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To think through history as it unfolds by engaging in “unbearable
story-telling” is the task at hand in Curriculum Studies in the
Age of Covid-19. The author documents stories of Covid-19 both from
the perspective of a university professor and from the frontlines
as a hospital chaplain, interweaving autobiography with philosophy,
fiction, theology, history, and memory, in order to articulate what
is beyond language and develop an archive. The archive is not only
about the past but how future generations will understand the past.
This book might be of interest to educationists, curriculum studies
scholars, philosophers, theologians, literary scholars, historians,
medical anthropologists, bioethicists, health humanities scholars,
and hospital chaplains as well as palliative care physicians and
psychoanalysts.
Multiple Hopewellian monumental earthwork sites displaying timber
features, mortuary deposits, and unique artifacts are found widely
distributed across the North American Eastern Woodlands, from the
lower Mississippi Valley north to the Great Lakes. These sites,
dating from 200 b.c. to a.d. 500, almost define the Middle Woodland
period of the Eastern Woodlands. Joseph Caldwell treated these
sites as defining what he termed the ""Hopewell Interaction
Sphere,"" which he conceptualized as mediating a set of interacting
mortuary-funerary cults linking many different local ethnic
communities. In this new book, A. Martin Byers refines Caldwell's
work, coining the term ""Hopewell Ceremonial Sphere"" to more
precisely characterize this transregional sphere as manifesting
multiple autonomous cult sodalities of local communities affiliated
into escalating levels of autonomous cult sodality heterarchies. It
is these cult sodality heterarchies, regionally and transregionally
interacting - and not their autonomous communities to which the
sodalities also belonged - that were responsible for the
Hopewellian assemblage; and the heterarchies took themselves to be
performing, not funerary, but world-renewal ritual ceremonialism
mediated by the deceased of their many autonomous Middle Woodland
communities. Paired with the cult sodality heterarchy model, Byers
proposes and develops the complementary heterarchical community
model. This model postulates a type of community that made the
formation of the cult sodality heterarchy possible. But Byers
insists it was the sodality heterarchies and not the complementary
heterarchical communities that generated the Hopewellian ceremonial
sphere. Detailed interpretations and explanations of Hopewellian
sites and their contents in Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, and Georgia
empirically anchor his claims. A singular work of unprecedented
scope, Reclaiming the Hopewellian Ceremonial Sphere will encourage
archaeologists to re-examine their interpretations.
Remediating Sound studies the phenomena of remixing, mashup and
recomposition: forms of reuse and sampling that have come to
characterise much of YouTube's audiovisual content. Through
collaborative composition, collage and cover songs to reaction
videos and political activism , users from diverse backgrounds have
embraced the democratised space of YouTube to open up new and
innovative forms of sonic creativity and push the boundaries of
audiovisual possibilities. Observing the reciprocal flow of
influence that runs between various online platforms, 12 chapters
position YouTube as a central hub for the exploration of digital
sound, music and the moving image. With special focus on aspects of
networked creativity that remain overlooked in contemporary
scholarship, including library music, memetic media, artificial
intelligence, the sonic arts and music fandom, this volume offers
interdisciplinary insight into contemporary audiovisual culture.
Students tend to dread research projects—with their limited
choice of topics, required formats, and minimal opportunity for
original thought. Who can blame them? Cathy Fraser believes that
school research projects should be less like busywork and more like
police investigations. In Love the Questions she describes ways to
engage middle and secondary students from the outset, honoring
their curiosity and passion. Accessible and story filled, this book
provides strategies to capture the excitement of genuine inquiry in
your classroom. Learn how to: embrace inquiry, curiosity, and
exploration; teach students to question; develop authentic projects
that include surveys, experiments, and interviews; partner with
school librarians as educational support for teachers and students;
and assess skills, not memorization. Mini-lessons, practice
activities, graphic organizers, and examples of student work help
you turn research projects into creative, exciting investigations
for your students.
Ayetli gadogv—to "stand in the middle"—is at the heart of a
Cherokee perspective of the natural world. From this stance,
Cherokee Earth Dwellers offers a rich understanding of nature
grounded in Cherokee creature names, oral traditional stories, and
reflections of knowledge holders. During his lifetime, elder
Hastings Shade created booklets with over six hundred Cherokee
names for animals and plants. With this foundational collection at
its center, and weaving together a chorus of voices, this book
emerges from a deep and continuing collaboration between
Christopher B. Teuton, Hastings Shade, Loretta Shade, and others.
Positioning our responsibilities as humans to our more-than-human
relatives, this book presents teachings about the body, mind,
spirit, and wellness that have been shared for generations. From
clouds to birds, oceans to quarks, this expansive Cherokee view of
nature reveals a living, communicative world and humanity's role
within it.
The diva – a central figure in the landscape of contemporary
popular culture: gossip-generating, scandal-courting,
paparazzi-stalked. And yet the diva is at the epicentre of creative
endeavours that resonate with contemporary feminist ideas, kick
back against diminished social expectations, boldly call-out casual
sexism and industry misogyny and, in terms of hip-hop, explores
intersectional oppressions and unapologetically celebrates
non-white cultural heritages. Diva beats and grooves echo across
culture and politics in the West: from the borough to the White
House, from arena concerts to nightclubs, from social media to
social activism, from #MeToo to Black Lives Matter. Diva: Feminism
and Fierceness from Pop to Hip-Hop addresses the diva phenomenon
and its origins: its identity politics and LGBTQ+ components; its
creativity and interventions in areas of popular culture (music,
and beyond); its saints and sinners and controversies old and new;
and its oppositions to, and recuperations by, the establishment;
and its shifts from third to fourth waves of feminism. This
co-edited collection brings together an international array of
writers – from new voices to established names. The collection
scopes the rise to power of the diva (looking to Mariah Carey,
Whitney Houston, Dolly Parton, Grace Jones, and Aaliyah), then
turns to contemporary diva figures and their work (with Beyoncé,
Amuro Namie, Janelle Monáe, Cardi B, Megan Thee Stallion, Shakira,
Jennifer Lopez, and Nicki Minaj), and concludes by considering the
presence of the diva in wider cultures, in terms of gallery
curation, theatre productions, and stand-up comedy.
Little Book of Louis Vuitton is the pocket-sized and fully
illustrated story of one of the world's most luxurious fashion
houses. Louis Vuitton's monogrammed bags have been seen on the arms
of celebrities and royals alike for over 150 years. From the young
Louis seeking his fortune in Paris through to two world wars, the
Great Depression, the Jazz Age and the Swinging Sixties, there is
no era in which this most opulent of brands hasn't thrived.
Detailing the global expansion of Louis Vuitton in the 1980s, the
creation of the powerful fashion conglomerate LVMH, and the
appointment in 1997 of Marc Jacobs, this is the story of a
transformation from luggage company to high-fashion label. Louis
Vuitton's continued evolution under the creative direction of
Nicolas Ghesquière and Virgil Abloh is also depicted through
fabulous images and captivating text.
This book provides a review of how child maltreatment has been
socially constructed, ignored, and formally responded to as it
tells the story of how America's system of child protection has
evolved. Additionally, it identifies key questions and related
issues. When child maltreatment occurs, it strikes chords in our
hearts because we sense the terrible injustice inherent in the
matter: children are innocent and not able to protect themselves.
This book provides readers with an overview of how perceptions of
child maltreatment have changed over the years and how the American
child protection system has evolved to keep pace with them,
revealing the historical origins of current child protection issues
and surveying efforts to find solutions. The Smallest Victims is
unique in stressing the subjective and relative nature of the
social construction of child maltreatment as it includes abuse and
neglect. It identifies historical social factors and links them to
perceptions of child maltreatment and responses to it. How
maltreatment was once perceived in pre-American and American
societies, for example, has had significant implications on the
reactions it elicited, from tolerance to outrage. The book devotes
a chapter to the exploitation of children in the labor market and
as sexual victims, timely subjects given the national interest in
human trafficking. Other chapters explore state intervention in
family affairs and when children are removed from their homes. The
book also includes a detailed timeline that denotes critical
milestones since antiquity.
From the late 1990s until today, China’s sound practice has been
developing in an increasingly globalized socio-political-aesthetic
milieu, receiving attentions and investments from the art world,
music industry and cultural institutes, with nevertheless, its
unique acoustic philosophy remaining silent. This book traces the
history of sound practice from contemporary Chinese visual art back
in the 1980s, to electronic music, which was introduced as a target
of critique in the 1950s, to electronic instrument building fever
in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and to the origins of both
academic and nonacademic electronic and experimental music
activities. This expansive tracing of sound in the arts resonates
with another goal of this book, to understand sound and its
artistic practice through notions informed by Chinese qi-cosmology
and qi-philosophy, including notions of resonance, shanshui
(mountains-waters), huanghu (elusiveness and evasiveness), and
distributed monumentality and anti-monumentality. By turning back
to deep history to learn about the meaning and function of sound
and listening in ancient China, the book offers a refreshing
understanding of the British sinologist Joseph Needham’s
statement that “Chinese acoustics is acoustics of qi.” and
expands existing conceptualization of sound art and contemporary
music at large.
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