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Cohen, Elizabeth Storr, and Margaret Louise Reeves, eds. The Youth of Early Modern Women. Amsterdam University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462984325.

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Through fifteen essays that work from a rich array of primary sources, this collection makes the novel claim that early modern European women, like men, had a youth. European culture recognised that, between childhood and full adulthood, early modern women experienced distinctive physiological, social, and psychological transformations. Drawing on two mutually shaped layers of inquiry — cultural constructions of youth and lived experiences — these essays exploit a wide variety of sources, including literary and autobiographical works, conduct literature, judicial and asylum records, drawings,

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Hohti Erichsen, Paula. Artisans, Objects and Everyday Life in Renaissance Italy. Amsterdam University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463722629.

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Did ordinary Italians have a ‘Renaissance’? This book presents the first in-depth exploration of how artisans and small local traders experienced the material and cultural Renaissance. Drawing on a rich blend of sixteenth-century visual and archival evidence, it examines how individuals and families at artisanal levels (such as shoemakers, barbers, bakers and innkeepers) lived and worked, managed their household economies and consumption, socialised in their homes, and engaged with the arts and the markets for luxury goods. It demonstrates that although the economic and social status of local

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Blakemore, Richard, and James Davey, eds. The Maritime World of Early Modern Britain. Amsterdam University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463721301.

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Britain's emergence as one of Europe's major maritime powers has all too frequently been subsumed by nationalistic narratives that focus on operations and technology. This volume, by contrast, offers a daring new take on Britain's maritime past. It brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to explore the manifold ways in which the sea shaped British history, demonstrating the number of approaches that now have a stake in defining the discipline of maritime history. The chapters analyse the economic, social, and cultural contexts in which English maritime endeavour existed, as well a

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Chung, Simone Shu-Yeng, and Mike Douglass, eds. The Hard State, Soft City of Singapore. Amsterdam University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463729505.

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With Singapore serving as the subject of exploration, The Hard State, Soft City of Singapore explores the purview of imaginative representations of the city. Alongside the physical structures and associated practices that make up our lived environment, and conceptualized space engineered into material form by bureaucrats, experts and commercial interests, a perceptual layer of space is conjured out of people’s everyday life experiences. While such imaginative projections may not be as tangible as its functional designations, they are nonetheless equally vital and palpable. The richness of its

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Moseley, V. J. "Jon", Andreas Lampropoulos, Eftychia Apostolidi, and Christos Giarlelis. Characteristic Seismic Failures of Buildings. Edited by Stephanos E. Dritsos. International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2749/sed016.

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<p>Earthquakes can cause considerable fatalities, injuries and financial loss. The forces of nature cannot be blamed, as the problem lies with the structures in seismic regions that may not have been designed or constructed to a sufficient degree to resist earthquake actions or they may have design flaws. This Structural Engineering Document (SED) concerns reinforced concrete and masonry buildings together with geotechnical aspects and presents in a concise and practical way the state of the art of current understanding of building failures due to earthquakes. It classifies the different

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Gate, Heavens. How and When "Heaven's Gate" (The Door to the Physical Kingdom Level Above Human) May Be Entered: An Anthology of Our Materials. Wildflower Press, 1997.

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Booth, Natalie. Maternal Imprisonment and Family Life. Policy Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447352297.001.0001.

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Exploring the untold experiences of family members and friends caring for the children of female prisoners in England and Wales, this book sheds light on the collateral damage that incarceration causes those who take over caregiving responsibilities for the children of female prisoners. Providing new qualitative research on the lived experiences of caregiving relatives, alongside theoretically informed and policy-relevant insights, the book shows the difficult and damaging consequences of the ‘family sentence’ they serve. Exploring the stigma, scarce statutory support and policy neglect they f

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Wismont, Judith Merenda. THE LIVED EXPERIENCE OF MATERNAL-FETAL ATTACHMENT OF PREGNANT INCARCERATED WOMEN (PRISON, AUTONOMY). 1996.

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Hill, Ronald Paul. Surviving in a Material World: The Lived Experience of People in Poverty. University of Notre Dame Press, 2002.

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Surviving in a Material World: The Lived Experience of People in Poverty. University of Notre Dame Press, 2001.

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Robertson, Shanthi. Temporality in Mobile Lives. Policy Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529211511.001.0001.

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This book provides fresh perspectives on 21st-century migratory experiences in this innovative study of young Asian migrants' lives in Australia. Exploring the aspirations and realities of transnational mobility, the book shows how migration has reshaped lived experiences of time for middle-class young people moving between Asia and the West for work, study and lifestyle opportunities. Through a new conceptual framework of 'chronomobilities', which looks at 'time-regimes' and 'time-logics', the book demonstrates how migratory pathways have become far more complex than leaving one country for a

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Andrade, Nathanael. Zenobia. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190638818.001.0001.

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Hailing from the Syrian city of Palmyra, a woman named Zenobia (and Bathzabbai) governed territory in the eastern Roman Empire from 268 to 272. She thus became the most famous Palmyrene who ever lived. But sources for her life and career are scarce. This book situates Zenobia in the social, economic, cultural, and material context of ancient Palmyra. By doing so, it aims to shed greater light on the experiences of Zenobia and Palmyrene women like her at various stages of their lives. Not limiting itself to the political aspects of her governance, it contemplates what inscriptions and material

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Iyengar, Sujata. Intermediated Bodies and Bodies of Media. Edited by Michael Neill and David Schalkwyk. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198724193.013.36.

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This essay argues that, when screen media such as television, film, and digital video appropriate and remediate Othello, they do so through intermediality: the simultaneous and self-conscious communication of information and experiences through multiple material and sensory modes. Using Dmitri Buchowetski’s silent version, Orson Welles’s feature film, Geoffrey Sax’s British movie, and Zaib Shaikh’s television films, Ready Set Go Theatre’s web-series, and the National Theatre Live streamed performances as case-histories, the chapter investigates ‘race’ itself as a communicative medium. It concl

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Kotrosits, Maia. Lives of Objects: Material Culture, Experience, and the Real in the History of Early Christianity. University of Chicago Press, 2020.

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Lives of Objects: Material Culture, Experience, and the Real in the History of Early Christianity. University of Chicago Press, 2020.

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Alcalde, M. Cristina. Peruvian Lives across Borders. University of Illinois Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252041846.001.0001.

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Peruvian Lives across Borders focuses on the transnational lives of middle and upper-class transnational Peruvians. Among the Peruvians whose migration trajectories this book examines, return as a possibility, impossibility, or reality looms large. The lens of return provides one way to understand what transnational Peruvians desire, reject, or feel ambivalent about in constructions of home and Peruvianness. Employing return as a critical lens and through an intersectional approach, the book presents an intentional departure from the more prevalent focus on international labor migrants from lo

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Barrett, Caitlín Eilís. Egypt in Roman Visual and Material Culture. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935390.013.18.

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This review article addresses current controversies and opportunities in research on the roles, uses, and meanings of “Egypt” in ancient Roman visual and material culture. Accordingly, the article investigates problems of definition and interpretation; provides a critical review of current scholarly approaches; and analyzes the field’s intersections with current intellectual developments in the broader fields of archaeology and art history. It is argued that research on Roman Aegyptiaca can gain much from, and is poised to contribute substantially to, (1) 21st-century archaeology’s “material t

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Rios, Jodi. Black Lives and Spatial Matters. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501750465.001.0001.

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This book is a call to reconsider the epistemic violence that is committed when scholars, policymakers, and the general public continue to frame Black precarity as just another racial, cultural, or ethnic conflict that can be solved solely through legal, political, or economic means. This book argues that the historical and material production of blackness-as-risk is foundational to the historical and material construction of our society and certainly foundational to the construction and experience of metropolitan space. The book also considers how an ethics of lived blackness—living fully and

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Amico, Stephen. Music, Form, Penetration. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038273.003.0002.

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This chapter explores the relationship between Russian gay men and both Western and Russian popular musics by focusing on specific harmonic and melodic musical attributes that contribute to a Russian “sound.” In particular, it considers the link between sound and listener to experiences of (pleasurable) penetration. It shows that Russian homosexuality imparts a certain prestige (marked by modernity, style, and internationality) upon a cultural product. It also reveals that Russian gay men professed a preference for Western popular music and Western music in general, even as many of them also a

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Waters, Sarah. Suicide Voices. Liverpool University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781789622232.001.0001.

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This book examines the phenomenon of work suicides in France and asks why, in the present historical juncture, conditions of work can push individuals to take their own lives. During the 2000s, France experienced what commentators have described as a ‘suicide epidemic’, whereby increasing numbers of workers in the face of extreme pressures of work, chose to take their own lives. This book analyses a corpus of testimonial material linked to 66 suicide cases across three large French companies during the period from 2005 to 2015. A key aim is to consider what the extreme and subjective experienc

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Katz, Stephen, ed. Ageing in Everyday Life. Policy Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447335917.001.0001.

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This book is a timely collection of interdisciplinary and critical chapters about the fields of ageing studies and the sociology of everyday life as broadly conceived to explore the meaningful connections between subjective lives and social worlds in later life. The scope of the writing expands beyond traditional approaches in these fields to engage with cross-cultural, feminist, spatial, ethnographic, technological, cinematic, new media and arts research. Readers will find the detailed attention to everyday experiences, places, biographies, images, routines, intimacies and temporalities illum

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Ehrlich, Benjamin. Comparing the Lives of Cajal and Freud. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190619619.003.0005.

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Despite their many social and cultural differences, Santiago Ramón y Cajal and Sigmund Freud had more in common than one might naturally assume. Both attended and excelled in anatomy and medical courses in University. Freud even studied histology and contributed important discoveries to that field. However, Cajal entered the army between his schooling and his discovery of histology. Cajal’s brush with tuberculosis led to his first direct encounter with psychology. Experimenting with himself as a subject, he learned the transformative power of what is called “autosuggestion.” Although known for

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Andrade, Nathanael. Zenobia’s Likenesses. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190638818.003.0001.

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In many respects, Zenobia’s fame is a paradox. She has captured the medieval and modern imagination, but ancient sources actually say very little about her. The introductory chapter thus explores the textual, epigraphic, and material sources for Zenobia and outlines the challenges of writing a book about her. The overlying aim of the book is to create a likeness of Zenobia, a most elusive task because the sources are so scanty. But by using various later Roman and Byzantine texts, Jewish and Arab tales, and visual sources and inscriptions, the book may bring parts of her life to light. The int

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Vickery, Jacqueline Ryan, and S. Craig Watkins. Worried About the Wrong Things. The MIT Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262036023.001.0001.

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It’s a familiar narrative in both real life and fiction, from news reports to television storylines: a young person is bullied online, or targeted by an online predator, or exposed to sexually explicit content. The consequences are bleak; the young person is shunned, suicidal, psychologically ruined. In this book, Jacqueline Ryan Vickery argues that there are other urgent concerns about young people’s online experiences besides porn, predators, and peers. We need to turn our attention to inequitable opportunities for participation in a digital culture. Technical and material obstacles prevent

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Lynch, John Roy, and John Hope Franklin. Reminiscences of an Active Life. Edited by John Hope Franklin. University Press of Mississippi, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781604731149.001.0001.

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Born into slavery on a Louisiana plantation, John Roy Lynch (1847–1939) became an adult during the Reconstruction Era and lived a public-spirited life for over three decades. His political career began in 1869 with his appointment as justice of the peace. Within the year, he was elected to the Mississippi legislature and was later elected Speaker of the House. At age twenty-five, Lynch became the first African American from Mississippi to be elected to the United States Congress. He led the fight to secure passage of the Civil Rights Bill of 1875. In 1884, he was elected temporary chairman of

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Forlenza, Rosario. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198817444.003.0001.

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The Introduction presents an outline of the book, its sources and empirical material, and its theoretical and methodological approach, which rests on the key concept of meaning formation in liminality. Following the social and cultural anthropology of Arnold van Gennep and Victor Turner, liminality refers to a period of transition during which the normal limits to thought, self-understanding, and behavior are relaxed, opening the way to novelty and imagination and generating new meanings, ideas, and consciousness. Lived experiences in liminal times generate horizons of expectations, beliefs, a

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Yarrow, Thomas. Architects. Cornell University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501738494.001.0001.

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In a large room, on the third floor of an old woollen mill in the South West of England, nine architects spend most of their working lives, designing buildings and overseeing their construction. Asked where these come from, architects admit a kind of ignorance: 'Total magic!' as one puts it, 'Something comes from nothing!' Focusing on the everyday lives of architects, the book explores how buildings are assembled through an intimate and elusive choreography of people, materials, places, tools and ideas. Through these interactions, it asks and answers some questions of wider interest: What is t

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Guderjan, Marius, Hugh Mackay, and Gesa Stedman, eds. Contested Britain. Policy Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529205008.001.0001.

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This book offers a powerful and distinctive analysis of how the politics of the UK and the lived experience of its citizens have been reframed in the first decades of the 21<sup>st</sup> century. It does so by bringing together carefully articulated case studies with theoretically informed discussion of the relationship between austerity, Brexit and the rise of populist politics, as well as highlighting the emergence of a range of practices, institutions and politics that challenge the hegemony of austerity discourses. The book mobilises notions of agency to help understand the role of austeri

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Riggs, Christina. 1. Four little words. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780199682782.003.0001.

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‘Four little words’ analyses the meanings of ‘Ancient’, ‘Egyptian’, ‘art’, and ‘architecture’ in order to understand how Egyptian art and architecture are studied and discussed, why and how they have influenced the modern world, and whether iconic examples of Egyptian artworks and buildings are in any way representative of cultural norms and lived experience in the ancient past. When is ‘ancient’ Egypt? Where and what was ‘Egypt’ in antiquity and how did its people describe themselves and their land? Art and architecture are considered to comprise those objects made in such a way that their fo

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Kedhar, Anusha. Flexible Bodies. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190840136.001.0001.

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Flexible Bodies charts the emergence of British South Asian dance as a distinctive dance genre. Analyzing dance works, dance films, rehearsals, workshops, and touring alongside immigration policy, arts funding initiatives, citizenship discourse, and global economic conditions, author Anusha Kedhar traces shifts in British South Asian dance from 1990s Cool Britannia multiculturalism to fractious race relations in the wake of the July 7, 2005, terrorist attacks to economic fallout from the 2008 global financial crisis, and, finally, to anti-immigrant rhetoric leading up to the Brexit referendum

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Freeman, Tyrone McKinley. Madam C. J. Walker's Gospel of Giving. University of Illinois Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252043451.001.0001.

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Madam C. J. Walker’s Gospel of Giving: Black Women’s Philanthropy during Jim Crow presents the first comprehensive story of Walker’s philanthropic giving arguing that she was a significant philanthropist who challenged Jim Crow and serves as a foremother of African American philanthropy today. Born Sarah Breedlove (1867-1919) to formerly enslaved parents on a cotton plantation during Reconstruction, Madam C. J. Walker became a beauty-culture entrepreneur and was known as America’s first self-made female millionaire. This book presents the story of Madam Walker’s philanthropic actions through t

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Lutz, Catherine, and Andrea Mazzarino, eds. War and Health. NYU Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479875962.001.0001.

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War affects human lives and public health far beyond the battlefield, long after combat ceases. Based on ethnographic research by anthropologists, healthcare workers, social workers, and activists, these chapters cover a range of subjects from maternal health in Afghanistan, to the public health effects of US drone strikes in Pakistan, to Iraq’s deteriorating cancer care system, to the struggles of US military families to recover from combat-related trauma, among other topics. With a spotlight on the US-led wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan, started ostensibly to root out terrorism, the

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Milne, Alisoun. Mental Health in Later Life. Policy Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447305729.001.0001.

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Focusing on mental health rather than mental illness, this book adopts a life course approach to understanding mental health and wellbeing in later life. Drawing together material from the fields of sociology, psychology, critical social gerontology, the mental health field, and life course studies, it analyses the meaning and determinants of mental health amongst older populations and offers a critical review of existing discourse. The book explores the intersecting influences of lifecourse experiences, social and structural inequalities, socio-political context, history, gender and age-relat

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Dowdall, Alex. Communities under Fire. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198856115.001.0001.

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Communities under Fire rewrites the history of the Western Front from the perspective of its civilian inhabitants. Between 1914 and 1918, the fighting passed through some of Europe’s most populated and industrialised regions. Large French towns including Nancy, Reims, Arras, and Lens lay at the heart of the battlefield. Their civilian inhabitants endured artillery bombardment, military occupation, and considerable material hardships. Many fled for the safety of the French interior, but others lived under fire for much of the war, ensuring the Western Front remained a joint civil-military space

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Brundin, Abigail, Deborah Howard, and Mary Laven. The Sacred Home in Renaissance Italy. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198816553.001.0001.

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The Sacred Home in Renaissance Italy explores private devotional life in the Italian Renaissance home between 1400 and 1600, and suggests that piety was not confined to the Church and the convent but infused daily life within the household. Books, buildings, objects, spaces, images, and archival sources help to cast light on the practice of religion in the home. Acts of devotion, from routine prayers to extraordinary religious experiences such as miracles and visions, frequently took place at home amid the joys and trials of domestic life—childbirth, marriage, infertility, sickness, accidents,

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Tierney, R. Kenji, and Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney. Anthropology of Food. Edited by Jeffrey M. Pilcher. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199729937.013.0007.

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Food is an important indicator of social differentiation, which defines the boundaries between social groups, and social hierarchy, which entails class, status, and power inequality. Because food is a basic element of material culture and social life, it has occupied a central place in the discipline of anthropology from its earliest days. Anthropologists view food and foodways as tools with which to understand individual cultures and societies, especially when they are situated in the context of global and historical flows and connections. Ethnography, the methodology used by anthropologists

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Rogers, Adam. The Development of Towns. Edited by Martin Millett, Louise Revell, and Alison Moore. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199697731.013.042.

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This chapter examines urban foundation and development in the Roman period and the issues relating to town origins and purpose in Britain. It focuses on the chartered towns and reviews relating to the three main types of urban settlement—the coloniae, municipia and civitas-capitals—and the practice of settlement categorization. The chapter also contextualizes debate on urban development by discussing aspects of the history of approach to the documentation and interpretation of Roman town foundation in Britain. It discusses the practicalities of town construction and then moves on to emphasizin

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McCarthy, Angela. Madness, Transnationalism, and Emotions in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century New Zealand. Edited by Michael Rembis, Catherine Kudlick, and Kim E. Nielsen. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190234959.013.18.

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As is evident in studies of medical thought, publications, personnel, and legislation, transnationalism has been little utilized to examine the migration histories of patients and their ties to “home.” Historians of the asylum instead focus on connections in patients’ new homelands. Likewise, scholars have largely overlooked the emotional lives of patients, which is surprising in light of various emotions said to cause patient confinement. It is therefore important to examine the existence (and absence) of emotional connections between relatives who were separated by oceans and the actions and

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Jackson, Louise, Neil Davidson, and Linda Fleming. Police and Community in Twentieth-Century Scotland. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474446631.001.0001.

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This book examines the relationships forged between police officers and the diverse urban and rural communities in which they lived and worked in Scotland across the twentieth century. It considers the formal structures and rhetoric that defined and prescribed the policing ideal, as well as the ways in which policing was experienced from a range of grassroots’ perspectives. Drawing on a wealth of archival materials, oral history interviews, and memoirs, as well as previously unused primary sources, the authors identify factors that led to co-operation, consensus and the building of trust as we

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Bennett, Judith, and Ruth Karras, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199582174.001.0001.

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This book maps out what we now firmly know—and what we are just beginning to know--after four decades of scholarship on women and gender in medieval Europe. Medieval gender rules seem both foreign and familiar today. Medieval people understood religion, law, love, marriage, and sexual identity in distinctive ways that compel us today to understand women and gender as changeable, malleable, and unyoked from constraints of nature or biology. Yet some medieval views are echoed in modern traditions, and those echoes tease out critical tensions of continuity and change in gender relations. The essa

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Robbins, Joel. Theology and the Anthropology of Christian Life. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198845041.001.0001.

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Both sociocultural anthropology and theology have made fundamental contributions to our understanding of human experience and the place of humanity in the world. But can these two disciplines, despite the radical differences that separate them, work together to transform their thinking on these topics? This book argues that they can. To make this point, the author draws on key theological discussions of such matters as atonement, eschatology, interruption, passivity, and judgement to rethink important anthropological debates about such topics as ethical life, radical change, the ways people li

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Seif, Huda. Marginality and Allegories of Gendered Resistance. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037900.003.0008.

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This chapter argues that the deployment and circulation of narratives of (dis)possession by the devil, particularly among women, represent a gendered form of understanding marginality and of confronting exploitation, domination, and material adversity. The compelling presence of the devil and malevolent spirits called jinn in the Delta region of southern Yemen in the 1990s echo accounts of spirits, tricksters, or aye in West African and New World cultures. Moreover, Margaret Garner's life history as interpreted by Toni Morrison in Beloved connects readers with a spiritual world of memory and p

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Ashley, Kathleen. Cultures of Devotion. Edited by Judith Bennett and Ruth Karras. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199582174.013.007.

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Cultures of devotion in multiple forms were central to medieval lives, and because of their significance they became sites for defining and negotiating gender identities and issues. The essay first examines whether participation in communal rituals and popular devotion was open to women as well as to men. A second issue was the availability of membership for women in the religious orders, and a third was the relationship between male religious authorities and the women who sought a life of holiness, whether in or out of traditional communities. Other topics involve the gendered role of visual

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Brennan, James. Communications and Media in African History. Edited by John Parker and Richard Reid. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199572472.013.0026.

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This chapter examines how media technologies have constituted and transformed Africa’s multiple public spheres over the past two centuries. Exogenous and often ‘colonial’ in origin, print and electronic media have nonetheless induced new intellectual communities in which African actors played a determinative role. Knowledge and power had previously been tightly linked under the purview of precolonial elites. Colonial-era media transformed this relationship by attempting to democratize knowledge while monopolizing power, providing key opportunities for African political challengers. Newspapers

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Dohrenwend, Bruce P., Nick Turse, Thomas J. Yager, and Melanie M. Wall. Surviving Vietnam. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190904449.001.0001.

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Surviving Vietnam: Psychological Consequences of the War for U.S. Veterans presents a unique combination of historical material, military records of combat exposure, clinical diagnoses of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and interviews with representative samples of veterans surveyed both a little over decade after the war’s conclusion in the National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study (NVVRS), and again nearly four decades after the war’s conclusion in the National Vietnam Veterans Longitudinal Study (Longitudinal Study). It focuses specifically on veterans’ war-zone experiences and th

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Klapper, Melissa R. Ballet Class. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190908683.001.0001.

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Surveying American ballet in 1913, Willa Cather reported that few girls expressed any interest in taking ballet class and that those who did were hard-pressed to find anything other than dingy studios and imperious teachers. A century later, ballet is everywhere. There are ballet companies across the United States; ballet is commonly featured in film, television, literature, and social media; professional ballet dancers are spokespeople for all kinds of products; nail polish companies market colors like “Ballet Slippers”; and, most importantly, millions of American children have taken ballet c

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Lin, Tony Tian-Ren. Prosperity Gospel Latinos and Their American Dream. University of North Carolina Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469658957.001.0001.

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In this immersive ethnography, Tony Tian-Ren Lin explores the reasons that Latin American immigrants across the United States are increasingly drawn to Prosperity Gospel Pentecostalism, a strand of Protestantism gaining popularity around the world. Lin contends that Latinos embrace Prosperity Gospel, which teaches that believers may achieve both divine salvation and worldly success, because it helps them account for the contradictions of their lives as immigrants. Weaving together his informants’ firsthand accounts of their religious experiences and everyday lives, Lin offers poignant insight

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Hawes, Greta, ed. Myths on the Map. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198744771.001.0001.

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The spatial turn in the humanities has fuelled new ways of thinking about landscape as a lived environment which is radically affected by human hands and human minds, and which radically affects human experience. At the same time, scholars of Greek myth have become more sensitive to the contextual dynamics which animate the mythic tradition, having come to see storytelling as an activity which is both precisely situated in, and contingent on, its environment. This volume, which derives in part from the series of Bristol International Myth Conferences, brings together 15 chapters on the spatial

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Siniawer, Eiko Maruko. Waste. Cornell University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501725845.001.0001.

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Affluence of the Heart explores the many and various ways in which waste—be it of time, stuff, money, possessions, and resources—was thought about in Japan from the immediate aftermath of devastating war to the early twenty-first century.It shows how questions about waste were deeply embedded in the decisions of the everyday and shaped by the central forces of postwar Japanese life from economic growth and mass consumption to material abundance and environmentalism.What endured from the late 1950s onward was a defining element of Japan’s postwar experience: the tension between the desire to ac

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Hearne, Siobhán. Policing Prostitution. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198837916.001.0001.

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Policing Prostitution examines the complex world of commercial sex in the final two decades of the Russian Empire before its collapse in 1917. From the 1840s until 1917, prostitution was legally tolerated across the Empire under a system known as regulation. Medical-police were in charge of compiling information about registered prostitutes and ensuring that they followed the strict rules prescribed by the imperial state governing their visibility and behaviour. The vast majority of women who sold sex hailed from the lower classes, as did their managers and clients. Official interest in prosti

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