The Kin Who Count

Author : Margaret L. Meriwether
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292788145

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The Kin Who Count by Margaret L. Meriwether Pdf

The history of the Middle Eastern family presents as many questions as there are currently answers. Who lived together in the household? Who married whom and for how long? Who got a piece of the patrimonial pie? These are the questions that Margaret Meriwether investigates in this groundbreaking study of family life among the upper classes of the Ottoman Empire in the pre-modern and early modern period. Meriwether recreates Aleppo family life over time from records kept by the Islamic religious courts that held jurisdiction over all matters of family law and property transactions. From this research, she asserts that the stereotype of the large, patriarchal patrilineal family rarely existed in reality. Instead, Aleppo's notables organized their families in a great diversity of ways, despite the fact that they were all members of the same social class with widely shared cultural values, acting under the same system of family law. She concludes that this had important implications for gender relations and demonstrates that it gave women more authority and greater autonomy than is usually acknowledged.

Author : Peter Dickinson
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781504014779

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The Kin by Peter Dickinson Pdf

Four children embark on a quest for a new land at the dawn of human history Africa, two hundred thousand years ago: Suth and Noli were orphaned the night the murderous strangers came, speaking an unfamiliar language and bringing violence to the peaceful Moonhawk tribe. Determined not to die in the desert, Suth and Noli slip away with Ko and Mana. Suth, the eldest, leads them; Noli’s dreams of the future guide them. Ko gives them courage; Mana gives them peace. Their search for a new Good Place, one of food and safety, will take them across the valleys and plains of prehistoric Africa and bring them together as a tribe and as a family.

Author : Amy Livingstone
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801457722

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Out of Love for My Kin by Amy Livingstone Pdf

In Out of Love for My Kin, Amy Livingstone examines the personal dimensions of the lives of aristocrats in the Loire region of France during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. She argues for a new conceptualization of aristocratic family life based on an ethos of inclusion. Inclusivity is evident in the care that medieval aristocrats showed toward their families by putting in place strategies, practices, and behaviors aimed at providing for a wide range of relatives. Indeed, this care—and in some cases outright affection—for family members is recorded in the documents themselves, as many a nobleman and woman made pious benefactions "out of love for my kin." In a book made rich by evidence from charters—which provide details about life events including birth, death, marriage, and legal disputes over property—Livingstone reveals an aristocratic family dynamic that is quite different from the fictional or prescriptive views offered by literary depictions or ecclesiastical sources, or from later historiography. For example, she finds that there was no single monolithic mode of inheritance that privileged the few and that these families employed a variety of inheritance practices. Similarly, aristocratic women, long imagined to have been excluded from power, exerted a strong influence on family life, as Livingstone makes clear in her gender-conscious analysis of dowries, the age of men and women at marriage, lordship responsibilities of women, and contestations over property. The web of relations that bound aristocratic families in this period of French history, she finds, was a model of family based on affection, inclusion, and support, not domination and exclusion.

Author : Brian MacWhinney,William O'Grady
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781118301753

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The Handbook of Language Emergence by Brian MacWhinney,William O'Grady Pdf

This authoritative handbook explores the latest integrated theory for understanding human language, offering the most inclusive text yet published on the rapidly evolving emergentist paradigm. Brings together an international team of contributors, including the most prominent advocates of linguistic emergentism Focuses on the ways in which the learning, processing, and structure of language emerge from a competing set of cognitive, communicative, and biological constraints Examines forces on widely divergent timescales, from instantaneous neurolinguistic processing to historical changes and language evolution Addresses key theoretical, empirical, and methodological issues, making this handbook the most rigorous examination of emergentist linguistic theory ever

Author : Caren Freeman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780801462818

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Making and Faking Kinship by Caren Freeman Pdf

In the years leading up to and directly following rapprochement with China in 1992, the South Korean government looked to ethnic Korean (Chosǒnjok) brides and laborers from northeastern China to restore productivity to its industries and countryside. South Korean officials and the media celebrated these overtures not only as a pragmatic solution to population problems but also as a patriotic project of reuniting ethnic Koreans after nearly fifty years of Cold War separation. As Caren Freeman's fieldwork in China and South Korea shows, the attempt to bridge the geopolitical divide in the name of Korean kinship proved more difficult than any of the parties involved could have imagined. Discriminatory treatment, artificially suppressed wages, clashing gender logics, and the criminalization of so-called runaway brides and undocumented workers tarnished the myth of ethnic homogeneity and exposed the contradictions at the heart of South Korea’s transnational kin-making project. Unlike migrant brides who could acquire citizenship, migrant workers were denied the rights of long-term settlement, and stringent quotas restricted their entry. As a result, many Chosǒnjok migrants arranged paper marriages and fabricated familial ties to South Korean citizens to bypass the state apparatus of border control. Making and Faking Kinship depicts acts of "counterfeit kinship," false documents, and the leaving behind of spouses and children as strategies implemented by disenfranchised people to gain mobility within the region’s changing political economy.

Author : Christine Isom-Verhaaren,Kent F. Schull
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253019486

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Living in the Ottoman Realm by Christine Isom-Verhaaren,Kent F. Schull Pdf

Living in the Ottoman Realm brings the Ottoman Empire to life in all of its ethnic, religious, linguistic, and geographic diversity. The contributors explore the development and transformation of identity over the long span of the empire’s existence. They offer engaging accounts of individuals, groups, and communities by drawing on a rich array of primary sources, some available in English translation for the first time. These materials are examined with new methodological approaches to gain a deeper understanding of what it meant to be Ottoman. Designed for use as a course text, each chapter includes study questions and suggestions for further reading.

Author : Amy Aisen Kallander
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292748385

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Women, Gender, and the Palace Households in Ottoman Tunisia by Amy Aisen Kallander Pdf

In this first in-depth study of the ruling family of Tunisia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Kallander investigates the palace as a site of familial and political significance. Through extensive archival research, she elucidates the domestic economy of the palace as well as the changing relationship between the ruling family of Tunis and the government, thus revealing how the private space of the palace mirrored the public political space. “Instead of viewing the period as merely a precursor to colonial occupation and the nation-state as emphasized in precolonial or nationalist histories, this narrative moves away from images of stagnation and dependency to insist upon dynamism,” Kallander explains. She delves deep into palace dynamics, comparing them to those of monarchies outside of the Ottoman Empire to find persuasive evidence of a global modernity. She demonstrates how upper-class Muslim women were active political players, exerting their power through displays of wealth such as consumerism and philanthropy. Ultimately, she creates a rich view of the Husaynid dynastic culture that will surprise many, and stimulate debate and further research among scholars of Ottoman Tunisia.

Author : Kate Fleet,Suraiya N. Faroqhi,Reşat Kasaba
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0521620953

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The Cambridge History of Turkey by Kate Fleet,Suraiya N. Faroqhi,Reşat Kasaba Pdf

Volume 3 of The Cambridge History of Turkey covers the period from 1603 to 1839.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1164 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : HARVARD:32044103145405

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The Northeastern Reporter by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Child psychology
ISBN : UOM:39015010787607

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The Pedagogical Seminary by Anonim Pdf

Vols. 5-15 include "Bibliography of child study," by Louis N. Wilson.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 882 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : MINN:31951001324723C

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American Anthropologist by Anonim Pdf

Author : Johanna Nichols
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1999-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0226580571

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Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time by Johanna Nichols Pdf

Some structural features of languages predict others, some remain unchanged in daughter languages, others have an areal consistency; in establishing typologically, historically and geographically stable features in the worlds languages, examples are included from Kayardild, Djingili, Dyirbal, Mangarayi, Maung, Ngiyambaa.

Author : Lyndon W. Joslin
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476669878

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Count Dracula Goes to the Movies by Lyndon W. Joslin Pdf

First published in 1897, Bram Stoker's Dracula has never been out of print. Yet most people are familiar with the title character from the movies. Count Dracula is one of the most-filmed literary characters in history--but has he (or Stoker's novel) ever been filmed accurately? In its third edition, this study focuses on 18 adaptations of Dracula from 1922 to 2012, comparing them to the novel and to each other. Fidelity to the novel does not always guarantee a good movie, while some of the better films are among the more freely adapted. The Universal and Hammer sequels are searched for traces of Stoker, along with several other films that borrow from the novel. The author concludes with a brief look at four latter-day projects that are best dismissed or viewed for ironic laughs.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1627
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0020158467

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A Concordance to All the Bookes of the Old Testament, According to the Translation Allowed by His Late Matie of Great Brittain, Etc. [By Clement Cotton.] by Anonim Pdf

Author : Roy Flechner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691184647

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Saint Patrick Retold by Roy Flechner Pdf

Saint Patrick was, by his own admission, a controversial figure. Convicted in a trial by his elders in Britain and hounded by rumors that he settled in Ireland for financial gain, the man who was to become Ireland's patron saint battled against great odds before succeeding as a missionary