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The Caribbean "market woman" is ingrained in the popular imagination as the archetype of black womanhood in countries throughout the region. Challenging this stereotype and other outdated images of black women, Downtown Ladies offers a more complex picture by documenting the history of independent international traders-known as informal commercial importers, or ICIs-who travel abroad to import and export a vast array of consumer goods sold in the public markets of Kingston, Jamaica. Both by-products of and participants in globalization, ICIs operate on multiple levels and, since their emergence in the 1970's, have made significant contributions to the regional, national, and global economies. Gina Ulysse carefully explores how ICIs, determined to be self-employed, struggle with government regulation and other social tensions to negotiate their autonomy. Informing this story of self-fashioning with reflections on her own experience as a young Haitian anthropologist, Ulysse combines the study of political economy with the study of individual and collective identity to reveal the uneven consequences of disrupting traditional class, color, and gender codes in individual societies and around the world.
Street vendors --- Women merchants --- Informal sector (Economics) --- Imports --- market woman, caribbean, jamaica, self-making, black women, archetype, independent international traders, informal commercial importers, ici, kingston, public markets, globalization, economics, self employment, independence, gender, race, stereotypes, government regulation, autonomy, self-fashioning, haiti, anthropology, political economy, identity, tradition, street vendors, merchants, imports, saturation, blackness, nonfiction.
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This book explores the ways in which the early rabbis reshaped biblical laws of ritual purity and impurity and argues that the rabbis' new purity discourse generated a unique notion of a bodily self. Focusing on the Mishnah, a Palestinian legal codex compiled around the turn of the third century CE, Mira Balberg shows how the rabbis constructed the processes of contracting, conveying, and managing ritual impurity as ways of negotiating the relations between one's self and one's body and, more broadly, the relations between one's self and one's human and nonhuman environments. With their heightened emphasis on subjectivity, consciousness, and self-reflection, the rabbis reinvented biblically inherited language and practices in a way that resonated with central cultural concerns and intellectual commitments of the Greco-Roman Mediterranean world. Purity, Body, and Self in Early Rabbinic Literature adds a new dimension to the study of practices of self-making in antiquity by suggesting that not only philosophical exercises but also legal paradigms functioned as sites through which the self was shaped and improved.
Rabbinical literature --- Purity, Ritual --- Immersion (Judaism) --- Purity, Ritual (Judaism) --- History and criticism. --- Judaism. --- 233.55 --- 236.1 --- 296*6 --- 296.2 --- 236.1 Dood. Scheiding van lichaam en ziel --- Dood. Scheiding van lichaam en ziel --- 233.55 Eenheid van lichaam en ziel bij de mens --- Eenheid van lichaam en ziel bij de mens --- 296*6 Joodse theologie en filosofie--(algemeen) --- Joodse theologie en filosofie--(algemeen) --- 296.2 Antisemitisme --- Antisemitisme --- Judaism --- History and criticism --- ancient judaism. --- antiquity. --- bible. --- biblical language. --- biblical law. --- biblical practices. --- bodily self. --- consciousness. --- cultural studies. --- early rabbis. --- greco roman mediterranean world. --- history of judaism. --- human environment. --- jewish studies. --- judaism. --- mishnah. --- nonhuman environment. --- palestinian legal codex. --- philosophy of halakah. --- rabbinic texts. --- religion. --- religious studies. --- religious. --- ritual impurity. --- ritual purity. --- s mark taper foundation imprint in jewish studies series. --- self making. --- self reflection. --- spiritual. --- subjectivity.
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