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The Biblical Book of Daniel

The Catalan Translation by the French Hebraist Maties Delcor

By: Joan Ferrer Costa,Francesc Feliu,Olga Fullana

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The Biblical Book of Daniel

The Catalan Translation by the French Hebraist Maties Delcor

By: Joan Ferrer Costa,Francesc Feliu,Olga Fullana

Delcor (1919-1992) is responsible for a translation of the Book of Daniel, which is the only Catalan version of a book of the Bible produced by a North Catalan author to be included in Fundació Bíblica Catalana’s 1968 Bible. This unique circumstance was the inspiration to recover this translation and publish it in a scientific edition collated with the original texts from which Delcor worked. The introduction situates this singular work in the context of the long history of biblical translations in Catalan and offers an exegetical approach to this work that tradition has transmitted in three languages of the ancient world: Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek. English equivalents of all of the texts have been added as a further point of comparison.

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192

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John Benjamins Publishing Company

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9027262853

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9789027262851

The Political Economy of Health and Health Care

The Rise of the Patient Citizen

By: Joan Costa-Font,Joan Costa-i-Font,Gilberto Turati,Alberto Batinti

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The Political Economy of Health and Health Care

The Rise of the Patient Citizen

By: Joan Costa-Font,Joan Costa-i-Font,Gilberto Turati,Alberto Batinti

Provides an international, unifying perspective, based on the 'public choice' tradition, to explain how patient-citizens interact with their country's political institutions to determine health policies and outcomes. This volume will appeal to undergraduate and graduate students studying health economics, health policy and public policy.

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237

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Cambridge University Press

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1108474977

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9781108474979

What's in a Relative

Household and Family in Formentera

By: Joan Bestard-Camps

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What's in a Relative

Household and Family in Formentera

By: Joan Bestard-Camps

In this ground-breaking study based on ethnographic research in Formentera, in the Balearic Islands, the author demonstrates that European kinship can become central to anthropological explanation once it is understood from a symbolic and cultural perspective. This book is an outstanding example of ethnographic analysis which is sensitive to the findings of demographic and historical research.

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189

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Routledge

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1000323099

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9781000323092

The Silver Women

How Black Women’s Labor Made the Panama Canal

By: Joan Flores-Villalobos

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The Silver Women

How Black Women’s Labor Made the Panama Canal

By: Joan Flores-Villalobos

The construction of the Panama Canal is typically viewed as a marvel of American ingenuity. What is less visible, and less understood, is the project’s dependence on the labor of Black migrant women. The Silver Women shifts the focus of this monumental endeavor to the West Indian women who travelled to Panama, inviting readers to place women’s intimate lives, choices, grief, and ambition at the center of the economic and geopolitical transformation created by the construction of the Panama Canal and U.S. imperial expansion. Joan Flores-Villalobos argues that Black West Indian women made the canal construction possible by providing the indispensable everyday labor of social reproduction. West Indian women built a provisioning economy that fed, housed, and cared for the segregated Black West Indian labor force, in effect subsidizing the construction effort and the racial calculus that separated pay in silver for Black workers and gold for white Americans. But while also subject to racial discrimination and segregation, West Indian women mostly worked outside the umbrella of U.S. canal authorities. They did not hold contracts, had little access to official services and wages, and received pay in both silver and gold. From this position, they found ways to skirt, and at times subvert, the legal, moral, and economic parameters imperial authorities sought to impose on the migrant workforce. West Indian women developed important strategies of claims-making, kinship, community building, and market adaptation that helped them navigate the contradictions and violence of U.S. empire. In the meantime, these strategies of social reproduction nurtured further West Indian migrations, linking Panama to places like Harlem and Santiago de Cuba. The Silver Women is thus a history of Black women’s labor of social reproduction as integral to U.S. imperial infrastructure, the global Caribbean diaspora, and women’s own survival.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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1512823643

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9781512823646

Book's by Joan Ferrer Costa

The Biblical Book of Daniel

The Biblical Book of Daniel

The Political Economy of Health and Health Care

The Political Economy of Health and Health Care

What's in a Relative

What's in a Relative

The Silver Women

The Silver Women

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