Narratives Of Dependency

Author : Elke Brüggen,Marion Gymnich
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9783111381916

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Narratives of Dependency by Elke Brüggen,Marion Gymnich Pdf

Given that strong asymmetrical dependencies have shaped human societies throughout history, this kind of social relation has also left its traces in many types of texts. Using written and oral narratives in attempts to reconstruct the history of asymmetrical dependency comes along with various methodological challenges, as the 15 articles in this interdisciplinary volume illustrate. They focus on a wide range of different (factual and fictional) text types, including inscriptions from Egyptian tombs, biblical stories, novels from antiquity, the Middle High German Rolandslied, Ottoman court records, captivity narratives, travelogues, the American gift book The Liberty Bell, and oral narratives by Caribbean Hindu women. Most of the texts discussed in this volume have so far received comparatively little attention in slavery and dependency studies. The volume thus also seeks to broaden the archive of texts that are deemed relevant in research on the histories of asymmetrical dependencies, bringing together perspectives from disciplines such as Egyptology, theology, literary studies, history, and anthropology

Author : Elke Brüggen,Marion Gymnich
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9783111381824

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Narratives of Dependency by Elke Brüggen,Marion Gymnich Pdf

Given that strong asymmetrical dependencies have shaped human societies throughout history, this kind of social relation has also left its traces in many types of texts. Using written and oral narratives in attempts to reconstruct the history of asymmetrical dependency comes along with various methodological challenges, as the 15 articles in this interdisciplinary volume illustrate. They focus on a wide range of different (factual and fictional) text types, including inscriptions from Egyptian tombs, biblical stories, novels from antiquity, the Middle High German Rolandslied, Ottoman court records, captivity narratives, travelogues, the American gift book The Liberty Bell, and oral narratives by Caribbean Hindu women. Most of the texts discussed in this volume have so far received comparatively little attention in slavery and dependency studies. The volume thus also seeks to broaden the archive of texts that are deemed relevant in research on the histories of asymmetrical dependencies, bringing together perspectives from disciplines such as Egyptology, theology, literary studies, history, and anthropology

Author : David T. Mitchell,Sharon L. Snyder
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472067480

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Narrative Prosthesis by David T. Mitchell,Sharon L. Snyder Pdf

Reveals how depictions of disability in fiction serve an essential narrative function

Author : Gregory Currie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199282609

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Narratives and Narrators by Gregory Currie Pdf

Gregory Currie offers a reflection on the nature and significance of narrative in human communication. He shows that narratives are devices for manifesting the intentions of their makers in stories, argues that human tendencies to imitation and to joint attention underlie the pleasure of narrative, and discusses authorship, character, and irony.

Author : Blake Howe,Stephanie Jensen-Moulton,Neil Lerner,Joseph Straus
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 952 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190493738

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The Oxford Handbook of Music and Disability Studies by Blake Howe,Stephanie Jensen-Moulton,Neil Lerner,Joseph Straus Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Disability Studies represents a comprehensive state of current research for the field of Disability Studies and Music. The forty-two chapters in the book span a wide chronological and geographical range, from the biblical, the medieval, and the Elizabethan, through the canonical classics of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, up to modernist styles and contemporary musical theater and popular genres, with stops along the way in post-Civil War America, Ghana and the South Pacific, and many other interesting times and places. Disability is a broad, heterogeneous, and porous identity, and that diversity is reflected in the variety of bodily conditions under discussion here, including autism and intellectual disability, deafness, blindness, mobility impairment often coupled with bodily difference, and cognitive and intellectual impairments. Amid this diversity of time, place, style, medium, and topic, the chapters share two core commitments. First, they are united in their theoretical and methodological connection to Disability Studies, especially its central idea that disability is a social and cultural construction. Disability both shapes and is shaped by culture, including musical culture. Second, these essays individually and collectively make the case that disability is not something at the periphery of culture and music, but something central to our art and to our humanity.

Author : Chieh Hsu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000088281

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Family Migration and the Path to an Occupation by Chieh Hsu Pdf

This book sheds light on the invisible early post-arrival period of female family migrants, traditionally considered to be low skilled or professionally quiescent. With attention to the experiences of Chinese and Taiwanese women married to German men, it examines the ways in which the private sphere—marked by intermarriage couple dynamics and native–foreigner relations—constitutes the main locus of women’s socialization in the host country, as interactions with their intimate partners in the family realm shape both their self-conceptions and their employment intentions. Based on interviews with migrant women and their spouses, the author outlines the subject positions that characterize female migrants’ attitudes to external constructs and entering the labor market, showing that female family migrants frequently take on family migrant and wife roles that permeate intimate relationships and impede employment intentions, but also often strive to realign with their pre-departure independent selves and thus regain agency. A study of gender dynamics and labor market entry among newly arrived female migrants, this volume will appeal to scholars of sociology with interests in gender, migration, and work.

Author : Erika Marie Bsumek
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131611035

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Indian-made by Erika Marie Bsumek Pdf

"In works of silver and wool, the Navajos have established a unique brand of American craft. And when their artisans were integrated into the American economy during the late nineteenth century, they became part of a complex cultural and economic framework in which their handmade crafts conveyed meanings beyond simple adornment." "Bsumek unravels the layers of meaning that surround the branding of "Indian-made." When Navajo artisans produced their goods, collaborating traders, tourist industry personnel, and even ethnologists created a vision of Navajo culture that had little to do with Navajos themselves. And as Anglos consumed Navajo crafts, they also consumed the romantic notion of Navajos as "primitives" perpetuated by the marketplace. These processes of production and consumption reinforced each other, creating a symbiotic relationship and influencing both mutual Anglo-Navajo perceptions and the ways in which Navajos participated in the modern marketplace." "Ultimately, Bsumek shows that the sale of Indian-made goods cannot be explained solely through supply and demand. It must also reckon with the multiple images and narratives that grew up around the goods themselves, integrating consumer culture, tourism, and history to open new perspectives on our understanding of American Indian material culture."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Grazyna Zajdow
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2002-08-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111760570

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Al-Anon Narratives by Grazyna Zajdow Pdf

According to the author, in Australia, men drink alcohol as a mark of masculinity, and women take care of drinking men as a part of normative femininity. And while research on alcoholics and alcoholism is common, very few studies consider the lives of the women who are married to alcoholics. Here, Zajdow details and explores the lives of such women who belong to Al-Anon, where they may share their experiences and offer their stories in a nonthreatening and supportive environment. The author presents the narratives of these women in the context of her analysis of the self-help group to demonstrate how people construct and reconstruct their lives as coherent stories about themselves, and to show how these self-stories can be changed and reconceptualized within the context of the group. Unique in its examination of self-stories offered within a self-help group, this book challenges sociological knowledge about the way these mutual-aid groups operate as communities of interest and help. Zajdow begins by laying the groundwork through a discussion of the professional and lay discourses on women's relationships to alcoholic men. She then provides the basis for using self-stories to examine a group of people, the individuals in the group, and the behavior of the group in general. A history of Al-Anon as a self-help group is also detailed, and the author compares the Australian meetings to meetings in other parts of the world. The stories themselves are then examined and discussed in terms of how they relate to group processes and individual change through Al-Anon. Tracing the way that these women move from a place of despair to one of hope and meaningful change, this also represents a sociological exploration of gender, families, and communities.

Author : Clémentine Roth
Publisher : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Balkan Peninsula
ISBN : UCSD:31822044525210

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Why Narratives of History Matter by Clémentine Roth Pdf

Based on a comparative study of Serbia and Croatia, this book investigates the role of narratives in the integration process of candidate countries into the European Union (EU). It develops an original model in order to analyse the structure and political use of narratives. Its novelty consists in integrating the concept of topoi and other elements of literature studies that enable a fine-grained and yet still transferable approach to narratives. I argue that narratives influence the conditions for possible political action by delineating the range of possible and desirable forms of behaviour. This study's empirical research mainly consists of a discourse analysis of political documents, including parliamentary debates, political speeches and interviews with experts. The author is a political scientist who pursued her PhD at the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS) and is now working as a project manager at Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum in Karlsruhe.

Author : Joshua Eyler
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 0754668223

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Disability in the Middle Ages by Joshua Eyler Pdf

What do we mean when we talk about disability in the Middle Ages? This volume brings together dynamic scholars working on the subject in medieval literature and history, who use the latest approaches from the field to address this central question. Contributors discuss such standard medieval texts as the Arthurian Legend, The Canterbury Tales and Old Norse Sagas, providing an accessible entry point to the field of medieval disability studies to medievalists. The essays explore a wide variety of disabilities, including the more traditionally accepted classifications of blindness and deafness, as well as perceived disabilities such as madness, pregnancy and age. Adopting a ground-breaking new approach to the study of disability in the medieval period, this provocative book will be a must-read for medievalists and scholars of disability throughout history.

Author : Mairian Corker,Sally French
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015047453538

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Disability Discourse by Mairian Corker,Sally French Pdf

Disability Discourse seeks to emphasize the multi-dimensional & multi-functional nature of disability language in an attempt to further inform our understanding of disability.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Science
ISBN : SRLF:A0001539246

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The New Zealand Journal of Science and Technology by Anonim Pdf

Volumes 33-38, Section B. include 1949-1955 of New Zealand geological abstracts, published by the New Zealand Geological Survey.

Author : J. Barbour
Publisher : Springer
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1992-08-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230371088

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The Conscience of the Autobiographer by J. Barbour Pdf

This book argues that the writing of autobiography raises crucial issues of conscience as an author tries to know, assess, and represent character. Individual chapters explore such issues as the nature of truthfulness, characterization, the virtues, shame, and the religious dimensions of conscience.

Author : Tracey Gendron
Publisher : Steerforth
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781586423223

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Ageism Unmasked by Tracey Gendron Pdf

Why do we still tolerate stereotypes and discrimination based on age? This bold account of the history and present-day realities of ageism by a nationally recognized gerontologist and speaker uncovers ageism's roots, impact, and how each of us can create a new reality of elderhood. Ageism Unmasked shifts the lens, enabling us to see that we tolerate, and sometimes actively promote, attitudes and behaviors toward differently aged people that we would reject and condemn if applied to any other group. It peels back the layers to expose how cultural norms and unconscious prejudices have seeped into our lives, silently shaping our treatment of others based on their age and our own misconceptions about aging—and about ourselves. Offering an all-inclusive approach, Dr. Tracey Gendron reveals the biases behind our false understanding of aging, sharing powerful opportunities for personal growth along with strategies to help create an anti-ageist society. Ageism Unmasked will help readers let go of our desperate need to stay young… exposing how we personally, systematically, structurally, and institutionally stigmatize being old. Ageism Unmasked will help readers appreciate both the challenges and opportunities of how we all age… showing how ageism is prejudice towards both younger and older people. Ageism Unmasked will help readers reset our expectations for getting old… providing the tools to anticipate and experience elderhood as a time of renewed meaning and purpose, empowering each of us to create our own definition of successful aging. Ageism Unmasked continues Dr. Gendron's transformative work inspiring people of all ages to embrace aging as our universal and lifelong process of developing over time — biologically, psychologically, socially, and spiritually.

Author : Nancy Pauly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89080377930

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Visual Images Linked to Cultural Narratives by Nancy Pauly Pdf