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"A Noble Fight examines the metaphors and meanings behind the African American appropriation of the culture, ritual, and institution of freemasonry in navigating the contested terrain of American democracy. Combining cultural and political theory with extensive archival research--including the discovery of a rare collection of nineteenth-century records of an African American Freemason Lodge--Corey D.B. Walker provides an innovative perspective on American politics and society during the long transition from slavery to freedom."--Jacket

As the world's demand for food from aquatic environments continues to increase, the importance of performing aquaculture in an environmentally responsible manner also increases. The aim of this important and thought-provoking book is to stimulate discussion among aquaculture's modern scientific, education and extension communities concerning the principles, practices and policies needed to develop ecologically and socially sustainable aquaculture systems worldwide. Ecological Aquaculture provides fascinating and valuable insights into primitive (and often sustainable) culture systems, and ties

"A Noble Fight examines the metaphors and meanings behind the African American appropriation of the culture, ritual, and institution of freemasonry in navigating the contested terrain of American democracy. Combining cultural and political theory with extensive archival research--including the discovery of a rare collection of nineteenth-century records of an African American Freemason Lodge--Corey D.B. Walker provides an innovative perspective on American politics and society during the long transition from slavery to freedom."--Jacket.

"Describes upper Tanana Athabascan culture prior to sustained western contact at the beginning of the 20th century and examines the effects of socioeconomic and cultural changes on traditional lifeways that occurred during the 20th century. In addition, the study examines the longstanding relationships of the upper Tanana Indians to the neighboring Ahtna Athabascans and to lands in and near the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, primarily in the northern part of the Copper River Basin"--Abstract

"The Beijing Olympiad: The Political Economy of a Sporting Mega-Event considers the global and local impact of the Games, and provides valuable insight into contemporary China, its culture, society, economy and politics in the build-up to the 2008 Olympics." "The Beijing Olympiad examines key questions, providing a range of original insights of interest to scholars, researchers and students from Sports Studies to Sociology, Politics, Economics, International Relations and Legal Studies."--Jacket

The premise of Studies in Irreversibility: Texts and Contexts is that there is a big difference between phenomena, practices, processes, and events that are irreversible and those that are reversible, and moreover that this difference and its manifold implications remain underappreciated so long as the analysis of culture continues to anchor itself in an emphasis on the capacities of human agency. If messianic modes posit a future to justify the present, and so interpret the influence of the

Cover -- Copyright and Licence -- Title Page -- A Note on the Author -- Contents -- Introduction -- Russian Formalism -- Roman Jakobson -- Vladimir Propp -- Structuralism -- Ferdinand De Saussure -- Claude Lévi-Strauss -- Semiotics -- Roland Barthes -- Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction -- Jean-François Lyotard -- Jacques Derrida -- Paul De Man -- Psychoanalytic Theories -- Jacques Lacan -- Julia Kristeva -- Understanding the Discursive Nature of History and Culture -- Michel Foucault -- Clifford Geertz -- Postcolonial Theory -- Edward Said -- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -- Ngugi Wa Thiong'O -- Paul Gilroy -- Bibliography -- Hyperlinked Material.

2Concerning comedy9 --3Notions of nation26 --4Englishnesses39 --5Music hall: Contours and legacies63 --6Our gracious queens: English comedy's effeminate tradition87 --7Lads in love: Gender and togetherness in the male double act111 --8Thirty nibbles at the same cherry: Why the 'Carry Ons' carry on128 --9Bermuda my arse: Class, culture and 'The Royle Family'144 --10Anatomising England: Alan Bennett, Mike Leigh, Victoria Wood159 --11Togetherness through offensiveness: The importance of Roy 'Chubby' Brown187 --12Conclusion: A national sense of humour?204.

In this volume, connections between education, power and economy are discussed and problematized from a gender-theoretical perspective. In view of the observed change of systems in politics, science, culture and the social sphere, this thematic field is discussed in various contributions from new theoretical perspectives. The volume contains contributions on the philosophy of education as well as historical and sociological studies that systematically examine one or more facets of these interrelationships from a gender-theoretical perspective

The aim of the book is to explore the long-standing and multi-faceted relationship between Scotland and the societies and cultures of the European continent, in various epochs and from a large diversity of view points and problematics. The book collects most of the contributions from the IVth annual conference of the Société Française d'Etudes Ecossaises, held in Toulon in October 2005. This international conference gathered fifty European academics, working in a wide range of research field...

Education seems to have lost its orientation in Western culture and is in disarray all over the globe in time of global transitions. This book attempts to address the challenge of globalization to education in the broadest sense of the concept of education. The various texts are written by some of the most famous and interesting scholars in the field. This collection is unique and opens the door for further research and public discussion on the future role of education.

Introduction -- Fiduciary culture : a thread in anthropological theory -- Luo and their livelihood : the Great Lake Basin and beyond -- Entrustment incarnate : humans and animals over years and generations -- Teaming up : borrowing, lending, and getting by -- Marriage on the installment plan : the present and the promised -- Debts in life and death : shared responsibility and the funerary flow -- In the passing : inheritance of things and persons -- Blood, fire, and word : Luo, Christian, and Luo-Christian sacrifice -- Conclusion: Entrustment and obligation

Front cover; Preface; Editors; Table of Contents; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. The Culture of Technology: Savants, Context, and Perspectives; Chapter 3. Public Sector Perspectives on Technology; Chapter 4. Technology Transfer: Innovations, Concerns, and Barriers; Chapter 5. Ethical Issues and Concerns; Chapter 6. Managing Change and Measuring Performance; Chapter 7. Technology's Contribution to Quality; Chapter 8. National Security Issues*; Chapter 9. Negotiating Technology Issues; Chapter 10. Technology and the Professions; Index; Back cover

Always remember, "it's the people, stupid" -- Abolish corporate welfare : create a culture of merit -- Develop your human capital : how to train, coach, mentor, and retain eagles -- Its all right to aim high if you have plenty of ammo -- Look in the mirror : executing your leadership twelve-pack -- Survive success : how to overcome the six temptations of successful organizations -- Build long-term vitality : steps for execution and follow-through -- Close the gap between knowing and doing

Kultur stellt nach wie vor einen unterschätzten Faktor bei der Internationalisierung von Unternehmensaktivitäten dar. Der im Rahmen der vorliegenden Studie vertretene Ansatz begreift Kultur als zentrale Ressource für ein erfolgreiches "Managing across Cultures" und interkulturelle Kompetenz als nachhaltige Investition in das qualitative Wachstum von Unternehmen. Als Untersuchungsobjekte fungieren bilateral kooperierende Tourismusunternehmen, die in vielfacher Hinsicht Globalisierung und Interkulturalität in Reinkultur verkörpern. Aufgezeigt aus einer interkulturellen und prozessualen Perspektive erschließt sich dem Leser die ungemeine Komplexität grenzüberschreitender Unternehmenskooperationen. Im Erkenntnisfokus stehen ausgewählte strategische Erfolgsfaktoren, die erstmalig hinsichtlich ihrer interkulturellen Dimension untersucht werden. Das Buch richtet sich an Studenten und Dozenten der Betriebswirtschaftslehre, Geographie, Tourismuswissenschaft und Interkulturellen Kommunikation sowie an Praktiker aus international agierenden Unternehmen.