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Stories from Quechan oral literature
"The Quechan are a Yuman people who have traditionally lived along the lower part of the Colorado River in California and Arizona. They are well known as warriors, artists, and traders, and they also have a rich oral tradition. The stories in this volume were told by tribal elders in the 1970s and early 1980s. The eleven narratives in this volume take place at the beginning of time and introduc…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781909254879
- Collation
- XII, 533 p.
- Series Title
- World Oral Literature Series
- Call Number
- 970.00497 HAL s
Metagestures
"What kinds of knowledge and understandings of the world can be generated – and shared – when we use para-academic techniques and sensibilities to decode or respond to relatively orthodox intellectual objects? And what worlds might be possible if we practiced scholarly work from a place of collaboration and pleasure, as joyful fellow explorers? In Metagestures, presented in a playful tête-…
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- 1st edition.
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781950192267
- Collation
- x, 221p.:
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 813.6 NAP m
Food of Association: biocultural perspectives on foods and beverages that med…
This fascinating book examines the biology and culture of foods and beverages that are consumed in communal settings, with special attention to their health implications. Nina Etkin covers a wealth of topics, exploring human evolutionary history, the Slow Food movement, ritual and ceremonial foods, caffeinated beverages, spices, the street foods of Hawaii and northern Nigeria, and even bottled …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780816539321
- Collation
- xiii, 250p.: ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 394.12 ETK f
Tradition through modernity: postmodernism and the nation-state in folklore s…
"In their study of social practices deemed traditional, scholars tend to use the concept and idea of tradition as an element of meaning in the practices under investigation. But just whose meaning is it? Is it a meaning generated by those who study tradition or those whose traditions are being studied? In both cases, particular criteria for traditionality are employed, whether these are explica…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789522228147
- Collation
- 215p.: ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 398 ANT t
Cultures of anti-racism in Latin America and the Caribbean
Latin America’s long history of showing how racism can co-exist with racial mixture and conviviality offers useful ammunition for strengthening anti-racist stances. This volume asks whether cultural production has a particular role to play within discourses and practices of anti-racism in Latin America and the Caribbean. The contributors analyse music, performance, education, language, film a…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781908857729
- Collation
- X, 220 p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 305.80098 CUL c
Testing the margins of leisure : case studies on China, Japan, and Indonesia
This volume offers eight studies on different historical and present-day aspects of leisure in Asia. It critically engages with the predominant Eurocentric focus of leisure studies, bringing into the discussion a number of crucial issues such as the role of leisure as a transcultural contact zone. The volume engages with a field that has been rapidly growing due to the heightened role of leisur…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783947732753
- Collation
- VI, 310 p.
- Series Title
- Heidelberg Studies on Transculturality, 6
- Call Number
- 306 TES t
Creative business in Australia : learnings from the creative industries innov…
As the largest ever Australian government investment in creative industries development, the Creative Industries Innovation Centre delivered tailored business services to more than 1500 creative businesses from 2009 to 2015 and provided industry intelligence and advice for public policy and peak sectoral activity. This collection gives an overview of the current ‘state of business’ in Austr…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780992451820
- Collation
- 260 p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 338.477 CRE c
Legacies of space and intangible heritage : archaeology, ethnohistory, and th…
This volume looks at how different physical environments contribute to the reproduction of cultural forms even in the wake of colonization, migration, and other processes of displacement and change. This raises the question of whether cultural practices are altered by changes in physical environment or if a group’s narratives and practices shape their location. Using case studies from North a…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781607325727
- Collation
- IX, 249 p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 973 AMS l
Anticapitalism and Culture
What does 'anticapitalism' really mean for the politics and culture of the twenty-first century? Anticapitalism is an idea which, despite going global, remains rooted in the local, persisting as a loose collection of grassroots movements and actions. Anticapitalism needs to develop a coherent and cohering philosophy, something which cultural theory and the intellectual legacy of the New Left ca…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781845202309
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 303.482 GIL a
Cosmic ray neutron sensing : estimation of agricultural crop biomass water eq…
This open access book provides methods for the estimation of Biomass Water Equivalent (BEW), an essential step for improving the accuracy of area-wide soil moisture by cosmic-ray neutron sensors (CRNS). Three techniques are explained in detail: (i) traditional in-situ destructive sampling, (ii) satellite based remote sensing of plant surfaces, and (iii) biomass estimation via the use of the C…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783319695396
- Collation
- x, 33p. : ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 631.432 WAH c
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