Download E-books Kinship, Networks, and Exchange (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences) PDF

By Douglas R. White

The motive of this choice of unique essays is to revitalize the research of kinship and trade in a social community viewpoint. the gathering combines stories of empirical platforms of marriage and descent with investigations of the move of fabric assets. This e-book marks the emergence of a brand new period within the examine of kinship and trade utilizing a efficient mix of ethnographic substance with formal equipment, one that leaves in the back of older structural-functionalist and culturalist assumptions.

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Download E-books Bridging Southern Cultures: An Interdisciplinary Approach (Southern Literary Studies) PDF

A landscape of earlier and modern southern society are captured in Bridging Southern Cultures through the various South's top historians, anthropologists, literary critics, musicologists, and folklorists. Crossing the chasms of demographics, educational disciplines, artwork kinds, and tradition, this intriguing assortment reaches facets of southern background that earlier methods have lengthy obscured.

Virtually each measurement of southern id gets awareness the following. William Andrews,Thadious Davis, Sue Bridwell Beckham, Richard Megraw, and Joyce Marie Jackson supply enticing reflections on paintings, age, race, and gender. Bertram Wyatt-Brown can provide a startling studying of Faulkner, revealing the tangled historical past of southern modernism. Daniel C. Littlefield, Henry Shapiro, and Charles Reagan Wilson supply vital tests of Africanisms in southern tradition, Appalachian experiences, and the blessing and burden of southern tradition. John Shelton Reed probes the funny and awkward facets of the South's midlife quandary. John Lowe exhibits how the parable of the biracial southern family members advanced plantation-school narratives for either white and black writers.

Showcasing the idea of preeminent southern intellectuals, Bridging Southern Cultures is a well timed evaluation of the kingdom of up to date southern studies.

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Download E-books Cultural Constructions of Madness in Eighteenth-Century Writing: Representing the Insane by Allan Ingram (2005-03-01) PDF

By Allan Ingram;Michelle Faubert

This paintings offers with the (mis)representation of madness via a considerable variety of literary kinds and figures from around the eighteenth century and past. Chapters hide the illustration, distortion, sentimentalization and elevation of madness, and such linked concerns as gender, own id, and function, in the very best and least recognized writers of the interval. a variety of visible fabric, together with works via Hogarth, Rowlandson, and Gillray, can be mentioned. whereas basically adopting a literary concentration, the paintings is expert all through by way of an alertness to major problems with clinical and psychiatric historical past.

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Download E-books Life in Neolithic Farming Communities: Social Organization, Identity, and Differentiation (Fundamental Issues in Archaeology) PDF

By Ian Kuijt

Drawing on either the result of fresh archaeological examine and anthropological conception, major specialists synthesize present considering at the nature of and version inside of Neolithic social preparations. The authors examine archaeological info inside of more than a few methodological and theoretical views to reconstruct key features of formality practices, exertions association, and collective social identification on the scale of the loved ones, group, and region.

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Download E-books Storytelling for Social Justice: Connecting Narrative and the Arts in Antiracist Teaching (Teaching/Learning Social Justice) PDF

By Lee Anne Bell

Through available language and candid discussions, Storytelling for Social Justice explores the tales we inform ourselves and every different approximately race and racism in our society. Making experience of the racial structures expressed in the course of the language and pictures we stumble upon each day, this publication offers thoughts for constructing a extra severe figuring out of the way racism operates culturally and institutionally in our society. utilizing the humanities normally, and storytelling specifically, the publication examines how you can train and know about race by means of growing counter-storytelling groups that may advertise extra serious and considerate discussion approximately racism and the treatments essential to dismantle it in our associations and interactions. Illustrated all through with examples drawn from highschool study rooms, instructor teaching programs, and K-12 expert improvement courses, the booklet offers instruments for interpreting racism in addition to different problems with social justice. for each instructor who has struggled with tips on how to get the "race dialogue" going or who has suffered via silences and antagonism, the cutting edge version offered during this booklet deals a realistic and significant framework for considering and performing on tales approximately racism and other kinds of injustice.

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Download E-books The Anthropology of Europe: Identities and Boundaries in Conflict (Explorations in Anthropology) PDF

This is the 1st examine of Europe post-1989 from an anthropological viewpoint. 13 unusual authors learn the social, cultural and political implications of eu integration with specific emphasis on altering ecu identities, suggestions of citizenship and degrees of participation. Their goal is to indicate an time table for destiny examine able to addressing constructing developments in modern Europe.

The ebook is split into elements. the 1st offers with significant theoretical concerns that experience characterised the anthropological learn of Europe and encompasses a distinctive introductory bankruptcy which charts the historical past of anthropology in Europe and considers the clients for an anthropology of Europe. this can be through key issues within the learn of ecu society and tradition together with kinship, gender, nationalism, immigration and altering styles of creation. the second one part develops those subject matters extra utilizing diversified theoretical views to provide an explanation for complicated concerns equivalent to nationalism, ethnic identities, and sectarian conflicts. 9 case experiences conceal a variety of modern issues together with ecu integration and Irish nationalism, the transmission of ethnic identification, and id and clash within the former Yugoslavia and post-colonial Gibraltar.

This e-book fills a niche within the literature on eu integration and should be of curiosity to anthropologists and sociologists in addition to scholars of Political technology, Communications and eu Studies.

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Download E-books The Victorian Eye: A Political History of Light and Vision in Britain, 1800-1910 PDF

By Chris Otter

During the 19th century, Britain grew to become the 1st gaslit society, with electrical lights arriving in 1878. even as, the British executive considerably increased its strength to watch and video display its matters. How did such huge, immense adjustments within the approach humans observed and have been noticeable impact Victorian culture?
 
To solution that question, Chris Otter mounts an formidable historical past of illumination and imaginative and prescient in Britain, drawing on wide examine into every thing from the technology of belief and lighting fixtures applied sciences to city layout and govt management. He explores how mild facilitated such practices as secure transportation and personal analyzing, in addition to institutional efforts to assemble wisdom. And he contends that, opposite to presumptions that illumination helped create a society managed by way of intrusive surveillance, the recent radiance frequently ended in better own freedom and used to be fundamental to the advance of contemporary liberal society.
The Victorian Eye’s cutting edge interdisciplinary approach—and beneficiant illustrations­—will captivate more than a few readers attracted to the background of contemporary Britain, visible tradition, know-how, and urbanization.

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