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  • The Soul of a Folklorist

    Historical Moments, Political Representation, and the Weight of Social Responsibility

    by Ann K. Ferrell, Diane E. Goldstein ...
    Series series Activist Encounters in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    In the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, the US saw a growing awareness of representational politics following the civil rights, women's, gay and lesbian, antiwar, and environmental justice movements, and, like most fields, folklore became increasingly cognizant of these cultural and political shifts. The Soul of a Folklorist chronicles the growing pains folklorists felt as the field engaged in these new and ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • The Quantum World

    Quantum Physics for Everyone

    by Kenneth W. Ford, Diane Goldstein ...
    As Kenneth W. Ford shows us in The Quantum World, the laws governing the very small and the very swift defy common sense and stretch our minds to the limit. Drawing on a deep familiarity with the discoveries of the twentieth century, Ford gives an appealing account of quantum physics that will help the serious reader make sense of a science that, for all its successes, remains mysterious. In order ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Haunting Experiences

    Ghosts in Contemporary Folklore

    by Diane Goldstein, Sylvia Grider, Jeannie Banks Thomas ...
    Ghosts and other supernatural phenomena are widely represented throughout modern culture. They can be found in any number of entertainment, commercial, and other contexts, but popular media or commodified representations of ghosts can be quite different from the beliefs people hold about them, based on tradition or direct experience. Personal belief and cultural tradition on the one hand, and ... Read more

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  • The Stigmatized Vernacular

    Where Reflexivity Meets Untellability

    Edited by Diane E. Goldstein, Amy Shuman ...
    Series series Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    Reflections on the challenge of studying and discussing subjects society rejects, reviles, or considers unspeakable.As part of this multilayered conversation about stigma, this volume discusses the relationship between the stigmatized individual and our role as researchers. Here we address our own perspectives as researchers struggling with stigma issues and tellability, as well as scholarly ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Behind the Mask

    Vernacular Culture in the Time of COVID

    Edited by Ben Bridges, Ross Brillhart, Diane E. Goldstein ...
    Vernacular responses have been crucial for communities seeking creative ways to cope with the coronavirus pandemic. With most people locked down and separated from the normal ebb and flow of life for an extended period of time, COVID-19 inspired community and creativity, adaptation and flexibility, traditional knowledge, resistance, and dynamism. Removing people from assumed norms and daily lives, ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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    Globalization, Migration, and Religious Change in a Oaxacan Indigenous Group

    by Mary I. O'Connor ...
    Mixtec Evangelicals is a comparative ethnography of four Mixtec communities in Oaxaca, detailing the process by which economic migration and religious conversion combine to change the social and cultural makeup of predominantly folk-Catholic communities. The book describes the effects on the home communities of the Mixtecs who travel to northern Mexico and the United States in search of wage labor ... Read more

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  • Tales of Canyonlands Cowboys

    by Richard Negri ...
    Before Canyonlands was a national park, before tourists discovered the wildness and wonder of the Maze and the Land of Standing Rocks, before the San Rafael Desert became a hive of the mineral exploration, the lands west of the Colorado and Green Rivers to the San Rafael Swell and from the Book Cliffs and San Rafael River south to the dirty Devil River and the Henry Mountains were pastures for the ... Read more

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  • Jesus in America and Other Stories from the Field

    by Claudia Gould ...
    Drawing on ethnographic field work she conducted among Christians in her home state of North Carolina, Claudia Gould crafts stories that lay open the human heart and social complications of fundamentalist belief. These stories and the compelling characters who inhabit them draw us into the complex essence of religious experience among southern American Christians. ... Read more

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  • Lords of Lambityeco

    Political Evolution in the Valley of Oaxaca during the Xoo Phase

    by Michael Lind, Javier Urcid ...
    Series series Mesoamerican Worlds
    The Valley of Oaxaca was unified under the rule of Monte Albán until its collapse around AD 800. Using findings from John Paddock’s long-term excavations at Lambityeco from 1961 to 1976, Michael Lind and Javier Urcid examine the political and social organization of the ancient community during the Xoo Phase (Late Classic period).Focusing on change within this single archaeological period rather ... Read more

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  • Embracing Watershed Politics

    by Edella Schlager ...
    As Americans try to better manage and protect the natural resources of our watersheds, is politics getting in the way? Why does watershed management end up being so political? In Embracing Watershed Politics, political scientists Edella Schlager and William Blomquist provide timely illustrations and thought-provoking explanations of why political considerations are essential, unavoidable, and in ... Read more

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  • Maya Gods of War

    by Karen Bassie-Sweet ...
    Numerous archaeological projects have found substantial evidence of the military nature of Maya society, and warfare is a frequent theme of Maya art. Maya Gods of War investigates the Classic period Maya gods who were associated with weapons of war and the flint and obsidian from which those weapons were made.Author Karen Bassie-Sweet traces the semantic markers used to distinguish flint from ... Read more

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  • Ancient Maya Commerce

    Multidisciplinary Research at Chunchucmil

    Edited by Scott R. Hutson ...
    Ancient Maya Commerce presents nearly two decades of multidisciplinary research at Chunchucmil, Yucatan, Mexico—a thriving Classic period Maya center organized around commercial exchange rather than agriculture. An urban center without a king and unable to sustain agrarian independence, Chunchucmil is a rare example of a Maya city in which economics, not political rituals, served as the engine of ... Read more

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