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by Mary Nyangweso
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Why is FGM on the increase in industrialized countries in spite of existing policies against the practice? How is political correctness contributing to this increase? And how does religion contribute implicitly or explicitly to the persistence of FGM? This work is authored by a Kenyan immigrant to...
Fashion Tales
Feeding the Imaginary
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
Since its beginnings in the middle of the 19th century, fashion has been narrated through multiple media, both visual and verbal, and for such different purposes as marketing and advertising, art, costume history, social research and cultural dissemination. In this light, fashion has represented an...
Mimesis and Pacific Transcultural Encounters
Making Likenesses in Time, Trade, and Ritual Reconfigurations
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
How do images circulating in Pacific cultures and exchanged between them and their many visitors transform meanings for all involved? This fascinating collection explores how through mimesis, wayfarers and locales alike borrow images from one another to expand their cultural repertoire of meanings or borrow images from their own past to validate their identities.
How Materials Matter
Design, Innovation and Materiality in the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
How does design and innovation shape people’s lives in the Pacific? Focusing on plant materials from the region, How Materials Matter reveals ways in which a variety of people – from craftswomen and scientists to architects and politicians – work with materials to transform worlds. Recognizing...
by Béla Hamvas
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 18, 2013
“Durante una passeggiata, se in un terreno abbandonato trovavamo davanti a noi un alberello corroso dai parassiti, egli era capace di ripulirlo per bene; dopo, ne seguiva attentamente la crescita. Così visitavamo quell’acero come se fosse un bambino convalescente, liberato da una malattia”....
by Francesco Gualtieri
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 14, 2017
L’autore, in questa sua opera, tende a descrivere, con cognizione di causa, virgole temporali di un tempo che è stato, individuando, molto paradossalmente, nella arretratezza e nel sottosviluppo sociale un’ oscurantismo di un passato nel quale le disuguaglianze sociali trapelano la tetra immagine...
by Tiziano Arlotti
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Il volume è incentrato sulla memoria, l’Autore scrive con l’intento di affidare alla carta stampata aspetti di una vita contadina, alla periferia della città, che da molti anni non esiste più. Le descrizioni sono piacevoli, ricche di particolari, il frequente uso del dialetto poi rende il racconto più vivo e schietto.
The Rhinestone Sisterhood
A Journey Through Small Town America, One Tiara at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
Ride a bull. Chat up a Senator. And get your homework in on time. It’s all in a day’s work for a festival queen.
If you assume all pageant queens are airheads who can’t handle geography, or vain girls who like to parade around in bathing suits, then welcome to the alternative universe...
PEOPLE Holiday Recipes
More Than 100 Delicious Dishes & Genius Tips
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
From the pages of PeopleFood and from the best celebrity chefs, hottest bloggers and famous home cooks comes an essential collection of recipes to make your holidays warm, bright and easy. With great ideas for entertaining a crowd of overnight guests, or a hosting a casual family dinner, this beautifully...
Rigor Mortis
El hombre que plantó un árbol para construir su ataúd y otras maneras de dejar el mundo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 8, 2018
Una colección de reportajes periodísticos sobre la muerte en Bolivia
Raúl Mercado murió el mismo día en que decidió estrenar la camisa que reservaba para su funeral. No fue el único detalle que parecía planeado. Sesenta años antes, en una parcela familiar próxima a Suri, plantó un...
by Richard Borshay Lee, Irven DeVore
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Man the Hunter is a collection of papers presented at a symposium on research done among the hunting and gathering peoples of the world. Ethnographic studies increasingly contribute substantial amounts of new data on hunter-gatherers and are rapidly changing our concept of Man the Hunter. Social anthropologists...
After the Cult
Perceptions of Other and Self in West New Britain (Papua New Guinea)
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
In many parts of the world the “white man” is perceived to be an instigator of globalization and an embodiment of modernity. However, so far anthropologists have paid little attention to the actual heterogeneity and complexity of “whiteness” in specific ethnographic contexts. This study examines...
by Mary Grigsby
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
In this inside look at the folk tradition of hand fishing, Mary Grigsby interviews thirty Missouri noodlers to examine this sports appeal. The skill of catching spawning catfish with the bare hands is passed down through generations and builds a sense of community among participants despite, or perhaps...
Honour and Violence
Gender, Power and Law in Southern Pakistan
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
The practice of karo kari allows family, especially fathers, brothers and sons, to take the lives of their daughters, sisters and mothers if they are accused of adultery. This volume examines the central position of karo kari in the social, political and juridical structures in Upper Sindh, Pakistan....