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Shifting Languages

By: James Joseph Errington

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Shifting Languages

By: James Joseph Errington

A fascinating account of the role of language in radical social transformation in Javanese-Indonesian community.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521634482

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9780521634489

Language and Emotion

By: James M. Wilce

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Language is a means we use to communicate feelings; we also reflect emotionally on the language we and others use. James Wilce analyses the signals people use to express emotion, looking at the social, cultural and political functions of emotional language around the world. His book demonstrates that speaking, feeling, reflecting, and identifying are interrelated processes and shows how desire or shame are attached to language. Drawing on nearly one hundred ethnographic case studies, it demonstrates the cultural diversity, historical emergence, and political significance of emotional language. Wilce brings together insights from linguistics and anthropology to survey an extremely broad range of genres, cultural concepts, and social functions of emotional expression.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139478362

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9781139478366

Literacy and Literacies

Texts, Power, and Identity

By: James Collins,Richard Blot

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Literacy and Literacies

Texts, Power, and Identity

By: James Collins,Richard Blot

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Cambridge University Press

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0521596610

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9780521596619

Domination and the Arts of Resistance

Hidden Transcripts

By: James C. Scott

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Domination and the Arts of Resistance

Hidden Transcripts

By: James C. Scott

Play fool, to catch wise."--proverb of Jamaican slaves Confrontations between the powerless and powerful are laden with deception--the powerless feign deference and the powerful subtly assert their mastery. Peasants, serfs, untouchables, slaves, laborers, and prisoners are not free to speak their minds in the presence of power. These subordinate groups instead create a secret discourse that represents a critique of power spoken behind the backs of the dominant. At the same time, the powerful also develop a private dialogue about practices and goals of their rule that cannot be openly avowed. In this book, renowned social scientist James C. Scott offers a penetrating discussion both of the public roles played by the powerful and powerless and the mocking, vengeful tone they display off stage--what he terms their public and hidden transcripts. Using examples from the literature, history, and politics of cultures around the world, Scott examines the many guises this interaction has taken throughout history and the tensions and contradictions it reflects. Scott describes the ideological resistance of subordinate groups--their gossip, folktales, songs, jokes, and theater--their use of anonymity and ambiguity. He also analyzes how ruling elites attempt to convey an impression of hegemony through such devices as parades, state ceremony, and rituals of subordination and apology. Finally, he identifies--with quotations that range from the recollections of American slaves to those of Russian citizens during the beginnings of Gorbachev's glasnost campaign--the political electricity generated among oppressed groups when, for the first time, the hidden transcript is spoken directly and publicly in the face of power. His landmark work will revise our understanding of subordination, resistance, hegemony, folk culture, and the ideas behind revolt.

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Yale University Press

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0300153562

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9780300153569

Opium to Java

Revenue Farming and Chinese Enterprise in Colonial Indonesia, 1860-1910

By: James Robert Rush

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Opium to Java

Revenue Farming and Chinese Enterprise in Colonial Indonesia, 1860-1910

By: James Robert Rush

Opium smoking was a widespread social custom in nineteenth-century Java, and commercial trade in opium had far-reaching economic and political implications. As in many of the Dutch territories in the Indonesian archipelago, the drug was imported from elsewhere and sold throughout the island under a government monopoly - a system of revenue "farms". These monopoly franchises were regulated by the government and operated by members of Java's Chinese elite, who were frequently also local officials appointed by the Dutch. The farms thus helped support large Chinese patronage networks that vied for control of rural markets throughout Java. James Rush explains the workings of the opium farm system during its mature years by measuring the social, economic, and political reach of these monopolies within the Dutch-dominated colonial society. His analysis of the opium farm incorporates the social history of opium smoking in Java and of the Chinese officer elite that dominated not only the opium farming but also the island's Chinese community and much of its commercial economy. He describes the relations among the various classes of Chinese and Javanese, as well as the relation of the Chinese elite to the Dutch, and he traces the political interplay that smuggling and the black market stimulated among all these elements. An important contribution to the social and political history of Southeast Asia and now brought back to life as a member of Equinox Publishing's Classic Indonesia series, this book gives a new dimension to our knowledge of nineteenth-century Javanese society and the processes of social control and economic dominance during the colonial period. JAMES R. RUSH is a historian of modern Southeast Asia whose other works include The Last Tree: Reclaiming the Environment in Tropical Asia; Java: A Travellers' Anthology; and several volumes of contemporary Asian biography in the Ramon Magsaysay Awards series. His is associate professor of history at Arizona State University.

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Equinox Publishing

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9793780495

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9789793780498

Solo in the New Order

Language and Hierarchy in an Indonesian City

By: James T. Siegel

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Solo in the New Order

Language and Hierarchy in an Indonesian City

By: James T. Siegel

In this brilliant ethnography of contemporary Java, James Siegel analyzes how language operates to organize and to order an Indonesian people. Despite the imposition of Suharto's New Order, the inhabitants of the city of Solo continue to adhere to their own complex ideas of deference and hierarchy through translation between high and low Javanese speech styles. Siegel uncovers moments when translation fails and compulsive mimicry ensues. His examination of communication and its failures also exposes the ways a culture reconstitutes itself. It leads to insights into the "accidents" that precede the formulations of culture as such.

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346

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Princeton University Press

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0691228345

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9780691228341

George Errington and Roman Catholic Identity in Nineteenth-Century England

By: Serenhedd James

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George Errington and Roman Catholic Identity in Nineteenth-Century England

By: Serenhedd James

The Victorian Archbishop of Trebizond, George Errington (1804-1886) was one of the most prominent figures of nineteenth-century English Roman Catholicism. He was involved in the resurgence of the English Catholic Church, and would have achieved the highest offices himself had not a dispute between him and Cardinal Wiseman led to his fall from favour in the eyes of Propaganda Fide. He has come to be regarded as the leader of an 'Old Catholic' party as the struggle continued for dominance in the period of consolidation following the restoration of the hierarchy in 1850. An intimate of Newman, Errington maintained a large correspondence which covers almost every church controversy of his lifetime. His letters shed light on subjects which have long since been dormant and in some cases indicate that the popular interpretations of some affairs are not as clear-cut as has been argued by others. They also expose the various factions in the English Catholic Church at the time, and the slippery nature of the Roman administration. In this comprehensive work, Serenhedd James explores George Errington's motives and actions, and analyses the forces that were at play in the English Catholic Church of the nineteenth century. James highlights that matters of policy were clouded by issues of personality, and where politicking, as much as prayer, was an integral part of its way of life.

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Oxford University Press

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0191079146

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Shifting Languages

By: James Joseph Errington

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Shifting Languages

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A fascinating account of the role of language in radical social transformation in Javanese-Indonesian community.

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Book's by James Joseph Errington

Shifting Languages

Shifting Languages

Language and Emotion

Language and Emotion

Literacy and Literacies

Literacy and Literacies

Domination and the Arts of Resistance

Domination and the Arts of Resistance

Opium to Java

Opium to Java

Solo in the New Order

Solo in the New Order

George Errington and Roman Catholic Identity in Nineteenth-Century England

George Errington and Roman Catholic Identity in Nineteenth-Century England

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