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Radio is the most widespread electronic medium in the world today.
As a form of technology that is both durable and relatively cheap,
radio remains central to the everyday lives of billions of people
around the globe. It is used as a call for prayer in Argentina and
Appalachia, to organize political protest in Mexico and Libya, and
for wartime communication in Iraq and Afghanistan. In urban centres
it is played constantly in shopping malls, waiting rooms, and
classrooms. Yet despite its omnipresence, it remains the media form
least studied by anthropologists. Radio Fields employs ethnographic
methods to reveal the diverse domains in which radio is imagined,
deployed, and understood. Drawing on research from six continents,
the volume demonstrates how the particular capacities and practices
of radio provide singular insight into diverse social worlds,
ranging from aboriginal Australia to urban Zambia. Together, the
contributors address how radio creates distinct possibilities for
rethinking such fundamental concepts as culture, communication,
community, and collective agency.
This volume explores what phenomenology adds to the enterprise of
anthropology, drawing on and contributing to a burgeoning field of
social science research inspired by the phenomenological tradition
in philosophy. Essays by leading scholars ground their discussions
of theory and method in richly detailed ethnographic case studies.
The contributors broaden the application of phenomenology in
anthropology beyond the areas in which it has been most
influentialâstudies of sensory perception, emotion, bodiliness,
and intersubjectivityâinto new areas of inquiry such as martial
arts, sports, dance, music, and political discourse.
For many inside and outside the legal academy, the right place to
look for law is in constitutions, statutes, and judicial opinions.
This book looks for law in the âwrong placesââsites and
spaces in which no formal law appears. These may be geographic
regions beyond the reach of law, everyday practices ungoverned or
ungovernable by law, or works of art that have escaped lawâs
constraints. Looking for Law in All the Wrong Places brings
together essays by leading scholars of anthropology, cultural
studies, history, law, literature, political science, race and
ethnic studies, religion, and rhetoric, to look at law from the
standpoint of the humanities. Beyond showing law to be determined
by or determinative of distinct cultural phenomena, the
contributors show how law is itself interwoven with language, text,
image, and culture. Many essays in this volume look for law
precisely in the kinds of âwrong placesâ where there appears to
be no law. They find in these places not only reflections and
remains of law, but also rules and practices that seem
indistinguishable from law and raise challenging questions about
the locations of law and about lawâs meaning and function. Other
essays do the opposite: rather than looking for law in places where
law does not obviously appear, they look in statute books and
courtrooms from perspectives that are usually presumed to have
nothing to say about law. Looking at law sideways, or upside down,
or inside out defamiliarizes law. These essays show what legal
understanding can gain when law is denied its ostensibly proper
domain. Contributors: Kathryn Abrams, Daniel Boyarin, Wendy Brown,
Marianne Constable, Samera Esmeir, Daniel Fisher, Sara Ludin, Saba
Mahmood, Rebecca McLennan, Ramona Naddaff, Beth Piatote, Sarah
Song, Christopher Tomlins, Leti Volpp, Bryan Wagner
Beginning in the early 1980s Aboriginal Australians found in music,
radio, and filmic media a means to make themselves heard across the
country and to insert themselves into the center of Australian
political life. In The Voice and Its Doubles Daniel Fisher analyzes
the great success of this endeavor, asking what is at stake in the
sounds of such media for Aboriginal Australians. Drawing on
long-term ethnographic research in northern Australia, Fisher
describes the close proximity of musical media, shifting forms of
governmental intervention, and those public expressions of intimacy
and kinship that suffuse Aboriginal Australian social life. Today's
Aboriginal media include genres of country music and hip-hop; radio
requests and broadcast speech; visual graphs of a digital audio
timeline; as well as the statistical media of audience research and
the discursive and numerical figures of state audits and cultural
policy formation. In each of these diverse instances the mediatized
voice has become a site for overlapping and at times discordant
forms of political, expressive, and institutional creativity.
Beginning in the early 1980s Aboriginal Australians found in music,
radio, and filmic media a means to make themselves heard across the
country and to insert themselves into the center of Australian
political life. In The Voice and Its Doubles Daniel Fisher analyzes
the great success of this endeavor, asking what is at stake in the
sounds of such media for Aboriginal Australians. Drawing on
long-term ethnographic research in northern Australia, Fisher
describes the close proximity of musical media, shifting forms of
governmental intervention, and those public expressions of intimacy
and kinship that suffuse Aboriginal Australian social life. Today's
Aboriginal media include genres of country music and hip-hop; radio
requests and broadcast speech; visual graphs of a digital audio
timeline; as well as the statistical media of audience research and
the discursive and numerical figures of state audits and cultural
policy formation. In each of these diverse instances the mediatized
voice has become a site for overlapping and at times discordant
forms of political, expressive, and institutional creativity.
For many inside and outside the legal academy, the right place to
look for law is in constitutions, statutes, and judicial opinions.
This book looks for law in the "wrong places"-sites and spaces in
which no formal law appears. These may be geographic regions beyond
the reach of law, everyday practices ungoverned or ungovernable by
law, or works of art that have escaped law's constraints. Looking
for Law in All the Wrong Places brings together essays by leading
scholars of anthropology, cultural studies, history, law,
literature, political science, race and ethnic studies, religion,
and rhetoric, to look at law from the standpoint of the humanities.
Beyond showing law to be determined by or determinative of distinct
cultural phenomena, the contributors show how law is itself
interwoven with language, text, image, and culture. Many essays in
this volume look for law precisely in the kinds of "wrong places"
where there appears to be no law. They find in these places not
only reflections and remains of law, but also rules and practices
that seem indistinguishable from law and raise challenging
questions about the locations of law and about law's meaning and
function. Other essays do the opposite: rather than looking for law
in places where law does not obviously appear, they look in statute
books and courtrooms from perspectives that are usually presumed to
have nothing to say about law. Looking at law sideways, or upside
down, or inside out defamiliarizes law. These essays show what
legal understanding can gain when law is denied its ostensibly
proper domain. Contributors: Kathryn Abrams, Daniel Boyarin, Wendy
Brown, Marianne Constable, Samera Esmeir, Daniel Fisher, Sara
Ludin, Saba Mahmood, Rebecca McLennan, Ramona Naddaff, Beth
Piatote, Sarah Song, Christopher Tomlins, Leti Volpp, Bryan Wagner
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These stories exemplify how young authors can apply the writing
process to create works suitable for a wide audience. The
sixth-grade authors worked over a period of three months to turn
rough ideas into finished stories. The result is a compilation of
stories on all topics. Humor, mystery, adventure, science fiction,
historical fiction, horror, fantasy, fable, and even nonfiction are
represented. The title was one of many suggested and voted upon by
student authors.
These stories exemplify how young authors can apply the writing
process to create works suitable for a wide audience. The
sixth-grade authors worked over a period of three months to turn
rough ideas into finished stories. The result is a compilation of
stories on all topics. Humor, mystery, adventure, science fiction,
historical fiction, horror, fantasy, fable, and even nonfiction are
represented. The title was one of many suggested and voted upon by
students, and design elements were approved by a majority of the
authors.
This is the tenth annual collection of short works by students of
Berkshire Middle School. The stories are new, and so are the
authors. The focus, though remains he same as in previous volumes:
With genuine effort and attention to the writing process, young
authors can fine-tune their original ideas and produce works
suitable for a wide audience. Stories in this collection span
multiple categories, including fantasy, science fiction, realistic
fiction, historical fiction, fable, and mystery.
This is the eleventh annual collection of short works by students
of Berkshire Middle School. The stories are new, and so are the
authors. The focus, though, remains the same as in previous
volumes: With genuine effort and attention to the writing process,
young authors can fine-tune their original ideas and produce works
suitable for a wide audience. Stories in this collection span
multiple categories, including fantasy, science fiction, realistic
fiction, historical fiction, and mystery.
This is the ninth annual collection of short works by students of
Berkshire Middle School (from the 2008-2009 school year). The
stories are new, and so are the authors. The focus, though, remains
the same as in previous volumes: With genuine effort and attention
to the writing process, young authors can produce works suitable
for a wide audience. Over a twelve-week period, each sixth-grade
writer turned a basic premise into a fully-formed story. The
changes along the way sometimes surprised even the authors
themselves. No Autographs, Please continues the proud tradition of
author's craft demonstrated in its predecessors Short Stories by
Short People, Who Says Adults Have to Write All the Good Stories?,
Got Stories?, Tall Tales Gone Short, Stories For Shorties, Five
Drafts Later..., Your Title Here, and 638 Potential Paper Cuts.
This is the eighth annual collection of short works by students of
Berkshire Middle School (from the 2007-2008 school year). The
stories are new, and so is this group of authors. The focus,
though, remains the same as in previous volumes: With genuine
effort and attention to the writing process, young authors can
fine-tune their original ideas and produce works suitable for a
wide audience.
Over a twelve-week period, each sixth-grade writer shepherded a
germ of an idea through multiple revisions to arrive at a polished
piece. The ultimate paths of the stories and the improvement in
quality from start to finish sometimes surprised even the authors.
"639 Potential Paper Cuts" continues the proud tradition of
author's craft demonstrated in its predecessors "Short Stories by
Short People, Who Says Adults Have to Write All the Good Stories?,
Got Stories?, Tall Tales Gone Short, Stories For Shorties, Five
Drafts Later..., " and "Your Title Here."
A collection of fiction
written by sixth-grade students.
(2006)
A collection of fiction
written by sixth-grade students.
(2007)
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