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The French Atlantic
The French Atlantic is a compelling and timely contribution to ongoing debates about nationhood, culture, and “Frenchness” that have come to define France and its diaspora in light of the diplomatic fracas surrounding the Iraq war and other mass cultural events. With interdisciplinary navigation of fields nearly as diverse as the locations he explores, Bill Marshall considers the cultural history of seven different French Atlantic spaces—from Quebec to the southern Caribbean to North Atlantic territory and back to metropolitan France—in this groundbreaking study of the Atlantic world.
The Larder
"This edited collection presents articles in southern food studies by a range of writers, from established scholars like Psyche Williams-Forson to emerging scholars like Rien Fertel. All are chosen for a combination of accessible writing and solid scholarship and offer stories and historical details that add to our understanding of the complexities of southern food and foodways. The editors have chosen to organize the collection by methodology in part in order to escape what reader Belasco calls "the tradition-inventing, nostalgic approach of so many books about regional foodways." They also aim to advance the field by presenting articles that represent a range of tools and methodologies from disciplines such as history, geography, social sciences, American studies, gender studies, literary theory, visual and aural studies, cultural studies and technology studies that make up the amazingly multifaceted world of academic food studies, in hopes that this structure can help further a conversation about best practices"--
Silencing the Thunder
Susan Dax is coerced by the American Intelligence into not only aiding an unethical shady friend, who has been captured and imprisoned, but also to look into the theft of an undisclosed weapon. The developing plot takes her from the easy confines of Washington, DC, to Yemen, across the Middle East and the Mediterraneanending with her being double-crossed, captured, and at the mercy of an extremist intent on poisoning and delving a crippling blow to the American public. The capers involving Stevenson Mukoros masterly creation of Susan Dax is a sexy English compliment to Lara Croft and Flemings James Bond. She and Mr. Seymour Krakauer have lost none of their influence and constant-moving action flurry. The ambiance of raw espionage and no-holds barred fight scenes come floating back like biting cordite smoke. The Susan Dax series of novels now number eight titles.
The Handbook of Contemporary Animism
The Handbook of Contemporary Animism brings together an international team of scholars to examine the full range of animist worldviews and practices. The volume opens with an examination of recent approaches to animism. This is followed by evaluations of ethnographic, cognitive, literary, performative, and material culture approaches, as well as advances in activist and indigenous thinking about animism. This handbook will be invaluable to students and scholars of Religion, Sociology and Anthropology.
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Adolescent Psychology Around the World
This book paints a portrait of adolescent psychology in 4 major regions: Africa/the Middle East, Asia, the Americas, and Europe. Featuring 24 revised and updated chapters from the International Encyclopedia of Adolescence (2007), readers are introduced to the way the majority of the world’s adolescents actually live. Most contributors are indigenous to the country they review. As a whole the book paints an engaging panorama of adolescent life around the world, broadening students’ cultural perspective. All chapters follow the same template to make it easier to compare topics across countries: Background (including demographics, ethnic diversity, and political system), Period of Adolescen...
Nos années HEC
HEC, dans une vie, c'est une expérience qui ne s'oublie pas. Plus qu'une expérience peut-être, une identité. Après les années d'ascétisme des classes préparatoires et le redoutable concours d'intégration, les activités organisées par le BDE, les soirées à la " K-fêt " ou les palabres dans les couloirs de l'internat semblent autant de rituels initiatiques... Qu'on l'ait abhorrée ou adorée, à la Maison des élèves du boulevard Malesherbes ou sur le campus de Jouy-en-Josas, cette vie en communauté ne laisse pas indifférent. La plupart des anciens en rêve encore avec nostalgie. Dans cet ouvrage pétillant, Christie Vanbremeersch se perche sur ses propres attaches avec l'école et trouve un écho polyphonique dans les entretiens réalisés avec ses prestigieux aînés ou successeurs. Ils évoquent leurs motivations, leurs souvenirs et surtout les liens qui les attachent encore, bien des années après, à leur école. Emanant d'une communauté de 25 000 individualités, de quels liens "l'esprit HEC" est-il tissé ? Portrait de l'une des plus prestigieuses écoles de France.
The Other Hybrid Archipelago
The Other Hybrid Archipelago presents the postcolonial literatures of the Francophone Indian Ocean islands to an Anglophone audience. The islands of Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion, the Comoros, and the Seychelles form a region that has a particular cultural identity because of the varied mixture of populations that have settled there and the dominant influence of French colonialism. This survey concentrates on the period since the Second World War, when most of the islands achieved independence, except for Reunion and Mayotte, which maintain a regional status within the French Republic. The postcolonial approach suggests certain recurrent themes and preoccupations of the islands' cultures and an appropriate way to define their recent cultural production, while taking account of the burden of their colonial past. The rich cocktail of cultural and linguistic influences surveyed is situated in relation to the contemporary political and social context of the islands and their marginal status within the global economy.
