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Godsey reviews 'Theology, History, and Culture: Major Unpublished Writings' by H. Richard Niebuhr and edited by William Stacy Johnson.

This book provides a practical introduction for researchers who wish to use objects and material culture as primary sources for the study of the past. The book focuses primarily on the period 1500 to the present day, but the principles put forward are equally applicable to studies of earlier historical eras. Histories of the last five centuries have been driven to a remarkable extent by textual records and it is with this in mind that Researching Objects & Material Culture offers researchers a step-by-step guide to approaching the material evidence that survives from this period. Anticipating that many researchers will feel under-skilled or lacking in confidence in tackling artefacts of the past, the book traces the process of research from the framing of research questions through to the writing up of findings giving particular attention to the ways in which objects can be located, accessed and understood. This practical guidance is augmented by the use of examples of seminal and contemporary scholarship in this interdisciplinary field, so that readers can see how particular approaches to sources have been used to develop historical narratives and arguments. It will be written in accessible and jargon-free language with clear explanations of more complex discourses. In this way, the book intends to demystify both the process of researching objects and the way research practice relates to published scholarship

Margins and Mainstreams: Asians in American History and Culture by Gary Y. Okihiro.

Call for Papers for a Volume of the Yearbook of Knowledge and Society. Deadline: May 1, 2024

Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables and figures -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Part One: Policy contexts -- 1 Capitalism, technology, institutions and the study of communications and media policy -- 2 Revisiting the history of global communication and media policy -- Part Two: The policy domains -- 3 Governing the central nervous system of the global economy: telecommunications policy -- 4 Governing the backbone of cultures: broadcasting policy -- Part Three: Policy paradigms -- 5 Policies for a new world or the emperor's new clothes? The Information Society

1. Introduction -- 2.Language, Literature and Cultural Identity: A Case Study of Malaysian Tamil Diaspora -- 3. Girmit as a Global Labour Regime: Essentials, Expansion and Exceptions -- 4. Tracing the Girmitiya Consciousness in Bhojpuri Folkloric Songs: A Study of Select Bhojpuri Video Songs -- 5. The Poetics of Unsung Chutney Singer Lakhan Karriah of Trinidad -- 6. Poetics of the Crossing (Re)routing Identity in Indenture -- 7. Convicts as the Indentured Labour: Role and Contribution of Indians to the Development Works in the Southeast Asia -- 8. Preservation of Cultural Heritage: A Case study of Girmitya in Mauritius -- 9. Reality and Illusion about India In Girmitiya literature: A Study on Capildeo Family -- 10. Resurgence of Girmitiya; Journey through Indian Diaspora -- 11. The Girmityas and Power Politics: A Genealogical Analysis of Colonial Fiji -- 12. Relocating cultural identity: Pattern and Conditions of Indian Diaspora in Fiji -- 13. Articulating Experiences and Unterrable sufferings of Girmitiyas in Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies -- 14. Indentured Labour Migration from Bombay Presidency: A study of Marathi speaking Community in Mauritius -- 15. Vivid Girmitiya Sacraments: A Study of Ganga and Ganga Talao -- 16. Swadeshi Girmitology: A Critical Study of Eurocentric History of the Indian Indenture System with Indian perspective.

This volume brings together theoretical meditations and empirical studies of the intersection of culture, power and history in social life. New strategies for marketing and advertising to children, the production of gendered subjectivity in maquiladora factories, the racialized economic history of the construction of the Chicago School of sociology, and the normalization of cosmetic plastic surgery in contemporary America-these are some of the crossroads under investigation here, where cultural meanings and practices are set against historical landscapes of power. Included are contributions from William Gamson, Juliet Schor, Stephen Pfohl, Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, Jackie Orr, Leslie Salzinger, Eva Garroutte, Davarian Baldwin, Ramon Grosfoguel, Charlotte Ryan, Danielle Egan, Charles Sarno, Steve Farough, Karen McCorkmack, Abigail Brooks, Aimee Van Wagenen and William Wood

Bombay's perennial modernities / Sewers / Peasants and proletarians in Bombay city in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / State and society in colonial India / Religion and nationalism in India / From neighbourhood to nation: the rise and fall of the Left in Bombay's Girangaon in the twentieth century / Historians and the nation / Urban history and urban anthropology in South Asia / Aspects of the historiography of labour in India