Social Sciences & Culture  /  Anthropology & Sociology
Dervishes along the Silk Roads: Between Past and Present Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 280
ISBN: 9788869774270
Pub Date: 29 Feb 2024
Series: Anthropology
Description:
This book highlights aspects of the spiritual culture within Islam that flourished along the 'Silk Roads' – the term coined by Ferdinand von Richthofen in 1877 to describe the web of caravan routes that connected China, South and Central Asia, the Middle East and Europe. The movement of goods and of people was accompanied by the circulation of ideas, bringing about a vivid exchange in the cultural sphere – sufism, or tasawwuf, was one such idea. Focusing on this theme, these conference proceedings draw attention to the multiple dimensions embraced by tasawwuf, both in its temporal (i.
Unorganized Women Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 212
ISBN: 9780822947554
Pub Date: 06 Feb 2024
Description:
Across a range of industrial, domestic, and agricultural sites, Greer shows how repetitive discursive performances served as rhetorical tools as women workers sought to rescript power relations in their workplaces and to resist narratives about their laboring lives. The case studies reveal noteworthy patterns in how these women’s words helped to construct the complex web of class relations in which they were enmeshed. Rather than a teleological narrative of economic empowerment over the course of a century, Unorganized Women speaks to the enduring obstacles low- and no-wage women face, their creativity and resilience in the face of adversity, and the challenges that impede the creation of meaningful coalitions.
African Dolls Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 144
ISBN: 9789492940162
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2024
Imprint: Blikvelduitgevers Publishers
Series: The Private Collection Series
Illustrations: full colour images
Description:
This private collection of African dolls, sometimes spontaneously decorated with beadwork, are witnesses of people's hopes and beliefs. The book is richly illustrated with overviews and detailed photographs of the objects and, apart from a description of their history, also gives the reader a personal account of collecting these dolls single-handedly over a period of 45 years.
Hemispheric Blackness and the Exigencies of Accountability Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 260
ISBN: 9780822947226
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2024
Description:
_Hemispheric Blackness and the Exigencies of Accountability _examines the way Afrodescendant and Black communities use the land on which they live, the rule of law, and their bodies to assert their historical, ontological, and physical presence across South, Central, and North America. Their demand for the recognition of ancestral lands, responsive policies, and human rights sheds new light on their permanent yet tenuous presence throughout the region. The authors argue that by deploying a discourse of transcontinental historical continuity, Black communities assert their presence in local, national, and international political spheres.
Journal of the Himalayan Institute of Cultural Heritage Studies Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 112
ISBN: 9789492940186
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2024
Imprint: Blikvelduitgevers Publishers
Series: Journal of the Himalayan Institute of Cultural and Heritage Studies
Illustrations: full colour images
Description:
The Journal of the Himalayan Institute of Cultural and Heritage Studies is an endeavor to include research oriented articles on the Himalayas from different sections of academia which includes and is not limited to archaeology, anthropology, history, art history, geology, sociology, art, music, theatre and law.
Making the Frontier Man Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 392
ISBN: 9780822947875
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2024
Description:
For western colonists in the early American backcountry, disputes often ended in bloodshed and death. Making the Frontier Man examines early life and the origins of lawless behavior in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky, and Ohio from 1750 to 1815. It provides a key to understanding why the trans-Appalachian West was prone to violent struggles, especially between white men.
Wearables 01 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 64
ISBN: 9789492940179
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2024
Imprint: Blikvelduitgevers Publishers
Series: Wearables
Illustrations: full colour images
Description:
Wearables is an annual magazine edition, attractively illustrated, bringing together a variety of ethnographic topics on costume and jewellery traditions, placed in their cultural setting.
Tar Hollow Trans Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 152
ISBN: 9780813197555
Pub Date: 20 Jun 2023
Series: Appalachian Futures: Black, Native, and Queer Voices
Description:
"I've lived a completely ordinary life, so much that I don't know how to write a transgender or queer or Appalachian story, because I don't feel like I've lived one..
The BRICS in Africa Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 437
ISBN: 9780796926371
Pub Date: 31 May 2023
Imprint: HSRC Press
Description:
The BRICS countries—Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa—have become a strong engine of South-South cooperation, contributing to a significant shift in the global balance of power. They also, taken as a whole, constitute Africa's largest trading partner. The authors of this new collection consider the potential of BRICS–Africa cooperation for promoting sustainable African development.
Engaging Appalachia Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 186
ISBN: 9780813196947
Pub Date: 07 Mar 2023
Series: Place Matters: New Directions in Appalachian Studies
Illustrations: 1 table, 7 b&w illustrations
Description:
Inclusive campus-community collaborations provide critical opportunities to build community capacity - defined as a community's ability to jointly respond to challenges and opportunities - and sustainability. Through case studies from across all three subregions of Appalachia from Georgia to Pennsylvania, Engaging Appalachia: A Guidebook for Building Capacity and Sustainability offers diverse perspectives and guidance for promoting social change through campus-community relationships from faculty, community members, and student contributors. This volume explores strategies for creating more inclusive and sustainable partnerships through the arts, humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.
Slavery and Freedom in the Bluegrass State Cover Slavery and Freedom in the Bluegrass State Cover
Format: 
Pages: 380
ISBN: 9780813196152
Pub Date: 21 Feb 2023
Illustrations: 16 b&w illustrations
Pages: 380
ISBN: 9780813197111
Pub Date: 21 Feb 2023
Illustrations: 16 b&w illustrations
Description:
Stephen Foster's "My Old Kentucky Home" has been designated as the official state song and performed at the Kentucky Derby for decades. In light of the ongoing social justice movement to end racial inequality, many have questioned whether the song should be played at public events, given its inaccurate depiction of slavery in the state. In Slavery and Freedom in the Bluegrass State, editor Gerald L.
An Introduction to Black Studies Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 296
ISBN: 9780813196916
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2023
Illustrations: 30 b&w illustrations
Description:
For hundreds of years, the American public education system has neglected to fully examine, discuss, and acknowledge the vast and rich history of people of African descent who have played a pivotal role in the transformation of the United States. The establishment of Black studies departments and programs represented a major victory for higher education and a vindication of Black scholars such as W. E.
Temple People Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 512
ISBN: 9781913344078
Pub Date: 15 Jan 2023
Series: Fragility and Sustainability - Studies on Early Malta, the ERC-funded FRAGSUS Project
Description:
The ERC-funded FRAGSUS Project (Fragility and sustainability in small island environments: adaptation, culture change and collapse in prehistory, 2013–18) led by Caroline Malone has focused on the unique Temple Culture of Neolithic Malta and its antecedents. This third volume builds on the achievements of Mortuary customs in prehistoric Malta, published by the McDonald Institute in 2009. It seeks to answer many questions posed, but left unanswered, of the more than 200,000 fragments of mainly commingled human remains from the Xagħra Brochtorff Circle on Gozo.
Polygynous Marriages among the Kyrgyz Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 284
ISBN: 9780822947530
Pub Date: 20 Dec 2022
Description:
During Soviet rule, the state all but imposed atheism on the primarily Islamic people of Kyrgyzstan and limited the tradition of polygyny - a form of polygamy in which one man has multiple wives. Polygyny did continue under communism, though chiefly under concealment. In the decades since the fall of the Soviet Union, the practice has reemerged.
Urban Infrastructure Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 300
ISBN: 9780822946380
Pub Date: 29 Nov 2022
Series: Pittsburgh Hist Urban Environment
Description:
Urban Infrastructures creates space for an encounter between historians, humanists, and social scientists who seek new methodological approaches to the history of urban infrastructure. It draws on recent work across history, anthropology, science and technology studies, geography, resilience/sustainability, and other disciplines to explore the social effects of infrastructure. The volume rejects narrow conceptions of infrastructure history as only the history of public works, and instead expands the definition to all business enterprises and public bodies that provide the goods and services essential for the day-to-day lives of most people.
Sacred Nature Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 136
ISBN: 9781789259179
Pub Date: 15 Nov 2022
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Material Religion in Antiquity
Illustrations: B/W
Description:
Sacred Nature: Animism and Materiality in Ancient Religions is the second volume of the series Material Religion in Antiquity (MaReA). The book collects the proceedings of the international online workshop carrying the same title organized by CAMNES, SoRS on 20–21 May 2021. Sacred Nature brings together the perspectives of scholars from different disciplines (archaeology, anthropology, iconography, philology, history of religions) about the notions of nature, sacredness, animism and materiality in ancient religions of the Old and the New World.