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African Folklore
Written by an international team of experts, this is the first work of its kind to offer comprehensive coverage of folklore throughout the African continent. Over 300 entries provide in-depth examinations of individual African countries, ethnic groups, religious practices, artistic genres, and numerous other concepts related to folklore. Featuring original field photographs, a comprehensive index, and thorough cross-references, African Folklore: An Encyclopedia is an indispensable resource for any library's folklore or African studies collection. Also includes seven maps.
Corpsman
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Learning Religion
On learning religion : an introduction / David Berliner and Ramon Sarró -- Learning to believe : a preliminary approach / Carlo Severi -- Menstrual slaps and first blood celebrations : inference, simulation and the learning of ritual / Michael Houseman -- The accidental in religious instruction : ideas and convictions / David Parkin -- On catching up with oneself : learning to know that one means what one does / Michael Lambek -- How do you learn to know that it is God who speaks? / T.M. Luhrmann -- How to learn in an Afro-Brazilian spirit possession religion : ontology and multiplicity in Candomblé / Marcio Goldman -- Learning to be a proper medium : middle-class womanhood and spirit mediumship at Christian rationalist séances in Cape Verde / João Vasconcelos -- Copyright and authorship : ritual speech and the new market of words in Toraja / Aurora Donzelli -- Learning faith : young Christians and catechism / Laurence Hérault -- What is interesting about Chinese religion / Charles Stafford -- The sound of witchcraft : noise as mediation in religious transmission / Michael Rowlands.
La Causa
Accepted notions of demographics in the United States often contend that Latinos have traditionally been confined to the Southwest and urban centers of the East Coast, but Latinos have been living in the Midwest since the late nineteenth century. Their presence has rarely been documented and studied, in spite of their widespread participation in the industrial development of the Midwest, its communications infrastructure and labor movements. The populations of Puerto Rican, Mexican, Cuban and other Hispanic origins living in the region have often been seen as removed not only from mainstream America but also from the movements for human and civil rights that dominated Latino public discourse in the Southwest and Northeast during the 1960s and 1970s. In the first text examining Latinos in this region, historians and social science scholars have come together to document and evaluate the efforts and progress toward social justice. Distinguished scholars examine such diverse topics as advocacy efforts, civil rights and community organizations, Latina Civil Rights efforts, ethnic diversity and political identity, effects of legislation for Homeland Security, and political empowerment.
Voices-- Visions--
A compilation of winning essays written by 6, 7-9, 10-12, 13-15 and 16-19 age groups. These essays describe their dreams of how to improve the quality of life for their people someday, or, how they plan to use their education to fulfill their dreams of making the quality of life better for their people.
Mexican Chicago
Photographs from family archives, museums, and university collections capture the cultural, economic, and religious history of Chicago's Mexican communities, providing images of such neighborhoods as Pilsen, Little Village, Back of the Yards, and South Deering.
Do I Need It? (And What if I Do?)
This complete guide explores the ins and outs of cosmetic surgery in order to facilitate a positive and transformative experience.
The Concert
A group of Albanian friends are torn apart by the political turmoil of the mid 1970s, as the nation's diplomatic ties with China begin to unravel, and their personal entanglements follow suit in the face of governmental insecurity.
The Request and the Gift in Religious and Humanitarian Endeavors
This collection revisits classical anthropological treatments of the gift by documenting how people may be valued both through the requests they make and through what they give. Many humanitarian practitioners, the authors propose, regard giving to those in need as the epitome of moral action but are liable to view those people’s requests for charity as merely utilitarian. Yet in many religious discourses, prayers and requests for alms are highly valued as moral acts, obligatory for establishing relationships with the divine. Framing the moral qualities of asking and giving in conjunction with each other, the contributors explore the generation of trust and mistrust, the politics of charity and accountability, and tensions between universalism and particularism in religious philanthropy.
