Social Sciences  /  Anthropology & Sociology
Rightful shares Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 250
ISBN: 9788869773976
Pub Date: 31 May 2025
Series: Social Science
Description:
The book delivers a rich ethnographic account of present-day Indian communities in northern Italy, considering their journeys of diaspora as well as dynamics of integration, focusing on the shift from first to second migrant generation with an important accent on gender. Based on three-years of multisite fieldwork between Lombardy and the Punjab in selected households, this study contributes to the emergent debate on South Asian minorities in the national context. Far from being a passive labor force, people of Punjabi descent in Italy confront and resist multiple forms of exclusion: from patriarchy to casteism, from racialization to civic stratification.
The History of Alchemy: Influences on culture, science and society Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 350
ISBN: 9789189882690
Pub Date: 20 May 2025
Description:
The etymological roots of alchemy are found in both the Arabic and Greek languages, and refer to the process of transmutation that leads to a complete reunion with the original divine form. However, the esoteric practice of alchemy stretches all the way to India and China and has been practiced since at least the fourth century.During the Middle Ages, alchemy attracted many of the most prominent scholars of the time.
RRP: £30.00

Spaces of Immigration

Railways and the American Cultural Landscape
Format: Hardback
Pages: 272
ISBN: 9780822948490
Pub Date: 15 Apr 2025
Description:
A new addition to the University of Pittsburgh Press Culture Politics & the Built Environment series
Swarms, Viral Writing, and the Local Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 424
ISBN: 9780822947950
Pub Date: 15 Apr 2025
Description:
A new addition to the University of Pittsburgh Press Composition, Literacy, and Culture series.
Objects of the Day Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 210
ISBN: 9789080774483
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2024
Imprint: Blikvelduitgevers Publishers
Illustrations: full colour images
Description:
This pocket, written by Jolanda Bos, bundles a selection of objects from the Wearable Heritage Collection and features traditional jewellery items and dress from North Afrika and West Asia. The objects in the booklet are all illustrated with a personal account on how they became part of the collection, their function and use, illustrated with wonderfully detailed photographs. This pocket bundles a small selection of objects from the Wearable Heritage Collection and features traditional jewellery items, costume ornaments and dress from the North African and West Asian region.

Haint Country

Dark Folktales from the Hills and Hollers

Haint Country

Dark Folktales from the Hills and Hollers
Format: 
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9781985900967
Pub Date: 01 Oct 2024
Illustrations: 28 b&w illustrations
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9781985900974
Pub Date: 01 Oct 2024
Illustrations: 28 b&w illustrations
Description:
The hills of the Appalachia region hold secrets—dark, deep, varied, and mysterious. These secrets are often told in the form of eerie, thrilling, and creepy folk tales that reveal strange sightings, curious oddities, and commonly serve as cautionary tales for eager and curious ears. These spine-tingling stories have been told and retold by family members, neighbors, and "hillfolk" for generations.
Kentucky, Y'all Cover Kentucky, Y'all Cover
Format: 
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9781985900721
Pub Date: 10 Sep 2024
Illustrations: 32 b&w illustrations
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9781985900738
Pub Date: 10 Sep 2024
Illustrations: 32 b&w illustrations
Description:
When people think of Kentucky, three things usually come to mind: bourbon, Colonel Sanders's secret chicken recipe, and the glamorous Kentucky Derby. Add college basketball to that list, and you have yourself a superfecta. Looking beyond these time-honored traditions, however, visitors will find in Kentucky a diverse patchwork of faces and places, each as unique as the state's geography.

Fraught Balance

The Embodied Politics of Dabke Dance Music in Syria
Fraught Balance Cover
Format: 
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9780819501028
Pub Date: 31 Jul 2024
Series: Music/Culture
Illustrations: 24 b&w photos, 2 b&w tables
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9780819501035
Pub Date: 31 Jul 2024
Series: Music/Culture
Illustrations: 24 b&w photos, 2 b&w tables
Description:
A vivid and intricate study of dance music traditions that reveals the many contradictions of Syrian identity in the 21st centuryDabke, one of Syria's most beloved dance music traditions, is at the center of the country's war and the social tensions that preceded conflict. Drawing on almost two decades of ethnographic, archival, and digital research, Shayna M. Silverstein shows how dabke dance music embodies the fraught dynamics of gender, class, ethnicity, and nationhood in an authoritarian state.
Transformative Leadership in African Contexts Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 462
ISBN: 9780796926616
Pub Date: 10 May 2024
Imprint: HSRC Press
Description:
"Important, exciting, coherent, and comprehensive..
Death and Display Cover Death and Display Cover
Format: 
Pages: 222
ISBN: 9789464262131
Pub Date: 30 Apr 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 170fc / 40bw
Pages: 222
ISBN: 9789464262124
Pub Date: 30 Apr 2024
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 170fc / 40bw
Description:
During funerals of nobles in the Kuba kingdom (Democratic Republic of Congo), visitors used to theatrically offer so-called bongotols to the deceased and the mourning family. These highly appreciated valuables were either positioned under the corpse to support it or displayed on top of it.In addition to their religious meaning they displayed the status and wealth of both givers and takers.
Deviant Hollers Cover Deviant Hollers Cover
Format: 
Pages: 246
ISBN: 9780813199306
Pub Date: 20 Mar 2024
Series: Appalachian Futures: Black, Native, and Queer Voices
Illustrations: 1 b&w illustration
Pages: 246
ISBN: 9780813199337
Pub Date: 20 Mar 2024
Series: Appalachian Futures: Black, Native, and Queer Voices
Illustrations: 1 b&w illustration
Description:
Deviant Hollers: Queering Appalachian Ecologies for a Sustainable Future uses the lens of queer ecologies to explore environmental destruction in Appalachia while mapping out alternative futures that follow from critical queer perspectives on the United States' exploitation of the land. With essays by Lis Regula, Jessica Cory, Chet Pancake, Tijah Bumgarner, MJ Eckhouse, and other essential thinkers, this collection brings to light both emergent and long-standing marginalized perspectives that give renewed energy to the struggle for a sustainable future. A new and valuable contribution to the field of Appalachian studies, rural queer studies, Indigenous studies, and ethnographic studies of the United States, Deviant Hollers presents a much-needed objection to the status quo of academic work, as well as to the American exceptionalism and white supremacy pervading US politics and the broader geopolitical climate.
Power and Place Cover Power and Place Cover
Format: 
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9780813197739
Pub Date: 20 Mar 2024
Series: Place Matters: New Directions in Appalachian Studies
Illustrations: 1 b&w illustration
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9780813198224
Pub Date: 20 Mar 2024
Series: Place Matters: New Directions in Appalachian Studies
Illustrations: 1 b&w illustration
Description:
Rural life and culture hold a practical and symbolic importance in American society. A central tenet to the survival of our cherished values—and of ourselves as a species—is the stewardship of cultural diversity and the places that foster it, like rural America. These may be the places that teach us to use land to make a living and to make a life, to forge and carry on our identities, and to feel history.
Dervishes along the Silk Roads: Between Past and Present Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 280
ISBN: 9788869774270
Pub Date: 29 Feb 2024
Series: Anthropology
Description:
This book highlights aspects of the spiritual culture within Islam that flourished along the 'Silk Roads' – the term coined by Ferdinand von Richthofen in 1877 to describe the web of caravan routes that connected China, South and Central Asia, the Middle East and Europe. The movement of goods and of people was accompanied by the circulation of ideas, bringing about a vivid exchange in the cultural sphere – sufism, or tasawwuf, was one such idea. Focusing on this theme, these conference proceedings draw attention to the multiple dimensions embraced by tasawwuf, both in its temporal (i.
Unorganized Women Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 212
ISBN: 9780822947554
Pub Date: 06 Feb 2024
Description:
Across a range of industrial, domestic, and agricultural sites, Greer shows how repetitive discursive performances served as rhetorical tools as women workers sought to rescript power relations in their workplaces and to resist narratives about their laboring lives. The case studies reveal noteworthy patterns in how these women’s words helped to construct the complex web of class relations in which they were enmeshed. Rather than a teleological narrative of economic empowerment over the course of a century, Unorganized Women speaks to the enduring obstacles low- and no-wage women face, their creativity and resilience in the face of adversity, and the challenges that impede the creation of meaningful coalitions.
African Dolls Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 144
ISBN: 9789492940162
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2024
Imprint: Blikvelduitgevers Publishers
Series: The Private Collection Series
Illustrations: full colour images
Description:
This private collection of African dolls, sometimes spontaneously decorated with beadwork, are witnesses of people's hopes and beliefs. The book is richly illustrated with overviews and detailed photographs of the objects and, apart from a description of their history, also gives the reader a personal account of collecting these dolls single-handedly over a period of 45 years.
Hemispheric Blackness and the Exigencies of Accountability Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 260
ISBN: 9780822947226
Pub Date: 31 Jan 2024
Description:
_Hemispheric Blackness and the Exigencies of Accountability _examines the way Afrodescendant and Black communities use the land on which they live, the rule of law, and their bodies to assert their historical, ontological, and physical presence across South, Central, and North America. Their demand for the recognition of ancestral lands, responsive policies, and human rights sheds new light on their permanent yet tenuous presence throughout the region. The authors argue that by deploying a discourse of transcontinental historical continuity, Black communities assert their presence in local, national, and international political spheres.