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O Poveiro : Usos, costumes, tradições, lendas
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Year: 1992 Publisher: Lisboa : Etnográfica Press,

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Reportando-se à viragem do século, o trabalho e os dias dos pescadores da Póvoa de Varzim, num livro admirável pelo que de novo e insuspeito nos revela e pela singularidade do lugar que ocupa na nossa produção etnográfica. A presente edição foi enriquecida com nova documentação fotográfica, inédita na sua maior parte, seleccionada dos arquivos do Museu e Biblioteca Municipais da Póvoa de Varzim.


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Lettere alle "tre amiche"
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Year: 2022 Publisher: Berlin : De Gruyter,

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Il volume contiene le lettere scritte da Scipio Slataper (1888-1915) alle «tre amiche» triestine, Anna Pulitzer, Elody Oblath e Gigetta (Luisa) Carniel, tra l'estate del 1909 e il 3 dicembre 1915, quando egli cadde in combattimento sul Podgora, in vista del tanto amato Carso triestino. In queste lettere, che fungono anche da pagine di diario poiché in Scipio sovente la lettera è un "di sé a sé stesso", si rispecchia un'incandescente vicenda esistenziale ed intellettuale: di amicizia, di amore, di dolore, di ricerca del senso della vita, di impegno culturale e civile, di creazione artistica; mentre le ultime, a Gigetta, testimoniano i pochi mesi di vita al fronte. La cognizione del dolore, e quindi della vita, che gli venne dalla tragica morte di Anna, con cui visse una brevissima storia d'amore, fece riconoscere a Scipio il senso e il valore, e quindi il compito, da dare alla propria esistenza: amare gli uomini e operare per il loro bene. Una nozione più ampia e inclusiva dell'amore, che trascende quello a due, dall'estate del 1911, ricambiato, per Gigetta, ch'egli sposò nel settembre del 1913, mentre a Elody continuò a legarlo un'amicizia vera e profonda, «provata su tutti i frangenti». This volume presents the letters (approximately 600) that Scipio Slataper wrote between late 1909 and December 1915 to his "three friends" from Trieste, Anna Pulitzer, Gigetta (Luisa) Carniel, and Elody Oblath. These letters bring to light complex existential and intellectual storylines: of friendship, love, and pain, of the search of the purpose of life, cultural commitment, and artistic creation.


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Urban Now : A Human in the Face of Borderliness and Urbanisation in Juba, South Sudan
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Year: 2021 Publisher: Berlin : Peter Lang International Academic Publishers,

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The subject of the study is the spontaneous city spreading process of Juba after the end of the civil war in South Sudan (2005). The book presents the complex dynamics of transformations within the new urban settings of post-war Juba. The viewpoint taken while describing these phenomena is the adaptation of an average migrant to a new urban environment. This was not an easy task. At that time the city was characterised by extremely harsh living conditions, harsh even for post-war South Sudan. Despite the difficulties, the city's development was visible. The phenomenon of borderlineness - the closeness of the state's borders - appeared to be helpful in this process. It influenced the effectiveness of human activities, it is an answer to the spontaneous city spreading processes - it brought danger, but most of all, infinite possibilities. The presented material comes from the author's ethnographic research conducted in Juba in 2007 and 2008.


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Restaging the Past : historical pageants, culture and society in modern Britain
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Year: 2020 Publisher: London : UCL Press,

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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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Critical Essays in Appalachian Life & Culture : proceedings of the Fifth Annual Appalachian Studies Conference
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ISBN: 1469636832 Year: 1905 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : Appalachian State University,

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The proceedings from the 1982 Appalachian Studies Conference includes contributions by Rick Simon; Ronald D. Eller; Deborah Morentz Markley and Brady J. Deaton; William W. Philliber and Phillip J. Obermiller; Virginia McCoy Watkins and Diana Gullet Trevino; Grace Toney Edwards; Harold Branam; Parks Lanier; Joan Moser; Melinda Bollar Wagner; and Thomas Plaut.


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Slavery and Bondage in Asia, 1550-1850 : Towards a Global History of Coerced Labour
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Year: 2022 Publisher: Berlin : De Gruyter,

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The study of slavery and coerced labour is increasingly conducted from a global perspective, and yet a dual Eurocentric bias remains: slavery primarily brings to mind the images of Atlantic chattel slavery, and most studies continue to be based - either outright or implicitly - on a model of northern European wage labour. This book constitutes an attempt to re-centre that story to Asia. With studies spanning the western Indian Ocean and the steppes of Central Asia to the islands of South East Asia and Japan, and ranging from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, this book tracks coercion in diverse forms, tracing both similarities and differences - as well as connections - between systems of coercion, from early sales regulations to post-abolition labour contracts. Deep empirical case studies, as well as comparisons between the chapters, all show that while coercion was entrenched in a number of societies, it was so in different and shifting ways. This book thus not only shows the history of slavery and coercion in Asia as a connected story, but also lays the groundwork for global studies of a phenomenon as varying, manifold and contested as coercion.


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Burials, texts and rituals : ethnoarchaeological investigations in North Bali, Indonesia
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Year: 2008 Publisher: Göttingen Germany : Universitätsverlag Göttingen,

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The villages on Bali's north-east coast have a long history. Archaeological findings have shown that the coastal settlements of Tejakula District enjoyed trading relations with India as long as 2000 years ago or more. Royal decrees dating from the 10th to the 12th century, inscribed on copper tablets and preserved in the local villages as part of their religious heritage, bear witness to the fact that, over a period of over 1000 years, these played a major role as harbour and trading centres in the transmaritime trade between India and (probably) the Spice Islands. At the same time the inscriptions attest to the complexity in those days of Balinese society, with a hierarchical social organisation headed by a king who resided in the interior - precisely where, nobody knows. The interior was connected to the prosperous coastal settlements through a network of trade and ritual. The questions that faced the German-Balinese research team were first: Was there anything left over of this evidently glorious past? And second: Would our professional anthropological and archaeological research work be able to throw any more light on the vibrant past of these villages? This book is an attempt to answer both these and further questions on Bali's coastal settlements, their history and culture.


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Scholars in Exile : The Ukrainian Intellectual World in Interwar Czechoslovakia
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Year: 2019 Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press,

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"Throughout the 1920's and 30's Prague was the intellectual center of Ukrainian emigres in Europe, not least because of significant financial support from the Czech government and its first president, Tomas Gerrigue Masaryk for emigre students and intellectuals."


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Vozes do Povo : A folclorização em Portugal
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Year: 2003 Publisher: Lisboa : Etnográfica Press,

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A folclorização é um fenómeno cultural da modernidade. Operando com as noções de folclorismo e de folclorização, a presente obra pretende equacionar os parâmetros de um processo que conduziu à mobilização e integração das populações rurais na nação. Este efeito integrador estender-se-ia também à diáspora lusa. Uma perspectiva múltipla presidiu à organização do volume: abordar o folclore como cultura expressiva, avaliar o seu papel na sociedade e apresentar elementos para facultar uma v ...


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Boxes : A Field Guide
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ISBN: 9781912729012 1912729016 1912729032 Year: 2020 Publisher: Mattering Press

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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.

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