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The Land of Weddings and Rain

Author : Gediminas Lankauskas
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442699361
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book The Land of Weddings and Rain written by Gediminas Lankauskas and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Land of Weddings and Rain, Gediminas Lankauskas examines the components of the contemporary urban wedding – religious and civil ceremonies, “traditional” imagery and practices, and the conspicuous consumption of domestic and imported goods – in the context of the Western-style modernization of post-socialist Lithuania. Studying the tensions between “tradition” and “modernity” that surround this important ritual event, Lankauskas highlights the ways in which nationalism serves to negotiate the impact of modernity in the aftermath of state socialism’s collapse. His analysis also shows the importance of consumption and commodification to Lithuania’s ongoing “Westernization.” Based on more than a decade of ethnographic research, The Land of Weddings and Rain is a fascinating account of the tensions – between national and transnational, East and West, and old and new – that shape life in post-socialist Eastern Europe.

The Heart of Helambu

Author : Tom O'Neill
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487510810
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book The Heart of Helambu written by Tom O'Neill and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of the last twenty-five years, Tom O’Neill has traveled frequently to Kathmandu and the Helambu region of Nepal to undertake ethnographic fieldwork with the Yolmo business owners and carpet weavers of the area. The Heart of Helambu is an evocative and touching account of his experiences working in Nepal during those turbulent times. In his autoethnographic memoir, O’Neill reflects on the complex relationships he developed with his research participants: the carpet weavers, their families, and others in the communities which he studied. A compelling account of ethnographic fieldwork’s personal dimension and the ethical and emotional challenges that come with maintaining relationships across substantial social distances, The Heart of Helambu illustrates an important aspect of anthropological research through O’Neill’s engaging story.

Materializing Difference

Author : Péter Berta
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487511337
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Materializing Difference written by Péter Berta and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2019-04-08 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do objects mediate human relationships, and possess their own social and political agency? What role does material culture – such as prestige consumption as well as commodity aesthetics, biographies, and ownership histories – play in the production of social and political identities, differences, and hierarchies? How do (informal) consumer subcultures of collectors organize and manage themselves? Drawing on theories from anthropology and sociology, specifically material culture, consumption, museum, ethnicity, and post-socialist studies, Materializing Difference addresses these questions via analysis of the practices and ideologies connected to Gabor Roma beakers and roofed tankards made of antique silver. The consumer subculture organized around these objects – defined as ethnicized and gendered prestige goods by the Gabor Roma living in Romania – is a contemporary, second-hand culture based on patina-oriented consumption. Materializing Difference reveals the inner dynamics of the complex relationships and interactions between objects (silver beakers and roofed tankards) and subjects (Romanian Roma) and investigates how these relationships and interactions contribute to the construction, materialization, and reformulation of social, economic, and political identities, boundaries, and differences. It also discusses how, after 1989, the political transformation in Romania led to the emergence of a new, post-socialist consumer sensitivity among the Gabor Roma, and how this sensitivity reshaped the pre-regime-change patterns, meanings, and value preferences of prestige consumption.

Exemplary Life

Author : Andreas Bandak
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 148754295X
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Exemplary Life written by Andreas Bandak and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2022-06-29 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on over five years of ethnographic fieldwork in Syria, Exemplary Life focuses on the life of a Damascus woman, Myrna Nazzour, who serves as an aspirational figure in her community. Myrna is regarded by her followers as an exemplary figure, a living saint, and the messages, apparitions, stigmata, and oil that have marked Myrna since 1982 have corroborated her status as chosen by God. Exemplary Life probes the power of examples, the modelling of sainthood around Myrna’s figure, and the broader context for Syrian Christians in the changing landscape of the Middle East. The book highlights the social use of examples such as the ones inhabited by Myrna’s devout followers and how they reveal the broader structures of illustration, evidence, and persuasion in social and cultural settings. Andreas Bandak argues that the role of the example should incite us to investigate which trains of thought set local worlds in motion. In doing so, Exemplary Life presents a novel frame for examining how religion comes to matter to people and adds a critical dimension to current anthropological engagements with ethics and morality.

Wedding Planning and Management

Author : Maggie Daniels
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000091147
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wedding Planning and Management written by Maggie Daniels and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-10 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third edition of Wedding Planning and Management: Consultancy for Diverse Clients provides students, consultants, engaged couples, vendors and scholars with a comprehensive introduction to the business of weddings. Looking through an event management lens, this is the only book to thoroughly explore the fundamentals of weddings, including historical and cultural foundations, practice and the business of wedding planning, in one volume. Diversity and inclusivity are emphasized through the integration of wedding traditions from cultures around the globe and international case studies that inspire and set standards for best practice. Key features of the third edition include: Updated research reflecting trends in areas such as technology, social media, marriage equality legislation, LGBTQ+ weddings, celebrity influences, destination weddings, DIY essentials and planning eco-friendly weddings. Cutting-edge innovations in areas such as "green" venues, themed menus, fusion stationery, sustainable floral décor and distinctive site layout, all of which are highlighted by top wedding vendors. Budget management tips, timeline specifics and guidelines for starting and marketing a wedding consulting business. Over 100 international case studies exploring cultural traditions, vendor relations and best practice. A companion website for instructors, including updated PowerPoint slides, syllabus guidelines, real-world assignments and a comprehensive test bank. This full-color book is visually stunning, with over 150 images by top wedding photojournalist Rodney Bailey. End-of-chapter checklists, review questions and practical scenarios support readers' knowledge as they progress. Maggie Daniels and Carrie Wosicki bring a combination of over 45 years of industry practice and teaching experience. They have written a book that is the ideal guide to successful wedding planning and management.

Panjabi Lyrics and Proverbs

Author : Charles Frederick Usborne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Panjabi Lyrics and Proverbs written by Charles Frederick Usborne and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Moral Figures

Author : Alexandra Widmer
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487543220
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Moral Figures written by Alexandra Widmer and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2023-02-27 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early twentieth century, people in the southwestern Pacific nation of Vanuatu experienced rapid population decline, while in the early twenty-first century, they experienced rapid population growth. From colonial governance to postcolonial sovereignty, Moral Figures shows that despite attempts to govern population size and birth, reproduction in Vanuatu continues to exceed bureaucratic economization through Ni-Vanuatu insistence on Indigenous relationalities. Through Alexandra Widmer’s examination of how reproduction is made public, she demonstrates how population sciences have a naturalized focus on women’s fertility and privileged issues of wage labour over women’s land access, as well as broader social relations of reproduction. Widmer draws on oral histories with retired village midwives and massage healers on the changes to care for pregnancy and birth, as well as ethnographic research in a village outside the capital of Port Vila. Locating the Pacific Islands in global histories of demographic science and the medicalization of birth, the book presents archival material in a way that emphasizes bureaucratic practices in how colonial documents attempted to render Indigenous relationalities of reproduction governable. While demographic imaginaries and biomedical practices increasingly frame fertility control as an investment in the reproductive health of individual bodies, the Ni-Vanuatu worlds presented in Moral Figures show that relationships between people, land, knowledge, kin, and care make reproduction a distributed and assisted process.

Without the State

Author : Emily Channell-Justice
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487509766
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Without the State written by Emily Channell-Justice and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2022-10-03 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Without the State explores the 2013–14 Euromaidan protests – a wave of demonstrations and civil unrest in Ukraine – through in-depth ethnographic research with leftist, feminist, and student activists in Kyiv. The book discusses the concept of "self-organization" and the notion that if something needs to be done and a person has the competence to do it, then they should simply do it. Emily Channell-Justice reveals how self-organization in Ukraine came out of leftist practices but actors from across the spectrum of political views also adopted self-organization over the course of Euromaidan, including far-right groups. The widespread adoption of self-organization encouraged Ukrainians to rethink their expectations of the relationship between citizens and their state. The book explains how self-organized practices have changed people’s views on what they think they can contribute to their own communities, and in the wake of Russia’s renewed invasion of Ukraine in 2022, it has also motivated new networks of mutual aid within Ukraine and beyond. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, including the author’s first-hand experience of the entirety of the Euromaidan protests, Without the State provides a unique analytical account of this crucial moment in Ukraine’s post-Soviet history.

Moving Words

Author : Andrew Brandel
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487543700
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Moving Words written by Andrew Brandel and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2023-07-26 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Berlin has re-emerged as a global city in large part thanks to its reputation as a literary city – a place where artists from around the world gather and can make a life. Moving Words foregrounds the many contexts in which life in the city of Berlin is made literary – from old neighbourhood bookshops to new reading circles, NGOs working to secure asylum for writers living in exile to specialized workshops for young migrant poets. Highlighting the differences, tensions, and contradictions of these scenes, this book reveals how literature can be both a site of domination and a resource for resisting and transforming those conditions. By attending to the everyday lives of writers, readers, booksellers, and translators, it offers a crucial new vantage point on the politics of difference in contemporary Europe, at a moment marked by historical violence, resurgent nationalism, and the fraught politics of migration. Rooted in ethnographic fieldwork, rich historical archives, and literary analysis, Moving Words examines the different claims people make on and for literature as it carries them through the city on irregular and intersecting paths. Along the way, Brandel offers a new approach to the ethnography of literature that aims to think anthropologically about crossings in time and in space, where literature provides a footing in a world constituted by a multiplicity of real possibilities.

5 Novels

Author : Ahmed Fagih
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1469100401
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (691 download)

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Download or read book 5 Novels written by Ahmed Fagih and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-03-27 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no available information at this time.

A World of Fantasy and Disaster

Author : Cordan Stough
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1434996883
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book A World of Fantasy and Disaster written by Cordan Stough and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Magomero

Author : Landeg White
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521389099
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Magomero written by Landeg White and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-09-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magomero is a vivid historical portrait of a Malawian village from 1859 to the present day. It focuses on a region which saw historically important political activity, in the founding of a colony of freed slaves and the rising of an independent church movement against white estate owners. With the dual concerns of a Southern African specialist and a poet, Landeg White offers an 'inside' view of social, political and economic change in Malawi, seen through the lives of individuals: the ordinary men and women, whose situation and poverty have hitherto prevented recognition of their vital contribution to African history.

Radical Larkin

Author : J. Osborne
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137410639
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Radical Larkin written by J. Osborne and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first critical monograph to benefit from the textual rigour of Archie Burnett's landmark edition of The Complete Poems (2012), Radical Larkin celebrates Larkin's technical genius by offering seven in-depth analyses of the stylistic strategies he used to create eleven of his most famous poems.

Larkin, Ideology and Critical Violence

Author : J. Osborne
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230598935
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Larkin, Ideology and Critical Violence written by J. Osborne and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-11-23 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume combines a theoretical critique of the biographical method that dominates Larkin studies with a revolutionary interpretation of his works that better accounts for their profound influence upon leading Postmodernists like Ian McEwan, David Mitchell, Carol Ann Duffy, Damien Hirst - and the creators of Jerry Springer - the Opera .

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan: Deuteronomy

Author : Ernest G. Clarke
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 081468937X
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book Targum Pseudo-Jonathan: Deuteronomy written by Ernest G. Clarke and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2024-04-24 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume on Deuteronomy represents the last volume of the Pentateuch in the Pseudo-Jonathan series. It includes the translation and notes of Pseudo-Jonathan of Deuteronomy as well a complete index. Many of the methods of translation unique to Pseudo-Jonathan noted in the Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers volumes are also found in Deuteronomy. The editors of Targum Pseudo-Jonathan: Deuteronomy used a creative literary style that resulted in a text with a character independent of the other volumes. The question of when, where, and by whom the targum was composed is unanswerable. The present text of Pseudo-Jonathan is the result of much editing, reediting, copying, and recopying of the "original" manuscript. The only certain fact is the 16th-century date of the present manuscript. Those interested in the Aramaic tradition of biblical interpretation, and students of Jewish studies will find Targum Pseudo-Jonathan: Deuteronomy an invaluable resource.

Englishness and Post-imperial Space

Author : Milton Sarkar
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443888346
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Englishness and Post-imperial Space written by Milton Sarkar and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-08 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Englishness and Post-imperial Space: The Poetry of Philip Larkin and Ted Hughes probes into the English mindset immediately after the British withdrawal from the colonies, and examines how the loss of power and global prestige affected contemporary poetry, particularly that of Philip Larkin and Ted Hughes. Frustration and disillusionment, even anger, characterised the era and many of the literary works the period produced. Most writers became insular and were obsessed with the ‘English’ elements in their writing. The great, international and cosmopolitan themes (of Eliot, for instance) were replaced by those of narrow domestic importance. It is in such a context, this book argues, that Larkin and Hughes returned to the old England, most notably to the themes of gradually vanishing pristine landscape and national myths and legends, to the archetypal English customs and conventions. It examines their poetry mainly from the perspective of Englishness, a burgeoning area of academic interest. Intricately connected with the values emanating from England as a geographical and socio-cultural space, Englishness as a concept is intrinsic to the identity of a people who gradually became globally powerful. The loss of empire dealt a severe blow to this sense of the self. This book explores the dynamics of the representation of this sense of loss and the frustration it produced in the poems of Larkin and Hughes.

The Rains

Author : Gregg Hurwitz
Publisher : Tor Teen
ISBN 13 : 1466888512
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Rains written by Gregg Hurwitz and published by Tor Teen. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first young adult page-turner from New York Times bestselling author Gregg Hurwitz. In one terrifying night, the peaceful community of Creek's Cause turns into a war zone. No one under the age of eighteen is safe. Chance Rain and his older brother, Patrick, have already fended off multiple attacks from infected adults by the time they arrive at the school where other young survivors are hiding. Most of the kids they know have been dragged away by once-trusted adults who are now ferocious, inhuman beings. The parasite that transformed them takes hold after people turn eighteen--and Patrick's birthday is only a few days away. Determined to save Patrick's life and the lives of the remaining kids, the brothers embark on a mission to uncover the truth about the parasites--and what they find is horrifying. Battling an enemy not of this earth, Chance and Patrick become humanity's only hope for salvation. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.