Social Sciences & Culture  /  Anthropology & Sociology
The Southern Appalachian Region Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 328
ISBN: 9780813155807
Pub Date: 15 Jul 2014
Illustrations: Illus
Description:
The Southern Appalachian Region is the largest American "problem area" -- an area whose participation in the economic growth of the nation has not been sufficient to relieve the chronic poverty of its people. The existence of the problem was recognized a generation ago, but in the past decade the resistance of such areas to economic advance has acquired a more urgent significance in American thought.In 1958, a group of scholars undertook to make a new survey of the Southern Appalachian Region.
Who Owns Appalachia? Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
ISBN: 9780813150963
Pub Date: 15 Jul 2014
Illustrations: Illus
Description:
Long viewed as a problem in other countries, the ownership of land and resources is becoming an issue of mounting concern in the United States. Nowhere has it surfaced more dramatically than in the southern Appalachians where the exploitation of timber and mineral resources has been recently aggravated by the ravages of strip-mining and flash floods. This landmark study of the mountain region documents for the first time the full scale and extent of the ownership and control of the region's land and resources and shows in a compelling, yet non-polemical fashion the relationship between this control and conditions affecting the lives of the region's people.
Virtual Afterlives Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 212
ISBN: 9780813145419
Pub Date: 24 Jun 2014
Series: Material Worlds
Illustrations: 26 b&w photos
Description:
For millennia, the rituals of death and remembrance have been fixed by time and location, but in the twenty-first century, grieving has become a virtual phenomenon. Today, the dead live on through social media profiles, memorial websites, and saved voicemails that can be accessed at any time. This dramatic cultural shift has made the physical presence of death secondary to the psychological experience of mourning.
Violence against Women in Kentucky Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 480
ISBN: 9780813144917
Pub Date: 03 Jun 2014
Illustrations: 64 b&w photos, 2 figures, 5 tables
Description:
For more than two centuries, Kentucky women have fought for the right to vote, own property, control their wages, and be safe at home and in the workplace. Tragically, many of these women's voices have been silenced by abuse and violence. In Violence against Women in Kentucky: A History of U.
Crisis & Migration Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9789187351303
Pub Date: 22 May 2014
Description:
The on-going Eurozone crisis frequently makes front page news, but aspects of its deeper implications are more rarely discussed in media. In Crisis and Migration the authors analyse the current situation and its effects on politics and migration. In case studies they show how the economic downturn affects daily life on a local, national, and European level.
Selma to Saigon Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 394
ISBN: 9780813145075
Pub Date: 13 May 2014
Series: Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century
Illustrations: 25 b&w photos
Description:
The civil rights and anti--Vietnam War movements were the two greatest protests of twentieth-century America. The dramatic escalation of U.S.
Medicine, Healing and Performance Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 176
ISBN: 9781782971580
Pub Date: 13 Feb 2014
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: B/w illustrations
Description:
Whether it is the binding of shattered bones or the creation of herbal remedies, human agency is a central feature of the healing process. Both archaeological and anthropological research has contributed much to our understanding of the performative aspects of medicine. The papers contained in this volume, based on a session conducted at the 2010 Theoretical Archaeology Conference, take a multi-disciplinary approach to the topic, addressing such issues as the cultural conception of disease; the impact of gender roles on healing strategies; the possibilities afforded by syncretism; the relationship between material culture and the body; and the role played by the active agency of the sick.
African American Connecticut Explored Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 456
ISBN: 9780819573988
Pub Date: 27 Jan 2014
Illustrations: 40 illus. (9 colour)
Description:
The numerous essays by many of the state's leading historians in African American Connecticut Explored document an array of subjects beginning from the earliest years of the state's colonization around 1630 and continuing well into the 20th century. The voice of Connecticut's African Americans rings clear through topics such as the Black Governors of Connecticut, nationally prominent black abolitionists like the reverends Amos Beman and James Pennington, the African American community's response to the Amistad trial, the letters of Joseph O. Cross of the 29th Regiment of Colored Volunteers in the Civil War, and the Civil Rights work of baseball great Jackie Robinson (a twenty-year resident of Stamford), to name a few.
Violence and Civilization Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9781782976202
Pub Date: 01 Jan 2014
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Joukowsky Institute Publication
Illustrations: b/w and col. illustrations
Description:
This collection of essays begins with the premise that violence, in its relationship to order, is a central element of history. Taking a broad definition of violence, including structural and symbolic violence, the contributions move beyond the problematic of civilization’s mitigating or foundational role, instead seeing violence as inherently social, and, perhaps, socially inherent (if variable). The question then becomes what forms of harm are authorized or banned in which social orders and how they change over time.
Therapeutic Uses of Storytelling Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9789187351150
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2013
Description:
How can stories and legends, written and oral, help people suffering from severe traumas or harsh conditions, now or in the past? Can storytelling help us sort out our innermost feelings and troubles? This deeply human subject is relevant not only to practitioners of psychotherapy, but to all of us, as we sometimes go through difficult times in life.
Creating Authenticity Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 176
ISBN: 9789088902055
Pub Date: 30 Nov 2013
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 15 b/w and 34 col. illustrations
Description:
‘Authenticity’ and authentication is at the heart of museums’ concerns in displays, objects, and interaction with visitors. These notions have formed a central element in early thought on culture and collecting. Nineteenth century-explorers, commissioned museum collectors and pioneering ethnographers attempted to lay bare the essences of cultures through collecting and studying objects from distant communities.
Rainforest Foraging and Farming in Island Southeast Asia Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 464
ISBN: 9781902937540
Pub Date: 31 Oct 2013
Description:
The cathedral-like Niah Caves of Sarawak (Borneo) have iconic status in the archaeology of Southeast Asia, due to the excavations by Tom and Barbara Harrisson in the 1950s and 1960s which revealed the longest sequence of human occupation in the region, from (we now know) 50,000 years ago to the recent past. This book is the first of two volumes describing the results of new work in the caves by a multi-disciplinary team of archaeologists and geographers aimed at clarifying the many questions raised by the earlier work. This volume is a closely integrated account of how the old and new work combines to provide profound new insights into the prehistory of the region: the strategies developed by our species to live in rainforests from the time of first arrival; how rainforest foragers engaged in forms of ‘vegeculture’ thousands of years before rice farming; and how rice farming represented profound transformations in the social (and spiritual?
RRP: £62.00
Metamorphosis of Heads, The Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 344
ISBN: 9780822962748
Pub Date: 15 Oct 2013
Series: Illuminations
Description:
Since the days of the Spanish Conquest, the indigenous populations of Andean Bolivia have struggled to preserve their textile-based writings. This struggle continues today, both in schools and within the larger culture. The Metamorphosis of Heads explores the history and cultural significance of Andean textile writings--weavings and kipus (knotted cords), and their extreme contrasts in form and production from European alphabet-based texts.
Global Ancestors Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 168
ISBN: 9781842175330
Pub Date: 07 Oct 2013
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w & col. illus
Description:
Global Ancestors is a collection of papers which reflect on modern museological responses to the often complex and emotive relationship that people have with the ancestors and objects which they created. Set out in three broad themes, the first collection of papers explore how indigenous peoples are represented in museums in Panama and China and how more can be gained by working with indigenous communities to further our understanding of the ancestors. The second section examines changes in British and American museological thinking regarding the repatriation of human remains and objects to indigenous peoples, focusing in particular on the impact of legislation on western institutions and the expectations of indigenous communities and alternative religious groups.
RRP: £32.00
Kentucky Hauntings Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 184
ISBN: 9780813143200
Pub Date: 17 Sep 2013
Illustrations: none
Description:
More than evoking chills down the spine and cautious glances over one's shoulder, spooky stories create lasting bonds and memories between friends and family. The tradition of storytelling ties generations together with exciting new tales and familiar folklore that has sparked superstitions and legends.In Kentucky Hauntings: Homespun Ghost Stories and Unexplained History, beloved storytellers Roberta Simpson Brown and Lonnie E.
Engendering Objects Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 386
ISBN: 9789088901454
Pub Date: 31 Aug 2013
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Description:
Engendering objects explores social and cultural dynamics among Maisin people in Collingwood Bay (Papua New Guinea) through the lens of material culture. Focusing upon the visually stimulating decorated barkcloths that are used as male and female garments, gifts, and commodities, it explores the relationships between these cloths and Maisin people. The main question is how barkcloth, as an object made by women, engenders people’s identities, such as gender, personhood, clan and tribe, through its manufacturing and use.