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  • 1
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    Prostitution in Medieval Society : The History of an Urban Institution in Languedoc (2009)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226640334
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (259 p)
    Series Statement: Women in Culture and Society
    Parallel Title: Print version Prostitution in Medieval Society : The History of an Urban Institution in Languedoc
    DDC: 306.7/4/094
    Keywords: Prostitution ; Europe ; History ; Prostitution ; France ; Languedoc ; History ; Social history ; Medieval, 500-1500 ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: ""Prostitution in Medieval Society, a monograph about Languedoc between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, is also much more than that: it is a compelling narrative about the social construction of sexuality.""- Catharine R. Stimpson
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Abbreviations; Approximate Money Equivalences; Introduction; Part One: Prostitution and Public Authority: An Evolution; Prologue to Part One: Toward a Chronology of Medieval Prostitution; I. The Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Prostitution Accepted; 2. The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries: Prostitution Institutionalized; Epilogue to Part One: The Sixteenth Century: The Institution Dismantled; Part Two: Structures and Dynamics of Institutionalized Prostitution; Prologue to Part Two: The Language of Prostitution
    Description / Table of Contents: 3. Public Houses: Physical Plant, Ownership, and Exploitation4. Public Women: Geographical Origins; Economic, Legal, and Social Status; and the Problem of Repentance/Retirement; 5. Controlling the System: ""Police"" of Prostitution and ""Government"" of Houses; 6. Eliminating Competition: The Prosecution of Procurers, Illicit Prostitutes, and Keepers of Illegal Houses; Epilogue to Part Two: Institutionalized Prostitution: Demography, Public Utility, and Sexual Morality; Conclusions and Perspectives; Appendix A: Published Documents; Appendix B: Lists of Prostitutes
    Description / Table of Contents: Appendix C: Brothel Farms and FarmersAppendix D: Graphs of Brothel Farm Prices; Appendix E: Easter Week Expenses, AM Toulouse; Map I: The Word Postribulum in Archival Documents in Languedoc; Map 2: Privately and Publicly Owned Brothels in Languedoc; Illustration; Notes; Essay on Bibliography and Sources; Manuscript Sources; Bibliography; Index
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    Crafting Selves : Power, Gender, and Discourses of Identity in a Japanese Workplace (2009)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226098159 , 022609815X
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (362 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Kondo, Dorinne K Crafting Selves : Power, Gender, and Discourses of Identity in a Japanese Workplace
    DDC: 305.42
    Keywords: Women Employment ; Japan ; Women Social conditions ; Japan ; Women Economic conditions ; Japan ; Group identity Japan ; Self-perception in women Japan ; Women Identity ; Japan ; Women Employment ; Women Social conditions ; Women Economic conditions ; Group identity ; Self-perception in women ; Women Identity ; Group identity -- Japan ; Self-perception in women -- Japan ; Women -- Employment -- Japan ; Women -- Japan -- Economic conditions ; Women -- Japan -- Identity ; Women -- Japan -- Social conditions ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Group identity ; Self-perception in women ; Women ; Economic conditions ; Women ; Employment ; Women ; Identity ; Women ; Social conditions ; Business & Economics ; Labor & Workers' Economics ; Japan ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: ""The ethnography of Japan is currently being reshaped by a new generation of Japanologists, and the present work certainly deserves a place in this body of literature. . . . The combination of utility with beauty makes Kondo's book required reading, for those with an interest not only in Japan but also in reflexive anthropology, women's studies, field methods, the anthropology of work, social psychology, Asian Americans, and even modern literature.""-Paul H. Noguchi, American Anthropologist""Kondo's work is significant because she goes beyond disharmony, insisting on compl
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    The Scientific Life : A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation (2009)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226750170
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (488 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Shapin, Steven, 1943 - The scientific life
    DDC: 174.95
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    Keywords: Scientists -- Moral and ethical aspects ; Science -- Economic aspects ; Science ; Economic aspects ; Scientists ; Moral and ethical aspects ; Electronic books ; Wissenschaftler ; Moralisches Handeln ; Geschichte ; Wissenschaft ; Moralische Verantwortung
    Abstract: Who are scientists? What kind of people are they? What capacities and virtues are thought to stand behind their considerable authority? They are experts-indeed, highly respected experts-authorized to describe and interpret the natural world and widely trusted to help transform knowledge into power and profit. But are they morally different from other people? The Scientific Life is historian Steven Shapin's story about who scientists are, who we think they are, and why our sensibilities about such things matter. Conventional wisdom has long held that scientists are neither better nor worse than anyone else, that personal virtue does not necessarily accompany technical expertise, and that scientific practice is profoundly impersonal. Shapin, however, here shows how the uncertainties attending scientific research make the virtues of individual researchers intrinsic to scientific work. From the early twentieth-century origins of corporate research laboratories to the high-flying scientific entrepreneurship of the present, Shapin argues that the radical uncertainties of much contemporary science have made personal virtues more central to its practice than ever before, and he also reveals how radically novel aspects of late modern science have unexpectedly deep historical roots. His elegantly conceived history of the scientific career and character ultimately encourages us to reconsider the very nature of the technical and moral worlds in which we now live. Building on the insights of Shapin's last three influential books, featuring an utterly fascinating cast of characters, and brimming with bold and original claims, The Scientific Life is essential reading for anyone wanting to reflect on late modern American culture and how it has been shaped.
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1 . Knowledge and Virtue: The Way We Live Now -- 2 . From Calling to Job: Nature, Truth, Method, and Vocation from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Centuries -- 3 . The Moral Equivalence of the Scientist: A History of the Very Idea -- 4 . Who Is the Industrial Scientist? The View from the Tower -- 5 . Who Is the Industrial Scientist? The View from the Managers -- 6 . The Scientist and the Civic Virtues: The Moral Life of Organized Science -- 7 . The Scientific Entrepreneur: Money, Motives, and the Place of Virtue -- 8 . Visions of the Future: Uncertainty and Virtue in the World of High-Tech and Venture Capital -- The Way We Live Now: Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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  • 4
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    Home and Work : negotiating boundaries through everyday life (2008)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226581477
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (345 p.))
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Edition: 1996
    Series Statement: EBL-Schweitzer
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. Nippert-Eng, Christena E. Home and work
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Nippert-Eng, Christena E. Home and work
    DDC: 155.9
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    Keywords: Corporate culture ; Organizational sociology ; Social psychology ; Work and family ; Electronic books ; Familie ; Arbeit
    Abstract: Contents; Prologue; Acknowledgments; Introduction. Negotiating Home and Work: From Integration to Segmentation; 1. Territories of the Self: Recognizing the Home-Work Boundary; 2. Cognitive Engineering: Bridging Time, Space, and Self; 3. Structural Constraints and Personal Discretion: Work Stakes Its Claim; 4. Be It Ever So Humble, There Arer Also Surveyors at Home; 5. Jimmy, Eleanor, and the Logic of Boundary Work; Conclusion. Beyond Home and Work: Boundary Theory; Appendix. Interview Questionnaire for Home and Work; References; Index
    Abstract: Do you put family photos on your desk at work? Are your home and work keys on the same chain? Do you keep one all-purpose calendar for listing home and work events? Do you have separate telephone books for colleagues and friends? In Home and Work, Christena Nippert-Eng examines the intricacies and implications of how we draw the line between home and work.Arguing that relationships between the two realms range from those that are highly ""integrating"" to those that are highly ""segmenting,"" Nippert-Eng examines the ways people sculpt the boundaries between home and work. With remarkable sens
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    Victorian Science in Context. (2008)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226481104
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (499 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Victorian science in context
    DDC: 306.450941
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    Keywords: Science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century ; Great Britain ; Social conditions ; 19th century ; Science ; Great Britain ; History ; 19th century ; Electronic books ; Konferenzschrift 1995 ; Großbritannien ; Naturwissenschaften ; Kultur ; Geschichte 1837-1901
    Abstract: Victorians were fascinated by the flood of strange new worlds that science was opening to them. Exotic plants and animals poured into London from all corners of the Empire, while revolutionary theories such as the radical idea that humans might be descended from apes drew crowds to heated debates. Men and women of all social classes avidly collected scientific specimens for display in their homes and devoured literature about science and its practitioners. Victorian Science in Context captures the essence of this fascination, charting the many ways in which science influenced and was influenced by the larger Victorian culture. Contributions from leading scholars in history, literature, and the history of science explore questions such as: What did science mean to the Victorians? For whom was Victorian science written? What ideological messages did it convey? The contributors show how practical concerns interacted with contextual issues to mold Victorian science-which in turn shaped much of the relationship between modern science and culture.
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: Defining Knowledge -- 1. Defining Knowledge: An Introduction -- 2. The Construction of Orthodoxies and Heterodoxies in the Early Victorian Life Sciences -- 3. The Probable and the Possible in Early Victorian England -- 4. Victorian Economics and the Science of Mind -- 5. Biology and Politics: Defining the Boundaries -- 6. Redrawing the Boundaries: Darwinian Science and Victorian Women Intellectuals -- 7. Satire and Science in Victorian Culture -- Part Two: Ordering Nature -- 8. Ordering Nature: Revisioning Victorian Science Culture -- 9. "The Voices of Nature": Popularizing Victorian Science -- 10. Science and the Secularization of Victorian Images of Race -- 11. Elegant Recreations? Configuring Science Writing for Women -- 12. Strange New Worlds of Space and Time: Late Victorian Science and Science Fiction -- Part Three: Practicing Science -- 13. Practicing Science: An Introduction -- 14. Wallace's Malthusian Moment: The Common Context Revisited -- 15. Doing Science in a Global Empire: Cable Telegraphy and Electrical Physics in Victorian -- 16. Zoological Nomenclature and the Empire of Victorian Science -- 17. Remains of the Day: Early Victorians in the Field -- 18. Photography as Witness, Detective, and Impostor: Visual Representation in Victorian Science -- 19. Instrumentation and Interpretation: Managing and Representing the Working Environments of Victorian Experimental Science -- 20. Metrology, Metrication, and Victorian Values -- Contributors -- Index.
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    Bewitching development : witchcraft and the reinvention of development in neoliberal Kenya (2008)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226764597 , 0226764591
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xv, 269 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Chicago studies in practices of meaning
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Smith, James Howard Bewitching development
    DDC: 305.896395
    Keywords: Taita (African people) Social life and customs ; Taita (African people) Rites and ceremonies ; Witchcraft Kenya ; Taita Hills ; Economic development Kenya ; Taita Hills ; Taita (African people) Social life and customs ; Taita (African people) Rites and ceremonies ; Witchcraft ; Economic development ; Economic development ; Economic history ; Witchcraft ; Entwicklung ; Entwicklung ; Hexerei ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Black Studies (Global) ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Ethnic Studies ; African American Studies ; Taita Hills (Kenya) Economic conditions ; Taita Hills ; Taita ; Taita Hills (Kenya) Economic conditions ; Kenya ; Taita Hills ; Taita Hills ; Taita ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "These days, development inspires scant trust in the West. For critics who condemn centralized efforts to plan African societies as latter day imperialism, such plans too closely reflect their roots in colonial rule and neoliberal economics. But proponents of this pessimistic view often ignore how significant this concept has become for Africans themselves. In Bewitching Development, James Howard Smith presents a close ethnographic account of how people in the Taita Hills of Kenya have appropriated and made sense of development thought and practice, focusing on the complex ways that development connects with changing understandings of witchcraft. Similar to magic, development's promise of a better world elicits both hope and suspicion from Wataita. Smith shows that the unforeseen changes wrought by development - greater wealth for some, dashed hopes for many more - foster moral debates that Taita people express in occult terms. By carefully chronicling the beliefs and actions of this diverse community - from frustrated youths to nostalgic seniors, duplicitous preachers to thought-provoking witch doctors - Bewitching Development vividly depicts the social life of formerly foreign ideas and practices in postcolonial Africa." Publisher's Description
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    Secrets, Sex, and Spectacle : The Rules of Scandal in Japan and the United States (2008)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226894089
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (416 p.)
    Parallel Title: Print version Secrets, Sex, and Spectacle : The Rules of Scandal in Japan and the United States
    DDC: 302.2/4
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    Keywords: Japan ; Social life and customs ; Law ; Japan ; Law ; United States ; Scandals ; Japan ; Scandals ; United States ; United States ; Social life and customs ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: A leader of a global superpower is betrayed by his mistress, who makes public the sordid details of their secret affair. His wife stands by as he denies the charges. Debates over definitions of moral leadership ensue. Sound familiar? If you guessed Clinton and Lewinsky, try again. This incident involved former Japanese prime minister Sosuke Uno and a geisha. In Secrets, Sex, and Spectacle, Mark D. West organizes the seemingly random worlds of Japanese and American scandal-from corporate fraud to baseball cheaters, political corruption to celebrity sexcapades-to explore well-ingrained similarit
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Author's Note; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. PLAYERS; 3. PRIVACY AND HONOR; 4. GROUPS; 5. INDIVIDUALS; 6. SEX; 7. APOLOGY; 8. AFTERWORD;
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    The Limits of Rationality (2008)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226742397
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (437 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version The Limits of Rationality
    DDC: 303.4
    Keywords: Decision making ; Reasoning ; Social change ; Social choice ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Prevailing economic theory presumes that agents act rationally when they make decisions, striving to maximize the efficient use of their resources. Psychology has repeatedly challenged the rational choice paradigm with persuasive evidence that people do not always make the optimal choice. Yet the paradigm has proven so successful a predictor that its use continues to flourish, fueled by debate across the social sciences over why it works so well. Intended to introduce novices to rational choice theory, this accessible, interdisciplinary book collects writings by leading res
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Limits of Rationality; PART I THE THEORY OF RATIONAL CHOICE; 1 When Rationality Fails; 2 Rational Choice and the Framing of Decisions; 3 Choice Under Uncertainty: Problems Solved and Unsolved; 4 Rational Choice in Experimental Markets; PART II PREFERENCE FORMATION AND THE ROLE OF NORMS; 5 De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum; 6 Cooperation and Rationality: Notes on the Collective Action Problem and Its Solutions; 7 Norm-Generating Structures; PART III INSTITUTIONS; 8 Reason and Rationality; 9 Managerial Dilemmas: Political Leadership in Hierarchies
    Description / Table of Contents: 10 The Social Evolution of Cooperation11 Institutions and Their Consequences for Economic Performance; 12 A Logic of Institutional Change; List of Contributors; Index
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    Anxious Pleasures : The Sexual Lives of an Amazonian People (2008)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226307435
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (236 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Anxious Pleasures : The Sexual Lives of an Amazonian People
    DDC: 306.708998
    Keywords: Indians of South America ; Sexual behavior ; Brazil ; Mehinacu Indians ; Sexual behavior ; Sex role ; Brazil ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: ""Good fish get dull but sex is always fun."" So say the Mehinaku people of Brazil. But Thomas Gregor shows that sex brings a supreme ambiguity to the villagers' lives. In their elaborate rituals-especially those practiced by the men in their secret societies-the Mehinaku give expression to a system of symbols reminiscent of psychosexual neuroses identified by Freud: castration anxiety, Oedipal conflict, fantasies of loss of strength through sex, and a host of others. ""If we look carefully,"" writes Gregor, ""we will see reflections of our own sexual nature in the life ways of an Amazoni
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Mehinaku and the Sexual Data; 2 Mehinaku Men and Women: A Sociology of Marriage, Sex, and Affection; 3 Facts of Life and Symbols of Gender; 4 Sexual Relations; 5 Food for Thought: The Symbolism of Sexual Relations and Eating; 6 Men's House; 7 Anxious Pleasures; 8 Anxious Dreams; 9 Tapir Woman: Socialization and Personality Theory; 10 Ears, Eclipses, and Menstruating Men:The Feminine Self in Masculine Culture; 11 The Universal Male; References; Index
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    Desiring Arabs (2008)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226509600
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (469 p.))
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: EBL-Schweitzer
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Desiring Arabs
    Parallel Title: Print version Desiring Arabs
    DDC: 306.709174927
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    Keywords: Arabs ; Civilization, Arab ; Arabs ; Sexual behavior ; Arab countries ; Foreign public opinion, Western ; Electronic books ; Araber Sexualität ; Arabische Staaten ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Araber ; Einstellung ; Sexualität ; Westliche Welt ; Öffentliche Meinung ; Geschichte
    Abstract: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Anxiety in Civilization; 2 Remembrances of Desires Past; 3 Re-Orienting Desire: The Gay International and the Arab World; 4 Sin, Crimes, and Disease: Taxonomies of Desires Present; 5 Deviant Fictions; 6 The Truth of Fictional Desires; Conclusion; Works Cited; Name Index; Subject Index
    Abstract: Sexual desire has long played a key role in Western judgments about the value of Arab civilization. In the past, Westerners viewed the Arab world as licentious, and Western intolerance of sex led them to brand Arabs as decadent; but as Western society became more sexually open, the supposedly prudish Arabs soon became viewed as backward. Rather than focusing exclusively on how these views developed in the West, in Desiring Arabs Joseph A. Massad reveals the history of how Arabs represented their own sexual desires. To this aim, he assembles a massive and diverse compendium of Arabic writing from the nineteenth century to the present in order to chart the changes in Arab sexual attitudes and their links to Arab notions of cultural heritage and civilization. A work of impressive scope and erudition, Massad's chronicle of both the history and modern permutations of the debate over representations of sexual desires and practices in the Arab world is a crucial addition to our understanding of a frequently oversimplified and vilified culture. "A pioneering work on a very timely yet frustratingly neglected topic. . . . I know of no other study that can even begin to compare with the detail and scope of [this] work."-Khaled El-Rouayheb, Middle East Report "In Desiring Arabs, [Edward] Said's disciple Joseph A. Massad corroborates his mentor's thesis that orientalist writing was racist and dehumanizing. . . . [Massad] brilliantly goes on to trace the legacy of this racist, internalized, orientalist discourse up to the present."-Financial Times
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    Global environmental history (2008)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 0226758109 , 9780748621583 , 9780226758107
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xvi, 271 p) , ill
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version Global Environmental History : 10,000 BC to AD 2000
    DDC: 304.209
    Keywords: Nature Effect of human beings on ; History ; Human ecology History ; Human ecology ; History ; Nature ; Effect of human beings on ; History ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Courses which deal with environmental history have long lacked a comprehensive overview. I. G. Simmons has made a significant contribution with a book that looks at the long-term history of environment and humanity from 10,000 BC to AD 2000. This far-reaching text considers the global picture and recognises the contributions of many disciplines including the natural sciences, the social sciences, and increasingly, the humanities. As a starting point, this book takes the major phases of human technological evolution of the last 12,000 years and considers how these have affected the natural worl
    Description / Table of Contents: COVER; COPYRIGHT; Contents; Tables; Figures; Preface; Prologue: Mustering the marks; 1. Resonances; 2. The gatherer-hunters and their world; 3. Pre-industrial agriculture; 4. An industrious world; 5. A post-industrial era?; 6. Emerging themes; Further reading; Glossary; Acronyms; Index
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    An Invitation to Laughter : A Lebanese Anthropologist in the Arab World (2008)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226434766
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (223 p.)
    Parallel Title: Print version An Invitation to Laughter : A Lebanese Anthropologist in the Arab World
    DDC: 301.092
    Keywords: Arab countries ; Social life and customs ; Ethnologists ; Lebanon ; Biography ; Ethnology ; Fieldwork ; Arab countries ; Khūrī, Fuʾād Isḥāq ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: For the late Fuad I. Khuri, a distinguished career as an anthropologist began not because of typical concerns like accessibility, money, or status, but because the very idea of an occupation that baffled his countrymen made them-and him-laugh. "When I tell them that 'anthropology' is my profession . . . they think I am either speaking a strange language or referring to a new medicine." This profound appreciation for humor, especially in the contradictions inherent in the study of cultures, is a distinctive theme of An Invitation to Laughter, Khuri's astute memoir of life as an anthropologist i
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Foreword; Prologue: The man himself; Note on Arabic words; Introduction: Why " laughter"?; 1. Exploring origins; 2. Studying anthropology in Oregon; 3. Being Lebanese; 4. Religious syncretism; 5. Lebanese traders inWest Africa; 6. Change as faith; 7. Teaching in Beirut; 8. Establishing an Arab association for the social sciences; 9. The exotic in the suburbs of Beirut; 10. Alumni and ulama in Bahrain; 11. Open secrets; 12. Table manners in Yemen; 13. The official policy toward emigration in Lebanon; 14. The Arab rich; 15. Who wants to be a zaim?; 16. Living in Great Britain
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Research ProjectsList of Publications; Index;
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    Natural Born Celebrities : serial killers in American culture (2008)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226738703
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (336 p.))
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: EBL-Schweitzer
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Schmid, David Natural born celebrities
    DDC: 306.7662094210904
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    Keywords: Crime in popular culture ; Gay men ; Homosexuality ; Serial murderers ; Sex customs ; Fame ; Serial murders in mass media ; Serial murderers ; United States ; Public opinion ; Crime in popular culture ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; USA ; Serienmörder ; Öffentlichkeit ; Berühmte Persönlichkeit
    Abstract: Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Idols of Destruction: Celebrity, Consumerism, andthe Serial Killer; Part One: A History of Serial Murder; One: The Victorian Killer as Media Star: Jack theRipper and H. H. Holmes; Two: Defining the Enemy Within: The FBI and SerialMurder; Part Two: Serial Murders in American Popular Culture; Three: Natural Born Celebrities: Serial Killers and theHollywood Star System; Four: Out of This World: Aliens, Devils, and SerialKillers in Television Crime Drama; Five: Next Door Monsters: The Dialectic of Normalityand Monstrosity in True-Crime Narratives
    Abstract: Six: The Unbearable Straightness of Violence:Queering Serial Murder in True CrimeEpilogue: Serial Killing in America after 9/11; Notes; Works Cited; Index
    Abstract: Jeffrey Dahmer. Ted Bundy. John Wayne Gacy. Over the past thirty years, serial killers have become iconic figures in America, the subject of made-for-TV movies and mass-market paperbacks alike. But why do we find such luridly transgressive and horrific individuals so fascinating? What compels us to look more closely at these figures when we really want to look away? Natural Born Celebrities considers how serial killers have become lionized in American culture and explores the consequences of their fame.David Schmid provides a historical account of how serial killers became famous and how that
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    Jokes : Philosophical Thoughts on Joking Matters (2008)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226112305
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (115 p.)
    Parallel Title: Print version Jokes : Philosophical Thoughts on Joking Matters
    DDC: 306.481
    Keywords: Wit and humor ; History and criticism ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Abe and his friend Sol are out for a walk together in a part of town they haven't been in before. Passing a Christian church, they notice a curious sign in front that says "1,000 to anyone who will convert." "I wonder what that's about," says Abe. "I think I'll go in and have a look. I'll be back in a minute; just wait for me."Sol sits on the sidewalk bench and waits patiently for nearly half an hour. Finally, Abe reappears."Well," asks Sol, "what are they up to? Who are they trying to convert? Why do they care? Did you get the 1,000?"Indignantly Abe replies, "Money. That's all you people care
    Description / Table of Contents: JOKES: PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHTS ON JOKING MATTERS; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Jokes Are Conditional; 3 When Jokes Are Asymmetrical; 4 Problems and Occasions for Joke-Making; 5 Jewish Jokes and the Acceptance of Absurdity; 6 Taste, Morality, and the Propriety of Joking; Appendix; Index of ]okes;
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    The Smoking Book (2008)
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (252 p.)
    Parallel Title: Print version The Smoking Book
    DDC: 306.4
    Keywords: Social life and customs ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: The Smoking Book is a dreamlike structure built on the solid foundation of two questions: how does it feel to smoke, and what does smoking mean? Lesley Stern, in an innovative, hybrid form of writing, muses on these questions through intersecting stories and essays that connect, expand, and contract like smoke rings floating through the air. Stern writes of addictions and passionate attachments, of the body and bodily pleasure, of autobiography and cultural history. Smoking is Stern's seductive pretext, her way of entering unknown and mysterious regions. The Smoking Book begins with intimate a
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    Issues in the Economics of Aging (2008)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780226903262
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (408 pages)
    Series Statement: National Bureau of Economic Research Project Report
    DDC: 305.26
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    Keywords: Alter ; Lebensbedingungen ; USA ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This companion volume to The Economics of Aging (1989) examines the economic consequences of an increasingly older population, focusing on the housing and living arrangements of the elderly, as well as their labor force participation and retirement.
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    Topics in the Economics of Aging (2008)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780226903347
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (328 pages)
    Series Statement: National Bureau of Economic Research Project Report
    DDC: 305.260973
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    Keywords: Alter ; Lebensbedingungen ; USA ; Electronic books
    Abstract: The original essays and commentary in this volume-the third in a series reporting the results of the NBER Economics of Aging Program-address issues that are of particular importance to the well-being of individuals as they age and to a society at large that is composed increasingly of older persons. The contributors examine social security reform, including an analysis of the Japanese system; present the startling finding that the vast majority of people choose the wrong accumulation strategies for their pension plans; explore the continuing consequences of the decline in support of parents by children in the postwar period; investigate the relation between nursing home stays and the source of payment for the care; and offer initial findings on the implications of differences between developed and developing countries for understanding aging issues and determining appropriate directions for research.
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    The Masculine Self in Late Medieval England. (2008)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226569598
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (318 pages)
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Pugh, Tison [Rezension von: Neal, Derek G., The Masculine Self in Late Medieval England] 2010
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Print version The Masculine Self in Late Medieval England
    DDC: 305.38/82100902
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    Keywords: Masculinity History To 1500 ; Men Social life and customs ; England ; Social conditions ; 1066-1485 ; England ; Social life and customs ; 1066-1485 ; Masculinity ; England ; History ; To 1500 ; Men ; England ; Social life and customs ; Electronic books ; England Social conditions 1066-1485 ; England Social life and customs 1066-1485
    Abstract: What did it mean to be a man in medieval England? Most would answer this question by alluding to the power and status men enjoyed in a patriarchal society, or they might refer to iconic images of chivalrous knights. While these popular ideas do have their roots in the history of the aristocracy, the experience of ordinary men was far more complicated. Marshalling a wide array of colorful evidence-including legal records, letters, medical sources, and the literature of the period-Derek G. Neal here plumbs the social and cultural significance of masculinity during the generations born between the Black Death and the Protestant Reformation. He discovers that social relations between men, founded on the ideals of honesty and self-restraint, were at least as important as their domination and control of women in defining their identities. By carefully exploring the social, physical, and psychological aspects of masculinity, The Masculine Self in Late Medieval England offers a uniquely comprehensive account of the exterior and interior lives of medieval men.
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Primary Sources -- Introduction -- 1 False Thieves and True Men -- Masculine Identity Formation in a Society of Stresses -- The Unknown Majority -- Manhood in the Towns -- Livelihood, Reputation, and Conflict -- False Thieves -- The Language of the Common Voice (and Fame) -- True Men -- Ideal and Reality -- The Legal Rhetoric of Masculinity -- 2 Husbands and Priests -- Husbandry (I): Pollers, Extorcioners, and Adulterers -- Substance -- Pollers and Extorcioners -- Polling, Cutting, and Loss of Substance -- Adulterers -- Husbandry (II): The Household from Inside -- Adulteresses -- Wives and Servants -- Priests versus Husbands, Priests as Husbands -- Clergy in English Society -- Conflict -- The Social Meaning of Celibacy -- The Rector and the Bailiff -- Clergymen and the Household -- Blaming the Friars -- Celibacy and Gender Identity: What Was the Real Problem? -- 3 Sex and Gender: the Meanings of the Male Body -- From Physiology to Personality -- Medieval Maleness: Form and Meaning -- Manliness and Attractiveness -- From Phallus to Penis (or Vice Versa?) -- Husbandly Sexuality -- An Incomplete Husband -- The Male Body in Action -- The Uses of Misrule -- Dress -- The Dangers of the Tongue -- 4 Toward the Private Self: Desire, Masculinity, and Middle English Romance -- History, Fiction, and Literature -- The Literary Subject -- The Romance of Masculinity -- All Her Fault -- The Dangers of Desire -- Narcissistic Masculinity and the Rape of Melior -- Mothers -- Lovers Invisible and Unspeakable -- Fathers Unknown and Forbidden -- The Father Unknown: Bevis of Hampton -- Better the Nightmare You Know: Lybeaus Desconus -- Father Forbidden, Father Created: Of Arthour and of Merlin -- Emplotted Desire: Sir Perceval of Galles -- Desire and Dread: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
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    Navigators of the contemporary : why ethnography matters (2008)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226887531 , 0226887537
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (x, 152 p.)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Westbrook, David A Navigators of the contemporary
    DDC: 305.8001
    Keywords: Ethnology Philosophy ; Ethnology United States ; Applied anthropology Philosophy ; Ethnology ; Applied anthropology Philosophy ; Ethnology Philosophy ; Applied anthropology ; Ethnology United States ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Applied anthropology ; Philosophy ; Ethnology ; Ethnology ; Philosophy ; Culturele antropologie ; Relevantie ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: As the image of anthropologists exploring exotic locales and filling in blanks on the map has faded, the idea that cultural anthropology has much to say about the contemporary world has likewise diminished. In an increasingly smaller world, how can anthropology help us to tackle the concerns of a global society? David A. Westbrook argues that the traditional tool of the cultural anthropologist--ethnography--can still function as an intellectually exciting way to understand our interconnected, yet mysterious worlds. Navigators of the Contemporary describes the changing nature of ethnography as an
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    The Victorian eye : a political history of light and vision in Britain, 1800-1910 (2008)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226640785 , 0226640787
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (x, 382 p.) , ill.
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Otter, Chris Victorian eye
    DDC: 303.483
    Keywords: Lighting History ; 19th century ; Great Britain ; Lighting History ; 20th century ; Great Britain ; Lighting Social aspects ; History ; Great Britain ; Lighting Political aspects ; History ; Great Britain ; Optical engineering History ; 19th century ; Great Britain ; Visual perception ; Lighting Social aspects ; History ; Lighting Political aspects ; History ; Optical engineering History 19th century ; Lighting History 20th century ; Lighting History 19th century ; Lighting ; Optical engineering ; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING ; Social Aspects ; Lighting ; Social aspects ; Manners and customs ; SCIENCE ; Philosophy & Social Aspects ; Visual perception ; History ; Great Britain Social life and customs ; 19th century ; Great Britain Social life and customs 19th century ; Great Britain ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Computer network resources
    Abstract: During the 19th century, Britain became the first gaslit society. At the same time, the government significantly expanded its power to observe and monitor its subjects. This study examines the way people saw and were seen in this gaslit age and how this affected Victorian culture
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    The Victorian Eye : A Political History of Light and Vision in Britain, 1800-1910 (2008)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (393 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Otter, Chris The Victorian eye
    DDC: 303.483
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    Keywords: Visual perception ; Great Britain ; Social life and customs ; 19th century ; Lighting ; Great Britain ; History ; 19th century ; Lighting ; Great Britain ; History ; 20th century ; Lighting ; Political aspects ; Great Britain ; History ; Lighting ; Social aspects ; Great Britain ; History ; Optical engineering ; Great Britain ; History ; 19th century ; Visual perception ; Electronic books ; Großbritannien ; Beleuchtung ; Geschichte 1801-2000 ; Großbritannien ; Beleuchtung ; Geschichte 1801-2000
    Abstract: During the nineteenth century, Britain became the first gaslit society, with electric lighting arriving in 1878. At the same time, the British government significantly expanded its power to observe and monitor its subjects. How did such enormous changes in the way people saw and were seen affect Victorian culture? To answer that question, Chris Otter mounts an ambitious history of illumination and vision in Britain, drawing on extensive research into everything from the science of perception and lighting technologies to urban design and government administration. He explores how light facilitated such practices as safe transportation and private reading, as well as institutional efforts to collect knowledge. And he contends that, contrary to presumptions that illumination helped create a society controlled by intrusive surveillance, the new radiance often led to greater personal freedom and was integral to the development of modern liberal society. The Victorian Eye's innovative interdisciplinary approach-and generous illustrations­-will captivate a range of readers interested in the history of modern Britain, visual culture, technology, and urbanization.
    Abstract: Intro -- The Victorian Eye -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Light, Vision, and Power -- ONE The Victorian Eye: The Physiology, Sociology, and Spatiality of Vision, 1800-1900 -- TWO Oligoptic Engineering: Light and the Victorian City -- THREE The Age of Inspectability: Vision, Space, and the Victorian City -- FOUR The Government of Light: Gasworks, Gaslight, and Photometry -- FIVE Technologies of Illumination, 1870-1910 -- SIX Securing Perception: Assembling Electricity Networks -- Conclusion: Patterns of Perception -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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    Culture in Chaos : An Anthropology of the Social Condition in War (2008)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226496436
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (414 pages)
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    DDC: 303.6/6
    Keywords: Forced migration ; Political violence ; Social conflict ; War ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Fought in the wake of a decade of armed struggle against colonialism, the Mozambican civil war lasted from 1977 to 1992, claiming hundreds of thousands of lives while displacing millions more. As conflicts across the globe span decades and generations, Stephen C. Lubkemann suggests that we need a fresh perspective on war when it becomes the context for normal life rather than an exceptional event that disrupts it. Culture in Chaos calls for a new point of departure in the ethnography of war that investigates how the inhabitants of war zones live under trying new conditions and how culture and social relations are transformed as a result. Lubkemann focuses on how Ndau social networks were fragmented by wartime displacement and the profound effect this had on gender relations. Demonstrating how wartime migration and post-conflict return were shaped by social struggles and interests that had little to do with the larger political reasons for the war, Lubkemann contests the assumption that wartime migration is always involuntary. His critical reexamination of displacement and his engagement with broader theories of agency and social change will be of interest to anthropologists, political scientists, historians, and demographers, and to anyone who works in a war zone or with refugees and migrants.
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on the Text -- Introduction. The "Ordering of Violent Things": War and Displacement -- I. Migration and Social Transformation before the War -- Chapter 1. Contending with Colonialism: Migration and Resistance -- Chapter 2. Other Struggles: Migration and the Transformation of Social Relations -- II. The Social Conditioning of War -- Chapter 3. Imposing the New Mozambique: Sowing the Seeds of Postcolonial Disillusion -- Chapter 4. Society and the State: Mutual Misrecognition at the Gathering of War -- Chapter 5. Prosecuting Life by Other Means: The Social Logic of Violence in a Fragmented War -- III. The Social Condition in War -- Chapter 6. Terrains of Displacement: War-time Mobility and Immobility -- Chapter 7. Tambem Aqui Fazemos Amor: Living in War -- IV. War as a Socially Transformative Condition -- Chapter 8. Postconflict Displacements: The Social Problematics of Refugee Return -- Chapter 9. Transnational Contentions: The Moral Economy of Postconflict Migration -- Chapter 10. Where to Be an Ancestor? The Struggle for the Postconflict Social Imagination -- Notes -- References -- Index.
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    Routes of remembrance : refashioning the slave trade in Ghana (2008)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226349770 , 0226349772
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xiii, 280 p.) , ill., map.
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    Parallel Title: Print version Routes of remembrance
    DDC: 306.36209667
    Keywords: Slave trade History ; Ghana ; Ghana ; Slave trade History ; Slave trade History ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Slavery ; Slave trade ; History ; Electronic books ; Ghana ; Electronic books History
    Abstract: Over the past fifteen years, visitors from the African diaspora have flocked to Cape Coast and Elmina, two towns in Ghana whose chief tourist attractions are the castles and dungeons where slaves were imprisoned before embarking for the New World. This desire to commemorate the Middle Passage contrasts sharply with the silence that normally cloaks the subject within Ghana. Why do Ghanaians suppress the history of enslavement? And why is this history expressed so differently on the other side of the Atlantic?. Routes of Remembrance tackles these questions by analyzing the slave trade?s absence
    Abstract: Sequestering the slave trade -- Of origins: making family, region, nation -- Conundrums of kinship: sequestering slavery, recalling kin -- Displacing the past: imagined geographies of enslavement -- In place of slavery: fashioning coastal identity -- E-race-ing history: schooling and national identity -- Centering the slave trade -- Slavery and the making of Black Atlantic history -- Navigating new histories.
    Description / Table of Contents: Sequestering the slave tradeOf origins: making family, region, nation -- Conundrums of kinship: sequestering slavery, recalling kin -- Displacing the past: imagined geographies of enslavement -- In place of slavery: fashioning coastal identity -- E-race-ing history: schooling and national identity -- Centering the slave trade -- Slavery and the making of Black Atlantic history -- Navigating new histories.
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    Republic of drivers : a cultural history of automobility in America (2008)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226745657 , 0226745651
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (x, 230 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Seiler, Cotten Republic of drivers
    DDC: 303.48320973
    Keywords: Automobiles Social aspects ; History ; 20th century ; United States ; Social values History ; 20th century ; United States ; National characteristics, American ; Social values History 20th century ; Automobiles Social aspects 20th century ; History ; Automobiles ; Social values ; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING ; Social Aspects ; Automobiles ; Social aspects ; Civilization ; National characteristics, American ; Social conditions ; SCIENCE ; Philosophy & Social Aspects ; History ; Electronic books ; United States Social conditions ; 20th century ; United States Civilization ; 20th century ; United States ; United States Social conditions 20th century ; United States Civilization 20th century ; United States ; Electronic books History
    Abstract: Rising gas prices, sprawl and congestion, global warming, even obesity--driving is a factor in many of the most contentious issues of our time. So how did we get here? How did automobile use become so vital to the identity of Americans? Republic of Drivers looks back at the period between 1895 and 1961--from the founding of the first automobile factory in America to the creation of the Interstate Highway System--to find out how driving evolved into a crucial symbol of freedom and agency. Cotten Seiler combs through a vast number of historical, social scientific, philosophical, and literary source
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    The Pan-African Nation : Oil and the Spectacle of Culture in Nigeria (2008)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226023564 , 9780226023540
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (345 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Apter, Andrew H. The Pan-African nation
    DDC: 305.896
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    Keywords: World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture -- (2nd : -- 1977 : -- Lagos, Nigeria) ; Petroleum industry and trade -- Nigeria.. ; Revenue -- Nigeria.. ; Nigeria -- Cultural policy.. ; Africa -- Civilization ; Erdöl ; Erdölpolitik ; Öffentliche Einnahmen ; Boom ; Kultur ; Kulturpolitik ; Feier ; Africa ; Civilization ; Nigeria ; Cultural policy ; Petroleum industry and trade ; Nigeria ; Revenue ; Nigeria ; World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture ; (2nd ; 1977 ; Lagos, Nigeria) ; Electronic books ; Nigeria ; Electronic books ; Konferenzschrift
    Abstract: When Nigeria hosted the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture (FESTAC) in 1977, it celebrated a global vision of black nationhood and citizenship animated by the exuberance of its recent oil boom. Andrew Apter's The Pan-African Nation tells the full story of this cultural extravaganza, from Nigeria's spectacular rebirth as a rapidly developing petro-state to its dramatic demise when the boom went bust. According to Apter, FESTAC expanded the horizons of blackness in Nigeria to mirror the global circuits of its economy. By showcasing masks, dances, images, and souvenirs from its many diverse ethnic groups, Nigeria forged a new national culture. In the grandeur of this oil-fed confidence, the nation subsumed all black and African cultures within its empire of cultural signs and erased its colonial legacies from collective memory. As the oil economy collapsed, however, cultural signs became unstable, contributing to rampant violence and dissimulation. The Pan-African Nation unpacks FESTAC as a historically situated mirror of production in Nigeria. More broadly, it points towards a critique of the political economy of the sign in postcolonial Africa.
    Abstract: Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- La mise en scene -- 1 Rebirth of a Nation -- 2 Nigeria at Large -- The Spectacle of Culture -- 3 Producing the People -- 4 War Canoes and Their Magic -- 5 A Genealogy of the Durbar -- 6 The Mirror of Cultural Production -- La mise en abime -- 7 The Politics of Illusion -- 8 Death and the King's Henchmen -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.
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    Faeries, bears, and leathermen : men in community queering the masculine (2008)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226327297 , 0226327299
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (x, 243 p.)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Hennen, Peter Faeries, bears, and leathermen
    DDC: 306.7662
    Keywords: Gay men Psychology ; Male homosexuality ; Gay men Psychology ; Gay men ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Gay Studies ; Gay men ; Psychology ; Male homosexuality ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Over time, male homosexuality and effeminacy have become indelibly associated, sometimes even synonymous. In Faeries, Bears, and Leathermen, Peter Hennen contends that this stigma of effeminacy exerts a powerful influence on gay subcultures. Through a comparative ethnographic analysis of three communities, Hennen explores the surprising ways that conventional masculinity is being collectively challenged, subverted, or perpetuated in contemporary gay male culture. Hennen's colorful study focuses on a trio of groups: the Radical Faeries, who parody effeminacy by playfully embracing it, donning p
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    Aging in the United States and Japan : Economic Trends (2008)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780226590219
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (216 pages)
    Series Statement: National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report
    DDC: 305.26/0952
    Keywords: Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Japanese and American economists assess the present economic status of the elderly in the United States and Japan, and consider the impact of an aging population on the economies of the two countries. With essays on labor force participation and retirement, housing equity and the economic status of the elderly, budget implications of an aging population, and financing social security and health care in the 1990s, this volume covers a broad spectrum of issues related to the economics of aging. Among the book's findings are that workers are retiring at an increasingly earlier age in both countries and that, as the populations age, baby boomers in the United States will face diminishing financial resources as the ratio of retirees to workers sharply increases. The result of a joint venture between the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Japan Center for Economic Research, this book complements Housing Markets in the United States and Japan (1994) by integrating research on housing markets with economic issues of the aged in the United States and Japan.
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    The Evolution of Retirement : An American Economic History, 1880-1990 (2008)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780226116228
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (252 pages)
    Series Statement: National Bureau of Economic Research Series on Long-Term Factors in Economic Development
    DDC: 306.380973
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1880-1990 ; Ruhestand ; USA ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Winner of the 1998 Paul A. Samuelson Award given by TIAA-CREF, The Evolution of Retirement is the first comprehensive economic history of retirement in America. With life expectancies steadily increasing, the retirement rate of men over age 64 has risen drastically. Dora L. Costa looks at factors underlying this increase and shows the dramatic implications of her findings for both the general public and the U.S. government. Using statistical, and demographic concepts, Costa sheds light on such important topics as rising incomes and retirement, work and disease, the job prospects of older workers, living arrangements of the elderly, the development of a retirement lifestyle, and pensions and politics. "[Costa's] major contribution is to show that, even without Social Security and Medicare, retirement would have expanded dramatically."-Robert J. Samuelson, New Republic "An important book on a topic which has become popular with historians and is of major significance to politicians and economists."-Margaret Walsh, Business History.
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    The Perfect Servant : Eunuchs and the Social Construction of Gender in Byzantium (2007)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226720159
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (309 p.)
    Parallel Title: Print version The Perfect Servant : Eunuchs and the Social Construction of Gender in Byzantium
    DDC: 305.3/09495
    Keywords: Byzantine Empire ; Civilization ; Eunuchs ; Byzantine Empire ; Sex role ; Byzantine Empire ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: The Perfect Servant reevaluates the place of eunuchs in Byzantium. Kathryn Ringrose uses the modern concept of gender as a social construct to identify eunuchs as a distinct gender and to illustrate how gender was defined in the Byzantine world. At the same time she explores the changing role of the eunuch in Byzantium from 600 to 1100.Accepted for generations as a legitimate and functional part of Byzantine civilization, eunuchs were prominent in both the imperial court and the church. They were distinctive in physical appearance, dress, and manner and were considered uniquely suited for impo
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; List of Illustrations; Spelling Conventions for Greek Names; Acknowledgments; Introduction - Eunuchs of Byzantium: Context and Definition; PART I GENDER AS SOCIAL CONSTRUCT; 1 The Language of Gender; 2 Byzantine Medical Lore and the Gendering of Eunuchs; 3 Gender Construction as Acculturation; 4 Making Sense of Tradition: Regendering Legendary Narratives; PART II BECOMING PROTAGONISTS; 5 Passing the Test of Sanctity: Eunuchs and the Ecclesiastical World of Byzantium; 6 Transgressing Gender Boundaries: Eunuchs in Authority; 7 Transcending the Material World: Eunuchs and Angels
    Description / Table of Contents: 8 Eunuchs at the Palace: Gendered Space and Confirmation of the Imperial Numen9 Social Reproduction and Integration; Conclusion - Present and Past Perceptions of Gender; Appendix - Spelling Equivalents, Traditional and Reformed; Frequently Used Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
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    Three Cartesian Feminist Treatises (2007)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226676531
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (369 p.)
    Series Statement: Other Voice in Early Modern Europe, The
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    Parallel Title: Print version Three Cartesian Feminist Treatises
    DDC: 305.4
    Keywords: Women's rights ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: One of the most radical feminist theorists in Europe before the nineteenth century, François Poullain de la Barre (1647-1723) was a man way ahead of his time. Applying Cartesian principles to "the Woman Question," Poullain demonstrated by rational deduction that the supposedly "self-evident" inequality of the sexes was nothing more than unfounded prejudice.Poullain published three books (anonymously) on this topic in the 1670s, all of which are included in English translation in this volume. In On the Equality of the Two Sexes he argued that the supposedly "natural" inferiority of women
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; Introduction to the Series; Introduction: Poullain de la Barre's Cartesian Feminism; Note on the Texts; On the Equality of the Two Sexes; On the Education of Ladies; On the Excellence of Men: Preface and Remarks; Select Bibliography; Index;
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    Paternal Tyranny (2007)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226789651
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (214 p.)
    Series Statement: Other Voice in Early Modern Europe, The
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    Parallel Title: Print version Paternal Tyranny
    DDC: 305.42
    Keywords: Monastic and religious life of women ; Italy ; Venice ; Patriarchy ; Religious aspects ; Catholic Church ; Women ; Italy ; Venice ; Social conditions ; Women ; Religious aspects ; Catholic Church ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Sharp-witted and sharp-tongued, Arcangela Tarabotti (1604-52) yearned to be formally educated and enjoy an independent life in Venetian literary circles. But instead, at sixteen, her father forced her into a Benedictine convent. To protest her confinement, Tarabotti composed polemical works exposing the many injustices perpetrated against women of her day.Paternal Tyranny, the first of these works, is a fiery but carefully argued manifesto against the oppression of women by the Venetian patriarchy. Denouncing key misogynist texts of the era, Tarabotti shows how despicable it was for Venice, a
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Acknowledgments; Series Editors'Introduction; Volume Editor's Introduction; Volume Editor's Bibliography; Paternal Tyranny; Dedication; Book One; Book Two; Book Three; Appendix One: Arcangela Tarabotti; Appendix Two: Ferrante Pallavicino; Series Editors'Bibliography; Index;
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    The Education of a Christian Woman : A Sixteenth-Century Manual (2007)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226858142
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (375 p.)
    Series Statement: Other Voice in Early Modern Europe, The
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    Parallel Title: Print version The Education of a Christian Woman : A Sixteenth-Century Manual
    DDC: 305.4
    Keywords: Christian women ; Conduct of life ; Early works to 1800 ; Christian women ; Education ; Early works to 1800 ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "From meetings and conversation with men, love affairs arise. In the midst of pleasures, banquets, dances, laughter, and self-indulgence, Venus and her son Cupid reign supreme. . . . Poor young girl, if you emerge from these encounters a captive prey! How much better it would have been to remain at home or to have broken a leg of the body rather than of the mind!" So wrote the sixteenth-century Spanish humanist Juan Luis Vives in a famous work dedicated to Henry VIII's daughter, Princess Mary, but intended for a wider audience interested in the education of women.Praised by Erasmus and Thomas
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Introduction to the Series; Acknowledgments; Key to Abbreviations; Introduction: Prelude to the Other Voice in Vives; A Note on the Text; Preface to the Books on the Education of a Christian Woman; Book I: Which Treats of Unmarried Young Women; Book II: Which Treats of Married Women; Book III: On Widows; Appendix; Biblical References Index; General Index;
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    Whether a Christian Woman Should Be Educated and Other Writings from Her Intellectual Circle (2007)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226849980
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (176 p.)
    Series Statement: Other Voice in Early Modern Europe, The
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    Parallel Title: Print version Whether a Christian Woman Should Be Educated and Other Writings from Her Intellectual Circle
    DDC: 305.42
    Keywords: Christian women ; Education ; Reformed Church ; Doctrines ; History ; 17th century ; Sources ; Reformed Church ; Doctrines ; Women ; Religious aspects ; Christianity ; History of doctrines ; 17th century ; Sources ; Women ; Religious aspects ; Christianity ; Women in Christianity ; Women in the Reformed Church ; Europe ; History ; 17th century ; Sources ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Advocate and exemplar of women's education, female of aristocratic birth and modest demeanor, Anna Maria van Schurman (1607-1678) was one of Reformation Europe's most renowned writers defending women's intelligence. From her early teens, Schurman garnered recognition and admiration for her accomplishments in languages, philosophy, poetry, and painting. As an adult she actively engaged in written correspondence and debate with Europe's leading intellectuals. Nevertheless, Schurman refused to regard herself as an anomaly among women. A supporter of the female sex, she argues that the same rigoro
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Introduction to the Series; Introduction: Anna Maria van Schurman and Her Intellectual Circle; Selections from the Writings of Anna Maria van Schurman; A Practical Problem: Whether the Study of Letters Is Fitting for a Christian Woman; Correspondence with Andre Rivet on this Question; Correspondence with Other Women; Eukleria, Chapters 1 and 2; Concerning Women, by Gisbertus Voetius; Chapter I: The Natural Status and Condition of Women; Chapter II: The Secular and Political Status of Women; Chapter III: The Spiritual and Ecclesiastical Status of Women; Bibliography; Index;
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    Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex (2007)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226010588
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (143 p.)
    Series Statement: Other Voice in Early Modern Europe, The v.1996
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    Parallel Title: Print version Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex
    DDC: 305.4
    Keywords: Feminism ; Early works to 1800 ; Women ; Early works to 1800 ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Originally published in 1529, the Declamation on the Preeminence and Nobility of the Female Sex argues that women are more than equal to men in all things that really matter, including the public spheres from which they had long been excluded. Rather than directly refuting prevailing wisdom, Agrippa uses women's superiority as a rhetorical device and overturns the misogynistic interpretations of the female body in Greek medicine, in the Bible, in Roman and canon law, in theology and moral philosophy, and in politics. He raised the question of why women were excluded and provided answers based
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Editors' Introduction to the Series; Foreword; Note on the Text; Agrippa and the Feminist Tradition; Suggestions for Further Reading; Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex; Index of Biblical References; General Index;
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    A Rule for Children and Other Writings (2007)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226648316
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (205 p.)
    Series Statement: Other Voice in Early Modern Europe, The
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    Parallel Title: Print version A Rule for Children and Other Writings
    DDC: 282/.092
    Keywords: Jansenists ; France ; History ; Sources ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Jacqueline Pascal (1625-1661) was the sister of Blaise Pascal and a nun at the Jansenist Port-Royal convent in France. She was also a prolific writer who argued for the spiritual rights of women and the right of conscientious objection to royal, ecclesiastic, and family authority.This book presents selections from the whole of Pascal's career as a writer, including her witty adolescent poetry and her pioneering treatise on the education of women, A Rule for Children, which drew on her experiences as schoolmistress at Port-Royal. Readers will also find Pascal's devotional treatise, which matche
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Acknowledgments; Series Editors' Introduction; Volume Editor's Introduction; Bibliography on Jacqueline Pascal; Poetry (1638-43); On the Mystery of the Death of Our Lord Jesus Christ (1651); Report of Soeur Jacqueline de Sainte Euphémie to the Mother Prioress of Port-Royal des Champs (1653); A Rule for Children (1657); Interrogation of Soeur Jacqueline de Sainte Euphémie (Pascal), Subprioress and Novice Mistress (1661); A Memoir of Mère Marie Angélique by Soeur Jacqueline de Sainte Euphémie Pascal (1661); Letters of Jacqueline Pascal (1647-61); Series Editors' Bibliography; Index
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Acknowledgments; Series Editors' Introduction; Volume Editor's Introduction; Bibliography on Jacqueline Pascal; Poetry (1638-43); On the Mystery of the Death of Our Lord Jesus Christ (1651); Report of Soeur Jacqueline de Sainte Euphémie to the Mother Prioress of Port-Royal des Champs (1653); A Rule for Children (1657); Interrogation of Soeur Jacqueline de Sainte Euphémie (Pascal), Subprioress and Novice Mistress (1661); A Memoir of Mère Marie Angélique by Soeur Jacqueline de Sainte Euphémie Pascal (1661); Letters of Jacqueline Pascal (1647-61); Series Editors' Bibliography; Index;
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    An invitation to laughter : a Lebanese anthropologist in the Arab world (2007)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226434759 , 0226434753
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xxv, 196 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Invitation to laughter
    DDC: 305.80092
    Keywords: Khūrī, Fuʾād Isḥāq ; Khūrī, Fuʼād Isḥāq ; Khūrī, Fuʼād Isḥāq ; Ethnologists Biography ; Lebanon ; Ethnology Fieldwork ; Arab countries ; Ethnologists Biography ; Ethnology Fieldwork ; Ethnologists Biography ; Ethnology Fieldwork ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY ; Social Scientists & Psychologists ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Ethnologists ; Ethnology ; Fieldwork ; Manners and customs ; Biographies ; Arab countries Social life and customs ; Arab countries Social life and customs ; Arab countries Social life and customs ; Arab countries ; Lebanon ; Electronic books
    Abstract: For the late Fuad I. Khuri, a distinguished career as an anthropologist began not because of typical concerns like accessibility, money, or status, but because the very idea of an occupation that baffled his countrymen made them?and him?laugh. ?When I tell them that ?anthropology? is my profession . . . they think I am either speaking a strange language or referring to a new medicine.? This profound appreciation for humor, especially in the contradictions inherent in the study of cultures, is a distinctive theme of An Invitation to Laughter, Khuri?s astute memoir of life as an anthropologist i
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    Autobiography of an Aspiring Saint (2007)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226244464
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (135 p.)
    Series Statement: Other Voice in Early Modern Europe, The
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    Parallel Title: Print version Autobiography of an Aspiring Saint
    DDC: 282.092
    Keywords: Catholics ; Italy ; Venice ; Biography ; Ferrazzi, Cecilia ; 1609-1684 ; Inquisition ; Italy ; Venice ; History ; 17th century ; Sources ; Venice (Italy) ; Biography ; Women ; Italy ; Venice ; Biography ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Charged by the Venetian Inquisition with the conscious and cynical feigning of holiness, Cecelia Ferrazzi (1609-1684) requested and obtained the unprecedented opportunity to defend herself through a presentation of her life story. Ferrazzi's unique inquisitorial autobiography and the transcripts of her preceding testimony, expertly transcribed and eloquently translated into English, allow us to enter an unfamiliar sector of the past and hear 'another voice'-that of a humble Venetian woman who had extraordinary experiences and exhibited exceptional courage.Born in 1609 into an artisan family, C
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; Introduction to the Series; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Note on the Translation; Testimony of Ferrazzi Preceding Her Autobiography; Autobiography of Cecilia Ferrazzi; Appendix 1: Persons Mentioned in the Text; Appendix 2: Places Mentioned in the Text; Glossary; Bibliography; Index;
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    My family and other saints (2007)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226568157 , 0226568156
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (vii, 236 pages) , illustrations.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Narayan, Kirin My family and other saints
    DDC: 306.850954792092
    Keywords: Narayan, Kirin ; Narayan, Kirin ; Women anthropologists Biography ; India ; Mumbai ; Anthropology of religion India ; Mumbai ; Families India ; Mumbai ; Hinduism and culture India ; Mumbai ; Women anthropologists Biography ; Anthropology of religion ; Families ; Hinduism and culture ; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY ; Social Scientists & Psychologists ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; Anthropology of religion ; Families ; Hinduism and culture ; Manners and customs ; Women anthropologists ; Hindoeïsme ; Heiligenlevens ; Familienleben ; Religiöses Leben ; Hinduismus ; Biographies ; Mumbai (India) Religious life and customs ; Mumbai (India) Social life and customs ; Mumbai (India) Social life and customs ; Mumbai (India) Religious life and customs ; India ; Mumbai ; Mumbai ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Biografie
    Abstract: "In 1969 Kirin Narayan's older brother Rahoul announced that he was dropping out of school and leaving home to seek enlightenment with a guru. Young Kirin adored her high-spirited, charismatic brother and looked on bewildered at the events that his dramatic departure set in motion." "A funny, poignant, and always affectionate memoir, My Family and Other Saints follows the ways that Rahoul's spiritual journey reverberates through the entire, family. As the family's beachside Bombay home becomes a crossroads for Westerners seeking Eastern enlightenment, Kirin's sari-wearing American mother Didi enthusiastically embraces ashrams and gurus, adopting her son's spiritual quest as her own. Her urbane Indian father Narayan, however, coins the term "urug" guru spelled backward to mock these seekers. Meeting radiant holy men, sensing her parents drilling apart, and observing waves of young Westerners turning to meditation. Kirin is left to find her own answers. She listens closely to family stories and ponders Goddess mythology, all the while trying to hide the eccentric goings-on at her home from her classmates." "Deftly re-creating the turbulent emotional world of her bicultural childhood, but overlaying it with the hard won understanding of adulthood. Narayan presents a rambunctious cast of quirky characters, from Rahoul's friend Young Swamiji, who lives with his Mother Goddess in the jungle, to her grandmother Ba, who enjoys visits from Hindu deities, to such live in urugs as Bhagavan Das and the Cupboard Swami. Throughout, she brings to life not only a family but also a colorful era when just about everyone, it seemed, was consumed by some sort of spiritual quest."--Jacket
    Abstract: The hook -- Gods' eyes -- Crazy saints -- The seven-horned mountain -- Blind blue heavens, pure blue light -- Fused doubles -- Doorways -- Gurus and urugs -- Mrs. Contractor's eldest unmarried daughter -- Conjunctions -- The Moon pearl -- At the border -- Twin goddess -- The clasp.
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    Aging Issues in the United States and Japan (2007)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226620817
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (420 p.)
    Series Statement: NBER-Conference Report v.2000
    Series Statement: National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report
    Parallel Title: Print version Aging Issues in the United States and Japan
    DDC: 305.26/0952
    Keywords: Age distribution (Demography) ; Economic aspects ; Japan ; Congresses ; Age distribution (Demography) ; Economic aspects ; United States ; Congresses ; Older people ; Japan ; Economic conditions ; Congresses ; Older people ; United States ; Economic conditions ; Congresses ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: The population base in both the United States and Japan is growing older and, as those populations age, they provoke heretofore unexamined economic consequences. This cutting-edge, comparative volume, the third in the joint series offered by the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Japan Center for Economic Research, explores those consequences, drawing specific attention to four key areas: incentives for early retirement; savings, wealth, and asset allocation over the life cycle; health care and health care reform; and population projections.Given the undeniable global importance of t
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. Choice, Chance, and Wealth Dispersion at Retirement; 2. Household Portfolio Allocation over the Life Cycle; 3. The Social Security System and the Demand for Personal Annuity and Life Insurance: An Analysis of Japanese Microdata, 1990 and 1994; 4. An Empirical Investigation of Intergenerational Consumption Distribution: A Comparison among Japan, the United States, and the United Kingdom; 5. The Third Wave in Health Care Reform; 6. Concentration and Persistence of Health Care Costs for the Aged
    Description / Table of Contents: 7. The Effects of Demographic Change on Health and Medical Expenditures: A Simulation Analysis8. Choice among Employer-Provided Insurance Plans; 9. Employees' Pension Benefits and the Labor Supply of Older Japanese Workers, 1980s-1990s; 10. The Motivations for Business Retirement Policies; 11. Promotion, Incentives, and Wages; 12. What Went Wrong with the 1991-92 Official Population Projection of Japan?; Contributors; Author Index; Subject Index;
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    Sacred Narratives (2007)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226808529
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (312 p.)
    Series Statement: Other Voice in Early Modern Europe, The
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    Parallel Title: Print version Sacred Narratives
    DDC: 305.4094
    Keywords: Religious poetry, Italian ; Translations into English ; Tornabuoni, Lucrezia ; 1425-1482 ; Translations into English ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: The most prominent woman in Renaissance Florence, Lucrezia Tornabuoni de' Medici (1425-1482) lived during her city's golden age. Wife of Piero de' Medici and mother of Lorenzo the Magnificent, Tornabuoni exerted considerable influence on Florence's political and social affairs. She was also, as this volume illustrates, a gifted and prolific poet.This is the first major collection in any language of her extensive body of religious poems. Ranging from gentle lyrics on the Nativity to moving dialogues between a crucified Christ and the weeping sinner who kneels before him, the nine laudi (poems o
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction to the Series; Introduction: Gender and Religion in Fifteenth-Century Florence; The Story of Devout Susanna; The Life of Tobias; The Story of Judith, Hebrew Widow; The Story of Queen Eshter; The Life of Saint John the Baptist; Poems of Praise; Bibliography; Index;
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    Studies in the Economics of Aging (2007)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780226903316
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (472 pages)
    Series Statement: National Bureau of Economic Research Project Report
    DDC: 305.26
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    Keywords: Bevölkerungsökonomie ; Alter ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Studies in the Economics of Aging is the fourth book in a series from the National Bureau of Economic Research that addresses economic issues in aging and retirement. Building on the research in The Economics of Aging (1989), Issues in the Economics of Aging (1990), and Topics in the Economics of Aging (1992), this volume examines elderly population growth and government spending, life expectancy and health, saving for retirement and housing values, aging in Germany and Taiwan, and the utilization of nursing home and other long-term care.
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    Desiring Arabs (2007)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226509600 , 0226509605
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xiv, 453 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Desiring Arabs
    DDC: 306.709174927
    Keywords: Arabs Sexual behavior ; Civilization, Arab ; Arabs Sexual behavior ; Arabs Sexual behavior ; Civilization, Arab ; Sexual Behavior history ; Homosexuality history ; PSYCHOLOGY ; Human Sexuality ; SELF-HELP ; Sexual Instruction ; Civilization, Arab ; Public opinion, Western ; Seksuele ethiek ; Arabieren ; Araber ; Einstellung ; Sexualität ; Öffentliche Meinung ; Arab countries Foreign public opinion, Western ; Arab countries Foreign public opinion, Western ; Arab countries Foreign public opinion, Western ; Arab countries ; Westliche Welt ; Araber ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Sexual desire has long played a key role in Western judgments about the value of Arab civilization. In the past, Westerners viewed the Arab world as licentious, and Western intolerance of sex led them to brand Arabs as decadent; but as Western society became more sexually open, the supposedly prudish Arabs soon became viewed as backward. Rather than focusing exclusively on how these views developed in the West, in Desiring Arabs Joseph A. Massad reveals the history of how Arabs represented their own sexual desires. To this aim, he assembles a massive and diverse compendium of Arabic writing fr
    Description / Table of Contents: IntroductionAnxiety in civilization -- Remembrances of desires past -- Re-orienting desire: the gay international and the Arab world -- Sin, crimes, and disease: taxonomies of desires present -- Deviant fictions -- The truth of fictional desires -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- Name index -- Subject index.
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    Beautiful democracy : aesthetics and anarchy in a global era (2007)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226096308 , 0226096300
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xiii, 287 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Castronovo, Russ, 1965- Beautiful democracy
    DDC: 306.470973
    Keywords: Arts United States ; Democracy United States ; Aesthetics, American ; Arts ; Democracy ; Arts ; Democracy ; Civilization ; Ästhetik ; Demokratie ; ART ; Popular Culture ; Aesthetics, American ; United States Civilization ; United States ; United States Civilization ; USA ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: 'Beautiful Democracy' explores the intersection of beauty and violence by examining university lectures and course materials on aesthetics from a century ago, along with riots, acts of domestic terrorism, magic lantern exhibitions and other public spectacles
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    Holding On to Reality : The Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium (2007)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226066226 , 9780226066233
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (286 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 302.2
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    Keywords: Communication -- Philosophy ; Information theory ; Reality ; Electronic books ; local ; Communication ; Philosophy ; Information theory ; Reality ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Holding On to Reality is a brilliant history of information, from its inception in the natural world to its role in the transformation of culture to the current Internet mania and is attendant assets and liabilities. Drawing on the history of ideas, the details of information technology, and the boundaries of the human condition, Borgmann illuminates the relationship between things and signs, between reality and information. "[Borgmann] has offered a stunningly clear definition of information in Holding On to Reality. . . . He leaves room for little argument, unless one wants to pose the now vogue objection: I guess it depends on what you mean by nothing."-Paul Bennett, Wired "A superb anecdotal analysis of information for a hype-addled age."-New Scientist "This insightful and poetic reflection on the changing nature of information is a wonderful antidote to much of the current hype about the 'information revolution.' Borgmann reminds us that whatever the reality of our time, we need 'a balance of signs and things' in our lives."-Margaret Wertheim, LA Weekly.
    Abstract: Intro -- Holding On to Reality -- Contents -- Introduction: Information vs. Reality -- Part One Natural Information: Information about Reality -- 1. The Decline of Meaning and the Rise of Information -- 2. The Nature of Information -- 3. Ancestral Information -- 4. From Landmarks to Letters -- 5. The Rise of Literacy -- Part Two Cultural Information: Information for Reality -- 6. Producing Information: Writing and Structure -- 7. Producing Information: Measures and Grids -- 8. Realizing Information: Reading -- 9. Realizing Information: Playing -- 10. Realizing Information: Building -- Part Three Technological Information: Information as Reality -- 11. Elementary Measures -- 12. Basic Structures -- 13. Transparency and Control -- 14. Virtuality and Ambiguity -- 15. Fragility and Noise -- Conclusion: Information and Reality -- Notes -- Index.
    Description / Table of Contents: Holding On to Reality; Contents; Introduction: Information vs. Reality; Part One Natural Information: Information about Reality; 1. The Decline of Meaning and the Rise of Information; 2. The Nature of Information; 3. Ancestral Information; 4. From Landmarks to Letters; 5. The Rise of Literacy; Part Two Cultural Information: Information for Reality; 6. Producing Information: Writing and Structure; 7. Producing Information: Measures and Grids; 8. Realizing Information: Reading; 9. Realizing Information: Playing; 10. Realizing Information: Building
    Description / Table of Contents: Part Three Technological Information: Information as Reality11. Elementary Measures; 12. Basic Structures; 13. Transparency and Control; 14. Virtuality and Ambiguity; 15. Fragility and Noise; Conclusion: Information and Reality; Notes; Index;
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    Pillars of the nation : child citizens and Ugandan national development (2007)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226102498 , 0226102491
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (x, 299 p.) , ill., maps.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Pillars of the nation
    DDC: 305.23096761090511
    Keywords: Children's rights Uganda ; Children Social conditions ; Uganda ; Children and war Uganda ; Uganda ; Uganda ; Children's rights ; Children Social conditions ; Children and war ; Children and war ; Children's rights ; Children Social conditions ; Children and war ; Children ; Social conditions ; Children's rights ; Kinderen ; Sociale situatie ; Economische ontwikkeling ; Burgeroorlogen ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Children's Studies ; Uganda ; Uganda ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: How can children simultaneously be the most important and least powerful people in a nation? In her innovative ethnography of Ugandan children?the pillars of tomorrow?s Uganda, according to the national youth anthem?Kristen E. Cheney answers this question by exploring the daily contradictions children face as they try to find their places amid the country?s rapidly changing social conditions. Drawing on the detailed life histories of several children, Cheney shows that children and childhood are being redefined by the desires of a young country struggling to position itself in the internationa
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: the role of Ugandan child citizens in the struggle for national developmentGlobal rights discourses, national developments, and local childhoods -- Crucial components of child citizenship -- "Education for all": the dilemma of children's educational attainment, national development, and class mobility -- "Speaking the English of a Ugandan person": the intersections of children's identity formation -- Children's political socialization: engagement and disempowerment -- Actualizations -- "Village life is better than town life": identity, migration, and development in the lives of Ugandan child citizens -- "Our children have only known war": the predicament of children and childhood in northern Uganda -- "Did the constitution produce my children!?" Cultural production and contestation in Uganda's national primary school music festivals -- Epilogue.
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    Marriage and cohabitation (2007)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226798684 , 0226798682
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (ix, 443 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Population and development
    Parallel Title: Print version Marriage and cohabitation
    DDC: 306.81097309045
    Keywords: Marriage United States ; Unmarried couples United States ; Young adults Attitudes ; United States ; Mariage États-Unis ; Couples non mariés États-Unis ; Jeunes adultes Attitudes ; États-Unis ; Unmarried couples ; Young adults Attitudes ; Marriage ; Marriage ; Unmarried couples ; Young adults Attitudes ; Young adults ; Attitudes ; Ehe ; Eheähnliche Gemeinschaft ; Soziale Situation ; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Marriage ; Marriage ; Social conditions ; Unmarried couples ; United States Social conditions ; 1945- ; États-Unis Conditions sociales ; 1945- ; United States ; United States Social conditions 1945- ; United States Social conditions 1945- ; USA ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: In an era when half of marriages end in divorce, cohabitation has become more commonplace, and those who do get married are doing so at an older age. So why do people marry when they do? And why do some couples choose to cohabit? A team of expert family sociologists examines these timely questions in Marriage and Cohabitation, the result of their research over the last decade on the issue of union formation. Situating their argument in the context of the Western world's 500-year history of marriage, the authors reveal what factors encourage marriage and cohabitation in a contemporary society where the end of adolescence is no longer signaled by entry into the marital home. While some people still choose to marry young, others elect to cohabit with varying degrees of commitment or intentions of eventual marriage. The authors' controversial findings suggest that family history, religious affiliation, values, projected education, lifetime earnings, and career aspirations all tip the scales in favor of either cohabitation or marriage
    Description / Table of Contents: IntroductionHistorical perspectives on marriage -- Comparing marriage, cohabitation, and being single -- Entering marital and cohabiting unions -- Influence of parental youth factors before birth of study child -- Influence of parental factors during childhood and adolescence of the children -- The courtship process and union formation -- Religious affiliation and commitment -- The influence of attitudes, values, and beliefs -- Educational influences -- Work, earnings potential, and career aspiration -- Conclusions.
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    Caribbean pleasure industry : tourism, sexuality, and AIDS in the Dominican Republic (2007)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226644370 , 0226644375
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xvii, 294 p.) , ill., map.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Worlds of desire
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Padilla, Mark, 1969- Caribbean pleasure industry
    DDC: 306.7662097293
    Keywords: Sex tourism Dominican Republic ; AIDS (Disease) Dominican Republic ; Gender identity Dominican Republic ; AIDS (Disease) ; Gender identity ; Sex tourism ; Sex tourism Dominicaanse Republiek ; Dominican Republic ; AIDS (Disease) ; Gender identity ; Sex tourism ; Seksualiteit ; Toerisme ; AIDS ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Gay Studies ; Dominican Republic ; Dominicaanse Republiek ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: In recent years, the economy of the Caribbean has become almost completely dependent on international tourism. And today one of the chief ways that foreign visitors there seek pleasure is through prostitution. While much has been written on the female sex workers who service these tourists, Caribbean Pleasure Industry shifts the focus onto the men. Drawing on his groundbreaking ethnographic research in the Dominican Republic, Mark Padilla discovers a complex world where the global political and economic impact of tourism has led to shifting sexual identities andgrowing economic pressures
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    Worries of the heart : widows, family, and community in Kenya (2007)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226554228 , 0226554228
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xiii, 256 p.) , ill., maps.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Worries of the heart
    DDC: 306.8830967628
    Keywords: Widows Social conditions ; Kenya ; Maragoli ; Women Social conditions ; Kenya ; Maragoli ; Families Kenya ; Maragoli ; Widows Social conditions ; Women Social conditions ; Families ; Families ; Widows Social conditions ; Women Social conditions ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Sociology ; Marriage & Family ; Colonial influence ; Families ; Widows ; Social conditions ; Women ; Social conditions ; Kenya Colonial influence ; Kenya ; Kenya ; Maragoli ; Kenya Colonial influence ; Kenya Colonial influence ; Kenya ; Maragoli ; Kenya ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Growing up in the Maragoli community in Kenya, Kenda Mutongi encountered a perplexing contradiction. While the young teachers at her village school railed against colonialism, many of her elders, including her widowed mother, praised their former British masters. In this moving book, Mutongi explores how both the challenges and contradictions of colonial rule and the frustrations and failures of independence shaped the lives of Maragoli widows and their complex relations with each other, their families, and the larger community. Throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, rates
    Description / Table of Contents: Everyday lifeWestern Kenya, 1880-1902 -- Feeble little lads looking for food -- "What harm can an old dry bone do?" -- Lessons in practical Christianity -- Living "in line" -- The impact of gold mining -- Land conflicts in the 1930s -- Family life -- Educating "progressive" sons -- The burden of "progressive" sons -- Cash, cows, and bridewealth -- Domestic education at the girls boarding school -- Moral panic -- Wife beating -- Postcolonial promises -- Citizenship and land rights in postcolonial Kenya -- Rural widows, city widows, and the fight for inheritance.
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    Population and Economic Change in Developing Countries (2007)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226180267
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (592 p.)
    Series Statement: NBER-Universities-National Bureau Confer v.30
    Series Statement: Conference report (Universities--National Bureau Committee for Economic Research) no. 30
    Series Statement: National Bureau of Economic Research Universities-National Bureau Conference Series v.30
    Parallel Title: Print version Population and Economic Change in Developing Countries
    DDC: 301.32
    Keywords: Developing countries -- Population -- Congresses ; Population -- Economic aspects -- Congresses.. ; Developing countries ; Population ; Congresses ; Population ; Economic aspects ; Congresses ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "An extremely important book which contains a number of uniformly excellent papers on a variety of topics relating, to various degrees, to the nexus of demographic-economic interrelationships for presently developing countries."-William J. Serow, Southern Economic Journal "An important landmark in the growing field of economic demography."-Dudley Kirk, Journal of Developing Areas
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Prefatory Note; Introduction; 1. Child Costs and Economic Development; 2. Toward a More General Economic Model of Fertility Determination: Endogenous Preferences and Natural Fertility; 3. Child Mortality and Fertility: Issues in the DemographicTransition of a Migrant Population; 4. An Economic Interpretation of the Decline inFertility in a Rapidly Developing Country: Consequences of Development and Family Planning; 5. Causes and Consequences of Mortality Declines in Less Developed Countries during the Twentieth Century; 6. Internal Migration in Developing Countries: A Survey
    Description / Table of Contents: 7. Interactions of Economic and DemographicHousehold Behavior8. Recent Population Trends in Less DevelopedCountries and Implications for InternalIncome Inequality; 9. A Historical Perspective on Economic Aspectsof the Population Explosion: The Case ofPreindustrial England; List of Contributors; Author Index; Subject Index;
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    The intestines of the state : youth, violence, and belated histories in the Cameroon grassfields (2007)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226026138 , 0226026132
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xviii, 362 p.) , ill., maps
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Intestines of the state
    DDC: 305.89636
    Keywords: Oku (African people) History ; Oku (African people) Politics and government ; Oku (African people) Social life and customs ; Slavery History ; Cameroon ; North-West Province ; Marginality, Social History ; Cameroon ; North-West Province ; Young men Attitudes ; Cameroon ; North-West Province ; Young men Psychology ; Cameroon ; North-West Province ; Oku (African people) History ; Oku (African people) Politics and government ; Oku (African people) Social life and customs ; Slavery History ; Marginality, Social History ; Young men Attitudes ; Young men Psychology ; Slavery History ; Marginality, Social History ; Young men Attitudes ; Young men Psychology ; Oku (African people) Social life and customs ; Oku (African people) History ; Oku (African people) Politics and government ; Marginality, Social ; Oku (African people) ; Slavery ; Social conditions ; Young men ; Attitudes ; Young men ; Psychology ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Ethnic Studies ; African American Studies ; History ; North-West Province (Cameroon) History ; North-West Province (Cameroon) Social conditions ; North-West Province (Cameroon) Social conditions ; North-West Province (Cameroon) History ; North-West Province (Cameroon) Social conditions ; North-West Province (Cameroon) History ; Cameroon ; North-West Province ; Electronic books
    Abstract: The young people of the Cameroon Grassfields have been subject to a long history of violence and political marginalization. For centuries the main victims of the slave trade, they became prime targets for forced labor campaigns under a series of colonial rulers. Today?s youth remain at the bottom of the fiercely hierarchical and polarized societies of the Grassfields, and it is their response to centuries of exploitation that Nicolas Argenti takes up in this absorbing and original book. Beginning his study with a political analysis of youth in the Grassfields from the eighteenth century to the
    Description / Table of Contents: Centuries of youth : remembering, incorporation, and the reclamation of historyKings, slaves, and floating populations : discourses of centrality and marginality in the precolonial era -- Masks of terror and the subjection of cadets -- Aurora colonialis : German imperialism and the modernity of slavery -- Embodied histories : royal investiture, masking, and remembering -- From slaves to free boys : cadets' resistance to gerontocratic, colonial, and postcolonial authority -- The death of tears : mortuary rites and the indeterminacy of dance -- Dancing death : memorial celebrations, the politics of ritual laughter, and the embodied memories of youth -- Histories of the present, histories of the future.
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    Talking about race : community dialogues and the politics of difference (2007)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 0226869067 , 0226869075 , 9780226869063 , 9780226869070
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 344 p. S. , 24 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Studies in communication, media, and public opinion
    Parallel Title: Print version Talking about Race : Community Dialogues and the Politics of Difference
    DDC: 305.800973
    Keywords: Discussion ; Intergroup relations ; Discussion ; Intergroup relations ; United States ; United States ; Race relations ; Electronic books ; United States Race relations
    Abstract: Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-331) and index
    Abstract: Race, dialogue, and the practice of community life -- Unity and difference in civic life -- Public talk that aims to listen to difference -- The community choice to pursue interracial dialogue -- Choosing the action of talk -- Negotiating unity and difference -- Scrutinizing and listening to stories -- Authority and legitimacy in dialogue -- Public officials and residents in dialogue -- Beyond romance and demons
    Abstract: It is a perennial question: how should Americans deal with racial and ethnic diversity? More than 400 communities across the country have attempted to answer it by organizing discussions among diverse volunteers in an attempt to improve race relations. In Talking about Race, Katherine Cramer Walsh takes an eye-opening look at this strategy to reveal the reasons behind the method and the effects it has in the cities and towns that undertake it.With extensive observations of community dialogues, interviews with the discussants, and sophisticated analysis of national data, Walsh shows that while
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Preface; 1 Race, Dialogue, and the Practice of Community Life; 2 Unity and Difference in Civic Life; 3 Public Talk That Aims to Listen to Difference; 4 The Community Choice to Pursue Interracial Dialogue; 5 Choosing the Action of Talk; 6 Negotiating Unity and Difference; 7 Scrutinizing and Listening to Stories; 8 Authority and Legitimacy in Dialogue; 9 Public Officials and Residents in Dialogue; 10 Beyond Romance and Demons; Methods Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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    The Politics of Small Things : The Power of the Powerless in Dark Times (2006)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226301112
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (175 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Print version The Politics of Small Things : The Power of the Powerless in Dark Times
    DDC: 306.2
    Keywords: Political sociology ; Politics and culture ; Social interaction ; Political aspects ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Political change doesn't always begin with a bang; it often starts with just a whisper. From the discussions around kitchen tables that led to the dismantling of the Soviet bloc to the more recent emergence of Internet initiatives like MoveOn.org and Redeem the Vote that are revolutionizing the American political landscape, consequential political life develops in small spaces where dialogue generates political power. In The Politics of Small Things, Jeffrey Goldfarb provides an innovative way for understanding politics, a way of appreciating the significance of politics at the micro level by comparatively analyzing key turning points and institutions in recent history. He presents a sociology of human interactions that lead from small to large: dissent around the old Soviet bloc; life on the streets in Warsaw, Prague, and Bucharest in 1989; the network of terror that spawned 9/11; and the religious and Internet mobilizations that transformed the 2004 presidential election, to name a few. In such pivotal moments, he masterfully shows, political autonomy can be generated, presenting alternatives to the big politics of the global stage and the dominant narratives of terrorism, antiterrorism, and globalization.
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: In the Shadow of Big Things -- Theorizing the Kitchen Table and Other Small Things -- 1968: Theater of Truth -- 1989: New Definitions of the Situation -- 2001: Narratives in Conflict -- 2004: Small Things + the Internet = Alternatives -- 2004: The Church, the Right, and the Politics of Small Things -- Institutions: Democracy in the Details -- The Presentation of Self in the Age of Electronic Communications -- Conclusion: The Politics of the Politics of Small Things -- Notes -- Index.
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    Never saw it coming : cultural challenges to envisioning the worst (2006)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226100296 , 0226100294
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (ix, 333 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Cerulo, Karen A Never saw it coming
    DDC: 302.12
    Keywords: Catastrophical, The ; Cognition and culture ; Social psychology ; Knowledge, Sociology of ; PSYCHOLOGY ; Social Psychology ; Catastrophical, The ; Cognition and culture ; Knowledge, Sociology of ; Social psychology ; Electronic books
    Abstract: People?especially Americans?are by and large optimists. They're much better at imagining best-case scenarios (I could win the lottery!) than worst-case scenarios (A hurricane could destroy my neighborhood!). This is true not just of their approach to imagining the future, but of their memories as well: people are better able to describe the best moments of their lives than they are the worst. Though there are psychological reasons for this phenomenon, Karen A.Cerulo, in Never Saw It Coming, considers instead the role of society in fostering this attitude. What kinds of communities develop this
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    Never saw it coming : cultural challenges to envisioning the worst (2006)
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    ISBN: 0226100294 , 9780226100296 , 9780226100326 , 9780226100333
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 333 p.)
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    Keywords: PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology ; Catastrophical, The ; Cognition and culture ; Knowledge, Sociology of ; Social psychology ; Catastrophical, The ; Cognition and culture ; Social psychology ; Knowledge, Sociology of ; Kognition ; Katastrophe ; Sozialpsychologie ; Electronic books ; Katastrophe ; Kognition ; Sozialpsychologie
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-314) and index , What's the worst that could happen? -- The breadth and scope of positive asymmetry -- Practicing positive asymmetry -- Positive asymmetry and the subjective side of scientific measurement -- Being labeled the worst : real in its consequences? -- Exceptions to the rule -- Emancipating structures and cognitive styles -- Can symmetrical vision be achieved? , People?especially Americans?are by and large optimists. They're much better at imagining best-case scenarios (I could win the lottery!) than worst-case scenarios (A hurricane could destroy my neighborhood!). This is true not just of their approach to imagining the future, but of their memories as well: people are better able to describe the best moments of their lives than they are the worst. Though there are psychological reasons for this phenomenon, Karen A.Cerulo, in Never Saw It Coming, considers instead the role of society in fostering this attitude. What kinds of communities develop this
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    Secrets, sex, and spectacle : the rules of scandal in Japan and the United States (2006)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226894119 , 0226894118
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (ix, 404 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Secrets, sex, and spectacle
    DDC: 302.24
    Keywords: Scandals Japan ; Law Japan ; Scandals United States ; Law United States ; Scandals ; Law ; Scandals ; Law ; Law ; Scandals ; Scandals ; Law ; Law ; Manners and customs ; Scandals ; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES ; Communication Studies ; Japan Social life and customs ; United States Social life and customs ; Japan ; United States ; Japan Social life and customs ; United States Social life and customs ; Japan Social life and customs ; United States Social life and customs ; United States ; Japan ; Electronic books
    Abstract: A leader of a global superpower is betrayed by his mistress, who makes public the sordid details of their secret affair. His wife stands by as he denies the charges. Debates over definitions of moral leadership ensue. Sound familiar? If you guessed Clinton and Lewinsky, try again. This incident involved former Japanese prime minister Sosuke Uno and a geisha. In Secrets, Sex, and Spectacle, Mark D. West organizes the seemingly random worlds of Japanese and American scandal?from corporate fraud to baseball cheaters, political corruption to celebrity sexcapades?to explore well-ingrained similarit
    Description / Table of Contents: PlayersPrivacy and honor -- Groups -- Individuals -- Sex -- Apology.
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    Walter Benjamin's grave (2006)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226790008 , 0226790002
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xi, 245 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Walter Benjamin's grave
    DDC: 301.0723
    Keywords: Anthropology Fieldwork ; Anthropologie Recherche sur le terrain ; Electronic books ; Anthropology Fieldwork ; Anthropology Fieldwork ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Regional Studies ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; General ; Anthropology ; Fieldwork ; Anthropologie ; Feldforschung ; Society
    Abstract: Pursuing an adventure that is part ethnography, part autobiography, and part cultural criticism refracted through the object that is Walter Benjamin's grave, Taussig, with this collection, provides his own literary memorial to the 20th century's greatest cultural critic
    Description / Table of Contents: Walter Benjamin's graveConstructing America -- The sun gives without receiving -- The beach (a fantasy) -- Viscerality, faith, and skepticism : another theory of magic -- Transgression -- NYPD blues -- The language of flowers.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-240) and index. - Description based on print version record
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    On the frontier of adulthood : theory, research, and public policy (2005)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226748924 , 0226748928
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (591 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: John D. and Catherine T. Macarthur Foundation series on mental health and development. Research Network on Transitions to Adulthood and Public Policy
    Parallel Title: Print version On the frontier of adulthood
    DDC: 305.242
    Keywords: Young adults United States ; Youth United States ; Jeunes adultes ; Jeunes adultes États-Unis ; Jeunesse ; Jeunesse États-Unis ; Adultes Verenigde Staten ; États-Unis ; United States ; Adolescence ; Adolescence ; Young adults ; Youth ; Adulthood ; Young adults ; Youth ; Adolescence ; Youth ; Adulthood ; Youth ; Young adults ; Young adults ; Youth ; Jongvolwassenen ; Jeune adulte ; Transition ; Adolescence ; Adulte ; Adolescence ; Adulthood ; Young adults ; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Life Stages ; General ; Verenigde Staten ; États-Unis ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: On the Frontier of Adulthood reveals a startling new fact: adulthood no longer begins when adolescence ends. A lengthy period before adulthood, often spanning the twenties and even extending into the thirties, is now devoted to further education, job exploration, experimentation in romantic relationships, and personal development. Especially dramatic shifts have occurred in the conventional markers of adulthood?leaving home, finishing school, getting a job, getting married, and having children?and in how these experiences are configured as a set. This volume considers the nature and consequenc
    Description / Table of Contents: On the frontier of adulthood : emerging themes and new directions / Frank F. Furstenberg Jr., Rubén G. Rumbaut, and Richard A. Settersten Jr.The transition to adulthood during the twentieth century : race, nativity, and gender / Elizabeth Fussell and Frank F. Furstenberg Jr. -- American women's transition to adulthood in comparative perspective / Elizabeth Fussell and Anne H. Gauthier -- Historical roots of family diversity : marital and childbearing trajectories of American women / Lawrence L. Wu and Jui-Chung Allen Li -- Historical trends in patterns of time use among young adults in developed countries / Anne H. Gauthier and Frank F. Furstenberg Jr. -- Generation gaps in attitudes and values from the 1970s to the 1990s / Tom W. Smith -- Subjective age identity and the transition to adulthood : when do adolescents become adults? / Michael J. Shanahan ... [et al.] -- Sequences of early adult transitions : a look at variability and consequences / Ted Mouw -- Off to a good start? Postsecondary education and early adult life / Gary D. Sandefur, Jennifer Eggerling-Boeck, and Hyunjoon Park -- Six paths to adulthood : fast starters, parents without careers, educated partners, educated singles, working singles, and slow starters / D. Wayne Osgood ... [et al.] -- Is it getting harder to get ahead? Economic attainment in early adulthood for two cohorts / Mary Corcoran and Jordan Matsudaira -- Material assistance from families during the transition to adulthood / Robert F. Schoeni and Karen E. Ross -- Early adult transitions and their relation to well-being and substance use / John Schulenberg ... [et al.] -- The ever-winding path : ethnic and racial diversity in the transition to adulthood / John Mollenkopf ... [et al.] -- The transition to adulthood for youth leaving public systems : challenges to policies and research / E. Michael Foster and Elizabeth J. Gifford -- Social policy and the transition to adulthood : toward stronger institutions and individual capacities / Richard A. Settersten Jr.
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    Analyses in the Economics of Aging. (2005)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226903217 , 9780226902869
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (434 pages)
    Series Statement: National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.26
    Keywords: Older people -- Medical care -- Costs -- Congresses ; Economics Statistics ; Cross-Cultural Comparison Congresses ; Cross-Cultural Comparison Statistics ; Health Status Congresses ; Health Status Statistics ; Retirement Congresses economics ; Retirement Statistics economics ; Socioeconomic Factors Congresses ; Socioeconomic Factors Statistics ; Aged Congresses ; Aged Statistics ; Economics Congresses ; Aging ; Economic aspects ; Congresses ; Medicare ; Congresses ; Older people ; Economic conditions ; Congresses ; Older people ; Medical care ; Costs ; Congresses ; Older people ; United States ; Economic conditions ; Congresses ; Retirement income ; Congresses ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Statistics
    Abstract: Analyses in the Economics of Aging summarizes a massive amount of new research on several popular and less-examined topics pertaining to the relationship between economics and aging. Among the many themes explored in this volume, considerable attention is given to new research on retirement savings, the cost and efficiency of medical resources, and the predictors of health events. The volume begins with a discussion of the risks and merits of 401(k) plans. Subsequent chapters present recent analysis of the growth of Medicare costs; the different aspects of disability; and the evolution of health, wealth, and living arrangements over the life course. Keeping with the global tradition of previous volumes, Analyses in the Economics of Aging also includes comparative studies on savings behavior in Italy, the Netherlands, and the United States; an examination of household savings among different age groups in Germany; and a chapter devoted to population aging and the plight of widows in India. Carefully compiled and containing some of the most cutting-edge research and analysis available, this volume should be of interest to any specialist or policymaker concerned with ongoing changes in savings and retirement behaviors.
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Utility Evaluation of Risk in Retirement Saving Accounts -- 2 Passive Decisions and Potent Defaults -- 3 Characterizing the Experiences of High-Cost Users in Medicare -- 4 The Efficiency of Medicare -- 5 Intensive Medical Technology and the Reduction in Disability -- 6 Broken Down by Work and Sex: How Our Health Declines -- 7 Consequences and Predictors of New Health Events -- 8 Healthy, Wealthy, and Knowing Where to Live: Trajectories of Health, Wealth, and Living Arrangements among the Oldest Old -- 9 Institutions and Saving for Retirement: Comparing the United States, Italy, and the Netherlands -- 10 Household Saving in Germany: Results of the First SAVE Study -- 11 Caste, Culture, and the Status and Well-Being of Widows in India -- 12 Individual Subjective Survival Curves -- Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index.
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 Utility Evaluation of Risk in Retirement Saving Accounts; 2 Passive Decisions and Potent Defaults; 3 Characterizing the Experiences of High-Cost Users in Medicare; 4 The Efficiency of Medicare; 5 Intensive Medical Technology and the Reduction in Disability; 6 Broken Down by Work and Sex: How Our Health Declines; 7 Consequences and Predictors of New Health Events; 8 Healthy, Wealthy, and Knowing Where to Live: Trajectories of Health, Wealth, and Living Arrangements among the Oldest Old
    Description / Table of Contents: 9 Institutions and Saving for Retirement: Comparing the United States, Italy, and the Netherlands10 Household Saving in Germany: Results of the First SAVE Study; 11 Caste, Culture, and the Status and Well-Being of Widows in India; 12 Individual Subjective Survival Curves; Contributors; Author Index; Subject Index;
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    Holistic Darwinism : synergy, cybernetics, and the bioeconomics of evolution (2005)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226116334 , 0226116336
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (viii, 546 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Corning, Peter A., 1935- Holistic Darwinism
    DDC: 303.4
    Keywords: Évolution sociale ; Évolution économique, Théorie de l' ; Sociobiologie Electronic books ; Social evolution ; Evolutionary economics ; Sociobiology ; Science: Biology Natural History ; Science ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General ; Evolutionary economics ; Social evolution ; Sociobiology ; Soziale Evolution ; Soziobiologie ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: In recent years, evolutionary theorists have come to recognize that the reductionist, individualist, gene-centered approach to evolution cannot sufficiently account for the emergence of complex biological systems over time. Peter A. Corning has been at the forefront of a new generation of complexity theorists who have been working to reshape the foundations of evolutionary theory. Well known for his Synergism Hypothesis--a theory of complexity in evolution that assigns a key causal role to various forms of functional synergy--Corning puts this theory into a much broader framework in Holistic Dar
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 473-528) and index. - Description based on print version record
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    Analyses in the economics of aging (2005)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226903217 , 0226903214
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (ix, 424 p.) , ill., map.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: NBER conference report
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Analyses in the economics of aging
    DDC: 305.26
    Keywords: Aging Congresses ; Economic aspects ; Older people Congresses ; Economic conditions ; Older people Congresses ; Economic conditions ; United States ; Retirement income Congresses ; Older people Congresses ; Medical care ; Costs ; Medicare Congresses ; Vieillissement Congrès ; Aspect économique ; Personnes âgées Congrès ; Conditions économiques ; Personnes âgées Congrès ; Conditions économiques ; États-Unis ; Revenu de retraite Congrès ; Personnes âgées Congrès ; Soins médicaux ; Coût ; Medicare Congrès ; Aging Congresses Economic aspects ; Older people Congresses Economic conditions ; Older people Congresses Economic conditions ; Retirement income Congresses ; Older people Congresses Medical care ; Costs ; Medicare Congresses ; Aged ; Congresses ; Aged ; Statistics ; Economics ; Congresses ; Economics ; Statistics ; Cross-Cultural Comparison ; Congresses ; Cross-Cultural Comparison ; Statistics ; Health Status ; Congresses ; Health Status ; Statistics ; Retirement ; Congresses ; economics ; Retirement ; Statistics ; economics ; Socioeconomic Factors ; Congresses ; Socioeconomic Factors ; Statistics ; Statistics ; Electronic books ; Aged ; Economics ; Retirement ; Economics ; Cross-Cultural Comparison ; Health Status ; Retirement economics ; Socioeconomic Factors ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Gerontology ; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Aging ; Aging ; Economic aspects ; Medicare ; Older people ; Economic conditions ; Older people ; Medical care ; Costs ; Retirement income ; Conference papers and proceedings ; Conference papers and proceedings ; United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic book ; Statistics ; Congress ; Electronic books ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift
    Abstract: Analyses in the Economics of Aging summarizes a massive amount of new research on several popular and less-examined topics pertaining to the relationship between economics and aging. Among the many themes explored in this volume, considerable attention is given to new research on retirement savings, the cost and efficiency of medical resources, and the predictors of health events. The volume begins with a discussion of the risks and merits of 401(k) plans. Subsequent chapters present recent analysis of the growth of Medicare costs; the different aspects of disability; and the evolution of heal
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