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  • 1
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    Humour in Chinese life and culture : resistance and control in modern times (2013)
    Hong Kong [China] : Hong Kong University Press
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    ISBN: 9789888268054 , 9888268058
    Language: English , Chinese
    Pages: Online Ressource (1 PDF (xxii, 348 pages) , illustrations.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Humour in Chinese life and culture
    DDC: 306.0951
    Keywords: Joking China ; Chinese wit and humor History and criticism ; Chinese wit and humor History and criticism ; Chinese wit and humor ; Chinese wit and humor ; Joking ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; Chinese wit and humor ; Joking ; Humor ; Witz ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; China ; China ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This book investigates the use of humor in the public sphere and in personal life in China. The contributors cover modern and contemporary forms -- comic films and novels, cartooning, pop-songs, internet jokes, and humor in advertising and education. The second of two multidisciplinary volumes designed for the general reader as well as academic audiences, the book explores the relationship between political control and popular expression of humor, including the mutual exchange of comic stereotypes between China and Japan, and draws out important methodological implications for psychological and cross-cultural studies of humor
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations and tables viiContributors xi -- Editors' note xix -- Preface -- Humour and its cultural context : introduction and overview / Jessica Milner Davis -- The phantom of the clock : laughter and the time of life in the writings of Qian Zhongshu and his contemporaries / Diran John Sohigian -- Unwarranted attention : the image of Japan in twentieth-century Chinese humour / Barak Kushner -- Chinese cartoons and humour : the views of first- and second-generation cartoonists / John A. Lent and Xu Ying -- "Love you to the bone" and other songs : humour and rusheng rhymes in early Cantopop / Marjorie K.M. Chan and Jocelyn Chey -- A "new" phenomenon of Chinese cinema : the Happy-New-Year comic movie / Xu Ying and Xu Zhongquan -- Spoofi ng (e'gao) culture on the Chinese Internet / Christopher G. Rea -- Humour in new media : comparing China, Australia and the United States / Heather J. Crawford -- Chinese concepts of humour and the role of humour in teaching / Guo-Hai Chen -- Laughing at others and being laughed at in Taiwan and Switzerland : a cross-cultural perspective / Hsueh-Chih Chen, Yu-Chen Chan, Willibald Ruch and Rene T. Proyer -- Freedom and political humour: their social meaning in contemporary China / X.L. Ding -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
    Note: Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. - "A companion volume to 'Humour in Chinese life and letters: classical and traditional approaches. - Includes bibliographical references (pages [307]-341) and index. - Chiefly in English; includes some Chinese with English translation. - Description based on print version record , Includes bibliographical references (pages [307]-341) and index , Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE , Chiefly in English; includes some Chinese with English translation
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  • 2
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    Death, belief and politics in Central African history (2014)
    Lusaka, Zambia : Lembani Trust
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    ISBN: 9789982680028 , 9982680021
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (1 PDF (xxv, 384 pages) , illustrations.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 393.0967
    Keywords: Death Political aspects ; Africa, Central ; Nationalism Religious aspects ; Africa, Central ; Christianity and politics Africa, Central ; Funeral rites and ceremonies Zambia ; Funeral rites and ceremonies Malawi ; Funeral rites and ceremonies ; Funeral rites and ceremonies ; Death Political aspects ; Nationalism Religious aspects ; Christianity and politics ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Death & Dying ; Death ; Political aspects ; Funeral rites and ceremonies ; Nationalism ; Religious aspects ; Christianity and politics ; Africa, Central Religious life and customs ; Africa, Central Religious life and customs ; Central Africa ; Malawi ; Zambia ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: In this set of essays Walima T. Kalusa and Megan Vaughan explore themes in the history of death in Zambia and Malawi from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Drawing on extensive archival and oral historical research they examine the impact of Christianity on spiritual beliefs, the racialised politics of death on the colonial Copperbelt, the transformation of burial practices, the histories of suicide and of maternal mortality, and the political life of the corpse
    Description / Table of Contents: AcknowledgementsIntroduction : death -- again? / Walima T. Kalusa and Megan Vaughan -- Translating the soul : death and Catholicism in Northern Zambia / Megan Vaughan -- Sex, death and colonial anthropologists in the inter-war period / Megan Vaughan -- Death, Christianity and African miners : contesting indirect rule on the Zambian Copperbelt, 1935-2013;1962 / Walima T. Kalusa -- Corpses, funerals, imageries of modernity and the making of an African elite identity on the Zambian Copperbelt, 1935-2013;1964 / Walima T. Kalusa -- Politics of the gravesite : funerals, nationalism and the reinvention of the cemetery on the Zambian Copperbelt / Walima T. Kalusa -- The killing of Lilian Margaret Burton and black and white nationalisms in northern Rhodesia (Zambia) in the 1960s / Walima T. Kalusa -- Suicide : a hidden history / Megan Vaughan -- Maternal mortality in Malawi : history and moral responsibility / Megan Vaughan -- Big houses for the dead : burying Presidents Banda and Bingu wa Mutharika of Malawi / Megan Vaughan -- Select bibliography.
    Note: Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. - Includes bibliographical references. - Description based on print version record , Includes bibliographical references
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  • 3
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    Life, work, and rebellion in the coal fields : the southern West Virginia miners 1880-1922 (2015)
    Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse | Morgantown [West Virginia] : West Virginia University Press
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    ISBN: 9781940425801 , 1940425808
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (1 PDF (xxiii, 312 pages) , illustrations.
    Edition: Second edition
    Series Statement: West Virginia and Appalachia
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.56209754
    Keywords: Working class History ; West Virginia ; Coal miners Labor unions ; History ; West Virginia ; Labor disputes History ; West Virginia ; Coal miners History ; West Virginia ; West Virginia ; Working class History ; Coal miners Labor unions ; History ; Labor disputes History ; Coal miners History ; Labor disputes History ; Coal miners Labor unions ; History ; Working class History ; Coal miners History ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Coal miners ; Coal miners ; Labor unions ; Labor disputes ; Working class ; History ; West Virginia ; Electronic books ; Electronic books History
    Abstract: Between 1880 and 1922, the coal fields of southern West Virginia witnessed two bloody and protracted strikes, the formation of two competing unions, and the largest armed conflict in American labor history--a week-long battle between 20,000 coal miners and 5,000 state police, deputy sheriffs, and mine guards. These events resulted in an untold number of deaths, indictments of over 550 coal miners for insurrection and treason, and four declarations of martial law. Corbin argues that these violent events were collective and militant acts of aggression interconnected and conditioned by decades of oppression. His study goes a long way toward breaking down the old stereotypes of Appalachian and coal mining culture. This second edition contains a new preface and afterword by author David A. Corbin
    Description / Table of Contents: PrefaceAcknowledgments -- Introduction -- "Coal is our existence" -- "What kind of animals" -- Class over caste : interracial solidarity in the company town -- "Solidarity forever" -- Conspiracies and control -- "We shall not be moved" -- A war for democracy -- "I'm gonna fight for my union" -- "Land of the free, home of the brave" -- Afterword : "so it is with West Virginia."
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-296) and index. - Print version record , Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-296) and index
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  • 4
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    Indigenous people in Africa : contestations, empowerment and group rights (2014)
    Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse
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    ISBN: 9780798304641 , 9780798304641 , 9780798304672 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource UPCC book collections on Project MUSE ISBN 9780798304672
    Edition: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE [Online-Ausg.]
    RVK:
    LB 48465
    Keywords: Indigenes Volk ; Ethnische Identität ; Bürgerrecht ; Indigenismus ; Afrika
    Abstract: This volume is an attempt to provide this intersectional and reflexive space. The thinking behind the book began in Lamu in mid-2010. It was a time when growing community resistance emerged towards the Kenyan government's plan to build a second seaport under a trans-frontier infrastructural project known as the Lamu Port- South Sudan-Ethiopia Transport Corridor (LAPSSET). The editors agreed that a book that draws community activists, academics, researchers and policy makers into a discussion of the predicament of indigenous rights and development against the backdrop of the Endorois case was timely and needed. Assembled here are the original contributions of some of the leading contemporary thinkers in the area of indigenous and human rights in Africa. The book is an interdisciplinary effort with the single purpose of thinking through indigenous rights after the Endorois case but it is not a singular laudatory remark on indigenous life in Africa. The discussion begins by framing indigenous rights and claims to indigeneity as found in the Endorois decision and its related socio-political history. Subsequent chapters provide deeper contextual analysis by evaluating the tense relationship between indigenous peoples and the post-colonial nation-state. Overall, the book makes a peering and provocative contribution to the relational interests between state policies and the developmental intersections of indigeneity, indigenous rights, gender advocacy, environmental conservation, chronic trauma and transitional justice.
    Note: Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE , Online-Ausg.:
    URL: https://muse.jhu.edu/book/31312
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  • 5
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    Metamorphosis of Tianxian pei : local opera under the revolution (1949-1956) (2015)
    Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse
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    ISBN: 9789629968922 , 9629968924
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    Series Statement: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
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    LS 41400
    Keywords: Folk drama, Chinese ; Operas, Chinese Political aspects ; Operas, Chinese Censorship ; Operas, Chinese History and criticism
    Abstract: This volume is the most extensive social and cultural history of twentieth-century Huangmei Opera to date. A regional Chinese theater originating in the Anqing countryside, Huangmei Opera gained popularity with the success of the 1950s play and movie, Married to a Heavenly Immortal. Through a case study of this work, the author juxtaposes the complex process of rewriting and revising the play and movie against the rapidly changing cultural and ideological climate of the Communist theater reform movement. As a result, the traditional theme of filial piety becomes a struggle over class and free love. This volume features a full translation of the original play and its revision in the 1950s, as well as selected articles by scriptwriters, directors, performers, and critics.
    Note: Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    URL: https://muse.jhu.edu/book/40054
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    Rendering nature : animals, bodies, places, politics (2015)
    Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse
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    ISBN: 9780812291452 , 081229145X
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , Illustrations.
    Edition: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    Edition: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    Series Statement: Nature and culture in America
    Series Statement: Nature and culture in America
    DDC: 333.70973
    Keywords: Culture ; Human ecology History ; Nature Effect of human beings on ; United States Civilization
    Abstract: We exist at a moment during which the entangled challenges facing the human and natural worlds confront us at every turn, whether at the most basic level of survival--health, sustenance, shelter--or in relation to our comfort-driven desires. As demand for resources both necessary and unnecessary increases, understanding how nature and culture are interconnected matters more than ever. Bridging the fields of environmental history and American studies, Rendering Nature examines the surprising interconnections between nature and culture in distinct places, times, and contexts over the course of American history. Divided into four themes--animals, bodies, places, and politics--the essays span a diverse array of locations and periods: from antebellum slave society to atomic testing sites, from gorillas in Central Africa to river runners in the Grand Canyon, from white sun-tanning enthusiasts to Japanese American incarcerees, from taxidermists at the 1893 World's Fair to tents on Wall Street in 2011. Together they offer new perspectives and conceptual tools that can help us better understand the historical realities and current paradoxes of our environmental predicament.
    Note: Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    URL: https://muse.jhu.edu/book/40771
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    Transnational feminism and women's movements in post-1997 Hong Kong : solidarity beyond the state (2015)
    Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse
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    ISBN: 9789888313174
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , Illustrations.
    Edition: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    Edition: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    Series Statement: Global connections
    Series Statement: Global connections (Hong Kong University Press)
    DDC: 305.42095125
    Keywords: Women's rights History ; Feminism History
    Abstract: This study demonstrates that recognizing the differences of the women activists promoting disparate agendas leads to a fuller appreciation of the connections and commonalities in the relations among those involved. Transnational Feminism and Women's Movements in Post-1997 Hong Kong: Solidarity Beyond the State is the first comprehensive account of feminism and women's movements in Hong Kong. The unique geographical, historical and cultural situation of the city provides the backdrop for Adelyn Lim to bring diverse groups of activists organizing socially disadvantaged and disaffected women, many of whom originating from Mainland China as well as South and Southeast Asia, to the foreground. Feminism, Lim argues, is not premised on a collective identity; it should rather be understood as a collective frame of action. The work begins with a critical history of women's mobilization during the British colonial period and the lead up to governance under the People's Republic of China. Subsequent chapters discuss the organizational forms, rhetoric, and strategies of women's groups in addressing the feminization of poverty, engagement with state institutions, violence against women, prostitution, and domestic work. Conflicts between feminist ideals and the realities and demands of the socio-political environment are thrown into sharp relief. The empirical analysis makes a case for Hong Kong to be considered as a prime site to challenge and renew the theorizing of transnational feminism.
    Note: Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    URL: https://muse.jhu.edu/book/40599
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    Radical French thought and the return of the "Jewish question" (2015)
    Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse
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    ISBN: 9780253016843 , 0253016843
    Language: English , English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    Edition: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    Series Statement: Studies in antisemitism
    Series Statement: Studies in antisemitism (Bloomington, Ind.)
    DDC: 305.8924044
    RVK:
    MC 7400
    Keywords: Intellektueller ; Literatur ; Philosophie ; Antisemitismus ; Zionism ; Antisemitism ; Frankreich
    Abstract: For English-speaking readers, this book serves as an introduction to an important French intellectual whose work, especially on the issues of antisemitism and anti-Zionism, runs counter to the hostility shown toward Jews by some representatives of contemporary critical theory. It presents for the first time in English five essays by Éric Marty, previously published in France, with a new preface by the author addressed to his American readers. The focus of these essays is the debate in France and elsewhere in Europe concerning the "Jew." The first essay on Jean Genet, one of postwar France's most important literary figures, investigates the nature of Genet's virulent antisemitism and hatred of Israel and its significance for an understanding of contemporary phenomena. The curious reappearance of St. Paul in theological and political discourse is discussed in another essay, which describes and analyses the interest that secular writers of the far left have shown in Paul's "universalism" placed over and against Jewish or Israeli particularism. The remaining essays are more polemical in nature and confront the anti-Israeli attacks by Alain Badiou and Gilles Deleuze.
    Note: Contains translations of five articles originally published in French , Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    URL: https://muse.jhu.edu/book/40094
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    Harnessing cultural capital for sustainability : a pan Africanist perspective (2015)
    Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse
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    ISBN: 9789956762392 , 9956762393
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , color Illustrations
    Edition: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    Series Statement: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    DDC: 306.096
    Keywords: Nachhaltigkeit ; Lokales Wissen ; Kulturelles Kapital ; Soziale Sicherheit ; Sustainable development ; Ethnoscience ; Culture Economic aspects ; Afrika ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This book argues that the basic component of any society's social security and sustainability is cultural capital and its ability to fully recognise diversity in knowledge production and advancement. However, with regard to African societies, since the dawn of racial slavery and colonialism, cultural capital - indigenous knowledge in particular - has iniquitously and acrimoniously suffered marginalisation and pejorative ragtags. Increasingly since the 1990s, cultural capital informed by African knowledge systems has taken central stage in discussions of sustainability and development. This is not unrelated with the recognition by America and Europe in particular of the central role that cultural capital could and should assume in the logic of development and sustainability at a global level. Unfortunately, action has often failed to match words with regard to the situation in Africa. The current book seeks to make a difference by exploring the role that African cultural capital could and should assume to guarantee development and sustainability on the continent and globally. It argues that lofty pan-African ideals of collective self-reliance, self-sustaining development and economic growth would come to naught unless determined and decisive steps are taken towards full recognition of indigenous cultural capital on the continent.
    Note: Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    URL: https://muse.jhu.edu/book/41486
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    Evita, inevitably : performing Argentina's female icons before and after Eva Perón (2015)
    Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse
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    ISBN: 9780472120550 , 0472120557
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , Illustrations
    Edition: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    Series Statement: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    DDC: 305.40982
    Keywords: Perón, Eva In mass media ; Perón, Eva ; Rezeption ; Frau ; Starkult ; Celebrities ; Performing arts Social aspects ; Women in popular culture ; Argentinien
    Abstract: Evita, Inevitably sheds new light on the history and culture of Argentina by examining the performances and reception of the country's most iconic female figures, in particular, Eva Perón, who rose from poverty to become a powerful international figure. The book links the Evita legend to a broader pattern of female iconicity from the mid-nineteenth century onward, reading Evita against the performances of other female icons: Camila O'Gorman, executed by firing squad over her affair with a Jesuit priest; Difunta Correa, a devotional figure who has achieved near-sainthood; cumbia-pop performer Gilda; the country's patron saint, the Virgin of Luján; and finally, Argentina's president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. Employing the tools of discursive, visual, and performance analysis, Jean Graham-Jones studies theatrical performance, literature, film, folklore, Catholic iconography, and Internet culture to document the ways in which these "femicons" have been staged.
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    URL: https://muse.jhu.edu/book/36845
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