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    People's Diplomacy : How Americans and Chinese Transformed US-China Relations during the Cold War (2024)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501774164
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (270 p.) , 20 b&w halftones
    Series Statement: The United States in the World
    DDC: 303.48/2730510904
    Keywords: Electronic books. ; History
    Abstract: In People's Diplomacy, Kazushi Minami shows how the American and Chinese people rebuilt US-China relations in the 1970s, a pivotal decade bookended by Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China and 1979 normalization of diplomatic relations. Top policymakers in Washington and Beijing drew the blueprint for the new bilateral relationship, but the work of building it was left to a host of Americans and Chinese from all walks of life, who engaged in "people-to-people" exchanges. After two decades of estrangement and hostility caused by the Cold War, these people dramatically changed the nature of US-China relations. Americans reimagined China as a country of opportunities, irresistible because of its prodigious potential, while Chinese reinterpreted the United States as an agent of modernization, capable of enriching their country and rejuvenating their lives. Drawing on extensive research at two dozen archives in the United States and China, People's Diplomacy redefines contemporary US-China relations as a creation of the American and Chinese people.
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    Governing the displaced : race and ambivalence in global capitalism (2024)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 9781501773600 , 9781501773617
    Language: English
    Pages: ix, 174 Seiten
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Bhagat, Ali, 1991- Governing the displaced
    DDC: 325/.214094
    Keywords: Refugees Government policy ; Refugees Government policy ; Racism Social aspects ; Equality Social aspects
    Abstract: "This book examines refugee governance in the European Union and East Africa with a focus on two hotspots of urban migration: Paris and Nairobi. Applying a multi-scalar methodology focused on racism and inequality under capitalism, the book explores urban refugee survival with respect to three vectors: shelter, work, and political belonging"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Global displacement and racism -- The logics of refugee governance under capitalism -- The fantasy -- Disposability -- The refugee fantasy and the European frontier -- Disposability and survival in Paris -- Refugee governance and encampment fantasies in Kenya -- Disposability and abandonment in Nairobi -- Endless displacement?
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    Ecological States : Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China (2023)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501769023
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (258 p.) , 13 b&w halftones, 6 b&w line drawings, 2 maps
    Series Statement: The Environments of East Asia
    DDC: 304.20951
    Abstract: Ecological States critically examines ecological policies in the People's Republic of China to show how campaigns of scientifically based environmental protection transform nature and society. While many point to China's ecological civilization programs as a new paradigm for global environmental governance, Jesse Rodenbiker argues that ecological redlining extends the reach of the authoritarian state.Although Chinese urban sustainability initiatives have driven millions of citizens from their land and housing, Rodenbiker shows that these migrants are not passive subjects of state policy. Instead, they creatively navigate resettlement processes in pursuit of their own benefit. However, their resistance is limited by varied forms of state-backed infrastructural violence. Through extensive fieldwork with scientists, urban planners, and everyday citizens in southwestern China, Ecological States exposes the ways in which the scientific logics and practices fundamental to China's green urbanization have solidified state power and contributed to dispossession and social inequality.
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    Fables in Jewish Culture : The Jon A. Lindseth Collection (2023)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501775840
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (568 p.)
    Edition: second edition
    DDC: 398.2089/924
    Abstract: Fables in Jewish Culture catalogues almost 400 Jewish scrolls and books from the collection of Jon A. Lindseth that contain animal stories with moral connections. Spanning six centuries, the books are in several languages, including Hebrew, Yiddish, Aramaic, Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) and Judeo-Persian. They were printed all over the world and include animal stories from the Hebrew Bible and other religious texts as well as translations of secular stories, such as Aesop's fables in Hebrew.The catalogue is divided into four sections-Biblical works, rabbinic works, medieval works, and postmedieval works-and each entry is illustrated with a page or more from the work, a detailed description of the characteristics and publishing history of the work, and description of the fables contained therein, along with a discussion of their literary and/or cultural-historical significance. This volume includes a foreword by Jon A. Lindseth, describing how he assembled this collection of Jewish books containing fables, as well as essays on the role of fables in Jewish culture, their use in Biblical and rabbinical literature, and their appearance in Jewish and Yiddish literature. Fables in Jewish Culture concludes with a bibliography of fables in Jewish literature and multiple indexes that allow readers to locate works by a number of criteria, including fable, author, title (in English, Hebrew, and Latin), and printer.Contributors: Marion Aptroot, David Daube, Simona Gronemann, Jon A. Lindseth, Raphael Loewe, Lies Meiboom, Emile Schrijver, David Stern, Heide Warncke, Irene Zwiep.
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    Informatica : Mastering Information through the Ages (2023)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501768682
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (276 p.) , 30 b&w halftones, 4 other
    Edition: second edition
    DDC: 303.48/3309
    DOI: 10.1515/9781501768682
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    Strangers in the Family : Gender, Patriliny, and the Chinese in Colonial Indonesia (2023)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501772528
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (270 p.) , 8 b&w halftones, 1 map, 7 charts
    DDC: 305.48/89510598
    Abstract: In Intimate Strangers Guo-Quan Seng provides a gendered history of settler Chinese community formation in Indonesia during the Dutch colonial period (1816-1942). At the heart of this story lies the creolization of patrilineal Confucian marital and familial norms to the colonial legal, moral and sexual conditions of urban Java. Departing from male-centered narratives of Overseas Chinese communities, Intimate Strangers tells the history of community-formation from the perspective of women who were subordinate to, and alienated from, full Chinese selfhood. From native concubines and mothers, creole Chinese daughters, wives and matriarchs, to the first generation of colonial-educated feminists, Seng showcases women's moral agency as they negotiated, manipulated and debated men in positions of authority over their rights in marriage formation and dissolution. In dialogue with critical studies of colonial Eurasian intimacies, this book explores Asian-centered inter-ethnic patterns of intimate encounters. It shows how contestations over women's place in marriage and in society were formative of a Chinese racial identity in colonial Indonesia.
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    Untimely sacrifices : work and death in Finland (2023)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 9781501768095
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 203 Seiten)
    Keywords: Burn out (Psychology) ; Job stress ; Work environment Psychological aspects ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Physical
    Abstract: Untimely Sacrifices questions why individuals may give their time and energy to the collective against their own self-interest. Turning to Finland where public health officials named occupational burnout as a "new hazard" of the new economy, Daena Aki Funahashi asks what moves people to work to the point of pathological stress?Contrary to health experts who highlight the importance of self-management and energetic conservation, Funahashi questions the very economic premise of cognitive psychology that one could "economize" one's energy and thus save oneself. By pitting anthropological takes on sacrifice next to the clinical discourses on stress, work, and coping, Funahashi offers ways to rethink what drives stress.Untimely Sacrifices also provides a compelling critique of state welfare and political economy, contesting the tendency to treat the gift economy as something separate from the force that makes redistributive mechanisms of state welfare work. It is a book essential to those interested in how forces unassimilable to conventional economy come to matter in issues of labor, stress, and welfare
    Note: Frontmatter , Contents , Acknowledgments , Introduction , 1. Emergence , 2. Untimely Sacrifices , 3. Pääskynpesä , 4. The Question of “Finnishness” , Conclusion , Notes , References , Index , In English
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    A Few Acres of Ice : Environment, Sovereignty, and "Grandeur" in the French Antarctic (2023)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501772122
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (276 p.) , 6 b&w halftones, 11 color halftones, 3 maps
    DDC: 320.1/2
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    LB 26730
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    RY 70559
    Keywords: Terres Australes et Antarctiques Françaises ; Electronic books
    Abstract: A Few Acres of Ice is an in-depth study of France's complex relationship with the Antarctic, from the search for Terra australis by French navigators in the sixteenth century to France's role today as one of seven states laying claim to part of the white continent. Janet Martin-Nielsen focuses on environment, sovereignty, and science to reveal not only the political, commercial, and religious challenges of exploration, but also the interaction between environmental concerns in polar regions and the geopolitical realities of the twenty-first century.Martin-Nielsen details how France has worked (and, at times, not worked) to perform sovereignty in Terre Adeìlie, from the territory's integration into France's colonial empire to France's integral role in making the environment matter in Antarctic politics. As a result, A Few Acres of Ice sheds light on how Terre Adeìlie has altered human perceptions and been constructed by human agency since (and even before) its discovery.
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    Between War and the State : Civil Society in South Vietnam, 1954-1975 (2023)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501770593
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (240 p.) , 7 b&w halftones, 1 map
    DDC: 306.209597
    Abstract: In Between War and the State, Van Nguyen-Marshall examines an array of voluntary activities, including mutual-help, professional, charitable, community development, student, women's, and rights organizations active in South Vietnam from 1954-1975. By bringing focus to the public lives of South Vietnamese people, Between War and the State challenges persistent stereotypes of South Vietnam as a place without society or agency. Such robust associational life underscores how an active civil society survived despite difficulties imposed by the war, government restrictions, economic hardship, and external political forces. These competing political forces, which included the United States, Western aid agencies, and Vietnamese communist agents, created a highly competitive arena wherein the South Vietnamese state did not have a monopoly on persuasive or coercive power. To maintain its influence, the state sometimes needed to accommodate groups and limit its use of violence. Civil society participants in South Vietnam leveraged their social connections, made alliances, appealed to the domestic and international public, and used street protests to voice their concerns, secure their interests and carry out their activities.
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    Robots Won't Save Japan : An Ethnography of Eldercare Automation (2023)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501768064
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (198 p.) , 6 b&w halftones
    Series Statement: The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
    DDC: 362.60952
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    Keywords: Roboter ; Altenpflege ; Japan
    Abstract: Robots Won't Save Japan addresses the Japanese government's efforts to develop care robots in response to the challenges of an aging population, rising demand for elder care, and a critical shortage of care workers. Drawing on ethnographic research at key sites of Japanese robot development and implementation, James Wright reveals how such devices are likely to transform the practices, organization, meanings, and ethics of care-giving if implemented at scale. This new form of techno-welfare state that Japan is prototyping involves a reconfiguration of care that deskills and devalues care work and reduces opportunities for human social interaction and relationship-building. Moreover, contrary to expectations that care robots will save labor and reduce health-care expenditures, robots cost more money and require additional human labor to tend to the machines. As Wright shows, robots alone will not rescue Japan from its care crisis. The attempts to implement robot care instead point to the importance of looking beyond such techno-fixes to consider how to support rather than undermine the human times, spaces, and relationships necessary for sustainably cultivating good care.
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    Intimate Strangers : Commercial Surrogacy in Russia and Ukraine and the Making of Truth (2023)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501769931
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (306 p.)
    DDC: 306.874/3
    Abstract: Zooming in on commercial surrogacy in Russia and Ukraine, Intimate Strangers addresses market expansion into the intimate spheres of life that play out on women's bodies as mothers and workers. Veronika Siegl follows the inner workings of a surrogacy market marked by secrecy, distrust, and anonymous business relationships. She explores intended mothers' anxious struggles for a child in light of stigmatized infertility and the aggressive biopolitics of motherhood; the uncertain but pragmatic pathways in and out of fertility clinics as surrogates navigate harsh economic realities and resist being objectified or morally judged; and the powerful role of agents and doctors who have found a profitable niche in nurturing and facilitating other people's existential hopes. Intimate Strangers discusses these issues against the backdrop of ultra-conservatism and moral governance in Russia, the rising international popularity of the Ukrainian surrogacy market, and the pervasiveness of neo-liberal ideologies and individualized notions of reproductive freedom.
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    Diaspora space-time : transformations of a Chinese emigrant community (2022)
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    ISBN: 9781501761959 , 9781501767951
    Language: English
    Pages: ix, 272 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Trémon, Anne-Christine, - 1976- Diaspora space-time
    DDC: 909/.04951
    Keywords: Chinese diaspora ; Anthropologie ; Anthropology ; Asian history ; Asiatische Geschichte ; HISTORY / Asia / China ; Migration, Einwanderung und Auswanderung ; Migration, immigration & emigration ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration ; China Emigration and immigration ; Social aspects ; China Emigration and immigration ; Economic aspects ; China Emigration and immigration 20th century ; History ; China Emigration and immigration 21st century ; History ; China ; China
    Abstract: A globalized lineage -- The shifting landscape of donations -- Collective funds and the moral economy of surplus -- Saving the ancestral sites, mobilizing for the public good -- Reversed feng shui and sociodicies of (im)mobility -- Ritual renewal and spatiotemporal fusion -- Returning to one's roots: journeys and quests -- Global brotherhood without close kin -- Conclusion: Chinese globalization and the changing value of scales.
    Abstract: "This book explores the transformations of a former emigrant village that has become part of the city of Shenzhen and its booming economy. It examines the community's changing relationship with its diaspora around the world over the long twentieth century and in the context of China's contemporary rise."--
    Abstract: Diaspora Space-Time explores the transformations of Pine Mansion-a Shenzhen former emigrant community-and its members' changing relationship with their diaspora around the world. For more than a century, inhabitants of Shenzhen's villages have migrated to Southeast Asia, the Pacific, North and South America, and Europe. With China's economic global ascendancy, these villages no longer consist of peasants dependent on their rich overseas relatives. As the villages have become part of the special economic zone of Shenzhen, the megacity that embodies China's rise, emigration has waned.Lineage ties have long been central in choosing migration destinations and channeling donations to village projects. After China's reopening, Shenzhen's villagers used diaspora as a resource to participate in the city's booming economy and to reestablish and protect their ritual sites against government plans. As overseas financial contributions diminish and diasporic relations change, Anne-Christine Tremon highlights the way emigration is being reconceptualized in regards to China's changing position in the world, offering a new perspective on Chinese globalization and the politics of scale-making. -- Cornell University Press
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: Shenzhen and the Diasporic Relationship1. A Globalized Lineage2. The Shifting Landscape of Donations3. Collective Funds and the Moral Economy of Surplus4. Saving the Ancestral Sites, Mobilizing for the Public Good5. Reversed Feng Shui and Sociodicies of (Im)mobility6. Ritual Renewal and Spatiotemporal Fusion7. Returning to One's Roots through Journeys and Quests8. Global Brotherhood without Close KinConclusion: Chinese Globalization and the Changing Value of Scales -- Cornell University Press
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    Liberty's Chain : Slavery, Abolition, and the Jay Family of New York (2022)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501715860
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (544 p.) , 15 b&w halftones, 2 maps, 2 diagrams
    DDC: 306.3/6209747
    Abstract: In Liberty's Chain, David N. Gellman shows how the Jay family, abolitionists and slaveholders alike, embodied the contradictions of the revolutionary age. The Jays of New York were a preeminent founding family. John Jay, diplomat, Supreme Court justice, and co-author of the Federalist Papers, and his children and grandchildren helped chart the course of the Early American Republic.  Liberty's Chain forges a new path for thinking about slavery and the nation's founding. John Jay served as the inaugural president of a pioneering antislavery societies. His descendants, especially his son William Jay and his grandson John Jay II, embraced radical abolitionism in the nineteenth century, the cause most likely to rend the nation. The scorn of their elite peers-and racist mobs-did not deter their commitment to end southern slavery and to combat northern injustice.  John Jay's personal dealings with African Americans ranged from callousness to caring. Across the generations, even as prominent Jays decried human servitude, enslaved people and formerly enslaved people served in Jay households. Abbe, Clarinda, Caesar Valentine, Zilpah Montgomery, and others lived difficult, often isolated lives, that tested their courage and the Jay family's principles.The personal and the political intersect in this saga, as Gellman charts American values transmitted and transformed from the colonial and revolutionary eras to the Civil War, Reconstruction, and beyond. The Jays, as well as those who served them, demonstrated the elusiveness and the vitality of liberty's legacy. This remarkable family story forces us to grapple with what we mean by patriotism, conservatism, and radicalism. Their story speaks directly to our own divided times. ...
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    Privilege and Anxiety : The Korean Middle Class in the Global Era (2022)
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    ISBN: 9781501764936
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (162 p.) , 1 map, 13 charts
    DDC: 305.5/5095190904
    Abstract: In Privilege and Anxiety, Hagen Koo examines what has happened to the Korean middle class in the era of rapid globalization and demonstrates that the middle class has experienced significant changes in its social character. The middle classes in most advanced economies today are frequently described as being "squeezed" and "shrinking." Globalization has inserted an "axis of polarization" into the middle class, separating a small minority that benefits from the globalized economy from the large majority that suffers from it. This internal differentiation generates a challenging dynamic within Korean society, as the newly affluent seek to distinguish themselves from the rest of the middle class, to establish a new, privileged, class position. Privilege and Anxiety explores how these tensions play out in three areas: consumption and lifestyle, residential differentiation, and education. In all three areas, the dominant orientation of the affluent middle class is to preserve their newfound privilege and pass it onto their children, causing much disaffection and anxiety to the less fortunate members.
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    The Racial Contract (2022)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501764301
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (216 p.)
    Edition: 25th Anniversary Edition
    DDC: 305.8
    Abstract: The Racial Contract puts classic Western social contract theory, deadpan, to extraordinary radical use. With a sweeping look at the European expansionism and racism of the last five hundred years, Charles W. Mills demonstrates how this peculiar and unacknowledged "contract" has shaped a system of global European domination: how it brings into existence "whites" and "non-whites," full persons and sub-persons, how it influences white moral theory and moral psychology; and how this system is imposed on non-whites through ideological conditioning and violence. The Racial Contract argues that the society we live in is a continuing white supremacist state.As this 25th anniversary edition-featuring a foreword by Tommy Shelbie and a new preface by the author-makes clear, the still-urgent The Racial Contract continues to inspire, provoke, and influence thinking about the intersection of the racist underpinnings of political philosophy.
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    Ingredients of change : the history and culture of food in modern Bulgaria (2022)
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    ISBN: 9781501762512
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (246 Seiten) , Illustrationen
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 394.1/209499
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; History ; Sociology & Social Science ; Soviet & East European History ; HISTORY / Europe / Eastern ; Food habits History ; Food History ; Kulturwandel ; Lebensmittel ; Essgewohnheit ; Bulgarien ; Bulgarien ; Lebensmittel ; Essgewohnheit ; Kulturwandel ; Geschichte 1900-2000
    Abstract: Ingredients of Change explores modern Bulgaria's foodways from the Ottoman era to the present, outlining how Bulgarians domesticated and adapted diverse local, regional, and global foods and techniques, and how the nation's culinary topography has been continually reshaped by the imperial legacies of the Ottomans, Habsburgs, Russians, and Soviets, as well as by the ingenuity of its own people. Changes in Bulgarian cooking and cuisine, Mary C. Neuburger shows, were driven less by nationalism than by the circulation of powerful food narratives—scientific, religious, and ethical—along with peoples, goods, technologies, and politics. Ingredients of Change tells this complex story through thematic chapters focused on bread, meat, milk and yogurt, wine, and the foundational vegetables of Bulgarian cuisine—tomatoes and peppers. Neuburger traces the ways in which these ingredients were introduced and transformed in the Bulgarian diet over time, often in the context of Bulgaria's tumultuous political history. She shows how the countries modern dietary and culinary transformations accelerated under a communist dictatorship that had the resources and will to fundamentally reshape what and how people ate and drank.
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    Liberty’s chain : slavery, abolition, and the Jay family of New York (2022)
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    ISBN: 9781501715860
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (544 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
    DDC: 306.3/6209747
    Keywords: Discrimination & Race Relations ; New York History ; U.S. History ; HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) ; Antislavery movements History 18th century ; Antislavery movements History 19th century ; Slavery History 18th century ; Slavery History 19th century
    Abstract: In Liberty's Chain, David N. Gellman shows how the Jay family, abolitionists and slaveholders alike, embodied the contradictions of the revolutionary age. The Jays of New York were a preeminent founding family. John Jay, diplomat, Supreme Court justice, and co-author of the Federalist Papers, and his children and grandchildren helped chart the course of the Early American Republic.  Liberty's Chain forges a new path for thinking about slavery and the nation's founding. John Jay served as the inaugural president of a pioneering antislavery societies. His descendants, especially his son William Jay and his grandson John Jay II, embraced radical abolitionism in the nineteenth century, the cause most likely to rend the nation. The scorn of their elite peers—and racist mobs—did not deter their commitment to end southern slavery and to combat northern injustice.  John Jay's personal dealings with African Americans ranged from callousness to caring. Across the generations, even as prominent Jays decried human servitude, enslaved people and formerly enslaved people served in Jay households. Abbe, Clarinda, Caesar Valentine, Zilpah Montgomery, and others lived difficult, often isolated lives, that tested their courage and the Jay family's principles.The personal and the political intersect in this saga, as Gellman charts American values transmitted and transformed from the colonial and revolutionary eras to the Civil War, Reconstruction, and beyond. The Jays, as well as those who served them, demonstrated the elusiveness and the vitality of liberty's legacy. This remarkable family story forces us to grapple with what we mean by patriotism, conservatism, and radicalism. Their story speaks directly to our own divided times. 
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    Collaborative Damage : An Experimental Ethnography of Chinese Globalization (2022)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 9781501759819
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (294 p) , 19 b&w halftones, 1 chart
    Edition: [Online-Ausgabe]
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Bunkenborg, Mikkel Collaborative damage
    DDC: 338.91/51
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    Keywords: Ethnologie ; Mongolei ; Mosambik ; China ; Dependenztheorie ; Staatliche Einflussnahme ; Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen ; Feldforschung ; Economic development projects Political aspects ; Economic development projects Social aspects ; Globalization Case studies ; Globalization Social aspects ; Globalization Social aspects ; Globalization ; HISTORY / Asia / China ; China ; Globalisierung ; Wirtschaftsbeziehungen ; Einflussnahme ; Abhängigkeit ; Moçambique ; Mongolei
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Transliteration and Currencies -- Introduction -- 1. Friendship Empire: How a Chinese En -- 2. Whose Walls? A Chinese Mining Enclave in the Gobi Desert -- 3. Roads That Separate: How a Chinese Oil Company Failed to Detach Itself from Its Mongolian Surroundings -- 4. Strategies of Unseeing: The Possible Superimposition of a "Chinatown" on the Catembe Peninsula -- 5. Enclaves and Envelopes: Cutting and Connecting Relations in Sino-Mozambican Workplaces -- 6. Alterity in the Interior: Tree Scouts, Spirits, and Chinese Loggers in the Forests of Northern Mozambique -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index
    Abstract: Collaborative Damage is an experimental ethnography of Chinese globalization that compares data from two frontlines of China's global intervention-Sub-Saharan Africa and Inner/Central Asia. Based on fieldwork on Chinese infrastructure and resource-extraction projects in Mozambique and Mongolia, the book provides new empirical insights into neo-colonialism and Sinophobia in the Global South. The core argument in Collaborative Damage is that the different participants in the globalization processes studied-local workers and cadres, Chinese managers and entrepreneurs, and three Danish anthropologists-are intimately linked in paradoxical partnerships of mutual incomprehension. We call this "collaborative damage," which crucially refers not only to the misunderstandings and conflicts observed by us in the field, but also to our own failure to agree about how to interpret these data. Via in-depth case studies and tragi-comical tales of friendship, antagonism, irresolvable differences, and carefully maintained indifferences across disparate Sino-local worlds in Africa and Asia, Collaborative Damage tells a much larger story of Chinese globalization in the twenty-first century
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    DOI: 10.1515/9781501759819
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    The pragmatic ideal : Mary Field Parton and the pursuit of a progressive society (2022)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 9781501762680
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (210 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.48/4092
    Keywords: Sociology & Social Science ; U.S. History ; Womens Studies ; HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century ; Electronic books ; Progressivism (United States politics) History ; Women political activists Biography ; Women social reformers Biography
    Abstract: Following the life of a charismatic woman committed to reform, The Pragmatic Ideal provides an introduction to the politics that dominated the early decades of the twentieth century, ideas that are the basis for much of today's progressive thought. As one of the "New Women" who came of age during the Progressive Era, Mary Field Parton, a close friend of Clarence Darrow, pursued social justice as a settlement house worker and as a leading writer on labor organizing, transforming pragmatic principles into action.Mark Douglas McGarvie shows how, following the upheavals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, liberals like Mary Field Parton turned to pragmatism, hoping to generate greater social awareness from constructions of values rooted in personal experiences instead of philosophical or religious truths. The Pragmatic Ideal reveals how Mary Field Parton sought to expand her rights as a woman while nonetheless denigrating rights as artificial legal impediments to social progress. The issues she faced and the options she considered find important currency in the political divisions confronting Americans a century later.  
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    Feminism's Empire (2022)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501763823
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (318 p.) , 16 b&w halftones
    DDC: 305.420944/09034
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Kolonie ; Feminismus ; Imperialismus ; Frankreich ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Feminism's Empire investigates the complex relationships between imperialisms and feminisms in the late-nineteenth century and demonstrates the challenge of conceptualizing "pro-imperialist" and "anti-imperialist" as binary positions. By intellectually and spatially tracing the era's first French feminists' engagement with empire, Carolyn J. Eichner explores how feminists opposed-yet employed- approaches to empire in writing, speaking, and publishing. In their differing ways, they ultimately tied forms of imperialism to gender liberation. Among the era's first anti-imperialists, French feminists were enmeshed in the hierarchies and epistemologies of empire. They likened their gender-based marginalization to imperialist oppressions. Imperialism and colonialism's gendered and sexualized racial hierarchies established categories of inclusion versus exclusion that rested in both universalism and ideas of "nature" that presented colonized people theoretical, yet impossible, paths to integration. Feminists faced similar barriers to full incorporation due to the gendered contradictions inherent in universalism. The system presumed citizenship as male and thus positioned women as outsiders. Feminism's Empire connects this critical struggle to hierarchical power shifts in racial and national status that created uneasy linkages between French feminists and imperial authorities.
    DOI: 10.1515/9781501763823
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    Intermarriage and the friendship of peoples : ethnic mixing in Soviet Central Asia (2022)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 9781501762956
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (300 Seiten)
    DDC: 306.84/5095845
    Keywords: History ; Sociology & Social Science ; Soviet & East European History ; HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union ; Families History 20th century ; Families History 20th century ; Families ; Families History 20th century ; Intercountry marriage History 20th century ; Intercountry marriage History 20th century ; Intercountry marriage History 20th century ; Interethnic marriage History 20th century ; Interethnic marriage History 20th century ; Interethnic marriage ; Interethnic marriage History 20th century ; Interfaith marriage History 20th century ; Interfaith marriage History 20th century ; Interfaith marriage ; Interfaith marriage History 20th century ; Intermarriage History 20th century ; Intermarriage History 20th century ; Intermarriage ; Intermarriage History 20th century
    Abstract: Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples sheds light on the racialization of identities and its impact on mixed couples and families in the Soviet Union. In marked contrast to its Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union celebrated mixed marriages among its diverse ethnic groups as a sign of the unbreakable friendship of peoples and the imminent emergence of a single "Soviet people." Yet the official Soviet view of ethnic nationality became increasingly primordial and even racialized beginning in the 1960s, and in this context, Adrienne Edgar argues that mixed families and individuals found it impossible to transcend ethnicity, fully embrace their complex identities, and become simply "Soviet."  Looking back on their lives in the Soviet Union, ethnically mixed people often reported that the "official" nationality in their identity documents did not match their subjective feelings of identity, that they were unable to speak "their own" native language, and that their ambiguous physical appearance prevented them from claiming the nationality with which they most identified. In all these ways, mixed couples and families were acutely and painfully affected by the growth of ethnic primordialism and by the tensions between the national and supranational projects in the Soviet Union. Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples is based on more than eighty in-depth oral history interviews with members of mixed families in Kazakhstan and Tajikistan, along with published and unpublished Soviet documents, scholarly and popular articles from the Soviet press, memoirs and films, and interviews with Soviet-era sociologists and ethnographers
    DOI: 10.1515/9781501762956
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    Developing Mission : Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern China (2022)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 9781501760952
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (324 p) , 22 b&w halftones
    Edition: [Online-Ausgabe]
    Series Statement: The United States in the World
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Ho, Joseph W., 1987 - Developing mission
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    Keywords: Photography / History ; Geschichte 1920-1960 ; Geschichte 1920-1960 ; China ; Fotografie ; Film ; Dokumentarfilm ; Amateurfotografie ; Amerikaner ; Missionar ; Mission
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note to the Reader -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: All Things Visible and Invisible -- 1. New Lives, New Optics: Missionary Modernity and Visual Practices in Interwar Republican China -- 2. Converting Visions: Photographic Mediations of Catholic Identity in West Hunan, 1921-1929 -- 3. The Movie Camera and the Mission: Vernacular Filmmaking as China-US Bridge, 1931-1936 -- 4. Chaos in Three Frames: Fragmented Imaging and the Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 -- 5. Memento Mori: Loss, Nostalgia, and the Future in Postwar Missionary Visuality -- Epilogue: Latent Images -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Glossary of Chinese Terms -- Index
    Abstract: In Developing Mission, Joseph W. Ho offers a transnational cultural history of US and Chinese communities framed by missionary lenses through time and space-tracing the lives and afterlives of images, cameras, and visual imaginations from before the Second Sino-Japanese War through the first years of the People's Republic of China. When American Protestant and Catholic missionaries entered interwar China, they did so with cameras in hand. Missions principally aimed at the conversion of souls and the modernization of East Asia, became, by virtue of the still and moving images recorded, quasi-anthropological ventures that shaped popular understandings of and formal foreign policy toward China. Portable photographic technologies changed the very nature of missionary experience, while images that missionaries circulated between China and the United States affected cross-cultural encounters in times of peace and war. Ho illuminates the centrality of visual practices in the American missionary enterprise in modern China, even as intersecting modernities and changing Sino-US relations radically transformed lives behind and in front of those lenses. In doing so, Developing Mission reconstructs the almost-lost histories of transnational image makers, subjects, and viewers across twentieth-century China and the United States
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    The future conditional : building an English-speaking society in northeast China (2021)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 9781501755163 , 9781501754906 , 9781501754913 , 9781501754920
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 205 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Henry, Eric S., 1975 - The Future Conditional
    DDC: 428.0071/051
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    Keywords: English language Social aspects ; English language Study and teaching ; Social aspects ; English language Study and teaching ; Chinese speakers ; Group identity ; China ; Englisch ; Sprachlehrer ; Sprachunterricht ; Sprachstudium ; Sozialanthropologie
    Abstract: The English modern -- Dirty talk: hybrid registers of Chinese and English -- The moral economy of walls: recursive enclosure and linguistic space -- Better to die abroad than to live in China: narratives of life and learning -- Commodifying language: the business of English in Shenyang -- On "Chinglish": stigmatization, laughter and nostalgia -- The white foreign body of the native English speaker.
    Abstract: "An ethnography of students and teachers at private English language schools in the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang, this book examines how foreign languages have been incorporated into everyday speech practices and what it means to speak English in China today"--
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    Coming Home to a Foreign Country : Xiamen and Returned Overseas Chinese, 1843-1938 (2021)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 9781501756207
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (240 pages) , Illustrationen
    DDC: 305.9/06910951245
    Keywords: Anthropology ; Asian Studies ; History ; HISTORY / Asia / China ; Return migrants ; Return migrants ; Return migration History
    Abstract: Ong Soon Keong explores the unique position of the treaty port Xiamen (Amoy) within the China-Southeast Asia migrant circuit and examines its role in the creation of Chinese diasporas. Coming Home to a Foreign Country addresses how migration affected those who moved out of China and later returned to participate in the city's economic revitalization, educational advancement, and urban reconstruction. Ong shows how the mobility of overseas Chinese allowed them to shape their personal and community identities for pragmatic and political gains. This resulted in migrants who returned with new money, knowledge, and visions acquired abroad, which changed the landscape of their homeland and the lives of those who stayed. Placing late Qing and Republican China in a transnational context, Coming Home to a Foreign Country explores the multi-layered social and cultural interactions between China and Southeast Asia. Ong investigates the role of Xiamen in the creation of a China-Southeast Asia migrant circuit; the activities of aspiring and returned migrants in Xiamen; the accumulation and manipulation of multiple identities by Southeast Asian Chinese as political conditions changed; and the motivations behind the return of Southeast Asian Chinese and their continual involvement in mainland Chinese affairs. For Chinese migrants, Ong argues, the idea of "home" was something consciously constructed. Ong complicates familiar narratives of Chinese history to show how the emigration and return of overseas Chinese helped transform Xiamen from a marginal trading outpost at the edge of the Chinese empire to a modern, prosperous city and one of the most important migration hubs by the 1930s
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    From family to police force : security and belonging on a South Asian border (2021)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 9781501759536 , 9781501759543 , 9781501759567 , 9781501759550
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 188 Seiten
    Series Statement: Police/Worlds: studies in security, crime, and governance
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Ibrahim, Farhana From family to police force
    DDC: 353.3/6095475
    Keywords: Police Social aspects ; Law enforcement Social aspects ; Kachchh (India) Social conditions ; Kutch ; Illegale Einwanderung
    Abstract: Policing everyday life on a border -- Militarism and everyday peace: gender, labor, and policing across "civil-military" terrains -- Policing Muslim marriage: the specter of the "Bengali" wife -- Blood and water: the "Bengali" wife and close-kin marriage among Muslims -- The work of belonging: citizenship and social capital across the Thar desert.
    Abstract: "Based on ethnographic research in the western Indian borderland region of Kutch, this book is an anthropological inquiry into forms of policing. It suggests that policing must be considered beyond its institutional and militarized sites, as an integral aspect of the family and the ways in which kinship is forged" --
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    The Future Conditional : Building an English-Speaking Society in Northeast China (2021)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501754920
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (222 p.) , 8 b&w halftones, 2 maps
    Edition: 2021
    DDC: 428.0071/051
    Keywords: English language Social aspects ; English language Study and teaching ; Chinese speakers ; English language Study and teaching ; Social aspects ; Group identity ; Anthropology ; Asian Studies ; Language Arts & Linguistics ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social ; Linguistic anthropology, ethnolinguistics, language learning in china, learning english in china
    Abstract: In The Future Conditional, a thorough examination of the widespread use of the English language in China, Eric S. Henry brings twelve-years of expertise and research to offer a nuanced discussion of the globalization of the English language and the widespread effects it has had on Shenyang, the capital and largest city of China's northeast Liaoning Province. Adopting an ethnographic and linguistic perspective, Henry considers the personal connotations that English, beyond its role in the education system, has for Chinese people. Through research on how English is spoken, taught, and studied in China, Henry considers what the language itself means to Chinese speakers. How and why has English, he asks, become so deeply fascinating in contemporary China, simultaneously existing as a source of desire and anxiety? The answer, he suggests, is that English-speaking Chinese consider themselves distinctly separate from those who do not speak the language, the result of a cultural assumption that speaking English makes a person modern. Seeing language as a study that goes beyond the classroom, The Future Conditional assesses the emerging viewpoint that, for many citizens, speaking English in China has grown into a cultural need—and, more immediately, a realization of one's future.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9781501754920
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    Mobilizing Japanese Youth : The Cold War and the Making of the Sixties Generation (2021)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501756337
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (192 p.) , 15 b&w halftones, 1 b&w line drawing, 13 charts
    Edition: 2021
    Series Statement: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
    DDC: 303.48/4
    Keywords: Political alienation History 20th century ; Political violence History 20th century ; Radicalism History 20th century ; Youth Political activity 20th century ; History ; Asian Studies ; Cold War History ; Political Science & Political History ; HISTORY / Asia / Japan ; youth politics, The Japanese Red Army, Sasakawa Ryōichi, Kodama Yoshio, Shigenobu Fusako, Radical Youth, US-Japan Security Treaty, Vietnam War and Japan, Sixties Generation in Japan
    Abstract: In Mobilizing Japanese Youth, Christopher Gerteis examines how non-state institutions in Japan—left-wing radicals and right-wing activists—attempted to mold the political consciousness of the nation's first postwar generation, which by the late 1960s were the demographic majority of voting-age adults. Gerteis argues that socially constructed aspects of class and gender preconfigured the forms of political rhetoric and social organization that both the far-right and far-left deployed to mobilize postwar, further exacerbating the levels of social and political alienation expressed by young blue- and pink- collar working men and women well into the 1970s, illustrated by high-profile acts of political violence committed by young Japanese in this era.As Gerteis shows, Japanese youth were profoundly influenced by a transnational flow of ideas and people that constituted a unique historical convergence of pan-Asianism, Mao-ism, black nationalism, anti-imperialism, anticommunism, neo-fascism, and ultra-nationalism. Mobilizing Japanese Youth carefully unpacks their formative experiences and the social, cultural, and political challenges to both the hegemonic culture and the authority of the Japanese state that engulfed them. The 1950s-style mass-mobilization efforts orchestrated by organized labor could not capture their political imagination in the way that more extreme ideologies could. By focusing on how far-right and far-left organizations attempted to reach-out to young radicals, especially those of working-class origins, this book offers a new understanding of successive waves of youth radicalism since 1960.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2021)
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    What We Mean by the American Dream : Stories We Tell about Meritocracy (2021)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501754708
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (200 p.)
    Edition: 2021
    DDC: 306.0973
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    Keywords: Soziale Mobilität ; Meritokratie ; American dream ; American Dream ; Social mobility Psychological aspects ; Success Psychological aspects ; Communications ; Labor History ; Sociology & Social Science ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity ; USA ; success and failure, beliefs about the american dream, societal meritocracy, inequality, measuring success, class
    Abstract: Doron Taussig invites us to question the American Dream. Did you earn what you have? Did everyone else? The American Dream is built on the idea that Americans end up, in our working lives, roughly where we deserve to be based on our efforts and abilities—in other words, the United States is supposed to be a meritocracy. When Americans think and talk about our lives, we grapple with this idea, asking how a person got to where he or she is, and whether they earned it. In What We Mean by the American Dream, Taussig tries to find out how we answer that question.Weaving together interviews with Americans from many walks of life—as well as stories told in American media about prominent figures from politics, sports, and business—What We Mean by the American Dream investigates how Americans think about whether an individual deserves an opportunity, job, termination, paycheck, or fortune. Taussig looks into the fabric of American life to witness how various people including dairy farmers, police officers, dancers, handymen, teachers, computer techs, students, store clerks, the unemployed, housewives, and even drug dealers got to where they are today and whether they have earned it or not.Taussig's frank assessment of the state of the American workforce and its dreams allows him to truly and meaningfully ask the question that underpins so many of our political debates and personal frustrations, did you earn it? By doing so, he sheds new light on what we mean by—and how we can deliver on—the American Dream of today.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9781501754708
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    All Societies Die : How to Keep Hope Alive (2021)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501755927
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (272 p.) , 15 b&w line drawings, 2 maps
    Edition: 2021
    DDC: 306
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Zivilisation ; Untergang ; Regression (Civilization) ; Regression (Civilization) ; Social change ; Social stability ; History ; Political Science & Political History ; Sociology & Social Science ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Future Studies ; Societal collapse, decline and fall, crisis theory, economical collapse, feminism
    Abstract: In All Societies Die, Samuel Cohn asks us to prepare for the inevitable. Our society is going to die. What are you going to do about it? But he also wants us to know that there's still reason for hope. In an immersive and mesmerizing discussion Cohn considers what makes societies (throughout history) collapse. All Societies Die points us to the historical examples of the Byzantine empire, the collapse of Somalia, the rise of Middle Eastern terrorism, the rise of drug cartels in Latin America and the French Revolution to explain how societal decline has common features and themes. Cohn takes us on an easily digestible journey through history. While he unveils the past, his message to us about the present is searing.Through his assessment of past-and current-societies, Cohn offers us a new way of looking at societal growth and decline. With a broad panorama of bloody stories, unexpected historical riches, crime waves, corruption, and disasters, he shows us that although our society will, inevitably, die at some point, there's still a lot we can do to make it better and live a little longer.His quirky and inventive approach to an "end-of-the-world" scenario should be a warning. We're not there yet. Cohn concludes with a strategy of preserving and rebuilding so that we don't have to give a eulogy anytime soon.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9781501755927
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    Republicanism, Communism, Islam : Cosmopolitan Origins of Revolution in Southeast Asia (2021)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501755637
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (324 p.)
    Edition: 2021
    DDC: 303.6/4095909041
    Keywords: Cosmopolitanism ; Revolutions ; Asian Studies ; Political Science & Political History ; Religious Studies ; HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia ; republicanism and revolution, cosmopolitanism and revolution, transnational revolutions, Indonesina revolution, Vietnamese revolution, philippine revolution
    Abstract: In Republicanism, Communism, Islam, John T. Sidel provides an alternate vantage point for understanding the variegated forms and trajectories of revolution across the Philippines, Indonesia, and Vietnam, a perspective that is de-nationalized, internationalized, and transnationalized. Sidel positions this vantage point in relation to the long-term framing of twentieth-century revolutions in much of modern Southeast Asian history, as, on the one hand, a nationalist template and, on the other, distinctive local cultures and forms of consciousness. Sidel's comparative analysis of the Philippine, Indonesian, and Vietnamese revolutions shows how each—in very different, decisive, and often surprising ways—were informed, enabled, and impelled by diverse cosmopolitan connections and international conjunctures. From the role of Freemasonry in the making of the Philippine revolution and the importance of Communism and Islam in the making of Indonesia to the influence that anticolonial movements in Africa and Jesuit teaching had on Vietnamese revolutionaries, Sidel tracks how these forces, rather than nationalist claims, shaped the forms of each revolution, the ways in which they unfolded, and the legacies which they left in their wakes.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9781501755637
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501755637
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501755637
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    Uneasy military encounters : the imperial politics of counterinsurgency in Southern Thailand (2020)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 9781501751325 , 9781501751332 , 9781501751349 , 9781501751356
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 167 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Jitpiromsri, Srisompob [Rezension von: Ruth Streicher, Uneasy military encounters - the imperial politics of counterinsurgency in Southern Thailand] 2022
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Streicher, Ruth, 1982- Uneasy military encounters
    DDC: 305.8009593
    Keywords: Ethic conflict ; Counterinsurgency ; Militarism ; Islam Relations ; Buddhism ; Buddhism Relations ; Islam ; Race discrimination ; Sexism ; Thailand Süd ; Militärdiktatur ; Minderheitenpolitik
    Abstract: Introduction. Policing the Imperial Formation -- Policing History: A Military Handbook on the Southern Provinces -- Checkpoints and Racialized Practices of Suspicion -- The New Path to Peace: Disciplining Religious Subjects -- Guarding the Daughter: Patriarchal Compromise and Military Sisterhood -- Conclusion. Happiness and Military Rule.
    Abstract: "Analyzes how the practices of counterinsurgency applied by the Thai military in the southernmost provinces constitute Thailand as an imperial formation that rests on producing its Malay-Muslim minority as different in terms of race, gender and religion"--
    Note: Literaturangaben Seite 117-143 , Literaturhinweise Seite 145-159 , Register Seite 161-167
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    Can Science and Technology Save China? (2020)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501747045
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (240 p.) , 10 b&w halftones
    DDC: 338.951/06
    Abstract: Can Science and Technology Save China? assesses the intimate connections between science and society in China, offering an in-depth look at how an array of sciences and technologies are being made, how they are interfacing with society, and with what effects.Focusing on critical domains of daily life, the chapters explore how scientists, technicians, surgeons, therapists, and other experts create practical knowledges and innovations, as well as how ordinary people take them up as they pursue the good life. Editors Greenhalgh and Zhang offer a rare, up-close view of the politics of Chinese science-making, showing how everyday logics, practices, and ethics of science, medicine, and technology are profoundly reshaping contemporary China. By foregrounding the notion of "governing through science," and the contested role of science and technology as instruments of change, this timely book addresses important questions regarding what counts as science in China, what science and technology can do to transform China, as well as their limits and unintended consequences.
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    DOI: 10.7591/9781501747045
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    With Light Steam : A Personal Journey through the Russian Baths (2020)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 9781501758133
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (224 p) , 31 illustrations
    Edition: [Online-Ausgabe]
    Series Statement: NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
    Keywords: Bathhouses ; Bathing customs ; Baths, Russian ; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Author's Note -- Prologue -- The Banya Is Everything -- The Banya Is an Entire Philosophy -- The Banya Is Communion -- The Banya Is Holy -- The Banya Is Life -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1: Three Vignettes -- Appendix 2: Banya Sayings -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments
    Note: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English
    DOI: 10.1515/9781501758133
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    Race-ing Fargo : Refugees, Citizenship, and the Transformation of Small Cities (2020)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 9781501751141
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (282 p) , 16 b&w halftones, 3 maps
    Edition: [Online-Ausgabe]
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Erickson, Jennifer L., 1974 - Race-ing Fargo
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    Keywords: Social integration ; Race Social aspects ; Cultural pluralism ; Place (Philosophy) Social aspects ; Race awareness ; Refugees ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social ; Fargo, ND ; Sudanesen ; Bosnier ; Flüchtling ; Kulturkontakt ; Sozialer Wandel ; Akkulturation ; Rassismus ; Identität
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Acronyms -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction: Valley to the World -- 1. Histories, Assemblages, and the City -- 2. The NGOization of Refugee Resettlement -- 3. Sibling Rivalry: Welfare and Refugee Resettlement -- 4. Diversity and Inclusion in Fargo -- 5. Resettled Orientalisms: Bosnian Muslims and Roma in Fargo -- 6. Beyond Bare Life: Southern Sudanese in Fargo -- Conclusion: Prairie for the People -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
    Abstract: Tracing the history of refugee settlement in Fargo, North Dakota, from the 1980s to the present day, Race-ing Fargo focuses on the role that gender, religion, and sociality play in everyday interactions between refugees from South Sudan and Bosnia-Herzegovina and the dominant white Euro-American population of the city. Jennifer Erickson outlines the ways in which refugees have impacted this small city over the last thirty years, showing how culture, political economy, and institutional transformations collectively contribute to the racialization of white cities like Fargo in ways that complicate their demographics.Race-ing Fargo shows that race, religion, and decorum prove to be powerful forces determining worthiness and belonging in the city, and draws attention to the different roles that state and private sectors played in shaping ideas about race and citizenship on a local level. Through the comparative study of white, secular Muslim Bosnians and black Christian Southern Sudanese, Race-ing Fargo demonstrates how cross-cultural and transnational understandings of race, ethnicity, class, and religion shape daily citizenship practices and belonging
    Note: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English
    DOI: 10.1515/9781501751141
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    On the periphery of Europe 1762-1825 : the self-invention of the Russian elite (2020)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | DeKal, IL : NIU Press
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    ISBN: 9781501757365 , 9781609092412
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 242 Seiten)
    Series Statement: NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.5/20947
    Keywords: Geschichte 1762-1825 ; History ; West European History ; HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union ; Elite (Social sciences) History 18th century ; Elite (Social sciences) History 19th century ; Europäisierung ; Elite ; Russland ; Russland ; Elite ; Europäisierung ; Geschichte 1762-1825
    DOI: 10.1515/9781501757365
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    Living by the Sword : Weapons and Material Culture in France and Britain, 600–1600 (2020)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501752148
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (240 p.) , 18 b&w halftones, 4 color plates
    Edition: 2020
    DDC: 306.2/709410902
    Abstract: Sharpen your knowledge of swords with Kristen B. Neuschel as she takes you through a captivating 1,000 years of French and English history. Living by the Sword reveals that warrior culture, with the sword as its ultimate symbol, was deeply rooted in ritual long before the introduction of gunpowder weapons transformed the battlefield.Neuschel argues that objects have agency and that decoding their meaning involves seeing them in motion: bought, sold, exchanged, refurbished, written about, displayed, and used in ceremony. Drawing on evidence about swords (from wills, inventories, records of armories, and treasuries) in the possession of nobles and royalty, she explores the meanings people attached to them from the contexts in which they appeared. These environments included other prestige goods such as tapestries, jewels, and tableware, all used to construct and display status.Living by the Sword draws on an exciting diversity of sources from archaeology, military and social history, literature, and material culture studies to inspire students and educated lay readers (including collectors and reenactors) to stretch the boundaries of what they know as the "war and culture" genre.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)
    DOI: 10.1515/9781501752148
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501752148
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    The Saigon Sisters : Privileged Women in the Resistance (2020)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501749759
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (280 p.) , 15 b&w halftones
    Edition: 2020
    Series Statement: NIU Southeast Asian Series
    DDC: 959.704/1109252095977
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    Keywords: Unabhängigkeitsbewegung ; Antikolonialismus ; Frau ; Vietnamkrieg ; Vietnam
    Abstract: The Saigon Sisters offers the narratives of a group of privileged women who were immersed in a French lycée and later rebelled and fought for independence, starting with France's occupation of Vietnam and continuing through U.S. involvement and life after war ends in 1975. Tracing the lives of nine women, The Saigon Sisters reveals these women's stories as they forsook safety and comfort to struggle for independence, and describes how they adapted to life in the jungle, whether facing bombing raids, malaria, deadly snakes, or other trials. How did they juggle double lives working for the resistance in Saigon? How could they endure having to rely on family members to raise their own children? Why, after being sent to study abroad by anxious parents, did several women choose to return to serve their country? How could they bear open-ended separation from their husbands? How did they cope with sending their children to villages to escape the bombings of Hanoi? In spite of the maelstrom of war, how did they forge careers? And how, in spite of dislocation and distrust following the end of the war in 1975, did these women find each other and rekindle their friendships? Patricia D. Norland answers these questions and more in this powerful and personal approach to history.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9781501749759
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501749759
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501749759
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    The future of change : how technology shapes social revolutions (2020)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 9781501748134
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XVI, 224 Seiten)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.40973
    Keywords: Current Events ; History Of Technology ; Social movement, social media, community organizing, social change, communications ; Technology & Engineering / General ; Equality History ; Social change History ; Social movements History ; Technological innovations Social aspects ; History ; Sozialer Wandel ; Sozialinnovation ; Soziale Bewegung ; Technische Innovation ; Technischer Fortschritt ; USA ; USA ; Soziale Bewegung ; Sozialinnovation ; Technische Innovation ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Sozialer Wandel
    Abstract: In The Future of Change, Ray Brescia identifies a series of "social innovation moments" in American history. Through these moments-during which social movements have embraced advances in communications technologies-he illuminates the complicated, dangerous, innovative, and exciting relationship between these technologies, social movements, and social change. Brescia shows that, almost without fail, developments in how we communicate shape social movements, just as those movements change the very technologies themselves.From the printing press to the television, social movements have leveraged communications technologies to advance change. In this moment of rapidly evolving communications, it's imperative to assess the role that the Internet, mobile devices, and social media can play in promoting social justice. But first we must look to the past, to examples of movements throughout American history that successfully harnessed communications technology, thus facilitating positive social change. Such movements embraced new communications technologies to help organize their communities; to form grassroots networks in order to facilitate face-to-face interactions; and to promote positive, inclusive messaging that stressed their participants' shared dignity and humanity. Using the past as prologue, The Future of Change provides effective lessons in the use of communications technology so that we can have the best communicative tools at our disposal-both now and in the future
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020) , In English
    DOI: 10.7591/9781501748134
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    Crafting the Movement : Identity Entrepreneurs in the Swedish Trade Union Movement, 1920-1940 (2020)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 9781501750038
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (216 p.) , 1 b&w halftone, 12 charts
    Keywords: 1900-1999 ; Labor movement History 20th century ; Working class History 20th century ; Mouvement ouvrier - Suède - Histoire - 20e siècle ; Travailleurs - Suède - Histoire - 20e siècle ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations ; Labor movement ; Working class ; History ; Sweden
    Abstract: Crafting the Movement presents an explanation of why the Swedish working class so unanimously adopted reformism during the interwar period. Jenny Jansson discusses the precarious time for the labor movement after the Russian Revolution in 1917 that sparked a trend towards radicalization among labor organizations and communist organizations throughout Europe and caused an identity crisis in class organizations. She reveals that the leadership of the Trade Union Confederation (LO) was well aware of the identity problems that the left-wing factions had created for the reformist unions. Crafting the Movement explains how this led labor movement leaders towards a re-formulation of the notion of the worker by constructing an organizational identity that downplayed class struggle and embraced discipline, peaceful solutions to labor market problems, and cooperation with the employers. As Jansson shows, study activities arranged by the Workers' Educational Association became the main tool of the Trade Union Confederation's identity policy in the 1920s and 1930s and its successful outcome paved the way for the well-known "Swedish Model."
    Note: Frontmatter , Contents , Acknowledgments , List of Abbreviations , 1. The Reformist Choice , 2. Problems Identified by the LO Leadership , 3. A Plan for Identity Management , 4. Constructing Identity , 5. Implementing the Education Strategy , 6. Crafting the Labor Movement , Appendix , Notes , References , Index , In English
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    Institutionalizing Gender : Madness, the Family, and Psychiatric Power in Nineteenth-Century France (2020)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501753435
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (264 p.)
    DDC: 305.30944/09034
    Abstract: Institutionalizing Gender analyzes the relationship between class, gender, and psychiatry in France from 1789 to 1900, an era noteworthy for the creation of the psychiatric profession, the development of a national asylum system, and the spread of bourgeois gender values.Asylum doctors in nineteenth-century France promoted the notion that manliness was synonymous with rationality, using this "fact" to pathologize non-normative behaviors and confine people who did not embody mainstream gender expectations to asylums. And yet, this gendering of rationality also had the power to upset prevailing dynamics between men and women. Jessie Hewitt argues that the ways that doctors used dominant gender values to find "cures" for madness inadvertently undermined both medical and masculine power-in large part because the performance of gender, as a pathway to health, had to be taught; it was not inherent. Institutionalizing Gender examines a series of controversies and clinical contexts where doctors' ideas about gender and class simultaneously legitimated authority and revealed unexpected opportunities for resistance.Thanks to generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, through The Sustainable History Monograph Pilot, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellopen.org) and other repositories.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9781501753435
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    Imperial romance : fictions of colonial intimacy in Korea, 1905-1945 (2020)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501751905 , 9781501751899
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 306.84/50951909041
    Abstract: In Imperial Romance, Su Yun Kim argues that the idea of colonial intimacy within the Japanese empire of the early twentieth century had a far broader and more popular influence on discourse makers, social leaders, and intellectuals than previously understood. Kim investigates representations of Korean-Japanese intimate and familial relationships - including romance, marriage, and kinship - in literature, media, and cinema, alongside documents that discuss colonial policies during the Japanese protectorate period and colonial rule in Korea (1905-45).Focusing on Korean perspectives, Kim uncovers political meanings in the forms of representation of intimacy and emotions between Koreans and Japanese seen in print media and films. Imperial Romance disrupts the conventional reading of colonial-period texts as the result of either coercion or the disavowal of colonialism, thereby expanding our understanding of colonial writing practices. The theme of intermarriage gave elite Korean writers and cultural producers opportunities to question their complicity with imperialism. Their fictions challenged expected colonial boundaries, creating tensions in identity and hierarchy, and in narratives of the linear developmental trajectory of modernity. Examining a broad range of writings and films from this period, Imperial Romance maps the colonized subjects' fascination with their colonizers and with moments that allowed them to become active participants in and agents of Japanese and global imperialism.
    DOI: 10.1515/9781501751905
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501751905
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    Anti-Christian Violence in India (2020)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 9781501751431
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (320 p) , 6 b&w halftones, 4 maps, 1 chart
    Edition: [Online-Ausgabe]
    Series Statement: Religion and Conflict
    DDC: 303.60954
    Keywords: Hinduism Relations ; Christianity ; Christians Violence against ; Christians Violence against ; Christianity ; Christianity and other religions Hinduism ; Christianity ; Christians Violence against ; Christianity ; HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia
    Abstract: Does religion cause violent conflict, asks Chad M. Bauman, and if so, does it cause conflict any more than other social identities? Through an extended history of Christian-Hindu relations, and with particular attention to the 2007–08 riots in Kandhamal, Odisha, Anti-Christian Violence in India examines religious violence and how it pertains to broader aspects of humanity. Is "religious" conflict sui generis, or is it merely one species of inter-group conflict? Why and how might violence become an attractive option for religious actors? What explains the increase in religious violence over the last twenty to thirty years?Integrating theories of anti-Christian violence focused on politics, economics, and proselytization, Anti-Christian Violence in India additionally weaves in recent theory about globalization, and in particular the forms of resistance against Western secular modernity that globalization periodically helps provoke. With such theories in mind, Bauman explores the nature of anti-Christian violence in India, contending that resistance to secular modernities is, in fact, an important but often overlooked reason behind Hindu attacks on Christians.Intensifying the widespread Hindu tendency to think of religion in ethnic rather than universal terms, the ideology of Hindutva explicitly rejects both the secular privatization of religion and the separability of religions from the communities that incubate them. And so, with provocative and original analysis, Bauman questions whether anti-Christian violence in contemporary India is really about religion, in the narrowest sense, or rather a manifestation of broader concerns, among some Hindus, about the Western socio-political order with which they associate global Christianity
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Anti-Christian Violence in Global Context -- 1. A Socio-cosmological Approach to Anti-Christian Violence -- 2. A Prehistory of Hindu-Christian Conflict -- 3. “Everyday” Anti-Christian Violence -- 4. “Darkness, Loneliness, Loud Noises, and Men”: The Riots in Kandhamal, Odisha, 2007–2008 -- 5. The Social Construction of Kandhamal’s Violence -- Conclusion: A Geography of Anger -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
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    Race-ing Fargo : Refugees, Citizenship, and the Transformation of Small Cities (2020)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501751141
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (282 p.) , 16 b&w halftones, 3 maps
    Edition: 2020
    DDC: 305.8009784/13
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    Keywords: Sudanesen ; Bosnier ; Flüchtling ; Kulturkontakt ; Sozialer Wandel ; Akkulturation ; Rassismus ; Identität ; Fargo, ND
    Abstract: Tracing the history of refugee settlement in Fargo, North Dakota, from the 1980s to the present day, Race-ing Fargo focuses on the role that gender, religion, and sociality play in everyday interactions between refugees from South Sudan and Bosnia-Herzegovina and the dominant white Euro-American population of the city. Jennifer Erickson outlines the ways in which refugees have impacted this small city over the last thirty years, showing how culture, political economy, and institutional transformations collectively contribute to the racialization of white cities like Fargo in ways that complicate their demographics.Race-ing Fargo shows that race, religion, and decorum prove to be powerful forces determining worthiness and belonging in the city, and draws attention to the different roles that state and private sectors played in shaping ideas about race and citizenship on a local level. Through the comparative study of white, secular Muslim Bosnians and black Christian Southern Sudanese, Race-ing Fargo demonstrates how cross-cultural and transnational understandings of race, ethnicity, class, and religion shape daily citizenship practices and belonging.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9781501751141
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    The Laziness Myth : Narratives of Work and the Good Life in South Africa (2020)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501752537
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (246 p.) , 3 b&w halftones, 2 b&w line drawings
    Edition: 2020
    DDC: 306.3/6130968
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    Abstract: When people cannot find good work, can they still find good lives? By investigating this question in the context of South Africa, where only 43 percent of adults are employed, Christine Jeske invites readers to examine their own assumptions about how work and the good life do or do not coincide. The Laziness Myth challenges the widespread assumption that hard work determines success by tracing the titular "laziness myth," a persistent narrative that disguises the systems and structures that produce inequalities while blaming unemployment and other social ills on the so-called laziness of particular class, racial, and ethnic groups.Jeske offers evidence of the laziness myth's harsh consequences, as well as insights into how to challenge the laziness myth with other South African narratives of a good life. In contexts as diverse as rapping in a library, manufacturing leather shoes, weed-whacking neighbors' yards, negotiating marriage plans, and sharing water taps, the people described in this book will stimulate discussion on creative possibilities for seeking the good life in and out of employment, in South Africa and elsewhere.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Jan 2021)
    DOI: 10.1515/9781501752537
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501752537
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    Black Market Business : Selling Sex in Northern Vietnam, 1920–1945 (2020)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501752674
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (276 p.) , 2 b&w photos, 1 b&w line drawing, 8 maps
    Edition: 2020
    Series Statement: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
    DDC: 306.7609597/3
    Abstract: Black Market Business is a grassroots social history of the clandestine market for sex in colonial Tonkin. Lively and well-told, it explores the ways in which sex workers, managers, and clients evaded the colonial regulation system in the turbulent economy of the interwar years. Without denying the authoritarian role of the colonial state, Christina Elizabeth Firpo argues that, in marginalizing certain colonized populations—in this case, impoverished Vietnamese women—the French state lost much of its ability to monitor and control them. Despite numerous state regulations and exhaustive policing efforts, these women sidestepped the reach of the government and found ways to earn a living in an informal economy. Yet while their relative invisibility to the law did afford these women a certain agency, it also put them at risk of being raped, forced into prostitution, trafficked, or infected with venereal disease.Drawing on an astonishingly diverse and multilingual source base, Black Market Business includes detailed cases of juvenile prostitution, human trafficking, and debt bondage arrangements in sex work, as well as cases in Tonkin's bars, hotels, singing houses, and dance clubs. Using GIS technology and big data sets to track individual actors in history, it also serves as a model for teaching new methodological approaches to conducting social histories of women and marginalized people.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Jan 2021)
    DOI: 10.1515/9781501752674
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501752674
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    Rethinking diabetes : entanglements with trauma, poverty, and HIV (2019)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 9781501738302 , 9781501738432 , 9781501738319
    Language: English
    Pages: xvii, 215 Seiten , Illustrationen
    DDC: 362.1964/62
    Keywords: Diabetes Social aspects ; Diabetes Economic aspects ; Diabetes Psychosomatic aspects ; Diabetes Psychological aspects ; Diabetes in women ; Diabetics Social conditions 21st century ; Syndemics
    Abstract: Syndemic diabetes -- Chicago -- Delhi -- Soweto -- Nairobi.
    Abstract: "Rethinking Diabetes investigates how diabetes is perceived and experienced differently from one place to the next. Drawing upon ethnographic narratives from women residing in urban contexts in the US, India, South Africa, and Kenya, the project unpacks how social, cultural, and epidemiological factors shape people's experiences and why we need to take these differences seriously when we think about what drives diabetes and how it affects the lives of the poor"--
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    The Civility of Indifference : On Domesticating Ethnicity (2019)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 9781501735677 , 1501735675
    Language: English
    Pages: 208 p , 16 halftones
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General ; Apathy ; Ethnic relations ; Ethnicity ; Racism ; Social conditions ; History
    Abstract: Frontmatter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Preface --1. The Temple Entry Act --2. The Way of the Distillers --3. Calculated Restraint --4. Gupte Bisoi and Bali Sahani --5. Making a Living --6. The Sources of Rationality --7. The Bottom Line --8. The Civility of Indifference --References --Index
    Abstract: The dissolution of Yugoslavia inspired F. G. Bailey to consider the relations among ethnic groups that had seemed reconciled to living together and then broke into murderous conflicts. For his exploration of the ancient, recurring problem of ethnic strife, Bailey considers the village of Bisipara in the state of Orissa, in eastern India. Bisipara was a community in which different ethnic groups were seen as distinct breeds of people, arranged in a hierarchy of worthiness. In The Civility of Indifference, Bailey documents a case of ethnic strife that threatened the village forty years ago but did not consume it in bloodshed. The restraint, he suggests, reflected not compassion but a sense of inevitability. The people of Bisipara perceived the world in such a way that violence enacted as ethnic cleansing would have seemed to them a disastrous indulgence and a sure path to self-destruction. Their story serves as a parable of pragmatic indifference, in contrast to the fanaticism that justifies civil war. A seasoned ethnographer, the author considers the social structure of the community, examining the multiple castes with sensitivity and respect. His detailed description reveals the competing moral visions held by various groups and his conclusions open a new perspective on ethnic violence
    Note: In English
    URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctvv4157d
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    Empire and belonging in the Eurasian borderlands (2019)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 9781501736131
    Language: English
    Pages: ix, 266 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
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    Keywords: Minorities Goverment policy ; Minorities Government policy ; Minorities Government policy ; Konferenzschrift ; Sowjetunion ; Russland ; Zentralasien ; Kaukasus ; Osmanisches Reich ; Minderheit ; Geschichte
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    Fieldnotes : The Makings of Anthropology (2019)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 9781501711954 , 1501711954
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (432 pages) , 5 halftones, 11 examples of fieldnotes
    Keywords: Ethnology Congresses Fieldwork ; Ethnology Congresses Authorship ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social ; Ethnology ; Authorship ; Ethnology ; Fieldwork ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural ; Conference papers and proceedings
    Abstract: Frontmatter --Contents --Preface --I. Living with Fieldnotes --"I Am a Fieldnote": Fieldnotes as a Symbol of Professional Identity /Jackson, Jean E. --Fire, Loss, and the Sorcerer's Apprentice /Sanjek, Roger --II. Unpacking ,,Fieldnotes" --Notes on (Field)notes /Clifford, James --Pretexts for Ethnography: On Reading Fieldnotes /Lederman, Rena --A Vocabulary for Fieldnotes /Sanjek, Roger --III. Fieldnote Practice --Thirty Years of Fieldnotes: Changing Relationships to the Text /Ottenberg, Simon --Quality into Quantity: On the Measurement Potential of Ethnographic Fieldnotes /Johnson, Allen / Johnson, Orna R. --The Secret Life of Fieldnotes /Sanjek, Roger --IV. Fieldnotes in Circulation --Fieldnotes: Research in Past Occurrences /Bond, George C. --Adventures with Fieldnotes /Obbo, Christine --Refractions of Reality: On the Use of Other Ethnographers' Fieldnotes /Lutkehaus, Nancy --Fieldnotes and Others /Sanjek, Roger --V. From Fieldnotes to Ethnography --Chinanotes: Engendering Anthropology /Wolf, Margery --Hearing Voices, Joining the Chorus: Appropriating Someone Else's Fieldnotes /Smith, Robert J. --Fieldnotes, Filed Notes, and the Conferring of Note /Plath, David W. --On Ethnographic Validity /Sanjek, Roger --Index
    Abstract: Thirteen distinguished anthropologists describe how they create and use the unique forms of writing they produce in the field. They also discuss the fieldnotes of seminal figures-Frank Cushing, Franz Boas, W. H. R. Rivers, Bronislaw Malinowski, and Margaret Mead-and analyze field writings in relation to other types of texts, especially ethnographies. Unique in conception, this volume contributes importantly to current debates on writing, texts, and reflexivity in anthropology
    Note: Includes revised versions of some papers presented at the AES Invited Sessions at the American Anthropological Association meetings in Washington, D.C., 1985 , Includes bibliographical references and index , In English
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    Driving toward modernity : cars and the lives of the middle class in contemporary China (2019)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 9781501738401 , 9781501738395 , 9781501738418 , 9781501738425
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 220 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Zhang, Jun, 1977- author Driving toward modernity
    DDC: 305.5/509512/7
    Keywords: Middle class ; Automobile ownership ; Automobiles Social aspects ; Economic development History 21st century ; China Economic conditions 2000- ; China ; Ethnologie ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Mittelstand ; Lebensstil ; Mobilität ; Kraftfahrzeug ; Statussymbol ; Geschichte 21. Jh.
    Abstract: "This book explores, ethnographically, the entanglement between the rise of the automotive regime and emergence of the middle class in South China, through which a nuanced picture of China's great transformations is depicted"--
    Abstract: Introduction : a mobile lifestyle, a middle way of living -- Prologue : from official privileges to consumer goods : the changing political economy of automobiles -- Driving alone together: sociality, solidarity, and status -- Family cars, filial consumer-citizens : becoming properly middle class -- The emerging middle class and the car market : mobilities and trajectories -- Car crash, class encounter : anxiety of mobility -- Bidding for a license plate : the importance of being a free and proper consumer -- Parking : contesting space in middle-class complexes
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    The _act of living : street life, marginality, and development in urban Ethiopia (2019)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-5017-3513-4 , 978-1-5017-3553-0 , 978-1-5017-3512-7 , 1-5017-3512-8 , 978-1-5017-3626-1 , 1-5017-3626-4 , 978-1-5017-3513-4/weitere Ausgabe
    Language: English
    Pages: XIV, 246 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Keywords: Afrika Äthiopien ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Arbeit ; Arbeit, informelle ; Armut ; Alltag ; Schattenwirtschaft ; Wirtschaft ; Entwicklung ; Stadtforschung, ethnologische ; Addis Abeba 〈Äthiopien〉
    Abstract: The Act of Living explores the relation between development and marginality in Ethiopia, one of the fastest growing economies in Africa. Replete with richly depicted characters and multi-layered narratives on history, everyday life and visions of the future, Marco Di Nunzio's ethnography of hustling and street life is an investigation of what is to live, hope and act in the face of the failing promises of development and change. Di Nunzio follows the life trajectories of two men, "Haile" and "Ibrahim," as they grow up in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, enter street life to get by, and turn to the city's expanding economies of work and entrepreneurship to search for a better life. Apparently favourable circumstances of development have not helped them achieve social improvement. As their condition of marginality endures, the two men embark in restless attempts to transform living into a site for hope and possibility. By narrating Haile and Ibrahim's lives, The Act of Living explores how and why development continues to fail the poor, how marginality is understood and acted upon in a time of promise, and why poor people's claims for open-endedness can lead to better and more just alternative futures. Tying together anthropology, African studies, political science, and urban studies, Di Nunzio takes readers on a bold exploration of the meaning of existence, hope, marginality, and street life.
    Description / Table of Contents: Migrants, gentlemen and thugs -- A thug's life -- Donkeys with ashes -- Do not cross the red line -- Keep on hustlin' -- Life is a paradise -- The time of the bumpkins -- Embracing uncertainty
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    Divorcing traditions : Islamic marriage law and the making of Indian secularism (2019)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-5017-3477-9 , 1-5017-3477-6 , 978-1-5017-3476-2 /Hb. , 1-5017-3476-8 /Hb. 978-1-5017-3478-6 /EPUB, mobi , 978-1-5017-3479-3 /PDF
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 232 Seiten
    Keywords: Indien Säkularisierung ; Islam und Politik ; Scheidung ; Recht ; Recht, islamisches ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: Divorcing Traditions is an ethnography of Islamic legal expertise and practices in India, a secular state in which Muslims are a significant minority and where Islamic judgments are not legally binding. Katherine Lemons argues that an analysis of divorce in accordance with Islamic strictures is critical to the understanding of Indian secularism.Lemons analyzes four marital dispute adjudication forums run by Muslim jurists or lay Muslims to show that religious law does not muddle the categories of religion and law but generates them. Drawing on ethnographic and archival research conducted in these four institutions--NGO-run women's arbitration centers (mahila panchayats); sharia courts (dar ul-qazas); a Muslim jurist's authoritative legal opinions (fatwas); and the practice of what a Muslim legal expert (mufti) calls "spiritual healing"--Divorcing Traditions shows how secularism is an ongoing project that seeks to establish and maintain an appropriate relationship between religion and politics. A secular state is always secularizing. And yet, as Lemons demonstrates, the state is not the only arbiter of the relationship between religion and law: religious legal forums help to constitute the categories of private and public, religious and secular upon which secularism relies. In the end, because Muslim legal expertise and practice are central to the Indian legal system and because Muslim divorce's contested legal status marks a crisis of the secular distinction between religion and law, Muslim divorce, argues Lemons, is a key site for understanding Indian secularism. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgments -- PART I. The State -- Chapter 1. Regulating Kinship under Legal Pluralism -- Chapter 2. Muslim Divorce, Secularism's Crucible -- PART II. The Qazi -- Chapter 3. Shari'a Courts' Family Values -- Chapter 4. The Converging Jurisprudence of Divorce -- PART III. The Mufti -- Chapter 5. "Talaq, Talaq, Talaq . . ." -- Chapter 6. The Healing Jurist -- Conclusion. Divorcing Traditions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 209-225
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    The Credibility Challenge : How Democracy Aid Influences Election Violence (2019)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501736551
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 6 b&w line drawings, 4 maps, 11 graphs
    DDC: 303.6
    Abstract: The key to the impact of international election support is credibility; credible elections are less likely to turn violent. So argues Inken von Borzyskowski in The Credibility Challenge, in which she provides an explanation of why and when election support can increase or reduce violence. Von Borzyskowski answers four major questions: Under what circumstances can election support influence election violence? How can election support shape the incentives of domestic actors to engage in or abstain from violence? Does support help reduce violence or increase it? And, which type of support—observation or technical assistance—is better in each instance? The Credibility Challenge pulls broad quantitative evidence and qualitative observations from Guyana, Liberia, Kenya, Sierra Leone, and Bangladesh to respond to these questions. Von Borzyskowski finds that international democracy aid matters for election credibility and violence; outside observers can exacerbate postelection violence if they cast doubt on election credibility; and technical assistance helps build electoral institutions, improves election credibility, and reduces violence. Her results advance research and policy on peacebuilding and democracy promotion in new and surprising ways.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Jun 2019)
    DOI: 10.7591/9781501736551
    URL: https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501736551
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    Noble Bondsmen : Ministerial Marriages in the Archdiocese of Salzburg, 1100-1343 (2019)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501734670
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 306.81/09436/3
    Keywords: History
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 15. Jun 2019)
    DOI: 10.7591/9781501734670
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    The Oldest Vocation : Christian Motherhood in the Medieval West (2019)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | New York : JSTOR
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    ISBN: 9781501740893 , 150174089X
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 306.874/3
    Keywords: Motherhood Religious aspects ; Christianity ; Mothers Religious life ; History ; HISTORY / Medieval ; Motherhood Religious aspects ; Christianity ; Mothers Religious life ; Social conditions ; Europe Social conditions To 1492 ; History
    Abstract: From the myth of Joan to the experiences of saints, nuns, and ordinary women, The Oldest Vocation brings to life both the richness and the troubling contradictions of Christian motherhood in medieval Europe.
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    Sovereignty Experiments : Korean Migrants and the Building of Borders in Northeast Asia, 1860–1945 (2019)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501738371
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 6 b&w halftones, 5 maps
    Series Statement: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
    DDC: 305.8957/0509041
    Abstract: Sovereignty Experiments tells the story of how authorities in Korea, Russia, China, and Japan—through diplomatic negotiations, border regulations, legal categorization of subjects and aliens, and cultural policies—competed to control Korean migrants as they suddenly moved abroad by the thousands in the late nineteenth century. Alyssa M. Park argues that Korean migrants were essential to the process of establishing sovereignty across four states because they tested the limits of state power over territory and people in a borderland where authority had been long asserted but not necessarily enforced. Traveling from place to place, Koreans compelled statesmen to take notice of their movement and to experiment with various policies to govern it. Ultimately, states' efforts culminated in drastic measures, including the complete removal of Koreans on the Soviet side. As Park demonstrates, what resulted was the stark border regime that still stands between North Korea, Russia, and China today.Skillfully employing a rich base of archival sources from across the region, Sovereignty Experiments sets forth a new approach to the transnational history of Northeast Asia. By focusing on mobility and governance, Park illuminates why this critical intersection of Asia was contested, divided, and later reimagined as parts of distinct nations and empires. The result is a fresh interpretation of migration, identity, and state making at the crossroads of East Asia and Russia.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Jun 2019)
    DOI: 10.7591/9781501738371
    URL: https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501738371
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    "I'm Not a Racist, But..." : The Moral Quandary of Race (2019)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 9781501701962
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource
    DDC: 305.8
    Keywords: African-American Studies ; Philosophy & Religion ; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy ; Race discrimination ; Racism Moral and ethical aspects ; Social ethics ; Rassismus ; Rassendiskriminierung ; USA ; USA ; Rassismus ; Rassendiskriminierung
    Abstract: Not all racial incidents are racist incidents, Lawrence Blum says. "We need a more varied and nuanced moral vocabulary for talking about the arena of race. We should not be faced with a choice of 'racism' or nothing." Use of the word "racism" is pervasive: An article about the NAACP's criticism of television networks for casting too few "minority" actors in lead roles asks, "Is television a racist institution?" A white girl in Virginia says it is racist for her African-American teacher to wear African attire.Blum argues that a growing tendency to castigate as "racism" everything that goes wrong in the racial domain reduces the term's power to evoke moral outrage. In "I'm Not a Racist, But...", Blum develops a historically grounded account of racism as the deeply morally-charged notion it has become. He addresses the question whether people of color can be racist, defines types of racism, and identifies debased and inappropriate usages of the term. Though racial insensitivity, racial anxiety, racial ignorance and racial injustice are, in his view, not "racism," they are racial ills that should elicit moral concern.Blum argues that "race" itself, even when not serving distinct racial malfeasance, is a morally destructive idea, implying moral distance and unequal worth. History and genetic science reveal both the avoidability and the falsity of the idea of race. Blum argues that we can give up the idea of race, but must recognize that racial groups' historical and social experience has been shaped by having been treated as if they were races
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 04. Sep 2019) , In English
    DOI: 10.7591/9781501701962
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    Configurations of Masculinity : A Feminist Perspective on Modern Political Theory (2019)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 9781501734076
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (232 pages)
    DDC: 305.42/01
    Keywords: Gender Studies ; Political Theory ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory ; Feminist theory ; Political science
    Abstract: In this pathbreaking book, Christine Di Stefano offers a new perspective on the dimension of gender in modern political thought in order to elucidate what is specifically masculine in political theory. Attempting to clear some conceptual space for feminist political theory, Di Stefano provides innovative readings of Hobbes, Marx, and J. S. Mill
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019) , In English
    DOI: 10.7591/9781501734076
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    Karavar : Masks and Power in a Melanesian Ritual (2019)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 9781501734274
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
    Edition: [Online-Ausgabe]
    Series Statement: Symbol, Myth and Ritual
    Keywords: Ethnology ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface: The Art of Being Free -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Making Space for Politics -- 2. Disturbing Democracy: Reading (in) the Gaps between Tocqueville's America and Ours -- 3. (Con)Founding Democracy: Containment, Evasion, Appropriation -- 4. Reading Freedom, Writing Marx: From the Politics of Production to the Production of Politics -- 5. Acting (Up) in Publics: Mobile Spaces, Plural Worlds -- Notes -- Index
    Note: restricted access online access with authorization star , Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English
    DOI: 10.7591/9781501734274
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    Humbuggery and Manipulation : The Art of Leadership (2019)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 9781501745430
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (208 pages)
    DDC: 303.3/4
    Keywords: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Leadership ; Leadership Moral and ethical aspects ; Political leadership Moral and ethical aspects ; Power (Social sciences) ; Führung ; Philosophie ; Führungspsychologie ; Führung ; Philosophie ; Führungspsychologie
    Abstract: To illuminate the moral and social limits of leadership around the world, F. G. Bailey draws on examples from his own research in Orissa, Europe, and elsewhere, from his work on bureaucracies, and from political and military biographies, novels, and historical accounts. He carries his controversial argument into two domains: that of the leader and his mass following and that of the leader in his entourage
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019) , In English
    DOI: 10.7591/9781501745430
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    Not of Woman Born : Representations of Caesarean Birth in Medieval and Renaissance Culture (2019)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 1501740482 , 9781501740480
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 27 halftones
    Keywords: Cesarean section History ; Cesarean section in art ; Medical illustration History ; Renaissance ; LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval ; Cesarean section ; Cesarean section in art ; Medical illustration ; Renaissance ; Europe ; History
    Abstract: Frontmatter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Introduction --1. Caesarean Birth in Medical Thought --2. Caesarean Birth in the Artistic Imagination --3. The Marginalization of Women in Obstetrics --4. Saintly and Satanic Obstetricians --Appendix Creative Etymology: "Caesarean Section" from Pliny to Rousset --Annotated List of Illustrations --Notes --Bibliography --Index
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    Louis Agassiz as a Teacher : Illustrative Extracts on His Method of Instruction (2019)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 150174058X , 9781501740589
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
    Edition: revised edition
    Keywords: Agassiz, Louis ; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Educators ; Agassiz, Louis
    Abstract: Frontmatter --PREFACE --CONTENTS --I. INTRODUCTORY NOTE --II. AGASSIZ AT NEUCHÂTEL --III. AGASSIZ AT HARVARD --IV. HOW AGASSIZ TAUGHT PROFESSOR SHALER --V. HOW AGASSIZ TAUGHT PROFESSOR VERRIL --VI. HOW AGASSIZ TAUGHT PROFESSOR WILDER --VII. HOW AGASSIZ TAUGHT PROFESSOR SCUDDER --VIII. THE DEATH OF AGASSIZ-HIS PERSONALITY --IX. OBITER DICTA BY AGASSIZ --X. PASSAGES FOR COMPARISON WITH THE METHOD OF AGASSIZ
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    Ritual Irony : Poetry and Sacrifice in Euripides (2019)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 1501740636 , 9781501740633
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
    Keywords: Didactic drama, Greek History and criticism ; Mythology, Greek, in literature ; Sacrifice in literature ; Ritual in literature ; Irony in literature ; Tragedy ; LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical ; Didactic drama, Greek ; Irony in literature ; Mythology, Greek, in literature ; Ritual in literature ; Sacrifice in literature ; Tragedy ; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Abstract: Frontmatter --Contents --Preface --Abbreviations --I. Drama and Sacrifice --2 . The Iphigenia in Aulis --3 . The Phoenissae --4. The Heracles --5 . The Bacchae --Bibliography --Index
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    Communities of Saint Martin : Legend and Ritual in Medieval Tours (2019)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 1501740601 , 9781501740602
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 12 b&w halftones, 5 tables, 6 maps
    Keywords: Martin, Saint, Bishop of Tours ; Basilique Saint-Martin de Tours History ; Marmoutier (Abbey : Tours, France) History ; Christian saints Cult Middle Ages, 600-1500 ; History of doctrines ; HISTORY / Medieval ; Marmoutier (Abbey : Tours, France) ; Basilique Saint-Martin de Tours ; Christian saints ; Cult ; History of doctrines ; Middle Ages ; France ; Tours ; Church history ; History ; Tours (France) Church history
    Abstract: Frontmatter --Contents --Illustrations --Tables --Preface --Introduction --PART I. Martin's Town: From Unity to Duality --Introduction --1. Martinopolis (ca. 37I-I050) --2. Excluding the Center: Monastic Exemption and Liturgical Realignment in Tours --PART 2. Marmoutier --Introduction --3. History, Legitimacy, and Motivation in Marmoutier's Literature for the Angevins --4. Marmoutier and the Salvation of the Counts of Blois --5. Individual Motivation, Collective Responsibility: Reinforcing Bonds of Community --6. Preservation through Time: Historical Consciousness at Marmoutier --PART 3. The Chapter of Saint-Martin --Introduction --7. The Corporate Identity of the Canons of Saint-Martin --8. Saint Martin's Diocese: The Appropriation of Episcopal Symbols --9. Martin's New Town: Dominance and Resistance in Chateauneuf --Conclusion --Source Appendix --Abbreviations --Bibliography --Index
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    Life of Inland Waters : An Elementary Text Book of Fresh-Water Biology For Students (2019)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 1501740741 , 9781501740749
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 4 b&w halftones, 240 halftones, 1 map
    Edition: third edition
    Keywords: Freshwater biology ; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology ; Freshwater biology
    Abstract: Frontmatter --PREFACE --CONTENTS --CHAPTER I. Introduction --CHAPTER II. The Nature of Aquatic Environment --CHAPTER III. Types of Aquatic Environment --CHAPTER IV. Aquatic Organisms --CHAPTER V. Adjustment to Conditions of Aquatic Life --CHAPTER VI. Aquatic Societies --CHAPTER VII. Inland Water Culture --SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY --List of initials and tail-pieces --INDEX
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    Sons of the Gods, Children of Earth : Ideology and Literary Form in Ancient Greece (2019)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 1501737694 , 9781501737695
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
    Keywords: Greek literature History and criticism ; Literary form History To 1500 ; Politics and literature ; Marxist criticism ; LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical ; Greek literature ; Literary form ; Marxist criticism ; Politics and government ; Politics and literature ; Greece ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; History ; Greece Politics and government
    Abstract: Frontmatter --Contents --Preface --Introduction: Marxism and the Classics --1. How Conservative Is the Iliad? --2. Ambivalence and Identity in the Odyssey --3. Historicizing Pindar: Pythian 10 --4. Aeschylus' Oresteia: Dialectical Inheritance --5. Sophokles' Philoktetes and the Teachings of the Sophists: A Counteroffensive --6. Plato's Solution to the Ideological Crisis of the Greek Aristocracy --Afterword --References --Index
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    The Idea of the Book in the Middle Ages : Language Theory, Mythology, and Fiction (2019)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 1501740717 , 9781501740718
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 9 b&w halftones
    Keywords: Chaucer, Geoffrey Criticism and interpretation ; Books History 400-1450 ; Literature, Medieval History and criticism ; Transmission of texts ; Learning and scholarship History Medieval, 500-1500 ; LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval ; Chaucer, Geoffrey ; Books ; Learning and scholarship ; Medieval ; Literature, Medieval ; Transmission of texts ; Europe ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; History
    Abstract: Frontmatter --CONTENTS --ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --ABBREVIATIONS --[1] The Argument of the Book : Medieval Writing and Modern Theory --[2] The Semiology of Space in the Middle Ages: On Manuscript Painting, Sacred Architecture, Scholasticism, and Music --[3] The Language of Mythology : On Medieval Grammar and Hermeneutics --[4] Dante's Liber Occultorum and the Structure of Allegory in the Commedia --[5] The Origin of Language Reconsidered : Chaucer's House of Fame --[6] Problems of Misreading: The "Prologue" to The Legend of Good Women --[7] I nterpreting the "Naked Text" in the "General Prologue" to The Canterbury Tales --[8] Retrospect: On Historical Change --BIBLIOGRAPHY --INDEX
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    The Idea of the Labyrinth from Classical Antiquity through the Middle Ages (2019)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 1501738461 , 9781501738463
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 26 halftones
    Keywords: Labyrinths in literature ; Classical literature History and criticism ; Literature, Medieval History and criticism ; Labyrinths in art ; LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical ; Classical literature ; Labyrinths in art ; Labyrinths in literature ; Literature, Medieval ; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Abstract: Frontmatter --Contents --List of Plates --Acknowledgments: Four Labyrinths --Abbreviations --Introduction: Charting the Maze --PART ONE. The Labyrinth in the Classical and Early Christian Periods --CHAPTER ONE. The Literary Witness: Labyrinths in Pliny, Virgil, and Ovid --CHAPTER.TWO. The Labyrinth as Significant Form: Two Paradigms --CHAPTER THREE. A Taxonomy of Metaphorical Labyrinths --PART TWO. The Labyrinth in the Middle Ages --CHAPTER FOUR. Etymologies and Verbal Implications --CHAPTER FIVE. Mazes in Medieval Art and Architecture --CHAPTER SIX. Moral Labyrinths in Medieval Literature --CHAPTER SEVEN. Textual Labyrinths: Toward a Labyrinthine Aesthetic --PART THREE. Labyrinths of Words: Central Texts and I ntertextualities --CHAPTER EIGHT. Virgil's Aeneid --CHAPTER NINE. Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy --CHAPTER TEN. Dante's Divine Comedy --CHAPTER ELEVEN. Chaucer's House of Fame --APPENDIX. Labyrinths in Manuscripts --Index
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    Job, Boethius, and Epic Truth (2019)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 1501733257 , 9781501733253
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
    Keywords: Boethius ; Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Bible In literature ; Literature, Medieval Classical influences ; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) ; Typology (Theology) in literature ; Imitation in literature ; Literary form History To 1500 ; Epic literature History and criticism ; Theory, etc ; Bible ; De consolatione philosophiae (Boethius) ; LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval ; Imitation in literature ; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) ; Literary form ; Literature ; Literature, Medieval ; Classical influences ; Typology (Theology) in literature ; Bible ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; History
    Abstract: Frontmatter --Contents --Preface --Abbreviations --Introduction --1. Allegories of Logos and Eros --2. Boethius and Epic Truth --3. Job and Heroic Virtue --4. Hagiographic Romance --5. Boethian Lovers --6. Ghostly Chivalry --7. The Miltonic Trilogy --Conclusion --Bibliography --Index
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    The Public and the Private in Aristotle's Political Philosophy (2019)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 1501740830 , 9781501740831
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
    Keywords: Aristotle Political and social views ; Privacy, Right of ; Privacy Moral and ethical aspects ; Public interest ; PHILOSOPHY / Individual Philosophers ; Aristotle ; Political and social views ; Privacy ; Moral and ethical aspects ; Privacy, Right of ; Public interest
    Abstract: Frontmatter --Contents --Acknowledgments --A Note on Translations and Texts --Introduction --1. The Household : A Private Source of Public Morality --2. Mastery and Slavery --3. Women, the Public, and the Private --4. The Economy: A Public Place for Private Activity --5. Preservative Law: Ordering the Regime --6. Political Education: A Preface to Justice --7. Private Friends and Public Citizens --8. Philosophy: Reciprocity between the Most Private and the Public --Conclusion --Appendix --Bibliography --Index
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    Poets, Patrons, and Printers : Crisis of Authority in Late Medieval France (2019)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 1501742531 , 9781501742538
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
    Keywords: Lemaire de Belges, Jean ; Bouchet, Jean ; Molinet, Jean ; Gringore, Pierre ; Authorship History 16th century ; Copyright History 16th century ; Authors and publishers History 16th century ; Literature publishing History 16th century ; Renaissance ; LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval ; Gringore, Pierre ; Lemaire de Belges, Jean ; Molinet, Jean ; Bouchet, Jean ; Authors and publishers ; Authorship ; Copyright ; Literature publishing ; Renaissance ; France ; Paris ; France ; History
    Abstract: Frontmatter --Contents --List of Illustrations --Acknowledgments --Introduction --Chapter 1. Late Medieval Writers as Owners and Protectors of Their Texts --Chapter 2. Para textual Interaction between Poets and Book Producers --Chapter 3. The Changing Image of the Poet --Chapter 4. Changing Authorial Signatures in Late Medieval Books --Chapter 5. Authorial and Narrative Voices in Late Medieval Vernacular Texts --Afterword --Appendix 1. Documentation of Andre de Ia Vigne's 1504 Lawsuit and Bibliographical Data --Appendix 2. Bibliographical Data for Jean Lemaire de Belges --Appendix 3. Bibliographical Data for Jean Bouchet --Appendix 4. Bibliographical Data for Jean Molinet --Appendix 5. Bibliographical Data for Pierre Gringore --Bibliography --Index
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    Natural History of the Farm : A Guide to the Practical Study of the Sources of Our Living in Wild Nature (2019)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 1501740776 , 9781501740770
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 140 illustrations
    Edition: second edition
    Keywords: Natural history Outdoor books ; SCIENCE / Natural History ; SCIENCE / Natural history-discipline ; Natural history ; Guidebooks
    Abstract: Frontmatter --Preface --Contents --PART I. STUDIES FOR THE FALL TERM --PART II. STUDIES FOR THE SPRING TERM --PART III. STUDIES FOR THE SUMMER TERM --Outdoor Equipment --Index
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    Security, Loyalty, and Science (2019)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 1501740687 , 9781501740688
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Cornell Studies in Civil Liberties
    Keywords: Loyalty ; Scientists ; Electronic books ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International) ; Loyalty ; Scientists ; United States
    Abstract: Frontmatter --Preface --Contents --Introduction --I. Keeping Secrets --II. The Balance Sheet of Secrecy --III. The Proper Limits of Secrecy --IV. The Standards and Mechanics of Security Clearance --V. The Spreading of Security Requirements --VI. The Loyalty of Federal Scientists --VII. The Universities and Security Searcher --VIII. The Need for Fair Procedures --IX. Concluding Thoughts --Appendix A. Declassification Policy --Appendix B. AEC Criteria for Determining Eligibility for Personnel Security Clearance (January 5, I949) --Notes --Acknowledgments --Index
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    Scandal and Democracy : Media Politics in Indonesia (2019)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 9781501731044 , 9781501731068
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Keywords: Media studies
    Abstract: After a nation has transitioned from authoritarianism to democracy, how are democratic norms most effectively fostered and maintained? This book uses as its case study Indonesia after the fall of the dictator Suharto to reveal that a contentious, even scandal-obsessed press can actually prove extremely useful for an emergent democracy. A society that can tolerate and protect journalists willing to expose corruption and scandal among elites is one, the author finds, in which ordinary citizens are willing to believe in and support other democratic institutions. Based on extensive interviews and research in Indonesia, this book offers a new and surprising perspective on the role of the press and the nature of scandal-driven journalism in fledgling democracies
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    Making Space for the Dead : Catacombs, Cemeteries, and the Reimagining of Paris, 1780–1830 (2019)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501715617
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 16 b&w halftones, 1 map
    DDC: 393/.10944361
    Abstract: The dead of Paris, before the French Revolution, were most often consigned to mass graveyards that contemporaries described as terrible and terrifying, emitting "putrid miasmas" that were a threat to both health and dignity. In a book that is at once wonderfully macabre and exceptionally informative, Erin-Marie Legacey explores how a new burial culture emerged in Paris as a result of both revolutionary fervor and public health concerns, resulting in the construction of park-like cemeteries on the outskirts of the city and a vast underground ossuary. Making Space for the Dead describes how revolutionaries placed the dead at the center of their republican project of radical reinvention of French society and envisioned a future where graveyards would do more than safely contain human remains; they would serve to educate and inspire the living. Legacey unearths the unexpectedly lively process by which burial sites were reimagined, built, and used, focusing on three of the most important of these new spaces: the Paris Catacombs, Père Lachaise cemetery, and the short-lived Museum of French Monuments. By situating discussions of death and memory in the nation's broader cultural and political context, as well as highlighting how ordinary Parisians understood and experienced these sites, she shows how the treatment of the dead became central to the reconstruction of Parisian society after the Revolution.
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    DOI: 10.7591/9781501715617
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    The Comstocks of Cornell : John Henry Comstock and Anna Botsford Comstock (2019)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 1501740547 , 9781501740541
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 7 illustrations
    Keywords: Comstock, John Henry ; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Environmentalists & Naturalists ; Comstock, John Henry
    Abstract: Frontmatter --Foreword /Herrick, Glenn W. --Contents --Illustrations --1. John Henry Comstock, Childhood and Youth- 1849- 1864 --2. A Sailor and a Scholar - 1864-1869 --3. Student and Teacher at Cornell University- 1870- 1874 --4. Anna Botsford, Childhood and Youth- 1854-1874 --5. A Woman Student at Cornell University-1874-1876 --6. Marriage of Anna Botsford and Professor J. H. Comstock- 1876-1879 --7. As United States Entomologist-1879-1881 --8. Return to the Department of Entomology at Cornell - 1881-1888 --9. Studies of Entomology in Europe and America- 1888-1891 --10. Entomology at Stanford University; The Comstock Publishing Company- 1891-1897 --11. Nature Study Movement in New York State-1893- 1903 --12. Scientific Farming; Studies in the South- 1894-1903 --13. Nature Study Across a Continent- 1903-1906 --14. Sabbatic Year Abroad- 1907-1908 --15. Cornell's New Quarters for Entomology and Nature Study-1908-1912 --16. Summer in England; Plans for Retirement- 1912-1914 --17. Retirement of J. H. Comstock; Research and Writing- 1914-1917 --18. Retirement of Anna B. Comstock; Writing and Teaching- 1919-1921 --19. Tributes to Two Distinguished Scholars- 1921-1926 --20. "The Last of Life . . ."- 1926-1930 --APPENDIXES AND INDEX --"Sunset and Evening Star" /Herrick, Glenn W. --In Honor of the Comstocks of Cornell /Smith, Ruby Green --The Comstock Books /Herrick, Glenn W. / Smith, Ruby Green --Index
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    Textbook of Arthropod Anatomy (2019)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 1501740806 , 9781501740800
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 88 illustrations, 640 line drawings
    Keywords: Arthropoda ; Electronic books ; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / Invertebrates ; Arthropoda
    Abstract: Frontmatter --Preface --Contents --Introduction --I. The Trilobita --II. Limulus --III. The Eurypterida --IV. The Pycnogonida --V. The Arachnida --VI. The Crustacea --VII. The Chilopoda --VIII. The Diplopoda --IX. The Pauropoda --X. The Symphyla --XI. The Hexapoda --References --Subject index --Author index
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    Nature Guiding (2019)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 1501740865 , 9781501740862
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
    Keywords: Nature study ; Camping ; NATURE / Reference ; Camping ; Nature study
    Abstract: Frontmatter --PREFACE --TABLE OF CONTENTS --FOREWORD /Comstock, Anna Botsford --INTRODUCTION --PART I: NATURE LORE IN CAMP --PART II: NATURE-STUDY IN SCHOOLS --PART III: SUGGESTIONS FOR SOME NATURE-STUDY LESSONS --PART IV : NATURE GUIDING IN PARKS --Index
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    Commuter Spouses : New Families in a Changing World (2019)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501731198
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 306.3/6
    Abstract: What can we learn from looking at married partners who live apart? In Commuter Spouses: New Families in a Changing World, Danielle Lindemann explores how couples cope when they live apart to meet the demands of their dual professional careers. Based on the personal stories of almost one-hundred commuter spouses, Lindemann shows how these atypical relationships embody (and sometimes disrupt!) gendered constructions of marriage in the United States. These narratives of couples who physically separate to maintain their professional lives reveal the ways in which traditional dynamics within a marriage are highlighted even as they are turned on their heads. Commuter Spouses follows the journeys of these couples as they adapt to change and shed light on the durability of some cultural ideals, all while working to maintain intimacy in a non-normative relationship.Lindemann suggests that everything we know about marriage, and relationships in general, promotes the idea that couples are focusing more and more on their individual and personal betterment and less on their marriage. Commuter spouses, she argues, might be expected to exemplify in an extreme manner that kind of self-prioritization. Yet, as this book details, commuter spouses actually maintain a strong commitment to their marriage. These partners illustrate the stickiness of traditional marriage ideals while simultaneously subverting expectations.
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    Sovereignty Experiments : Korean Migrants and the Building of Borders in Northeast Asia, 1860-1945 (2019)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 9781501738371
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource , 6 b&w halftones, 5 maps
    Series Statement: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
    DDC: 305.8957/0509041
    Keywords: Geschichte 1860-1945 ; HISTORY / Asia / Korea ; Borderlands History ; Borderlands History ; Borderlands History ; Koreans History ; Koreans History ; Koreaner ; Grenze ; Souveränität ; Migration ; Tumen-Gebiet ; Tumen-Gebiet ; Koreaner ; Migration ; Grenze ; Souveränität ; Geschichte 1860-1945
    Abstract: Sovereignty Experiments tells the story of how authorities in Korea, Russia, China, and Japan—through diplomatic negotiations, border regulations, legal categorization of subjects and aliens, and cultural policies—competed to control Korean migrants as they suddenly moved abroad by the thousands in the late nineteenth century. Alyssa M. Park argues that Korean migrants were essential to the process of establishing sovereignty across four states because they tested the limits of state power over territory and people in a borderland where authority had been long asserted but not necessarily enforced. Traveling from place to place, Koreans compelled statesmen to take notice of their movement and to experiment with various policies to govern it. Ultimately, states' efforts culminated in drastic measures, including the complete removal of Koreans on the Soviet side. As Park demonstrates, what resulted was the stark border regime that still stands between North Korea, Russia, and China today.Skillfully employing a rich base of archival sources from across the region, Sovereignty Experiments sets forth a new approach to the transnational history of Northeast Asia. By focusing on mobility and governance, Park illuminates why this critical intersection of Asia was contested, divided, and later reimagined as parts of distinct nations and empires. The result is a fresh interpretation of migration, identity, and state making at the crossroads of East Asia and Russia
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    Earth Emotions : New Words for a New World (2019)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 9781501715242
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource
    DDC: 304.2
    Keywords: NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection ; Emotions Health aspects ; Environmentalism Philosophy ; Human ecology Philosophy ; Nature Effect of human beings on
    Abstract: As climate change and development pressures overwhelm the environment, our emotional relationships with Earth are also in crisis. Pessimism and distress are overwhelming people the world over. In this maelstrom of emotion, solastalgia, the homesickness you have when you are still at home, has become, writes Glenn A. Albrecht, one of the defining emotions of the twenty-first century.Earth Emotions examines our positive and negative Earth emotions. It explains the author's concept of solastalgia and other well-known eco-emotions such as biophilia and topophilia. Albrecht introduces us to the many new words needed to describe the full range of our emotional responses to the emergent state of the world. We need this creation of a hopeful vocabulary of positive emotions, argues Albrecht, so that we can extract ourselves out of environmental desolation and reignite our millennia-old biophilia—love of life—for our home planet. To do so, he proposes a dramatic change from the current human-dominated Anthropocene era to one that will be founded, materially, ethically, politically, and spiritually on the revolution in thinking being delivered by contemporary symbiotic science. Albrecht names this period the Symbiocene.With the current and coming generations, "Generation Symbiocene," Albrecht sees reason for optimism. The battle between the forces of destruction and the forces of creation will be won by Generation Symbiocene, and Earth Emotions presents an ethical and emotional odyssey for that victory
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    DOI: 10.7591/9781501715242
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    Plots against Russia : Conspiracy and Fantasy after Socialism (2019)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501716362
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 306.0947
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1992- ; Verschwörungstheorie ; Medien ; Massenkultur ; Russland
    Abstract: In this original and timely assessment of cultural expressions of paranoia in contemporary Russia, Eliot Borenstein samples popular fiction, movies, television shows, public political pronouncements, internet discussions, blogs, and religious tracts to build a sense of the deep historical and cultural roots of konspirologiia that run through Russian life. Plots against Russia reveals through dramatic and exciting storytelling that conspiracy and melodrama are entirely equal-opportunity in modern Russia, manifesting themselves among both pro-Putin elites and his political opposition. As Borenstein shows, this paranoid fantasy until recently characterized only the marginal and the irrelevant. Now, through its embodiment in pop culture, the expressions of a conspiratorial worldview are seen everywhere. Plots against Russia is an important contribution to the fields of Russian literary and cultural studies from one of its preeminent voices.
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    Anthropogenic Rivers : The Production of Uncertainty in Lao Hydropower (2019)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 9781501730924
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 6 b&w halftones, 1 b&w line drawing, 1 chart
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    Series Statement: Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
    DDC: 306.09594
    Keywords: Dams Environmental aspects ; Dams Social aspects ; Ethnology ; Human ecology ; Hydroelectric power plants Environmental aspects ; Hydroelectric power plants Social aspects ; Sustainable development Social aspects ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Production of Uncertainty -- Interlude. On the Postcolony (Engineering) -- 1. Hydropower’s Circle of Influence -- Interlude. What Is a Dam? -- 2. Vulnerable at Every Joint -- Interlude. Intimacy (Vetting) -- 3. Performance-Based Management -- Interlude. The Method of Uncertainty -- 4. The Ethics of Document Engineering -- Interlude. Interview Notes (Lightly Edited) -- 5. Anthropogenic Rivers -- Conclusion: Figuring the Anthropogenic -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Abstract: In the 2000s, Laos was treated as a model country for the efficacy of privatized, "sustainable" hydropower projects as viable options for World Bank-led development. By viewing hydropower as a process that creates ecologically uncertain environments, Jerome Whitington reveals how new forms of managerial care have emerged in the context of a privatized dam project successfully targeted by transnational activists. Based on ethnographic work inside the hydropower company, as well as with Laotians affected by the dam, he investigates how managers, technicians and consultants grapple with unfamiliar environmental obligations through new infrastructural configurations, locally-inscribed ethical practices, and forms of flexible experimentation informed by American management theory.Far from the authoritative expertise that characterized classical modernist hydropower, sustainable development in Laos has been characterized by a shift from the risk politics of the 1990s to an ontological politics in which the institutional conditions of infrastructure investment are pervasively undermined by sophisticated ‘hactivism.’ Whitington demonstrates how late industrial environments are infused with uncertainty inherent in the anthropogenic ecologies themselves. Whereas ‘anthropogenic’ usually describes human-induced environmental change, it can also show how new capacities for being human are generated when people live in ecologies shot through with uncertainty. Implementing what Foucault called a "historical ontology of ourselves," Anthropogenic Rivers formulates a new materialist critique of the dirty ecologies of late industrialism by pinpointing the opportunistic, ambitious and speculative ontology of capitalist natures
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    On the threshold of Eurasia : revolutionary poetics in the Caucasus (2018)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 9781501726507
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 276 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Parallel Title: Online version Feldman, Leah, author On the threshold of Eurasia
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Feldman, Leah On the threshold of Eurasia
    DDC: 899/.96
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    Keywords: Caucasian literature History and criticism 20th century ; Azerbaijani literature History and criticism 20th century ; Russian literature History and criticism 20th century ; Poetics History 20th century ; Insurgency in literature ; Azerbaijan Intellectual life 20th century ; Caucasus Relations ; Russia Relations ; Caucasus Relations ; Soviet Union Relations ; Sowjetunion ; Kaukasus ; Ethnizität ; Russisch ; Turksprachen ; Literatur ; Geschichte 1905-1929
    Abstract: "Explores the idea of the Russian and Soviet 'East' as a political, aesthetic and scientific system of ideas that contributed to the construction of Soviet discourses of ethnicity, empire, and literary modernity from 1905 to 1929"--
    Abstract: Introduction: heterodoxy and heterology on the threshold of Eurasia -- Parodic and messianic genealogies : reading Gogol in Azeri in the late imperial Caucasus -- Aesthetics of empathy : the Azeri subject in translations of Pushkin -- A window onto the East : Baku's avant-garde poetics and the translatio imperii -- Broken verse : the materiality of the symbol in new Turkic poetics -- Postscript : Latinization and Refili's "Window" onto Soviet Azerbaijan
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    Financial citizenship : experts, publics, and the politics of central banking (2018)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Ithaca, NY : Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
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    ISBN: 9781501732720
    Language: English
    Pages: 108 Seiten
    Additional Information: Kommentar in Fontan, Clément, 1985 - Book commentary on "Financial citizenship 2023
    Series Statement: Cornell global perspectives
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Riles, Annelise, author Financial citizenship
    DDC: 332.1/1
    Keywords: Zentralbank ; Zentralbankunabhängigkeit ; Geldpolitik ; Finanzmarktregulierung ; Finanzkrise ; Legitimität ; Vertrauen ; Öffentliche Meinung ; Welt ; Banks and banking, Central
    Abstract: "Government bailouts. Negative interest rates and markets that do not behave as economic models tell us they should. New populist and nationalist movements that target central banks and central bankers as a source of popular malaise. New regional organizations and geopolitical alignments laying claim to authority over the global economy. Households, consumers, and workers facing increasingly intolerable levels of inequality. These dramatic conditions seem to cry out for new ways of understanding the purposes, roles and challenges of central banks and financial governance more generally. Financial Citizenship reveals that the conflicts about who gets to decide how central banks do all these things, and about whether central banks are acting in everyone's interest when they do them are in large part the product of a culture clash between experts and the various global publics that have a stake in what central banks do"--
    Abstract: The legitimacy of central banking -- The challenge to the technocracy -- The culture of central banking -- Experts and the public -- Towards financial citizenship and a new legitimacy narrative -- A program for action -- Between the last financial crisis and the next one
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 101-108
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    Lesbian Mothers : Accounts of Gender in American Culture (2018)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501720031
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
    DDC: 306.874/3/086643
    Abstract: Within a society that long considered "lesbian motherhood" a contradiction in terms, what were the experiences of lesbian mothers at the end of the twentieth century? In this illuminating book, lesbian mothers tell their stories of how they became mothers; how they see their relationships with their children, relatives, lovers, and friends and with their children’s fathers and sperm donors; how they manage child-care arrangements and financial difficulties; and how they deal with threats to custody. Ellen Lewin’s unprecedented research on lesbian mothers in the San Francisco area captured a vivid portrait of the moment before gay and lesbian parenting moved into the mainstream of U.S. culture. Drawing on interviews with 135 women, Lewin provided her readers with a new understanding of the attitudes of individual women, the choices they made, and the texture of their daily lives.
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    DOI: 10.7591/9781501720031
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    Rezension zu: Makley, Charlene. The _battle for fortune : State-led development, personhood, and power among Tibetans in China (2018)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
    In:  American Anthropologist 2019, 121/3, S. 779-780
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    Pages: 324 S.
    Titel der Quelle: American Anthropologist
    Angaben zur Quelle: 2019, 121/3, S. 779-780
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    When the Hands Are Many : Community Organization and Social Change in Rural Haiti (2018)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501717970
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 1 map, 12 halftones, 1 table
    DDC: 303.4/097294/66
    Abstract: In an ethnography that challenges standard approaches to understanding the poor and disempowered, Jennie M. Smith's descriptions of peasant activity change what constitutes a democratic society. Through their civil institutions and artistic expression, Haitian peasants, widely known as some of the world's most impoverished, politically disempowered, and illiterate citizens, debate the meanings of development, democracy, and the public good.Smith offers a historically grounded overview of how the Haitian state and certain foreign powers have sought to develop rural Haiti and relates how Haitian peasants have responded to such efforts through words and deeds. The author argues that songs called chante pwen serve as "melodic machetes," a tool with which the peasants make their voices heard in many social circumstances.When the Hands Are Many illustrates the philosophies, styles, and structures typical of social organization in rural Haiti with narrative portraits of peasant organizations engaged in agricultural work parties, business meetings, religious ceremonies, social service projects, song sessions, and other activities. Smith integrates these organizations' strengths into a new vision for social change and asks what must happen in Haiti and elsewhere to facilitate positive transformation in the world today.
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    DOI: 10.7591/9781501717970
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    Improvisational Islam : Indonesian youth in a time of possibility (2018)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 9781501727863 , 9781501727856 , 1501727850 , 1501727869
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 182 Seiten
    Edition: First published
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Ibrahim, Nur Amali, author Improvisational Islam
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Ibrahim, Nur Amali Improvisational Islam
    DDC: 297.084/209598
    Keywords: Universitas Islam Negeri Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta Students ; Religion ; Universitas Indonesia Students ; Religion ; Universitas Islam Negeri Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta Students ; Religion ; Universitas Indonesia Students ; Religion ; Universitas Indonesia ; Universitas Islam Negeri Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta ; Islam Customs and practices ; Muslim youth Religious life ; Muslim college students Religious life ; Ethnology ; Muslim youth Religious life ; Indonesia ; Jakarta ; Muslim college students Religious life ; Indonesia ; Jakarta ; Islam Customs and practices ; Indonesia ; Jakarta ; Ethnology Indonesia ; Jakarta ; Ethnology ; Islam Customs and practices ; Muslim youth Religious life ; Indonesia ; Jakarta ; Indonesien ; Jugend ; Student ; Islam ; Alltag ; Indonesien ; Jugend ; Student ; Islam ; Alltag
    Abstract: The tremblingness of youths -- Religion unleashed -- Accounting for the soul -- Playing with scriptures -- From moderate Indonesia to Indonistan
    Abstract: "This book is about novel and unexpected ways of being Muslim, where religious dispositions are achieved through techniques that have little or no precedent in classical Islamic texts or concepts"--
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    On the Periphery of Europe, 1762–1825 : The Self-Invention of the Russian Elite (2018)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501757365
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (224 p.)
    Edition: 2020
    Series Statement: NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
    DDC: 305.5/20947
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    DOI: 10.1515/9781501757365
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    Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors : Symbolic Action in Human Society (2018)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 1501732846 , 9781501732843
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 3 maps, 3 charts
    Series Statement: Symbol, Myth and Ritual
    DDC: 301.2/1
    Keywords: Metaphor ; Rites and ceremonies ; Symbolism ; Metaphor ; Métaphore ; Rites et cérémonies ; metaphor ; SOCIAL SCIENCE - Anthropology - Cultural & Social ; Metaphor ; Rites and ceremonies ; Symbolism
    Abstract: In this book, Victor Turner is concerned with various kinds of social actions and how they relate to, and come to acquire meaning through, metaphors and paradigms in their actors' minds; how in certain circumstances new forms, new metaphors, new paradigms are generated. To describe and clarify these processes, he ranges widely in history and geography: from ancient society through the medieval period to modern revolutions, and over India, Africa, Europe, China, and Meso-America. Two chapters, which illustrate religious paradigms and political action, explore in detail the confrontation between Henry II and Thomas Becket and between Hidalgo, the Mexican liberator, and his former friends. Other essays deal with long-term religious processes, such as the Christian pilgrimage in Europe and the emergence of anti-caste movements in India. Finally, he directs his attention to other social phenomena such as transitional and marginal groups, hippies, and dissident religious sects, showing that in the very process of dying they give rise to new forms of social structure or revitalized versions of the old order
    Note: Frontmatter , Foreword , Contents , lllustrations , Preface , CHAPTER 1. Social Dramas and Ritual Metaphors , CHAPTER 2. Religious Paradigms and Political Action: Thomas Becket at the Council of Northampton , CHAPTER 3. Hidalgo: History as Social Drama , CHAPTER 4. The Word of the Dogon , CHAPTER 5. Pilgrimages as Social Processes , CHAPTER 6. Passages, Margins, and Poverty: Religious Symbols of Communitas , CHAPTER 7. Metaphors of Anti-structure in Religious Culture , lndex , In English
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    Contemporary Slavery : The Rhetoric of Global Human Rights Campaigns (2018)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 9781501718786
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource
    DDC: 306.3/62
    Keywords: Human rights ; Human trafficking ; Slavery ; Menschenrecht ; Menschenhandel ; Sklaverei ; Recht ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Sklaverei ; Menschenhandel ; Recht ; Menschenrecht
    Abstract: This volume brings together a cast of leading experts to carefully explore how the history and iconography of slavery has been invoked to support a series of government interventions, activist projects, legal instruments, and rhetorical performances. However well-intentioned these interventions might be, they nonetheless remain subject to a host of limitations and complications. Recent efforts to combat contemporary slavery are too often sensationalist, self-serving, and superficial and, therefore, end up failing the crucial test of speaking truth to power.The widely held notion that antislavery is one of those rare issues that "transcends" politics or ideology is only sustainable because the underlying issues at stake have been constructed and demarcated in a way that minimizes direct challenges to dominant political and economic interests. This must change. By providing an original approach to the underlying issues at stake, Contemporary Slavery will help readers understand the political practices that have been concealed beneath the popular rhetoric and establishes new conversations between scholars of slavery and trafficking and scholars of human rights and social movements.Contributors:Jean Allain, Jonathan Blagbrough, Roy Brooks, Annie Bunting, Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, Andrew Crane, Rhoda Howard-Hassmann, Fuyuki Kurasawa, Benjamin Lawrance, Joel Quirk, and Darshan Vigneswaran
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    Women's Activism and Social Change : Rochester, New York, 1822–1872 (2018)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501721755
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 22 tables
    DDC: 305.4/2/0974789
    Abstract: In Women's Activism and Social Change, Nancy A. Hewitt challenges the popular belief that the lives of antebellum women focused on their role in the private sphere of the family. Examining intense and well-documented reform movements in nineteenth-century Rochester, New York, Hewitt distinguishes three networks of women's activism: women from the wealthiest Rochester families who sought to ameliorate the lives of the poor; those from upwardly mobile families who, influenced by evangelical revivalism, campaigned to eradicate such social ills as slavery, vice, and intemperance; and those who combined limited economic resources with an agrarian Quaker tradition of communialism and religious democracy to advocate full racial and sexual equality.
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    More Than Words : Transforming Script, Agency, and Collective Life in Bali (2018)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 9781501725364
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (264 pages) , 30 b&w halftones, 3 figures
    DDC: 306.442992238
    Keywords: Asian Studies ; Religious Studies ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social ; Balinese language Alphabet ; Balinese language Social aspects ; Balinese language Writing ; Manuscripts, Balinese
    Abstract: Grounded in ethnographic and archival research on the Indonesian island of Bali, More Than Words challenges conventional understandings of textuality and writing as they pertain to the religious traditions of Southeast Asia. Through a nuanced study of Balinese script as employed in rites of healing, sorcery, and self-defense, Richard Fox explores the aims and desires embodied in the production and use of palm-leaf manuscripts, amulets, and other inscribed objects. Balinese often attribute both life and independent volition to manuscripts and copperplate inscriptions, presenting them with elaborate offerings. Commonly addressed with personal honorifics, these script-bearing objects may become partners with humans and other sentient beings in relations of exchange and mutual obligation. The question is how such practices of "the living letter" may be related to more recently emergent conceptions of writing-linked to academic philology, reform Hinduism, and local politics-which take Balinese letters to be a symbol of cultural heritage, and a neutral medium for the transmission of textual meaning. More than Words shows how Balinese practices of apotropaic writing-on palm-leaves, amulets, and bodies-challenge these notions, and yet coexist alongside them. Reflecting on this coexistence, Fox develops a theoretical approach to writing centered on the premise that such contradictory sensibilities hold wider significance than previously recognized for the history and practice of religion in Southeast Asia and beyond
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019) , In English
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    Wanderings : Sudanese Migrants and Exiles in North America (2018)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 9781501720406
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource , 1 map, 20 halftones
    Series Statement: The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
    DDC: 305.892/762407
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social ; Sudanese ; Sudanese ; Auswanderung ; USA ; Kanada ; Sudan ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Sudan ; Auswanderung ; Kanada ; Sudan ; Auswanderung ; USA
    Abstract: In one of the first books devoted to the experience of Sudanese immigrants and exiles in the United States, Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf places her community into context, showing its increasing historical and political significance. Abusharaf herself participates in many aspects of life in the migrant community and in the Sudan in ways that a non-Sudanese could not. Attending religious events, social gatherings, and meetings, Abusharaf discovers that a national sense of common Sudanese identity emerges more strongly among immigrants in North America than it does at home. Sudanese immigrants use informal transatlantic networks to ease the immigration process, and act on the local level to help others find housing and employment. They gather for political activism, to share feasts, and to celebrate marriages, always negotiating between tradition and the challenges of their new surroundings.Abusharaf uses a combination of conversations with Sudanese friends, interviews, and life histories to portray several groups among the Sudanese immigrant population: Southern war refugees, including the "Lost Boys of Sudan," spent years in camps in Kenya or Uganda; professionals were expelled from the Gulf because their country's rulers backed Iraq in the Gulf War; Christian Copts suffered from religious persecution in Sudan; and women migrated alone
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mrz 2019) , In English
    DOI: 10.7591/9781501720406
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    Gendering the Master Narrative : Women and Power in the Middle Ages (2018)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 9781501723957
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource , 3 tables, 2 maps, 17 halftones
    DDC: 305.4/09/02
    Keywords: Geschichte 500-1500 ; Literature, Medieval Women authors ; History and criticism ; Social history Medieval, 500-1500 ; Women and literature History To 1500 ; Women History Middle Ages, 500-1500 ; Macht ; Literatur ; Frau ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Frau ; Macht ; Literatur ; Geschichte 500-1500
    Abstract: Gendering the Master Narrative asks whether a female tradition of power might have existed distinct from the male one, and how such a tradition might have been transmitted. It describes women's progress toward power as a push-pull movement, showing how practices and institutions that ostensibly enabled women in the Middle Ages could sometimes erode their authority as well.This book provides a much-needed theoretical and historical reassessment of medieval women's power. It updates the conclusions from the editors' essential volume on that topic, Women and Power in the Middle Ages, which was published in 1988 and altered the prevailing view of female subservience by correcting the nearly ubiquitous equation of "power" with "public authority." Most scholars now accept a broader definition of power based on the interactions between men and women.In their Introduction, Mary C. Erler and Maryanne Kowaleski survey the directions in which the study of medieval women's agency has developed in the past fifteen years. Like its predecessor, this volume is richly interdisciplinary. It contains essays by highly regarded scholars of history, literature, and art history, and features seventeen black-and-white illustrations and two maps
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 19. Feb 2019) , In English
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    The Commander's Dilemma : Violence and Restraint in Wartime (2018)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 9781501726484
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (276 pages) , 6 b&w halftones, 4 charts
    DDC: 303.6
    Keywords: International Studies ; Security Studies ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International) ; Civilians in war Violence against ; Civilians in war Violence against ; Command of troops Psychological aspects ; Control (Psychology) ; Political socialization History 20th century ; Political violence Psychological aspects ; Political violence History 20th century
    Abstract: Why do some military and rebel groups commit many types of violence, creating an impression of senseless chaos, whereas others carefully control violence against civilians? A classic catch-22 faces the leaders of armed groups and provides the title for Amelia Hoover Green's book. Leaders need large groups of people willing to kill and maim-but to do so only under strict control. How can commanders control violence when fighters who are not under direct supervision experience extraordinary stress, fear, and anger? The Commander's Dilemma argues that discipline is not enough in wartime. Restraint occurs when fighters know why they are fighting and believe in the cause-that is, when commanders invest in political education.Drawing on extraordinary evidence about state and nonstate groups in El Salvador, and extending her argument to the Mano River wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone, Amelia Hoover Green shows that investments in political education can improve human rights outcomes even where rational incentives for restraint are weak-and that groups whose fighters lack a sense of purpose may engage in massive violence even where incentives for restraint are strong. Hoover Green concludes that high levels of violence against civilians should be considered a "default setting," not an aberration
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019) , In English
    DOI: 10.1515/9781501726484
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    Being Kammu : My Village, My Life (2018)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 9781501718984
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource
    DDC: 306.09594
    Keywords: Khmux27 (Southeast Asian people) ; Khmu ; Ethnosoziologie ; Khmu ; Ethnosoziologie
    Abstract: Combining autobiography and ethnography, Damrong Tayanin examines the lifestyles, customs, practices, and beliefs of the Kammu people by describing his own early experiences
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Okt 2018) , In English
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    Epic Singers and Oral Tradition (2018)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 9781501731921
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    Series Statement: Myth and Poetics
    Keywords: Epic poetry History and criticism ; Oral tradition ; Oral-formulaic analysis ; LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical
    Abstract: Albert Bates Lord here offers an unparalleled overview of the nature of oral-traditional epic songs and the practices of the singers who composed them. Shaped by the conviction that theory should be based on what singers actually do, and have done in times past, the essays collected here span half a century of Lord's research on the oral tradition from Homer to the twentieth century.Drawing on his extensive fieldwork in living oral traditions and on the theoretical writings of Milman Parry, Lord concentrates on the singers and their art as manifested in texts of performance. In thirteen essays, some previously unpublished and all of them revised for book publication, he explores questions of composition, transmittal, and interpretation and raises important comparative issues. Individual chapters discuss aspects of the Homeric poems, South Slavic oral-traditional epics, the songs of Avdo Metedovic, Beowulf and Anglo-Saxon poetry, the medieval Greek Digenis Akritas and other medieval epics, central Asiatic and Balkan epics, the Finnish Kalevala, and the Bulgarian oral epic.The work of one of the most respected scholars of his generation, Epic Singers and Oral Tradition will be an invaluable resource for scholars and students of myth and folklore, classicists, medievalists, Slavists, comparatists, literary theorists, and anthropologists
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword / Nagy, Gregory -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. Words Heard and Words Seen -- CHAPTER 2. Homer's Originality: Oral Dictated Texts -- CHAPTER 3. Homeric Echoes In Bihac -- CHAPTER 4. Avdo Mededovic, Guslar -- CHAPTER 5. Homer as an Oral-Traditional Poet -- CHAPTER 6. The Kalevala, the South Slavic Epics, and Homer -- CHAPTER 7. Beowulf and Odysseus -- CHAPTER 8. Interlocking Mythic Patterns in Beowulf -- CHAPTER 9. The Formulaic Structure of Introductions to Direct Discourse in Beowulf and Elene -- CHAPTER 10. The Influence of a Fixed Text -- CHAPTER 11. Notes on Digenis Akritas and Serbo-Croatian Epic -- CHAPTER 12. Narrative Themes in Bulgarian Oral-Traditional Epic and Their Medieval Roots -- CHAPTER 13. Central Asiatic and Balkan Epic -- Bibliography -- Index
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    DOI: 10.7591/9781501731921
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    Think Global, Fear Local : Sex, Violence, and Anxiety in Contemporary Japan (2018)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
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    ISBN: 9781501727580
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource , 7 halftones, 1 chart/graph
    DDC: 306.0952/090511
    Keywords: Asian Studies ; Sociology & Social Science ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General ; Fear Social aspects ; Sex Social aspects ; Violence Social aspects ; Sexualität ; Furcht ; Soziale Situation ; Gewalt ; Jugend ; Gesellschaft ; Japan ; Japan ; Furcht ; Gesellschaft ; Japan ; Jugend ; Sexualität ; Japan ; Gewalt ; Soziale Situation
    Abstract: In 1999, responding to international concerns about the sexual exploitation of children, the Japanese Diet voted unanimously to ban child prostitution and child pornography. Two years later, in the wake of 9/11, Junichiro Koizumi's cabinet radically shifted government counterterrorism policy toward new military solutions, and away from an earlier emphasis on law enforcement. Although they seem unrelated, these two policies reveal the unintended consequences of attempts to enforce international norms at the national level.In Think Global, Fear Local, David Leheny posits that when states abide by international agreements to clamp down on transnational crime and security concerns, they respond not to an amorphous international problem but rather to more deeply held and proximate fears.Although opponents of child prostitution and pornography were primarily concerned about the victimization of children in poor nations by wealthy foreigners, the Japanese law has been largely used to crack down on "compensated dating," in which middle-class Japanese schoolgirls date and sometimes have sex with adults. Many Japanese policymakers viewed these girls as villains, and subsequent legal developments have aimed to constrain teenage sexual activities as well as to punish predatory adults. Likewise, following changes in the country's counterterrorism policy, some Japanese leaders have redefined a host of other threats-especially from North Korea-as "terrorist" menaces requiring a more robust and active Japanese military.Drawing from sources as diverse as parliamentary debate records and contemporary film and literature, Leheny uses these two very different cases to argue that international norms can serve as political tools, allowing states to enhance their coercive authority
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2019) , In English
    DOI: 10.7591/9781501727580
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