By Renée Marlin-Bennett

ISBN-10: 041556820X

ISBN-13: 9780415568203

First released in 1993, this identify explores the underlying ideologies and decision-making systems that codify the foundations of the post-World conflict II liberal, now defunct Soviet socialist, mercantilist and South preferential alternate regimes. Food Fights offers a wealthy case research and rigorous facts research of organised agrictultural alternate that uncovers similarities among those different monetary platforms and identifies the primary developments governing the hot worldwide financial system.

By R. W. Scribner

ISBN-10: 0907628826

ISBN-13: 9780907628828

The Reformation has ordinarily been defined when it comes to theology, the corruption of the church and the position of princes. R.W. Scribner, whereas no longer denying the significance of those, shifts the context of research of the German Reformation to an exam of well known ideals and behavior, and of the reactions of neighborhood experts to the issues and possibilities for social in addition to spiritual reform. This e-book brings jointly a coherent physique of labor that has seemed seeing that 1975, together with completely new essays and formerly released purely in German.

By Niko Besnier

ISBN-10: 0824833384

ISBN-13: 9780824833381

Although gossip is disapproved of around the world’s societies, it's a popular function of sociality, whose function within the building of society and tradition can't be overvalued. specifically, gossip is important to the enactment of politics: via it humans rework distinction into inequality and enact or problem energy buildings. in accordance with the author’s intimate ethnographic wisdom of Nukulaelae Atoll, Tuvalu, this paintings makes use of an research of gossip as political motion to boost a holistic figuring out of a few disparate subject matters, together with clash, strength, organization, morality, emotion, locality, trust, and gender. It brings jointly methodological traditions―the microscopic research of unelicited interplay and the macroscopic interpretation of social practice―that are not often wedded successfully.

Drawing on a vast variety of theoretical assets, Niko Besnier methods gossip from a number of angles. a close research of the way Nukulaelae’s humans constitution their gossip interactions demonstrates that this constitution displays and contributes to the atoll’s political ideology, which wavers among a staunch egalitarianism and a necessity for hierarchy. His dialogue then turns to narratives of particular occasions during which gossip performed a massive position in both enacting egalitarianism or reinforcing inequality. Embedding gossip in a large variety of communicative practices permits Besnier to increase a nuanced research of the way gossip operates, demonstrating the way it permits a few to realize strength whereas others undergo due to it. all through, he's rather aware of the ways that anthropologists themselves are the topic and item of gossip, making his paintings a impressive contribution to reflexive social science.

Written in an interesting and available sort, Gossip and the typical construction of Politics will attract scholars and students of political, criminal, linguistic, and mental anthropology; social technology method; conversation, clash, gender, and globalization stories; and Pacific Islands studies.

By Sajida Alvi, Homa Hoodfar, Sheila McDonough

ISBN-10: 0889614083

ISBN-13: 9780889614086

ISBN-10: 1417587326

ISBN-13: 9781417587322

The difficulty of the hijab (veil) has been divisive for the Muslim neighborhood in North the US. Muslims themselves see diversified meanings in overlaying their heads. the broader North American society additionally reacts in different how one can the Muslim veil; a few learn into the perform components of oppression of ladies and severe patriarchal attitudes. Others see it as a innocuous mode of self-expression. starting in 1996, the Canadian Council of Muslim ladies invited students from a variety of fields to hold out a scientific examine of concerns surrounding varied practices with regards to the hijab between Muslims. This provocative ebook additionally discusses the present concerns surrounding commencing up the interprestaiton of the Qur'an and the Hadith to a woman's viewpoint.

By Peter Petro

ISBN-10: 0773513116

ISBN-13: 9780773513112

A survey of the historical past of Slovak literature from the center a while to the current. The medieval, Renaissance, baroque, classical, romantic, realist and smooth sessions are highlighted as are contributions of writers like Hronsky, Kollar, Papanek, Rufus, Safarik, Transovshy, Tatarka and Zaborsky.

By W. Ascher, J. Heffron

ISBN-10: 0230109144

ISBN-13: 9780230109148

Cultural switch and patience addresses the complicated problem of pursuing improvement whereas safeguarding adored facets of deeply-rooted cultural practices and ideology. via instances from a number of international areas, the authors take on the thorny challenge of ways to outline and establish cultural facets worthwhile of patience. They record how leaders and activists use tradition to form improvement and vice versa, with examples starting from using historic understandings to advertise or critique monetary improvement innovations, to efforts to change cultural practices which will hinder their decline. The instances supply penetrating insights into potent suggestions for pursuing either cultural integrity and development.  

By Jeffrey Carter

ISBN-10: 0826448798

ISBN-13: 9780826448798