Familiar Strangers

Author : Jonathan N. Lipman
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295800554

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The Chinese-speaking Muslims have for centuries been an inseperable but anomalous part of Chinese society--Sinophone yet incomprehensible, local yet outsiders, normal but different. Long regarded by the Chinese government as prone to violence, they have challenged fundamental Chinese conceptiosn of Self and Other and denied the totally transforming power of Chinese civilization by tenaciously maintaining connectios with Central and West Asia as well as some cultural differences from their non-Muslim neighbors. Familiar Strangers narrates a history of the Muslims of northwest China, at the intersection of the frontiers of the Mongolian-Manchu, Tibetan, Turkic, and Chinese cultural regions. Based on primary and secondary sources in a variety of languages, Familiar Strangers examines the nature of ethnicity and periphery, the role of religion and ethnicity in personal and collective decisions in violent times, and the complexity of belonging to two cultures at once. Concerning itself with a frontier very distant from the core areas of Chinese culture and very strange to most Chinese, it explores the influence of language, religion, and place on Sino-Muslim identity.

Author : Erik R. Scott
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190695774

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Familiar Strangers examines how the Soviet empire was built, and ultimately dismantled, by ethnic outsiders. Scott retells Soviet history from the perspective of the socialist state's internal Georgian diaspora, illuminating processes of mobility within Soviet borders and offering an understanding of empire that transcends the divide between colonizer and colonized.

Author : Louise Olliff
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780253063571

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Helping Familiar Strangers by Louise Olliff Pdf

Who helps in situations of forced displacement? How and why do they get involved? In Helping Familiar Strangers, Louise Olliff focuses on one type of humanitarian group, refugee diaspora organizations (RDOs), to explore the complicated impulses, practices, and relationships between these activists and the "familiar strangers" they try to help. By documenting findings from ethnographic research and interviews with resettled and displaced persons, RDO representatives, and humanitarian professionals in Australia, Switzerland, Thailand, and Indonesia, Olliff reveals that former refugees are actively involved in helping people in situations of forced displacement and that individuals with lived experience of forced displacement have valuable knowledge, skills, and networks that can be drawn on in times of humanitarian crisis. We live in a world where humanitarians have varying motivations, capacities, and ways of helping those in need, and Helping Familiar Strangers confirms that RDOs and similar groups are an important part of the tapestry of care that people turn to when seeking protection far from home.

Author : Stuart Hall
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780822372936

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"Sometimes I feel myself to have been the last colonial." This, in his own words, is the extraordinary story of the life and career of Stuart Hall—how his experiences shaped his intellectual, political, and theoretical work and how he became one of his age's brightest intellectual lights. Growing up in a middle-class family in 1930s Kingston, Jamaica, still then a British colony, the young Stuart Hall found himself uncomfortable in his own home. He lived among Kingston's stiflingly respectable brown middle class, who, in their habits and ambitions, measured themselves against the white elite. As colonial rule was challenged, things began to change in Kingston and across the world. In 1951 a Rhodes scholarship took Hall across the Atlantic to Oxford University, where he met young Jamaicans from all walks of life, as well as writers and thinkers from across the Caribbean, including V. S. Naipaul and George Lamming. While at Oxford he met Raymond Williams, Charles Taylor, and other leading intellectuals, with whom he helped found the intellectual and political movement known as the New Left. With the emotional aftershock of colonialism still pulsing through him, Hall faced a new struggle: that of building a home, a life, and an identity in a postwar England so rife with racism that it could barely recognize his humanity. With great insight, compassion, and wit, Hall tells the story of his early life, taking readers on a journey through the sights, smells, and streets of 1930s Kingston while reflecting on the thorny politics of 1950s and 1960s Britain. Full of passion and wisdom, Familiar Stranger is the intellectual memoir of one of our greatest minds.

Author : Samah
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Indic fiction (English)
ISBN : 0143441361

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What if your husband's ex-girlfriend makes a sudden comeback into your lives? Priya and Chirag are like several other modern couples, living life at breakneck speed, unknowingly stuck in the rut of a marriage that is obviously dying, if not already dead. But things start to change when Priya's position in Chirag's life is threatened by his past-his ex-girlfriend, who returns when they least expect it. A third person's entry into their marriage awakens emotions that have been dormant for too long. But is it too late? Is the damage beyond repair?

Author : Marlene Sway
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1990-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0252061160

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Author : Miri Rubin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108481236

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Cities of Strangers by Miri Rubin Pdf

Explores how medieval towns and cities received newcomers, and the process by which these 'strangers' became 'neighbours' between 1000 and 1500.

Author : Gotham Chopra
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002-05-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780385505512

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A flip through the newspaper or a glance at the evening news reveals a world in which old ways are dying and new worlds are beginning, often in the midst of violence and chaos. In the face of these massive changes and disruptions, many people are questioning their roles as individuals: Why am I here? What is my purpose? In Familiar Strangers, Gotham Chopra travels from China, Sri Lanka, and Kashmir to Chechnya and the Yucatán in search of answers to these age-old spiritual questions. Everywhere he goes, he encounters people who have had to dig within themselves to survive horrible realities and bear heart-wrenching losses. From his New York to Los Angeles flight on September 11, 2001 to a harrowing week spent among young boys toting guns in the contested hills of Kashmir and a sojourn in a small Yucatán village where he witnesses firsthand the collision between the romance of the past and the uncertain promise of the future, Chopra shares the wisdom, idealism, and sense of purpose he found in ordinary people living under extraordinary circumstances. Rich in drama and insights into cultures far different from our own, the stories Chopra recounts articulate, as well, anxieties and fears we all share. While acknowledging that his travels often take him to the extreme edges of civilized society, Chopra shows that the questions that arise in times of peril or in the face of great dangers are not so different from what many of us ask in the course of our daily lives–whether after a grueling eighty-hour work week, a six-hour exam, or a fiery argument with a lover. The challenge, he argues, is to use these moments of revelation as the first step in moving beyond self-imposed fears and limits and embracing new opportunities for spiritual growth.

Author : Brendan Kennelly
Publisher : Bloodaxe Books
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015061322056

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The author's own selection from over 20 of his poetry books written over five decades, replacing his earlier selections, A Time for Voices; Breathing Spaces; and Begin, and adding many new, previously lost or uncollected poems.

Author : James A. Blumenstock
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725259331

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Strangers in a Familiar Land by James A. Blumenstock Pdf

Throughout history, many Christians have existed on the margins of society; deviants and strangers in lands they call home. To survive, they have had to construct alternate identities that not only make sense of their religious experiences and beliefs but also equip them to successfully negotiate their social worlds. In Thailand, a nation where social identities are thoroughly intertwined with Buddhist religious adherence, Christians must come to terms with such a marginalized existence. By leaving Buddhism and adopting what is considered a foreign faith, Christian converts become deviants to "normal" Thai identity and belonging. In response, they have discovered creative solutions for traversing this complex terrain of marginalization. This book presents a deep exploration of the phenomenon of marginalization as experienced by Thai Christian converts. In it, readers will follow participants through the heights of transformative religious experience, the lows of severe social displacement, the tensions of managing two disparate lifeworlds and two conflicting selves, and the comfort and joy of finding a new place to call home. In the end, the reader will gain deep insight into what it is like to successfully navigate a minority religious identity on the margins of society.

Author : Gina Fields
Publisher : Barbour Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1577489810

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Author : Josh Weltman
Publisher : Workman Publishing Company
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780761184195

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Seducing Strangers by Josh Weltman Pdf

How to get someone, somewhere, to do something. The job is using words, pictures, stories, and music to seduce strangers. In the industrial, mass-media, consumer economy of the past, the job was called advertising, and “Mad Men” did it. In today’s service-based, social media-focused, information economy, the job is called life, and everyone does it. Here’s how you can do it. And do it better.

Author : W. S. Penn
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0816520534

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Killing Time with Strangers by W. S. Penn Pdf

"Palimony Blue Larue, a mixblood growing up in a small California town, suffers from a painful shyness and wants more than anything to be liked. That's why Mary Blue, his Nez Perce mother, has dreamed the weyekin, the spirit guide, to help her bring into the world the one lasting love her son needs to overcome the diffidence that runs so deep in his blood."--Jacket.

Author : David A. Robertson
Publisher : Portage & Main Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-05
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781553797371

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Strangers by David A. Robertson Pdf

From Governor General’s Award-winning author David A. Robertson comes the first book in a compelling new trilogy. A talking coyote, mysterious illnesses, and girl trouble. Coming home can be murder... When Cole Harper gets a mysterious message from an old friend begging him to come home, he has no idea what he's getting into. Compelled to return to Wounded Sky First Nation, Cole finds his community in chaos: a series of shocking murders, a mysterious illness ravaging the residents, and reemerging questions about Cole’s role in the tragedy that drove him away 10 years ago. With the aid of an unhelpful spirit, a disfigured ghost, and his two oldest friends, Cole tries to figure out his purpose, and unravel the mysteries he left behind a decade ago. Will he find the answers in time to save his community?

Author : Hillol Kargupta,Jiawei Han,Philip S. Yu,Rajeev Motwani,Vipin Kumar
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-24
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1420085875

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Next Generation of Data Mining by Hillol Kargupta,Jiawei Han,Philip S. Yu,Rajeev Motwani,Vipin Kumar Pdf

Drawn from the US National Science Foundation’s Symposium on Next Generation of Data Mining and Cyber-Enabled Discovery for Innovation (NGDM 07), Next Generation of Data Mining explores emerging technologies and applications in data mining as well as potential challenges faced by the field. Gathering perspectives from top experts across different disciplines, the book debates upcoming challenges and outlines computational methods. The contributors look at how ecology, astronomy, social science, medicine, finance, and more can benefit from the next generation of data mining techniques. They examine the algorithms, middleware, infrastructure, and privacy policies associated with ubiquitous, distributed, and high performance data mining. They also discuss the impact of new technologies, such as the semantic web, on data mining and provide recommendations for privacy-preserving mechanisms. The dramatic increase in the availability of massive, complex data from various sources is creating computing, storage, communication, and human-computer interaction challenges for data mining. Providing a framework to better understand these fundamental issues, this volume surveys promising approaches to data mining problems that span an array of disciplines.