The romance of London volume 2

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v. 1. Historic sketches. Remarkable duels. Notorious highwaymen. Rogueries, crimes, and punishments.

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2

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301 TIM r

Art and tradition in a time of uprisings

Examining radical reinventions of traditional practices, ranging from a queer reclamation of the Jewish festival of Purim to an Indigenous remixing of musical traditions. Supposedly outmoded modes of doing and making--from music and religious rituals to crafting and cooking--are flourishing, both artistically and politically, in the digital age. In this book, Gabriel Levine examines collective …

The Hmong of Australia Culture and Diaspora

United States

The Lihir Destiny : Cultural Responses to Mining in Melanesia

The people of the Lihir Islands in Papua New Guinea have long held visions of a prosperous new future, often referred to by local leaders as the ‘Lihir Destiny’. When large-scale gold mining activities commenced on the main island of Lihir in 1995, many hoped that this new world had finally arrived. The Lihir Destiny provides a nuanced account of the social structural and cultural transform…

The Everyday Lives of Gay Men; Autoethnographies of the Ordinary

Draws on the expertise of twelve contributors, writing from an autoethnographic first person approach.

Cultural Heritage Ethics : Between Theory and Practice

Theory without practice is empty, practice without theory is blind, to adapt a phrase from Immanuel Kant. The sentiment could not be truer of cultural heritage ethics. This intra-disciplinary book bridges the gap between theory and practice by bringing together a stellar cast of academics, activists, consultants, journalists, lawyers, and museum practitioners, each contributing their own expert…

Practically Invisible: Coastal Ecuador, Tourism, and the Politics of Authenti…

The community of Agua Blanca, deep within the Machalilla National Park on the coast of Ecuador, found itself facing the twenty-first century with a choice: embrace a booming tourist industry eager to experience a preconceived notion of indigeneity, or risk losing a battle against the encroaching forces of capitalism and development. The facts spoke for themselves, however, as tourism dollars be…

The Cowboy Legend : Owen Wister's Virginian and the Canadian-American Ranchin…

The cowboy, as perhaps no other figure, has captured the imagination of North Americans for over a century. Before Owen Wister’s publication of The Virginian in 1902, the image of the cowboy was essentially that of the dime novel – a rough, violent, one-dimensional drifter, or the stage cowboy variety found in Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West show. Wister’s novel was to transform, almost o…