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  Emerging Horizons: 21st Century Approaches to the study of Midrash : Proceedings of the Midrash Section, Society of Biblical Literature, volume 9

  Rivka Ulmer and W David Nelson

  A text linguistic analysis of a yelammedenu unit in the Tanḥuma (printed edition, Naso 29-30) and in Pesiqta Rabbati 3 (On the eighth day). The rabbinic homiletic unit referred to as “yelammedenu” (“Let our rabbi teach us”) is a major characteristic of the so-called “Tanḥuma-Yelammedenu” literature. Several features of this literature are present in the midrashic work Pesiqta Rabbati, which is a unique rabbinic work based on an annual liturgical calendar in its presentation of homilies for festivals and special Sabbaths, whereas Midrash Tanḥuma follows a triennial[1] cycle of the weekly Torah readings. Both midrashic works lend themselves to “form-analytical,” text-linguistic and post-modern literary theories, because the texts contain recurrent elements of midrash, as well as comprehensive religious messages.

  The chapters in Emerging Horizons: 21st Century Approaches to the Study of Midrash pertain to an intriguing midrash that appears in a Masoretic context, the Qur’anic narrative of the red cow, midrashic narratives that rabbinize enemies of Israel, the death of Moses, emotions in rabbinic literature, and yelammedenu units in midrashic works.

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  La vida imitada : narrativa, performance y visualidad en Pedro Lemebel

  Fernando A. Blanco

  Lemebel es un ícono del activismo queer en Chile y Latinoamérica con una obra narrativa fundada en el género de la crónica en la que se conjugan la oralidad, los lenguajes e imaginarios populares, las costumbres y ritos urbanos de las clases proletarias con el juicio histórico a la dictadura militar, la pandemia del SIDA, el blanqueamiento de la memoria de los crímenes del Estado represor, los movimientos sociales y migratorios y toda forma de exterminio e inequidad. El presente volumen recoge quince ensayos en los que se revisa la obra del escritor y performer destacando sus vínculos con el cine, la música, el arte visual y performático, su trabajo en medios y, por supuesto, su producción novelística y cronística. La primera sección, “Perfiles y testigos”, incluye ensayos de Fernando A. Blanco, Ignacio Echevarría, Jorge Fornet, Jovana Skármeta y Roberto Echavarren en los que se reconstruyen las múltiples identidades creativas del escritor. La segunda, “Crónicas y ficción”, con contribuciones de Brad Epps, Javier Guerrero, Gilda Luongo y Cristián Montes reflexiona sobre su quehacer literario, en particular en la novela y las relaciones entre género y crónica. La tercera, “Performance, cultura radial y cine” recoge contribuciones de Dieter Ingenshay, María José Contreras, Florencia San Martín, Jorge Ruffinelli, Ángeles Mateo del Pino, Daniel Party y Luis Achondo en las que se analizan el uso de materiales, lenguajes, soportes, medios y géneros no literarios.

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  Annual Editions: Child Growth and Development, 23rd edition

  Chris Boyatzis and Ellen N. Junn

  This book is an anthology of current cutting-edge articles on child development. The book is published as part of the long-running Annual Editions series, which reaches hundreds of colleges across the US and Canada. Past editions of this particular book have been assigned at schools from Harvard to community colleges and high schools. The book contains 35 already-published articles from sources as varied as the New York Times, The Atlantic, and many other magazines or websites, as well as professional academic journals such as PLoS One. is organized around several major domains of child development: 1) Prenatal development, birth, and child cognition, language, learning, and education; 2) Social and emotional development; 3) Parenting and family issues; and 4) Culture and societal influences. Each article is accompanied by recommendations for further reading, internet resources, and critical thinking questions.

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  The Greater Gulf : Essays on the Environmental History of the Gulf of St. Lawrence

  Claire Campbell, Edward MacDonald, and Brian Payne

  The largest estuary in the world, the Gulf of St Lawrence is defined broadly by an ecology that stretches from the upper reaches of the St Lawrence River to the Gulf Stream, and by a web of influences that reach from the heart of the continent to northern Europe. For more than a millennium, the gulf's strategic location and rich marine resources have made it a destination and a gateway, a cockpit and a crossroads, and a highway and a home. From Vinland the Good to the novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery, the Gulf has haunted the Western imagination. A transborder collaboration between Canadian and American scholars, The Greater Gulf represents the first concerted exploration of the environmental history - marine and terrestrial - of the Gulf of St Lawrence. Contributors tell many histories of a place that has been fished, fought over, explored, and exploited. The essays' defining themes resonate in today's charged atmosphere of quickening climate change as they recount stories of resilience played against ecological fragility, resistance at odds with accommodation, considered versus reckless exploitation, and real, imagined, and imposed identities. Reconsidering perceptions about borders and the spaces between and across land and sea, The Greater Gulf draws attention to a central place and part of North Atlantic and North American history. -- publisher

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  Women Making Modernism

  Erica Delsandro

  Challenging the tendency of scholars to view women writers of the modernist era as isolated artists who competed with one another for critical and cultural acceptance, Women Making Modernism reveals the robust networks women created and maintained that served as platforms and support for women’s literary careers. The essays in this volume highlight both familiar and lesser-known writers including Virginia Woolf, Mina Loy, Dorothy Richardson, Emma Goldman, May Sinclair, and Mary Hutchinson. For these writers, relationships and correspondences with other women were key to navigating a literary culture that not only privileged male voices but also reserved most financial and educational opportunities for men. Their examples show how women’s writing communities interconnected to generate a current of energy, innovation, and ambition that was central to the modernist movement. Contributors to this volume argue that the movement’s prominent intellectual networks were dependent on the invisible work of women artists, a fact that the field of modernist studies has too long overlooked. Amplifying the reality of women’s contributions to modernism, this volume advocates for an “orientation of openness” in reading and teaching literature from the period, helping to ease the tensions between feminist and modernist studies. -- publisher

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  Michael Chekhov and Sanford Meisner: Collisions and Convergence in Actor Training

  Anjalee Deshpande Hutchinson

  Michael Chekhov and Sanford Meisner: Collisions and Convergence in Actor Training offers a comprehensive analysis of the Sanford Meisner Acting Technique in comparison to the Michael Chekhov Acting Technique. This compilation reveals the connections as well as the contradictions between these two very different approaches, while highlighting meaningful bridges and offering in-depth essays from a variety of sources, including master teachers with years of experience and new and rising stars in the field. The authors provide philosophical arguments on actor training, innovative approaches to methodology, and explorations into integration, as well as practical methods of application for the classroom or rehearsal room, or scaffolded into a curriculum. Michael Chekhov and Sanford Meisner: Collisions and Convergence in Actor Training is an excellent resource for professors teaching Introductory, Intermediate or Advanced Acting Technique as well as acting program directors and department chairs seeking new, impactful research on actor training. - back cover

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  Remaking Islam in African Portugal : Lisbon, Mecca, Bissau

  Michelle C. Johnson

  When Guinean Muslims leave their homeland, they encounter radically new versions of Islam and new approaches to religion more generally. In Remaking Islam in African Portugal, Michelle C. Johnson explores the religious lives of these migrants in the context of diaspora. Since Islam arrived in West Africa centuries ago, Muslims in this region have long conflated ethnicity and Islam, such that to be Mandinga or Fula is also to be Muslim. But as they increasingly encounter Muslims not from Africa, as well as other ways of being Muslim, they must question and revise their understanding of "proper" Muslim belief and practice. Many men, in particular, begin to separate African custom from global Islam. Johnson maintains that this cultural intersection is highly gendered as she shows how Guinean Muslim men in Lisbon--especially those who can read Arabic, have made the pilgrimage to Mecca, and attend Friday prayer at Lisbon's central mosque-- aspire to be cosmopolitan Muslims. By contrast, Guinean women--many of whom never studied the Qur'an, do not read Arabic, and feel excluded from the mosque-- remain more comfortably rooted in African custom. In response, these women have created a "culture club" as an alternative Muslim space where they can celebrate life course rituals and Muslim holidays on their own terms. Remaking Islam in African Portugal highlights what being Muslim means in urban Europe and how Guinean migrants' relationships to their ritual practices must change as they remake themselves and their religion. -- publisher

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  Experiential and Performative Anthropology in the Classroom : Engaging the Legacy of Edith and Victor Turner

  Michelle C. Johnson and Edmund Searles

  Water and Potato Chips: Classroom Ritual Reenactments as Forms of Pedagogical Resistance, Michelle C. Johnson.

  Abstract: Michelle Johnson participated in her first ethnographic performance as an undergraduate, an experience that shaped her as a teacher-scholar. A decade later as a professor, she incorporated Turnerian ethnographic performances in her own courses. Theory in Anthropology students perform the Victor Turner Memorial Sacrifice, a West African-style sacrifice in honor of Victor and Edith Turner and Anthropology of Religion students perform pilgrimage at the National Shrine Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes. Johnson considers what Turnerian ethnographic performances in and beyond the classroom teach students about religion and ritual specifically, and about life and learning more generally. A form of pedagogical resistance, ethnographic performances destabilize the centrality of the text, engage the body and senses, and disrupt normative structures of knowledge and power. In so doing, they honor the people with whom anthropologists work, for whom embodied, experiential ways of knowing and learning are the norm rather than the exception.

  The Smell of Smudge and the Work of Smoke: Reenacting Native American Ritual in an Anthropology Course, Edmund (Ned) Searles.

  Abstract: Drawing on exercises performed in several of his classes at Bucknell University, Ned Searles shows how ethnographic performances provide students with a set of learning experiences that texts, class discussions, and films cannot reproduce. In exposing his students to ethnographically-informed sensory experiences such as a prolonged moment of silence, the manipulation of one’s qi, and a thanksgiving ceremony involving smoke and prayer, he shows how performing ethnography in the classroom can broaden student perspectives, cultivate communitas, and encourage students to think more deeply—and question more critically—their taken-for-granted assumptions about the world. One of performances is a smudge ceremony that draws on elements of Haudenosaunee spirituality and cosmology. It is designed to enable students to experience firsthand how and why the Haudenosaunee, an indigenous people with longstanding ties to Bucknell, value rituals—as do other Native American groups—as key elements in the quest for cultural autonomy and collective resilience.

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  Minimum Wages in China: Evolution, Legislation, and Effects

  Shi Li and Carl Lin

  This book considers the positive and negative impacts of the minimum wage policy in China. Since China enacted its first minimum wage law in 1994, the magnitude and frequency of changes in the minimum wage have been substantial, both over time and across jurisdictions. The results from China’s experience show that rapidly increasing minimum wages have helped increase average wages and reduce the gender wage gap, income inequality, and poverty. However, the fast-rising minimum wage has also resulted in the loss of employment for young adults, women, low-skilled workers, and migrant workers. Additionally, higher minimum wages have a negative impact on firm profitability and adverse effects on firm’s human capital investment. In summary, the Chinese minimum wage policy has shown both positive and negative impacts on the affected workers. Through unpacking these findings, the book highlights the importance of rigorous research to inform evidence-based policymaking and provides lessons for other transitional and developing economies. -- publisher

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  Spanish Graphic Narratives: Recent Developments in Sequential Art

  Collin McKinney and David F. Richter

  Spanish Graphic Narratives examines the most recent thematic and critical developments in Spanish sequential art, with essays focusing on comics published in Spain since 2007. Considering Spain’s rich literary history, contentious Civil War (1936–39), oppressive Francisco Franco regime (1939–75), and progressive contemporary politics, both the recent graphic novel production in Spain and the thematic focal points of the essays here are greatly varied. Topics of particular interest include studies on the subject of historical and personal memory; representations of gender, race, and identity; and texts dealing with Spanish customs, traditions, and the current political situation in Spain. These overarching topics share many points of contact one with another, and this interrelationship (as well as the many points of divergence) is illustrative of the uniqueness, diversity, and paradoxes of literary and cultural production in modern-day Spain, thus illuminating our understanding of Spanish national consciousness in the present day.

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  Rent Seeking and Development : the Political Economy of Industrialization in Vietnam

  Christine Ngo

  Rent seeking continues to be a topic of much discussion and debate within the political economy. This new study challenges previous assumptions and sets out a new analysis of the dynamics of rent and rent seeking in development, using Vietnam as a case study.

  This book provides an alternative approach to the study of economic development and illuminates new perspectives in a contemporary context. It argues that not only has there been an incomplete understanding of Vietnam’s industrial development over the last three decades, but that neoclassical economics do not adequately address many of the issues endangering Vietnam’s development.

  A significant observation of the Vietnamese experience is the analytical view that rents can be developmental and growth enhancing if the configuration of rent management incentivizes industrial upgrade and conditions firm performance. Underlining the need to reexamine how economic actors and the state collaborate through formal and informal institutions, this study fills a gap in the scholarship of the political economy of rent and rent seeking and how rents might be used for developmental purposes. -- p. [i]

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  Freedom is a Place : the Struggle for Sovereignty in Palestine

  Ron J. Smith

  Freedom Is a Place gives readers a snapshot of everyday life in the 1967 oPt (occupied Palestinian territories). A project of subaltern geopolitics, it helps both new and seasoned scholars of the region better understand occupation: its purpose, varied manifestations, and on-the-ground functions. This personal study brings to light how large-scale geopolitics play havoc with the lives of ordinary people and how people resist and endure. Using data collected over a decade of fieldwork, Ron J. Smith situates the everyday realities of the occupation within the larger project of Zionism. He explores the attempts to codify a temporary condition like occupation into permanency. Smith insists that occupation be understood as a changing process, not a singular event, and to explain its longevity, he argues that we must uncover the particular geographical and political dynamism at hand. Through careful use of interviews and participant observation, Smith reveals how the varied practices of occupation transform daily life into a prison. He also helps bring to light everyday narratives illustrating how people mobilize claims to freedom and sovereignty to maintain life under occupation. Freedom Is a Place uncovers how lessons from Israel's seventy-plus-years occupation are used by other states to oppress restive populations. At the same time, Smith identifies how these lessons also can be mobilized to create new spaces and strategies toward achieving liberation. -- publisher

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  Lens on China: Intermediate and Advanced Readings on Film for Learning Chinese

  Xi Tian and Jing Wang

  Lens on China: Intermediate and Advanced Readings on Film for Learning Chinese is an innovative textbook that uses film to teach intermediate to advanced Mandarin Chinese. It not only provides students with a non-traditional way to learn Chinese by combining visual and textual materials, but also creates real sociocultural and linguistic situations where students can use their acquired skills. Each lesson of the textbook focuses on one film in a highly engaging and effective way of learning. Chapter comes with a comprehensive vocabulary list, detailed grammar explanations, and exercises in various formats. Such a design ensures a balance between basic language training in vocabulary and grammatical structure, and more advanced goals in interactive communication and in-depth reflection.

  The film selection has been chosen to help the student achieve a sociocultural knowledge that will deepen their understanding of contemporary China. Half of the films selected are light-hearted works on youth, love, and aspirations, with discussions revolving around topics such as relationships, immigration, elderly care, education, and social justice. The other half tackle more complex issues pertinent to the impact of China’s economic and political reforms, as well as its fast-changing social and cultural landscape. Lens on China will become a treasured language resource to those who want to master Mandarin Chinese.

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  A Companion to Late Medieval and Early Modern Augsburg

  B. Ann Tlusty and Mark Häberlein

  A Companion to Late Medieval and Early Modern Augsburg introduces readers to major political, social and economic developments in Augsburg from c. 1400 to c. 1800 as well as to those themes of social and cultural history that have made research on this imperial city especially fruitful and stimulating. The volume comprises contributions by an international team of 23 scholars, providing a range of the most significant scholarly approaches to Augsburg’s past from a variety of perspectives, disciplines, and methodologies. Building on the impressive number of recent innovative studies on this large and prosperous early modern city, the contributions distill the extraordinary range and creativity of recent scholarship on Augsburg into a handbook format.-- publisher

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  Poétique et politique du désir engagé : autour d'Abdellah Taïa = Poetics and politics of engaged desire : around Abdellah Taïa

  Amine Zidouh and Ralph Heyndels

  This volume includes studies on ABDELLAH TAIA by 18 academics from the United States, Brazil, France, United Kingdom, Belgium, Spain, Morocco and South Africa. It is the first volume of this type, also resulting in part from the first international colloquium on the work of ABDELLAH TAIA. It includes two unpublished texts by ABDELLAH TAIA, and an interview with him.

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  Democracias Incompletas. Actores, demandas e Intersecciones.

  Fernando A. Blanco

  Edited by Blanco Fernando and Opazo, Cristiáin. Edited volumen, conference proceedings Actores Demandas e Intersecciones. Santiago de Chile, August 2015.

  Papers devoted to discuss current cultural, social and political issues in the region (Southern Cone)

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  Poétiques de la Liste et Imaginaire Sériel dans les Lettres (XXe et XXIe siècles)

  Nathalie Dupont and Éric Trudel

  Sixteen researchers from Quebec, the United States, Belgium, France, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and Australia are wondering here about the poetics of the list - and by extension on the enumeration, the series, litany, inventory, collection, etc. - in French and French contemporary literature.

  On the program (in bulk): the list and the sciences; the list and the doubt; the list and the animal; the list and the name; list and encyclopedism; the list and the writing of oneself; the list and the story; the list and the constraint; the list and the voice; the list and the museum; the list and the ruins; the list and idiocy; the list and the Tour de France; the list and the policy; list and syntax; the list and the time; the list and the daily; the list and the comic strip; the list and the scene; the list and dada; the list and the real. -- publisher

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  Cinco Obras de Teatro

  Mills Fox Edgerton

  Five plays about about life, relationships, and love.

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  Memorias de un Viaje de Descubrimiento

  Mills Fox Edgerton

  A small private university in New England invites a young Spanish Hispanicist to spend a school year as a visiting professor. During those ten months, the protagonist embarks on a real journey of discovery in which he penetrates beyond the image of the United States offered by American films and series.

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  Tinieblas

  Mills Fox Edgerton

  This novel, in the form of a personal diary, is based on real events and explores domestic violence in heterosexual marriage.

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  Death to Fascism : Louis Adamic's Fight for Democracy

  John P. Enyeart

  Born to Slovenian peasants, Louis Adamic commanded crowds, met with FDR and Truman, and built a prolific career as an author and journalist. Behind the scenes, he played a leading role in a coalition of black intellectuals and writers, working-class militants, ethnic activists, and others that worked for a multiethnic America and against fascism.

  John P. Enyeart restores Adamic's life to the narrative of American history. Dogged and energetic, Adamic championed causes that ranged from ethnic and racial equality to worker's rights to anticolonialism. Adamic defied the consensus that equated being American with Anglo-Protestant culture. Instead, he insisted newcomers and their ideas kept the American identity in a state of dynamism that pushed it from strength to strength. In time, Adamic's views put him at odds with an establishment dedicated to cold war aggression and white supremacy. He increasingly fought smear campaigns and the distortion of his views—both of which continued after his probable murder in 1951. -- publisher

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  África Bantu: De 3500 a.C. até o presente (África e os Africanos) (Portuguese Edition)

  Catherine Cymone Fourshey, Christine Saidi, and Rhonda Marie Gonzales

  África Bantu introduz, em cinco capítulos temáticos, os leitores a diversos métodos e abordagens de coleta e análise de dados para escrever as histórias de povos e sociedades cujo passado remoto não foi, muitas vezes, preservado em documentos escritos. Assim, a reconstrução da história antiga Bantu deve apoiar-se no uso de múltiplas metodologias e abordagens. Evidências foram retiradas da linguística, da genética, da arqueologia, das tradições orais, da história da arte e da etnografia comparada. O objetivo desta obra é oferecer aos alunos uma compreensão da história do mundo Bantu, no longo prazo, em áreas que os leitores podem identificar como cultural, política, religiosa, econômica e social.

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  Never Enough : the Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction

  Judith E. Grisel

  Judith Grisel was a daily drug user and college dropout when she began to consider that her addiction might have a cure, one that she herself could perhaps discover by studying the brain. Now, after twenty-five years as a neuroscientist, she shares what she and other scientists have learned about addiction, enriched by captivating glimpses of her personal journey. In Never Enough, Grisel reveals the unfortunate bottom line of all regular drug use: there is no such thing as a free lunch. All drugs act on the brain in a way that diminishes their enjoyable effects and creates unpleasant ones with repeated use. Yet they have their appeal, and Grisel draws on anecdotes both comic and tragic from her own days of using as she limns the science behind the love of various drugs, from marijuana to alcohol, opiates to psychedelics, speed to spice. With more than one in five people over the age of fourteen addicted, drug abuse has been called the most formidable health problem worldwide, and Grisel delves with compassion into the science of this scourge. She points to what is different about the brains of addicts even before they first pick up a drink or drug, highlights the changes that take place in the brain and behavior as a result of chronic using, and shares the surprising hidden gifts of personality that addiction can expose. She describes what drove her to addiction, what helped her recover, and her belief that a “cure” for addiction will not be found in our individual brains but in the way we interact with our communities. Set apart by its color, candor, and bell-clear writing, Never Enough is a revelatory look at the roles drugs play in all of our lives and offers crucial new insight into how we can solve the epidemic of abuse. -- publisher

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  Staging Habla de Negros : Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain

  Nicholas R. Jones

  Nicholas R. Jones analyzes white appropriations of black African voices in Spanish theater from the 1500s through the 1700s, when the performance of Africanized Castilian, commonly referred to as habla de negros (black speech), was in vogue.

  Focusing on Spanish Golden Age theater and performative poetry from authors such as Calderón de la Barca, Lope de Rueda, and Rodrigo de Reinosa, Jones makes a strong case for revising the belief, long held by literary critics and linguists, that white appropriations and representations of habla de negros language are “racist buffoonery” or stereotype. Instead, Jones shows black characters who laugh, sing, and shout, ultimately combating the violent desire of white supremacy. By placing early modern Iberia in conversation with discourses on African diaspora studies, Jones showcases how black Africans and their descendants who built communities in early modern Spain were rendered legible in performative literary texts.

  Accessibly written and theoretically sophisticated, Jones’s groundbreaking study elucidates the ways that habla de negros animated black Africans’ agency, empowered their resistance, and highlighted their African cultural retentions. This must-read book on identity building, performance, and race will captivate audiences across disciplines. -- publisher

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  Pocket Maps and Public Poetry in the English Renaissance

  Katarzyna Lecky

  Katarzyna Lecky explores how early modern British poets paid by the state adapted inclusive modes of nationhood charted by inexpensive, small-format maps. She explores chapbooks ('cheapbooks') by Edmund Spenser, Samuel Daniel, Ben Jonson, William Davenant, and John Milton alongside the portable cartography circulating in the same retail print industry. Domestic pocket maps were designed for heavy use by a broad readership that included those on the fringes of literacy. The era's de facto laureates all banked their success as writers appealing to this burgeoning market share by drawing the nation as the property of the commonwealth rather than the Crown. This book investigates the accessible world of small-format cartography as it emerges in the texts of the poets raised in the expansive public sphere in which pocket maps flourished. It works at the intersections of space, place, and national identity to reveal the geographical imaginary shaping the flourishing business of cheap print. Its placement of poetic economies within mainstream systems of trade also demonstrates how cartography and poetry worked together to mobilize average consumers as political agents. This everyday form of geographic poiesis was also a strong platform for poets writing for monarchs and magistrates when their visions of the nation ran counter to the interests of the government. -- publisher