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| Author | : Steven J Harper |
| Publisher | : Northwestern University Press |
| Total Pages | : 329 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0810124440 |
Author Steven J. Harper pays tribute to a well-respected teacher with this biography of a distinguished William Smith Mason Professor of History at Northwestern University, Richard W. Leopold. Harper had maintained contact with his former professor, as had hundreds of other alumni, meeting with him in the apartment to which his age and health confined him. When Leopold invited him to review his biographical materials to prepare a New York Times obituary, Harper began to catch glimpses of a deeper history in Leopold’s life: that of Jews in America after the turn of the century. Across two years of Sundays, Leopold’s life came together and Harper began to notice parallels between the life of his professor and the life of his recently deceased father-in-law. Both grew up in less orthodox households but were still identified as Jewish by others; both attended Ivy League colleges, fighting (and beating) anti-Semitism there; and both served their country with distinction in World War II. The two men persevered through a twentieth century Jewish-American experience that they and many others shared, but rarely discussed. Steven Harper has caught them both on the page just in time to document their lives, their culture, and the nation that grew and changed alongside them.
| Author | : Pamela Lothspeich |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 661 |
| Release | : 2024-01-30 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1000912167 |
Reconceptualizing the epic genre and opening it up to a world of storytelling, The Epic World makes a timely and bold intervention toward understanding the human propensity to aestheticize and normalize mass deployments of power and violence. The collection broadly considers three kinds of epic literature: conventional celebratory tales of conquest that glorify heroism, especially male heroism; anti-epics or stories of conquest from the perspectives of the dispossessed, the oppressed, the despised, and the murdered; and heroic stories utilized for imperialist or nationalist purposes. The Epic World illustrates global patterns of epic storytelling, such as the durability of stories tied to religious traditions and/or to peoples who have largely "stayed put"; the tendency to reimagine and retell stories in new ways over centuries; and the imbrication of epic storytelling and forms of colonialism and imperialism, especially those perpetuated and glorified by Euro-Americans over the past 500 years, resulting in unspeakable and immeasurable harms to humans, other living beings, and the planet Earth. The Epic World is a go-to volume for anyone interested in epic literature in a global framework. Engaging with powerful stories and ways of knowing beyond those of the predominantly white Global North, this field-shifting volume exposes the false premises of "Western civilization" and "Classics," and brings new questions and perspectives to epic studies.
| Author | : Lori Jones |
| Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
| Total Pages | : 375 |
| Release | : 2022-11-22 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 1914049098 |
Juxtaposing and interlacing similarities and differences across and beyond the pre-modern Mediterranean world, Christian, Islamic and Jewish healing traditions, the collection highlights and nuances some of the recent critical advances in scholarship on death and disease.
| Author | : Unni Wikan |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 392 |
| Release | : 1990-12-15 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0226896803 |
How do Balinese manage to present to the world the clear, bright face, the grace and poise, that they regard as crucial to self-respect and social esteem? How can the anthropologist pass behind the conventions of such a complex culture to recognize what is going on between people, in terms that convey their own experience? Wikan's study of the Indonesian island of Bali is an absorbing debate with previous anthropological interpretations as well as an innovative development of the anthropology of experience. "This is indeed an important book, a landmark in studies of Bali and one surely destined to have major theoretical impact on anthropological research well beyond that famous Indonesian island."—Anthony R. Walker, Journal of Asian and African Studies
| Author | : Caroline Studdert |
| Publisher | : Troubador Publishing Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 248 |
| Release | : 2022-05-17 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1803131616 |
At a time when women were finding their voices comes Hell Cat of the Hague: The Nel Slis Story, the remarkable tale of a female journalist who became the Associated Press’ first correspondent in The Hague after WWII. This story delves into the origins and follows the adventures of a larger-than-life character, fighting her way to make her mark in the world as a lone woman journalist and forming enduring friendships across the world. From a lonely childhood on an island at the bottom of Holland, a love of languages launches Nel on her travels in the 1930s. From the Sorbonne and White Russians in Paris to a top-class nursing diploma in Switzerland, from the U.K. and Germany to Mussolini-watching in Rome as World War II breaks out, Nel sees it all. With her experience in nursing and the BBC wartime intelligence monitoring service, Nel falls ‘like a hair in the soup’ into journalism when the mighty Associated Press (AP) sets up shop in the UK. Postwar, Nel becomes the AP’s first correspondent in The Hague – and meets the love of her life, young American journalist Daniel Schorr. Together with Schorr, her direct and challenging American style of reporting transforms a profession suffering from the legacy of wartime occupation. The book also follows her reporting on the Dutch Royal Family, Nel and the Queen of Libya, her travels and work in the U.S. and much more. She becomes a legend in her own time, the exciting woman journalist every other journalist wants to interview and emulate. Also famed for her warmth, her wide circle of friends including cultural icons like Isaac Stern and Leo Bernstein, and her support for new journalists, especially women, this is a figure history should celebrate as this book surely does.
| Author | : Jen Katemi |
| Publisher | : Flourish Books |
| Total Pages | : 199 |
| Release | : 2021-09-28 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
Read the second book in this steamy paranormal fantasy romance series, perfect for those who love witches, shifters, magic, demons, angels, a paranormal alpha male hero and a kick-ass heroine. Dream walking has always been exciting—until now. This time, I’ve walked straight into a fallen angel's nightmare… Amethyst’s witch magic is strongest when she traverses the gap between dreams and waking. When her cousin Topaz is hunted by a demon determined to take her soul, it is time for these witches to turn the tables on the monster hunting them, and track him through his dreams. Hellhound shifter Dane is appointed by his pack leader as Amethyst’s protector—much to their mutual disgust. Witches and hellhounds are sworn enemies, which is problematic when they cannot keep their hands off one another. Amethyst doesn't need the ongoing distraction of Dane's attentions. When she finally faces the demon threatening her loved ones, she needs to do it on her own. The hellhound shouldn’t be able to follow her into the dream world, where demon dreams abound—and yet, he does. Now, the enigmatic man who has managed to capture her heart, might end up as dead as everyone else Amethyst cares about. A dark and edgy paranormal fantasy romance series, perfect for fans of Jaymin Eve, K.F. Breene, Dannika Dark and Linsey Hall. Read BEWITCHED IN DREAMS and continue the HELLHOUND PROTECTORS series today! ~~~ Author's note: This series is set in the same world as the BLOOD FAE CHRONICLES series. Read both, and enjoy! HELLHOUND PROTECTORS (to be read in order): Bewitched in Blood Bewitched in Dreams Bewitched in Darkness BLOOD FAE CHRONICLES (can be read in any order): Banshee Cry Banshee Song Banshee Power Banshee Quest: Renna's Curse Keywords: steamy paranormal romance, witches and shifter romance, wolf shifters, demons and angels, witch magic, witch heroine, alpha male shifter hero, kick-ass heroine
| Author | : Adeline Masquelier |
| Publisher | : University of New Mexico Press |
| Total Pages | : 305 |
| Release | : 2016-06-15 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0826356990 |
A new cohort of Muslim youth has arisen since the attacks of 9/11, facilitated by the proliferation of recent communication technologies and the Internet. By focusing on these young people as a heterogeneous global cohort, the contributors to this volume—who draw from a variety of disciplines—show how the study of Muslim youth at this particular historical juncture is relevant to thinking about the anthropology of youth, the anthropology of Islamic and Muslim societies, and the post-9/11 world more generally. These scholars focus on young Muslims in a variety of settings in Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and North America and explore the distinct pastimes and performances, processes of civic engagement and political action, entrepreneurial and consumption practices, forms of self-fashioning, and aspirations and struggles in which they engage as they seek to understand their place and make their way in a transformed world.
| Author | : Debra Caplan |
| Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
| Total Pages | : 307 |
| Release | : 2023-10-11 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0472903853 |
A little over 100 years ago, the first production of An-sky’s The Dybbuk, a play about the possession of a young woman by a dislocated spirit, opened in Warsaw. In the century that followed, The Dybbuk became a theatrical conduit for a wide range of discourses about Jews, belonging, and modernity. This timeless Yiddish play about spiritual possession beyond the grave would go on to exert a remarkable and unforgettable impact on modern theater, film, literature, music, and culture. The Dybbuk Century collects essays from an interdisciplinary group of scholars who explore the play’s original Yiddish and Hebrew productions and offer critical reflections on the play’s enduring influence. The collection will appeal to scholars, students, and theater practitioners, as well as general readers.
| Author | : Sämi Ludwig |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 566 |
| Release | : 2017-03-07 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1443874825 |
In March 2015, a group of experts from four continents and a wide range of disciplines met with the leading African American writer Ishmael Reed in Mulhouse, France, and Basel, Switzerland. Guided by Swiss cultural and literary theorist Sämi Ludwig, and deliberately migrating back and forth across a political border in the heart of Europe, they not only listened to Reed and discussed his work, but also looked more widely at the different meanings assigned to “multiculturalism” in the United States, Europe, and other parts of the world. This volume brings together their reflections.
| Author | : Unni Wikan |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 378 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0226924467 |
Resonance gathers together forty years of anthropological study by a researcher and writer with one of the broadest fieldwork résumés in anthropology: Unni Wikan. In its twelve essays—four of which are brand new—Resonance covers encounters with transvestites in Oman, childbirth in Bhutan, poverty in Cairo, and honor killings in Scandinavia, with visits to several other locales and subjects in between. Including a comprehensive preface and introduction that brings the whole work into focus, Resonance surveys an astonishing career of anthropological inquiry that demonstrates the possibility for a common humanity, a way of knowing others on their own terms. Deploying Clifford Geertz’s concept of “experience-near” observations —and driven by an ambition to work beyond Geertz’s own limitations—Wikan strives for an anthropology that sees, describes, and understands the human condition in the models and concepts of the people being observed. She highlights the fundamentals of an explicitly comparative, person-centered, and empathic approach to fieldwork, pushing anthropology to shift from the specialist discourses of academic experts to a grasp of what the Balinese call keneh— the heart, thought, and feeling of the real people of the world. By deploying this strategy across such a range of sites and communities, she provides a powerful argument that ever-deeper insight can be attained despite our differences.
