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From hungry ghosts, vampiric babies, and shapeshifting fox spirits to the avenging White Lady of urban legend, for generations, Asian women's roles have been shaped and defined through myth and story. In “Unquiet Spirits”, Asian writers of horror reflect on the impact of superstition, spirits, and the supernatural in this unique collection of 21 personal essays exploring themes of otherness, identity, expectation, duty, and loss, and leading,...
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Read about Alaska, in the context of the Inuits. Learn about the geography of the state of Alaska, including its climate and landscape. Understand how these truths shaped the lives of the Inuit throughout history. At the end of the book, you will learn to appreciate the Alaskan Inuit for their strength and resourcefulness as a people despite the harsh climate of the Arctic region that Alaska is in.
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Esta obra presenta el análisis de un evento comunicativo en el cual se emplea una lengua ritual (lengua del yagé). Los temas tratados por el autor en este libro son el estudio de una lengua ritual en la perspectiva de la etnografía del habla y la comunicación, tomando los aportes teóricos de los sociolingüistas norteamericanos Dell Hymes y Joel Sherzer, la descripción de la lengua ritual del yagé y el estudio de la relación entre lengua,...
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In the tradition of Mark Baker's Cops, more than 100 top firefighters describe the highs and lows of the world's most dangerous profession.
Fascinating and packed with emotion,The Fire Inside is a unique look at the unseen world of firefighters who risk their lives for strangers every day In their own words, these male and female heroes vividly describe how they cope with scorching flame, injuries, earthquakes, hazardous waste, and wildfire-and the...
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John Borneman is professor of anthropology at Princeton University. His books include Death of the Father: An Anthropology of the End in Political Authority and Settling Accounts: Violence, Justice, and Accountability in Postsocialist Europe (Princeton)
When Princeton anthropologist John Borneman arrived in Syria's second-largest city in 2004 as a visiting Fulbright professor, he took up residence in what many consider a "rogue state" on the frontline...
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Gil Z. Hochberg is assistant professor of comparative literature at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Partition--the idea of separating Jews and Arabs along ethnic or national lines--is a legacy at least as old as the Zionist-Palestinian conflict. Challenging the widespread "separatist imagination" behind partition, Gil Hochberg demonstrates the ways in which works of contemporary Jewish and Arab literature reject simple notions of separatism...
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The Highland Clearances generally refers to the eviction of indigenous Gaelic-speaking people of the Scottish Highlands and Islands-roughly between 1790 and 1855-to make way for more profitable cattle and sheep farms and, later, sporting estates. The blunt result of these evictions was that of a culture fundamentally altered if not destroyed. Many Highlanders emigrated to Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand. A number of histories,...
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This is the story of how children escaping the Spanish Civil War were given a home in Wales. In one of the biggest mass evacuations in modern history four thousand children, crammed onto a dilapidated ship, fled for their lives. Parents entrusted their offspring into the care of strangers at a time of mortal danger. The year was 1937 and the forces of General Franco were advancing on the Basque city of Bilbao. In Britain a groundswell of popular feeling...
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Each year, tens of thousands of people flock to Grandfather Mountain, North Carolina, and to more than two hundred other locations across the country to attend Scottish Highland Games and Gatherings. There, kilt-wearing participants compete in athletics, Highland dancing, and bagpiping, while others join clan societies in celebration of a Scottish heritage. As Celeste Ray notes, however, the Scottish affiliation that Americans claim today is a Highland...
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Welcome to the world of the Inuits, where history, culture and religion are centered on the geography of the Arctic circle. Read about a little bit of their history as a people to appreciate their collective skills in adapting to the very harsh environment around them. Learn about their religious beliefs, especially their belief that luck is influenced by external forces. Enjoy the read!
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Tierra y silicio examina algunas relaciones entre nuevos repertorios tecnológicos y política en el Tejido de Comunicaciones de la Asociación de Cabildos indígenas del Norte del Cauca (NASA-ACIN), y hace parte de una investigación más amplia titulada Cultura Política, ciudad y ciberciudadanías (Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, Universidad del Valle, Colciencias). Además presenta los resultados de un estudio sobre medios de comunicación,...
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Missionaries of the left, saviors are people of privilege who believe they have all the answers. They want to help, but don't want to listen; they lead but never follow. From post-Katrina New Orleans, to anti-sex-traficking work, to do-gooder journalists, Flaherty's book reveals saviors' misdeeds but also shows how activists can build new, stronger movements.
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El proyecto de Estado-Nación Multicultural impulsado por las sociedades contemporáneas se fundamenta en el reconocimiento de la diversidad, de los derechos diferenciados y de la igualdad como condición de la vida en comunidad. Este reconocimiento es la legitimación de luchas históricas de grupos étnicos y minorías sociales, que han sido sujetos paradigmáticos de las luchas por la participación económica, social y política. En el trabajo...
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Ever wonder what a man thinks when he can't provide for himself? Have you ever thought about what will happen to a man when taken out of his comfort zone? What happens when his body is incarcerated and his mind roams free. Take a journey thru the eyes of a man born and raised in Jacksonville, FL. After being a resident of the Department of Corrections only two things happen. You become better or worse because you will never be the same. Poetry...
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DISCLAIMER Those of you who may feel some of these writings were out of context, those of you who may feel insulted by some of these writings, those of you, who may think this writer doesn't know what he's talking about, and those of you, who may be getting angry at these writings, this is for all of you. Any form of negative reaction towards any of these writings will not... repeat, WILL NOT... be the responsibility of the writer! Charles Ramirez...
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This is a comprehensive history of Asians from the Indian subcontinent in Britain. Spanning four centuries, it tells the history of the Indian community in Britain from the servants, ayahs and sailors of the seventeenth century, to the students, princes, soldiers, professionals and entrepreneurs of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Rozina Visram examines the nature and pattern of Asian migration; official attitudes to Asian settlement; the reactions...
77) Getting Respect: Responding to Stigma and Discrimination in the United States, Brazil, and Israel
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"Michèle Lamont (co-author), Winner of the 2017 Erasmus Prize, Praemium Erasmianum Foundation" Michèle Lamont is the director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies, and professor of sociology and African and African American studies at Harvard University. Graziella Moraes Silva is professor of sociology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and at the Graduate Institute...
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This is a wonderful collection of conversations from ethnically diverse contributors using the art form of writing to promote inclusion and as an antidote to structural racism. Thanks to these contributing authors whose conversations allow us to understand the experience of people who have a bias against them. This collection of conversations offers some ideas and strategies. What is the next step?
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El libro recoge estudios con una clara vocación interdisciplinar: la filosofía, la teología, las ciencias sociales y la literatura provocan intersecciones fecundas y también puntos de fuga. Razón, lenguaje y reconocimiento son las referencias para un posible diálogo donde el objeto de estudio siempre es América Latina, con sus múltiples potencialidades que logren siquiera visibilizar una historia transida de injusticias y desigualdad.
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Extrait: "Le Caire, 22 novembre - Ce n'est pas sans difficulté que nous avons trouvé un htel. Celui qui nous héberge est flambant neuf, si neuf qu'il n'est pas encore terminé; construit exprès pour les fêtes, personne n'y avait encore couché. Nous l'étrennons. Malheureusement, les meubles qui sont censés le garnir ont été expédiés à Suez..."
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