos Classics The Mind of Primitive Man: The Classic of Anthropology - Hereditary Characteristics, Linguistic and Cultural Traits of the Human Races
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Lexington Books Tenkin and Career Management in a Changing Japan
Book SynopsisTenkin, or corporate transfers in the Japanese contexts, is distinctive by its compulsory nature and embeddedness in society. Tenkin is a mandated practice. Workers have little discretion. If workers are dual-career couples with small children, how do they manage such a mandated employment practice? Tenkin and Career Management in a Changing Japan attempts to answer this question through qualitative interviews with human resource department managers in seven large firms and with 46 married, white-collar workers, including six men, and participant observation in several social events. The research uncovered that the culturally normative, gendered nature of tenkin is produced and reproduced by contemporary Japanese firms' capitalists' logic and gendered family assumptions. That said, it also revealed that some firms attempted to advance diversification and inclusion in their workplaces. The dual-career couples are also becoming the actors of tenkin through practices of negotiation in their workplaces and homes. The author discusses that these dual-career couples' lives echo the concept of agency by Sherry Ortner (2006) and argues that for structural change to happen in Japan, the essential concept of care should be brought to the table in the discussion of career management for all workers.
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Lexington Books Ecotourism Impacts on Indigenous Peoples
Book SynopsisEcotourism, defined as responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment and improves the well-being of local people, has become one of the fastest growing industries in the world. The impacts of ecotourism, both positive and negative, on people in virtually every part of the planet are particularly true for Indigenous people. Indigenous people are found in over half of the world's countries and their cultures, customs, traditions, identities, and natural resource management systems are of great interest to scientists, tourists, and travelers. Many indigenous peoples reside in conservation hotspots and places with high biological biodiversity. As shown in this volume, ecotourism has both promises and pitfalls for indigenous peoples, who seek to enhance their livelihoods while conserving the habitats in which they reside and the sacredness of their traditions. Indigenous peoples have in many cases welcomed tourists in order to have access to sources of income and desirable goods. Other groups prefer to avoid tourists and the challenges and difficulties that they fear could be disruptive to their societies. Drawing on cases from South America, North America, Africa, and Asia, Ecotourism Impacts on Indigenous Peoples examines the social, economic, political, and environmental impacts of ecotourism. Attention is paid to such issues as the effects of COVID-19, the impacts of protected area development, and the societal changes that can occur as the numbers of ecotourists expand and contract. A common plea of Indigenous people is that they have greater control over incoming ecotourists and receive more equitable social, economic and cultural benefits from what they recognize as a highly complex industry with significant environmental, economic, and political effects.
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