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Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part I: Natural Curiosities -- Chapter 2: Handling Objects in Natural History Collections -- Claude-Joseph Geoffroy -- Jean-Etienne Guettard -- Chapter 3: Curious Work -- Chapter 4: The Lives of Mrs Delany's Paper Plants -- Chapter 5: A Pathological Pot -- Chapter 6: The Seeds of Disaster: Relics of La Pérouse -- The English La Pérouse -- Searching for La Pérouse: Circling the Void -- The Restoration of La Pérouse -- The Seeds of Disaster: Banksia -- Conclusion -- Part II: Tools and Travels

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Waterscapes of the African Diaspora -- Part I. Swimming Culture -- Chapter 1. Atlantic African Aquatic Cultures: A Cross-Cultural Comparison -- Chapter 2. Cultural Meanings of Recreational Swimming and Surfing -- Chapter 3. Aquatic Sports and Performance Rituals: Gender, Bravery, and Honor -- Chapter 4. History from Below: Enslaved Underwater Divers -- Chapter 5. Undercurrents of Power: Challenging Racial Hierarchies from Below -- Part II. Canoe Culture -- Chapter 6. African Canoe-Makers: Constructing Floating Cultures -- Chapter 7. Mountains Divide and Rivers Unite: Atlantic African Canoemen -- Chapter 8. Maritime Continuities: African Canoes on New World Waters -- Chapter 9. The Floating Economies of Slaves and Slaveholders -- Chapter 10. Sacred Vessels, Sacred Waters: The Cultural Meanings of Dugout Canoes -- Chapter 11. A World Afloat: Mobile Slave Communities -- Chapter 12. The Watermen's Song: Canoemen's Aural Waterscapes -- Conclusion. A Sea Change in Atlantic History -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgements

"Far from being a melting pot, multi-racial Singapore prides itself on the richness of its ethnic communities and cultures. This volume provides an updated account of the heterogeneity within each of the main communities — the Chinese, Malay, Indian, Eurasian and Others. It also documents the ethnic cultures of these communities by discussing their histories, celebrations, cultural symbols, life cycle rituals, cultural icons and attempts to preserve culture. While chapters are written by scholars drawing insight from a variety of sources ranging from academic publications to discussions with community experts, it is written in an accessible way. This volume seeks to increase intercultural understanding through presenting ample insights into the cultural beliefs and practices of the different ethnic communities. While this book is about diversity, a closer examination of the peoples and cultures of Singapore demonstrates the many similarities communities share in this Singaporean space."--

Space has emerged in recent years as a radical category in a range of related disciplines across the humanities. Of the many possible applications of this new interest, some of the most exciting and challenging have addressed the issue of domestic architecture and its function as a space for both the dramatisation and the negotiation of a cluster of highly salient issues concerning, amongst other things, belonging and exclusion, fear and desire, identity and difference. Our House is a cross-disciplinary collection of essays taking as its focus both the prospect and the possibility of 'the hous

America's entrepreneurial culture is important because it promotes the search for new opportunities for innovation. Here, the author traces that culture through two industrial revolutions and focuses on the growing tension between entrepreneurship and bureaucracy inside and outside of the nation's twentieth-century firms. Business histories are explored using categories adapted from behavioral economics. Particular attention is devoted to some of the important exceptions that throw light upon the stereotypes of the static government agency and the slow-moving industrial firm. Still, the author concludes, following World War II the economy had to be pulled out of its bureaucratic doldrums by new science- and social science-based industries that invigorated the nation's entrepreneurial culture and promoted a wave of significant biological and digital innovations. The article concludes with a glance at the future of the bureaucratic and entrepreneurial cultures.

This article explores how culture in the USSR became "Soviet." Malte Rolf describes how different fields of communication and cultural production generated criteria that could be used to attach the label "Soviet" to all features of culture. Sovietizing culture was a work in progress, and various institutions, agencies, and experts actively participated in defining an adequate "Soviet style." Focusing on this interplay of agencies and taking mass festivals as an example, Rolf portrays the dynamics of a growing selfreferentiality within Soviet culture in the 1930s in such cultural spheres as architecture, city planning, and mass celebrations. Under Stalinism, canonized "Soviet" standards also set the agenda for everyday communications. By reproducing an officially privileged agenda, participants in these daily communications encouraged a cultural inner Sovietization during the prewar decade. This article explores how and why the cultural canon of a closed system of "Soviet" references made its way so smoothly into die microstructures of society.

Culture and Power in Cultural Studies is a collection of John Storey's best and most significant contributions to the field of cultural studies, spanning 25 years. Covering a variety of topics, all chapters share a common focus on culture and power and the politics of signification: the struggle to define social reality; to give the world and its contents meaning in particular ways to generate desired effects of power. Chapters are informed by history and organised by theory, and have been revised and rewritten to create an engaging volume. Twelve chapters expand and elaborate certain key ideas.

Culture, Poverty, and Education: What's Happening in Today's Schools? is intended to not only discuss 5 myths about the culture of poverty and its effects on education, but provide some resources on alternatives for educator's to better address this growing barrier to student achievement in today's schools.

Machine generated contents note: I WELFARE FOR WHOM? -- 1 A Society Worth Living In -- 2 A Tale of Two Would-Be Survivors -- 3 A Modern Form of Sacrifice -- II THE NEW NORWAY -- 4 Immigrants in Norway: Some Salient Facts -- 5 Dangerous Facts: What We Were Not Supposed to Know -- 6 Silence as Political Cover-Up -- III THE POLITICS OF CULTURE -- 7 Law versus Culture -- 8 Culture and Accountabiliy -- 9 Culture-A New Concept of Race? -- 10 Cultures Don't Meet, People Do -- IV GENDER AND IDENTITY POLITICS -- 11 Sara's Story: The Crime of Becoming Swedish -- 12 Anna and Others: Religion Is Not the Culprit -- 13 Noreen's Story: The Price of a Narrow Escape -- V THE FIRST PERSON SINGULAR -- 14 A Fatal Difference in Grammar -- 15 "You Never Asked Me!" -- 16 Opportuniy Lost: The Defeat of an Everyday Hero -- 17 Overcoming the Odds: Somali Women in Norway -- VI TOLERANCE VERSUS HUMANISM -- 18 Generous Betrayal -- 19 The Politics of Fear -- 20 Civic Liberty and Liberal Democracy -- VII A HOPE FOR THE FUTURE -- 21 Nadia's Case: A Crucial Step Forward -- 22 Welfare and Citizenship -- 23 Welfare and Social Justice -- Postscript: Aisha and the Long Way to Freedom -- Notes -- References -- Index