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by John Fenn, Lisa Gilman
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2019
This book is the first textbook to address the shared fieldwork methods used by both the fields of folklore and ethnomusicology. Information will be relevant to anthropological fieldwork courses as well.
It is a significant update to the fieldwork textbooks currently being used in folklore...
The Most Fundamental Right
Contrasting Perspectives on the Voting Rights Act
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Passed in 1965 during the height of the Civil Rights movement, the Voting Rights Act (VRA) changed the face of the American electorate, dramatically increasing minority voting, especially in the South. While portions of the Act are permanent, certain provisions were set to expire in 2007. Reauthorization...
African Migrations
Patterns and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
Spurred by major changes in the world economy and in local ecology, the contemporary migration of Africans, both within the continent and to various destinations in Europe and North America, has seriously affected thousands of lives and livelihoods. The contributors to this volume, reflecting a variety...
Main Street Movies
The History of Local Film in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
"See yourself in the movies!"
Prior to the advent of the home movie camera and the ubiquitousness of the camera phone, there was the local film. This cultural phenomenon, produced across the country from the 1890s to the 1950s, gave ordinary people a chance to be on the silver screen without...
The Spatial Humanities
GIS and the Future of Humanities Scholarship
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Geographic information systems (GIS) have spurred a renewed interest in the influence of geographical space on human behavior and cultural development. Ideally GIS enables humanities scholars to discover relationships of memory, artifact, and experience that exist in a particular place and across...
Women and Genocide
Survivors, Victims, Perpetrators
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
The genocides of modern history–Rwanda, Armenia, Guatemala, the Holocaust, and countless others–and their effects have been well documented, but how do the experiences of female victims and perpetrators differ from those of men? In Women and Genocide, human rights advocates and scholars come together...
Global Filipinos
Migrants' Lives in the Virtual Village
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
Contract workers from the Philippines make up one of the world’s largest movements of temporary labor migrants. Deirdre McKay follows Filipino migrants from one rural community to work sites overseas and then home again. Focusing on the experiences of individuals, McKay interrogates current approaches...
Making Sense of Intersex
Changing Ethical Perspectives in Biomedicine
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Putting the ethical tools of philosophy to work, Ellen K. Feder seeks to clarify how we should understand "the problem" of intersex. Adults often report that medical interventions they underwent as children to "correct" atypical sex anatomies caused them physical and psychological harm. Proposing...
Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa
Transnational Health and Healing
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Recent political, social, and economic changes in Africa have provoked radical shifts in the landscape of health and healthcare. Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa captures the multiple dynamics of a globalized world and its impact on medicine, health, and the delivery of healthcare in...
New Perspectives on Horned Dinosaurs
The Royal Tyrrell Museum Ceratopsian Symposium
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
Easily distinguished by the horns and frills on their skulls, ceratopsians were one of the most successful of all dinosaurs. This volume presents a broad range of cutting-edge research on the functional biology, behavior, systematics, paleoecology, and paleogeography of the horned dinosaurs, and includes descriptions of newly identified species.
Feeling Normal
Sexuality and Media Criticism in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
The explosion of cable networks, cinema distributors, and mobile media companies explicitly designed for sexual minorities in the contemporary moment has made media culture a major factor in what it feels like to be a queer person. F. Hollis Griffin demonstrates how cities offer a way of thinking...
Storytelling on the Northern Irish Border
Characters and Community
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2011
More than quaint local color, folklore is a crucial part of life in Aghyaran, a mixed Catholic-Protestant border community in Northern Ireland. Neighbors socialize during wakes and ceilis—informal nighttime gatherings—without regard to religious, ethnic, or political affiliation. The witty, sometimes...
Africa and France
Postcolonial Cultures, Migration, and Racism
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Africa and France reveals how increased control over immigration has changed cultural and social production, especially in theatre, literature, film, and even museum construction. A hated of foreigners, accompanied by new forms of intolerance and racism, has crept from policy into popular expressions...
by Barbara Kreiger
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
For centuries travelers have been drawn to the stunning and mysterious Dead Sea and Jordan River, a region which is unlike any other on earth in its religious and historical significance. In this exceptionally engaging and readable book, Barbara Kreiger chronicles the natural and human history of...