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Samaritan Cookbook
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Avishay Zelmanovich; Benyamim Tsedaka; Edited by Ben Piven
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Born into a wealthy and privileged family in Philadelphia, Charles
Godfrey Leland (1824-1903) showed a clear interest in the
supernatural and occult literature during his youth. Legend has it
that, soon after his birth, an old Dutch nurse carried him up to
the garret of the house and performed a ritual to guarantee that
Leland would be fortunate in his life and eventually become a
scholar and a wizard. Whether or not this incident ever occurred,
we do know that his interest in fairy tales, folklore, and the
supernatural would eventually lead him to a life of travel and
documentation of the stories of numerous groups across the United
States and Europe. Jack Zipes selected the tales in Charles Godfrey
Leland and His Magical Talesfrom five different books- The
Algonquin Legends (1884), Legends of Florence (1895-96), The
Unpublished Letters of Virgil (1901), The English Gypsies (1882),
and Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune-Telling (1891)-and has arranged them
thematically. Though these tales cannot be considered authentic
folk tales-not written verbatim from the lips of Romani, Native
Americans, or other sources of the tales-they are highly
significant because of their historical and cultural value. Like
most of the aspiring American folklorists of his time, who were
mainly all white, male, and from the middle classes, Leland
recorded these tales in personal encounters with his informants or
collected them from friends and acquaintances, before grooming them
for publication so that they became translations of the original
narratives. What distinguishes Leland from the major folklorists of
the nineteenth century is his literary embellishment to represent
his particular regard for their poetry, purity, and history.
Readers with an interest in folklore, oral tradition, and
nineteenth-century literature will value this curated and annotated
glimpse into a breadth of work.
Immigrant laborers who came to the New South in the late nineteenth
and early twentieth centuries found themselves poised uncomfortably
between white employers and the Black working class, a liminal and
often precarious position. Campaigns to recruit immigrants
primarily aimed to suppress Black agency and mobility. If that
failed, both planters and industrialists imagined that immigrants
might replace Blacks entirely. Thus, white officials, citizens, and
employers embraced immigrants when they acted in ways that
sustained Jim Crow. However, when they directly challenged
established political and economic power structures, immigrant
laborers found themselves ostracized, jailed, or worse, by the New
South order. Both industrial employers and union officials lauded
immigrants' hardworking and noble character when it suited their
purposes, and both denigrated and racialized them when immigrant
laborers acted independently. Jennifer E. Brooks's Resident
Strangers restores immigrant laborers to their place in the history
of the New South, considering especially how various immigrant
groups and individuals experienced their time in New South Alabama.
Brooks utilizes convict records, censuses, regional and national
newspapers, government documents, and oral histories to construct
the story of immigrants in New South Alabama. The immigrant groups
she focuses on appeared most often as laborers in the records,
including the Chinese, southern Italians, and the diverse nationals
of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, along with a sprinkling of others.
Although recruitment crusades by Alabama's employers and New South
boosters typically failed to bring in the vast numbers of
immigrants they had envisioned, significant populations from around
the world arrived in industries and communities across the state,
especially in the coal- and ore-mining district of Birmingham.
Resident Strangers reveals that immigrant laborers' presence and
individual agency complicated racial categorization, disrupted
labor relations, and diversified southern communities. It also
presents a New South that was far from isolated from the forces at
work across the nation or in the rest of the world. Immigrant
laborers brought home to New South Alabama the turbulent world of
empire building, deeply embedding the region in national and global
networks of finance, trade, and labor migration.
Who will control the raising of our children: the government or the
family? What kind of care would children choose? Is a child's place
in the home? Can changes in financial incentives of $1,000 a year
make a difference in family choices. How can we cope with the
modern epidemic of daycare diseases? Can the mother's role in the
home be replaced? What is "quality" child care? These are some of
the questions answered in Who Will Rock the Cradle?
In Folklore Figures of French and Creole Louisiana, Nathan J.
Rabalais examines the impact of Louisiana's remarkably diverse
cultural and ethnic groups on folklore characters and motifs during
the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Establishing connections
between Louisiana and France, West Africa, Canada, and the
Antilles, Rabalais explores how folk characters, motifs, and morals
adapted to their new contexts in Louisiana. By viewing the state's
folklore in the light of its immigration history, he demonstrates
how folktales can serve as indicators of sociocultural adaptation
as well as contact among cultural communities. In particular, he
examines the ways in which collective traumas experienced by
Louisiana's major ethnic groups-slavery, the grand d? (R)rangement,
linguistic discrimination-resulted in fundamental changes in these
folktales in relation to their European and African counterparts.
Rabalais points to the development of an altered moral economy in
Cajun and Creole folktales. Conventional heroic qualities, such as
physical strength, are subverted in Louisiana folklore in favor of
wit and cunning. Analyses of Black Creole animal tales like those
of Bouki et Lapin and Tortie demonstrate the trickster hero's
ability to overcome both literal and symbolic entrapment through
cleverness. Some elements of Louisiana's folklore tradition, such
as the rougarou and cauchemar, remain an integral presence in the
state's cultural landscape, apparent in humor, popular culture,
regional branding, and children's books. Through its adaptive use
of folklore, French and Creole Louisiana will continue to retell
old stories in innovative ways as well as create new stories for
future generations.
The public space of democracies is constructed in a context that is
marked by the digital transformation of the economy and society.
This construction is carried out primarily through deliberation.
Deliberation informs and guides both individual and collective
action. To shed light on the concept of deliberation, it is
important to consider the rationality of choice; but what type of
rationality is this? References to economic reason are at once
widespread, crucial and controversial. This book therefore deals
with arguments used by individuals based on the notions of
preferential choice and rational behavior, and also criticizes
them. These arguments are examined in the context of the major
themes of public debate that help to construct the contemporary
public space: "populism", social insurance, social responsibility
and environmental issues. Economic Reason and Political Reason
underlines the importance of the pragmatist shift of the 2000s and
revisits, through the lens of this new approach, the great
utilitarian and Rawlsian normative constructs that dominated
normative political economics at the end of the 20th century.
Alternative approaches, based on the concept of deliberative
democracy, are proposed and discussed.
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