Author : Cynthia Callahan
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,6 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0472117580
Rereads 20th-century American literature as it has portrayed adoption across racial lines, from Faulkner to Kingsolver
Author : Rilla Askew
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 22,71 MB
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0062198815
In Kind of Kin by award-winning author Rilla Askew, when a church-going, community-loved, family man is caught hiding a barn-full of illegal immigrant workers, he is arrested and sent to prison. This shocking development sends ripples through the town—dividing neighbors, causing riffs amongst his family, and spurring controversy across the state. Using new laws in Oklahoma and Alabama as inspiration, Kind of Kin is a story of self-serving lawmakers and complicated lawbreakers, Christian principle and political scapegoating. Rilla Askew’s funny and poignant novel explores what happens when upstanding people are pushed too far—and how an ad-hoc family, and ultimately, an entire town, will unite to protect its own.
Author : Douglas W. Mock
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 38,60 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780674012851
Mock tells readers what scientists have discovered about the disturbing side of family conflice in the natural world. He offers a rare perspective on the family as testing ground for the evolutionary limits of selfishness.
Author : Mary Cowden Clarke
Publisher :
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 16,33 MB
Release : 1845
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Rupert Stasch
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 46,43 MB
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520943325
This important study upsets the popular assumption that human relations in small-scale societies are based on shared experience. In a theoretically innovative account of the lives of the Korowai of West Papua, Indonesia, Rupert Stasch shows that in this society, people organize their connections to each another around otherness. Analyzing the Korowai people's famous "tree house" dwellings, their patterns of living far apart, and their practices of kinship, marriage, and childbearing and rearing, Stasch argues that the Korowai actively make relations not out of what they have in common, but out of what divides them. Society of Others, the first anthropological book about the Korowai, offers a picture of Korowai lives sharply at odds with stereotypes of "tribal" societies.
Author : Richard Morris
Publisher :
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 11,32 MB
Release : 1882
Category : English language
ISBN :
Anthology, from Robert of Gloucester to Gower.
Author : Andreas Berthelson
Publisher :
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 46,7 MB
Release : 1754
Category : Danish language
ISBN :
Author : Henrik Bergqvist
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 10,71 MB
Release :
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3961102694
The expression of knowledge in language (i.e. epistemicity) consists of a number of distinct notions and proposed categories that are only partly related to a well explored forms like epistemic modals. The aim of the volume is therefore to contribute to the ongoing exploration of epistemic marking systems in lesser-documented languages from the Americas, Papua New Guinea, and Central Asia from the perspective of language description and cross-linguistic comparison. As the title of the volume suggests, part of this exploration consists of situating already established notions (such as evidentiality) with the diversity of systems found in individual languages. Epistemic forms that feature in the present volume include ones that signal how speakers claim knowledge based on perceptual-cognitive access (evidentials); the speaker’s involvement as a basis for claiming epistemic authority (egophorics); the distribution of knowledge between the speech-participants where the speaker signals assumptions about the addressee’s knowledge of an event as either shared, or non-shared with the speaker (engagement marking).
Author : John Goldingay
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 28,50 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664233759
Following on the heels of the successful New Testament for Everyone commentaries by acclaimed scholar and author N. T. Wright, Westminster John Knox is pleased to announce the first volumes in the all new Old Testament for Everyone Bible commentary series. John Goldingay, an internationally respected Old Testament scholar, authors this ambitious series, treating every passage of Scripture from Genesis to Malachi, addressing the texts in such a way that even the most challenging passages are explained simply and concisely. Perfect for daily devotions, Sunday school prep, or brief visits with the Bible, the Old Testament for Everyone series is an excellent resource for the modern lay reader. The book of Genesis is a lively read featuring familiar biblical tales such as the creation of the world, Adam and Eve and the forbidden fruit, Noah and the flood, Abraham and Isaac, Jacob and Joseph, the Tower of Babel, and Sodom and Gomorrah. While readers may know the facts of these stories, Goldingay's work will instill in them a deeper understanding of their spiritual and theological significance. True to the For Everyone series' goal, Goldingay writes in a thoroughly accessible and engaging style with chapter titles such as "Friday Lunchtime," "Bigamy, Music, Technology, Murder," "Babylon becomes Babble-on," "Stuff Happens," and "Two Guys Who Need Their Heads Banged Together."
Author : Sylvia Yanagisako
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,66 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136652949
This collection of essays analyzes relations of social inequality that appear to be logical extensions of a "natural order" and in the process demonstrates that a revitalized feminist anthropology of the 1990s has much to offer the field of feminist theory. Contributors:Susan McKinnon, Kath Weston, Rayna Rapp, Janet Dolgin, Harriet Whitehead, Carol Delaney, Brackette Williams, Sylvia Yanagisako, Phyllis Chock, Sherry Ortner and Anna Tsing.
