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The Mahatma and the Ism

By: E. M. S. Namboodiripad

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The Mahatma and the Ism

By: E. M. S. Namboodiripad

Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948, Indian nationalist and statesman.

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186

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LeftWord Books

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8187496983

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9788187496984

Virtually Amish

Preserving Community at the Internet's Margins

By: Lindsay Ems

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Virtually Amish

Preserving Community at the Internet's Margins

By: Lindsay Ems

How the Amish have adopted certain digital tools in ways that allow them to work and live according to their own value system. The Amish are famous for their disconnection from the modern world and all its devices. But, as Lindsay Ems shows in Virtually Amish, Old Order Amish today are selectively engaging with digital technology. The Amish need digital tools to participate in the economy—websites for ecommerce, for example, and cell phones for communication on the road—but they have developed strategies for making limited use of these tools while still living and working according to the values of their community. The way they do this, Ems suggests, holds lessons for all of us about resisting the negative forces of what has been called “high-tech capitalism.” Ems shows how the Amish do not allow technology to drive their behavior; instead, they actively configure their sociotechnical world to align with their values and protect their community’s autonomy. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork conducted in two Old Order Amish settlements in Indiana, Ems explores explicit rules and implicit norms as innovations for resisting negative impacts of digital technology. She describes the ingenious contraptions the Amish devise—including “the black-box phone,” a landline phone attached to a device that connects to a cellular network when plugged into a car’s cigarette lighter—and considers the value of human-centered approaches to communication. Non-Amish technology users would do well to take note of Amish methods of adopting digital technologies in ways that empower people and acknowledge their shared humanity.

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207

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MIT Press

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026254363X

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9780262543637

Not About the Money

By: E.M.S. Foray

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Not About the Money

By: E.M.S. Foray

Its the 1960s in Sierra Leone. A cultured city-girl, Massa Norman, is trying to figure what message God has sent her in a dream, when her beauty mesmerizes the richest man in Kandudiamond magnate Demba Bangura. A marriage is quickly arranged. But things go so bad Bangura is forced to consult his trusted soothsayer. The bad news is the beauty is promised to a powerful man. The good news is, if Bangura waits for ten long years, he will eventually reclaim her. As months turn into years Massa, and her sister Miata, walk down unexpected paths in life that fulfill the oracle... Simultaneously, State House press photographer, Alfred Sannoh, doggedly obeys orders, with no idea that the consequences of his decision will lead him in a direction he never imagined. Theres sexy Khadija, who appears as an angel to men who pick her up, only for them to realize belatedly, that she is a wolf in sheeps clothing. Not About The Money interweaves the supremacy of God with the insufferable nature of men, wiles of women, and one man bent on revenging a nation.

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329

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iUniverse

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1491795166

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9781491795163

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