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    The force of custom : law and the ordering of everyday life in Kyrgyzstan (2016)
    Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press
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    ISBN: 9780822981541 , 0822981548
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource
    Series Statement: Central Eurasia in context
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Beyer, Judith Force of custom
    DDC: 390.095843
    Keywords: Ethnology Kyrgyzstan ; Kyrgyz Ethnic identity ; History ; National characteristics, Kyrgyz ; Ethnology ; Kyrgyz Ethnic identity ; History ; National characteristics, Kyrgyz ; Ethnology ; Kyrgyz Ethnic identity ; History ; HISTORY / Asia / Central Asia ; HISTORY ; Asia ; Central Asia ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Customs & Traditions ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General ; Ethnology ; Manners and customs ; National characteristics, Kyrgyz ; History ; Kyrgyzstan Social life and customs ; Kyrgyzstan Social life and customs ; Kyrgyzstan Social life and customs ; Kyrgyzstan ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "The Force of Custom presents a finely textured ethnographic study that sheds new light on the legal and moral ordering of everyday life in northwestern Kyrgyzstan. Through her extensive fieldwork and firsthand experience, Judith Beyer reveals how Kyrgyz in Talas province negotiate proper behavior and regulate disputes by invoking custom, known to the locals as salt. While salt is presented as age-old tradition, its invocation is shown to be a highly developed and flexible rhetorical strategy that people adapt in order to meet the challenges of contemporary political, legal, economic, and religious environments. Officially, codified state law should take precedence when it comes to dispute resolution, yet the unwritten laws of salt and the increasing importance of Islamic law provide the standards for ordering everyday life. As Beyer further demonstrates, interpretations of both Islamic and state law are also intrinsically linked to salt. By interweaving case studies on kinship, legal negotiations, festive events, mourning rituals, and political and business dealings, Beyer shows how salt is the binding element in rural Kyrgyz social life and how it is used to explain and negotiate moral behavior and to postulate communal identity. In this way, salt provides a time-tested, sustainable source of authentication that defies changes in government and the shifting tides of religious movements"--
    Abstract: "The Force of Custom presents a finely textured ethnographic study that sheds new light on the legal and moral ordering of everyday life in northwestern Kyrgyzstan. Through her extensive fieldwork and firsthand experience, Judith Beyer reveals how Kyrgyz in Talas province negotiate proper behavior and regulate disputes by invoking custom, known to the locals as salt. While salt is presented as age-old tradition, its invocation is shown to be a highly developed and flexible rhetorical strategy that people adapt in order to meet the challenges of contemporary political, legal, economic, and religious environments. Officially, codified state law should take precedence when it comes to dispute resolution, yet the unwritten laws of salt and the increasing importance of Islamic law provide the standards for ordering everyday life. As Beyer further demonstrates, interpretations of both Islamic and state law are also intrinsically linked to salt. By interweaving case studies on kinship, legal negotiations, festive events, mourning rituals, and political and business dealings, Beyer shows how salt is the binding element in rural Kyrgyz social life and how it is used to explain and negotiate moral behavior and to postulate communal identity. In this way, salt provides a time-tested, sustainable source of authentication that defies changes in government and the shifting tides of religious movements"--
    Abstract: Acknowledgments; Preface; Notes on Naming, Addressing, and Fieldwork; Introduction. Invoking Custom; Chapter 1. Histories of Legal Plurality; Chapter 2. Settling Descent; Chapter 3. Imagining the State; Chapter 4. Performing Authority; Chapter 5. Buying and Paying Respect; Chapter 6. Taking and Giving Carpets; Chapter 7. Taming Custom; Conclusion. Ordering Everyday Life in Kyrgyzstan; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record
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    Bound lives : Africans, Indians, and the making of race in colonial Peru (2012)
    Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press
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    ISBN: 9780822977964 , 0822977966
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (280 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Pitt Latin American Series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als O'Toole, Rachel Sarah Bound lives
    DDC: 305.800985
    Keywords: Caste History ; Peru ; Slavery History ; Peru ; Africans Colonization ; Peru ; Africans Government relations ; Peru ; Indians of South America Colonization ; Peru ; Indians of South America Government relations ; Peru ; Caste History ; Slavery History ; Africans Colonization ; Africans Government relations ; Indians of South America Colonization ; Indians of South America Government relations ; Diplomatic relations ; Colonization ; Caste ; Indians of South America ; Colonization ; Indians of South America ; Government relations ; Slavery ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; HISTORY ; General ; Spanish colonies ; Colonies ; Administration ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; History ; Spain Colonies ; Administration ; America ; Spain Foreign relations ; Peru ; Peru Foreign relations ; Spain ; Peru Colonization ; Peru Colonization ; Spain Colonies ; Administration ; Spain Foreign relations ; Peru Foreign relations ; Spain ; America ; Peru ; Electronic book ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Bound Lives chronicles the lived experience of race relations in northern coastal Peru during the colonial era. Rachel Sarah O'Toole examines how Andeans and Africans negotiated and employed casta, and in doing so, constructed these racial categories. This study highlights the tenuous interactions of colonial authorities, indigenous communities, and enslaved populations and shows how the interplay between colonial law and daily practice shaped the nature of colonialism and slavery
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index. - Made available online by Project Muse. - Description based on print version record
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    Race and renaissance : African Americans in Pittsburgh since World War II (2010)
    Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press
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    ISBN: 9780822977551 , 0822977559
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xxi, 328 p. :) , ill.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Trotter, Joe William, 1945- Race and renaissance : African Americans in Pittsburgh since World War II
    DDC: 305.896073074886
    Keywords: Community development Pennsylvania ; Pittsburgh ; City and town life Pennsylvania ; Pittsburgh ; African Americans Intellectual life ; Pennsylvania ; Pittsburgh ; African Americans Economic conditions ; Pennsylvania ; Pittsburgh ; African Americans Social conditions ; Pennsylvania ; Pittsburgh ; African Americans History ; Pennsylvania ; Pittsburgh ; Community development ; City and town life ; African Americans Intellectual life ; African Americans Economic conditions ; African Americans Social conditions ; African Americans History ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; HISTORY ; General ; African Americans ; African Americans ; Economic conditions ; African Americans ; Intellectual life ; African Americans ; Social conditions ; City and town life ; Community development ; Race relations ; Biographies ; History ; Pittsburgh (Pa.) Biography ; Pittsburgh (Pa.) Race relations ; Pittsburgh (Pa.) History ; Pennsylvania ; Pittsburgh ; Biography ; History ; Pittsburgh (Pa.) Race relations ; Pittsburgh (Pa.) History ; Pittsburgh (Pa.) Biography ; Pennsylvania ; Pittsburgh ; Electronic book ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "Breaks new ground as the first significant history of the African American community of Pittsburgh since World War II. The authors' approach is wide-ranging, covering issues of civil rights, housing and segregation, organizational development, and political involvement, among other subjects. What makes this volume particularly valuable, however, is its placement of Pittsburgh's black community in the framework of the city's decline as an industrial center and eventual rebirth as a smaller city with a postindustrial economic base. It deserves a wide readership."--Kenneth L. Kusmer, Temple University
    Abstract: "This exquisitely researched book is a fine resource for understanding how deindustrialization and urban renewal shaped Black America post-World War II. From these pages emerges a remarkable portrait of a people determined to win full equality and self-determination in spite of mounting obstacles. It is an essential reference for those interested in cities, twentieth-century history, and African American studies."--Mindy Thompson Fullilove, Columbia University
    Abstract: "Imaginatively conceived, well researched, and engagingly written. Trotter and Day have crafted a new standard for the study of African American community that deepens our understanding of urban black culture formations and the transformations in, and manipulations of, political power. They admirably demonstrate the complexity of African Americans' efforts to seize the Dream and make real a new birth of freedom."--Darlene Clark Hine, Northwestern University
    Abstract: African Americans from Pittsburgh have a long and distinctive history of contributions to the cultural, political, and social evolution of the United States. As home to jazz legend Earl Fatha Hines, the Pittsburgh Courier, photographer Charles "Teenie" Harris, and playwright August Wilson and as the site of labor protests in the 1950s and the Black Power movement of the late 1960s, Pittsburgh has been a force for change in American race and class relations
    Abstract: In recreating this period, Trotter and Day draw not only from newspaper articles and other primary and secondary sources, but also from oral histories. These include interviews with African Americans who lived in Pittsburgh during the postwar era, which reveal firsthand accounts of what life was truly like during this transformative epoch
    Abstract: Race and Renaissance illuminates how Pittsburgh's African Americans arrived at their present moment in history. It also links movements for change to larger global issues, such as civil rights with the Vietnam War and affirmative action with the movement against South African apartheid. Drawing on sociology and urban studies, this study deepens our understanding of the lives of urban blacks. --Book Jacket
    Abstract: Race and Renaissance presents the first history of African American life in Pittsburgh after World War II. It examines the origins and significance of the second Great Migration, the persistence of Jim Crow into the postwar years, the second ghetto, the contemporary urban crisis, the Civil Rights and Black Power movements, and the Million Man and Million Woman marches, among other topics
    Note: OldControl:muse9780822977551. - "Multi-User. - Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-313) and index. - Made available online by Project Muse. - Description based on print version record
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