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This book examines the academic study of the African and Native
American contact, African cultural change in Native America, as
well as the existence of African Americans with Native American
ancestry and Native Americans with African ancestry in the Western
Hemisphere. Drawing upon the fields of anthropology, history, and
sociology that initiated research into these areas, this book
attempts to provide understandings of how scholars have studied and
continue to understand the experiences of African-Native Americans
or individuals of blended − culturally and/or racially −
African and Native American ancestry in the North, Central, and
South America. It aims to illuminate problems, perspectives, and
prospects for interdisciplinary research. The first part is
structured to cover the problems – past and present −
encountered in investigating the scope of the topic and presents an
overview of the most important academic findings. The second part
provides both anthropological and interdisciplinary perspectives on
the lived experiences of African-Native Americans with both Native
Americans and non-Native Americans. And, finally, it sketches out
future directions in scholarship. This book will be of interest to
anthropologists, historians, sociologists, and Ethnic Studies and
Native American and Indigenous Studies scholars, from
undergraduates interested in the topic to graduate students and
researchers seeking to interrogate past research or fill
explanatory gaps in the literature with new research.
This book examines the academic study of the African and Native
American contact, African cultural change in Native America, as
well as the existence of African Americans with Native American
ancestry and Native Americans with African ancestry in the Western
Hemisphere. Drawing upon the fields of anthropology, history, and
sociology that initiated research into these areas, this book
attempts to provide understandings of how scholars have studied and
continue to understand the experiences of African-Native Americans
or individuals of blended − culturally and/or racially −
African and Native American ancestry in the North, Central, and
South America. It aims to illuminate problems, perspectives, and
prospects for interdisciplinary research. The first part is
structured to cover the problems – past and present −
encountered in investigating the scope of the topic and presents an
overview of the most important academic findings. The second part
provides both anthropological and interdisciplinary perspectives on
the lived experiences of African-Native Americans with both Native
Americans and non-Native Americans. And, finally, it sketches out
future directions in scholarship. This book will be of interest to
anthropologists, historians, sociologists, and Ethnic Studies and
Native American and Indigenous Studies scholars, from
undergraduates interested in the topic to graduate students and
researchers seeking to interrogate past research or fill
explanatory gaps in the literature with new research.
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Robinson Crusoe (Paperback)
Daniel Defoe; Introduction by Doreen Roberts; Notes by Doreen Roberts; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford
College, University of Kent at Canterbury. From its first
publication in 1719, Robinson Crusoe has been printed in over 700
editions. It has inspired almost every conceivable kind of
imitation and variation, and been the subject of plays, opera,
cartoons, and computer games. The character of Crusoe has entered
the consciousness of each succeeding generation as readers add
their own interpretation to the adventures so thrillingly
'recorded' by Defoe. Praised by eminent figures such as Coleridge,
Rousseau and Wordsworth, this perennially popular book was cited by
Karl Marx in Das Kapital to illustrate economic theory. However it
is readers of all ages over the last 280 years who have given
Robinson Crusoe its abiding position as a classic tale of
adventure.
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The Iliad (Paperback, New edition)
Homer; Introduction by Adam Roberts; Notes by Adam Roberts; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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With an Introduction and Notes by Adam Roberts, Royal Holloway,
University of London. The product of more than a decade's
continuous work (1598-1611), Chapman's translation of Homer's great
poem of war is a magnificent testimony to the power of The Iliad.
In muscular, onward-rolling verse Chapman retells the story of
Achilles, the great warrior, and his terrible wrath before the
walls of besieged Troy, and the destruction it wreaks on both
Greeks and Trojans. Chapman regarded the translation of this epic,
and of Homer's Odyssey (also available in Wordsworth Editions) as
his life's work, and dedicated himself to capturing the 'soul' of
the poem. Swinburne praised the resulting translation for its
'romantic and sometimes barbaric grandeur, its freshness, strength,
and inexhaustible fire', qualities that reflect the grandeur, fire
and brutality of the original poem. This new edition includes a
critical introduction and extensive notes, rendering Chapman's
extraordinary poetic masterpiece accessible to modern readers.
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The Odyssey (Paperback, Reissue)
Homer; Introduction by Adam Roberts; Notes by Adam Roberts; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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With an Introduction and Notes by Adam Roberts, Royal Holloway,
University of London. Homer's great epic describes the many
adventures of Odysseus, Greek warrior, as he strives over many
years to return to his home island of Ithaca after the Trojan War.
His colourful adventures, his endurance, his love for his wife and
son have the same power to move and inspire readers today as they
did in Archaic Greece, 2800 years ago. This poem has been
translated many times over the years, but Chapman's sinewy,
gorgeous rendering (1616) stands in a class of its own. Chapman
believed himself inspired by the spirit of Homer himself, and
matches the breadth and power of the original with a complex and
stunning idiom of his own. John Keats expressed his admiration for
the resulting work in the famous sonnet, 'On first looking into
Chapman's Homer': 'Much have I travelled in the realms of gold...'
This new Wordsworth edition of Chapman's Homer contains accessible
annotation, and a detailed introduction that places his masterpiece
in the context of his own day, and discusses its influences on
later poets.
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Gulliver's Travels (Paperback)
Jonathan Swift; Introduction by Doreen Roberts; Notes by Doreen Roberts; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford
College, University of Kent at Canterbury. Jonathan Swift's classic
satirical narrative was first published in 1726, seven years after
Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (one of its few rivals in fame and breadth
of appeal). As a parody travel-memoir it reports on extraordinary
lands and societies, whose names have entered the English language:
notably the minute inhabitants of Lilliput, the giants of
Brobdingnag, and the Yahoos in Houyhnhnmland, where talking horses
are the dominant species. It spares no vested interest from its
irreverent wit, and its attack on political and financial
corruption, as well as abuses in science, continue to resonate in
our own times.
While Richard Wright's account of the 1955 Bandung Conference has
been key to shaping Afro-Asian historical narratives, Indonesian
accounts of Wright and his conference attendance have been largely
overlooked. Indonesian Notebook contains myriad documents by
Indonesian writers, intellectuals, and reporters, as well as a
newly recovered lecture by Wright, previously published only in
Indonesian. Brian Russell Roberts and Keith Foulcher introduce and
contextualize these documents with extensive background information
and analysis, showcasing the heterogeneity of postcolonial
modernity and underscoring the need to consider non-English
language perspectives in transnational cultural exchanges. This
collection of primary sources and scholarly histories is a crucial
companion volume to Wright'sThe Color Curtain.
These days current events are fraught with political animosity,
global pandemic, warfare, gun violence, and economic insecurity.
The troubling times that we live in leave us uncertain where we
stand and in what direction we are going. So it is with good reason
that anxiety levels have peaked and the affliction has extended to
almost every segment of society—whether they like to admit it or
not. We may not be able to change the world but End Anxiety!:
Proven Benefits of the Transcendental Meditation® Program, by
James Meade, PhD shows us how we can help ourselves. The problem is
real, so what can we do about it? In End Anxiety!, James Meade
offers an instant and lasting solution—the Transcendental
Meditation® program, as taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. This may
at first seem like a novel approach to the issue, but studies on
the effects of Transcendental Meditation® on the mental states of
its practitioners have been ongoing for over fifty years and the
findings are conclusive: Transcendental Meditation can have a real
and powerful positive impact on our mental health, especially in
terms of mitigating anxiety, stress, and depression.
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Tom Jones (Paperback, Reissue)
Henry Fielding; Introduction by Doreen Roberts; Notes by Doreen Roberts; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College,
University of Kent at Canterbury. Tom Jones is widely regarded as
one of the first and most influential English novels. It is
certainly the funniest. Tom Jones, the hero of the book, is
introduced to the reader as the ward of a liberal Somerset squire.
Tom is a generous but slightly wild and feckless country boy with a
weakness for young women. Misfortune, followed by many spirited
adventures as he travels to London to seek his fortune, teach him a
sort of wisdom to go with his essential good-heartedness. This
'comic, epic poem in prose' will make the modern reader laugh as
much as it did his forbears. Its biting satire finds an echo in
today's society, for as Doris Lessing recently remarked 'This
country becomes every day more like the eighteenth century, full of
thieves and adventurers, rogues and a robust, unhypocritical
savagery side-by-side with people lecturing others on morality'.
The Archaeology of Disease shows how the latest scientific and
archaeological techniques can be used to identify the common
illnesses and injuries that humans suffered from in antiquity. In
order to give a vivid picture of ancient disease and trauma the
authors present the results of the latest scientific research and
incorporate information gathered from documents, from other areas
of archaeology and from art and ethnography. This comprehensive
approach to the subject throws fresh light on the health of our
ancestors and on the conditions in which they lived, and it gives
us an intriguing insight into the ways in which they coped with the
pain and discomfort of their existence.
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