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Gender in Film and Video tracks changes in gender on screen by
documenting trends of the internet age. The jargon-free book
focuses on six instances of media in transition and their
histories, including the rise of feminism on television, in sports
events, and in comedy-drama series; the growth of DIY production by
underrepresented groups through crowdfunding and YouTube channels;
and struggles between fans and producers over control of casting
and storytelling. This volume focuses on the breakdown of the
categories (content, production, reception) that top-down
production/distribution in TV and cinema tended to keep distinct.
This text is for students in sociology, media studies, and women's
and gender studies.
Gender in Film and Video tracks changes in gender on screen by
documenting trends of the internet age. The jargon-free book
focuses on six instances of media in transition and their
histories, including the rise of feminism on television, in sports
events, and in comedy-drama series; the growth of DIY production by
underrepresented groups through crowdfunding and YouTube channels;
and struggles between fans and producers over control of casting
and storytelling. This volume focuses on the breakdown of the
categories (content, production, reception) that top-down
production/distribution in TV and cinema tended to keep distinct.
This text is for students in sociology, media studies, and women's
and gender studies.
How did the Bhagavadgata first become an object of German
philosophical and philological inquiry? How were its foundational
concepts initially interpreted within German intellectual circles,
and what does this episode in the history of cross-cultural
encounter teach us about the status of comparative philosophy
today? This book addresses these questions through a careful study
of the figures who read, translated and interpreted the
Bhagavadgata around the turn of the nineteenth century in Germany:
J.G. Herder, F. Majer, F. Schlegel, A.W. Schlegel, W. von Humboldt,
and G.W.F. Hegel. Methodologically, the study attends to the
intellectual contexts and prejudices that framed the early
reception of the text. But it also delves deeper by investigating
the way these frameworks inflected the construction of the
Bhagavadgata and its foundational concepts through the scholarly
acts of excerpting, anthologization, and translation. Overall, the
project contributes to the pluralization of Western philosophy and
its history while simultaneously arguing for a continued critical
alertness in cross-cultural comparison of philosophical and
religious worldviews.
How did the Bhagavadgata first become an object of German
philosophical and philological inquiry? How were its foundational
concepts initially interpreted within German intellectual circles,
and what does this episode in the history of cross-cultural
encounter teach us about the status of comparative philosophy
today? This book addresses these questions through a careful study
of the figures who read, translated and interpreted the
Bhagavadgata around the turn of the nineteenth century in Germany:
J.G. Herder, F. Majer, F. Schlegel, A.W. Schlegel, W. von Humboldt,
and G.W.F. Hegel. Methodologically, the study attends to the
intellectual contexts and prejudices that framed the early
reception of the text. But it also delves deeper by investigating
the way these frameworks inflected the construction of the
Bhagavadgata and its foundational concepts through the scholarly
acts of excerpting, anthologization, and translation. Overall, the
project contributes to the pluralization of Western philosophy and
its history while simultaneously arguing for a continued critical
alertness in cross-cultural comparison of philosophical and
religious worldviews.
AIDS, Behavior, and Culture presents a bold challenge to the
prevailing wisdom of "the global AIDS industry" and offers an
alternative framework for understanding what works in HIV
prevention. Arguing for a behavior-based approach, Green and Ruark
make the case that the most effective programs are those that
encourage fundamental behavioral changes such as abstinence, delay
of sex, faithfulness, and cessation of injection drug use.
Successful programs are locally based, low cost, low tech,
innovative, and built on existing cultural structures. In contrast,
they argue that anthropologists and public health practitioners
focus on counseling, testing, condoms, and treatment, and impose
their Western values, culture, and political ideologies in an
attempt to "liberate" non-Western people from sexual repression and
homophobia. This provocative book is essential reading for anyone
working in HIV/AIDS prevention, and a stimulating introduction to
the key controversies and approaches in global health and medical
anthropology for students and general readers.
AIDS, Behavior, and Culture presents a bold challenge to the
prevailing wisdom of "the global AIDS industry" and offers an
alternative framework for understanding what works in HIV
prevention. Arguing for a behavior-based approach, Green and Ruark
make the case that the most effective programs are those that
encourage fundamental behavioral changes such as abstinence, delay
of sex, faithfulness, and cessation of injection drug use.
Successful programs are locally based, low cost, low tech,
innovative, and built on existing cultural structures. In contrast,
they argue that anthropologists and public health practitioners
focus on counseling, testing, condoms, and treatment, and impose
their Western values, culture, and political ideologies in an
attempt to "liberate" non-Western people from sexual repression and
homophobia. This provocative book is essential reading for anyone
working in HIV/AIDS prevention, and a stimulating introduction to
the key controversies and approaches in global health and medical
anthropology for students and general readers.
Torres Strait has an established place in the history of
anthropology because of its association with the Cambridge
University Expedition of 1898 organised by A. C. Haddon. This early
British anthropological expedition is regarded as a seminal event
in the formation of academic anthropology in Britain. Its goal was
to make an unprecedentedly comprehensive anthropological study
embracing ethnology, physical anthropology, psychology,
linguistics, sociology and ethnomusicology. The nine
interdisciplinary essays in this centenary volume offer ways of
looking at and situation the Expedition's work in historical and
intellectual debates. Central themes covered are the relationship
between the expedition members and the Torres Strait Islanders: the
innovations associated with the Expedition and the Expedition's
influence on the development of anthropology and psychology. One
hundred years on, the results of the Expedition have a contemporary
relevance for anthropology and for the Torres Strait Islanders.
Apply statistics in business to achieve performance improvement
Statistical Thinking: Improving Business Performance, 3rd Edition
helps managers understand the role of statistics in implementing
business improvements. It guides professionals who are learning
statistics in order to improve performance in business and
industry. It also helps graduate and undergraduate students
understand the strategic value of data and statistics in arriving
at real business solutions. Instruction in the book is based on
principles of effective learning, established by educational and
behavioral research. The authors cover both practical examples and
underlying theory, both the big picture and necessary details.
Readers gain a conceptual understanding and the ability to perform
actionable analyses. They are introduced to data skills to improve
business processes, including collecting the appropriate data,
identifying existing data limitations, and analyzing data
graphically. The authors also provide an in-depth look at JMP
software, including its purpose, capabilities, and techniques for
use. Updates to this edition include: A new chapter on data,
assessing data pedigree (quality), and acquisition tools Discussion
of the relationship between statistical thinking and data science
Explanation of the proper role and interpretation of p-values
(understanding of the dangers of "p-hacking") Differentiation
between practical and statistical significance Introduction of the
emerging discipline of statistical engineering Explanation of the
proper role of subject matter theory in order to identify causal
relationships A holistic framework for variation that includes
outliers, in addition to systematic and random variation Revised
chapters based on significant teaching experience Content
enhancements based on student input This book helps readers
understand the role of statistics in business before they embark on
learning statistical techniques.
'This book will be equally as valuable for historians of
anthropology and colonialism; scholars working in Melanesia; and
the Islander descendants of Haddon's interlocutors' - Journal of
the Royal Anthropological Institute. Recording Kastom brings
readers into the heart of colonial Torres Strait and New Guinea
through the personal journals of Cambridge zoologist and
anthropologist Alfred Haddon, who visited the region in 1888 and
1898.Haddon's published reports of these trips were hugely
influential on the nascent discipline of anthropology, but his
private journals and sketches have never been published in full.
The journals record in vivid detail Haddon's observations and
relationships. They highlight his preoccupation with documentation,
and the central role played by the Islanders who worked with him to
record kastom. This collaboration resulted in an enormous body of
materials that remain of vital interest to Torres Strait Islanders
and the communities where he worked. Haddon's Journals provide
unique and intimate insights into the colonial history of the
region will be an important resource for scholars in history,
anthropology, linguistics and musicology. This comprehensively
annotated edition assembles a rich array of photographs, drawings,
artefacts, film and sound recordings. An introductory essay
provides historical and cultural context. The preface and epilogue
provide Islander perspectives on the historical context of Haddon's
work and its significance for the future.
Erich Hoerl, Nelly Y. Pinkrah, and Lotte Warnsholdt gather diverse
perspectives on one agreed-upon condition: that the computational
power of today's world has fundamentally transformed all aspects of
it. The contributors investigate and question not only the possible
sites of critique but also of the concept of critique. If there
used to be a critical subject constituted in the cultural
techniques of modernity, and if digitality indicates itself as a
product of modernity while at the same time somehow being its very
ending, what are the ramifications? Digitality severely alters the
critical subject and its spatio-temporal relations, and it
therefore interferes with its potential to be a critical subject.
The contributors of this volume ask what critique in the digital
age might look like and offer specific examples of critique and
critical practices.
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The Girl and the Job
Florence B Saltzberg, Helen Christine Hoerle
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Discovery Miles 9 500
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The Girl and the Job
Florence B Saltzberg, Helen Christine Hoerle
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What should be done with minors who kill, maim, defile, and destroy
the lives of others? The state of Texas deals with some of its most
serious and violent youthful offenders through "determinate
sentencing," a unique sentencing structure that blends parts of the
juvenile and adult justice systems. Once adjudicated via
determinate sentencing, offenders are first incarcerated in the
Texas Youth Commission (TYC). As they approach age eighteen, they
are either transferred to the Texas prison system to serve the
remainder of their original determinate sentence or released from
TYC into Texas's communities. The first long-term study of
determinate sentencing in Texas, Lost Causes examines the social
and delinquent histories, institutionalization experiences, and
release and recidivism outcomes of more than 3,000 serious and
violent juvenile offenders who received such sentences between 1987
and 2011. The authors seek to understand the process, outcomes, and
consequences of determinate sentencing, which gave serious and
violent juvenile offenders one more chance to redeem themselves or
to solidify their place as the next generation of adult prisoners
in Texas. The book's findings-that about 70 percent of offenders
are released to the community during their most crime-prone years
instead of being transferred to the Texas prison system and that
about half of those released continue to reoffend for serious
crimes-make Lost Causes crucial reading for all students and
practitioners of juvenile and criminal justice.
Erich Hoerl's Sacred Channels is an original take on the history of
communication theory and the cultural imaginary of communication
understood through the notions of the sacred and the primitive.
Hoerl offers insight into the shared ground of anthropology and
media theory in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and presents
an archeology of the philosophy of technology that underpins
contemporary culture. This singular and unique project focuses on
the ethnological disciplines and their phantasmatic imaginations of
a prealphabetical realm of the sacred and the primitive but reads
them in the context of media cultural questions as epistemic
unconscious and as projections of the emerging postalphabetical
condition. Drawing inspiration from work by the likes of Friedrich
Kittler, Hoerl's understanding of cybernetics in the post-World War
II interdisciplinary field informs a rich analysis that is of
interest to media scholars and to anyone seeking to understand the
historical and theoretical underpinnings of the humanities in the
age of technical media.
Shame, Gender Violence and Ethics: Terrors of Injustice draws from
contemporary, concrete atrocities against women and marginalized
communties to re-conceptualize moral shame and to set moral shame
apart from dimensions of subordination, humiliation, and disgrace.
The inter-disciplinary collection starts with a contribution from a
a Yazidi-survivor of genocidal and sexual violence, whose case
brings together core themes: gender, ethnic and religious identity,
and violence and shame. Further accounts of shame and gendered
violence in this collection take the reader to other and equally
disturbing accounts of lesser- known atrocities from around the.
Although shame is sometimes posited as an innevitable companion to
human life, editors Lenart Skof and She M. Hawke situate the
discussion in the theoretical landscape of shame, and the
contributors challenge this concept through fields as diverse as
law, journalism, activism, philosophy, theology, ecofeminism, and
gender and cultural studies. Their discussion of gendered shame
makes room for it to be both a negative and a redemptive concept.
Combining junior and senior scholarship, this collection examines
power relations in the cycle of shame and violence.
Ongoing interest in the turmoil of the 1960s clearly demonstrates
how these social conflicts continue to affect contemporary
politics. In The Bad Sixties: Hollywood Memories of the
Counterculture, Antiwar, and Black Power Movements, Kristen Hoerl
focuses on fictionalized portrayals of 1960s activism in popular
television and film. Hoerl shows how Hollywood has perpetuated
politics deploring the detrimental consequences of the 1960s on
traditional American values. During the decade, people collectively
raised fundamental questions about the limits of democracy under
capitalism. But Hollywood has proved dismissive, if not
adversarial, to the role of dissent in fostering progressive social
change. Film and television are salient resources of shared
understanding for audiences born after the 1960s because movies and
television programs are the most accessible visual medium for
observing the decade's social movements. Hoerl indicates that a
variety of television programs, such as Family Ties, The Wonder
Years, and Law and Order, along with Hollywood films, including
Forrest Gump, have reinforced images of the ""bad sixties."" These
stories portray a period in which urban riots, antiwar protests,
sexual experimentation, drug abuse, and feminism led to national
division and moral decay. According to Hoerl, these messages supply
distorted civics lessons about what we should value and how we
might legitimately participate in our democracy. These warped
messages contribute to ""selective amnesia,"" a term that stresses
how popular media renders radical ideas and political projects null
or nonexistent. Selective amnesia removes the spectacular events
and figures that define the late-1960s from their motives and
context, flattening their meaning into reductive stereotypes.
Despite popular television and film, Hoerl explains, memory of
1960s activism still offers a potent resource for imagining how we
can strive collectively to achieve social justice and equality.
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