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This edited volume brings together ten compelling ethnographic case
studies from a range of global settings to explore how people build
metalinguistic communities defined not by use of a language, but
primarily by language ideologies and symbolic practices about the
language. The authors examine themes of agency, belonging,
negotiating hegemony, and combating cultural erasure and genocide
in cultivating meaningful metalinguistic communities. Case studies
include Spanish and Hebrew in the USA, Kurdish in Japan, Pataxo
Hahahae in Brazil, and Gallo in France. The afterword, by Wesley L.
Leonard, provides theoretical and on-the-ground context as well as
a forward-looking focus on metalinguistic futurities. This book
will be of interest to interdisciplinary students and scholars in
applied linguistics, linguistic anthropology and migration studies.
In order to protect and defend citizens, the foundational concepts
of fairness and equality must be adhered to within any criminal
justice system. When this is not the case, accountability of
authorities should be pursued to maintain the integrity and pursuit
of justice. Police Brutality, Racial Profiling, and Discrimination
in the Criminal Justice System is an authoritative reference source
for the latest scholarly material on social problems involving
victimization of minorities and police accountability. Presenting
relevant perspectives on a global and cross-cultural scale, this
book is ideally designed for researchers, professionals,
upper-level students, and practitioners involved in the fields of
criminal justice and corrections.
This book presents rich information on Romanian mythology and
folklore, previously under-explored in Western scholarship, placing
the source material within its historical context and drawing
comparisons with European and Indo-European culture and
mythological tradition. The author presents a detailed comparative
study and argues that Romanian mythical motifs have roots in
Indo-European heritage, by analyzing and comparing mythical motifs
from the archaic cultures, Greek, Latin, Celtic, Sanskrit, and
Persian, with written material and folkloric data that reflects the
Indo-European culture. The book begins by outlining the history of
the Getae-Dacians, beginning with Herodotus' description of their
customs and beliefs in the supreme god Zamolxis, then moves to the
Roman wars and the Romanization process, before turning to recent
debates in linguistics and genetics regarding the provenance of a
shared language, religion, and culture in Europe. The author then
analyzes myth creation, its relation to rites, and its functions in
society, before examining specific examples of motifs and themes
from Romanian folk tales and songs. This book will be of interest
to students and scholars of folklore studies, comparative
mythology, linguistic anthropology, and European culture.
This book brings audiences the enchanting melodies passing down
from generation to generation in the Zhuang community, which are on
the brink of extinction. Specifically, it sheds light on the
origin, evolution and artistic features of Zhuang folk song in the
first place, and then it shifts to their English translation based
on meta-functional equivalence, through which the multi-aesthetics
of Zhuang folk song have been represented. At length, forty classic
Zhuang folk songs have been selected, and each could be sung
bilingually in line with the stave. This book benefits researchers
and students who are interested in music translation as well as the
Zhuang ethnic music, culture and literature. It also gives readers
an insight into musicology, anthropology and intercultural study.
The Spanish invasion of Mexico in 1519, which led to the end of the
Aztec Empire, was one of the most influential events in the history
of the modern Atlantic world. But equally consequential, as this
volume makes clear, were the ways the Conquest was portrayed. In
essays spanning five centuries and three continents, The Conquest
of Mexico: 500 Years of Reinventions explores how politicians,
writers, artists, activists, and others have strategically
reimagined the Conquest to influence and manipulate perceptions
within a wide variety of controversies and debates, including those
touching on indigeneity, nationalism, imperialism, modernity, and
multiculturalism. Writing from a range of perspectives and
disciplines, the authors demonstrate that the Conquest of Mexico,
whose significance has ever been marked by fundamental ambiguity,
has consistently influenced how people across the modern Atlantic
world conceptualize themselves and their societies. After
considering the looming, ubiquitous role of the Conquest in Mexican
thought and discourse since the sixteenth century, the contributors
go farther afield to examine the symbolic relevance of the Conquest
in contexts as diverse as Tudor England, Bourbon France,
postimperial Spain, modern Latin America, and even contemporary
Hollywood. Highlighting the extent to which the Spanish-Aztec
conflict inspired historical reimaginings, these essays reveal how
the Conquest became such an iconic event-and a perennial medium by
which both Europe and the Americas have, for centuries, endeavored
to understand themselves as well as their relationship to others. A
valuable contribution to ongoing efforts to demythologize and
properly memorialize the Spanish-Aztec War of 1519-21, this volume
also aptly illustrates how we make history of the past and how that
history-making shapes our present-and possibly our future.
Voces de Aztlan: A Chicana/o History Reader, Vol. 2 provides
students with a selection of primary and secondary sources that
explore the rich, influential, and important histories of Chicana/o
peoples in the United States. The volume is organized
chronologically into eight chapters and covers a broad range of
topics and themes, mostly from twentieth century Chicana/o history.
It begins with an examination of the late nineteenth century and
the struggles to ward off land disposition and political and
economic disenfranchisement. Additional chapters explore the rise
and expansion of Jim Crow as it was experienced by Native Americans
and Mexican Americans, the Mexican Revolution, the racialization
process as it played out during the Great Depression, and watershed
moments of World War II. Students learn about the concept of
conditional patriotism, El Movimento, and cultural resistance in
the post-movement period. Together, these sources provide students
with a new view and perspective on the broader history of the
United States. Voces de Aztlan: A Chicana/o History Reader, Vol. 2
is the second installment in a two-volume reader designed to help
students rediscover American history from new viewpoints. It is
ideal for courses in American history and Chicana/o history.
In rural Mexico, people often say that Alzheimer's does not exist.
""People do not have Alzheimer's because they don't need to
worry,"" said one Oaxacan, explaining that locals lack the stresses
that people face ""over there"" - that is, in the modern world.
Alzheimer's and related dementias carry a stigma. In contrast to
the way elders are revered for remembering local traditions,
dementia symbolizes how modern families have forgotten the communal
values that bring them together. In Caring for the People of the
Clouds, psychologist Jonathan Yahalom provides an emotionally
evocative, story-rich analysis of family caregiving for Oaxacan
elders living with dementia. Based on his extensive research in a
Zapotec community, Yahalom presents the conflicted experience of
providing care in a setting where illness is steeped in stigma and
locals are concerned about social cohesion. Traditionally, the
Zapotec, or ""people of the clouds,"" respected their elders and
venerated their ancestors. Dementia reveals the difficulty of
upholding those ideals today. Yahalom looks at how dementia is
understood in a medically pluralist landscape, how it is treated in
a setting marked by social tension, and how caregivers endure
challenges among their families and the broader community. Yahalom
argues that caregiving involves more than just a response to human
dependency; it is central to regenerating local values and family
relationships threatened by broader social change. In so doing, the
author bridges concepts in mental health with theory from medical
anthropology. Unique in its interdisciplinary approach, this book
advances theory pertaining to cross-cultural psychology and
develops anthropological insights about how aging, dementia, and
caregiving disclose the intimacies of family life in Oaxaca.
Brothers at Each Other's Throats: Regularity of the Violent Ethnic
Conflicts in the Post-Soviet Space illuminates how, at the end of
the Cold War, the collapse of the Soviet Union considerably
enhanced and promoted ethnic conflicts in Eurasia. The text
explains how the emergence of newly independent realms caused many
ethnic groups to jump at each other's throats in an effort to claim
territory and establish dominance. Opening chapters explore the
meaning of ethnicity, review principal characteristics of ethnic
groups and nations, and place ethnic groups within the context of
the modern world. Students learn about the reaction of ethnicity to
challenging circumstances through the historical example of the
Ukraine and its interactions with neighboring groups and powers.
Chapters 4 and 5 examine the impact of all-sided social crises on
peoples and their interactions, as well as the driving forces of
ethnic conflict: ethno-political elites and charismatic leaders.
Additional chapters examine the ideology of ethnic conflicts and
the cyclical pattern and typology of violent ethnic conflicts.
Students review timeline-based accounts of violent ethnic conflicts
in the post-Soviet space and between Russia and the Ukraine. The
closing chapter covers external factors that exacerbate the
conflicts, including conflict propaganda and the Eurasian debate in
Russia and its impact on current Russian policy towards the Ukraine
and the West.
This wide-ranging interdisciplinary collection-the first of its
kind-invites us to reconsider the politics and scope of the Roots
phenomenon of the 1970s. Alex Haley's 1976 book was a publishing
sensation, selling over a million copies in its first year and
winning a National Book Award and a special Pulitzer Prize. The
1977 television adaptation was more than a blockbuster
miniseries-it was a galvanizing national event, drawing a
record-shattering viewership, earning thirty-eight Emmy
nominations, and changing overnight the discourse on race, civil
rights, and slavery. These essays-from emerging and established
scholars in history, sociology, film, and media studies-interrogate
Roots, assessing the ways that the book and its dramatization
recast representations of slavery, labor, and the black family;
reflected on the promise of freedom and civil rights; and engaged
discourses of race, gender, violence, and power in the United
States and abroad. Taken together, the essays ask us to reconsider
the limitations and possibilities of this work, which, although
dogged by controversy, must be understood as one of the most
extraordinary media events of the late twentieth century, a
cultural touchstone of enduring significance.
Just looking at the Pacific Northwest's many verdant forests and
fields, it may be hard to imagine the intense work it took to
transform the region into the agricultural powerhouse it is today.
Much of this labor was provided by Mexican guest workers, Tejano
migrants, and undocumented immigrants, who converged on the region
beginning in the mid-1940s. Of Forests and Fields tells the story
of these workers, who toiled in the fields, canneries, packing
sheds, and forests, turning the Pacific Northwest into one of the
most productive agricultural regions in the country. Employing an
innovative approach that traces the intersections between Chicana/o
labor and environmental history, Mario Sifuentez shows how ethnic
Mexican workers responded to white communities that only welcomed
them when they were economically useful, then quickly shunned them.
He vividly renders the feelings of isolation and desperation that
led to the formation of ethnic Mexican labor organizations like the
Pineros y Campesinos Unidos Noroeste (PCUN) farm workers union,
which fought back against discrimination and exploitation. Of
Forests and Fields not only extends the scope of Mexican labor
history beyond the Southwest, it offers valuable historical
precedents for understanding the struggles of immigrant and migrant
laborers in our own era. Sifuentez supplements his extensive
archival research with a unique set of first-hand interviews,
offering new perspectives on events covered in the printed
historical record. A descendent of ethnic Mexican immigrant
laborers in Oregon, Sifuentez also poignantly demonstrates the
links between the personal and political, as his research leads him
to amazing discoveries about his own family history.
German Cincinnati Revisited illuminates the major festivities,
celebrations, and events throughout the calendar year in the
Greater Cincinnati area that reflect the German heritage of the
region. It begins with the celebration of Bockfest in March,
heralding the end of winter and the beginning of spring, continuing
on with chapters on Maifest, German Day, RoeblingFest,
Schuetzenfest, Oktoberfest, and German-American Heritage Month. A
final chapter covers the German Heritage Museum of Cincinnati.
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