Author: Rebekah J. Kowal File Type: epub In recent decades, dance has become a vehicle for querying assumptions about what it means to be embodied, in turn illuminating intersections among the political, the social, the aesthetical, and the phenomenological. The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Politics edited by internationally lauded scholars Rebekah Kowal, Gerald Siegmund, and the late Randy Martin presents a compendium of newly-commissioned chapters that address the interdisciplinary and global scope of dance theory - its political philosophy, social movements, and approaches to bodily difference such as disability, postcolonial, and critical race and queer studies. In six sections 30 of the most prestigious dance scholars in the US and Europe track the political economy of dance and analyze the political dimensions of choreography, of writing history, and of embodied phenomena in general. Employing years of intimate knowledge of dance and its cultural phenomenology, scholars urge readers to re-think dominant cultural codes, their usages, and the meaning they produce and theorize ways dance may help to re-signify and to re-negotiate established cultural practices and their inherent power relations. This handbook poses ever-present questions about dance politics-which aspects or effects of a dance can be considered political? What possibilities and understandings of politics are disclosed through dance? How does a particular dance articulate or undermine forces of authority? How might dance relate to emancipation or bondage of the body? Where and how can dance articulate social movements, represent or challenge political institutions, or offer insight into habits of labor and leisure? The handbook opens its critical terms in two directions. First, it offers an elaborated understanding of how dance achieves its politics. Second, it illustrates how notions of the political are themselves expanded when viewed from the perspective of dance, thus addressing both the relationship between the politics in dance and the politics of dance. Using the most sophisticated theoretical frameworks and engaging with the problematics that come from philosophy, social science, history, and the humanities, chapters explore the affinities, affiliations, concepts, and critiques that are inherent in the act of dance, and questions about matters political that dance makes legible.
Author: Ulrike Jessner
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ReviewThis an excellent introduction into linguistic awareness research and into the complexities of multilingualism in general. The book is reader-friendly each chapter begins with an overview of the following discussion the results of analysis are explicitly stated [and] throughout the book, terminology specific to studies on third language studies is explained where used, which makes the book very accessible for students. -- Anastassia Zabrodskaja, Tallinn University, Estonia LINGUIST list Ulrike Jessner is a leading scholar in the field of multilingualism and third language acquisition. Her books major asset lies in its interdisciplinary approach and concentration on metalinguistic awareness as an emerging property of multilingual proficiency. The book is clear, amazingly informative and documented -- Daniele Moore, Simon Fraser University, and Directeur de recherche, Sorbonne Its a terrific piece of work - so comprehensive, with new insights and very, very clear. It will become a landmark in research for all interested in metalinguistic awareness. -- Muiris OLaoire, Institute of Technology Tralee The new book contains an extensive discussion of third language acquisition and the nature of linguistic awareness... Jessner shows an impressive overview of the field, covering also brand-new works. -- Bjorn Hammarberg, University of Stockholm This well-informed, systematic volume will be of importance to researchers, practicing teachers, students, and all whose interests include multilingualism, cognitive aspects of language acquisition, language processing in multilinguals, and metalinguistic awareness. -- Larissa Aronin International Journal of Applied Linguistics This volume should be on the shelf of every researcher interested in L3 acquisition. Jessner has done an exceptional job of creating a volume that focuses on the impending issues of the rapidly growing field... -- Amy Thompson Studies in Second Language Acquisition This an excellent introduction into linguistic awareness research and into the complexities of multilingualism in general. The book is reader-friendly each chapter begins with an overview of the following discussion the results of analysis are explicitly stated [and] throughout the book, terminology specific to studies on third language studies is explained where used, which makes the book very accessible for students. Ulrike Jessner is a leading scholar in the field of multilingualism and third language acquisition. Her books major asset lies in its interdisciplinary approach and concentration on metalinguistic awareness as an emerging property of multilingual proficiency. The book is clear, amazingly informative and documented Its a terrific piece of work - so comprehensive, with new insights and very, very clear. It will become a landmark in research for all interested in metalinguistic awareness. The new book contains an extensive discussion of third language acquisition and the nature of linguistic awareness... Jessner shows an impressive overview of the field, covering also brand-new works. This well-informed, systematic volume will be of importance to researchers, practicing teachers, students, and all whose interests include multilingualism, cognitive aspects of language acquisition, language processing in multilinguals, and metalinguistic awareness. This volume should be on the shelf of every researcher interested in L3 acquisition. Jessner has done an exceptional job of creating a volume that focuses on the impending issues of the rapidly growing field... About the AuthorUlrike Jessner is associate professor of English at University of Innsbruck, Austria.
Author: Paul Collins
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The sensational story of the last two centuries of the papacy, its most influential pontiffs, troubling doctrines, and rise in global authorityIn 1799, the papacy was at rock bottom The Papal States had been swept away and Rome seized by the revolutionary French armies. With cardinals scattered across Europe and the next papal election uncertain, even if Catholicism survived, it seemed the papacy was finished.In this gripping narrative of religious and political history, Paul Collins tells the improbable success story of the last 220 years of the papacy, from the unexalted death of Pope Pius VI in 1799 to the celebrity of Pope Francis today. In a strange contradiction, as the papacy has lost its physical power--its armies and states--and remained stubbornly opposed to the currents of social and scientific consensus, it has only increased its influence and political authority in the world.
Author: Alex Purves
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Unlike the other senses, touch ranges beyond a single sense organ, encompassing not only the skin but also the interior of the body. It mediates almost every aspect of interpersonal relations in antiquity, from the everyday to the erotic, just as it also provides a primary point of contact between the individual and the outside world.The essays in this volume explore the ways in whichtouch plays a defining role in science, art, philosophy, and medicine, and shapes our understanding of topics ranging from aesthetics and poetics to various religious and ritual practices. Whether we locate the sense of touch on the surface of the skin, within the body or - less tangibly still - within the emotions, the sensory impact of touching raises a broad range of interpretive and phenomenological questions. This is the first volume of its kind to explore the sense of touch in antiquity, bringing a variety of disciplinary approaches to bear on the sense that is usually disregarded as the most base and obvious of the five. In these pages, by contrast, we find in touch a complex and fascinating indicator of the bodys relation to object, environment, and self.
Author: Hugh Roberts
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The Berber identity movement in North Africa was pioneered by the Kabyles of Algeria. But a preoccupation with identity and language has obscured the fact that Kabyle dissidence has been rooted in democratic aspirations inspired by the political traditions of Kabylia itself, a Berber-speaking region in the north of Algeria. The political organisation of pre-colonial Kabylia, from which these traditions originate, was well-described by nineteenth-century French ethnographers. But their inability to explain it led to a trend amongst later theorists of Berber society, such as Ernest Gellner and Pierre Bourdieu, to dismiss Kabylias political institutions, notably the jemaa (assembly or council), and to reduce Berber politics to a function of social structure and shared religion. In Berber Government, Hugh Roberts, a renowned expert on North Africa, uncovers and explores the remarkable logics of Kabyle political organisation. Combining political anthropology and political and social history in an interdisciplinary analysis, Roberts challenges the excessive emphasis on kinship and religion in the study of the Maghreb.
Author: Min Li
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In this book, Li Min proposes a new paradigm for the foundation and emergence of the classical tradition in early China, from the late Neolithic through the Zhou period. Using a wide range of historical and archaeological data, he explains the development of ritual authority and particular concepts of kingship over time in relation to social memory. His volume weaves together the major benchmarks in the emergence of the classical tradition, particularly how legacies of prehistoric interregional interactions, state formation, urban florescence and collapse during the late third and the second millenniums BCE laid the critical foundation for the Sandai notion of history among Zhou elite. Moreover, the literary-historical accounts of the legendary Xia Dynasty in early China reveal a cultural construction involving social memories of the past and subsequent political elaborations in various phases of history. This volume enables a new understanding on the long-term processes that enabled a classical civilization in China to take shape. **
Author: Frank Luntz
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The nations premier communications expert shares his wisdom on how the words we choose can change the course of business, of politics, and of life in this countryIn Words That Work, Luntz offers a behind-the-scenes look at how the tactical use of words and phrases affects what we buy, who we vote for, and even what we believe in. With chapters like The Ten Rules of Successful Communication and The 21 Words and Phrases for the 21st Century, he examines how choosing the right words is essential.Nobody is in a better position to explain than Frank Luntz He has used his knowledge of words to help more than two dozen Fortune 500 companies grow. Hell tell us why Rupert Murdochs six-billion-dollar decision to buy DirectTV was smart because satellite was more cutting edge than digital cable, and why pharmaceutical companies transitioned their message from treatment to prevention and wellness.If you ever wanted to learn how to talk your way out of a traffic ticket or talk your way into a raise, this books for you.
Author: Ray A. Pritz
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A comprehensive study of the immediate heirs of the earliest Jerusalem church, their relations with both synagogue and the growing Gentile church. Dr. Pritz analyzes all sources, Jewish, Christian, and pagan, which can throw light on the sect and its ultimate mysterious disappearance. He deals also with the Birkat haMinim and the historicity of the flight to Pella.
Author: Brooke Holmes
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Our understanding of science, mathematics, and medicine today can be deeply enriched by studying the historical roots of these areas of inquiry in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean. The fields of ancient science and mathematics have in recent years witnessed remarkable growth. The present volume brings together contributions from more than thirty of the most important scholars working in these fields in the United States and Europe in honor of the eminent historian of ancient science and medicine Heinrich von Staden, Professor Emeritus of Classics and History of Science at the Institute of Advanced Study and William Lampson Professor Emeritus of Classics and Comparative Literature at Yale University. The papers range widely from Mesopotamia to Ancient Greece and Rome, from the first millennium B.C. to the early medieval period, and from mathematics to philosophy, mechanics to medicine, representing both a wide diversity of national traditions and the cutting edge of the international scholarly community.
Author: Faegheh Shirazi
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From food products to fashions and cosmetics to childrens toys, a wide range of commodities today are being marketed as halal (permitted, lawful) or Islamic to Muslim consumers both in the West and in Muslim-majority nations. However, many of these products are not authentically Islamic or halal, and their producers have not necessarily created them to honor religious practice or sentiment. Instead, most halal commodities are profit-driven, and they exploit the rise of a new Islamic economic paradigm, Brand Islam, as a clever marketing tool. Brand Islam investigates the rise of this highly lucrative marketing strategy and the resulting growth in consumer loyalty to goods and services identified as Islamic. Faegheh Shirazi explores the reasons why consumers buy Islam-branded products, including conspicuous piety or a longing to identify with a larger Muslim community, especially for those Muslims who live in Western countries, and how this phenomenon is affecting the religious, cultural, and economic lives of Muslim consumers. She demonstrates that Brand Islam has actually enabled a new type of global networking, joining product and service sectors together in a huge conglomerate that some are referring to as the Interland. A timely and original contribution to Muslim cultural studies, Brand Islam reveals how and why the growth of consumerism, global communications, and the Westernization of many Islamic countries are all driving the commercialization of Islam. **