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In this groundbreaking book Andrew Sluyter demonstrates for the
first time that Africans played significant creative roles in
establishing open-range cattle ranching in the Americas. In so
doing, he provides a new way of looking at and studying the history
of land, labor, property, and commerce in the Atlantic world.
Sluyter shows that Africans' ideas and creativity helped to
establish a production system so fundamental to the environmental
and social relations of the American colonies that the consequences
persist to the present. He examines various methods of cattle
production, compares these methods to those used in Europe and the
Americas, and traces the networks of actors that linked that
Atlantic world. The use of archival documents, material culture
items, and ecological relationships between landscape elements make
this book a methodologically and substantively original
contribution to Atlantic, African-American, and agricultural
history.
Pascal D. Bazzell brings the marginal ecclesiology of a Filipino
ecclesial community facing homelessness (FECH) into contemporary
ecclesiological conversation in order to deepen the ecumenical
understanding of today's ecclesial reality. He contributes relevant
data to support a theory of an ecclesial-oriented paradigm that
fosters ecclesial communities within homeless populations. There is
an extensive dialogue occurring between ecclesiologies, church
planting theories or urban missions and the urban poor. Yet the
situation with the homeless population is almost entirely
overlooked. The majority of urban mission textbooks do not
acknowledge an ecclesial-oriented state of being and suggest that
the street-level environment is a place where no discipleship can
occur and no church should exist. By presenting the FECH's case
study Bazzell emphasizes that it is possible to live on the streets
and to grow in the faith of God as an ecclesial community. To be
able to describe the FECH's ecclesial narrative, Bazzell develops a
local ecclesiological methodology that aims to bridge the gap
between more traditional systematic and theoretical (ideal)
ecclesiology and practical oriented ecclesiology (e.g.
congregational studies) in order to hold together theological and
social understandings of the church in its local reality. He
articulates a theological framework for the FECH to reflect on who
they are (the essence of identity studies), who they are in
relationship to God (the essence of theological studies), and what
that means for believers in that community as they relate to God
and to each other in ways that are true to who they are and to who
God intends them to be (the essence of ecclesial studies). The
research provides a seldom-heard empirical tour into the FECH's
social world and communal identity. The theological findings from
the FECH's hermeneutical work on the Gospel of Mark reveal an
understanding of church being developed as gathering around Jesus
that creates a space for God's presence to be embodied in their
ordinary relationships and activities and to invite others to
participate in that gathering. Moreover, it addresses ecclesial
issues of the supernatural world; honor/shame values; and further
develop the neglected image of the familia Dei in classical
ecclesiology that encapsulates well the FECH's nature, mission and
place.
This book explores the concept of multi-species relationships and
suggests critical systemic pathways to protect shared habitats.
This book discusses how the eradication of species as a result of
rapid urbanisation places humanity at risk. This book demonstrates
how narrow anthropocentrism has focused on the rights of human
beings at the expense of other species and the environment. This
book explores a priori norms and a posteriori measures and
indicators to include and protect multiple species. This book aims
to strengthen institutional capacity and powers to address and
extend the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda by drawing on
local wisdom but also the need to implement laws to prevent
ecocide. This book highlights that our fragile interdependence
requires a recognition of our hybridity and interconnectedness
within the web of life and suggests ways to reframe policy within
and beyond the nation state to support living systems of which we
are a strand.
This is the first book to examine the partially hidden history of
metal music scenes within the city of Liverpool and the surrounding
region of Merseyside in the North-West of England. It reveals that
while Liverpool has historically been portrayed as a certain kind
of 'music city,' metal has been marginalized within its music
heritage narratives. This marginality was not inevitable. The book
illustrates how it is not merely the product of historical
representation but the result of forces of urban change and
regional shifts in the economy of live music. Nor is this
marginality inconsequential. Drawing on ethnographic research,
Nedim Hassan demonstrates that it has influenced how the region's
metal scenes are perceived and how people feel towards them. Metal
on Merseyside reveals how various people involved with such scenes
work within often challenging circumstances to sustain the
production of metal music and events. It also reveals the tensions
that arise as scene members' desires for an ideal metal community
collide with forces of change. Metal on Merseyside is, therefore, a
fascinating barometer for the contradictions apparent when people
engage in creative labour to produce music that they love.
Gilbert L. Wilson, gifted ethnologist and field collector for the
American Museum of Natural History, thoroughly enjoyed the study of
American Indian life and folklore. In 1902 he moved to Mandan,
North Dakota and was excited to find he had Indian neighbors. His
life among them inspired him to write books that would accurately
portray their culture and traditions. Wilson's charming
translations of their oral heritage came to life all the more when
coupled with the finely-detailed drawings of his brother, Frederick
N. Wilson. "Myths of the Red Children" (1907) and "Indian Hero
Tales" (1916) have long been recognized as important contributions
to the preservation of American Indian culture and lore. Here, for
the first time ever, both books are included in one volume,
complete with their supplemental craft sections and ethnological
notes. While aimed at young folk, the books also appeal to anyone
wishing to learn more about the rich and culturally significant
oral traditions of North America's earliest people. Nearly 300
drawings accompany the text, accurately depicting tools, clothing,
dwellings, and accoutrements. The drawings for this edition were
culled from multiple copies of the original books with the best
examples chosen for careful restoration. The larger format allows
the reader to fully appreciate every detail of Frederick Wilson's
remarkable drawings. This is not a mere scan containing torn or
incomplete pages, stains and blemishes. This new Onagocag
Publishing hardcover edition is clean, complete and unabridged. In
addition, it features an introduction by Wyatt R. Knapp that
includes biographical information on the Wilson brothers, as well
as interesting details and insights about the text and
illustrations. Young and old alike will find these books a
thrilling immersion into American Indian culture, craft, and lore.
Onagocag Publishing is proud to present this definitive centennial
edition.
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Cosmopolitanisms
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Bruce Robbins, Paulo Lemos Horta; Afterword by Kwame Anthony Appiah
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An indispensable collection that re-examines what it means to
belong in the world. "Where are you from?" The word cosmopolitan
was first used as a way of evading exactly this question, when
Diogenes the Cynic declared himself a "kosmo-polites," or citizen
of the world. Cosmopolitanism displays two impulses-on the one
hand, a detachment from one's place of origin, while on the other,
an assertion of membership in some larger, more compelling
collective. Cosmopolitanisms works from the premise that there is
more than one kind of cosmopolitanism, a plurality that insists
cosmopolitanism can no longer stand as a single ideal against which
all smaller loyalties and forms of belonging are judged. Rather,
cosmopolitanism can be defined as one of many possible modes of
life, thought, and sensibility that are produced when commitments
and loyalties are multiple and overlapping. Featuring essays by
major thinkers, including Homi Bhabha, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Thomas
Bender, Leela Gandhi, Ato Quayson, and David Hollinger, among
others, this collection asks what these plural cosmopolitanisms
have in common, and how the cosmopolitanisms of the underprivileged
might serve the ethical values and political causes that matter to
their members. In addition to exploring the philosophy of Kant and
the space of the city, this volume focuses on global justice, which
asks what cosmopolitanism is good for, and on the global south,
which has often been assumed to be an object of cosmopolitan
scrutiny, not itself a source or origin of cosmopolitanism. This
book gives a new meaning to belonging and its ground-breaking
arguments call for deep and necessary discussion and discourse.
Throughout time and in every culture, human beings have eaten
together. Commensality - eating and drinking at the same table - is
a fundamental social activity, which creates and cements
relationships. It also sets boundaries, including or excluding
people according to a set of criteria defined by the society.
Particular scholarly attention has been paid to banquets and
feasts, often hosted for religious, ritualistic or political
purposes, but few studies have considered everyday commensality.
Commensality: From Everyday Food to Feast offers an insight into
this social practice in all its forms, from the most basic and
mundane meals to the grandest occasions. Bringing together insights
from anthropologists, archaeologists and historians, this volume
offers a vast historical scope, ranging from the Late Neolithic
period (6th millennium BC), through the Middle Ages, to the present
day. The sixteen chapters include case studies from across the
world, including the USA, Bolivia, China, Southeast Asia, Iran,
Turkey, Portugal, Denmark and the UK. Connecting these diverse
analyses is an understanding of commensality's role as a social and
political tool, integral to the formation of personal and national
identities. From first experiences of commensality in the sharing
of food between a mother and child, to the inaugural dinner of the
American president, this collection of essays celebrates the
variety of human life and society.
This book shares graduate student experiences, lessons, and life
learnings from research with Inuit communities in the Canadian
Arctic. The results of graduate student research are often
disseminated in a thesis or dissertation, but their personal
experiences building relationships with Inuit, working together to
design and conduct research, and how this shaped their research
approach and outcomes, are rarely captured. As such, there are
limited resources available to new researchers that share
information about the practical aspects of community-based research
in the Arctic. The book is intended to provide a glimpse into what
it is like to do research together with Inuit, and in doing so,
contribute to the development of more productive and equitable
relationships between Inuit and researchers. The chapters are
written as structured narratives in the first-person and include
reflections, and lessons learned.
Ever since the 1992 Mabo decision put an end to the legal fiction
that Australia was without owners before the arrival of the British
colonisers, the work associated with resolving native title claims
has developed as a significant but often difficult arena of
professional practice. Increasingly, anthropologists, linguists,
historians and lawyers have been encouraged to work
collaboratively, often in the context of highly charged public
controversy about who owns the land. In ""Crossing Boundaries"",
editor Sandy Toussaint and her contributors have created a
cross-disciplinary exploration of native title work. In all, twenty
professionals share their experience and expertise. As Toussaint
concludes, 'Chapters in this volume reveal the extent to which
native title workers need to communicate more cogently and, in some
cases, to redefine their practice.'
This book explores how small businesses respond to the law. By
detailing the intricate ways in which businesses come to comply
with or violate legal regulations, it shows a very different
picture of compliance that completely changes the way we think
about how businesses respond to the law, how we can capture such
responses, and what explains their behaviors. The book moves us
beyond a static and single-perspective approach to compliance,
where firms are seen as obeying or breaking a specific rule at a
specific point in time. Instead, it offers a dynamic view of
compliance as it manifests in daily business, where firms must
comply with a host of legal rules and must do so over a long period
of time. This timely book is especially valuable to three main
groups: to compliance practitioners and regulatory enforcement
agents, who are increasingly forced to consider how compliance
management and enforcement practices actually affect compliance; to
regulatory governance scholars (in public administration, law,
sociology, and management science), for whom compliance is a
central aspect; and to scholars of Chinese law, who realize that
compliance is a central challenge that the Chinese legal system
must overcome.
This volume provides a unique perspective on elderly working-class
West Indian migrants in the UK, particularly examining how they
negotiate their sense of belonging. Utilizing the life span gaze
and including elements of oral history and narrative, this
ethnography provides rich insight into the ordinary lives,
migratory circumstances, social networks, and interactions with the
state as residents in a sheltered housing scheme in Brixton,
London. The author further compiles a variety of genealogy charts,
providing a uniquely vivid scholarly analysis of the Caribbean
migrant experience both in a "place" and through space and time.
Ultimately, this work contemplates how communities face change
whilst at once developing a local symbolic cultural site,
navigating adaptation to new economic and social environments.
Television and the Modernization Ideal in 1980s China: Dazzling the
Eyes explores Chinese television history in the pivotal decade of
the 1980s and explains the intellectual reception of television in
China during this time. While the Chinese media has often been a
topic within studies of globalization and the global political
economy, scholarly attention to the history of Chinese television
requires a more extensive and critical view of the interaction
between television and culture. Using theories of media technology,
globalization, and gender studies supplemented by Chinese
periodicals including Life Out of 8 Hours, Popular TV, Popular
Cinema, Modern Family, and Chinese Advertising, as well as oral
history interviews, this book re-examines how Western technology
was introduced to and embedded into Chinese culture. Wen compares
and analyzes television dramas produced in China and imported from
other nations while examining the interaction between various
ideologies of Chinese society and those of the international media.
Moreover, she explores how the hybridity between Western television
culture and Chinese traditions were represented in popular Chinese
visual media, specifically the confusions and ambitions of
modernization and the negotiation between tradition and modernity,
nationalism and internationalism, in the intellectual reception of
television in China.
Heart disease, the leading cause of death in the United States,
affects people from all walks of life, yet who lives and who dies
from heart disease still depends on race, class, and gender. While
scientists and clinicians understand and treat heart disease more
effectively than ever before, and industrialized countries have
made substantial investments in research and treatment over the
past six decades, patterns of inequality persist. In Heart-Sick,
Janet K. Shim argues that official accounts of cardiovascular
health inequalities are unconvincing and inadequate, and that
clinical and public health interventions grounded in these accounts
ignore many critical causes of those inequalities. Examining the
routine activities of epidemiology--grant applications, data
collection, representations of research findings, and
post-publication discussions of the interpretations and
implications of study results--Shim shows how social differences of
race, social class, and gender are upheld by the scientific
community. She argues that such sites of expert knowledge
routinely, yet often invisibly, make claims about how biological
and cultural differences matter--claims that differ substantially
from the lived experiences of individuals who themselves suffer
from health problems. Based on firsthand research at epidemiologic
conferences, conversations with epidemiologists, and in-depth
interviews with people of color who live with heart disease, Shim
explores how both scientists and lay people define "difference" and
its consequences for health. Ultimately, Heart-Sick explores the
deep rifts regarding the meanings and consequences of social
difference for heart disease, and the changes that would be
required to generate more convincing accounts of the significance
of inequality for health and well-being.
This book demonstrates the flow of the international trade of
secondhand goods and examines the socio-economic background and
mechanisms of the trade. It highlights the actors involved in the
trade of secondhand goods and how traditionally secondhand good
have largely been traded through social or ethnic networks in order
to effectively transfer quality and market information. The
development of information technology and emergence of new
information platforms have changed these business models. The
policies and regulations relating to the trade of secondhand goods
are explored, alongside the negative impact of these trades, and
the growing awareness of the circular economy. This book
illustrates how importing countries as well as international
institutions have developed regulations in order to balance these
two issues. It will relevant to students and economists interested
in development economics and economics geography.
Examining the dynamics between subject, photographer and viewer,
Fashioning Brazil analyses how Brazilians have appropriated and
reinterpreted clothing influences from local and global cultures.
Exploring the various ways in which Brazil has been fashioned by
the pioneering scientific and educational magazine, National
Geographic, the book encourages us to look beyond simplistic
representations of exotic difference. Instead, it brings to light
an extensive history of self-fashioning within Brazil, which has
emerged through cross-cultural contact, slavery, and immigration.
Providing an in-depth examination of Brazilian dress and fashion
practices as represented by the quasi-ethnographic gaze of National
Geographic and National Geographic Brazil (the Portuguese language
edition of the magazine, established in 2000), the book unpacks a
series of case studies. Taking us from body paint to Lycra, via
loincloths and bikinis, Kutesko frames her analysis within the
historical, cultural, and political context of Latin American
interactions with the United States. Exploring how dress can be
used to manipulate identity and disrupt expectations, Fashioning
Brazil examines readers' sensory engagements with an iconic
magazine, and sheds new light on key debates concerning global
dress and fashion.
Explores the role of stories in criminal culture and justice
systems around the world Stories are much more than a means of
communication-stories help us shape our identities, make sense of
the world, and mobilize others to action. In Narrative Criminology,
prominent scholars from across the academy and around the world
examine stories that animate offending. From an examination of how
criminals understand certain types of crime to be less moral than
others, to how violent offenders and drug users each come to
understand or resist their identity as 'criminals', to how cultural
narratives motivate genocidal action, the case studies in this book
cover a wide array of crimes and justice systems throughout the
world. The contributors uncover the narratives at the center of
their essays through qualitative interviews, ethnographic
fieldwork, and written archives, and they scrutinize narrative
structure and meaning by analyzing genres, plots, metaphors, and
other components of storytelling. In doing so, they reveal the
cognitive, ideological, and institutional mechanisms by which
narratives promote harmful action. Finally, they consider how
offenders' narratives are linked to and emerge from those of
conventional society or specific subcultures. Each chapter reveals
important insights and elements for the development of a framework
of narrative criminology as an important approach for understanding
crime and criminal justice. An unprecedented and landmark
collection, Narrative Criminology opens the door for an exciting
new field of study on the role of stories in motivating and
legitimizing harm.
Cuban Cultural Heritage explores the role that cultural heritage
and museums played in the construction of a national identity in
postcolonial Cuba. Starting with independence from Spain in 1898
and moving through Cuban-American rapprochement in 2014, Pablo
Alonso Gonzalez illustrates how political and ideological shifts
have influenced ideas about heritage and how, in turn, heritage has
been used by different social actors to reiterate their status,
spread new ideologies, and consolidate political regimes. Unveiling
the connections between heritage, power, and ideology, Alonso
Gonzalez delves into the intricacies of Cuban history, covering key
issues such as Cuba's cultural and political relationships with
Spain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and so-called Third
World countries; the complexities of Cuba's status as a
postcolonial state; and the potential future paths of the
Revolution in the years to come. This volume offers a detailed look
at the function and place of cultural heritage under socialist
states.
This book explores how Pacific Island communities are responding to
the challenges wrought by climate change-most notably fresh water
accessibility, the growing threat of disease, and crop failure. The
Pacific Island nations are not alone in facing these challenges,
but their responses are unique in that they arise from traditional
and community-based understandings of climate and disaster.
Knowledge sharing, community education, and widespread
participation in decision-making have promoted social resilience to
such challenges across the Pacific. In this exploration of the
Pacific Island countries, Bryant-Tokalau demonstrates that by
understanding the inter-relatedness of local expertise, customary
resource management, traditional knowledge and practice, as well as
the roles of leaders and institutions, local
"knowledge-practice-belief systems" can be used to inform
adaptation to disasters wherever they occur.
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