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The Labor of Faith: Gender and Power in Black Apostolic Pentecostalism
By Judith Casselberry. 2017
In The Labor of Faith Judith Casselberry examines the material and spiritual labor of the women of the Church of…
Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith, Inc., which is based in Harlem and one of the oldest and largest historically Black Pentecostal denominations in the United States. This male-headed church only functions through the work of the church's women, who, despite making up three-quarters of its adult membership, hold no formal positions of power. Casselberry shows how the women negotiate this contradiction by using their work to produce and claim a spiritual authority that provides them with a particular form of power. She also emphasizes how their work in the church is as significant, labor intensive, and critical to their personhood, family, and community as their careers, home and family work, and community service are. Focusing on the circumstances of producing a holy black female personhood, Casselberry reveals the ways twenty-first-century women's spiritual power operates and resonates with meaning in Pentecostal, female-majority, male-led churches.This ambitious sourcebook surveys both the traditional basis for and the present state of indigenous women s…
reproductive health in Mexico and Central America Noted practitioners specialists and researchers take an interdisciplinary approach to analyze the multiple barriers for access and care to indigenous women that had been complicated by longstanding gender inequities poverty stigmatization lack of education war obstetrical violence and differences in language and customs all of which contribute to unnecessary maternal morbidity and mortality Emphasis is placed on indigenous cultures and folkways from traditional midwives and birth attendants to indigenous botanical medication and traditional healing and spiritual practices and how they may effectively coexist with modern biomedical care Throughout these chapters the main theme is clear the rights of indigenous women to culturally respective reproductive health care and a successful pregnancy leading to the birth of healthy children A sampling of the topics Motherhood and modernization in a Yucatec village Maternal morbidity and mortality in Honduran Miskito communities Solitary birth and maternal mortality among the Rar muri of Northern Mexico Maternal morbidity and mortality in the rural Trifino region of Guatemala The traditional Ng be-Bugl midwives of Panama Characterizations of maternal death among Mayan women in Yucatan Mexico Unintended pregnancy unsafe abortion and unmet need in GuatemalaMaternal Death and Pregnancy-Related Morbidity Among Indigenous Women of Mexico and Central America is designed for anthropologists and other social scientists physicians nurses and midwives public health specialists epidemiologists global health workers international aid organizations and NGOs governmental agencies administrators policy-makers and others involved in the planning and implementation of maternal and reproductive health care of indigenous women in Mexico and Central America and possibly other geographical areasThe Pump House Gang
By Tom Wolfe. 1966
Tom Wolfe's second collection (1968) takes it title from a redoubtable surfing elite, many of whom abandoned the beach for…
the psychedelic indoor sports of the late sixties. Wolfe here continues his fieldwork among noble savages, from La Jolla to London.Representing the Race: A New Political History of African American Literature
By Gene Andrew Jarrett. 2011
The political value of African American literature has long been a topic of great debate among American writers, both black…
and white, from Thomas Jefferson to Barack Obama. In his compelling new book, Representing the Race, Gene Andrew Jarrett traces the genealogy of this topic in order to develop an innovative political history of African American literature. Jarrett examines texts of every sort--pamphlets, autobiographies, cultural criticism, poems, short stories, and novels--to parse the myths of authenticity, popular culture, nationalism, and militancy that have come to define African American political activism in recent decades. He argues that unless we show the diverse and complex ways that African American literature has transformed society, political myths will continue to limit our understanding of this intellectual tradition.Cultural forums ranging from the printing press, schools, and conventions, to parlors, railroad cars, and courtrooms provide the backdrop to this African American literary history, while the foreground is replete with compelling stories, from the debate over racial genius in early American history and the intellectual culture of racial politics after slavery, to the tension between copyright law and free speech in contemporary African American culture, to the political audacity of Barack Obama's creative writing. Erudite yet accessible, Representing the Race is a bold explanation of what's at stake in continuing to politicize African American literature in the new millennium.“A remarkable biography . . . Well written and researched, this book warrants a spot on every serious American history…
student’s bookshelf.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review She was the first woman to run for president. She was the first woman to address the U.S. Congress and to operate a brokerage firm on Wall Street. She’s the woman Gloria Steinem called “the most controversial suffragist of them all.” So why have most people never heard of Victoria Woodhull? In this extensively researched biography, journalist Mary Gabriel offers readers a balanced portrait of a unique and complicated woman who was years ahead of her time—and perhaps ahead of our own. “One of the most controversial American women of the late nineteenth century springs to life in this study that leaves no stone unturned.” —Publishers Weekly “[A] deftly written biography . . . of a hell-raising visionary.” —Mirabella “A meaty slice of feminist history peppered with Victorian drama.” —CivilizationWaiting for Elijah: Time and Encounter in a Bosnian Landscape (Articulating Journeys: Festivals, Memorials, and Homecomings #1)
By Safet HadžiMuhamedović. 2018
Waiting for Elijah is an intimate portrait of time-reckoning, syncretism, and proximity in one of the world’s most polarized landscapes,…
the Bosnian Field of Gacko. Centered on the shared harvest feast of Elijah’s Day, the once eagerly awaited pinnacle of the annual cycle, the book shows how the fractured postwar landscape beckoned the return of communal life that entails such waiting. This seemingly paradoxical situation—waiting to wait—becomes a starting point for a broader discussion on the complexity of time set between cosmology, nationalism, and embodied memories of proximity.Travelling with the Argonauts: Informal Networks Seen without a Vertical Lens
By Ma gorzata Irek. 2018
Drawing on rich ethnographic materials from longitudinal fieldwork on informal trading routes across Europe Travelling with the Argonauts offers…
a new perspective in the research of the social space reflecting on how best to investigate amorphous social phenomena such as informal networks Breaking with much current theory the approach detailed here the Restricted Verticality Perspective examines the horizontal dimension of social relations and understands informality not as marginal or substandard but as life itself as the real experience of ordinary peopleStrong Is the New Pretty: A Celebration of Girls Being Themselves
By Kate T. Parker. 2017
Girls being fearless. Girls being silly. Girls being wild, stubborn, and proud. Girls whose faces are smeared with dirt and…
lit up with joy. So simple and yet so powerful, Strong Is the New Pretty celebrates, through more than 175 memorable photographs, the strength and spirit of girls being 100% themselves. Real beauty isn’t about being a certain size, acting a certain way, wearing the right clothes, or having your hair done (or even brushed). Real beauty is about being your authentic self and owning it. Kate T. Parker is a professional photographer who finds the real beauty in girls, capturing it for all the world to see in candid and arresting images. A celebration, a catalog of spirit in words and smiles, an affirmation of the fact that it’s what’s inside you that counts, Strong Is the New Pretty conveys a powerful message for every girl, for every mother and father of a girl, for every coach and mentor and teacher, for everyone in the village that it takes to raise a strong and self-confident person.African American Theological Ethics: A Reader
By Julius Crump, Editor, Peter J Paris. 2016
This volume in the Library of Theological Ethics series draws on writings from the early nineteenth through the late twentieth…
centuries to explore the intersection of black experience and Christian faith throughout the history of the United States. The first sections follow the many dimensions of the African American struggle with racism in this country: struggles against theories of white supremacy, against chattel slavery, and against racial segregation and discrimination. The latter sections turn to the black Christian vision of human flourishing, drawing on perspectives from the arts, religion, philosophy, ethics, and theology. It introduces students to major voices from African American Christianity, including Frederick Douglass, Richard Allen, W. E. B. DuBois, Marcus Garvey, Martin Luther King Jr., Bayard Rustin, Barbara Jordan, James H. Cone, and Jacqueline Grant. This is the essential resource for anyone who wishes to understand the role that Christian faith has played in the African American struggle for a more just society.The Beauty Myth
By Naomi Wolf. 2002
The bestselling classic that redefined our view of the relationship between beauty and female identity. In today's world, women have…
more power, legal recognition, and professional success than ever before. Alongside the evident progress of the women's movement, however, writer and journalist Naomi Wolf is troubled by a different kind of social control, which, she argues, may prove just as restrictive as the traditional image of homemaker and wife. It's the beauty myth, an obsession with physical perfection that traps the modern woman in an endless spiral of hope, self-consciousness, and self-hatred as she tries to fulfill society's impossible definition of "the flawless beauty."Men, Masculinity and Contemporary Dating
By Chris Haywood. 2018
At a time when traditional dating practices are being replaced with new ways to meet potential partners this book…
provides fresh insights into how are men responding to new ways of dating Drawing upon original research this book examines a wide range of contemporary dating practices that includes speed dating holiday romances use of dating apps online sex seeking and dogging It reveals the ways in which men draw upon traditional models of masculinity to negotiate these changes but also the extent to which men are responding by elaborating new masculinities Through an investigation of the dynamics of heterosexuality and masculinity this book highlights the importance attached to authenticity and the increasing marketization and commodification of dating It argues that in a post-truth world men must also come to terms with a post-trust dating landscape Combining rich empirical material with keen theoretical analysis this innovative work will have interdisciplinary appeal for students and scholars of sociology media studies cultural studies and gender studiesThis book offers a novel examination of socio-environmental change in a nomadic pastoralist area of the eastern Tibetan plateau …
Drawing on long-term fieldwork that underscores an ethnography of local nomadic pastoralists international development organisations and Chinese government policies the book argues that careful analysis and comparison of the different epistemologies and norms about change are vital to any critical appraisal of developments - often contested - on the grasslands of Eastern Tibet Tibetan nomads have developed a way of life that is dependent in multiple ways on their animals and shaped by the phenomenological experience of mobility These pastoralists have adapted to many changes in their social political and environmental contexts over time From the earliest historically recorded systems of segmentary lineage to the incorporation first into local fiefdoms and then into the Chinese state of both Nationalist and Communist governments Tibetan pastoralists have maintained their way of life complemented by interactions with the outside world Rapid changes brought about by an intensification of interactions with the outside world call into question the sustained viability of a nomadic way of life particularly as pastoralists themselves sell their herds and settle into towns This book probes how we can more clearly understand these changes by looking specifically at one particular area of high-altitude grasslands in the Tibetan PlateauCaptives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship and Community in the Southwest Borderlands
By James F. Brooks. 2002
This sweeping, richly evocative study examines the origins and legacies of a flourishing captive exchange economy within and among native…
American and Euramerican communities throughout the Southwest Borderlands from the Spanish colonial era to the end of the nineteenth century. Indigenous and colonial traditions of capture, servitude, and kinship met and meshed in the borderlands, forming a "slave system" in which victims symbolized social wealth, performed services for their masters, and produced material goods under the threat of violence. Slave and livestock raiding and trading among Apaches, Comanches, Kiowas, Navajos, Utes, and Spaniards provided labor resources, redistributed wealth, and fostered kin connections that integrated disparate and antagonistic groups even as these practices renewed cycles of violence and warfare. Always attentive to the corrosive effects of the "slave trade" on Indian and colonial societies, the book also explores slavery's centrality in intercultural trade, alliances, and "communities of interest" among groups often antagonistic to Spanish, Mexican, and American modernizing strategies. The extension of the moral and military campaigns of the American Civil War to the Southwest in a regional "war against slavery" brought differing forms of social stability but cost local communities much of their economic vitality and cultural flexibility.Cambridge Studies on the American South: Southern Planters at Home (Cambridge Studies on the American South)
By Genovese, Douglas, Douglas Ambrose, Eugene Ambrose, Eugene D. 2017
This book examines the home and leisure life of planters in the antebellum American South Based on a…
lifetime of research by the late Eugene Genovese 1930-2012 with an introduction and epilogue by Douglas Ambrose The Sweetness of Life presents a penetrating study of slaveholders and their families in both intimate and domestic settings at home attending the theatre going on vacations to spas and springs throwing parties hunting gambling drinking and entertaining guests completing a comprehensive portrait of the slaveholders and the world that they built with slaves Genovese subtly but powerfully demonstrates how much politics economics and religion shaped informed and made possible these leisure activities A fascinating investigation of a little-studied aspect of planter life The Sweetness of Life broadens our understanding of the world that the slaveholders and their slaves made a tragic world of both sweetness and slaveryThe Veiled Garvey
By Ula Taylor. 2002
In this biography Ula Taylor explores the life and ideas of one of the most important if largely…
unsung Pan-African freedom fighters of the twentieth century Amy Jacques Garvey 1895-1973 Born in Jamaica Amy Jacques moved in 1917 to Harlem where she became involved in the Universal Negro Improvement Association UNIA the largest Pan-African organization of its time She served as the private secretary of UNIA leader Marcus Garvey in 1922 they married Soon after she began to give speeches and to publish editorials urging black women to participate in the Pan-African movement and addressing issues that affected people of African descent across the globe After her husband s death in 1940 Jacques Garvey emerged as a gifted organizer for the Pan-African cause Although she faced considerable male chauvinism she persisted in creating a distinctive feminist voice within the movement In her final decades Jacques Garvey constructed a thriving network of Pan-African contacts including Nnamdi Azikiwe Kwame Nkrumah George Padmore and W E B Du Bois Taylor examines the many roles Jacques Garvey played throughout her life as feminist black nationalist journalist daughter mother and wife Tracing her political and intellectual evolution the book illuminates the leadership and enduring influence of this remarkable activistDorothea Bleek: A life of scholarship
By Jill Weintroub. 2016
Dorothea Bleek (1873_1948) devoted her life to completing the ?bushman researches? that her father and aunt had begun in the…
closing decades of the nineteenth century. This research was partly a labour of familial loyalty to Wilhelm, the acclaimed linguist and language scholar of nineteenth-century Germany and later of the Cape Colony, and to Lucy Lloyd, a self-taught linguist and scholar of bushman languages and folklore; but it was also an expression of Dorothea?s commitment to a particular kind of scholarship and an intellectual milieu that saw her spending her entire adult life in the study of the people she called?bushmen?. How has history treated Dorothea Bleek? Has she been recognised as a scholar in her own right, or as someone who merely followed in the footsteps of her famous father and aunt? Was she an adventurer, a woman who travelled across southern Africa driven by intellectual curiosity to learn all she could about the bushmen? Or was she conservative, a researcher who belittled the people she studied and dismissed them as lazy and improvident? These are some of the questions with which Jill Weintroub starts her thoughtful biography of Dorothea Bleek. The book examines Dorothea Bleek?s life story and family legacy, her rock art research and her fieldwork in southern Africa, and, in light of these, evaluates her scholarship and contribution to the history of ideas in South Africa. The compelling and surprising narrative reveals an intellectual inheritance intertwined with the story of a woman?s life, and argues that Dorothea?s life work _ her study of the bushmen _ was also a sometimes surprising emotional quest.From Tools to Symbols: From Early Hominids to Modern Humans
By Francesco D’Errico, Lucinda Backwell, Bernard Malauzat. 2005
A number of researchers have tried to characterise the anatomy and behavioural systems of early hominid and early modern human…
populations in an attempt to understand how we became what we are. Can archaeology, palaeo-anthropology and genetics tell us how and when human cultures developed the traits that make our societies different from those of our closest living relatives? In which cases are these differences substantial, and when do they simply reflect our definitions of culture, species, the image we have of their evolution or of ourselves? From Tools to Symbols, a collection of twenty-seven selected papers from a South African-French conference organised in honour of the well-known palaeo-anthropologist Phillip Tobias, provides a multidisciplinary overview of this field of study. It is based on collaborative research conducted in sub-Saharan Africa by South African, French, American and German scholars in the last twenty years, and represents an excellent synthesis of the palaeontological and archaeological evidence of the last five million years of human evolution.Structure, Meaning and Ritual in the Narratives of the Southern San
By Roger Hewitt. 1986
Structure, Meaning and Ritual in the Narratives of the Southern San analyses texts drawn from the Bleek and Lloyd Archive…
_ arguably one of the most important collections for the understanding of South African cultural heritage and in particular the traditions of the /Xam, South Africa?s ?first people?. Initially appearing in a now rare 1986 edition and here re-issued for the first time, the doctoral thesis on which the book is based became the catalyst for much scholarly research. The book offers an analysis of the entire corpus of /Xam narratives found in the Bleek and Lloyd collection, focusing particularly on the cycle of narratives concerning the trickster /Kaggen (Mantis). These are examined on three levels from the ?deep structures? with resonances in other areas of /Xam culture and supernatural belief, through the recurring patterns of narrative composition apparent across the cycle and finally touching on the observable differences in the performances by the various /Xam collaborators. Hewitt?s text remains the only comprehensive and detailed study of /Xam narrative, and it has become itself the object of study by researchers and PhD candidates in South Africa, the United Kingdom, Canada and elsewhere. This new edition at last makes Hewitt?s important work more widely available. It will be a welcome addition to the recently burgeoning literature on the place of the /Xam hunter-gatherers in the complex history of South African culture and society.This book shows how to build successful luxury brands using the power of sensory science and neuro-physiology The author…
introduces based on inspiring business cases like Tesla Louis Vuitton Chanel Herm s Moncler Louboutin or Sofitel in industries such as Fashion Automotive or Leisure groundbreaking scientific methods - like the Derval Color Test taken by over 10 million people - to predict luxury shoppers preferences and purchasing patterns and illustrates common and unique features of successful luxury brands Through various practical examples and experiments readers will be able to build revamp or expand luxury brands and look at luxury from a new angleWhat is Slavery to Me?: Postcolonial/Slave Memory in post-apartheid South Africa
By Pumla Dineo Gqola. 2010
Much has been made about South Africa?s transition from histories of colonialism, slavery and apartheid. ?Memory? features prominently in the…
country?s reckoning with its pasts. While there has been an outpouring of academic essays, anthologies and other full-length texts which study this transition, most have focused on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). What is slavery to me? is the first full-length study of slave memory in the South African context, and examines the relevance and effects of slave memory for contemporary negotiations of South African gendered and racialised identities. It draws from feminist, postcolonial and memory studies and is therefore interdisciplinary in approach. It reads memory as one way of processing this past, and interprets a variety of cultural, literary and filmic texts to ascertain the particular experiences in relation to slave pasts being fashioned, processed and disseminated. Much of the material surveyed across disciplines attributes to memory, or ?popular history making?, a dialogue between past and present whilst ascribing sense to both the eras and their relationship. In this sense then, memory is active, entailing a personal relationship with the past which acts as mediator of reality on a day to day basis. The projects studies various negotiations of raced and gendered identities in creative and other public spaces in contemporary South Africa, by being particularly attentive to the encoding of consciousness about the country?s slave past. This book extends memory studies in South Africa, provokes new lines of inquiry, and develops new frameworks through which to think about slavery and memory in South Africa.