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Szymanski, Adam. Cinemas of Therapeutic Activism. Amsterdam University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463723121.

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The hegemonic meaning of depression as a universal mental illness embodied by an individualized subject is propped up by psychiatry’s clinical gaze. Cinemas of Therapeutic Activism turns to the work of contemporary filmmakers who express a shared concern for mental health under global capitalism to explore how else depression can be perceived. In taking their critical visions as intercessors for thought, Adam Szymanski proposes a thoroughly relational understanding of depression attentive to eventful, collective and contingent qualities of subjectivity. What emerges is a melancholy aesthetics

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Mendoza-Denton, Rodolfo, and Jordan B. Leitner. Stigma, Health, and Individual Differences. Edited by Brenda Major, John F. Dovidio, and Bruce G. Link. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190243470.013.20.

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This chapter discusses how within-group variability is as important a component to understanding the relationship between stigma and health outcomes as between-group variability. The chapter offers a framework that proposes that people’s expectations, beliefs, attitudes, goals, and self-regulatory competencies interact with one another, as well as with people’s cultural environment, to yield individual differences in response to perceived discrimination. The chapter reviews a set of individual difference constructs that have been shown to affect physical and psychological health-related outcom

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Scott-Baumann, Alison, Mathew Guest, Shuruq Naguib, Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor, and Aisha Phoenix. Islam on Campus. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198846789.001.0001.

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This book explores how Islam is represented, perceived and lived within higher education in Britain. It is a book about the changing nature of university life, and the place of religion within it. Even while many universities maintain ambiguous or affirming orientations to religious institutions for reasons to do with history and ethos, much western scholarship has presumed higher education to be a strongly secularizing force. This framing has resulted in religion often being marginalized or ignored as a cultural irrelevance by the university sector. However, recent times have seen higher educ

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Ollier-Malaterre, Ariane. Cross-National Work–Life Research. Edited by Tammy D. Allen and Lillian T. Eby. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199337538.013.18.

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This chapter reviews comparative research regarding individuals’ work–life experiences. It summarizes current knowledge on how culture (e.g., individualism/collectivism, gender egalitarianism, humane orientation), institutions (e.g., public policy and provisions, family structures), and the economy (e.g., stage of development, unemployment rates) at the country level impact work–life conflict (WLC), work–life enrichment, work–life balance, and boundary management. More research has focused on cultural than on institutional or economic factors, and only WLC has been truly investigated empirical

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Uskul, Ayşe K., and Harriet Over. The Role of Economic Culture in Social Interdependence. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190492908.003.0002.

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This chapter discusses economic group differences in responses to social exclusion in children and adults. It begins by outlining evidence that different economies give rise to different habits and social practices and that these habits and social practices lead to differences in the extent to which individuals perceive themselves to be independent from, or interdependent with, others. It then argues that differences in social interdependence are associated with differences in how individuals respond to social exclusion. Drawing on the authors’ own research with an interdependent farming commu

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Guo, Weiting. A Different Kind of War. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040801.003.0003.

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In this chapter, Weiting Guo examines the history of extralegal executions in modern China. From the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, China witnessed the largest number of summary executions annually in its history. The extensive use of this extraordinary procedure in conjunction with the regular public executions by political regimes, local officials, and militia had considerable influence on modern Chinese legal culture. Drawing on a wide range of archival sources, Guo challenges the view that the prevalence of summary execution constituted merely instances of “lawlessnes

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Gianni, Matteo. The Migration-Mobility Nexus: Rethinking Citizenship and Integration as Processes1. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474428231.003.0010.

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In Western societies multiculturalism is increasingly perceived neither as a legitimate nor an efficient way to promote a fair conception of citizenship and an efficient integration of religious and cultural minorities. This has led to a higher political relevance of the notion of integration, defining the perimeter and the modalities of accommodation of minority groups. However, the dominant existing conceptions of integration and citizenship implicitly assume the immobility of immigrants. The chapter aims at thinking about a conception of democratic integration which is suited to tackle issu

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Huss, Boaz. Zohar: Reception and Impact. Liverpool University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781904113966.001.0001.

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From its first appearance, the Zohar has been one of the most sacred, authoritative, and influential books in Jewish culture. Many scholarly works have been dedicated to its mystical content, its literary style, and the question of its authorship. This book focuses on different issues: it examines the various ways in which the Zohar has been received by its readers and the impact it has had on Jewish culture, including the fluctuations in its status and value and the various cultural practices linked to these changes. This dynamic and multi-layered history throws important new light on many as

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Tsukamoto, Saori, Yoshihisa Kashima, Nick Haslam, Elise Holland, and Minoru Karasawa. Entitativity Perceptions of Individuals and Groups across Cultures. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199348541.003.0011.

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Cross-cultural differences in social perceptions pose an intriguing puzzle. East Asians, in contrast to Westerners, tend to have the view that individuals lack coherent and thematically consistent characteristics and, therefore, are likely to exhibit cross-situationally inconsistent actions and reactions. This tendency is explained in terms of naïve dialecticism. However, from a different domain of perception, East Asians perceive groups as possessing more coherent and thematically consistent characteristics than ascribed by Westerners. Does this apparent contradiction mean that, unlike indivi

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Fisher, Linford D. Natives, Religion, and Race in Colonial America. Edited by Paul Harvey and Kathryn Gin Lum. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190221171.013.25.

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Although racial lines eventually hardened on both sides, in the opening decades of colonization European and native ideas about differences between themselves and the other were fluid and dynamic, changing on the ground in response to local developments and experiences. Over time, perceived differences were understood to be rooted in more than just environment and culture. In the eighteenth century, bodily differences became the basis for a wider range of deeper, more innate distinctions that, by the nineteenth century, hardened into what we might now understand to be racialized differences in

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Cross, Susan E., and Ben C. P. Lam. Dialecticism in Close Relationships and Marriage. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199348541.003.0012.

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This chapter explores how the cultural framework of dialecticism can be applied in research on romantic relationships. Using cross-cultural data from dating and married individuals, the chapter first examines the predictions that East Asians, as compared to Westerners, are more ambivalent and realistic in their perceptions of their partners, perceive lower similarity with their partners, and are more motivated to adjust and change themselves in the relationship. It then discusses research on cross-cultural differences in emotional experience among couples and relationship cognitions (e.g., the

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Harlow, Luke E. Social Reform in America. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199683710.003.0019.

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Any discussion of nineteenth-century religious Dissent must look carefully at gender. Although distinct from one another in important respects, Nonconformist congregations were patterned on the household as the first unit of God-given society, a model which fostered questions about the relationship between male and female. Ideas of gender coalesced with theology and praxis to shape expectations central to the cultural ethos of Nonconformity. Existing historiographical interpretations of gender and religion that use the separate spheres model have argued that evangelical piety was identified wi

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Ortega, Vicente Rodriguez. Homoeroticism Contained. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036613.003.0014.

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This chapter compares John Woo's Hong Kong and Hollywood films in order to scrutinize the differing representations of gender they offer in relation to the different generic configurations at work in each production context. It seeks to identify which aspects of these representations have passed the test of cultural translatability and which have not. It examines how Woo's generation of a series of action and pathos driven films negotiates generically gendered bodies and how these undergo a radical shift within his Hollywood output. It asks what were the perceived assets of Woo's crossover app

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Bubeníček, Petr. Politics and Adaptation. Edited by Thomas Leitch. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199331000.013.32.

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Chapter 32 deals with the ways the image of Jan Hus (c. 1370–1415), the Czech priest and theorist of ecclesiastical Reformation, changes in new political, social, and cultural contexts. It aims to show how the communist regime appropriated Jan Hus through Otakar Vávra’s eponymous adaptation, filmed in 1953, in which Hus is portrayed as a revolutionary. After introducing Jan Hus in his historical and theological role, it focuses on the different ways he and the Hussite movement were perceived from the eighteenth century onward. A pivotal figure in this process is the writer Alois Jirásek, whose

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Beste, Jennifer. Power Dynamics at College Parties. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190268503.003.0004.

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Undergraduate ethnographers analyzed the power dynamics among different social groups at parties, attending to race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, and gender. Based on their observations, they sought to identify dominant and subordinate social groups. Most ethnographers who addressed power dynamics in regard to ethnicity and sexual orientation (many did not) perceived that white heterosexual males had the most power and dominance. Regarding power dynamics among the genders, 66% of students claimed that heterosexual males were the most powerful group; 7% argued that females had more power;

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Domínguez, Virginia R., and Jane C. Desmond, eds. Kristin Solli on Ian Condry. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040832.003.0027.

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This essay is a response to Ian Condry’s contribution in this book, Global Perspectives on the United States. Solli appreciates Condry’s analysis and ideas about music, location, and power but also extends them by discussing an example that, like Condry’s case, suggests the intricacies and paradoxes that follow in the wake of the global dissemination of U.S. popular culture. More specifically, Solli here examines jazz, a genre that has received considerable attention by scholars interested in the local/global dynamic that Condry addresses. While acknowledging that hip-hop in Japan and jazz in

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Fullerton, Romayne Smith, and Maggie Jones Patterson. Murder in our Midst. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190863531.001.0001.

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Crime stories attract audiences and social buzz, but they also serve as prisms for perceived threats. As immigration, technological change, and globalization reshape our world, anxiety spreads. Because journalism plays a role in how the public adjusts to moral and material upheaval, this unease raises the ethical stakes. Reporters can spread panic or encourage reconciliation by how they tell these stories. Murder in Our Midst uses crime coverage in select North American and Western European countries as a key to examine culturally constructed concepts like privacy, public, public right to know

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Allen, Tammy D., and Seulki "Rachel" Jang. Gender and Organizational Citizenship Behavior. Edited by Philip M. Podsakoff, Scott B. Mackenzie, and Nathan P. Podsakoff. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190219000.013.12.

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The current chapter reviews theory and findings with regard to relationships between gender and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). Based on self-report OCB studies, female employees tend to report that they perform more communal OCB (e.g., altruism) than do male employees, whereas male employees tend to report that they perform more agentic OCB (e.g., sportsmanship) than do female employees. However, supervisors do not appear to rate male and female employees differently on OCB performance. Our review also suggests that even with the same amount of OCB performance, female employees ten

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Levine, Philippa, and Alison Bashford. Introduction: Eugenics and the Modern World. Edited by Alison Bashford and Philippa Levine. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195373141.013.0001.

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This article summarizes both the history and the historiography of eugenics across the world and that indicates new lines of inquiry that have evolved in recent years. It demonstrates that eugenics rapidly has become a shared language and ambition in cultures and locations that were otherwise radically different. It discusses the complicated relationship between the unconditional advocacy of contraception by neo-Malthusians and the cautious ambivalence typical of eugenicists. This article extends the analysis of eugenics through gender by addressing the question of masculinity and the subjecti

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Fischer, Pascal, and Christoph Houswitschka, eds. Jüdische und arabische Erinnerungen im Dialog. Ergon – ein Verlag in der Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783956507229.

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The Jewish-Canadian and Arab-American writers and professors of literature George Ellenbogen (*1934) and Evelyn Shakir (1938–2010) were life companions. In both their memoirs, the authors tell stories of neighborhood, enriching encounters and their search for roots. George grows up in the Jewish immigrant quarter of Montreal, goes to McGill University, and later travels to the places of his ancestors, the destroyed world of the shtetl. In her Boston childhood, Evelyn is perceived as an Arab who does not entirely belong. As visiting professor in Arab countries, however, her students see her as

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Huggins, Robert, and Piers Thompson. A Behavioural Theory of Economic Development. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198832348.001.0001.

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This book is motivated by a belief that theories of economic development can move beyond the generally known factors and mechanisms of such development. It establishes a behavioural theory of economic development illustrating that differences in human behaviour across cities and regions are a significant deep-rooted cause of uneven development. Fusing a range of concepts relating to culture, psychology, human agency, institutions, and power, it proposes that the uneven economic development and evolution of cities and regions within and across nations are strongly connected with the underlying

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Mendenhall, Emily. Rethinking Diabetes. Cornell University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501738302.001.0001.

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Rethinking Diabetes investigates how "global" and "local" factors transform how diabetes is perceived, experienced, and embodied from place to place. The book argues that neoliberal capitalism fuels the intrinsic links between hunger and crisis, structural violence and fear, and cumulative trauma and psychiatric distress that are embodied in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (hereafter, "diabetes"). It suggests that a global story of modernization as the primary force in the spread of global diabetes overlooks the micro-level stressors that respond to structural inequalities and drive the underlying ps

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Classen, Constance. Sensations of a New Age. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252034930.003.0008.

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This chapter discusses the new sensations perceived as a result of the cultural and industrial shifts of modernity. It considers the new institutions which were since established at the dawn of the modern age and their emphasis on efficiency and social discipline, in the form of the drill, which shaped not only military bodies but also permeated schools, prisons, and museums as well. In addition, the chapter looks at how the nineteenth-century individual would come to experience tactile sensations in a vastly different city and domestic space from that of the Middle Ages. Moreover, it examines

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Shavit, Yaacov. Athens in Jerusalem. Translated by Chaya Naor and Niki Werner. Liverpool University Press, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781874774259.001.0001.

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According to this book, the Hellenistic tradition played a role as a model for Jewish modernisers to draw upon as they perceived a lack in Jewish culture. The book claims that Greek and Hellenistic concepts are now internalised by the Jewish people. The book begins with the question of a dichotomy between Athens and Jerusalem and approaches the issue by considering how Athens, with its associations of classical antiquity and Hellenism, might have any impact on modern Jewish culture. The book considers what makes Hellenism and Hebraism conceptual twins. Further, it seeks to address why it was a

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Schiffman, Zachary Sayre. Montaigne. Edited by Philippe Desan. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190215330.013.8.

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This article shows how Montaigne’s Essays can clarify the problem of historical periodization by demonstrating the differences between early modern, modern, and postmodern sensibilities. These terms have arisen in the wake of disputes over Jacob Burckhardt’s interpretation of the Renaissance, offering the appearance of a more value-free alternative to his period scheme. An examination of the Essays, however, reveals that these terms are not mere chronological markers but embody crucial, normative differences. In contrast to the modern sensibility that perceives selfhood as the product of histo

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Jacobson, Marion. New Main Squeeze. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036750.003.0006.

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This chapter shows how the accordion and its music come into focus in different sectors of the mainstream music world of the 1980s and 1990s. The accordion was presented in a folksy vein, as a counterpart to the artist's working-class and/or ethnic identity, and as a counterbalance to the ubiquitous electronic soundscape of techno and punk. Although many of the newly “revived” folk styles (especially Irish traditional music) featured the button diatonic accordion or melodeon, the chapter argues that these instruments gave piano accordionists a new impetus to explore what they perceived as a mo

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King, Daniel. Refiguring Pain Symptoms. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198810513.003.0006.

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This chapter investigates the ways in which writers expanded upon the medical approach to the body. It shows how a number of writers used different literary traditions and cultural practices to expand the medical approach to physiological anatomically informed pain symptoms into a broader sense of hardship and grim experience. By using epic and tragedy, writers were able to emphasize, explore, and even criticize the idea of the heroic pain perceiver and the notion of the pained body’s endurance of hardships. Another important aspect of this process was the importance given to religious aspects

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Petersson, Sonya, Christer Johansson, Magdalena Holdar, and Sara Callahan, eds. The Power of the In-Between: Intermediality as a Tool for Aesthetic Analysis and Critical Reflection. Stockholm University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.16993/baq.

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The Power of the In-Between: Intermediality as a Tool for Aesthetic Analysis and Critical Reflection gathers fourteen individual case studies where intermedial issues—issues concerning that which takes place in between media—are explored in relation to a range of different cultural objects and contexts, different methodological approaches, and different disciplinary perspectives. The cases investigate the intermediality of such manifold objects and phenomena as contemporary installation art, twentieth-century geography books, renaissance sculpture, media theory, and public architecture of the

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Fitzpatrick, Scott M. The Archaeology of Western Micronesia. Edited by Ethan E. Cochrane and Terry L. Hunt. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199925070.013.012.

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Western Micronesia encompasses several major archipelagos and islands, including the Marianas, Yap, and Palau. Language and human biology suggest Western Micronesia was most likely colonized from Island Southeast Asia in a complex process, possibly involving multiple population movements from different areas during prehistory. A key archaeological question concerns the variable timing of this colonization, which could be as early as 4,500 years ago according to paleoenvironmental data or up to 1,000 years later when considering artifact-associated dates. Although sometimes perceived as similar

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Chia-ling, MEI. Voice and the Quest for Modernity in Chinese Literature. Edited by Carlos Rojas and Andrea Bachner. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199383313.013.8.

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Participants in the May Fourth New Culture movement, such as Lu Xun, frequently invoked the concept of voice as a remedy for what they perceived as the “voiceless” China of the past with its superannuated script, language, and culture. This chapter complicates their invocation of “voice” by analyzing the political importance and concrete practices of voicing and recitation in Chinese poetic discourses of the 1930s. The different emphases on recitation proposed by the Poetry Reading Society and the China Poetry Society throw light on the agonistic relationship between voice and writing in the l

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Behrendt, Stephen C. The Ineffable. Edited by David Duff. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199660896.013.36.

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This chapter examines three figurative modes Romantic authors used to represent the ineffable: allegory, symbol, and myth. In literary studies, these terms identify verbal structures which are usually evaluated in linguistic or semantic terms, although visual expression also has a ‘language’. The chapter emphasizes the linguistic context while also exploring analogies with visual art, explaining how allegory, symbol, and myth provide familiar reference systems both for the verbal and visual artists who employed them and for the audiences who perceived them. All three modes offered ways of enco

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Ruz, Andrés Baeza. Contacts, Collisions and Relationships. Liverpool University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781786941725.001.0001.

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This is a study on the relations between Britain and Chile during the Spanish American independence era (1806–1831). These relations were characterised by a dynamic, unpredictable and changing nature, being imperialism only one and not the exclusive way to define them. The book explores how Britons and Chileans perceived each other from the perspective of cultural history, considering the consequences of these ‘cultural encounters’ for the subsequent nation–state building process in Chile. From 1806 to 1831 both British and Chilean ‘state’ and ‘non–state’ actors interacted across several diffe

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Baka, Anna Irene, and Qi Fei. Lost in Translation in the Sino-French War in Vietnam. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199670055.003.0018.

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This chapter deals with the Sino-French War of 1883–85 in Tonkin, an area in modern Vietnam that was colonized by the French, with an eye to shedding light as to how cultural and semantic factors interfered with the way the French and Chinese administrations perceived, interpreted, and reacted to the diplomatic and military events that led to the Sino-French war. It suggests that there was a deep communication chasm between the French and Chinese administrations and profound differences in their respective philosophies. There was diplomatic doubletalk, which was further accentuated by the ideo

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Barba, Fabian. Quito-Brussels. Edited by Mark Franko. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199314201.013.30.

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This text is grounded in Barba’s lived experience as a dancer trained in Quito and Brussels. He begins by examining an instance in which a dance is said to look old-fashioned even though it has been recently created. When this judgment occurs across continental boundaries, Barba notes that from a Eurocentric and historicist perspective, working outside the parameters of the so-called centers for contemporary dance can be perceived as traveling back in time. This dismissal of a particular dance, or even of an entire dance tradition, as not really contemporary when identified from within the bor

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Gustavsson, Gina, and David Miller, eds. Liberal Nationalism and Its Critics. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198842545.001.0001.

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The thesis of liberal nationalism is that national identities can serve as a source of unity in culturally diverse liberal societies, thereby lending support to democracy and social justice. The chapters in this book examine that thesis from both normative and empirical perspectives, in the latter case using survey data or psychological experiments from the USA, Canada, the Netherlands, Denmark, France, and the UK. They explore how people understand what it means to belong to their nation, and show that different aspects of national attachment—national identity, national pride, and national ch

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Metzler, Irina. Intellectual Disability in the European Middle Ages. Edited by Michael Rembis, Catherine Kudlick, and Kim E. Nielsen. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190234959.013.4.

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This investigation of intellectual disability in the Middle Ages uncovers narratives of this perceived condition in the historical sources. Authors of normative texts, for instance, medical, legal, and natural-philosophical authorities, were the medieval equivalent of modern scientific experts with regard to defining, assessing, and controlling notions of intellectual disability. This new and specific discussion seeks to reframe the paradigm of what constituted intellectual disability at different periods in both medieval and modern times. Philosophically, and subsequently judicially, medieval

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Phillips, Anne. Democratizing Against the Grain. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198829621.003.0002.

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Equality in representation and decision-making is crucial to gender equality; it can also help address concerns about cultural bias in the framing of supposedly universal rights. Yet achieving this equality is proving an uphill struggle in self-proclaimed democracies supposedly committed to egalitarian principles. In systems of authority that define themselves against what they perceive as the overly conflictual practices of democracy, or that explicitly endorse a hierarchy, there is not even that language of political equality and democratic legitimacy in which to make the case. This chapter

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Busse, Beatrix. Speech, Writing, and Thought Presentation in 19th-Century Narrative Fiction. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190212360.001.0001.

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The present study investigates speech, writing, and thought presentation in a corpus of 19th-century narrative fiction including, for instance, the novels Frankenstein, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Oliver Twist, and many others. All narratives typically contain a reference to or a quotation of someone’s speech, thoughts, or writing. These reports further a narrative, make it more interesting, natural, and vivid, ask the reader to engage with it, and, from a historical point of view, also reflect cultural understandings of the modes of discourse presentation. To a large extent, the way a reade

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Swift, Ellen. Roman Artefacts and Society. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198785262.001.0001.

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In this book, Ellen Swift uses design theory, previously neglected in Roman archaeology, to investigate Roman artifacts in a new way, making a significant contribution to both Roman social history and our understanding of the relationships that exist between artefacts and people. Based on extensive data collection and the close study of artefacts from museum collections and archives, the book examines the relationship between artefacts, everyday behavior, and experience. The concept of "affordances"--features of an artefact that make possible, and incline users towards, particular uses for fun

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Murray, Robert. Atlantic Passages. University Press of Florida, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813066752.001.0001.

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Established by the American Colonization Society in the early nineteenth century as a settlement for free people of color, the West African colony of Liberia is usually seen as an endpoint in the journeys of those who traveled there. In Atlantic Passages, Robert Murray reveals that many Liberian settlers did not remain in Africa but returned repeatedly to the United States, and he explores the ways this movement shaped the construction of race in the Atlantic world. Tracing the transatlantic crossings of Americo-Liberians between 1820 and 1857, in addition to delving into their experiences on

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Estanove, Laurence, Adrian Grafe, Andrew McKeown, and Claire Hélie, eds. 21st-Century Dylan. Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781501363726.

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Bob Dylan has constantly reinvented the persona known as “Bob Dylan,” renewing the performance possibilities inherent in his songs, from acoustic folk, to electric rock and a late, hybrid style which even hints at so-called world music and Latin American tones. Then in 2016, his achievements outside of performance – as a songwriter – were acknowledged when he was awarded the Nobel Literature Prize. Dylan has never ceased to broaden the range of his creative identity, taking in painting, film, acting and prose writing, as well as advertising and even own-brand commercial production. The book hi

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King, Daniel. Diagnosis and Pain. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198810513.003.0005.

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This chapter concludes the discussion of Greek rational medicine. It draws together some of the ways in which pain experience constituted one of the fault lines of Imperial medical culture, helping to define and solidify doctors’ understanding of themselves and their profession in a crowded marketplace of ideas and practices. Both Galen and Aretaios start from a notion of the physical perception of pain, in which patients perceive changes in their body; they then integrate this sense of physical perception into a broader sense of embodied pain experience. While Galen and Aretaios demonstrate v

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Bründl, Jürgen, Thomas Laubach, and Konstantin Lindner, eds. Zeichenlandschaften. Religiöse Semiotisierungen im interdisziplinären Diskurs. University of Bamberg Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.20378/irb-50039.

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Ob »spatial« oder »topographical turn« – »Raum« erfreut sich in den Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften gegenwärtig hoher Aufmerksamkeit. Er wird als »Semiosphäre« der Einschreibung wahrgenommen – auch und gerade in Bezug auf religiöse Bedeutungen. Die Beiträge im Sammelband widmen sich aus theologischer und philosophischer Perspektive, aber auch in interdisziplinärer Hinsicht Raumkonstellationen religiöser Semiosen – unter anderem der theologisch produktiven topologischen Repräsentation des Unräumlichen. Indem die Beiträge exegetische, systematische und praktische Disziplinen christlicher und j

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Garavini, Giuliano. The Rise and Fall of OPEC in the Twentieth Century. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198832836.001.0001.

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The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is one of the most recognizable acronyms among international organizations. It is mainly associated with the “oil shock” of 1973 when the price of petroleum increased fourfold and industrialized countries and consumers were forced to face the limits of their development model. This is the first history of OPEC and of its members written by a professional historian. It carries the reader from the formation of the first petrostate in the world, Venezuela in the late 1920s, to the global ascent of petrostates and OPEC in the 1970s, to t

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Larsen, Matthew D. C. Gospels before the Book. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190848583.001.0001.

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What does it mean to read the gospels “before the book”? For centuries, the way people have talked about the gospels has been shaped by ideas that have more to do with the printing press and modern notions of the author than they do with ancient writing and reading practices. Gospels Before the Book challenges several subtle yet problematic assumptions about authors, books, and publication at work in early Christian studies. The author explores a host of underappreciated elements of ancient textual culture, such as unfinished texts, accidental publication, postpublication revision, and multipl

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Baum, Jacob M. Reformation of the Senses. University of Illinois Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252042195.001.0001.

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Through careful examination of religious beliefs and practices in the German-speaking world from approximately 1400 to 1600, this book challenges the centuries-old narrative of the transition from late medieval Christianity to Protestantism as a process of “de-sensualizing” religion. The common assumption that Protestant Christianity is somehow more intellectual and less sensual than its late medieval and Catholic counterparts has its origins in the culture of the German evangelical movements of the early sixteenth century, and continues to influence how we think and talk about religious diffe

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Carpenedo, Manoela. Becoming Jewish, Believing in Jesus. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190086923.001.0001.

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This book investigates a growing religious movement fusing beliefs and rituals deriving from Charismatic Evangelicalism and Judaism. Unlike analogous phenomena found in the West, such as Messianic Judaism (where Jewish-born people identify as believers in Jesus) or Christian Zionism (Evangelicals who emphasize the role of the Jews living in Israel by embracing Zionist activism), it addresses a different dimension of this trend emerging from the Global South. Based on an ethnography conducted during 2013–2015 within a religious community in Brazil, this book explains why former Charismatic Evan

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Leonard, Bill J. Baptists in North America. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199683710.003.0010.

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This chapter considers an unlikely trio of groups who opposed the Evangelical Protestant mainstream in nineteenth-century America: the Unitarians, the Quakers, and the Shakers. Each had to navigate two different forms of dissent: the external and the internal. When deciding how best to revise or contradict the hegemonic forms of Protestantism, these groups had certain goals and methods for interacting with those outside their fellowship. In time, they each also had to face a more pernicious adversary, the second generation of dissenters that grew within their own ranks. While these disparate t

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James, Elaine T. Landscapes of the Song of Songs. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190619015.001.0001.

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Landscapes of the Song of Songs is a unique, interdisciplinary approach to the ancient poetry of the Song of Songs. It develops a theoretical concept of landscape to explore the Song’s intrinsic interest in the natural world, engaging with work from the fields of geography, landscape architecture, and literature. It emphasizes the made quality of both landscapes and poetry, which are art forms defined by human intervention and vision. In this way it critiques the tendency of scholars to reify a perceived dichotomy in the Song between “nature” and “culture.” Each chapter explores a different im

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Youssef, Mary. Minorities in the Contemporary Egyptian Novel. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474415415.001.0001.

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This book examines questions of identity, nationalism, and marginalization in the contemporary Egyptian novel from a postcolonial lens. Under colonial rule, the Egyptian novel invoked a sovereign nation-state by basking in its perceived unity. After independence, the novel professed disenchantment with state practices and unequal class and gender relations, without disrupting the nation’s imagined racial and ethno-religious homogeneity. This book identifies a trend in the twenty-first-century Egyptian novel that shatters this singular view, with the rise of a new consciousness that presents Eg

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