Tracing the intertwined roles of food, ethnicity, and regionalism in the construction of American identity, this textbook examines the central role food plays in our lives. Drawing on a range of disciplines_including sociology, anthropology, folklore, geography, history, and nutrition_the editors have selected a group of engaging essays to help students explore the idea of food as a window into American culture. The editors' general introductory essay offers an overview of current scholarship, and part introductions contextualize the readings within each section. This lively reader will be a valuable supplement for courses on American culture across the social sciences.
This anthology presents the story of life – from the beginning of the cosmos through the 1800's, into rural America of the 1940's, to Tblisi in 1998, and on to today, all told through the voices of women expressing their knowledge, their age, their mortality, and their love. The anthology holds much hilarity, a few good mysteries, lots of great story telling, some heartbreak, and much wisdom. There is poetry. There is nonfiction. There are short stories. There are essays. There are excerpts from larger works in progress. And, on every page, there is the glowing result of the love of words and the crafted results of years of work.There are eleven writers represented here; a diverse group, with varied life experiences. These writers have met together weekly for most of the last ten years, sitting around a table in a beautiful house located in the hills of rural Southern Oregon. At these meetings, they have shared their work, taught each other, leaned on each other, laughed together, and taken each other seriously. Read their words and learn.
Tricks to getting through summer without your brand-new best friend by Jules Bloom 1. Play a spy girl in a movie. 2. Think of ways to have pizzazz around big-time movie stars. (Hint: mudslide stunts add pizzazz!) 3. Practise how to be stealthy, which means sneaky (which means not telling everyone every single thing that's on my mind). 4. Make good use of pen pals (even ex-best-friend pen pals can be surprisingly helpful in sticky situations). School is out and Jules is hitting the road! She's off to Montreal where she'll film her first ever movie, The Spy in the Attic. But that means no friends around on her birthday and no birthday party. And with only a hockey player and diva starlet as cast mates in a town where no one speaks her language, Jules is feeling awfully lonely. Good thing her best friend Elinor is sending super-secret spy missions to keep Jules busy. With a little stealth and a whole lot of gumption, she just might be able to turn her bummer summer into a blockbuster.
Seeking a broad reexamination of visual culture through the lenses of ecocriticism, environmental justice, and animal studies, this compendium offers a diverse range of art-historical criticism formulated within an ecological context. Picture Ecology brings together scholars whose contributions extend chronologically and geographically from 11th-century Chinese painting to contemporary photography of California wildfires. The book's 17 interdisciplinary essays provide a dynamic, cross-cultural approach to an increasingly vital area of study, emphasizing the environmental dimensions inherent in the content and materials of aesthetic objects. Picture Ecology provides valuable new approaches for considering works of art, in ways that are timely, intellectually stimulating, and universally significant.
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