Music, Trance, and Feeling in Algerian Diwan of Sidi Bilal
Dancing at the Thresholds tells the story of communities in Algeria that practice diwan: a nocturnal musical ritual in which practitioners enter various modes of trance to achieve affective "ignition" and emotional release through the body. Seen by other locals as a form of "popular" or "folk" Islam, Algerian diwan exists as a racially ......
Music, Trance, and Feeling in Algerian Diwan of Sidi Bilal
Dancing at the Thresholds tells the story of communities in Algeria that practice diwan: a nocturnal musical ritual in which practitioners enter various modes of trance to achieve affective "ignition" and emotional release through the body. Seen by other locals as a form of "popular" or "folk" Islam, Algerian diwan exists as a racially ......
In this wide-ranging study of women's and gender issues in the pre- and post-1989 Czech Republic, contributors engage with current feminist debates and theories of nation and identity to examine the historical and cultural transformations of Czech feminism. This collection of essays by leading scholars, artists, and activists, explores such topics ......
New Approaches to the Symbolic Character of Consumer Goods and Activities
This book compiles and integrates highly innovative work aimed at bridging the fields of anthropology and consumer behavior." -Journal of Consumer Affairs ... fascinating... ambitious and interesting... " -Canadian Advertising Foundation Newsletter ... an anthropological dig into consumerism brimming with original thought... " -The Globe and ......
The movie Jeremiah Johnson introduced millions to the legendary mountain man, John Johnson. The real Johnson was a far cry from the Redford version. Standing 62" in his stocking feet and weighing nearly 250 pounds, he was a mountain man among mountain men, one of the toughest customers on the western frontier. As the story goes, one morning in ......
"[A] cogent and well-informed discussion of the South African Police Service and the organisational problems it faces." -Stephen Ellis Since the mid-1990s, South Africa has experienced a crime wave of such unprecedented proportions that the ability of the new democracy to form a stable civil society and govern effectively has been called into ......
The Popular Romance Heroine's Journey to Selfhood and Self-Presentation
While the world often categorizes women in reductive false binaries-careerist versus mother, feminine versus fierce-romance novels, a unique form of the love story, offer an imaginative space of mingled alternatives for a heroine on her journey to selfhood. In Creating Identity, Jayashree Kamble examines the romance genre, with its sensile ......
The Popular Romance Heroine's Journey to Selfhood and Self-Presentation
While the world often categorizes women in reductive false binaries-careerist versus mother, feminine versus fierce-romance novels, a unique form of the love story, offer an imaginative space of mingled alternatives for a heroine on her journey to selfhood. In Creating Identity, Jayashree Kamble examines the romance genre, with its sensile ......
Creating Culture, Performing Community explores the ways in which the people of Santo Santiago de Angahuan, a P'urhepecha community in the state of Michoacan, Mexico, create and curate their cultural practices and how, by doing so, they perform what it means to be an active member of the P'urhepecha community. Through a deep ethnographic account ......
