Search Results - "Authority"

Searching for Jim slavery in Sam Clemens's world / by Dempsey, Terrell, 1954-

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New cosmopolitanisms South Asians in the US /

Table of Contents: “…Theorizing recognition : South Asian authors in a global milieu /…”
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A companion to sport and spectacle in Greek and Roman antiquity /

Table of Contents: “…The Background -- Overview of Roman Spectacle / Roger Dunkle -- Etruscan Sport / Giampiero Bevagna -- Writing Arenas : Roman Authors and Their Games / Zara Martirosova Torlone -- Representations of Spectacle and Sport in Roman Art / Steven L. …”
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The mulatta concubine : terror, intimacy, freedom, and desire in the Black transatlantic / by Winters, Lisa Ze

Table of Contents: “…Echo and the myth of origins -- Intimate acts -- Authority, kinship, and possession -- Mapping freedom and belonging.…”
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The Tây Son uprising society and rebellion in eighteenth-century Vietnam / by Dutton, George Edson

Table of Contents: “…The Tây Son era and the long eighteenth century in Đại Việt -- The leaders : laying claim to power -- The peasants: life under Tây Son authority -- The social margins : Christians, pirates, and others.…”
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Do Muslim women need saving? / by Abu-Lughod, Lila

Table of Contents: “…-- The new common sense -- Authorizing moral crusades -- Seductions of the "Honor Crime" -- The social life of Muslim women's rights -- An anthropologist in the territory of rights -- Conclusion: Registers of humanity.…”
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No direction home the American family and the fear of national decline, 1968-1980 / by Zaretsky, Natasha, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Homeward unbound : prisoners of war, national defeat, and the crisis of male authority -- Getting the house in order : the oil embargo, consumption, and the limits of American power -- "The great male cop-out" : productivity lag and the end of the family wage -- The spirit of '76 : the Bicentennial and Cold War revivalism -- The world as a mirror : narcissism, "malaise," and the middle-class family -- Conclusion : The familial roots of Republican domination.…”
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Natures of colonial change environmental relations in the making of the Transkei / by Tropp, Jacob Abram

Table of Contents: “…Tensions in the colonial restructuring of local environmental authority, 1880-c. 1915 -- Environmental entitlements in the new colonial order, 1888-c. 1905 -- Shifting terrains of wood access in the early twentieth century, 1903-1930s -- Remapping historical landscapes : forest species and the contours of social and cultural life -- The python and the crying tree : commentaries on the nature of colonial and environmental power.…”
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Highlife Saturday night popular music and social change in urban Ghana / by Plageman, Nate, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the historical importance of urban Ghana's Saturday nights -- Popular music, political authority, and social possibilities in the southern Gold Coast, 1890-1940 -- The making of a middle class: urban social clubs and the evolution of highlife music, 1915-1940 -- The friction on the floor: negotiating nightlife in Accra, 1940-1960 -- "The highlife was born in Ghana": politics, culture, and the making of a national music, 1950-1965 -- "We were the ones who composed the songs": the promises and pitfalls of being a bandsman, 1945-1970.…”
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Done with slavery the Black fact in Montreal, 1760-1840 / by Mackey, Frank

Table of Contents: “…-- There ought to be a law -- Still counting -- Things as they were -- Deer out of a cage -- On steamboats -- Jacks of all trades -- Political colours -- The colour of justice -- Shoulder to shoulder, arm in arm -- One thousand characters in search of an author or two.…”
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Militant women of a fragile nation by Abisaab, Malek Hassan

Table of Contents: “…From loom to puff: women and waged labor in colonial Lebanon -- Domesticity and waged labor: gendered and class polemics in colonial and postcolonial times -- At the legal frontiers: "unruly" workingwomen between colonial authority and the national state, 1940-1946 -- Rural displacement and migration among the Régie workers, 1950-1980 -- Women negotiate family and work: 1950-1997 -- "Qati al-arzaq min qati al-anaq": gendered boundaries and class, tobacco women's struggle, 1960-1965.…”
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Bukharan Jews and the dynamics of global Judaism by Cooper, Alanna E., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…First encounter: Bukharan Jewish immigrants in an Ashkenazi school in New York -- Writing Bukharan Jewish history: memory, authority, and peoplehood -- An emissary from the Holy Land in Central Asia -- Revisiting the story of the emissary from the Holy Land -- Russian colonialism and Central Asian Jewish routes -- A matter of meat: local and global religious leaders in conversation -- Building a neighborhood and constructing Bukharan Jewish identity -- Local Jewish forms -- International Jewish organizations encounter local Jewish community life -- Varieties of Bukharan Jewishness -- Negotiating authenticity and identity: Bukharan Jews encounter each other and the self -- Jewish history as a conversation.…”
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Humanizing the sacred : sisters in Islam and the struggle for gender justice in Malaysia / by Basarudin, Azza

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: faith, self, and community -- Islam, the state, and gender: the malaysian experiment -- The politics of the sacred: returning to the fundamentals of Islam -- In the path of the faithful: activism for social and legal reforms -- Who speaks for Islam? Religious authority and contested justice -- Negotiating lives, crafting selves: narratives of belonging -- The local in the transnational: gender justice and feminist solidarities -- Conclusion.…”
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The company they kept migrants and the politics of gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960 / by Putnam, Lara

Table of Contents: “…The evolution of family practice in Jamaica and Costa Rica -- Sojourners and settlers : economic cycles and traveling lives, 1850s-1940s -- Las princesas del dollar : prostitutes and the banana booms, 1890s-1920s -- Compañeros : communities and kinship, 1920s-1950s -- Facety women : rudeness and respectability, 1890s-1930s -- Men of respect : authority and violence, 1890s-1950s.…”
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Why I hate Abercrombie & Fitch essays on race and sexuality / by McBride, Dwight A.

Table of Contents: “…: sexuality, racial essentialism, and the problem of authority.…”
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Sacred assemblies and civic engagement how religion matters for America's newest immigrants / by Kniss, Fred Lamar, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Purity and protest : sectarianism and immigrant civic engagement -- Locating the moral authority of immigrant congregations -- The moral projects of immigrant congregations -- "Making it in America" : occupational and economic adaptation in immigrant congregations -- Religion, education, and civic tensions in immigrant congregations -- Marriage patterns in immigrant congregations : implications for social distance and group identity -- Language in immigrant congregations : religious and civic considerations -- Individual engagement : citizenship in immigrant religions -- Organizational engagement : the ecology of immigrant congregations -- When and how religion matters for immigrant civic engagement.…”
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The intestines of the state youth, violence, and belated histories in the Cameroon grassfields / by Argenti, Nicolas

Table of Contents: “…Centuries of youth : remembering, incorporation, and the reclamation of history -- Kings, slaves, and floating populations : discourses of centrality and marginality in the precolonial era -- Masks of terror and the subjection of cadets -- Aurora colonialis : German imperialism and the modernity of slavery -- Embodied histories : royal investiture, masking, and remembering -- From slaves to free boys : cadets' resistance to gerontocratic, colonial, and postcolonial authority -- The death of tears : mortuary rites and the indeterminacy of dance -- Dancing death : memorial celebrations, the politics of ritual laughter, and the embodied memories of youth -- Histories of the present, histories of the future.…”
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Youth, nationalism, and the Guinean Revolution by Straker, Jay, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…-- Imagining and instituting a new youth -- Envisioning youth across the border of independence -- Ideologies of schooling, teachers' authority, and cultural revolution -- The rise of militant theater -- Ventures and misadventures in the revolutionary forest -- Construing and constructing the nation's margins : troubles with the forest and forestiers -- Forestier itineraries across revolutionary pedagogical domains -- Forestier stories of militant theater : discovering the motives and moralities of a revolutionary state -- Conclusion: Nationalism and memory after the revolution.…”
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Guyana diaries women's lives across difference / by Nettles, Kimberly D.

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Introductions -- Histories -- Critical incidents: representing others, representing self -- The Guyana diaries -- Shifting ground -- Women's work -- Woman out of place -- Meet us where we are -- "By the grace of God, we are making out" -- "We all ... we is women together" -- A daughter comes home ... to self -- Leaving Guyana -- Epilogue -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the author.…”
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Chicago's new Negroes modernity, the great migration, & Black urban life / by Baldwin, Davarian L.

Table of Contents: “…: consumer culture and intellectual life reconsidered -- Mapping the Black metropolis: a cultural geography of the stroll -- Making do: beauty, enterprise, and the "makeover" of race womanhood -- Theaters of war: spectacles, amusements, and the emergence of urban film culture -- The birth of two nations: White fears, Black jeers, and the rise of a "race film" consciousness -- Sacred tastes: the migrant aesthetics and authority of gospel music -- The sporting life: recreation, self-reliance, and competing visions of race manhood -- Epilogue. …”
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