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Hanging Without A Rope - Narrative Experience In Colonial And Postcolonial Karoland

by Mary Margaret Steedly

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 When Mary Steedly went to North Sumatra, Indonesia, she intended to study the curing practices of Karo Batak spirit mediums, the gurus who keep a community in touch with its ancestors. She became fascinated by the stories these women and men told of their encounters with spirits in the ritual arena and on the borders of the everyday social world. I
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Hanging Without A Rope - Narrative Experience In Colonial And Postcolonial Karoland

by Mary Margaret Steedly

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 When Mary Steedly went to North Sumatra, Indonesia, she intended to study the curing practices of Karo Batak spirit mediums, the gurus who keep a community in touch with its ancestors. She became fascinated by the stories these women and men told of their encounters with spirits in the ritual arena and on the borders of the everyday social world. I
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Intimacy And Exclusion - Religious Politics In Pre-Revolutionary Baden

by Dagmar Herzog

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 During the years leading up to the revolutions of 1848, liberal and conservative Germans engaged in a contest over the terms of the Enlightenment legacy and the meaning of Christianity--a contest that grew most intense in the Grand Duchy of Baden, where liberalism first became an influential political movement. Bringing insights drawn from Jewish a
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Welfare, Modernity, And The Weimar State

by Young-Sun Hong

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 This is the first comprehensive study of the turbulent relationship among state, society, and church in the making of the modern German welfare system during the Weimar Republic. Young-Sun Hong examines the competing conceptions of poverty, citizenship, family, and authority held by the state bureaucracy, socialists, bourgeois feminists, and the ma
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Children In Moral Danger And The Problem Of Government In Third Republic France

by Sylvia Schafer

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 By exploring how children and their families became unprecedented objects of governmental policy in the early decades of France's Third Republic, Sylvia Schafer offers a fresh perspective on the self-fashioning of a new governmental order. In the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War, social reformers claimed that children were increasingly the vict
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Intimacy And Exclusion - Religious Politics In Pre-Revolutionary Baden

by Dagmar Herzog

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 During the years leading up to the revolutions of 1848, liberal and conservative Germans engaged in a contest over the terms of the Enlightenment legacy and the meaning of Christianity--a contest that grew most intense in the Grand Duchy of Baden, where liberalism first became an influential political movement. Bringing insights drawn from Jewish a
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Culture/Power/History - A Reader In Contemporary Social Theory

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 Offers a perspective on social theory in the contemporary moment. This readers includes essays that address Foucault's "new economy of power relations" in a number of different, contestatory directions.
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Children And The Politics Of Culture

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 Exploring the global dimensions of children at risk, this book discusses the notion of children's rights, and the claim that every child has a right to a cultural identity. It reveals how children's everyday lives and futures are often the stakes in battles that adults wage over definitions of cultural identity and state cultural policies.
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After Colonialism - Imperial Histories And Postcolonial Displacements

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 Offers a fresh look at the history of colonialism and the changes in knowledge, disciplines, and identities produced by the imperial experience. Ranging across disciplines - from history to anthropology to literary studies, this volume features essays that re-examine colonialism and its aftermath.
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What Was Socialism, And What Comes Next?

by Katherine Verdery

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 Presents a collection of essays that deal with the aftermath of Soviet-style socialism and the different forms that may replace it. This book explores the nature of socialism in order to understand its consequences.
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The Nation And Its Fragments - Colonial And Postcolonial Histories

by Partha Chatterjee

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 Looks at the results of nationalist imagination in Asia and Africa that are posited not on identity but on difference with the nationalism propagated by the West. This title shows how anticolonialist nationalists produced their own domain of sovereignty within colonial society well before beginning their political battle with the imperial power.
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The Demon Race

by Alexandria Warwick

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Kant`S Philosophical Revolution - A Short Guide To The `Critique Of Pure Reason`

by Yirmiyahu Yovel

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 A short, clear, and authoritative guide to one of the most important and difficult works of modern philosophyPerhaps the most influential work of modern philosophy, Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is also one of the hardest to read, since it brims with complex arguments, difficult ideas, and tortuous sentences. A philosophical revolutio
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Citizen And Subject - Contemporary Africa And The Legacy Of Late Colonialism

by Mahmood Mamdani

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 In analyzing the obstacles to democratization in post- independence Africa, Mahmood Mamdani offers a bold, insightful account of colonialism's legacy--a bifurcated power that mediated racial domination through tribally organized local authorities, reproducing racial identity in citizens and ethnic identity in subjects. Many writers have understood
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A Place In History - Social And Monumental Time In A Cretan Town

by Michael Herzfeld

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 Describes what happens when a bureaucracy charged with historic conservation clashes with a local populace hostile to the state and suspicious of tourism. Focusing on the Cretan town of Rethemnos, once a center of learning under Venetian rule and later inhabited by the Turks, this book examines questions confronting conservators and citizens.
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Charred Lullabies - Chapters In An Anthropography Of Violence

by E. Valentine Daniel

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 How does an ethnographer write about violence? How can he remain a scholarly observer when the country of his birth is engulfed by terror? How does an anthropologist write an ethnography without transforming it into a pornography of violence? This book discusses such questions.
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Modern Greek Lessons - A Primer In Historical Constructivism

by James D. Faubion

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 Introduces the cosmopolitan intellectual life of Athens, a centerless city of multiplicities and fragmentations, a city on the 'margins of Europe' recovering from the repressive rule of a military junta.
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Black Corona - Race And The Politics Of Place In An Urban Community

by Steven Gregory

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 Examines political culture and activism in an African-American neighborhood in New York City. This book challenges the view that black urban communities are 'socially disorganized.' It demonstrates instead how working-class and middle-class African Americans construct and negotiate complex and deeply historical political identities.
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Essays On The Anthropology Of Reason

by Paul Rabinow

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 Presents a collection of essays which explains a reflection on the author's project to anthropologize the West. This book attempts to exoticize the Western constitution of reality, emphasizes those domains taken as universal, and shows how their claims to truth are linked to particular social practices, hence becoming effective social forces.
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Engineers Of Happy Land - Technology And Nationalism In A Colony

by Rudolf Mrázek

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 Based on close reading of historical documents - poetry as much as statistics - and focused on the conceptualization of technology, this book is an unconventional evocation of late colonial Netherlands East Indies (today Indonesia). It invents a way to talk about freedom, colonialism, nationalism, literature, revolution, and human nature.
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Refashioning Futures - Criticism After Postcoloniality

by David Scott

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 How can we best forge a theoretical practice that directly addresses the struggles of once-colonized countries, many of which face the collapse of both state and society in today's era of economic reform? This book examines the ways in which modernity inserted itself into and altered the lives of the colonized.
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Local Histories/Global Designs - Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, And Border Thinking

by Walter D. Mignolo

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 Explores the crucial notion of "colonial difference" in the study of the modern colonial world and traces the emergence of an epistemic shift, which author calls "border thinking". This title expands the horizons of debates under way in postcolonial studies of Asia and Africa by dwelling in the genealogy of thoughts of South/Central America.
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Theft Of An Idol - Text And Context In The Representation Of Collective Violence

by Paul R. Brass

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 Encourages us to look more closely at the issues of violence, ethnicity, and the state by focusing on specific instances of violence in their local contexts. This book shows how, out of many interpretations applicable to these incidents, government and the media select those that support existing relations of power in state and society.
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From Duty To Desire - Remaking Families In A Spanish Village

by Jane Fishburne Collier

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 Notes that when inheritance appeared to determine social status, villagers protected family reputations and properties by demonstrating concern for 'what others might say'. This book traces shifts in the meaning of 'tradition', suggesting that although 'modern' people cannot 'be' traditional, they must have traditions to produce themselves.
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