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Melanesian Mainstream: Stringband Music and Identity in VanuatuCitizens of Vanuatu (ni-Vanuatu) perceive stringband music as a marker of national identity, an indicator of their cultural, stylistic, and musical heritage. Through extensive field and ethnographic research, Melanesian Mainstream offers a detailed historical record of the roots, context, evolution, and impact of stringband...
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Laboratories of Learning: Social Movements, Education and Knowledge-Making in the Global South'Outstanding ... This book is a must-read for scholars and activists interested in the impact of grassroots knowledge-making on individuals, institutions and society' -- Rebecca Tarlau, author of Occupying Schools, Occupying Land 'In social movements, people [learn how to] re-imagine their worlds. This powerful...
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In the Land of the Unreal: Virtual and Other Realities in Los AngelesIn the mid-2010s, a passionate community of Los Angeles-based storytellers, media artists, and tech innovators formed around virtual reality (VR), believing that it could remedy society's ills. Lisa Messeri offers an ethnographic exploration of this community, which conceptualized VR as an "empathy machine" that...
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Having People, Having Heart: Charity, Sustainable Development, and Problems of Dependence in Central UgandaBelieving that charity inadvertently legitimates social inequality and fosters dependence, many international development organizations have increasingly sought to replace material aid with efforts to build self-reliance and local institutions. But in some cultures--like those in rural Uganda, where Having People, Having Heart takes place--people...
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Funk the Clock: Transgressing Time While Young, Perceptive, and BlackFunk the Clock is about those said to be emblematic of the future yet denied a place in time. Hence, this book is both an invitation and provocation for Black youth to give the finger to the hands of time, while inviting readers to...
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Emerging Trends in Third-Generation Holocaust LiteratureEmerging Trends in Third-Generation Holocaust Literature offers fresh approaches to understanding how grandchildren of Holocaust survivors and perpetrators treat their traumatic legacies. The contributors to this volume present a two-fold perspective: that the past continues to live in the lives of the third generation...
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A Winning Dialect: Reinventing Linguistic Tradition in Rural NorwayA Winning Dialect tells the story of linguistic and cultural change in rural Norway over the last two decades.Author: Thea R. StrandPublisher: University of Toronto PressPublished: 06/22/2024Pages: 160Binding Type: PaperbackSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00dISBN: 9781487545963
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African Friends and Money Matters: Observations from Africa, Second EditionAfrican Friends and Money Matters grew out of frustrations that Westerners experience when they travel and work in Africa. Africans have just as many frustrations relating to Westerners in their midst. Each manages money, time, and relationships in very different ways, often creating friction...
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What's Race Got To Do With It?: How Current School Reform Policy Maintains Racial and Economic Inequality, Second EditionWhat's Race Got To Do With It? Second Edition examines neoliberal education reforms as they are being rolled back (or reworked) to track the changes and continuities of recent years-revealing the ways in which market-driven education reforms work with and through race-and share grassroots...
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Vital Relations: How the Osage Nation Moves Indigenous Nationhood Into the FutureRelationality is a core principle of Indigenous studies, yet there is relatively little work that assesses what building relations looks like in practice, especially in the messy context of Native nations' governance. Focusing on the unique history and context of Osage nation building efforts,...
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Untold Stories: Legacies of Authoritarianism among Spanish Labour Migrants in Later LifeFeaturing a community of Spanish labour migrants in France who were born at the time of Spain's civil war and came of age during General Francisco Ferdinand's dictatorship, Untold Stories reveals how legacies of authoritarianism circulate in the lives of older adults.Author: David DivitaPublisher:...
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Trapped: Life Under Security Capitalism and How to Escape ItExploring the pernicious influence of security capitalism on neighborhoods, airports, cities, and states. Calls to defund the police or to stop brutal police violence, argue Mark Maguire and Setha Low, will never succeed as long as there are those who enjoy and take comfort...
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Seeking a Future for the Past: Space, Power, and Heritage in a Chinese CitySeeking a Future for the Past: Space, Power, and Heritage in a Chinese City examines the complexities and changing sociopolitical dynamics of urban renewal in contemporary China. Drawing on ten years of ethnographic fieldwork in the northeastern Chinese city of Qingdao, the book tells...
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Schoolishness: Alienated Education and the Quest for Authentic, Joyful LearningIn Schoolishness, Susan D. Blum continues her journey as an anthropologist and educator. The author defines "schoolishness" as educational practices that emphasize packaged "learning," unimaginative teaching, uniformity, constant evaluation by others, arbitrary forms, predetermined time, and artificial boundaries, resulting in personal and educational alienation,...
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Revivalism: Representing an Afro-Jamaican IdentityMaria A. Robinson-Smith presents an overview and genealogy of Revivalism in this work. She explores the role of the Revival iconography in building a culture of shared understanding among Revivalists and, by extension, African Jamaicans. The Watt Town setting, with bands coming together from...
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Mountain at a Center of the World: Pilgrimage and Pluralism in Sri LankaAt the pilgrimage site of Adam's Peak in Sri Lanka, a footprint is embedded atop the mountain summit. Buddhists hold that it was left by the Buddha, Hindus say Lord Siva, and Muslims and Christians identify it with Adam, the first man. The Sri...
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Moldova: A HistoryMoldova is a new nation-state with a long history. Despite only recently gaining independence, following the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, Moldova's roots stretch all the way back to the Principality of Moldavia, established in 1359. After centuries toiling under Ottoman control,...
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Misogyny: The Male Malady"Yes, women are the greatest evil Zeus has made, and men are bound to them hand and foot with impossible knots by God."--Semonides, seventh century B.C. Men put women on a pedestal to worship them from afar--and to take better aim at them for...
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Mapas Corporales: Historias, Relatos Y Conceptos Que Nos Atraviesan / Body Maps. Stories, Tales, and Ideas That Come Through Us«Al hablar del cuerpo como un territorio, nos referimos a que es un espacio impactado por diversos problemas, un lugar en donde se inscriben una serie de normas y discursos culturales que lo fraccionan y establecen sus regiones y bordes, mapas a través de...
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Japanese Foodways, Past and PresentSpanning nearly six hundred years of Japanese food culture, Japanese Foodways, Past and Present considers the production, consumption, and circulation of Japanese foods from the mid-fifteenth century to the present day in contexts that are political, economic, cultural, social, and religious. Diverse contributors--including anthropologists,...
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