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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 The Candlelight Movement Democracy and
Book SynopsisThis book examines key features, problems, and implications of the 20162017 Candlelight Movement, a historical cornerstone for democracy and social movements in South Korea. The Candlelight Movement brought profound social changes with important lessons and questions for scholars, practitioners, activists, and the public. To examine the full complexity of the movement, this edited volume utilises wide-ranging methodological and theoretical approaches, which include case study approaches, ethnography, survey, feminist film criticism, critical discourse analysis, and rhetorical criticism. Chapters place communication' at the centre of their analyses, calling attention to the mediated and mediatised, the performative and other discursive practices of the 20162017 Candlelight Movement. In doing so, the book discusses not only the usual players and factors nor the institutions that exert their influence through democratic politics and the public sphere but also the counteTable of ContentsPart 1: Media and media space 1. A crisis of press freedom: Investigative journalism and the downfall of the President 2. One small action for the larger movement 3. Social media use on protest sites during the 2016–2017 candlelight vigils in Seoul Part 2: Culture and performance 4. "With the brightest light we have": K-pop fandom in candlelight movement and diversification of Korean protest culture 5. Channeling anger into hope 6. Dancing for hope: The shamanic ritual and performative Koreanness at the candlelight protests Part 3: Counterpublics and representation 7. Contested neoliberal vulnerability: Laboring, feminine, and queer subjects in the streets of the impeachment protest 8. The conservative news media outlets: Blowing out candles for economic democracy 9. From flags to candles: Visual hailing and articulation of nation Appendix: An analysis of contemporary Korean society through the candlelight movement: A historical perspective to the social phenomena and changes
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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 Developing CrossCultural Competence for Leaders
Book SynopsisThis book offers an accessible reference and roadmap for the practical application of cross-cultural competence (3C) for leaders dedicated to leading with diversity, inclusion and personal development in mind. Developing Cross-Cultural Competence for Leaders takes readers from ideational to real, asking them to step out of their comfort zone and learn to navigate cultural differences. The authors invite readers to join them on a journey of discovery of themselves, their personal and professional peers and ultimately the cultural landscape they inhabit both knowingly and oftentimes unknowingly all in the hopes of opening doors to empathetic and effective communication. The skillset required for 3C is developed throughout the book beginning with a discussion of relevant concepts, leading the readers through narratives of extreme environments and ending with a roadmap for use in leadership positions. Each chapter discusses a foundational idea contextualized with sample naTable of ContentsForeword. 0. Introduction: Developing Cross-Cultural Competence for Leaders. 1. Defining Culture for Leadership. 2. Cross-Cultural Understanding as a Function of Leadership. 3. Experiential Learning and Immersive Environments to Develop Leaders. 4. The Ethnographic Method for Leadership. 5. Developing 3C in the Workplace and the Role of Communication. 6. Biases and Obstacles to Critical Thinking. 7. Optimizing 3C with Key Ingredients: Empathy, Mindfulness and Reflexivity. 8. The Personal and Organizational Benefits of Being Cross-Culturally Competent. Afterword.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Developing CrossCultural Competence for Leaders
Book SynopsisThis book offers an accessible reference and roadmap for the practical application of cross-cultural competence (3C) for leaders dedicated to leading with diversity, inclusion and personal development in mind. Developing Cross-Cultural Competence for Leaders takes readers from ideational to real, asking them to step out of their comfort zone and learn to navigate cultural differences. The authors invite readers to join them on a journey of discovery of themselves, their personal and professional peers and ultimately the cultural landscape they inhabit both knowingly and oftentimes unknowingly all in the hopes of opening doors to empathetic and effective communication. The skillset required for 3C is developed throughout the book beginning with a discussion of relevant concepts, leading the readers through narratives of extreme environments and ending with a roadmap for use in leadership positions. Each chapter discusses a foundational idea contextualized with sample naTable of ContentsForeword. 0. Introduction: Developing Cross-Cultural Competence for Leaders. 1. Defining Culture for Leadership. 2. Cross-Cultural Understanding as a Function of Leadership. 3. Experiential Learning and Immersive Environments to Develop Leaders. 4. The Ethnographic Method for Leadership. 5. Developing 3C in the Workplace and the Role of Communication. 6. Biases and Obstacles to Critical Thinking. 7. Optimizing 3C with Key Ingredients: Empathy, Mindfulness and Reflexivity. 8. The Personal and Organizational Benefits of Being Cross-Culturally Competent. Afterword.
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Taylor & Francis Secular Narrations and Transdisciplinary
Book SynopsisThis book considers secularism and its narrative expressions. It shows how secularism is articulated and transmitted ubiquitously within state institutions and outside of them. Abdelmajid Hannoum does this by dissecting, in a series of essays, a variety of narrative forms, interrogating modes of their constitution and production, the dynamics of their translatability, the politics of their use, the struggle over their status of truth, and the conditions that make secular narration so central to our existence. The book ranges from a medieval narrative of the secular to a modern narrative, to anthropological secularism and religious experiences, to narratives of translation produced by what the author calls translation ideology, to historical narratives regulated by archival power and state secrecy, to narratives of violence, to narratives of recollection, as well as narratives of silence. Particular attention is paid to postcolonial French contemporary cultures and politics. Transdisciplinary approaches are deployed to not only reframe old questions in new ways but also posit new questions out of old ones. In doing so, this innovative work opens up fresh discursive possibilities that cross traditional disciplines. It will be of interest to scholars of anthropology, history, and beyond.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Cultural Dimension of Global Business
Book SynopsisNow in its ninth edition, The Cultural Dimension of Global Business continues to provide an essential foundation for understanding the impact of culture on global business and global business on culture. The highly experienced authors demonstrate how the theory and insights of cultural anthropology can positively influence the conduct of global business, examining a range of issues that individuals, teams, and organizations face as they work globally and across cultures. The cross-cultural scenarios presented at the end of each chapter allow students of business, management, and anthropology alike to explore cultural differences while gaining valuable practice in thinking through a variety of complex and thorny cultural issues. The fully updated ninth edition offers:â An expanded focus on international perspectives, and greater insight into China and its emergence as a global economic powerâ Consideration of team interactions in complex global environmTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Cultural anthropology and global business2. Applying lenses to understanding culture 3. Communicating nonverbally across cultures 4. Communicating across cultures using language5. Negotiating across cultures 6. Understanding organizational culture 7. Partnering across cultures8. Transforming business culture9. Exploring consumers and users10. Acting and managing globallyAppendix: Cross-cultural scenario discussionsGlossaryReferences
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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 Introduction to HumanAnimal Interaction
Book SynopsisIntroduction to Human-Animal Interaction focuses on the human dimension of interacting with other animals. This book introduces recent developments, theories, and debates in the relatively new research area of Human-Animal Interaction (HAI) and focuses on the social and life sciences aspect of these interactions. Experts from different academic disciplines provide an overview for students and professionals interested in how humans and other animals interact, and what advantages and disadvantages emerge for both parties in this relationship.The book starts with the theories and mechanisms supporting our interactions with animals, such as human-animal communication, and it then covers the implications of HAI in terms of ethics and welfare. After discussing cultural differences and forensic aspects in human-animal interaction (e.g., wildlife crime and animal abuse), the book examines evidence in the area of animal-assisted intervention. The final chapters give an overviTrade Review"The book is a revelation: The authors have done an impressive job in bringing together all the main areas of actual contemporary human-animal interaction research."Prof. Robert Mitchell, Department of Psychology, Eastern Kentucky University, USA"Each chapter provides a really nice introductory text for key topics taught across a range of disciplines in HAI."Prof. Carri Westgarth, Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, UKTable of Contents1. An Introduction to Human–Animal Interaction, Book Content and Considerations 2. Theories in Human–Animal Interaction 3. Human–Animal Communication 4. Bioethics and Human–Animal Interaction 5. Human–Animal Welfare: The Interconnectedness of Human Well-Being and Animal Welfare 6. Cross-Cultural Variation in Human–Animal Interaction 7. Criminal Issues in Human–Animal Interaction 8. Animal-Assisted Intervention and Professional Practice 9. Human–Pet Interaction 10. Human–Livestock Interaction 11. Human–Wildlife Interaction Multiple Choice Questions: The Answers! Going the Extra Mile ...
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Democracy Populism and Neoliberalism in Ukraine
Book SynopsisThis book explores the reasons behind the unexpected rise to power of Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, a former comedian with no political background, and offers an in-depth analysis of the populist messages he delivered to the Ukrainian people via his TV show.Taking a discourse analysis approach, the author draws on two main arguments of critical scholarship: the populist explosion of the recent decade came as a reaction to the inequalities and injustices of the global neoliberal order, and the success of neoliberalism can be explained by its ability to mask itself under attractive progressive covers. Developing these lines of argument, the book demonstrates not only how the populist explosion can lead to further neoliberalization, but also that the euphemizing effect can be achieved by mixing the virtual and the real, as in the case of Zelensky.This first of its kind study will resonate with any scholar or upper-level student working on populism, neTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Populist Explosion as a Reaction to the Neoliberal Order 2. Euphemizing the Neoliberal Promise 3. The People vs. The Elites 4. On the Fringes of the Virtual and the Real: Simulating the Political 5 “Do not Sell Our Motherland!”: Zelensky’s Land Reform 6. “To bury communism”: A Failure of Modernization Rhetoric of “Servants” 7. The Post-Political Tyranny of the Integral 8. Democracy-to-Come: A Perpetual Promise Conclusion
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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 The Dance of Innovation
Book SynopsisFew of us, amidst our daily chores and responsibilities, consider how mundane infrastructuresfrom electrical grids to sewage systemshave developed over millennia in ways that enable everything we cherish, from democracy to technological innovation to individual liberty. But what drives the evolution of this infrastructure? And why is infrastructure so critical to human flourishing? In this book, the most innovative and interdisciplinary study of cultural evolution ever produced, new concepts are explored, new histories are brought into contact and new ground-breaking insights are defended. What makes creativity unique in human societies is not only our capacity to generate and modify our diverse individual intuitions about the social and physical world, but also our capacity to form and leave groups fluidly in a dancing rhythm of oscillation across the expanse of history. This book walks the reader carefully through these processes, with clear concepts and an approachable writing styleTrade Review"The Dance of Innovation: Infrastructure, Social Oscillation, and the Evolution of Societies is a very impressive work. The fusion-fission dynamic integrates a lot of complex processes into a workable model. I don’t think I’ve seen an analysis of social change with this kind of scope, integrating the evolution of material and cultural infrastructures along with the evolution of humans both physically and mentally. The continuities in mechanisms from infrahuman life-forms are striking. The book reminds me somewhat of the work of [classical sociologists], but with 150 more years of scientific knowledge accumulated, and a superior theoretical arsenal. "Randall Collins, Professor of Sociology Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, is a world-renowned sociologist"The Dance of Innovation: Infrastructure, Social Oscillation, and the Evolution of Societies is unlike any book written in recent history in sociology. It advances a critical idea that is often lost in sociology – the central force of infrastructures. Human institutional systems and, indeed, all dimensions of the social and economic world do not exist nor function without viable infrastructures. Everything that humans do in building up societies is linked to technologies or knowledge about how to build infrastructures, that is, the sustaining foundations of human societies that allow their dynamic processes to operate and evolve. Another central idea is an old one but stated in a novel new way – the notion of oscillations around patterns of fission and fusion. Societies and, indeed, all social systems at all levels of human organization, are built up only to disintegrate at some point in time as nothing lasts forever. Such has always been true for human social evolution but has been particularly the case over the last 10,000 years where infrastructures have allowed humans to build large, complex societies filled with disintegrative tendencies, thus accelerating oscillation of patterns of social organization on a much more rapid and grand scale. This book is one of the most original contributions to sociological analysis in many decades; and even though it is highly theoretical, it is written in such an informal style that it is a pleasure to read."Alexandra Maryanski, Research Professor of the Graduate Division in Sociology, University of California, Riverside"Sociologists need to incorporate an evolved human actor into their models of emergent social processes, and McCaffree does so here, admirably so. He notes that it is the distinctly human evolved capabilities for cooperation and symbolic communication that enable humans to create social groups of a size not seen in the animal world. At the same time the constant dissolution and recombination of those social groups is an important source of knowledge innovation and cultural change. McCaffree particularly highlights the important role of the development of both the knowledge and structures of physical infrastructure (the infrastructure that supplies vital functions such as the supply of clean water) in making the mass societies of the modern world possible."Rosemary Hopcroft, Department of Sociology, University of North CarolinaTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Humans’ Genetic Unity and Ape Ancestry2. Fission-Fusion Oscillation as the Central Sustaining Mechanism of Organismality, Part 13. Fission-Fusion Oscillation as the Central Sustaining Mechanism of Organismality, Part 24. Intuitive Information Processing5. On the Important Distinction Between “Tools” and “Infrastructure”6. The Tools and Infrastructure of Fossil Fuel Societies7. Cities Drive the Metabolism of Societies8. An “Oscillation-Infrastructural” Theory of Cultural Evolution
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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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Routledge The Irish in EighteenthCentury Bordeaux
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Taylor & Francis South Korean Popular Culture in the Global
Book SynopsisThis book explores the recent landscape of Korean popular culture, including celebrity diplomacy, political activism, and inter-Korean relations in the era of âontactâ, with a special focus on K-pop and K-drama.Utilising the interdisciplinary approach, along with theoretical accounts, it redefines popular culture and its true power â beyond soft power â including discussions of how the pandemic and the use of online platforms have coincidently or effectively influenced recent phenomena surrounding Korean popular culture. It reveals both the possibilities and pitfalls of Hallyu diplomacy and the UNâs celebrity diplomacy more broadly, and highlights how, through the mobilisation of a large internet fanbase, the modern K-pop âstandomâ can influence political discourse. The book also features an examination of the political significance of the K-drama through which it highlights the potential of popular media to impact inter-Korean relations and inform current internationa
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Taylor & Francis Race Gender and Identity in American Equine Art
Book SynopsisThis book traces an evolution of equine and equestrian art in the United States over the last two centuries to counter conventional understandings of subjects that are deeply enmeshed in the traditions of elite English and European culture.In focusing on the construction of identity in painting and photographyof Blacks, women, and the animals themselves involved in horseracing, rodeo, and horse show competitionit illuminates the strategic and varying roles visual artists have played in producing cultural understandings of human-animal relationships. As the first book to offer a history of American equine and equestrian imagery, it shrinks the chasm of literature on the subject and illustrates the significance of the genre to the history of American art. This book further connects American equine and equestrian art to historical, theoretical, and philosophical analyses of animals and attests to how the horse endures as a vital, meaningful subject within the art world
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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 Fifty Key Scholars in Black Social Thought
Book SynopsisFifty Key Scholars in Black Social Thought is a collaborative volume that uplifts and explores the intellectual activism and scholarly contributions of Black social thinkers. It implores readers to integrate the research of Black scholars into their teaching and research, and fundamentally, to rethink the dominant epistemological claims and philosophical underpinnings of the Western social sciences. It features 50 chapters, written by 55 scholars who explore the diverse contributions of notable Black thinkers, both historical and contemporary.Four thematic areas organize this workâBlack epistemology, Black geopolitics, Black oppression and resistance, and Black families and communities. Through a close analysis of the fifty thinkers presented here, the chapters explore these themes while dismantling the whitewashed disciplinary histories, methodologies, and content that obscure and/or subjugate the significance of Black social thought. In addition to offering insightfu
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Indian Black and Irish
Book SynopsisThis book traces 500 years of European-American colonization and racialized dominance, expanding our common assumptions about the ways racialization was used to build capitalism and the modern world-system.Professor Fenelon draws on personal experience and the agency of understudied Native (and African) resistance leaders, to weave a story too often hidden or distorted in the annals of the academy, that remains invisible at many universities and historical societies. The book identifies three epochs of racial constructions, colonialism, and capitalism that created the USA. Indigenous nations, the first to be racialized on a global scale, African peoples, enslaved and brought to the Americas, and European immigrants. It offers a sweeping analysis of the forces driving the invasion, occupation, and exploitation of Native America and the significance of labor in American history provided by Indigenous people, Africans, and immigrants, specifically the Irish.Indian, BlaTrade Review"The prosperity of the West was built on the blood and land of Indigenous peoples and the sweat of other people of color. In this magisterial book, Professor Fenelon skillfully weaves the long and thick story of how all Europeans and a myriad of their institutions participated in this process and benefitted from it. After this book, no European or their descendants can claim racial innocence. Bravo Professor Fenelon for this major contribution."Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke University, author of Racism Without Racists"The history of capital, as Professor James Fenelon shows in this urgent and timely new study, is the history and racism and genocide. The story is told with great clarity, passion, and abundance of historical evidence. At a time when global capitalism is throwing communities around the world into desperate struggles for survival and threatening our very existence, this masterful study is as much a powerful indictment of the past and the present of this out of control system. as it is a dire warning of the future to come if we do not come to terms with the legacy of racism, colonialism, and genocide in the Americas and beyond."William I. Robinson, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, University of California at Santa Barbara, Author of The Global Police State"Once again, Dakota Professor James Fenelon offers a thoughtful, provocative, and engaging history examining race and racism globally. He focuses on Indigenous, Black, and Irish people, offering a global story of people and systems. The book analyzes the impact of colonialism, racism, and Native responses--past and present—of systems designed to denigrate, distort, and exploit. Fenelon focuses on agency and sovereign responses of people faced with rapid change and foreign disruptions. Superbly researched, elegantly written, and wonderfully argued, Fenelon draws on original sources, multiple illustrations, and his own experiences to offer this fascinating, groundbreaking study."Clifford E. Trafzer, Rupert Costo Chair in American Indian Affairs , Distinguished Professor of History, University of California, Riverside Table of Contents1. Introduction: 1490 – 2020 Racial construction of Indians, Blacks, Whites 2. The Indian: 1492 –1620 Racial construction of Indians and Blacks 3. The Black: 1620 – 1790 Institutionalizing Racial Codification 4. Three Revolutions: 1776 – 1790 three Races in a New State Bibliography
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Taylor & Francis The Metamorphosis of Greek Cuisine
Book SynopsisThis book is an ethnography of the metamorphosis of rural foods and traditional dishes and of the making of cuisine and identity in contemporary Athens. In the wake of the financial crisis in Athens in the mid-2015s, forgotten rural foods of the past are transformed into luxurious artisanal foods, while traditional dishes appear reinvented in fine-dining restaurants, after decades of darkness. How, and why is this all happening in a city of poverty, hardship and economic crisis? Through sensory descriptions and thick ethnographic material, it follows the Athenian affluent middle class in upscale delis and goes inside fine-dining restaurant kitchens, discussing the complex combination of cuisine, tradition, memory and identity, revealing the cultural logic and social aspects of cuisine. It demonstrates how cuisine emerges from very different, often contradictory social spaces, not only as an intellectual and aesthetic endeavour of chefs or as a revival of foods and foodways that link the country and the city, but also as interlinked with embodied memories and embedded in social relations and commensality.This book will be of great interest to scholars and students in Anthropology and Food Studies.
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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 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.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands in
Book SynopsisJohn Martin (1789-1869) was a London-based, Edinburgh-educated physician interested in anthropological matters. This comprehensive account of Tongan Society is his only book. He was inspired to write it by a chance encounter with its subject, William Mariner (1791-1853) who spent four years (1806-1810) in Tonga, in the South Pacific, at a time before any substantial European influence disturbed or modified that society. Mariner, an extraordinarily mature and perceptive youth, became thoroughly imbued with Tongan language and culture as the adopted son of the most powerful chief in Tonga. Martin's intelligent engagement with Mariner resulted in a compelling narrative and a comprehensive account of Tongan society which, together with the accompanying grammar and vocabulary, became a classic. Often celebrated as an extraordinary real-life adventure story, it is a pioneering work of anthropology, and for 200 years it has been a primary and authoritative source for research into Tongan history and culture.Table of ContentsMartin’s Preface / Martin’s Introduction / Chapter 1 / Chapter 2 / Chapter 3 / Chapter 4 / Chapter 5 / Chapter 6 / Chapter 7 / Chapter 8 / Chapter 9 / Chapter 10 / Chapter 11 / Chapter 12 / Chapter 13 / Chapter 14 / Chapter 15 / Chapter 16 / Chapter 17 / Chapter 18 / Chapter 19 / Chapter 20 / Chapter 21 / Chapter 22 / Chapter 23 Surgical Skill of the Tonga Islanders / Appendix : A Grammar and Vocabulary / Summary of Grammar Review / Bibliography / Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Deconstructing Archetype Theory
Book SynopsisThis important book offers a critical and timely reassessment of one of the cornerstones of analytical psychology, Jungâs concept of archetypes.Exploring not only Jungâs original writings but also the range of interpretations used by Jungian scholars today, the book argues that Jungâs conceptualization of archetype theory is not a single coherent theory; rather, it is four different theories which must be understood separately. Roesler goes onto deconstruct these four ideas: the biological, the anthropological, the transcendental and the psychological in context with contemporary insights from each of these disciplines. A thorough analysis of the state of knowledge in the respective disciplines (i.e. biology, anthropology, religious and mythological studies) makes clear that the claims archetype theory makes in these fields have no support and should be given up. Deconstructing Archetype Theory concludes by arguing that a universal process of psychological transformation is the only part of archetype theory which should be maintained, as it provides a map for psychotherapy.Rigorous and insightful, this is a book that will fascinate scholars and practitioners of analytical psychology, as well as anyone with an interest in Jungâs original work.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Definitions of archetype in Analytical Psychology 3. The theory of archetypes in Jung's work 4. Problems and criticism 5. Biology, genetics and inheritance 6. Anthropology 7, Religion 8. Prehistory 9. Mythology 10. Conclusion: The Core Theory- a theory of psychological transformation References
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Taylor & Francis Ethnicity and Adivasi Identity in Bangladesh
Book SynopsisThis book explores the transitions in the adivasi identity as well as in the political representation of adivasi communities in Bangladesh.It traces the use of categories such as primitive, tribe, and adivasi in post-colonial Bangladesh, both in the political discourse and in everyday life. The volume studies the history of these essentialized categories used for indigenous communities within the hierarchies of power and identity. It also analyses the diverse articulations of indigeneity through ethnographic narratives, exploring the formations of newer traditions and identity. The author highlights the persistence of the terms simple and primitive in contemporary discourses while also sharing examples of complex mediations and appropriation of these categories by adivasi groups in Bangladesh.This book will be of interest to researchers and students of sociology, social ethnography, social and cultural anthropology, indigenous studies, exclusion studies, development st
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Routledge Ideas of Europe
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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 Ltd Knots
Book SynopsisKnots are well known as symbols of moral relationships. This book develops an exciting new view of this otherwise taken-for-granted image and considers their metaphoric value in and for moral order. In chapters that focus on Japan, China, Europe, South America and in several Pacific Island societies, granular ethnography depicts how knots are deployed to express unity in daily and ritual embodiment, political authority and the cosmos, as well as in social thought. The volume will be of interest to anthropologists and other scholars concerned with metaphor and symbolism, material culture and technology.
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Taylor & Francis The Natives of the Northern Territories of the
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Taylor & Francis Representing Hip Hop Histories Politics and
Book SynopsisThis long-awaited volume is the first edited collection to focus entirely on Hip Hop in Australia. Bringing together both scholarly and practitioner perspectives, across 11 chapters, contributors explore the diversity of identities, communities, practices, and expressions that make-up Hip Hop in Australia, including Emceeing/ music production, Graffiti and Breaking.The theoretical and methodological frameworks used include ethnographic and autoethnographic research and writing, discourse analysis, Indigenous methodologies, textual analysis and archival research. Some authors present their contributions in academic chapters, while others use creative formats. The book showcases how Hip Hop is understood and lived across numerous settings in Australia, making important contributions to global Hip Hop studies and scholarship in related fields such as popular music, youth culture and First Nations Studies.It will prove essential reading for students, academics, and practit
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Taylor & Francis Kinship and Gender
Book SynopsisThis fully revised seventh edition of Kinship and Gender: An Introduction explores kinship in todayâs globalized, increasingly mobile world, and how family structures continue to influence the varied roles that men and women play in different cultures.Written to engage students, each chapter provides key terms and useful generalizations gleaned through research on the interplay of kinship and gender in both traditional societies and contemporary communities. Detailed case studies and cross-cultural examples help students understand how such generalizations are experienced in real life. The authors also consider the ramifications of current social problems and recent developments in reproductive technology as they demonstrate the relevance of kinship and gender to studentsâ lives. The new edition contains a revised introduction highlighting the disaggregation of marriage and reproduction; new sections on third gender, nonbinary, and trans identities; new case studies on spiritual kinship; as well as explorations of genetic and ancestral kinship paradigms, new reproductive technologies, and a more robust global perspective throughout. Pedagogical features include suggestions for classroom media, a glossary, an appendix, and downloadable PowerPoint slides.Kinship and Gender: An Introduction provides a broad, yet nuanced introduction to the field, and is essential reading for students taking their first steps into anthropology, gender studies, and sociology.
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Routledge Summer of Soul ...Or When the Revolution Could
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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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Taylor & Francis Group Class War or Race War
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Human Difference
Book SynopsisFrom a multidisciplinary perspective grounded in psychoanalysis, this book explores the manifestations of mind that distinguish humans from other species, culture, civilization, and destructiveness.Psychoanalysis was created by Freud in an effort to understand neurosis and psychosis, the names he gave to individual human destructiveness. His understanding was limited and incorrect because the science of evolution and the disciplines of sociology and cultural anthropology were in their infancy when he formulated his ideas. He did not comprehend that destructiveness is qualitatively different in humans than in other species and he ignored the problem of how biological instincts become mental processes. These limitations left psychoanalysis with one of its most perplexing unsolved problems, the mysterious leap from mind to body. This book explains how neoteny, the prolonged period of postnatal immaturity that distinguishes humans from other animals, requires and enables complex Trade Review'In this major achievement Dr Robbins demonstrates the sweep of his scholarship in a stunning analysis of the human difference from other species with regard to mental structure, civilisation and destructiveness. He integrates psychoanalysis with evolution theory, primatology and sociology and examines manifestations of human destructiveness that have no parallel in other species such as murder, war, persecution and devastation of the environment related to the explosive increase in human population.'Henry Lothane, clinical professor of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine'Robbins penetrates the mystery of the leap from body to mind and explores the origins of civilisation and malignant human destructiveness. He explains Freud's limited understanding of biology and introduces the role of neoteny and dependency on caregivers in the acquisition of a second mental process unique to humans. His experience in treating the psychoses helps Robbins to revise the theory of evolution and integrate it with psychoanalytic theory, offering a deeper understanding of human nature. Original and fascinating!' Riccardo Lombardi, MD, author of Body-Mind Dissociation and Formless InfinityTable of Contents1. Introduction: The Mutually Enriching Contributions of the Psychoanalytic Theory of Mind and the Biological Theory of Evolution to Understanding the Uniqueness of Human Civilization and Human Destructivess 2. Homo Destrudo: The Manifestations of Human Destructiveness 3. Human Destructiveness in Mythology and Fiction 4. A History of the Contributions and Limitations of Psychoanalysis and Other Disciplines to the Understanding of Human Destructiveness 5. The Difference Between Humans and Other Primate Species: Complex Learning and the Accumulation and Intergenerational Transmission of Knowledge 6. The Theory of Evolution and its Limitations Comprehending the Human Difference 7. Revising the Theory of Evolution to Account for the Human Difference 8. The Unique Nature of Human Mind: Reflective Representational Thought 9. The Origins of Reflective Thought and Human Individuality During the Attachment-Separation Phase of Development 10. The Basic Principles Governing the Social Organization of Species 11. Human Social Organization in the Beginning: Inferences from Remaining Human Tribes 12. Evolution of the Human Social Difference Through the Acquisition and Intergenerational Transmission of Knowledge 13. The Developmental Origins of Individual Destructiveness: The Interaction of Biology and Learning 14. Individual Human Destructivess: From Failures of Self-Care to the Spectrum of Psychoses 15. Individual Human Destructiveness: Four Patients and a Former President 16. Social Destructiveness: The Clash Between Groups: Belief versus Belief, Belief verus Reflective Thought, and Reflective Thought verus Reflective Thought 17. Civilization and the Confusing Interaction of Constructive and Destructive Forces 18. Implications of a Psychoanalytic Understanding of the Human Difference Based on a Revised Theory of Evolution for Society and for the Fate of Our Species
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Taylor & Francis Reflections on Polarisation and Inequalities in
Book SynopsisThis is the first interdisciplinary edited collection that examines the manifestation of social inequalities and polarisations in Britain throughout the dual crises of the Brexit vote and the COVID-19 pandemic. The volume demonstrates that Brexit and the pandemic are not self-contained events but rather are major ongoing processes that have impacted all aspects of British social and political life. Drawing on an array of empirical case studies conducted in the wake of the Brexit vote and during pandemic lockdowns, chapters trace how these processes illuminate, consolidate, and amplify existing and entrenched social inequalities and polarisations that shape the fabric of British society, including racial, ethnic, class, migrant, national, and gendered inequalities.The volume is divided into three parts centred on a) the nation; b) the community; and c) the media. Each section draws on diverse analytical frameworks and methodological approaches from across the social sciences,
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Weak Utopianism in Education
Book SynopsisIn the light of the structural dangers of revolutionary change highlighted in the political theory of Giorgio Agamben, this book joins a lively debate in philosophy of education on weak utopianism as an approach that foregrounds and respects the educational potentiality of teachers and students. Utopian moves in education call for revolutionary changes in pedagogical practice in pursuit of a particular vision of the good. Whether grounded in emancipatory politics, technological enthusiasm, or another social movement, utopian moves are seductive in their promise of a better alternative. Weak Utopianism in Education draws together philosophy of education, political theory, scholarship of teaching and learning research, and utopian thought to advocate for a modest and humble approach to change. The theoretical foundation of weak utopianism opens space for educator's personal convictions and teaching philosophies to tinker with their own pedagogical practices. The book creates a
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sociology and the Holocaust
Book SynopsisFor some time the conventional wisdom in the interdisciplinary field of Holocaust studies is that sociologists have neglected this subject matter, but this is not really the case. In fact, there has been substantial sociological work on the Holocaust, although this scholarship has often been ignored or neglected including in the discipline of sociology itself. Sociology and the Holocaust brings this scholarly tradition to light, and in doing so offers a comprehensive synthesis of the vast historical and social science literature on the before, during, and after of the Holocausta tour d'horizon from an explicitly sociological perspective. As such, the aim of the book is not simply to describe the chronology of events that culminated in the deaths of6 million Jews but to draw upon sociology's theoretical toolkit to understand these events and the ongoing legacy of the Holocaust sociologically.Trade Review“Berger’s work will play a significant role in any future investigation of the Holocaust from a multi-disciplinary perspective. Readers of this book will realize how lacking the new field of Holocaust Studies is without the contribution of sociology.” - Dr. Shay Pilnik, Director, Emil A. and Jenny Fish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Yeshiva University"In the context of explaining the Holocaust, Berger attempts to bring sociology back in. He succeeds admirably by discussing the relevance of the sociological classical theorists Marx, Durkheim, and Weber. For example, he addresses Weber’s thought on bureaucracy in the context of the organization of the Nazi killing apparatus. His analysis includes collective memory of the historical events and their victims – highly recommended."- Lutz Kaelber, Associate Professor of Sociology at University of Vermont, Faculty Committee of the Carolyn and Leonard Miller Center for Holocaust StudiesTable of ContentsPreface 1 Personal and Professional Roots A Second Generation Perspective Terms of the Inquiry The Indifference of a Discipline 2 On the Shoulders of Giants Sociologists of the 1930s and 1940s The Trifocal Lens of Classical Theory A General Theory and Case Study of Structure and Agency 3 Antisemitism and Pseudoscientific Racism The Development of Christian Antisemitism The Confluence of Antisemitism and Racism Nazi Eugenics and the Medicalization of Genocide 4 The Class Composition and Economics of Nazism Nazi Party Membership and Election Studies Economic Exclusion, Aryanization, and Mass Theft Nazi and Corporate Enterprises 5 The Nazi State, Bureaucracy, and Response of the Jews The Inner Circle of the Nazi State Nazi Cultural Organizations From the Nuremberg Laws to the Final Solution Ghettoization Open-Air Shootings and Concentration Camps 6 The Response of the Allies The Prewar Period The Wartime Period The Immediate Postwar Period 7 National Collective Memories of the Holocaust The Federal Republic of Germany Israel The United States Poland 8 It Is Happening Here The New Authoritarianism The Question of Fascism The White Power and Patriot Movements The Radicalization of the Republican Party Concluding Reflections on Contemporary Antisemitism References Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Sociology of Humankind
Book SynopsisBased upon the interdependencies of human beings as we cooperate and conflict with each other, how we share information, and how culture evolves, this book proposes a sociology of humanity covering three hundred millennia. Grounded in empirical findings from archaeology, history, lab experiments, and field studies supplemented for precision with computational network models of cultural evolution, cooperation, influence, cohesion, warfare, power, social balance, and inequality this is the first attempt at encompassing sociology of humankind. Informed by the theory of cultural evolution, it extends the notion that cultural evolution connects humans of all times in a giant sociocultural network, thereby yielding coherence between a great many empirical findings. It will therefore appeal to scholars of sociology and anthropology with interests in historical sociology, cultural evolution, and social theory.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ethnicity and Development
Ethnicity and Development explores the impact of ethnic fragmentation on the success or failure of nations and uses case studies of Bangladesh and Pakistan to illustrate this. It analyzes the role of institutions in engendering economic and social progress and challenges the New Institutional Economics (NIE) narrative.The book argues that the NIE narrative has some gaps, particularly that it is blind to ethnic fragmentation and therefore does not account for the construction of institutions that can build national cohesion in low- and low-middleincome countries (L/LMICs). It shows that L/LMICs have a different cultural context and that they need to first build national cohesion on a foundation of horizontal across ethnic groups and vertical across classes equity. The author's analysis also examines other novel issues, such as the boost that is provided by nations acquiring the right of self-determination. Other novelties are the distinction between prime causes (
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Taylor & Francis Doubting Ghosts
Book SynopsisBased on Ethnographic research in England, Doubting Ghosts explores the paradoxes faced by paranormal investigators or âghost huntersâ: in spite of spending significant time observing and documenting what they suspect to be paranormal phenomena â in a scientific, secular and rational fashion â many paranormal investigators remain skeptical about the existence of the paranormal. What, then, does it mean to regularly see ghosts and yet to not believe ghosts are real?Examining the manner in which the scientific approach adopted by investigators produces profound doubts about the existence of the paranormal, the meaning of science, and the nature of modernity, the author demonstrates that doubt itself is central to experiences of secularity and that doubt can constitute a foundation for long-term engagements with the paranormal. Thus, paranormal investigators are able to sustain a relationship, albeit an uneasy one, with the paranormal while maintaining a commitment to a scientif
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Taylor & Francis Why the World Needs Anthropologists
Book SynopsisWhy does the world need anthropology and anthropologists more than ever? The second edition of Why the World Needs Anthropologists brings together prominent academic, practicing, and applied anthropologists to answer this provocative question.This new edition advocates for a proactive and ethically engaged discipline that not only observes societal transformations but also contributes to solving the most pressing global issues. It proposes that anthropology must be at the front and center of the solving table. In an accessible and appealing style, each author explores the social value and practical application of the discipline of anthropology. Contributors share their career paths and how they use their anthropological skills and knowledge outside academia, and provide specific suggestions to anthropologists and the public at large on practical ways in which anthropology offers powerful insights and solutions in complex and unpredictable times. Each chapter includes a list of recommendations - DOs and DON'Ts - from the authors. With such practical resources, this book is a toolkit to harness anthropologyâs full potential.This one-of-a-kind volume is essential reading for both fledgling and established anthropologists, social scientists and the general public.
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Taylor & Francis Can We Trust Technology
Book SynopsisAs emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence, automated, and robotic technologies become increasingly prominent in our possible futures, there is growing anxiety about if they can be trusted. Governments, industry organisations and research funders are investing millions in the quest to design trustworthy technologies. But is a future where trusted technologies organise our lives for us even plausible? How do tech workers and researchers design or make technologies that we can trust? Is it even realistic to assume that people would trust technologies in everyday life? This book argues that we need to look beyond simplistic assumptions that trustworthy technologies will solve societyâs problems, to instead ask what would happen if we exchanged the motif of trustworthy technologies for one of trusted futures guided by people, the environment and other species. This will be the first book to advance a new argument and research agenda in this field, and is therefore designe
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Taylor & Francis The Amazonian Other
Book SynopsisThis book explores representations of Amazonian Indigenous peoples in contemporary cultural texts. It analyzes a variety of mediums from novels and films to games and exhibitions, uncovering a distorted image of Indigenous peoples of the Amazon in Euro-American common imagination. The author suggests that these texts rely on a stereotypical vision that was shaped in the first decades of colonization. The chapters consider the formation of the image of Amazonian Indigenous people throughout history and some of the contemporary issues they face, touching on daily life and themes such as shamanism and cannibalism. Together they highlight the misrepresented image of Indigenous groups in the Amazon, who are portrayed as different, even strange, in relation to Western culture. The argument put forward is that both exotic and self-exoticization rely on the notion of otherness, leading to romanticization, patronization, and caricature. The book will be of particular interest to scholars of
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Taylor & Francis Mutual Help Networks in Japanese Society
Book SynopsisOnda compares Japanâs traditional mutual help practices, an integral part of the nationâs societal fabric, with those of other countries across Asia, including Korea, China, Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, and Vietnam, and the Pacific islands region, namely Palau and Pohnpei.The book advocates for the revitalization of mutual help, which has declined due to modernization, characterized by changes in production and our urban lifestyle. It sheds light on the fading awareness of traditional mutual help practices and encourages the discovery of new connections and bonds in contemporary society. Ondaâs comparative approach reveals the characteristics of mutual help networks based on the similarities (universality) with and differences (uniqueness) from Japanâs mutual help practices, which stem from the social structures of individual regions.A vital resource for scholars in sociology, folklore studies, social welfare, or economics and those interested in human connections, mutual help, and cooperation.
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