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"Peasants tell tales," one prominent cultural historian tells us (Robert Darnton). Scholars must then determine and analyze what it is they are saying and whether or not to incorporate such tellings into their histories and ethnographies. Challenging the dominant culturalist approach associated with Clifford Geertz and Marshall Sahlins among others, this book presents a critical rethinking of the philosophical anthropologies found in specific histories and ethnographies and thereby bridges the current gap between approaches to studies of peasant society and popular culture. In challenging the methodology and theoretical frameworks currently used by social scientists interested in aspects of popular culture, the author suggests a common discursive ground can be found in an historical anthropology that recognizes how myths, fairytales and histories speak to a universal need for imagining oneself in different timescapes and for linking one's local world with a "known" larger world.
A born naturalist and a fearless traveler, Vladimir Dinets wrote travel guides, conducted field research, and lived a couple of lives before he was accepted into the PhD program in zoology at the University of Miami. He thought crocodiles were a dead-end research topic—survivors from the age of the dinosaurs but not much else—until he witnessed groups of up to seventy alligators performing mating choruses that included infrasound vibrations—a form of communication extremely rare in nature—and a “dance” unknown in the scientific literature but that resembled a scene from Jurassic Park. To prove his thesis about the language of crocodiles, he spent the next six years traveling arou...
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The management of social, religious and ethnic diversity is a key social policy concern in Britain, and Muslims in particular have become a focus of attention in recent years. This timely and topical volume examines the position of Muslims in Britain and how they are changing and making social, political and religious space. With contributions from world renowned scholars on British Muslims and from policy makers writing on issues of concern to Muslims and others alike, the book explores how British Muslims are changing social and religious spaces such as mosques and the role of women, engaging in politics, creating media and other resources, and thus developing new perspectives on Islam and...
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The vast Deccan plateau of south-central India stretches from the Arabian Sea to the Bay of Bengal. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the region was home to several major Muslim kingdoms and became a nexus of international trade — most notably in diamonds and textiles, through which the sultanates attained remarkable wealth. The opulent art of the Deccan courts, invigorated by cultural connections to the Middle East, Africa, and Europe, developed an otherworldly character distinct from that of the contemporary Mughal north: in painting, a poetic lyricism and audacious use of color; in the decorative arts, lively creations of inlaid metalware and painted and dyed textiles; and in ...
The Present Volume Narrates The Tenth Voyage Conducted By The East India Company During The Years 1612-14. The Most Notable Achievement Of The Mission Was The Settlement Of A Factory At Surat And Victory Over The Portuguese, Thus Boosting The National Spirit Of The British And Providing The Establishment Of Hopeful Commerce In India.
Combining areas of Tokyo, Cairo, London, New York, Rome, Mumbai and Rio de Janeiro, architect Nigel Coates presents Ecstacity. It is a place of cultural clashes and hybrids. where the real and imaginary sit side by side in a kaleidoscope of colour, drawings, maps, photographs and words.
2011. Two years before Snowden. 24-year-old Finn returned from Japan last year, a Darknet impresario with Yakuza ties. He hides in plain sight as an MBA consultant in the gig economy, alias: APHID GRIN Chlöe struts into his coffee bar scene uptown, a fashionable grad-school dropout all about fast cars and Patrôn. Pulling him into her limelight of nightclubs and upscale parties, she thinks she’s figured him out—but she has no idea. He plays his double life against both sides. But when a foiled heist wipes out his hacker team, Finn loses himself within his rising celebrity as young society’s latest It-girl, unsure of the way back or a way out…elf?