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The Sociology of Arts and Markets
This edited collection offers an in-depth analysis of the complex and changing relationship between the arts and their markets. Highly relevant to almost any sociological exploration of the arts, this interaction has long been approached and studied. However, rapid and far-reaching economic changes have recently occurred. Through a number of new empirical case studies across multiple artistic, historic and geographical settings, this volume illuminates the developments of various art markets, and their sociological analyses. The contributions include chapters on artistic recognition and exclusion, integration and self-representation in the art market, sociocultural changes, the role of the gallery owner, and collectives, rankings, and constraints across the cultural industries. Drawing on research from Japan, Switzerland, France, Italy, China, the US, UK, and more, this rich and global perspective challenges current debates surrounding art and markets, and will be an important reference point for scholars and students across the sociology of arts, cultural sociology and culture economy.
Amerindian Rebirth
Until now few people have been aware of the prevalence of belief in some form of rebirth or reincarnation among North American native peoples. This collection of essays by anthropologists and one psychiatrist examines this concept among native American societies, from near the time of contact until the present day. Amerindian Rebirth opens with a foreword by Gananath Obeyesekere that contrasts North American and Hindu/Buddhist/Jain beliefs. The introduction gives an overview, and the first chapter summarizes the context, distribution, and variety of recorded belief. All the papers chronicle some aspect of rebirth belief in a number of different cultures. Essays cover such topics as seventeen...
LITTLE DID WE KNOW
Little Did We Know by Patricia Holder is a nonfiction Christian memoir that tells the story of the author's husband's diagnosis with retinitis pigmentosa. Patricia's memoir is a treasure trove of humorous and heartbreaking stories from her childhood, her courtship with her husband, Len, and their life together after Len goes blind. Caretakers and family members of patients with retinitis pigmentosa or other eye diseases will find inspiration, comfort, and support in this memoir. Christian faith plays a large role in the story of Little Did We Know, as Patricia Holder shares about turning to God during this struggle with retinitis pigmentosa. Each chapter in the book points to truth in Scripture about the Lord's faithfulness and power to save despite their suffering from retinitis pigmentosa. Throughout the good times and the bad, Patricia turns toward the Lord for peace throughout life's storms.
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The Key of Solomon
Hard-bitten detective novel meets supernatural thriller in this story of a downtrodden police consultant reeling from a need for booze and the loss of a his family as he faces a fiendish cult that has a way of getting inside his head.Political power-plays and increases in occult happenings are beginning to shake certain parts of the U.S. in the near future. A powerful ancient cult makes its comeback in the strange "land of enchantment," New Mexico. Jack Salter is ordered to shut the cult down...nevermind that the last "cult cop" that tackled this case is now a horribly disfigured shell of a man. Police crime thriller merges with pyschological/superantural suspense in the "Key of Solomon."
Children and War
"This anthology is breathtaking in its geographic and temporal sweep."—Canadian Journal of History The American media has recently "discovered" children's experiences in present-day wars. A week-long series on the plight of child soldiers in Africa and Latin America was published in Newsday and newspapers have decried the U.S. government's reluctance to sign a United Nations treaty outlawing the use of under-age soldiers. These and numerous other stories and programs have shown that the number of children impacted by war as victims, casualties, and participants has mounted drastically during the last few decades. Although the scale on which children are affected by war may be greater today...
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