Geography, Anthropology, Recreation
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Protocols of the Learned Elders of ZionWhen the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion were first discovered, Freemasons and Zionist Jews everywhere screamed and complained that these 24 Protocols are a hoax, a forgery, even a blood taint against the Jews. But then came the brutal and barbaric Communist...
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Mirabilia descripta: The wonders of the EastMirabilia descripta: The wonders of the EastThe little work here presented was printed in the original Latin at Paris in 1839, under the editorship of M. Coquebert-Montbret, in the Recueil de Voyages et de Mmoires, publi par la Socit de Gographie, vol. iv. I...
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The Boy Travellers in the Far East, Part ThirdThe Boy Travellers in the Far East, Part Third - Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey to Ceylon and India; With Descriptions of Borneo, the Philippine Islands and BurmahThis volume completes the series of "The Boy Travellers in the Far East." It attempts...
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Sinhalese Folklore Notes, CeylonSinhalese Folklore Notes, CeylonThe Sinhalese beliefs, customs and stories in the present collection were contributed by the writer to the Indian Antiquary fourteen years ago in a series of articles under the title of Glimpses of Sinhalese Social Life; they are now offered, amplified...
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Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Part 4Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Part 4 Arrival at Bluff, N. Z.Where the Rabbit Plague BeganThe Natural Enemy of the RabbitDunedinA Lovely TownVisit to Dr. HockinHis MuseumA Liquified CaterpillarThe Unperfected Tape WormThe Public Museum and Picture CHAPTER XXXI. The Express Train"A...
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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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The New Map of Empire: How Britain Imagined America Before IndependenceAfter the Treaty of Paris ended the Seven Years' War in 1763, British America stretched from Hudson Bay to the Florida Keys, from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi River, and across new islands in the West Indies. To better rule these vast dominions,...
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The Consolations of Humor and Other Folklore EssaysThe Consolations of Humor and Other Folklore Essays unfolds as a series of questions, commentaries, and criticisms of the analysis, interpretation, and explanation of folklore. Can we confidently regard jokes as the catharsis of sexual and aggressive impulses? What is the basis for characterizing...
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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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Humanism Revisited: An Anthropological PerspectiveThe West emancipated itself from the old humanism long ago and in doing so distanced itself from 'heteronomy' it declared that man, and not a non-human power, should be the first reference to approach people and nature. Today, as heirs of this tradition, we...
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