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Becoming Forest opens with Aishling—the young Irish woman at the
heart of this story—as she visits her grandmother in California
following her grandfather’s death. Aishling finds her
grandfather’s journal and reads about a trip he made to India
years ago to visit the original Bodhi Tree, the place where the
Buddha found enlightenment. At the end of the journal, she
finds a letter addressed to her from her grandfather asking for her
help passing along his message of “deep security” to her
generation as they deal with the climate crisis and the uncertain
future ahead. Aishling goes to India to follow in her
grandfather’s path to find a way of responding to his request.
There she meets and falls in love with a young Buddhist monk, who
is also on a quest. As they walk together along the roads of India,
they gather unexpected and invaluable insights from each other and
come closer to the answers they both seek. Thirty years
later, Aishling’s daughter Tara is visiting her in Ireland. Tara
is grieving the death of her father and also the destruction of the
forests from drought and fire. She is also searching for a way to
heal the burnout she and her friends are experiencing while working
to combat climate change. Becoming Forest weaves together threads
of Native American and Celtic spirituality with Buddhist
understanding and connection to the natural world, creating a
tapestry which holds both the despair and awakening of Aishling
The concept of ?peasant? has been constructed from residual images
of pre-industrial European and colonial rural society. Spurred by
Romantic sensibilities and modern nationalist imaginations, the
images the word peasant brings to mind are anachronisms that do not
reflect the ways in which rural people live today. In this
path-breaking book, Michae
This book explores major shifts and reorientations in the recent
history of American Anthropology, reflecting the author's vision of
what anthropology is and what it has the potential to become. The
title phrase 'changing fields' can be read in two ways: One meaning
refers to how, since the mid-1960s, the larger national and global
social, intellectual, and political fields within which American
anthropology is situated have profoundly changed. The second
meaning refers to how, in response to these changing fields, the
author, like many other anthropologists, changed the locations of
his fieldwork along with his research problems and theoretical
perspectives. The book engages three fundamental
intellectual-political challenges that American anthropology is
destined to confront (or at its peril, avoid): becoming more
self-reflexive, achieving theoretical and methodological holism,
and defense of universal human rights.
The concept of ?peasant? has been constructed from residual images
of pre-industrial European and colonial rural society. Spurred by
Romantic sensibilities and modern nationalist imaginations, the
images the word peasant brings to mind are anachronisms that do not
reflect the ways in which rural people live today. In this
path-breaking book, Michael Kearney shows how the concept has been
outdistanced by contemporary history. He situates the peasantry
within the current social context of the transnational and
post?Cold War nation-state and clears the way for alternative
theoretical views.Reconceptualizing the Peasantry looks at rural
society in general and considers the problematic distinction
between rural and urban. Most definitions of and debates about
peasants have focused on their presumed social, economic, cultural,
and political characteristics, but Kearney articulates the way in
which peasants define themselves in a rapidly changing world. In
the process, he develops ethnographic and political forms of
representation that correspond to contemporary postpeasant
identities. Moving beyond a reconsideration of peasantry, the book
situates anthropology in global context, showing how the discipline
reconstructs itself and its subjects according to changing
circumstances.
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Animal Magic (Paperback)
Michelle Kearney Lopez, Alvina Kwong
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R379
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have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
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Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
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