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Through interdisciplinary essays covering the wide geography of Spanish and Portuguese empires, Iberian Empires and the Roots of Globalization investigates the diverse networks and multiple centers of early modern globalization that emerged in conjunction with Iberian imperialism.

Yasuoka Shtar (1920-2013) was perfectly situated to become Japan's premier chronicler of the Shwa period (1926-89). In Enduring Postwar, the first literary and biographical study of Yasuoka in English, Kendall Heitzman explores the element of memory in Yasuoka's work in the context of his life and evolving understanding of postwar Japan.

Through interdisciplinary essays covering the wide geography of Spanish and Portuguese empires, Iberian Empires and the Roots of Globalization investigates the diverse networks and multiple centers of early modern globalization that emerged in conjunction with Iberian imperialism.

Ecology, like all literary narrative, has the potential for turnabout, surprise, lessons learned, and tragedy. The stories in this volume describe protagonists, their competitors, and the habitats that provides the setting for their interaction - habitats that have become surprisingly complex with the passage of evolutionary time.

Narrative Sociology defines classics, identifies exemplars of narrative analysis, and delineates a field in the making.

In 1997, when the author began research in Peru, she observed a profound disconnect between the birth care desires of health personnel and those of indigenous women. Midwives and doctors would plead with her as the anthropologist to "educate women about the dangerous inadequacy of their traditions".

Original research chapters are balanced with personal narratives.

Original research chapters are balanced with personal narratives.

Much has been written about landfills and the monumentality of rubbish, but little attention has been paid to "litter", the small trash that soils the urban pavement. Talking Trash looks at refuse in its early stages, when it is still tiny and unassuming, and has yet to grow, leave the metropolis, and accumulate in landfills.

Throughout much of the twentieth century and even to this day, there has been a dearth of scholarship on the intellectual and political contributions of Haitians. In the Shadow of Powers, first published in 1985, was a corrective to this oversight and remains a foundational text.

The People's Front in Defense of Land of Atenco (the "Frente") is an emblematic force in contemporary Mexican politics and in anti-capitalist, anti-neoliberal networks throughout the world. Documentary filmmaking has been one aspect of the Frente and its allies' efforts. This book highlights the importance of this aspect of the Frente's work.

The latter third of the twentieth century was a time of fundamental political transition across the South as increasing numbers of voters began to choose Republican candidates over Democrats. Yet in the 1980s and '90s, reform-focused policymakingfrom better schools to improved highways and health careflourished in Tennessee. This was the work of moderate leaders from both parties who had a capacity to work together "e;across the aisle."e;The Tennessee story, as the Pulitzer Prizewinning author Jon Meacham observes in his foreword to this book, offers striking examples of bipartisan cooperation on many policy frontsand a mode of governing that provides lessons for America in this frustrating era of partisan stalemate.For more on Crossing the Aisle and author Keel Hunt, visit KeelHunt.com.

This volume, the first English translation of the

Explores the social worlds of the children of immigrants. Based on rich ethnographic research, the contributors illustrate how these young people, the so-called second generation, construct and negotiate their lives.

The Second Mexican Empire refers to the brief period (1864-1867) during which Napoleon III sought to consolidate his control in Mexico by installing an Austrian archduke as Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico. This title examines the cultural legacy of the Second Empire as essential to modern understandings of empire and nation.

The Iberian Peninsula has always been an integral part of the Mediterranean world, from the age of Tartessos and the Phoenicians to our own era and the Union for the Mediterranean. The cutting-edge essays in this volume examine what it means for medieval and early modern Iberia and its people to be considered as part of the Mediterranean.

At a time when an emphasis on productivity in higher education threatens to undermine well-crafted research, these highly reflexive essays capture the sometimes profound intellectual effects that may accompany disrupted scholarship. They reveal that over long periods of time relationships with people studied invariably change, sometimes in dramatic ways.

Considers expressive figuration as a reflection of artists' responses to such topics as identity, sexuality, and mortality, and as a symptom of a spectrum of social and political attitudes shaping Western culture since World War II. This title features art from the United States, Great Britain, and Germany.

Winner of the Ruth Benedict Prize from the Society of Lesbian and Gay AnthropologistsOriginally published in the early 1990s, Bodies, Pleasures, and Passions quickly became a classic ethnographic study of the social, cultural and historical construction of sexuality and sexual diversity. Drawing on extensive field research and interviews, together with the analysis of historical and literary texts, anthropologist Richard Parker mapped out the multiple cultural systems that structure gender, sexuality, and erotic practices in Brazil, and helped to open up a new wave of social science research on sexuality.Using ethnographic methods focusing on sexual meanings as an alternative to traditional surveys of sexual behavior, Parker argues that sexual life can only be fully understood through an analysis of the cultural logics that shape experience. Drawing on the tradition of interpretive anthropology, he focuses on the diverse sexual scripts that have been articulated in Brazilian culture and examines the often contradictory ways in which these scripts shape the sexual experience of different individuals. He highlights the sexual socialization of children and young people, and the changing sexual realities of adults living in a rapidly changing world. He underlines the ways in which complex cultural forms such as carnaval can be understood as stories that Brazilians tell themselves about themselves and about the meaning of sexuality in contemporary Brazilian life.

In addition to updated and reconceived chapters on the impacts of gender, race, and inequality on health, this volume has new chapters on topics that include: social networks, neighborhoods, and social capital; disability; dying and "the right to die"; he

Features interviews and portraits of forty-two jazz legends who made music in Harlem during its heyday and decline. This title features Cab Calloway, Milt Hinton, Doc Cheatham, Dizzy Gillespie, Buddy Tate, Eddie Barefield, and Illinois Jacquet.

Tells life story of legendary African American jazz bassist and photographer Milt Hinton (1910-2000) and illustrates it with more than 260 of his photographs.

First published in 1972, this highly-acclaimed biography of one of the century's greatest composers now features nearly twice as many illustrations and one-third more text. Based on Craft's 25-year diary of his friendship with Stravinsky.