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This volume expands understandings of crafting practices, which in
the past was the major relational interaction between the social
agency of materials, technology, and people, in co-creating an
emergent ever-changing world. The chapters discuss different ways
that crafting in the present is useful in understanding crafting
experiences and methods in the past, including experiments to
reproduce ancient excavated objects, historical accounts of
crafting methods and experiences, craft revivals, and teaching
historical crafts at museums and schools. Crafting in the World is
unique in the diversity of its theoretical and multidisciplinary
approaches to researching crafting, not just as a set of techniques
for producing functional objects, but as social practices and
technical choices embodying cultural ideas, knowledge, and multiple
interwoven social networks. Crafting expresses and constitutes
mental schemas, identities, ideologies, and cultures. The multiple
meanings and significances of crafting are explored from a great
variety of disciplinary perspectives, including anthropology,
archaeology, sociology, education, psychology, women's studies, and
ethnic studies. This book provides a deep temporal range and a
global geographical scope, with case studies ranging from Europe,
Africa, and Asia to the Americas and a global internet website for
selling home crafted items.
In many facets of Western culture, including archaeology, there
remains a legacy of perceiving gender divisions as natural, innate,
and biological in origin. This belief follows that men are
naturally pre-disposed to public, intellectual pursuits, while
women are innately designed to care for the home and take care of
children. In the interpretation of material culture, accepted
notions of gender roles are often applied to new findings: the
dichotomy between the domestic sphere of women and the public
sphere of men can color interpretations of new materials. In this
innovative volume, the contributors focus explicitly on analyzing
the materiality of historic changes in the domestic sphere around
the world. Combining a global scope with great temporal depth,
chapters in the volume explore how gender ideologies, identities,
relationships, power dynamics, and practices were materially
changed in the past, thus showing how they could be changed in the
future.
A Guide to the World of the Yeasts J. F. T. Spencer and D. M.
Spencert As the well-known authority on yeasts, the late Professor
Rose, frequently pointed out, it is impossible for one person to
present, in a single volume, the details of the life, composiotion,
habitats, relationships, and actual and potential uses to man kind
of the 500 (at last count) known species of yeasts. This book
confirms the truth of this statement. However, our aim is actually
more modest than that, and this book is an attempt to introduce the
general reader, and possibly some inter ested specialists, to the
lives of the yeasts in their natural and more artificial habitats,
their use by human beings, and to give some idea of the wonderfully
complex activities within the yeast cell, the characteristics of
the metabolism and molecular biology of yeasts, and the
applications of these characteristics to life in the
present-dayworld ofhuman existence. The book proceeds from a brief
chapter on what is and is not known of the origins and early
history of the yeasts, through a description of their
classification, relationships, habitats and general life style,
their external morphology and internal structures and mechanisms
within their cells, the regulatory mechanisms controlling processes
such as signal transmis sion, mating, cell fusion, and many
others."
The first and only collection of its kind, "Sacred Symphony"
contains 100 transcriptions of muscial excerpts from the chanted
sermons of contemporary black preachers. In his introduction to the
pieces that follow, author John Michael Spencer argues that there
is an observable correlation between the chanted sermons of today's
black preachers and the antebellum spiritual. He shows that the
pieces collected here, each of which spontaneously evolved during
the course of a sermon or prayer service, are themselves spirituals
containing similar musical components--melody, rhythm, call and
response, counterpoint, harmony, form, and improvisation.
With a foreword by Richard E. Vander Ross
In recent years, dramatic increases in racial intermarriage have
given birth to a generation who refuse to be shoehorned into neat,
pre-existing racial categories. Energized by a refusal to allow
mixed-race people to be rendered invisible, this movement lobbies
aggressively to have the category multiracial added to official
racial classifications.
While applauding the self-awareness and activism at the root of
this movement, Jon Michael Spencer questions its ultimate
usefulness, deeply concerned that it will unintentionally weaken
minority power. Focusing specifically on mixed-race blacks, Spencer
argues that the mixed-race movement in the United States would
benefit from consideration of how multiracial categories have
evolved in South Africa. Americans, he shows us, are deeply
uninformed about the tragic consequences of the former white South
African government's classification of mixed-race people as
Coloured. Spencer maintains that a multiracial category in the U.S.
could be equally tragic, not only for blacks but formultiracials
themselves.
Further, splintering people of color into such classifications
of race and mixed race aggravates race relations among society's
oppressed. A group that can attain some privilege through a
multiracial identity is unlikely to identify with the lesser status
group, blacks. It may be that the undoing of racial classification
will come not by initiating a new classification, but by our
increased recognition that there are millions of people who simply
defy easy classification.
Archaeology is one of our most powerful sources of new information
about the past, about the lives of our ancient and not-so-ancient
ancestors. The contributors to Women in Antiquity consider the
theoretical problems involved in discerning what the archaeological
evidence tells us about gender roles in antiquity. The book
includes chapters on the history of gender research, historical
texts, mortuary analysis, household remains, hierarchy, and
ethnoarchaeology, with each chapter teasing out the inherent
difficulty in interpreting ancient evidence as well as the promise
of new understanding. Women in Antiquity offers a fresh, accessible
account of how we might grasp the ways in which sexual roles and
identities shaped the past.
Archaeology is one of our most powerful sources of new information
about the past, about the lives of our ancient and not-so-ancient
ancestors. The contributors to Women in Antiquity consider the
theoretical problems involved in discerning what the archaeological
evidence tells us about gender roles in antiquity. The book
includes chapters on the history of gender research, historical
texts, mortuary analysis, household remains, hierarchy, and
ethnoarchaeology, with each chapter teasing out the inherent
difficulty in interpreting ancient evidence as well as the promise
of new understanding. Women in Antiquity offers a fresh, accessible
account of how we might grasp the ways in which sexual roles and
identities shaped the past.
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A groundbreaking look at the relationship between two sacred texts
The Book of Mormon’s narrative privileges Isaiah over other
sources, provocatively interpreting and at times inventively
reworking the biblical text. Joseph M. Spencer sees within the Book
of Mormon a programmatic investigation regarding the meaning and
relevance of the Book of Isaiah in a world increasingly removed
from the context of the times that produced it. Working from the
crossroads of reception studies and Mormon studies, Spencer
investigates and clarifies the Book of Mormon’s questions about
the vitality of Isaiah’s prophetic project. Spencer’s analysis
focuses on the Book of Mormon’s three interactions with the
prophet: the character of Abinadi; the resurrected Jesus Christ;
and the nation-founding figure of Nephi. Working from the Book of
Mormon as it was dictated, Spencer details its vital and overlooked
place in Isaiah’s reception while recognizing the interpretation
of Isaiah as an organizing force behind the Book of Mormon.
Historical archaeology of landscapes initially followed the
pattern of Classical Archaeology by studying elite men's gardens.
Over time, particularly in North America, the field has expanded to
cover larger settlement areas, but still often with ungendered and
elite focus. The editors of this volume seek to fill this important
gap in the literature by presenting studies of gendered power
dynamics and their effect on minority groups in North America. Case
studies presented include communities of Native Americans, African
Americans, multi-ethnic groups, religious communities, and
industrial communities.
Just as the research focus has previously neglected the groups
presented here, so too has funding to preserve important
archaeological sites. As the contributors to this important volume
present a new framework for understanding the archaeology of
religious and social minority groups, they also demonstrate the
importance of preserving the cultural landscapes, particularly of
minority groups, from destruction by the modern dominant culture. A
full and complete picture of cultural preservation has to include
all of the groups that interacted form it.
Nobility and Kingship in Medieval England is a major new account of
the relationship between Edward I and his earls, and of the role of
the English nobility in thirteenth-century governance.
Re-evaluating crown-noble relations of the period, Spencer
challenges traditional interpretations of Edward's reign, showing
that his reputed masterfulness has been overplayed and that his
kingship was far subtler, and therefore more effective, than this
stereotype would suggest. Drawing from key earldoms such as
Lincoln, Lancaster, Cornwall and Warenne, the book reveals how
nobles created local followings and exercised power at a local
level as well as surveying the political, governmental, social and
military lives of the earls, prompting us to rethink our perception
of their position in thirteenth-century politics. Adopting a
powerful revisionist perspective, Spencer presents a major new
statement about thirteenth-century England; one which will
transform our understanding of politics and kingship in the period.
This book covers the new field of healthcare organization ethics from theory to practical application. It can be used as a text for courses on the subject, as a reference for those interested in the present status of the field, and as a practical guide for healthcare executives, clinicians and committee members who are beginning to develop an organizational ethics program for their institution.
In many facets of Western culture, including archaeology, there
remains a legacy of perceiving gender divisions as natural, innate,
and biological in origin. This belief follows that men are
naturally pre-disposed to public, intellectual pursuits, while
women are innately designed to care for the home and take care of
children. In the interpretation of material culture, accepted
notions of gender roles are often applied to new findings: the
dichotomy between the domestic sphere of women and the public
sphere of men can color interpretations of new materials. In this
innovative volume, the contributors focus explicitly on analyzing
the materiality of historic changes in the domestic sphere around
the world. Combining a global scope with great temporal depth,
chapters in the volume explore how gender ideologies, identities,
relationships, power dynamics, and practices were materially
changed in the past, thus showing how they could be changed in the
future.
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