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Restaging the Past is the first edited collection devoted to the study of pageants in Britain, ranging from its Edwardian origins to the present day. The volume highlights pageants as a key aspect of community history during a period of great social and political change.
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Restaging the Past is the first edited collection devoted to the study of pageants in Britain, ranging from its Edwardian origins to the present day. The volume highlights pageants as a key aspect of community history during a period of great social and political change.
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O "batuque" possui uma história múltipla. O termo foi empregado para designar diferentes práticas musicais e tipos de performance produzidos por africanos e/ou afrodescendentes. Este livro tem como objetivo investigar as formas como os "batuques" foram praticados e resignificados pelo colonialismo português em Lourenço Marques - atual Maputo - e no sul de Moçambique durante o período de 1890-1940. As categorias criadas e implementadas pela ação colonial portuguesa não foram capazes de conter a multiplicidade de experiências das populações africanas e das suas práticas. Por meio de ferramentas teórico-metodológicas da História Social da Cultura, da história "vista de baixo" e da microhistória, os "batuques" configuram-se neste livro como objeto de investigação e janela privilegiada para analisar resistências, tensões e arranjos cotidianos daqueles que foram subalternizados pelo poder colonizador português na região.
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O "batuque" possui uma história múltipla. O termo foi empregado para designar diferentes práticas musicais e tipos de performance produzidos por africanos e/ou afrodescendentes. Este livro tem como objetivo investigar as formas como os "batuques" foram praticados e resignificados pelo colonialismo português em Lourenço Marques - atual Maputo - e no sul de Moçambique durante o período de 1890-1940. As categorias criadas e implementadas pela ação colonial portuguesa não foram capazes de conter a multiplicidade de experiências das populações africanas e das suas práticas. Por meio de ferramentas teórico-metodológicas da História Social da Cultura, da história "vista de baixo" e da microhistória, os "batuques" configuram-se neste livro como objeto de investigação e janela privilegiada para analisar resistências, tensões e arranjos cotidianos daqueles que foram subalternizados pelo poder colonizador português na região.
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Restaging the Past is the first edited collection devoted to the study of pageants in Britain, ranging from its Edwardian origins to the present day. The volume highlights pageants as a key aspect of community history during a period of great social and political change.
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The Other End of the Needle demonstrates that tattooing is more complex than simply the tattoos that people wear. Using qualitative data and an accessible writing style, sociologist Dave Lane explains the complexity of tattoo work as a type of social activity. His central argument is that tattooing is a social world, where people must be socialized, manage a system of stratification, create spaces conducive for labor, develop sets of beliefs and values, struggle to retain control over their tools, and contend with changes that in turn affect their labor. Earlier research has examined tattoos and their meanings. Yet, Lane notes, prior research has focused almost exclusively on the tattoos--the outcome of an intricate social process--and have ignored the significance of tattoo workers themselves. "Tattooists," as Lane dubs them, make decisions, but they work within a social world that constrains and shapes the outcome of their labor--the tattoo. The goal of this book is to help readers understand the world of tattoo work as an intricate and nuanced form of work. Lane ultimately asks new questions about the social processes occurring prior to the tattoo's existence.
Manners And Customs --- Social Science --- Manners and customs --- Social science
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"The battle between scientific temper and superstition has raged since ages. One may believe that unusual rituals and customs are extinct in the times of artificial intelligence and bots, but it is far from the truth as this book will prove. As bizarre as it might seem, in France one can marry a dead person, and in Africa a married woman can marry another married woman as a practical way of solving the social problem of old-age neglect. This book is a collection of unusual superstitions, rituals and customs that are practiced by ordinary people all around the world. It should be read to build awareness about these rituals and to know about the many shades of faith in this world we inhabit"--
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This anthology of Rudyard Kipling's greatest short stories contains some of the most memorable and popular examples of the genre of which he was undisputed master.
Manners and customs --- British --- India --- History
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A book full of boxes. A box in itself. An unboxing. This book explores boxes in their broadest sense and size. It invites us to step into the field, unravel how and why things are contained and how it might be otherwise. By turning the focus of Science and Technology Studies (STS) to boxing practices, this collation of essays examines boxes as world-making devices. Gathered in the format of a field guide, it offers an introduction to ways of ordering the world, unpacking their boxed-up, largely invisible politics and epistemics. Performatively, pushing against conventional uses of academic books, this volume is about rethinking taken-for-granted formats and infrastructures of scholarly ordering - thinking, writing, reading. It diverges from encyclopedic logics and representative overviews of boxing practices and the architectural organization of monographs and edited volumes through a single, overarching argument. This book asks its users to leave well-trodden paths of linear and comprehensive reading and invites them to read sideways, creating their own orders through associations and relating. Thus, this book is best understood as an intervention, a beginning, an open box, a slim volume that needs expansion and further experiments with ordering by its users.
Boxes --- Containers --- Boîtes --- Récipients --- Behälter --- Manners and customs (General)
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Ausgehend von der Frage nach der Relevanz von Geisterpraktiken untersucht Paul Christensen die bedeutsamen Rollen von Geistern in der kambodschanischen Gesellschaft. Die wichtigen thematischen Schwerpunkte legt er auf die Verarbeitung der traumatischen Vergangenheit, die religiöse Identifikation der Kambodschaner_innen, die politische Ermächtigung der Eliten durch spirituelle Legitimationsstrategien und die lebendige Ritualpraxis der Geistmedien in Kambodscha. Durch den ethnologischen Zugang einer 13-monatigen Feldforschung und eine innovative, an die Akteur-Netzwerk-Theorie angelehnte Methodik kann im Sinne einer (wieder-)'verzauberten Moderne' ein emisches Verständnis dieser religiösen Phänomene gewonnen werden, die in ähnlicher Weise in ganz Südostasien auftreten. Die Arbeit liefert einen wegweisenden Beitrag zum wissenschaftlichen Verständnis von Geistern.
Ethnology. --- Manners and customs. --- Altered states of consciousness. --- Cambodia.
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