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We Live in the Water
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 235

We Live in the Water

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2024-02-06
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  • Publisher: JHU Press

"This work illustrates how people like Smith Islanders claim their lives in an ecologically changing unstable place"--

Czech Political Prisoners
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 193

Czech Political Prisoners

Czech Political Prisoners: Recovering Face is the story of men and women who survived Czechoslovakian concentration camps under the Communist regime. Men and women disappeared, were arrested, imprisoned, interrogated, tortured, put on trial, convicted, and sentenced to forced labor camps. In 1948 in Czechoslovakia, political others became political prisoners. New forms of political practices developed under the institution of the totalitarian Czechoslovakian communist state. This new regime of totalitarian political power produced culturally specific forms of organized political violence. Between 1948 and 1989 some citizens recognized by the state as political others were subjected to such r...

The Politics of Joking
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 207

The Politics of Joking

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-10-25
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book engages anthropologically with humor as political expression. It reveals how humor is in many instances central to human efforts to cope with political struggle and significant to understanding power dynamics in socio-political life. The chapters examine humor and joking activities across a diverse range of geographic areas and cultural contexts. The contributors consider humor as it is constituted in political anxiety, aggression and power, and when it becomes a tool to resist, repair, reconcile or make a moral claim. Collectively they demonstrate that humor can provide a powerful critique, a non-violent form of political protest and the space for restoration of human dignity.

American Learned Men and Women with Czechoslovak Roots
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1357

American Learned Men and Women with Czechoslovak Roots

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-11-18
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  • Publisher: AuthorHouse

Apart from a few articles, no comprehensive study has been written about the learned men and women in America with Czechoslovak roots. That’s what this compendium is all about, with the focus on immigration from the period of mass migration and beyond, irrespective whether they were born in their European ancestral homes or whether they have descended from them. Czech and Slovak immigrants, including Bohemian Jews, have brought to the New World their talents, their ingenuity, their technical skills, their scientific knowhow, and their humanistic and spiritual upbringing, reflecting upon the richness of their culture and traditions, developed throughout centuries in their ancestral home. Th...

Politics of Joking
  • Language: en

Politics of Joking

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book engages anthropologically with humor as political expression. It reveals how humor is in many instances at the center of human efforts to cope with political struggle and a significant key to understanding power dynamics in socio-political life. The chapters examine humor and joking activities across a diverse range of geographic areas and cultural contexts. The contributors consider humor as it is constituted in political anxiety, aggression and power, and when it becomes a tool to resist, repair, reconcile or make a moral claim. Collectively they demonstrate that humor can provide a powerful critique, a non-violent form of political protest and the space for restoration of human dignity.

Citizenship, Democracy and Belonging in Suburban Britain
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 228

Citizenship, Democracy and Belonging in Suburban Britain

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-10-12
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  • Publisher: UCL Press

A study of the conditions of being a citizen, belonging and democracy in suburban Britain, this book focuses on understanding how a community takes on the social responsibility and pressures of being a good citizen through what they call ‘stupid’ events, festivals and parades. Building a community is perceived to be an important and necessary act to enable resilience against the perceived threats of neoliberal socio-economic life such as isolation, selfishness and loss of community. Citizenship, Democracy and Belonging in Suburban Britain explores how authoritative knowledge is developed, maintained and deployed by this group as they encounter other ‘social projects’, such as the loc...

The Oyster
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 286

The Oyster

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1891
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Disappearing Islands of the Chesapeake
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 206

The Disappearing Islands of the Chesapeake

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005-06-17
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  • Publisher: JHU Press

An appendix documents the many small islands that have dropped entirely from view since the seventeenth century.

Susquehanna, River of Dreams
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 344

Susquehanna, River of Dreams

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1995-03
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  • Publisher: JHU Press

In Susquehanna, River of Dreams award-winning journalist Susan Q. Stranahan tells the sweeping story of one of America's great rivers – ranging in time from the Susquehanna's geologic origins to the modern threats to its eco-system, describing human settlements, industry and pollution, and recent efforts to save the river and its "drowned estuary," the Chesapeake Bay. The result is a unique natural history of the vast Susquehanna watershed and a compelling look at environmental issues of national importance.

Finding Wildflowers in the Washington-Baltimore Area
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 336

Finding Wildflowers in the Washington-Baltimore Area

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1995-03
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  • Publisher: Unknown

The mid-Atlantic region is home to hundreds of wildflower species; this guide focuses on those in specific parks, trails, riverbanks, marshes and other natural areas in Washington, Baltimore, and outward to the Chesapeake Bay's Eastern Shore and the Blue Ridge Mountains. The authors (a botanist, a science writer, and a biology teacher) list flowers by location, species, and blooming date, with line drawings and detailed directions. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR