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Living In Heritage - Tulou As Vernacular Architecture, Global Asset, And Tourist Destination In Contemporary China

by Lijun Zhang

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 An in-depth ethnographic account of the people dwelling and working within traditional tulou architecture in the 21st century. Through her careful study, Zhang reveals how the blurring of formerly distinct domainsâ€"private and public, local and globalâ€"gives rise to a living museum that now relies on insiders and outsiders to preserve their way of life.
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Future Is In Your Hands - Portrait Photography From Senegal

by Bethbuggenhagen

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 In Senegal, portraiture serves as a vital index and creator of social connection. People sit for and display portraits, keep albums, and view illustrated magazines together. Through these portraiture practices, Senegalese have fashioned idealized images to mend fraught and fragmented lives in the context of decades of migration. The Future Is in Your Hands provides an expansive frame for photography to highlight the role of affect in portraiture practices. Moving from the colonial to the newly independent Senegal, Beth Buggenhagen combines museum, ethnographic, and archival research on photography's past with lens-based artists who address themes of separation, visibility, rupture, and repatriation through portraiture. Buggenhagen, in collaboration with Senegalese photographers, explores how photographs, as visual and material objects, migrate themselves and, like the bodies they represent, create a record not only of lived experiences but also of the cycle of migration for this labor-exporting country.By complicating the history of portraiture in Senegal, The Future Is in Your Hands reveals the enduring power of images and the efforts under way to keep this art form safely in Senegalese hands.
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Framing Sukkot - Tradition And Transformation In Jewish Vernacular Architecture

by Gabrielle Anna Berlinger

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 <DIV>An "important and timely" study of the Jewish holiday’s temporary shelters and the meaning of home (Journal of Folklore Research). The sukkah, the symbolic ritual home built during the annual Jewish holiday of Sukkot, commemorates the temporary structures that sheltered the Israelites as they journeyed across the desert after the exodus from Egypt. Despite the simple Biblical prescription for its design, the remarkable variety of creative expression in the construction, decoration, and use of the sukkah, in both times of peace and national upheaval, reveals the cultural traditions, political convictions, philosophical ideals, and individual aspirations that the sukkah communicates for its builders and users today. In this ethnography of contemporary Sukkot observance, Gabrielle Anna Berlinger examines the powerful role of ritual and vernacular architecture in the formation of self and society in three sharply contrasting Jewish communities: Bloomington, Indiana; South Tel Aviv, Israel; and Brooklyn, New York. Through vivid description and in-depth interviews, she demonstrates how constructing and decorating the sukkah and performing the weeklong holiday’s rituals of hospitality provide unique circumstances for creative expression, social interaction, and political struggle. Through an exploration of the intersections between the rituals of Sukkot and contemporary issues, such as the global Occupy movement, Berlinger finds that the sukkah becomes a tangible expression of the need for housing and economic justice, as well as a symbol of the longing for home. "Berlinger’s rich and nuanced ethnography sheds light on many sukkot from Bloomington to Tel Aviv, Jaffa, and Jerusalem, and back to Brooklyn; like the wandering in the Sinai desert, this journey is crucial." —Journal of American Folklore</DIV>
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Material Vernaculars - Objects, Images, And Their Social Worlds

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 <DIV>The role of objects and images in everyday life are illuminated incisively in Material Vernaculars, which combines historical, ethnographic, and object-based methods across a diverse range of material and visual cultural forms. The contributors to this volume offer revealing insights into the significance of such practices as scrapbooking, folk art produced by the elderly, the wedding coat in Osage ceremonial exchanges, temporary huts built during the Jewish festival of Sukkot, and Kiowa women''s traditional roles in raiding and warfare. While emphasizing local vernacular culture, the contributors point to the ways that culture is put to social ends within larger social networks and within the stream of history. While attending to the material world, these case studies explicate the manner in which the tangible and intangible, the material and the meaningful, are constantly entwined and co-constituted. </DIV>
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Toward A Sound Ecology - New And Selected Essays

by Jeff Todd Titon

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Material Vernaculars - Objects, Images, And Their Social Worlds

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Living In Heritage - Tulou As Vernacular Architecture, Global Asset, And Tourist Destination In Contemporary China

by Lijun Zhang

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 An in-depth ethnographic account of the people dwelling and working within traditional tulou architecture in the 21st century. Through her careful study, Zhang reveals how the blurring of formerly distinct domainsâ€"private and public, local and globalâ€"gives rise to a living museum that now relies on insiders and outsiders to preserve their way of life.
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Living In Heritage - Tulou As Vernacular Architecture, Global Asset, And Tourist Destination In Contemporary China

by Lijun Zhang

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The Michiana Potters - Art, Community, And Collaboration In The Midwest

by Meredith A. E. Mcgriff

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Cross And Cosmos - A Theology Of Difficult Glory

by John D. Caputo

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 John D. Caputo stretches his project as a radical theologian to new limits in this groundbreaking book. Readers will recognize Caputo's signature themes-hermeneutics, deconstruction, weakness, and the call-as well as his unique voice as he writes about moral life and our strivings for joy against contemporary society and politics.
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Mental Health And Palestinian Citizens In Israel

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 Minorities face particular social strains, and these are often manifested in their overall mental health. In Israel, just under a quarter of the citizens are Arab Palestinians, yet very little has been published exploring the spectrum of mental health issues prevalent in this population.
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Wedding Clothes And The Osage Community - A Giving Heritage

by Jim Cooley

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 Authors, Daniel C. Swan and Jim Cooley collaborate with members of the Osage Nation to discuss how gift exchange, motivated by the values of generosity and hospitality, serves as a critical component in the preservation and perpetuation of Osage society.
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Toward A Sound Ecology - New And Selected Essays

by Jeff Todd Titon

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The Michiana Potters - Art, Community, And Collaboration In The Midwest

by Meredith A. E. Mcgriff

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The Expressive Lives Of Elders - Folklore, Art, And Aging

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 Can traditional arts improve an older adult's quality of life? Are arts interventions more effective when they align with an elder's cultural identity? In The Expressive Lives of Elders, Jon Kay and contributors from a diverse range of public institutions argue that such mediations work best when they are culturally, socially, and personally relevant to the participants. From quilting and canning to weaving and woodworking, this book explores the role of traditional arts and folklore in the lives of older adults in the United States, highlighting the critical importance of ethnographic studies of creative aging for both understanding the expressive lives of elders and for designing effective arts therapies and programs. Each case study in this volume demonstrates how folklore and traditional practices help elders maintain their health and wellness, providing a road map for initiatives to improve the lives and well-being of America's aging population.
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The Expressive Lives Of Elders - Folklore, Art, And Aging

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 Can traditional arts improve an older adult's quality of life? Are arts interventions more effective when they align with an elder's cultural identity? In The Expressive Lives of Elders, Jon Kay and contributors from a diverse range of public institutions argue that such mediations work best when they are culturally, socially, and personally relevant to the participants. From quilting and canning to weaving and woodworking, this book explores the role of traditional arts and folklore in the lives of older adults in the United States, highlighting the critical importance of ethnographic studies of creative aging for both understanding the expressive lives of elders and for designing effective arts therapies and programs. Each case study in this volume demonstrates how folklore and traditional practices help elders maintain their health and wellness, providing a road map for initiatives to improve the lives and well-being of America's aging population.
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The Case For Auschwitz - Evidence From The Irving Trial

by Robert Jan Van Pelt

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The Expressive Lives Of Elders - Folklore, Art, And Aging

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The Expressive Lives Of Elders - Folklore, Art, And Aging

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The Crazy, Wonderful Things Kids Say - Tales From The Singing Pediatrician

by Arnold L. Tanis

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Happily Ever After - The Romance Story In Popular Culture

by Catherine M. Roach

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The Ink Of Melancholy - Faulkner'S Novels From The Sound And The Fury To Light In August

by André Bleikasten

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Farm Labor Struggles In Zimbabwe - The Ground Of Politics

by Blair Rutherford

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Visions Of Avant-Garde Film - Polish Cinematic Experiments From Expressionism To Constructivism

by Kamila Kuc

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