Geographies of the Imagination was designed and created with nine Chilean political exiles living in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. This ethnography presents and analyzes the creation of a collaborative artwork, its exhibition, and its viewing as dynamic and performative sites for the creation of the exiles’ memories and reflections on migration, exile and identity.
Education and Globalization in Southeast Asia
Prior to the era of globalization, education in Southeast Asia was viewed in the context of the national state and it was deployed in the service of state and nation-building and national economic development. States monopolized education, and public-funded centralized education systems were established to teach literacy, transmit national cultures and promote social cohesion, and to produce literate workers. Globalization forces, however, dramatically impacted in varying ways and degrees the na...
The Shaping of a Jewish Identity in Nineteenth-century France
by Jay R Berkovitz
This is the story of the Jews in post-revolutionary France. It reveals the complexities inherent in the process of Jewish emancipation and modernisation and focuses on the efforts of French Jewish leaders to come to terms with the social and religious implications of modernity.
The Stranger at the Feast (Anthropology of Christianity, #23)
by Tom Boylston
At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. The Stranger at the Feast is a pathbreaking ethnographic study of one of the world's oldest and least-understood religious traditions. Based on long-term ethnographic research on the Zege peninsula in northern Ethiopia, the author tells the story of how people have understood large-scale religious chang...
During the Raj, one group stands out as having prospered and thrived because of British rule: the Parsis. Driven out of Persia into India a thousand years ago, the Zoroastrian people adopted the manners, dress, and aspirations of their British colonizers, and their Anglophilic activities ranged from cricket to Oxford to tea. The British were fulsome in their praise of the Parsis and rewarded them with high-level financial, mercantile, and bureaucratic posts. The Parsis dominated Bombay for more...
The Protestant Ethic Debate (Studies in Social and Political Thought, #3)
Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism continues to be one of the most influential texts in the sociology of modern Western societies. Although Weber never produced the further essays with which he intended to extend the study, he did complete four lengthy Replies to reviews of the text by two German historians. Written between 1907 and 1910, the Replies offer a fascinating insight into Weber's intentions in the original study, and the present volume is the first complete...
INCREDIBLE JAPAN is a crash course in Japanese culture--an introduction to those inimitable aspects of the country which are necessarily alien to the foreign observer. With delightful cartoons by the Japanese artist-illustrator, Masakazu Kuwata, the book proves that what is incredible about Japan is not inexplicable, and provides enlightenment on such potentially incomprehensible paradoxes as: - Highly-skilled young men who hold degrees in judo --and flower arrangement. - The "man in the moon"...
Beethoven and the Lyric Impulse (Routledge Voice Studies)
by Amanda Glauert
Amanda Glauert revisits Beethoven’s songs and studies his profound engagement with the aesthetics of the poets he was setting, particularly those of Herder and Goethe. The book offers readers a rich exploration of the poetical and philosophical context in which Beethoven found himself when composing songs. It also offers detailed commentaries on possible responses to specific songs, responses designed to open up new ways for performing, hearing and appreciating this provocative song repertoire....
In Reclaiming the Discarded Kathleen M. Millar offers an evocative ethnography of Jardim Gramacho, a sprawling garbage dump on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, where roughly two thousand self-employed workers known as catadores collect recyclable materials. While the figure of the scavenger sifting through garbage seems iconic of wageless life today, Millar shows how the work of reclaiming recyclables is more than a survival strategy or an informal labor practice. Rather, the stories of catadore...
Das Orientbild in Der Deutschsprachigen Reiseliteratur Des 20. Und 21. Jahrhunderts (Kultur - Literatur - Medien, #4)
by Karolina Rapp
Die Autorin beschaftigt sich mit den einschneidenden - traumatisierenden wie faszinierenden - Stationen der Kulturbegegnung von Ost und West. Sie untersucht die vielschichtigen Facetten des Orients als einerseits rein diskursiven, andererseits geografisch und historisch realen, wenngleich imaginar uberfrachteten Topos. Die Analyse des mythischen und modernen Orientbildes in der deutschsprachigen Reiseliteratur ist eine Ruckbesinnung auf die Fahigkeit der westlichen wie der oestlichen Kultur, Off...
Critical Vices (Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture)
by Nicholas Zurbrugg and Warren Burt
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Five Hundred Years of Chicano History in Pictures
Political institutions and practices such as the state, parliament, citizenship and nationality, the vote, the military, and the making and implementation of laws have traditionally been treated as if they were un-gendered and guided exclusively by objective reasoning and rationality. Rationality and reason, though, have been habitually ascribed to masculinity, a fact which has often been ignored in favour of the apparent gender-inclusiveness of the realm of politics.In contrast to this view, th...