ilość książek w kategorii: 43822
Literacy and Script Reform in Occupation Japan: Reading Between the Lines
ISBN: 9780195101669 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book challenges the widespread belief that overzealous Americans forced unnecessary script reforms on an unprepared, unenthusiastic, but helpless Japan during the Occupation. Unger presents neglected historical evidence showing that the reforms implemented from 1946 to 1959 were both necessary and moderate. Although the United States Education Mission of 1946 recommended that the Japanese give serious consideration to the introduction of alphabetic writing, key American officials in the Civil Information and Education Section of GHQ/SCAP delayed and effectively killed action on this...
This book challenges the widespread belief that overzealous Americans forced unnecessary script reforms on an unprepared, unenthusiastic, but helpless...
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727,81 zł |
Slavery, Resistance, Freedom
ISBN: 9780195102222 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Americans have always defined themselves in terms of their freedoms--of speech, of religion, of political dissent. How we interpret our history of slavery--the ultimate denial of these freedoms--deeply affects how we understand the very fabric of our democracy.
This extraordinary collection of essays by some of America's top historians focuses on how African Americans resisted slavery and how they responded when finally free. Ira Berlin sets the stage by stressing the relationship between how we understand slavery and how we discuss race today. The remaining essays offer a richly... Americans have always defined themselves in terms of their freedoms--of speech, of religion, of political dissent. How we interpret our history of sla...
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275,67 zł |
Making Malcolm: The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X
ISBN: 9780195102857 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Malcolm X's cultural rebirth--his improbable second coming--brims with irony. The nineties are marked by intense and often angry debates about racial authenticity and "selling out," and the participants in these debates--from politicians to filmmakers to rap artists--often draw on Malcolm's scorching rebukes to such moves. Meanwhile, Malcolm's "X" is marketed in countless business endeavors and is stylishly branded on baseball hats and T-shirts sported by every age, race, and gender. But this rampant commercialization is only a small part of Malcolm's remarkable renaissance. One of the...
Malcolm X's cultural rebirth--his improbable second coming--brims with irony. The nineties are marked by intense and often angry debates about racial ...
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85,62 zł |
Mondays on the Dark Night of the Moon: Himalayan Foothill Folktales
ISBN: 9780195103489 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Oral tales establish relationships between storytellers and their listeners. Yet most printed collections of folktales contain only stories, stripped of the human contexts in which they are told. If storytellers are mentioned at all, they are rarely consulted about what meanings they see in their tales. In this innovative book, Indian-American anthropologist Kirin Narayan reproduces twenty-one folktales narrated in a mountain dialect by a middle-aged Indian village woman, Urmila Devi Sood, or "Urmilaji." The tales are set within the larger story of Kirin Narayan's research in the Himalayan...
Oral tales establish relationships between storytellers and their listeners. Yet most printed collections of folktales contain only stories, stripped ...
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619,58 zł |
Mondays on the Dark Night of the Moon: Himalayan Foothill Folktales
ISBN: 9780195103496 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Oral tales establish relationships between storytellers and their listeners. Yet most printed collections of folktales contain only stories, stripped of the human contexts in which they are told. If storytellers are mentioned at all, they are rarely consulted about what meanings they see in their tales. In this innovative book, Indian-American anthropologist Kirin Narayan reproduces twenty-one folktales narrated in a mountain dialect by a middle-aged Indian village woman, Urmila Devi Sood, or "Urmilaji." The tales are set within the larger story of Kirin Narayan's research in the Himalayan...
Oral tales establish relationships between storytellers and their listeners. Yet most printed collections of folktales contain only stories, stripped ...
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116,89 zł |
Primitivist Modernism: Black Culture and the Origins of Transatlantic Modernism
ISBN: 9780195104035 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book explores a rich cultural hybridity at the heart of transatlantic modernism. Focusing on cubism, jazz, and Josephine Baker's performance in the Danse Sauvage, Sieglinde Lemke uncovers a crucial history of white and black intercultural exchange, a phenomenon until now greatly obscured by a cloak of whiteness. Considering artists and critics such as Picasso, Alain Locke, Nancy Cunard, and Paul Whiteman, in addition to Baker, Lemke documents a potent cultural dialectic in which black artistic expression fertilized white modernism, just as white art forms helped shape the black...
This book explores a rich cultural hybridity at the heart of transatlantic modernism. Focusing on cubism, jazz, and Josephine Baker's performance in t...
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715,79 zł |
Presynaptic Inhibition and Neural Control
ISBN: 9780195105162 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 466 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This is a timely review of the mechanisms underlying the presynaptic control of synaptic transmission and the role they play in sensory and motor behavior. Early chapters offer a detailed account of the anatomy, biophysics, and physiology of synaptic transmission at the peripheral and central synapses, focusing on the presynaptic control of transmitter release. Later chapters explore the organization of neural pathways leading to the presynaptic inhibition of transmitter release in segmental reflex pathways. A final section provides examples of the operation of presynaptic control mechanisms...
This is a timely review of the mechanisms underlying the presynaptic control of synaptic transmission and the role they play in sensory and motor beha...
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487,31 zł |
The News Revolution in England: Cultural Dynamics of Daily Information
ISBN: 9780195106671 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The News Revolution in England: Cultural Dynamics of Daily Information is the first book to analyze the essential feature of periodical media, which is their periodicity. Having to sell the next issue as well as the present one changes the relation between authors and readers--or customers--and subtly shapes the way that everything is reported, whether politics, the arts and science, or social issues. So there are certain biases that are implicit in the dynamics of news production or commodified information, quite apart from the intentions of journalists.
With the birth of the... The News Revolution in England: Cultural Dynamics of Daily Information is the first book to analyze the essential feature of periodical media...
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703,76 zł |
Eloquence in Trouble: The Poetics and Politics of Complaint in Rural Bangladesh
ISBN: 9780195106879 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Eloquence in Trouble captures the articulation of several troubled lives in Bangladesh as well as the threats to the very genres of their expression, lament in particular. The first ethnography of one of the most spoken mother tongues on earth, Bangla, this study represents a new approach to troubles talk, combining the rigor of discourse analysis with the interpretive depth of psychological anthropology. Its careful transcriptions of Bangladeshi troubles talk will disturb some readers and move others--beyond past academic discussion of personhood in South Asia.
Eloquence in Trouble captures the articulation of several troubled lives in Bangladesh as well as the threats to the very genres of their exp...
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523,38 zł |
Creating Context in Andean Cultures
ISBN: 9780195109146 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A major concern in current anthropological thinking is that the method of recording or translating into writing a society's cultural expressions--dance, rituals, pottery, the social use of space, et al--cannot help but fundamentally alter the meaning of the living words and deeds of the culture in question. Consequently, recent researchers have developed more dialogic methods for collecting, interpreting, and presenting data. These new techniques have yielded much success for anthropologists working in Latin America, especially in their efforts to understand how economically, politically, and...
A major concern in current anthropological thinking is that the method of recording or translating into writing a society's cultural expressions--danc...
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477,69 zł |
Black Hunger: Food and the Politics of U.S. Identity
ISBN: 9780195110623 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The creation of the Aunt Jemima trademark from an 1889 vaudeville performance of a play called "The Emigrant" helped codify a pervasive connection between African American women and food. In Black Hunger, Doris Witt demonstrates how this connection has operated as a central structuring dynamic of twentieth-century U.S. psychic, cultural, sociopolitical, and economic life. Taking as her focus the tumultuous era of the late 1960s and early 1970s, when soul food emerged as a pivotal emblem of white radical chic and black bourgeois authenticity, Witt explores how this interracial...
The creation of the Aunt Jemima trademark from an 1889 vaudeville performance of a play called "The Emigrant" helped codify a pervasive connection bet...
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239,54 zł |
Segregation, Poverty, and Mortality in Urban African Americans
ISBN: 9780195111651 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The potential impact of segregation on the health of African-Americans is an intriguing and controversial topic that draws from the areas of epidemiology and the social sciences. Epidemiologists have recently turned to the study of racism and health, but epidemiologic studies have not dealt specifically with black-white segregation and health. This book examines mortality rates for African-Americans in selected U.S. urban areas in relation to both social class and the degree of black-white residential segregation. Despite allowances for economic disparity, mortality rates for African-American...
The potential impact of segregation on the health of African-Americans is an intriguing and controversial topic that draws from the areas of epidemiol...
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347,81 zł |
Black Zion: African American Religious Encounters with Judaism
ISBN: 9780195112573 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Black Zion explores the myriad ways in which African American religions have encountered Jewish traditions, beliefs, and spaces. The collection's unifying argument is that religion is the missing piece of the cultural jigsaw puzzle, that much of the recent turmoil in black-Jewish relations would be better understood, if not alleviated, if the religious roots of those relations were illuminated. Toward that end, the contributors look a number of provocative topics, including the concept of the Chosen People, the typological identification of blacks with Jews, the actual identification...
Black Zion explores the myriad ways in which African American religions have encountered Jewish traditions, beliefs, and spaces. The collecti...
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419,97 zł |
God
ISBN: 9780195113877 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. He has been a trickster, a shaman, a divine child; he has been a sacrificial victim, a consort of the earth goddess, a warrior, a sky king; and the creator, a distant and impersonal immensity. He is the male divine, seen in the many gods of myth, and his life story is told here in this graceful and illuminating account by David Leeming and Jake Page.
Illustrating their points with materials ranging from the prehistoric cave paintings to the mystic Jewish Kabbalah, from the ancient Indian Vedas to tales of the North American Indians and other myths from around the world, Leeming and Page... He has been a trickster, a shaman, a divine child; he has been a sacrificial victim, a consort of the earth goddess, a warrior, a sky king; and the cr...
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85,62 zł |
How Long?: African-American Women in the Struggle for Civil Rights
ISBN: 9780195114904 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A compelling and readable narrative history, How Long? How Long? presents both a rethinking of social movement theory and a controversial thesis: that chroniclers have egregiously neglected the most important leaders of the Civil Rights movement, African-American women, in favor of higher-profile African-American men and white women. Author Belinda Robnett argues that the diversity of experiences of the African-American women organizers has been underemphasized in favor of monolithic treatments of their femaleness and blackness. Drawing heavily on interviews with actual...
A compelling and readable narrative history, How Long? How Long? presents both a rethinking of social movement theory and a controversial the...
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727,81 zł |
Between God and Gangsta Rap: Bearing Witness to Black Culture
ISBN: 9780195115697 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A former welfare father from the ghetto of Detroit, Michael Eric Dyson is today a critic, scholar, and ordained Baptist minister who has forged a unique role: he is a compelling spokesman for the concerns of the black community, and also a leader who has a genuine rapport with that community, particularly with urban youth. In his essays, lectures, sermons, and books, he has emerged as one of the leading African-American voices of our day.
Dyson's passion for contemporary black culture informs Between God and Gangsta' Rap, his latest foray into the ongoing debate about African-American... A former welfare father from the ghetto of Detroit, Michael Eric Dyson is today a critic, scholar, and ordained Baptist minister who has forged a uniq...
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63,98 zł |
Or Does It Explode?: Black Harlem in the Great Depression
ISBN: 9780195115840 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Great Depression was a time of hardship for many Americans, but for the citizens of Harlem it was made worse by past and present discrimination. Or Does It Explode? examines Black Harlem from the 1920s through the Depression and New Deal to the outbreak of World War II. It describes the changing economic and social lives of Harlemites, and the complex responses of a resilient community to racism and poverty. Greenberg demonstrates that far from remaining passive in the face of hard times, Harlemites mobilized to better their opportunities and living conditions through numerous...
The Great Depression was a time of hardship for many Americans, but for the citizens of Harlem it was made worse by past and present discrimination. <...
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333,39 zł |
Storytracking: Texts, Stories, and Histories in Central Australia
ISBN: 9780195115871 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This innovative work takes a narrative technique (known as "storytracking") practiced by Australian aboriginal peoples and applies it to the academic study of their culture. Gill's purpose is to get as close as possible to the perceptions and beliefs of these indigenous peoples by stripping away the layers of European interpretation and construction. His technique involves comparing the versions of aboriginal texts presented in academic reports with the text versions as they appear in each report's cited sources. The comparison helps reveal the extent to which the text is transformed through...
This innovative work takes a narrative technique (known as "storytracking") practiced by Australian aboriginal peoples and applies it to the academic ...
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150,55 zł |
Storytracking: Texts, Stories, and Histories in Central Australia
ISBN: 9780195115888 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Storytracking is a work of theory and application. It is both a study of history and culture and the academic issues accompanying the interpretation and observation of other peoples. Sam Gill writes about Central Australia, but, more importantly, he writes about the business of trying to live responsibly and decisively in a postmodern world faced with irreconcilable diversity and complexity, with undeniable ambiguity and uncertainty.
Storytracking includes engaging accounts of many of the colorful figures involved in the nineteenth-century development of Central... Storytracking is a work of theory and application. It is both a study of history and culture and the academic issues accompanying the interpr...
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391,10 zł |
In Search of Democracy: The NAACP Writings of James Weldon Johnson, Walter White, & Roy Wilkins (1920-1977)
ISBN: 9780195116335 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This collection of writings offers a glimpse into the minds of three N.A.A.C.P. leaders who occupied the center of black thought and action during some of the most troublesome and pivotal times of the civil rights movement. The volume delineates fifty-seven years of the N.A.A.C.P.'s program under the successive direction of James Weldon Johnson, Walter White, and Roy Wilkins. These writings illustrate the vital roles of these three leaders in building a peoples liberation, underscoring not only their progressive influence throughout their time in power, but also a vision of the future as race...
This collection of writings offers a glimpse into the minds of three N.A.A.C.P. leaders who occupied the center of black thought and action during som...
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703,76 zł |