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Sophie Day explores the houses that are imagined, built, repurposed, and dismantled among different communities in Ladakh, drawing attention to the ways in which houses are like and unlike people.A handful of in-depth 'house portraits' are selected for the insight they provide into major regional developments, based on the author's extended engagement since 1981. Most of these houses are Buddhist and associated with the town of Leh. Drawing on both image and text, collaborative methods for assembling material show the intricate relationships between people and places over the life course. Innovative methods for recording and archiving such as 'storyboards' are developed to frame different views of the house. This approach raises analytical questions about the composition of life within and beyond storyboards, offering new ways to understand a region that intrigues specialists and non-specialists alike.
This volume focuses entirely on children and material culture. The contributors ask: what is the relationship between children and the material world?; is the material culture of children the same across all times and cultures, or does it vary?; and how can we access the actions and identities of children in the material records? The collection spans a period from the Palaeolithic to the late-20th century, and uses data from across Europe, Scandinavia, the Americas and Asia. The international contributors are from a range of disciplines including archaeology, cultural and biological anthropology, psychology and museum studies. All integrate theory and data to illustrate the significance and potential of studying children.
Recent years have witnessed a burgeoning interest in the study of everyday life within the social sciences and humanities. In "Critiques of Everyday Life" Michael Gardiner proposes that there exists a counter-tradition within everyday life theorising. This counter-tradition has sought not merely to describe lived experience, but to transform it by elevating our understanding of the everyday to the status of a critical knowledge. In his analysis Gardiner engages with the work of a number of significant theorists and approaches that have been marginalized by mainstream academe, including: the French tradition of everyday life theorising, from the surrealists to Henri Lefebvre, and from the Situationist International to Michel de Certeau; Agnes Heller and the relationship between the everyday, rationality and ethics; carnival, prosaics and intersubjectivity in the work of Mikhail Bakhtin; and Dorothy E. Smith's feminist perspective on everyday life. It demonstrates the importance of an alternative, multidisciplinary everyday life paradigm and offers a myriad of new possibilities for critical social and cultural theorising and empirical research.
This collection of essays on 18th-century Japan shows a fascination with the social context behind the development of aesthetics, drama, language, art and philosophy, whether it be the world of the pleasure quarters or the Shogun's court. Contributors include: Y. Teruoka, writing on the pleasure quarters; A. Gerstle, expanding on the Kabuki tradition; B. Torigoe, who explores the dominant Joruri narrative music; H. Clark, who surveys the development of the lively Edo language; M. Morris, exploring the relationship of poet/painter Buson with his patrons; T.J. Harper, who examines the role of social status as an influence on scholarship and the development of the National Learning tradition; M. Nakano, challenging the orthodox interpretation of high and popular culture in the 18th century; and R. Backus, who conveys the essence of the ideals of the samurai culture through his study of the political reformer Matsudaira Sadanobu.
This collection contains 100 papers drawn from the broad range of contemporary writing on the sociology of education. Major trends and developments from the 1970s through to the 1990s are represented. The text offers a comprehensive introduction to and overview of the field. The collection covers the key points of dispute and areas of controversy within the sociology of education and includes papers from many of the leading writers. Taken together, the papers constitute a sophisticated and versatile toolbox of ideas for theory-building and research. Theoretical and substantive research papers were selected for their conceptual richness and general relevance. The collection as a whole is set in context by a general introduction and each volume is introduced with some ideas for reading and integrating the different styles, perspectives, theories and methods represented.
This volume provides a critical examination of the uses and abuses of indigenous knowledge. The contributors focus on a series of interrelated issues in their interrogation of indigenous knowledge and its specific applications within the localized contexts of particular Asian societies and regional cultures.In particular they explore: the problems of translation and mistranslation in the local-global transference of traditional practices and representations of resource management; the match and mismatch of practical reasoning in indigenous subsistence regimes and their depictions by outsiders; and the developmental and political consequences of contemporary ethnic and regional claims rooted in an ideology of "traditional" indigenous knowledge.
Much has been written on racism and ethic hatred. But what about
traditions of racial tolerance and equality? "Anti-Racism" offers
an historical and international introduction to the development of
this topic. Drawing on sources from around the world, it explains
the roots and illustrates the practice of anti-racism in Western
and non-Western societies. The author introduces the contemporary
dilemmas being tracked within anti-racist debate as well as the
criticisms of anti-racism that have been heard within Western
societies.
This set publishes some of the leading European contributors to the early formation of historical and social science analysis of the orient. The collection concentrates on those authors who have shaped the modern debate on orientalism, especially on Islam, the Middle-East and orientalism in the late and early twentieth centuries.
Retopia tells the story of social innovation in times of crisis, and through its cross-disciplinary narrative it goes beyond existing forms of future anticipation and maps out a practice-based approach to the creation of new realities. It explores how new imaginaries, social experiments, and laboratories of societies can create spaces of possibilities, revalidate the peripheries, and create new forms of social coherence. The peripheral regions in Europe are facing a crisis triangle: depopulation, the rise of the 'useless' class, and outdated social welfare systems. It is a crisis of political imaginaries and a lack of inspiring political stories. In response to this, the book specifically focuses on the concept of 'retopia', the idea of creating inclusive spaces of social innovation that encourage active participation. Through the creation of relocalized societies with a high degree of autonomy in 'left-over' spaces such as Sicily, Western Latvia or Northern Bulgaria, retopian redevelopment schemes offer new perspectives on 'ruined spaces'. Retopia uncovers the common links and limitations of utopian studies, future studies, degrowth, narratology, the commons, and political geography. Retopia: Creating New Spaces of Possibility is an articulation of the potentialities of social innovation, political imaginaries, and future images, provoking a stimulating discussion among scholars and students in the fields of Politics and Future and Anticipation Studies.
The controversy surrounding the significant "Into the Heart of
Africa" exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada is explored
in this compelling and analytical text. The exhibit has become an
international, controversial touchstone for issues surrounding the
politics of visual representation, such as the challenges to
curatorial and ethnographic authority in multicultural and
postcolonial contexts. Asking why the museum's exhibit failed so
many people, the author examines such issues as institutional
politics, the broad political and intellectual climate surrounding
museums, the legacies of colonialism and traditions of
representation of Africa, and the politics of irony.
The result of 25 years of research with different tribal groups in the Arabian peninsula, this study focuses on ethnographic description of Arab tribal societies in five regions of the peninsula, with comparative material from others. Having become aware of the depth in time of Arab tribal structures, the authors have developed a view of Arabic tribal discourse where "tribe" is seen as essentially an identity that confers access to a social structure and its processes. This insight enables the authors to clarify tribal processes of land use and resource management which are normally "invisible," as they leave few written records and the archaeological remains are notoriously difficult to date. The contextual nature of description by local users leads to a reevaluation of social categories, and to an awareness of relationships between bedouin and peasant, tribesman and townsman. A detailed appreciation of the different agricultural, pastoral and fishing practices of the region is presented, together with the underpinning of indigenous theories of land use and resource management. This detailed monograph incorporates many theoretical aspects, including concepts of indigenous theories
Fascinating case studies, the majority of which are based on
original field work, are presented in this second volume of the
"Food in History and Culture" book series. "Changing Food Habits"
examines the integral connection between food and ongoing
ecological, economic, political, and social transformations. This
text also provides research on dietary changes resulting from
direct interventions by individuals and food programs.
This book examines the cultural, social, political, economic and aesthetic history of Sport in Europe. As sport has grown, progressively replacing religion, in its power to excite passion, provide emotional escape, offer fraternal (and increasingly sororital) bonding, it has become an inescapable reality linking public environment with intimate experience and thus offers the historian an opportunity to inspect and attempt to grasp all the dimensions of the recent past and their relative share in individual and collective experience. This collection considers the evolution of modern sport in Europe and examines its relationshop with politics, gender and class.
This book examines the cultural, social, political, economic and aesthetic history of Sport in Europe. As sport has grown, progressively replacing religion, in its power to excite passion, provide emotional escape, offer fraternal (and increasingly sororital) bonding, it has become an inescapable reality linking public environment with intimate experience and thus offers the historian an opportunity to inspect and attempt to grasp all the dimensions of the recent past and their relative share in individual and collective experience. This collection considers the evolution of modern sport in Europe and examines its relationshop with politics, gender and class.
The rubric "Quality of Life" first came to the explicit attention
of the medical profession a little over thirty years ago. Despite
the undoubted fact that each one of us has his or her own Quality
of Life, be it good or bad, there is still no general agreement
about its definition, or the manner in which it should be
evaluated. Although much has been written about quality of life,
this work has been largely concerned with population-based studies,
especially in health policy and health economics. The importance of
"individual" quality of life has been neglected, in part because of
a failure to define quality of life itself with sufficient care, in
part perhaps because of a belief that it is impossible to develop a
meaningful method of measuring individual variables.
This book examines France's hosting of the soccer World Cup, held in ten cities in summer 1998. It covers the major socio-economic, political, cultural and sporting dimensions of this global sports event, including bidding for and organizing the Finals, the improvement of sporting and transport infrastructures, marketing, merchandzing and media coverage, policing and security during the month-long competition and building a national team. The analysis of France 98 is set within the sporting context of the recent history and organization of French football (the links between football, money and politics; the sporting public) and more broadly within the French tradition of using major cultural and sporting events to focus world attention of France as a leader in the international community. The book concludes with an evocation of the day-to-day impact of four weeks of sporting festivities, and the lessons to be drawn concerning sport and national identity in an era of increasing economic, political, cultural and sporting globalization. |
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