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The dualities of house and home in Jewish culture / Simon J. Bronner -- The domestication of urban Jewish space and the North-West London eruv / Jennifer Cousineau -- Every wise woman shoppeth for her house: the sisterhood gift shop and the American Jewish home in the mid-twentieth century / Joellyn Wallen Zollman -- Reimagining home, rethinking sukkah: rabbinic discourse and its contemporary implications / Marjorie Lehman -- From sacred symbol to key ring: the ḥamsa in Jewish and Israeli societies / Shalom Sabar -- 770 Eastern Parkway: the Rebbe's home as icon / Gabrielle A. Berlinger -- From the nightclub to the living room: gender, ethnicity, and upward mobility in the 1950s party records of three Jewish women comics / Giovanna P. Del Negro -- Samuel Rawet's Wandering Jew: Jewish-Brazilian monologues of home and displacement / Rosana Kohl Bines -- Home in the Pampas: Alberto Gerchunoff's Jewish gauchos / Mónica Szurmuk -- Domesticity and the home (page): blogging and the blurring of public and private among Orthodox Jewish women / Andrea Lieber -- Culture mavens: feeling at home in America / Jenna Weissman Joselit -- At home in the world / David Kraemer -- The co-construction of Europe as a Jewish home / Joachim Schlör -- Reflections on 'Culture Mavens' from an Australian Jewish perspective / Suzanne D. Rutland -- There's no place like home: America, Israel, and the (mixed) blessings of assimilation / Michael P. Kramer --The last word: a response / Jenna Weissman Joselit

America stocks its shelves with mass-produced goods but fills its imagination with handmade folk objects. In Pennsylvania, the "back to the city" housing movement causes a conflict of cultures. In Indiana, an old tradition of butchering turtles for church picnics evokes both pride and loathing among residents. In New York, folk-art exhibits raise choruses of adoration and protest. These are a few of the examples Simon Bronner uses to illustrate the ways Americans physically and mentally grasp things. Bronner moves beyond the usual discussions of form and variety in America's folk material cu

Is hunting a bygone activity, out of touch with modern life; or is it valuable as an escape from it? Does hunting promote violence, not just to animals, but to humans as well? Is hunting, with its connection to the land and frontier experience, a heritage worth preserving? These questions form the foundations for discussion in Killing Tradition: Inside Hunting and Animal Rights Controversies. Simon J. Bronner sorts through the issues and goes behind the headlines to examine the basis of this hotly-charged subject. Using case studies as evidence, Bronner looks at a topic at the center of modern

Introduction; Part I. The Contexts of Marshall's Intellectual Apprenticeship: 1. The state of long-term memories; 2. A liberal education; Part II. Dualist Moral Science: 1867-1871: 3. Mental crisis; 4. The way of all flesh; 5. Political economy; Part III. Neo-Hegelian political economy: 1872-3: 6. A philosophy of history; 7. Missing links: the education of the working classes; Epilogue. 'A Rounded Globe of Knowledge': 8. Social philosophy and economic science.

This book provides a contextual study of the development of Alfred Marshall's thinking during the early years of his apprenticeship in the Cambridge moral sciences. Marshall's thought is situated in a crisis of academic liberal thinking that occurred in the late 1860s. His crisis of faith is shown to have formed part of his wider philosophical development, which saw him supplementing Anglican thought and mechanistic psychology with Hegel's Philosophy of History. This philosophical background informed Marshall's early reformulation of value theory and his subsequent wide-ranging reinterpretation of political economy as a whole. The book concludes with the suggestion that Marshall's mature economic science was conceived by him as but one part of a wider, neo-Hegelian, social philosophy

Is hunting a bygone activity, out of touch with modern life; or is it valuable as an escape from it? Does hunting promote violence, not just to animals, but to humans as well? Is hunting, with its connection to the land and frontier experience, a heritage worth preserving? These questions form the foundations for discussion in Killing Tradition: Inside Hunting and Animal Rights Controversies. Simon J. Bronner sorts through the issues and goes behind the headlines to examine the basis of this hotly-charged subject. Using case studies as evidence, Bronner looks at a topic at the center of modern

For centuries, new sailors from European and North American countries have embraced often brutal hazing in an elaborate ceremony at sea called 'crossing the line' (British-American) and 'Neptunusfeest' (Dutch). Typically enacted upon crossing the equator, the beatings, dunks, sexual play, mock baptisms, mythological dramas, crude shavings and haircuts, and drinking and swallowing displays have attracted a number of protests and even bans as well as staunch defenses and fond reminiscences. The custom has especially drawn criticism since the late twentieth century with the integration of women into the military and the questioning of its hierarchical codes of manliness. In this study, the persistent ceremony's changing meaning into the twenty-first century is examined with considerations of development, structure, symbolism, performance, and function. A timely study revising previous assumptions about the custom's origins, diffusion, and functions. - Al sinds de 16e eeuw worden zeelieden uit Europa en Noord- Amerika geconfronteerd met een meedogenloze en ingewikkelde ontgroeningsceremonie op zee. Het ritueel,'crossing the line' of Neptunusfeest, wordt voltrokken wanneer zeelieden voor het eerst op zee de evenaar passeren. De ceremonie gaat gepaard met verbaal en fysiek geweld, (kaal) scheren of knippen, onderdompelen en kielhalen, een seksueel getint rollenspel, spot-dopen,mythologische voorstellingen en alcoholgebruik. De omstreden ceremonie wordt de laatste decennia steeds vaker bekritiseerd in verband met de integratie van vrouwen binnen de marine en de met het gebruik verbonden hiërarchische codes van mannelijkheid. In deze studie worden de veranderende betekenissen van het gebruik geanalyseerd en wordt gekeken naar ontwikkeling, structuur, symboliek, performance en functies. Op basis van deze analyse biedt Bronner een nieuwe interpretatie over de herkomst, de verspreiding en de functies van het gebruik en wijst hij op de implicaties zowel ten aanzien van de ethische aspecten als van de genderverhoudingen in de postmoderne samenleving.