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A Multidisciplinary Approach to Obstetric Fistula in Africa
This book applies a multi-disciplinary lens to examine obstetric fistula, a childbirth injury that results from prolonged, obstructed labor. While obstetric fistula can be prevented with emergency obstetric care, it continues to occur primarily in resource-limited settings. In this volume, specialists in the anthropological, psychological, public health, and biomedical disciplines, as well as health policy experts and representatives of governmental and non-governmental organizations discuss a scoping overview on obstetric fistula, including prevention, treatment, and reducing stigma for survivors. This comprehensive resource is useful in understanding the risk factors, epidemiology, and soc...
The Films of Denys Arcand
Denys Arcand is best known outside Canada for three films that were nominated for Academy Awards for Best Foreign-Language Film: The Decline of the American Empire (1986), Jesus of Montreal (1989), and The Barbarian Invasions (2003), the last of which won the Award. Yet Arcand has been making films since the early 1960s. When he started making films, Quebec was rapidly transforming from a relatively homogeneous community, united by its Catholic faith and French language and culture, into a more fragmented modern society. The Films of Denys Arcand sheds light on how Arcand addressed the impact of these changes from the 1960s, when the long-drawn-out debate on Quebec's possible separation from the rest of Canada began, to the present, in which the traditional cultural heritage has been further fragmented by the increasing presence of diasporic communities. His career and films offer an ideal case study for exploring the contradictions and tensions that have shaped Quebec cinema and culture in a period of increasing globalization and technological change.
Contemporary Indigenous Cosmologies and Pragmatics
In this timely collection, the authors examine Indigenous peoples’ negotiations with different cosmologies in a globalized world. Dussart and Poirier outline a sophisticated theory of change that accounts for the complexity of Indigenous peoples’ engagement with Christianity and other cosmologies, their own colonial experiences, as well as their ongoing relationships to place and kin. The contributors offer fine-grained ethnographic studies that highlight the complex and pragmatic ways in which Indigenous peoples enact their cosmologies and articulate their identity as forms of affirmation. This collection is a major contribution to the anthropology of religion, religious studies, and Indigenous studies worldwide. Contributors: Anne-Marie Colpron, Robert R. Crépeau, Françoise Dussart, Ingrid Hall, Laurent Jérôme, Frédéric Laugrand, C. James MacKenzie, Caroline Nepton Hotte, Ksenia Pimenova, Sylvie Poirier, Kathryn Rountree, Antonella Tassinari, Petronella Vaarzon-Morel
Cinema of Pain
Since the defeat of the pro-sovereigntists in the 1995 Quebec referendum, the loss of a cohesive nationalistic vision in the province has led many Québécois to use their ancestral origins to inject meaning into their everyday lives. A Cinema of Pain argues that this phenomenon is observable in a pervasive sense of nostalgia in Quebec culture and is especially present in the province’s vibrant but deeply wistful cinema. In Québécois cinema, nostalgia not only denotes a sentimental longing for the bucolic pleasures of bygone French-Canadian traditions, but, as this edited collection suggests, it evokes the etymological sense of the term, which underscores the element of pain (algos) associated with the longing for a return home (nostos). Whether it is in grandiloquent historical melodramas such as Séraphin: un homme et son péché (Binamé 2002), intimate realist dramas like Tout ce que tu possèdes (Émond 2012), charming art films like C.R.A.Z.Y. (Vallée 2005), or even gory horror movies like Sur le Seuil (Tessier 2003), the contemporary Québécois screen projects an image of shared suffering that unites the nation through a melancholy search for home.
Mémoire de Mémoires
Le musée a cette faculté de rendre visibles des éléments de culte et de culture qu'il remet symboliquement en circulation en les insérant dans un récit habituellement nouveau. C'est d'ailleurs le propre du musée que de convoquer au regard des autres des objets souvent oubliés, que l'institution ramène en mémoire publique par leur mise en espace, laquelle se trouve, à son tour, structurée par un récit. Or, c'est effectivement ce rôle qu'a joué l'exposition Mémoires pendant plus de quinze ans au Musée de la civilisation, en traitant de l'identité culturelle des Québécois. Muséologues et des chercheurs de diverses disciplines ont été conviés à réfléchir au rôle de M...
La réserve muséale de la Capitale nationale
La réserve muséale de la capitale nationale a vu le jour. Le présent ouvrage rappelle les analyses et les stratégies qui ont soutenu le vaste chantier de la nouvelle réserve, et décrit une partie des gestes qui ont favorisé le déménagement et l'aménagement des collections dans ses nouveaux espaces, hautement performants et sécuritaires. Les images témoignent de l'ampleur et de la spécificité de ces nouveaux espaces comme des soins dont ont été entourés les artefacts des collections nationales pendant leur transport. Inspirée et conseillée par les diverses institutions et les collègues qu'elle a consultés pour éclairer ses gestes, et reconnaissante envers ceux-ci, l'équipe de réalisation de la nouvelle réserve rend publique, dans ces pages, sa propre expérience alors qu'elle se sent envahie par la satisfaction de l'ouvrage accompli et réussi.
La responsabilité de protéger : écologie et dignité
Ce colloque a eu pour objectif de proposer la dignité à titre de nouveau paradigme pour penser, orienter et imprégner les actions visant à préserver les écosystèmes mondiaux et à assainir les relations humaines concernées. Nous avons tenté de montrer que le respect de « la dignité inhérente à tous les membres de la famille humaine », telle qu’elle a été rappelée dans la Déclaration universelle des droits de l’homme de 1948, appelle au respect de notre oikos (« habitat ») auquel renvoie le mot « écologie », bref de notre « maison commune ». Il importait aussi de s’éveiller encore plus à notre dignité d’agents libres, en vertu de laquelle nous avons à rép...
The Writings of Charles De Koninck
The Writings of Charles De Koninck, volumes 1 and 2, present the first English editions of collected works of the Catholic Thomist philosopher Charles De Koninck (1906–1965). Ralph McInerny (1929–2010) was the project editor and prepared the excellent translations. Volume 1 contains writings ranging from De Koninck’s 1934 dissertation at the University of Louvain on the philosophy of Sir Arthur Eddington, to two remarkable early essays on indeterminism and the unpublished book The Cosmos. The short essay “Are the Experimental Sciences Distinct from the Philosophy of Nature?” demonstrates for the first time De Koninck’s distinctive view on the relation between philosophy of nature and the experimental sciences. Volume 1 also includes a comprehensive introductory essay by Leslie Armour outlining the structure and themes of De Koninck's philosophy, and a biographical essay by De Koninck’s son, Thomas.
