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Remotely Global

Village Modernity in West Africa

By: Charles Piot

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Remotely Global

Village Modernity in West Africa

By: Charles Piot

At first glance, the remote villages of the Kabre people of northern Togo appear to have all the trappings of a classic "out of the way" African culture—subsistence farming, straw-roofed houses, and rituals to the spirits and ancestors. Arguing that village life is in fact an effect of the modern and the global, Charles Piot suggests that Kabre culture is shaped as much by colonial and postcolonial history as by anything "indigenous" or local. Through analyses of everyday and ceremonial social practices, Piot illustrates the intertwining of modernity with tradition and of the local with the national and global. In a striking example of the appropriation of tradition by the state, Togo's Kabre president regularly flies to the region in his helicopter to witness male initiation ceremonies. Confounding both anthropological theorizations and the State Department's stereotyped images of African village life, Remotely Global aims to rethink Euroamerican theories that fail to come to terms with the fluidity of everyday relations in a society where persons and things are forever in motion.

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University of Chicago Press

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022618983X

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9780226189833

Nostalgia for the Future

West Africa after the Cold War

By: Charles Piot

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Nostalgia for the Future

West Africa after the Cold War

By: Charles Piot

Since the end of the cold war, Africa has seen a dramatic rise in new political and religious phenomena, including an eviscerated privatized state, neoliberal NGOs, Pentecostalism, a resurgence in accusations of witchcraft, a culture of scamming and fraud, and, in some countries, a nearly universal wish to emigrate. Drawing on fieldwork in Togo, Charles Piot suggests that a new biopolitics after state sovereignty is remaking the face of one of the world’s poorest regions. In a country where playing the U.S. Department of State’s green card lottery is a national pastime and the preponderance of cybercafés and Western Union branches signals a widespread desire to connect to the rest of the world, Nostalgia for the Future makes clear that the cultural and political terrain that underlies postcolonial theory has shifted. In order to map out this new terrain, Piot enters into critical dialogue with a host of important theorists, including Agamben, Hardt and Negri, Deleuze, and Mbembe. The result is a deft interweaving of rich observations of Togolese life with profound insights into the new, globalized world in which that life takes place.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226669661

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The Colonial Laws of New York from the Year 1664 to the Revolution, Including the Charters to the Duke of York, the Commissions and Instructions to Colonial Governors, the Duke's Laws, the Laws of the Dongan and Leisler Assemblies, the Charters of Albany and New York and the Acts of the Colonial Legislatures from 1691 to 1775 Inclusive

By: New York (Colony),Charles Zebina Lincoln

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The Colonial Laws of New York from the Year 1664 to the Revolution, Including the Charters to the Duke of York, the Commissions and Instructions to Colonial Governors, the Duke's Laws, the Laws of the Dongan and Leisler Assemblies, the Charters of Albany and New York and the Acts of the Colonial Legislatures from 1691 to 1775 Inclusive

By: New York (Colony),Charles Zebina Lincoln

[Lincoln, Charles Z[ebina], Johnson, William H., Northrup, A[nsel] J[udd]. The Colonial Laws of New York from the Year 1664 to the Revolution, Including the Charters to the Duke of York, The Commissions and Instructions to Colonial Governors, The Duke's Laws, The Laws of the Dongan and Leisler Assemblies, The Charters of Albany and New York and the Acts of the Colonial Legislatures from 1691 to 1775 Inclusive. Transmitted to the legislature by the Commissioners of Statutory Revision, Pursuant to Chapter 125 of the Laws of 1891. Albany: James B. Lyon, 1894. Five volumes. Cloth. Reprinted 2006 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. [with] (1) searchable DVD of the 5 volume work. ISBN-13: 978-1-58477-596-6. ISBN-10: 1-58477-596-3 * Reprint of the first edition. With indexes. DVD available alone at $595. An excellent resource for students of colonial law, this is a complete compilation of New York colonial laws. It contains complete texts of all acts printed in every compilation from the 1694 edition by Bradford to the 1775 edition by Hugh Gaine. These texts have been compared and corrected in reference to the original parchment law-rolls in the state library. This collection provides unparalleled insights into the colony's legal, political and social history.

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5550

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The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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1584775963

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9781584775966

Maxime Weygand and Civil-military Relations in Modern France

By: Philip Charles Farwell Bankwitz

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Maxime Weygand and Civil-military Relations in Modern France

By: Philip Charles Farwell Bankwitz

This is the first scholarly study of the prewar phase of the French army's development into a disruptive force in national life. A chapter from the portentous 20th-century story of the soldier in politics, it has relevance to contemporary situations in other western societies. The book includes an encyclopedic bibliography.

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Harvard University Press

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0674557018

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9780674557017

Free as Gods

How the Jazz Age Reinvented Modernism

By: Charles A. Riley, II

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How the Jazz Age Reinvented Modernism

By: Charles A. Riley, II

Among many art, music and literature lovers, particularly devotees of modernism, the expatriate community in France during the Jazz Age represents a remarkable convergence of genius in one place and period - one of the most glorious in history. Drawn by the presence of such avant-garde figures as Joyce and Picasso, artists and writers fled the Prohibition in the United States and revolution in Russia to head for the free-wheeling scene in Paris, where they made contact with rivals, collaborators, and a sophisticated audience of collectors and patrons. The outpouring of boundary-pushing novels, paintings, ballets, music, and design was so profuse that it belies the brevity of the era (1918-1929). Drawing on unpublished albums, drawings, paintings, and manuscripts, Charles A. Riley offers a fresh examination of both canonic and overlooked writers and artists and their works, by revealing them in conversation with one another. He illuminates social interconnections and artistic collaborations among the most famous - Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Gershwin, Diaghilev, and Picasso - and goes a step further, setting their work alongside that of African Americans such as Sidney Bechet, Archibald Motley Jr., and Langston Hughes, and women such as Gertrude Stein and Nancy Cunard. Riley's biographical and interpretive celebration of the many masterpieces of this remarkable group shows how the creative community of postwar Paris supported astounding experiments in content and form that still resonate today.

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University Press of New England

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1512600555

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9781512600551

Charles Baudelaire: Oeuvres Complètes (Golden Deer Classics)

By: Charles Baudelaire,Golden Deer Classics

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Charles Baudelaire: Oeuvres Complètes (Golden Deer Classics)

By: Charles Baudelaire,Golden Deer Classics

Cet ebook regroupe les oeuvres complètes de Charles Baudelaire. Des tables des matières rendent la navigation intuitive et agréable. ---- Contenu: Le Jeune Enchanteur (1846) La Fanfarlo (1847) Les Fleurs du mal (1857) Les Paradis artificiels (1860) Les Fleurs du mal (1861) Les Épaves (1866) Les Fleurs du mal (additional poems of the 1868 edition) Curiosités esthétiques (1868): Salon de 1845, Salon de 1846, Le musée classique du bazar bonne-nouvelle, Exposition universelle — 1855 — beaux-arts, Salon de 1859, De l'essence du rire, Quelques caricaturistes français, Quelques caricaturistes étrangers. L'Art romantique (1869): L'Œuvre et la vie d'Eugène Delacroix, Peintures murales d'Eugène Delacroix à Saint-Sulpice, Le peintre de la vie moderne, Peintres et aqua-fortistes, Vente de la collection de M. E. Piot, L'art philosophique, Morale du joujou, Théophile Gautier, Pierre Dupont, Richard Wagner et Tannhäuser à Paris, Philibert Rouvière, Conseils aux jeunes littérateurs, Les drames et les romans honnêtes, L'école païenne, Réflexions sur quelques-uns de mes contemporains, Critiques littéraires. Petits Poëmes en prose (1869) Œuvres posthumes (1908): Les fleurs du mal, Autres poésies publiées du vivant de l'auteur, Poésies publiées depuis la mort de l'auteur ou inédites, Poésies apocryphes, Journaux intimes, Théatre, Critique littéraire, Travaux sur Edgar Poe, Sur les beaux-arts, Argument du livre sur la Belgique, Polémiques, Variétés, Baudelaire journaliste, Projets et notes.

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Oregan Publishing

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8822874153

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9788822874153

Principles and Practice of Pediatric Infectious Disease

By: Sarah S. Long,Larry K. Pickering,Charles G. Prober

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Principles and Practice of Pediatric Infectious Disease

By: Sarah S. Long,Larry K. Pickering,Charles G. Prober

Provides comprehensive coverage you need to understand, diagnose, and manage the ever-changing, high-risk clinical problems caused by pediatric infectious diseases.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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1437727026

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9781437727029

Misinformation Concerning Child Sexual Abuse and Adult Survivors

By: Paul Jay Fink,Joyanna Silberg,Charles L. Whitfield

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Misinformation Concerning Child Sexual Abuse and Adult Survivors

By: Paul Jay Fink,Joyanna Silberg,Charles L. Whitfield

Successfully navigate the minefield of misinformation that can prevent justice from being done in child sexual abuse cases!From the Foreword, by Robert Geffner, PhD, editor of the Journal of Child Sexual Abuse: “Too often, the public and some professionals have been misled by media publicity and articles . . . that appear scientific, but in reality, are biased opinions or over-generalized research. Forensic cases are being decided in many courts based upon the recommendations of so-called 'expert witnesses’who do not actually know the clinical research or understand the dynamics of such abusive relationships.”This much-needed book points out and corrects misinformation that everyone who works with victims, offenders, or families in which sexual abuse has occurred needs to understand clearly. Especially vital in today's political climate, Misinformation Concerning Child Sexual Abuse and Adult Survivors gives you state-of-the-science information on such myths as “false memory syndrome,” “recovered memory therapy,” and the “lack of harm” to some sexually abused boys.Misinformation Concerning Child Sexual Abuse and Adult Survivors examines: forensic issues, including the “false memory” defense and how the long-term impact of childhood sexual abuse is often misrepresented in court three separate expert examinations of Rind, Tromovitch, and Bauserman's well-known--and often misrepresented--review of long-term child sexual abuse outcomes treatment recommendations and guidelines for addressing the memory controversy in clinical practice the fascinating case history/cautionary tale of the child molester Robert Halsey, who was convicted and sentenced to two life sentences in 1993, and how public and academic resources were misused to claim he was wrongly convicted

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Routledge

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1317825373

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9781317825371

Late Fragments

Flares, My Heart Laid Bare, Prose Poems, Belgium Disrobed

By: Charles Baudelaire

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Flares, My Heart Laid Bare, Prose Poems, Belgium Disrobed

By: Charles Baudelaire

The first English collection of the late poetry and prose fragments of literary icon Charles Baudelaire "[A] handsome new book . . . all this inchoate material is given context by Sieburth's learned, elegantly written commentary. He is the perfect guide."--Michael Dirda, Washington Post "[These] unfinished works written after 1861 . . . deliver what their titles seem to promise: a soul stripped of guises and illusions."--Ange Mlinko, New York Review of Books While not as well known as his other works, Charles Baudelaire's late poems, drafts of poems, and prose fragments are texts indispensable to the history of modern poetics. This volume brings together Baudelaire's late fragmentary writings, aphoristic in form and radical in thought, into one edited collection for the first time. Substantial introductions to each work by Richard Sieburth combine the literary context with formal analysis and reception history to give readers a comprehensive picture of the genesis of these works and their subsequent fate. Baudelaire's turn toward fragmentary writing involved not only a conscious renunciation of his aesthetics of perfection and unity, but a desertion of the harmonies of the traditional lyric in favor of the disjunctions of prose. These are daring works, often painful to read in their misanthropy and unconventional beauty.

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438

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Yale University Press

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0300185189

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9780300185188

The Boundary Stelae of Akhenaten

By: William J. Murnane,Charles Cornell Van Siclen

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The Boundary Stelae of Akhenaten

By: William J. Murnane,Charles Cornell Van Siclen

First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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0710304641

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9780710304643

Art, Performance and Ritual in Benin City

By: Gore Charles Gore

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Art, Performance and Ritual in Benin City

By: Gore Charles Gore

This book explores the roles of contemporary urban shrines and their visual traditions in Benin City. It focuses on the charismatic priests and priestesses who are possessed by a pantheon of deities, the communities of devotees, and the artists who make artifacts for their shrines. The visual arts are part of a wider configuration of practices that include song, dance, possession and healing. These practices provide the means for exploring the relationships of the visual to both the verbal and performance arts that feature at these shrines. The analysis in this book raises fundamental questions about how the art of Benin, and non-Western art histories more generally, are understood. The book throws critical light on the taken-for-granted assumptions which underpin current interpretations and presents an original and revisionist account of Benin art history.

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256

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474468586

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9781474468589

Renaissance Theories of Vision

By: John Shannon Hendrix,Charles H. Carman

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Renaissance Theories of Vision

By: John Shannon Hendrix,Charles H. Carman

How are processes of vision, perception, and sensation conceived in the Renaissance? How are those conceptions made manifest in the arts? The essays in this volume address these and similar questions to establish important theoretical and philosophical bases for artistic production in the Renaissance and beyond. The essays also attend to the views of historically significant writers from the ancient classical period to the eighteenth century, including Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, St Augustine, Ibn Sina (Avicenna), Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen), Ibn Sahl, Marsilio Ficino, Nicholas of Cusa, Leon Battista Alberti, Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Gregorio Comanini, John Davies, Rene Descartes, Samuel van Hoogstraten, and George Berkeley. Contributors carefully scrutinize and illustrate the effect of changing and evolving ideas of intellectual and physical vision on artistic practice in Florence, Rome, Venice, England, Austria, and the Netherlands. The artists whose work and practices are discussed include Fra Angelico, Donatello, Leonardo da Vinci, Filippino Lippi, Giovanni Bellini, Raphael, Parmigianino, Titian, Bronzino, Johannes Gumpp and Rembrandt van Rijn. Taken together, the essays provide the reader with a fresh perspective on the intellectual confluence between art, science, philosophy, and literature across Renaissance Europe.

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1317066391

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Remotely Global

Remotely Global

Nostalgia for the Future

Nostalgia for the Future

Maxime Weygand and Civil-military Relations in Modern France

Maxime Weygand and Civil-military Relations in Modern France

Free as Gods

Free as Gods

Charles Baudelaire: Oeuvres Complètes (Golden Deer Classics)

Charles Baudelaire: Oeuvres Complètes (Golden Deer Classics)

Principles and Practice of Pediatric Infectious Disease

Principles and Practice of Pediatric Infectious Disease

Misinformation Concerning Child Sexual Abuse and Adult Survivors

Misinformation Concerning Child Sexual Abuse and Adult Survivors

Late Fragments

Late Fragments

The Boundary Stelae of Akhenaten

The Boundary Stelae of Akhenaten

Art, Performance and Ritual in Benin City

Art, Performance and Ritual in Benin City

Renaissance Theories of Vision

Renaissance Theories of Vision

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