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Managing Heritage, Making Peace

History, Identity and Memory in Contemporary Kenya

By: Annie E. Coombes,Lotte Hughes,Karega Munene

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Managing Heritage, Making Peace

History, Identity and Memory in Contemporary Kenya

By: Annie E. Coombes,Lotte Hughes,Karega Munene

Kenya stands at a crossroads in its history and heritage, as the nation celebrates its fiftieth anniversary of independence from Britain in 2013. At this important juncture, what parts of its history, including the Mau Mau uprising, do citizens and state wish to remember and commemorate and what is best forgotten or occluded? What does heritage mean to ordinary Kenyans, and what role does it play in building nationhood and forging peace and reconciliation? Focusing on the 1990s to the present, "Managing Heritage, Making Peace" is a timely exploration of the ways in which Kenyans are engaging with the past in the present, including such local initiatives as the community peace museums movement, local and national monuments and other notable commemorative actions. The authors show how Kenya is facing a continuing crisis over nationhood, heritage, memory and identity, which must be resolved to achieve social cohesion and peace.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0755627814

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9780755627813

Environment and Empire

By: William Beinart,Lotte Hughes

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Environment and Empire

By: William Beinart,Lotte Hughes

European imperialism was extraordinarily far-reaching: a key global historical process of the last 500 years. It locked disparate human societies together over a wider area than any previous imperial expansion; it underpinned the repopulation of the Americas and Australasia; it was the precursor of globalization as we now understand it. Imperialism was inseparable from the history of global environmental change. Metropolitan countries sought raw materials of all kinds, from timber and furs to rubber and oil. They established sugar plantations that transformed island ecologies. Settlers introduced new methods of farming and displaced indigenous peoples. Colonial cities, many of which became great conurbations, fundamentally changed relationships between people and nature. Consumer cultures, the internal combustion engine, and pollution are now ubiquitous. Environmental history deals with the reciprocal interaction between people and other elements in the natural world, and this book illustrates the diverse environmental themes in the history of empire. Initially concentrating on the material factors that shaped empire and environmental change, Environment and Empire discusses the way in which British consumers and manufacturers sucked in resources that were gathered, hunted, fished, mined, and farmed. Yet it is also clear that British settler and colonial states sought to regulate the use of natural resources as well as commodify them. Conservation aimed to preserve resources by exclusion, as in wildlife parks and forests, and to guarantee efficient use of soil and water. Exploring these linked themes of exploitation and conservation, this study concludes with a focus on political reassertions by colonised peoples over natural resources. In a post-imperial age, they have found a new voice, reformulating ideas about nature, landscape, and heritage and challenging, at a local and global level, views of who has the right to regulate nature.

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OUP Oxford

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0191566284

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9780191566288

Incunabula in Transit

People and Trade

By: Lotte Hellinga

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Incunabula in Transit

People and Trade

By: Lotte Hellinga

Almost half a million books printed in the fifteenth century survive in collections worldwide. In Incunabula in Transit Lotte Hellinga explores how and where they were first disseminated. Propelled by the novel need to market hundreds of books, early printers formed networks with colleagues, engaged agents and traded Latin books over long distances. They adapted presentation to suit the taste of distinct readerships, local and remote. Publishing in vernacular languages required typographical innovations, as the chapter on William Caxton’s Flanders enterprise demonstrates. Eighteenth-century collectors dislodged books from institutions where they had rested since the sales drives of early printers. Erudite and entertaining, Hellinga’s evidence-based approach, linked to historical context, deepens understanding of the trade in early printed books.

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BRILL

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900434036X

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9789004340367

Cut-Pieces

Celluloid Obscenity and Popular Cinema in Bangladesh

By: Lotte Hoek

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Cut-Pieces

Celluloid Obscenity and Popular Cinema in Bangladesh

By: Lotte Hoek

This title explores the shadowy world of the short, pornographic cut-piece clips that appear in some films in Bangladesh and examines their place in South Asian film culture. It provides a portrait of the production, consumption and cinematic pleasures of stray celluloid and shines a light on Bangladesh's state-owned film industry and popular practices of the obscene. The book also reframes conceptual approaches to South Asian cinema and film culture, drawing on media anthropology to decode the cultural contradictions of Bangladesh since the 1990s.

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Columbia University Press

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0231162898

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9780231162890

Retiring

Creating a Life That Works for You

By: Teresa M. Amabile,Lotte Bailyn,Marcy Crary,Douglas T. Hall,Kathy E. Kram

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Retiring

Creating a Life That Works for You

By: Teresa M. Amabile,Lotte Bailyn,Marcy Crary,Douglas T. Hall,Kathy E. Kram

Retirement, as a major life transition, can be both thrilling and challenging in unexpected ways. Written by acclaimed authors in the fields of business leadership, careers, and work, this book goes beyond the typical financial and health-related advice on retirement, providing insights to guide you in broader areas of your life – identity issues, relationship challenges, and questions about creating a new retirement life structure that works for you. With lively, engaging writing, the book tells the detailed retirement transition stories of 14 people – and draws on over 200 interviews with 120 people – to explore how retiring involves a reconstruction of both the person and their life structure. You’ll gain wisdom on the common themes and the wildly different approaches people take to the four big tasks of retiring: making the retirement decision, detaching from work both tangibly and psychologically, building a new life structure for retirement, and settling into a relatively stable retirement life – but prepared to restructure again as life unfolds into the future. Throughout each chapter, you’ll see how the dynamic interplay of self, life structure, and external context affect a retiring person’s day-to-day experience in the final months of their career, as well as their early years of retirement – and how life satisfaction depends largely on alignment among the three. At the same time, you’ll learn how family, friends, and colleagues, as well as the organization the person is retiring from, can play a crucial role. This book is for you if you are seeking deep, nuanced insight into – and practical advice on – the psychological, social, and life-restructuring aspects of retirement that can make all the difference for life satisfaction. It is also for you if you are a family member or friend of a retiring person, a helping professional, or an organizational leader who cares about your older workers and the value they bring to your organization even as they depart.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040123899

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9781040123898

Hopes in Friction

Schooling, Health and Everyday Life in Uganda

By: Lotte Meinert

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Hopes in Friction

Schooling, Health and Everyday Life in Uganda

By: Lotte Meinert

Universal Primary Education programs are being promoted around the globe as the solution to poverty and health problems, but very little in-depth qualitative knowledge is available about the experiences of these programs in children's life-worlds. Hopes in Friction offers a vivid portrait of life and the implementation of Universal Primary Education in Eastern Uganda, based on long-term fieldwork following a group of children as they grow up. The book considers how the actions and hopes of these children and families, to attain what they perceive as 'a good life', are crosscut by political aspirations and projects of schooling and health education. When hopes are in friction inspiration as well as disappointment occur. Policy makers in Uganda and in international organisations expect health improvements as one of the bonuses of education programs. Families in Eastern Uganda also hope for and experience health – in the local sense of a good life – as part of schooling. Lotte Meinert explores the taken for granted effect of schooling on health and focuses a careful eye on how boys and girls appropriate and negotiate ideas and moralities about health in the context of what is possible ethically, materially and experientially.

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IAP

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1607528797

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9781607528791

Bees and Their Keepers

A Journey Through Seasons and Centuries

By: Lotte Möller

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Bees and Their Keepers

A Journey Through Seasons and Centuries

By: Lotte Möller

In the tradition of Lars Mytting’s Norwegian Wood, a beautifully illustrated chronicle of a year in the life of a beekeeper from Swedish author Lotte Möller The study of bees has often been considered a divine occupation, as the creature’s attention to detail and purpose is so special, and the honey they produce almost magical. In this compelling cultural history that moves beautifully through the beekeeper’s year, Swedish beekeeper and writer Lotte Möller shares her understanding of bees and bee lore from antiquity to the present with deep knowledge and sharp wit. Möller gives insight into the activity in the hive and describes the bees’ natural order and habits. She explores the myths of the past, and how and when they were replaced by fact. In stories from her travels, Möller encounters a host of colorful characters, from a trigger-happy California beekeeper raging against both killer bees and bee politics, to the legendary Brother Adam of Buckfast Abbey, breeder of the Buckfast Queen, now popular around the world. Filled with bee illustrations buzzing from cover to endpaper, Bees and Their Keepers is a gorgeous book for the beekeeper and general reader alike.

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258

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Abrams

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1647001390

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9781647001391

Speak Low (when You Speak Love)

The Letters of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya

By: Kurt Weill,Lotte Lenya

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Speak Low (when You Speak Love)

The Letters of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya

By: Kurt Weill,Lotte Lenya

Selected letters trace the relationship of the composer and actress, who were married for twenty-four years

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Univ of California Press

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0520078535

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9780520078536

Iron Age Myth and Materiality

An Archaeology of Scandinavia AD 400-1000

By: Lotte Hedeager

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Iron Age Myth and Materiality

An Archaeology of Scandinavia AD 400-1000

By: Lotte Hedeager

Iron Age Myth and Materiality: an Archaeology of Scandinavia AD 400-1000 considers the relationship between myth and materiality in Scandinavia from the beginning of the post-Roman era and the European Migrations up until the coming of Christianity. It pursues an interdisciplinary interpretation of text and material culture and examines how the documentation of an oral past relates to its material embodiment. While the material evidence is from the Iron Age, most Old Norse texts were written down in the thirteenth century or even later. With a time lag of 300 to 900 years from the archaeological evidence, the textual material has until recently been ruled out as a usable source for any study of the pagan past. However, Hedeager argues that this is true regarding any study of a society’s short-term history, but it should not be the crucial requirement for defining the sources relevant for studying long-term structures of the longue durée, or their potential contributions to a theoretical understanding of cultural changes and transformation. In Iron Age Scandinavia we are dealing with persistent and slow-changing structures of worldviews and ideologies over a wavelength of nearly a millennium. Furthermore, iconography can often date the arrival of new mythical themes anchoring written narratives in a much older archaeological context. Old Norse myths are explored with particular attention to one of the central mythical narratives of the Old Norse canon, the mythic cycle of Odin, king of the Norse pantheon. In addition, contemporaneous historical sources from late Antiquity and the early European Middle Age - the narratives of Jordanes, Gregory of Tours, and Paul the Deacon in particular - will be explored. No other study provides such a broad ranging and authoritative study of the relationship of myth to the archaeology of Scandinavia.

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Routledge

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1136817255

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9781136817250

Relinking Life and Work

Toward a Better Future

By: Rhona Rapoport,Lotte Bailyn

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Relinking Life and Work

Toward a Better Future

By: Rhona Rapoport,Lotte Bailyn

Explores the integration of personal & work life & the way in which cultural assumptions about the separation of work & family affect men & women differently. Divided into four sections, it studies the historical & social factors underlying the current separation between work life & personal life, the strategic linking of work & family, & the process of change in the workplace to help employees better integrate their work & personal lives. The concluding section identifies the lessons learned & the challenges to ensure & sustain change in the future.

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DIANE Publishing

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0788145827

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9780788145827

Canonical Collections of the Early Middle Ages (ca. 400-1140)

A Bibliographical Guide to the Manuscripts and Literature

By: Lotte Kéry

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Canonical Collections of the Early Middle Ages (ca. 400-1140)

A Bibliographical Guide to the Manuscripts and Literature

By: Lotte Kéry

Contains a bibliographical survey of the chronological and systematic canonical collections in the Latin West from the beginnings of Christianity to Gratian's Decretum (ca. 1140). Dr. Kéry not only has compiled a catalogue of early medieval canonistic manuscripts, but has included valuable information about them. For each collection she has described its type and contents, the time and place of compilation, and, when, possible, its author. Full bibliographies have been provided for each collection, arranged in chronological order. Scholars will find her work particularly useful since she has also noted where scholars have differed and where their opinions may be found. Special attention has been paid to the numerous recensions of the collections. She has given a separate entry for important recensions and has lists of fragments and abbreviated forms of the collections.

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CUA Press

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0813209188

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9780813209180

The No-Nonsense Guide to Indigenous People

By: Lotte Hughes

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The No-Nonsense Guide to Indigenous People

By: Lotte Hughes

This guide looks beyond the exotic images tracing the story of different indigenous people from their first contact with explorers and colonizers to the present day. Much of this story is told by the indigenous people themselves and they present the issues behind the challenge to give them their own space in their own lands.

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1780260733

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9781780260730

Managing Heritage, Making Peace

History, Identity and Memory in Contemporary Kenya

By: Annie E. Coombes,Lotte Hughes,Karega-Munene

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History, Identity and Memory in Contemporary Kenya

By: Annie E. Coombes,Lotte Hughes,Karega-Munene

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075561898X

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The No-nonsense Guide to Indigenous Peoples

By: Lotte Hughes

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The No-nonsense Guide to Indigenous Peoples

By: Lotte Hughes

Indigenous peoples have long suffered from exoticization. Outsiders elevate their beauty, remoteness and difference and do not see beyond this to the real problems they face. The No-Nonsense Guide to Indigenous Peoples looks beyond the exotic images, tracing the stories of different indigenous peoples from their first (and often fatal) contact with explorers and colonizers. Much of this history is told here by indigenous people themselves.They vividly describe why land and the natural world are so special to them; how it feels to be snatched from your family as a child because the government wants to "make you white"; why they are demanding that museums must return the bones of their ancestors; how can they retain their traditional culture while moving with the times; and what kinds of development are positive. This short guide discusses all this and more, raising countless issues for debate.

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Verso

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1859844383

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9781859844380

Environment and Empire

By: William Beinart,Lotte Hughes

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Environment and Empire

By: William Beinart,Lotte Hughes

This volume uncovers the interaction between people and the elements in very different British colonies throughout the world. Providing a rich overview of socio-environmental change, driven by imperial forces, this study examines a key global historical process.

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Oxford University Press on Demand

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0199260311

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9780199260317

Dedan Kimathi on Trial

Colonial Justice and Popular Memory in Kenya’s Mau Mau Rebellion

By: Julie MacArthur

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Dedan Kimathi on Trial

Colonial Justice and Popular Memory in Kenya’s Mau Mau Rebellion

By: Julie MacArthur

The transcript from this historic trial, long thought destroyed or hidden, unearths a piece of the British colonial archive at a critical point in the Mau Mau Rebellion. Its discovery and landmark publication unsettles an already contentious Kenyan history and its reverberations in the postcolonial present. Perhaps no figure embodied the ambiguities, colonial fears, and collective imaginations of Kenya’s decolonization era more than Dedan Kimathi, the self-proclaimed field marshal of the rebel forces that took to the forests to fight colonial rule in the 1950s. Kimathi personified many of the contradictions that the Mau Mau Rebellion represented: rebel statesman, literate peasant, modern traditionalist. His capture and trial in 1956, and subsequent execution, for many marked the end of the rebellion and turned Kimathi into a patriotic martyr. Here, the entire trial transcript is available for the first time. This critical edition also includes provocative contributions from leading Mau Mau scholars reflecting on the meaning of the rich documents offered here and the figure of Kimathi in a much wider field of historical and contemporary concerns. These include the nature of colonial justice; the moral arguments over rebellion, nationalism, and the end of empire; and the complexities of memory and memorialization in contemporary Kenya. Contributors: David Anderson, Simon Gikandi, Nicholas Githuku, Lotte Hughes, and John Lonsdale. Introductory note by Willy Mutunga.

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Ohio University Press

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0896805018

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Managing Heritage, Making Peace

Managing Heritage, Making Peace

Environment and Empire

Environment and Empire

Incunabula in Transit

Incunabula in Transit

Cut-Pieces

Cut-Pieces

Retiring

Retiring

Hopes in Friction

Hopes in Friction

Bees and Their Keepers

Bees and Their Keepers

Speak Low (when You Speak Love)

Speak Low (when You Speak Love)

Iron Age Myth and Materiality

Iron Age Myth and Materiality

Relinking Life and Work

Relinking Life and Work

Canonical Collections of the Early Middle Ages (ca. 400-1140)

Canonical Collections of the Early Middle Ages (ca. 400-1140)

The No-Nonsense Guide to Indigenous People

The No-Nonsense Guide to Indigenous People

Managing Heritage, Making Peace

Managing Heritage, Making Peace

The No-nonsense Guide to Indigenous Peoples

The No-nonsense Guide to Indigenous Peoples

Environment and Empire

Environment and Empire

Dedan Kimathi on Trial

Dedan Kimathi on Trial

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