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Cultures of Doing Good
Anthropologists and NGOs
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Anthropological field studies of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in their unique cultural and political contexts.
Cultures of Doing Good: Anthropologists and NGOs serves as a foundational text to advance a growing subfield of social science inquiry: the anthropology of nongovernmental...
Whenever Two or More Are Gathered
Relationship as the Heart of Ethical Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
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This study of the critical role of ethics and moral responsibility in the field of public administration, Michael M. Harmon and O. C. McSwite posit that administrative ethics, as presently conceived and practiced, is largely a failure, incapable...
The Good Men Who Won the War
Army of the Cumberland Veterans and Emancipation Memory
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2010
Robert Hunt examines how Union veterans of the Army of the Cumberland employed the extinction of slavery in the trans-Appalachian South in their memory of the Civil War. Hunt argues that rather than ignoring or belittling emancipation, it became central to veterans’ retrospective understanding of...
Beautiful Politics of Music
Trova in Yucatán, Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
An exploration into the history and practice of trova, a genre of music that is the soul of Yucatán.
Yucatecan trova is a music genre comprising a type of romantic song that is considered “the soul of Yucatán and Yucatecans.” This first book on Yucatecan trova offers an insider’s view...
The Cultural Prison
Discourse, Prisoners, and Punishment
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
The incarcerated in America's cultural imagination.
The Cultural Prison brings a new dimension to the study of prisoners and punishment by focusing on how the punishment of American offenders is represented and shaped in the mass media through public arguments. The study is based on an analysis...
Rhetorical Secrets
Mapping Gay Identity and Queer Resistance in Contemporary America
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
Davin Allen Grindstaff, through a series of close textual analyses examining public discourse, uncovers the rhetorical modes of persuasion surrounding the construction of gay male sexual identity. In Part One, Grindstaff establishes his notion of the "rhetorical secret" central to constructions...
by Kathy A. Fedorko
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
An investigation into Wharton’s extensive use and adaptation of the Gothic in her fiction
Gender and the Gothic in the Fiction of Edith Wharton is an innovative study that provides fresh insights into Wharton’s male characters while at the same time showing how Wharton’s imagining of...
Strange Bodies
Gender and Identity in the Novels of Carson McCullers
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Adapts Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of the grotesque, as well as the latest in gender and psychoanalytic theory, to the major works of acclaimed southern writer Carson McCullers.
This innovative reconsideration of the themes of Carson McCullers's fiction argues that her work has heretofore suffered...
On Land and Sea
Native American Uses of Biological Resources in the West Indies
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
During the vast stretches of early geologic time, the islands of the Caribbean archipelago separated from continental land masses, rose and sank many times, merged with and broke from other land masses, and then by the mid-Cenozoic period settled into the current pattern known today. By the time Native...
Etowah
The Political History of a Chiefdom Capital
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication
This is a detailed reconstruction of the waxing and waning of political fortunes among the chiefly elites at an important center of the prehistoric world.
At the time the first Europeans arrived in the New World, thousands of earthen platform mounds...
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Legacy of Dissent
Feminist Rhetoric and the Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
A rhetorical analysis of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s feminist jurisprudence
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s lifelong effort to reshape the language of American law has had profound consequences: she has shifted the rhetorical boundaries of jurisprudence on a wide range of fundamental issues from...
by Robert T. Hubard
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
A witness who brings remarkable life and color to the Civil War in the East.
Robert Hubard was an enlisted man and officer of the 3rd Virginia Cavalry in the Army of Northern Virginia (CSA) from 1861 through 1865. He wrote his memoir during an extended convalescence...
Attack and Die
Civil War Military Tactics and the Southern Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
“In the first twenty-seven months of combat 175,000 Southern soldiers died. This number was more than the entire Confederate military force in the summer of 1861, and it far exceeded the strength of any army that Lee ever commanded. More than 80,000 Southerners fell in just five battles. At Gettysburg...
by Henry Shetrone
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication
A classic resource on early knowledge of prehistoric mounds and the peoples who constructed them in the eastern United States.
With this accessible volume, Henry Clyde Shetrone made available to general readers the archaeological research data and...