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"An essential source for the study of events in early China, a
guide to the moral philosophy of the gentlemen of Han, and a
splendid work of literature which may be read for the pleasure of
its style and the power of its narrative. . . . This work makes Shi
ji and its scholarship accessible to any reader of English, and it
is a model for any work in this field and style." -Bulletin of the
School of Oriental and African Studies "Through such work as this,
the scholarly and literary community of the West will learn more of
the splendor and romance of early China, and may better appreciate
the lessons in humanity presented by its great historian."
-Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
"Nienhauser's new translation is scrupulously scholarly . . . the
design of this series is nearly flawless . . . the translation
itself is very precise." -Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles,
Reviews This project will result in the first complete translation
(in nine volumes) of the Shih chi (The Grand Scribe's Records), one
of the most important narratives in traditional China. Ssu-ma
Ch'ien (145-ca. 86 BC), who compiled the work, is known as the
Herodotus of China.
America's foremost small-business advice guru offers readers seven
steps to identify the right business for them--from determining
one's entrepreneurial type to exploring the wide range of business
options with 25 in-depth analyses and over 200 at-a-glance
evaluations.
For the past century, the anthropological study of the Mexican
economy has accentuated the cultural and historical distinctiveness
of its subjects, a majority of whom share Amerindian or mestizo
identity. By selectively reviewing this record and critically
examining specific foundational and later empirical studies in
several of Mexico's key regions, as well as the U.S.-Mexico
borderlands and the new trans-border space in the U.S. and Canada
for Mexican-origin migrant labor, this book encourages readers to
critically rethink their views of economic otherness in Mexico
(and, by extension, elsewhere in Latin America and the Third
World), and presents a new framework for understanding the
Mexican/Mesoamerican economy in world-historical terms. Among other
things, this involves reconciling the continuing attraction of
concepts like 'penny capitalism' with the realities of a world ever
more subjected to continental and global market projects of 'DOLLAR
CAPITALISM.' It also involves concentrating on the production and
consumption of commodity value.The key concept 'commodity
culture(s)' serves as a thread to loosely integrate the separate
chapters of this book. It is conceived as a way to operationally
immobilize two contradictory tendencies: first, the tendency to
understand an economy like Mexico's as a separate reality from its
sociocultural matrix thus distorting its influence; and, second,
the tendency to submerge 'economy' in its sociocultural matrix
thereby diffusing its influence. This double immobilization
promotes a focus on the interconnectedness of economy, society, and
culture, but also makes it possible methodologically to approach
themes like cultural survival, subsistence/livelihood security, use
value, ecological degradation, human rights, or the sociocultural
connectedness of the economy from the perspective of a
commodity-focused analysis that privileges use- and exchange-value
production and consumption. Such an approach provides a unique
perspective in demonstrating how lived experience is informed by
and shapes the diversifying funds of knowledge that enable Mexicans
under economic stress to make culturally-informed choices in their
material interest. The focus on deliberative decision-making,
understood as involving utilitarian means-end reasoning necessarily
influenced by social and moral considerations, promotes a balanced
approach to the economy/culture relationship and to the role of
agency in processes of economic transformation. The challenge to
economic anthropology in seeking to understand processes of
livelihood and accumulation in societies like Mexico with uneven
development, persisting cultures of precapitalist origin, yet
pervasive involvement in continental and global capitalist markets,
is to deal with an unusually diverse array of capital/labor
relations, as well as with significant sectors of the rural
population with combined, if alternating, involvement in
capitalist, petty commodity, and subsistence circuits of value
production and consumption. The common denominator of this activity
is deliberative choice by Mexicans regarding the acquisition, use,
and/or accumulation of commodity value calculated in money terms.
This market-responsive behavior, since the early 1980s, has been
generated by conditions of subsistence and/or accumulation crisis
in Mexico. There is an important message here that should be
comforting to those in the United States who are threatened by or
uneasy about the growing presence of Mexican migrants in our midst.
It should also give pause to others who are quick to emphasize,
even exoticize or romanticize, the cultural or ethnic differences
between Mexicans and Americans. With regard to fundamental
aspirations and considerations related to making and earning a
living, including sociopolitical understandings, there is really
very little difference between us. Too much has been made in the
past of the concrete economic differences between our two countries
represented in abstract, statistical terms (or in systemic terms
regarding politics/political culture) as an asymmetrical First
World-Third World divide. This notion of economic (and political)
difference or 'otherness' has been reinforced by a conflictive and
controversial history that has shaped the international border
between the U.S. and Mexico, and reverberated in our respective
national identities, since the middle of the 19th century. It has
also been accentuated by the impersonal, instrumental discourse of
international capitalist development which has made 'maquiladora, '
'indocumentado, ' and 'cheap labor' household words in both
countries. Against this litany of economic (and political)
difference, the lesson to be gleaned from the record of study of
Mexican/Mesoamerican commodity culture, from the highlands of
Guatemala to the Valleys of Oaxaca or Guerrero to the coasts of
Veracruz and along the Rio Bravo side of the border, is that its
bearers and fashioners, the peoples of this vast region south of
the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo, think and act about making and earning
their livelihood just as we would in their space. It is this
fundamental recognition of our common humanity that should be
uppermost in all of our minds as we negotiate and struggle our
respective ways together through NAFTAmerica in the twenty-first
centur
Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) workers
drive our nation's innovation and competitiveness by generating new
ideas, new companies and new industries. However, U.S. businesses
frequently voice concerns over the supply and availability of STEM
workers. Over the past 10 years, growth in STEM jobs was three
times as fast as growth in non-STEM jobs. STEM workers are also
less likely to experience joblessness than their non-STEM
counterparts. Science, technology, engineering and mathematics
workers play a role in the sustained growth and stability of the
U.S. economy, and are a critical component to helping the U.S. win
the future. This book explores workforce trends and policy
considerations for STEM students and workers.
With Part I of the two-part fifth volume of Ssu-ma Ch ien s Shi
chi (The Grand Scribe s Records), we enter the world of the shih
chia or "hereditary houses." These ten chapters trace the history
of China s first states, from their establishment in the 11th
century B.C. until their incorporation in the first empire under
the Ch in in 221 B.C. Combining myth, anecdote, chronicle, and
biography based on early written and oral sources, many no longer
extant, the narratives make for compelling reading, as dramatic and
readable as any in this grand history."
Presents wide-ranging and up-to-date interpretations of the
Zhuangzi, the Daoist classic and one of the most elusive works ever
written. A literary and philosophical masterpiece of its age, and
yet one of the most puzzling and elusive texts ever written, the
Zhuangzi has been continuously reinterpreted. Here the age-old
hermeneutic project of reading the Zhuangzi is brought up to the
present with new essays addressing an array of Interrelated topics
from a variety of perspectives. These include how the work stands
in relation to such issues as mystical experience, "skeptical" and
"relativist" attitudes, individual value, ethical orientation, folk
psychologies and popular beliefs, and rhetorical logic and
structure. By providing ten "uneven" perspectives on such matters,
this volume contributes to the ongoing discourse on Zhuangzi's
philosophy by placing it within our present interpretive context
and pushing that context to new limits.
The cache of bamboo texts unearthed in the village of Guodian,
Hubei Province, in 1993 is a rare and unique find in the history of
Chinese philosophy and literature. This study renders the complex
corpus of the Guodian texts into a more easily manageable form,
incorporating the past several years of scholarly activity on these
texts and providing them with a comprehensive introduction along
with a complete and well-annotated translation into English. As the
only archaeologically excavated corpus of philosophical manuscripts
to emerge from a Warring States-period tomb, the Guodian texts
provide us with a wealth of reliable information for gaining new
insights into the textual and intellectual history of pre-imperial
China. Given the prominence of Confucian works in the corpus, they
serve to fill out much of the intellectual historical picture for
the doctrines of roughly three generations of Confucian disciples
who fell between the times of Confucius (551-479 BC) and Mencius
(c. 390-305 BC). The manuscripts also hold great significance for
the study of early Chinese paleography and phonology. Volume II
offers introductions to and annotated translations of the
manuscripts "Cheng zhi," "Zun deyi," "Xing zi ming chu," "Liu de,"
and "Yucong" 1-4, along with various appendixes. These include
collation tables of witnesses to the Guodian "Laozi" passages and a
running translation of all the Guodian texts.
The cache of bamboo texts unearthed in the village of Guodian,
Hubei Province, in 1993 is a rare and unique find in the history of
Chinese philosophy and literature. This study renders the complex
corpus of the Guodian texts into a more easily manageable form,
incorporating the past several years of scholarly activity on these
texts and providing them with a comprehensive introduction along
with a complete and well-annotated translation into English. As the
only archaeologically excavated corpus of philosophical manuscripts
to emerge from a Warring States-period tomb, the Guodian texts
provide us with a wealth of reliable information for gaining new
insights into the textual and intellectual history of pre-imperial
China. Given the prominence of Confucian works in the corpus, they
serve to fill out much of the intellectual historical picture for
the doctrines of roughly three generations of Confucian disciples
who fell between the times of Confucius (551-479 BC) and Mencius
(c. 390-305 BC). The manuscripts also hold great significance for
the study of early Chinese paleography and phonology. Volume II
offers introductions to and annotated translations of the
manuscripts "Cheng zhi," "Zun deyi," "Xing zi ming chu," "Liu de,"
and "Yucong" 1-4, along with various appendixes. These include
collation tables of witnesses to the Guodian "Laozi" passages and a
running translation of all the Guodian texts.
For centuries throughout large portions of the globe, petty
agriculturalists and industrialists have set their physical and
mental energies to work producing products for direct consumption
by their households and for exchange. This twofold household
reproduction strategy, according to both Marxist and neoclassical
approaches to development, should have disappeared from the global
economy as labor was transformed into a producer as well as a
consumer of capitalist commodities. But in fact, during the
twentieth century, only the United States and Britain seem to have
approximated this predicted scenario. Tens of millions of
households in contemporary Asia, Africa, and Latin America and
millions more in industrialized capitalist economies support
themselves through petty commodity production alone or in
combination with petty industry wage labor. Obliging Need provides
a detailed and comprehensive analysis of small-scale peasant and
artisan enterprise in the Oaxaca Valley of Mexico. The authors show
how commodity production is organized and operates in different
craft industries, as well as the ways in which it combines with
other activities such as household chores, agriculture, wage labor,
and petty commerce. They demonstrate how-contrary to
developmentalist dogma-small-scale capitalism develops from within
Mexico's rural economy. These findings will be important for
everyone concerned with improving the lives and economic
opportunities of countryfolk in the Third World. As the authors
make clear, political mobilization in rural Mexico will succeed
only as it addresses the direct producers' multiple needs for land,
credit, more jobs, health insurance, and, most importantly, more
equitable remuneration for their labor and greater rewards for
their enterprise.
In 1988, Scott Cook was a boarding school PE teacher responsible
for the proper inflation of dodge balls. A year later, he was
operating an underground strategic missile control center with 10
intercontinental nuclear weapons capable of obliterating an entire
country. This unexpected journey took him from the serene hills of
Virginia through months of intensive training on the California
coast to the front lines of the Cold War, beneath the frozen plains
of North Dakota. His frank, entertaining memoir describes the
insular and secretive military subculture of men and women who
lived with the sobering burden of potentially unleashing global
devastation, and how an easy-going gym coach ended up in an
organization whose unofficial motto was "To err is human; to
forgive is not Strategic Air Command policy.
Commodities of one type or other have been produced, transferred
and consumed in the economic life of humanity through every epoch
of its development and forms of sociocultural organization, but are
pervasive in the varieties of capitalism dominating contemporary
world economies. Even labor, a necessary element in all forms of
commodity production, has itself been commoditized. Embodying three
kinds of potentially realizable value - use, exchange, and symbolic
- commodities reflect and affect various facets of humanity's
sociocultural life. They have been investigated by knowledge
producers ranging from Aristotle and Ibn Khaldun through Adam
Smith, David Ricardo, and Karl Marx down to a whole host of
twentieth-century economists and others like the anthropologist,
Bronislaw Malinowski, and the storyteller, B. Traven. In this book
noted economic anthropologist Scott Cook draws on many decades of
fieldwork in the Mexican states of Oaxaca and Tamaulipas to take on
the challenge of crafting an academic memoir designed to provide
insights into the role of commodities in his own life and times and
especially in his anthropological career. He undertakes this
project in conjunction with a running interpretation of the
contrasting approaches of Malinowski and Traven to the topic of
commodity production and exchange in Mexico.
In the Valley of Oaxaca in Mexico's Southern Highland region, three
facets of sociocultural life have been interconnected and
interactive from colonial times to the present: first, community
land as a space to live and work; second, a civil-religious system
managed by reciprocity and market activity wherein obligations of
citizenship, office, and festive sponsorships are met by
expenditures of labor-time and money; and third, livelihood. In
this book, noted Oaxacan scholar Scott Cook draws on thirty-five
years of fieldwork (1965-1990) in the region to present a masterful
ethnographic historical account of how nine communities in the
Oaxaca Valley have striven to maintain land, livelihood, and
civility in the face of transformational and cumulative change
across five centuries. Drawing on an extensive database that he
accumulated through participant observation, household surveys,
interviews, case studies, and archival work in more than twenty
Oaxacan communities, Cook documents and explains how
peasant-artisan villagers in the Oaxaca Valley have endeavored over
centuries to secure and/or defend land, worked and negotiated to
subsist and earn a living, and striven to meet expectations and
obligations of local citizenship. His findings identify elements
and processes that operate across communities or distinguish some
from others. They also underscore the fact that landholding is
crucial for the sociocultural life of the valley. Without land for
agriculture and resource extraction, occupational options are
restricted, livelihood is precarious and contingent, and civility
is jeopardized.
In the Valley of Oaxaca in Mexico's Southern Highland region, three
facets of sociocultural life have been interconnected and
interactive from colonial times to the present: first, community
land as a space to live and work; second, a civil-religious system
managed by reciprocity and market activity wherein obligations of
citizenship, office, and festive sponsorships are met by
expenditures of labor-time and money; and third, livelihood. In
this book, noted Oaxacan scholar Scott Cook draws on thirty-five
years of fieldwork (1965-1990) in the region to present a masterful
ethnographic historical account of how nine communities in the
Oaxaca Valley have striven to maintain land, livelihood, and
civility in the face of transformational and cumulative change
across five centuries. Drawing on an extensive database that he
accumulated through participant observation, household surveys,
interviews, case studies, and archival work in more than twenty
Oaxacan communities, Cook documents and explains how
peasant-artisan villagers in the Oaxaca Valley have endeavored over
centuries to secure and/or defend land, worked and negotiated to
subsist and earn a living, and striven to meet expectations and
obligations of local citizenship. His findings identify elements
and processes that operate across communities or distinguish some
from others. They also underscore the fact that landholding is
crucial for the sociocultural life of the valley. Without land for
agriculture and resource extraction, occupational options are
restricted, livelihood is precarious and contingent, and civility
is jeopardized.
The cache of bamboo texts unearthed in the village of Guodian,
Hubei Province, in 1993 is a rare and unique find in the history of
Chinese philosophy and literature. This study renders the complex
corpus of the Guodian texts into a more easily manageable form,
incorporating the past several years of scholarly activity on these
texts and providing them with a comprehensive introduction along
with a complete and well-annotated translation into English. As the
only archaeologically excavated corpus of philosophical manuscripts
to emerge from a Warring States-period tomb, the Guodian texts
provide us with a wealth of reliable information for gaining new
insights into the textual and intellectual history of pre-imperial
China. Given the prominence of Confucian works in the corpus, they
serve to fill out much of the intellectual historical picture for
the doctrines of roughly three generations of Confucian disciples
who fell between the times of Confucius (551-479 BC) and Mencius
(c. 390-305 BC). The manuscripts also hold great significance for
the study of early Chinese paleography and phonology. Volume II
offers introductions to and annotated translations of the
manuscripts "Cheng zhi," "Zun deyi," "Xing zi ming chu," "Liu de,"
and "Yucong" 1-4, along with various appendixes. These include
collation tables of witnesses to the Guodian "Laozi" passages and a
running translation of all the Guodian texts.
The cache of bamboo texts unearthed in the village of Guodian,
Hubei Province, in 1993 is a rare and unique find in the history of
Chinese philosophy and literature. This study renders the complex
corpus of the Guodian texts into a more easily manageable form,
incorporating the past several years of scholarly activity on these
texts and providing them with a comprehensive introduction along
with a complete and well-annotated translation into English. As the
only archaeologically excavated corpus of philosophical manuscripts
to emerge from a Warring States-period tomb, the Guodian texts
provide us with a wealth of reliable information for gaining new
insights into the textual and intellectual history of pre-imperial
China. Given the prominence of Confucian works in the corpus, they
serve to fill out much of the intellectual historical picture for
the doctrines of roughly three generations of Confucian disciples
who fell between the times of Confucius (551-479 BC) and Mencius
(c. 390-305 BC). The manuscripts also hold great significance for
the study of early Chinese paleography and phonology. Volume II
offers introductions to and annotated translations of the
manuscripts "Cheng zhi," "Zun deyi," "Xing zi ming chu," "Liu de,"
and "Yucong" 1-4, along with various appendixes. These include
collation tables of witnesses to the Guodian "Laozi" passages and a
running translation of all the Guodian texts.
Brickmaking was one of the pioneering non-agricultural
manufacturing industries in the lower Rio Grande/Rio Bravo
corridor, and a precursor of the binational, cross-border
maquiladora industry that came to identify the U.S.-Mexico border
economy in the aftermath of the Border Industrialization Program
[BIP] launched in 1965. Through research beginning in the early
1990s and continuing to the present, Scott Cook has sought to
fill-in these blank pages on the binational handmade brick industry
and its competitive situation in the Texas market.
Brickmaking was one of the pioneering non-agricultural
manufacturing industries in the lower Rio Grande/Rio Bravo
corridor, and a precursor of the binational, cross-border
maquiladora industry that came to identify the U.S.-Mexico border
economy in the aftermath of the Border Industrialization Program
[BIP] launched in 1965. Through research beginning in the early
1990s and continuing to the present, Scott Cook has sought to
fill-in these blank pages on the binational handmade brick industry
and its competitive situation in the Texas market.
Peasant Capitalist Industry examines the handmade brick industry
that originated and is concentrated in a handful of communities
near Oaxaca City including Santa Lucia del Camino and Santa Cruz
Amilpas. Scott Cook provides a comprehensive analysis of the brick
plants (ladrilleras) which are privately owned and operated by
individuals in the manufacturing communities who also are engaged
in agriculture, either directly or with hired workers. Brick plant
owners may or may not actually work as brick makers but all of them
are engaged in the business as employers of pieceworkers
(destajistas or mileros), and also as sellers of brick. Peasant
Capitalist Industry contains detailed information about all aspects
of brick manufacturing and marketing in the Oaxaca Valley industry.
It also includes case studies of pieceworker and owner-worker
household enterprises.
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Markets in Oaxaca (Paperback)
Scott Cook, Martin Diskin; Introduction by Sidney W. Mintz
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Discovery Miles 12 130
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Markets in Oaxaca is a study of the regional peasant marketing
system in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico. It relates the marketing
system to other aspects of the regional economy, to neighboring
regions, and to the Mexican national economy. Combining
ethnographic, theoretical, and regional analyses, it suggests new
directions in the fields of peasant and development studies.
Contributors to the volume describe the operation and nature of
several marketplaces in the region, analyze village-based artisan
production and various specialized economic roles (particularly the
role of traders), and describe the operation of several total
regional marketing systems. The editors then consider their
findings against the background of political, economic, and social
structures from the pre-Conquest period to the present. In their
conclusion, the editors find the regional peasant economy to be
responsive both to the influence of the urban metropolitan sector,
on the one hand, and to its own indigenous structural integrity and
internal dynamism, on the other. In addition to the editors, the
contributors to Markets in Oaxaca are Ralph L. Beals, Richard L.
Berg Jr., Beverly Chinas, Herbert M. Eder, Charlotte Stolmaker,
Carole Turkenik, John C. Warner, Ronald Waterbury, and Cecil R.
Welte. Their essays combine analyses of the elements of the system
within a comprehensive theoretical framework. Together, they
present a complete and integrated view of a peasant economy.
Presents wide-ranging and up-to-date interpretations of the
Zhuangzi, the Daoist classic and one of the most elusive works ever
written. A literary and philosophical masterpiece of its age, and
yet one of the most puzzling and elusive texts ever written, the
Zhuangzi has been continuously reinterpreted. Here the age-old
hermeneutic project of reading the Zhuangzi is brought up to the
present with new essays addressing an array of Interrelated topics
from a variety of perspectives. These include how the work stands
in relation to such issues as mystical experience, "skeptical" and
"relativist" attitudes, individual value, ethical orientation, folk
psychologies and popular beliefs, and rhetorical logic and
structure. By providing ten "uneven" perspectives on such matters,
this volume contributes to the ongoing discourse on Zhuangzi's
philosophy by placing it within our present interpretive context
and pushing that context to new limits.
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