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A Broken Calabash: Social Aspects of Worship among Brazilian and West African Yoruba--Part One
(1982) Matory, JL
Part One of Senior honors thesis as Harvard College, awarded High Honors and Magna Cum Laude. A comparison of the social organization of orisha worship in Nigeria and Brazil.
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A Broken Calabash: Social Aspects of Worship among Brazilian and West African Yoruba--Part Two
(1982) Matory, JL
Part Two of A Senior honors thesis at Harvard College, awarded High Honors/Magna Cum Laude. A comparison of the social organization of orisha worship in Nigeria and Brazil.
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Acciones Ambientales para el Mejoramiento del Medio Ambiente en las Comunidades Rurales [Environmental Actions for Improving the Environment of Rural Communities]
(1998) Shapiro - Garza, E; Tran, B
This guide is for rural communities in Latin America and for those who work with them. It provides clear, step-by-step instructions for organizing a community environmental group, conducting participatory planning exercises and illustrated instructions for specific actions communities can take to address common environmental and environmental health issues. Activity instructions are written and illustrated so as to be understood by semi-literate or illiterate community members and are designed to be easily reproduced and used in workshops. The environmental and environmental health issues addressed include: - Water Pollution and Diseases - Air Pollution - Solid Waste Contamination - Agrochemical Exposure - Soil Erosion and Degradation - Deforestation - Loss of Native Plants and Animals
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Adaptive Behavior and Learning
(2010) Staddon, JER
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Aesthetics and Marxism (Chinese translation)
(2012) Liu, K
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Anti-Japan: The Politics of Sentiment in Postcolonial East Asia
(2019) Ching, Leo
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Buddhism and Scepticism Historical, Philosophical, and Comparative Perspectives
(2020-09-30) Hanner, Oren
Questions such as these as well as related issues are explored in this collection, which brings together examinations of systematic doubt in the traditions of Buddhism from a variety of perspectives.
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Buried in the Red Dirt
(2021-11-30) Hasso, Frances S
Bringing together a vivid array of analog and non-traditional sources, including colonial archives, newspaper reports, literature, oral histories, and interviews, Buried in the Red Dirt tells a story of life, death, reproduction and missing bodies and experiences during and since the British colonial period in Palestine. Using transnational feminist reading practices of existing and new archives, the book moves beyond authorized frames of collective pain and heroism. Looking at their day-to-day lives, where Palestinians suffered most from poverty, illness, and high rates of infant and child mortality, Frances Hasso's book shows how ideologically and practically, racism and eugenics shaped British colonialism and Zionist settler-colonialism in Palestine in different ways, especially informing health policies. She examines Palestinian anti-reproductive desires and practices, before and after 1948, critically engaging with demographic scholarship that has seen Zionist commitments to Jewish reproduction projected onto Palestinians. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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Capoeira Connections A Memoir in Motion
(2023-01-17) Wesolowski, Katya
This ethnographic memoir weaves together the history of capoeira, recent transformations in the practice, and personal insights from author Katya Wesolowski's thirty years of experience as a capoeirista.
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Carbon Market Cooperation in Northeast Asia: Assessing Challenges and Overcoming Barriers
(2018-07-09)
China, Japan, and the Republic of Korea are emerging as major players in the global carbon trading landscape. As Northeast Asia’s biggest industrial economies, these three countries are connected through deep commercial and trade ties, and shared environmental challenges. There are thus growing calls for these markets to leverage complementarities and manage differences to build a foundation for more extensive carbon market cooperation. Against this backdrop, a new Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI) report, Carbon Market Cooperation in Northeast Asia: Assessing Challenges and Overcoming Barriers— which is part of ASPI’s Toward a Northeast Asia Carbon Market initiative — draws on the expertise of a wide range of scholars and practitioners to help equip policymakers and other stakeholders with information and guidance on the potential of and pathway toward carbon market linkage in Northeast Asia. This volume, released in June 2018, includes 11 chapters that examine the challenges of and approaches to carbon market cooperation and linkage in Northeast Asia. The report begins with four chapters focused on the status of carbon markets in the region, with examinations of how legal and institutional frameworks can facilitate the varying national and local measures employed to strengthen links and yield dividends. Chapters five through seven describe the barriers to linkage, and the uneven impacts — whether positive or negative — of linkage across the region, and also identify opportunities to pursue other forms of non-traditional linkage pathways. The remainder of the volume is organized around the particularities of emissions trading system policies and goals in China and Japan, with the final chapter making the case for the importance of business sector involvement in linkage efforts.
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China’s New Development Strategies Upgrading from Above and from Below in Global Value Chains
(2022-11-07) Gereffi, G; Bamber, P; Fernandez-Stark, K
This book examines China’s new development policies, which seek to reposition China from export platform for a diverse array of low-cost consumer goods to technological leader in sectors linked to advanced manufacturing, artificial ...
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Chinese Immigrant Wealth: Heterogeneity in Adaptation.
(2016) Keister, LA; Vallejo, JA
Chinese immigrants are a diverse and growing group whose members provide a unique opportunity to examine within-immigrant group differences in adaptation. In this paper, we move beyond thinking of national-origin groups as homogenous and study variation among Chinese immigrants in wealth ownership, a critical indicator of adaptation that attracts relatively little attention in the immigration literature. We develop an analytical approach that considers national origin, tenure in the U.S., and age to examine heterogeneity in economic adaptation among the immigrant generation. Our results show that variations among Chinese immigrants explain within-group differences in net worth, asset ownership, and debt. These differences also account for important variation between Chinese immigrants, natives, and other immigrant groups and provide important, new insight into the processes that lead to immigrant adaptation and long-term class stability.
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CJ 1982-1987
Argus, George W
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Colonising a Colonised Territory: Settlements with Punic Roots in Roman Times
(2010) Dalla Riva, M
Traditional approaches to the process known as ‘Romanisation’ usually have taken into account the interaction between Roman colonists and native populations around the Mediterranean. Roman colonisation, however, took place in vast regions over a territory previously colonised by Carthage. How did the settlement of Punic population in certain cities affect the redefinition of identities in Republican and early Imperial times? Is there a distinctive way of ‘becoming Roman’ in these areas? Could certain trends in rituals, town planning or settlement in the landscape be observed in these contexts? How was the coexistence of different identities – Roman/Punic/local – negotiated in these populations? How was this multilayered identity expressed through material culture and to what extent might it have influenced the way these groups interacted with Roman colonists? All these issues are directly relevant to a postcolonial analysis of cities, rural settlements and ritual places with Punic roots in Roman times, where aspects like hybridisation, mimicry, coexistence of several ‘discourses’ in a given city, or expression of different types of social identity through material culture and the ‘rituals’ of the daily life, should be stressed.
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Confucianism as a World Religion: Contested Histories and Contemporary Realities
(2013) Sun, Anna
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Crackpots on Parade: The Nether Side of Genius & Transgressive Deconstructions
(2010) Strandberg, Victor
For four years, as editor of The Faculty Forum, a campus wide monthly publication at Duke University, I filled empty space in my pages with the following items of scholarly research. To liven the tone, I invented a coeditor called Ferret, who is credited with many of the following portraits.
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Ebtezal-e Marja’iyyat-e Shi’a (The Trivialization of Shi’i Authority: Impeaching Iran’s Supreme Leader’s Claim to Religious Authority)
(Afdal al-Jihad (The Superior Jihad Series/ Impeaching the Supreme Leader), 2, 2015-05) Kadivar, M
The story of Khamenei’s sole marja’iyyat has four parts. First, he was the capable orator serving the regime, with no claim to ijtihad, and wouldn’t even dream of Leadership and marja’iyyat: Hojjatol-Islam wal-Moslemin Khamenei. Second, he obtained Leadership and absolute authority as faqih-ruler based on the regime’s expediency from 4 June 1989: Ayatollah Khamenei, Supreme Leader. Third, he planned for marja’iyyat from late 1989 and officially announced it in Dec 1994: Grand Ayatollah Khamenei Marja-e’ Jayezol-Taqlid. Fourth, he endeavored for supreme and unique marja’iyyat from the summer of 1997: Imam Khamenei! And human greed has no limit. He is not the only one responsible in this problem; his clerical partners from Ayatollah Khomeini’s school share the blame in this trivialization of Shi’i marja’iyyat. The conclusion of this book is firstly, that it is impossible to qualify the Leader’s marja’iyyat, and secondly, that there exist numerous pieces of evidence and testimonies about his incompetence in issuing fatwas and in marja’iyyat.
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Electronic Techtonics: Thinking at the Interface
(2008)
This volume originated in HASTAC’s first international conference, “Electronic Techtonics: Thinking at the Interface,” held at Duke University during April 19-21, 2007. “Electronic Techtonics” was the site of truly unforgettable conversations and encounters that traversed domains, disciplines, and media – conversations that explored the fluidity of technology both as interface as well as at the interface. This hardcopy version of the conference proceedings is published in conjunction with its electronic counterpart (found at www.hastac.org). Both versions exist as records of the range and depth of conversations that took place at the conference. Some of the papers in this volume are almost exact records of talks given at the conference, while others are versions that were revised and reworked some time after the conference. These papers are drawn from a variety of fields and we have not made an effort to homogenize them in any way, but have instead retained the individual format and style of each author.
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Energy & Development (Global Energy Access Network Case Studies)
(2017-06-20) Aggarwal, A; Childress, S; Greene, L; Guidera, L; Guo, K; Holt, D; Klug, T; Litzow, E; Rains, E; Samaddar, S; Wakefield, T
The present volume represents the culmination of one of the Global Energy Access Network's central initiatives in our inaugural 2016-17 year. We observed that many of our student members had previously worked in areas of poor or missing energy access, even if the projects that brought them to those communities were not directly related to energy access. We sought to take advantage of students’ contextual knowledge from these experiences, and provide a forum for them to share their latent experiences widely with others. The six vignettes in this volume address a diverse set of topics related to energy access. They span five countries (India, Indonesia, Madagascar, Nicaragua, and Peru), primarily in rural areas, but sometimes address issues in urban areas as well. The entities featured in these stories include local and state governments, community-based organizations, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Topically, they address a variety of technologies, including solar, wind, and hydroelectric power, as well as improved cookstoves. The issues discussed range from financial viability of utility providers, to relationships between local community members and distant institutions, to the gap that sometimes persists between householders’ beliefs and “expert knowledge.” Throughout, the authors highlight the richness of the setting and context even as they focus in on issues specific to energy access.
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Estizah-e Rahbari (Impeaching Iran’s Supreme Leader on his Political Authority)
(Afdal al-Jihad (The Superior Jihad Series/ Impeaching the Supreme Leader), 1, 2014-05) Kadivar, M
It is an Open Letter to the Head of the Assembly of Experts & the Responses to the letter, assessing the Supreme Leader’s 21 Years in the Office: Speaking as an Iranian citizen, I accuse the leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, his holiness Ayatollah Mr. Seyyed Ali Hosseini Khamenei, of oppression, injustice, violating the laws of the land, the dismantlement of the Islamic Republic and of enfeebling Islam. Considering that he has lost the prerequisites implied at the time when his tenure as supreme leader began; Mr. Khamenei’s authority has become invalid.