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Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Sources, History, Issues -- Chapter 1 - Gifts and Debts: Fieldwork in the Wa Lands -- Chapter 2 - Naming Oneself, Naming the World -- Chapter 3 - Rice Beer and the Making of Wa Sociality -- Chapter 4 - Mining, Hierarchy, and the Anti-state Wa -- Chapter 5 - Slavery as a Threat to the Ideology of Kinship -- Chapter 6 - War, Headhunting, and the Erasure of Wa History -- Chapter 7 - Barbarian Ruse: Playing with the Fears of the Civilized -- Chapter 8 - Disease and Death in the Peripheral Situation -- Chapter 9 - Hope against Hope: Border Prophets and Foreign Saviors -- Chapter 10 - The Power of the Exotic: Negotiating the Future -- Epilogue: Dark Clouds Gathering -- References -- Index.

This book examines the historical and socio-cultural connections across the SAARC region, with a special focus on the relationship between India and Sri Lanka. It investigates hitherto unexplored narratives of history, popular culture and intangible heritage in the region

Intro -- Title page -- Copyright -- Map 0.1 World map with language families -- Figure 0.1 IPA consonants -- Figure 0.2 IPA vowels -- About the Website -- Preface -- To Our Readers -- Part I Linguistic Preliminaries -- Introductory Note: On Language -- 1 All Languages Were Once Spanglish -- The Mexican State of Coahuila y Tejas -- What Is Language? -- How Many Languages Are There? -- How and When Did Language Get Started? -- The Structure of Spanglish -- Final Note: The Encounter of Spanish and English on Television in the United States -- Exercises -- Discussion Questions -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- 2 The Language Loop -- The Australian Walkabout -- Introducing the Language Loop -- Language and Cognition -- Language, the World, and Culture -- Language and Linguistic Structure -- Language, Discourse, and Ideology -- On Major and Minor Languages -- Final Note: The Contingencies of Time, Place, and Biology -- Exercises -- Discussion Questions -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- 3 Linguistics and Classification -- The Role of Sanskrit in Philology -- Of Linguistics, Philology, Linguists, and Grammarians -- Genetic Classification -- Areal Classification -- Typological Classification -- Functional Classification -- Final Note: The Role of Sanskrit in India Today -- Exercises -- Discussion Questions -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Part II Effects of Power -- Introductory Note: On Power -- 4 Effects of the Nation-State and the Possibility of Kurdistan -- Lines Are Drawn in the Sand -- The Status of Language on the Eve of the Nation-State -- The Epistemology of the Nation-State -- The French Revolution, German Romanticism, and Print Capitalism -- Standardization and the Instilling of Vergonha -- Language and Individual Identity -- What's Race Got to Do with It? -- The Problematic Race-Nation-Language Triad.

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This article presents preliminary research findings on the history of Do-It-Yourself (DIY) and maker culture in Germany. It aims to identify historical, political, economic and societal shifts that have led to the existence of approximately 1000 makerspaces of various kinds in Germany today. The article summarises the beginnings of DIY in the 20th century in West Germany and East Germany. It focuses on how infrastructures supporting DIY were created out of necessity and economic considerations, how tools and spaces were offered as public service, the influence of counterculture movements and expression of political views through DIY and finally the use of DIY as a meaningful way to spend newfound leisure time and the phenomenon of state-funded vocational educational spaces. It aims to inspire further research elucidating the connections between broader societal contexts and DIY throughout the past century and its effects on maker culture today.

Illuminating one thousand years of history, The Pilgrim Art explores the remarkable cultural influence of Chinese porcelain around the globe. Cobalt ore was shipped from Persia to China in the fourteenth century, where it was used to decorate porcelain for Muslims in Southeast Asia, India, Persia, and Iraq. Spanish galleons delivered porcelain to Peru and Mexico while aristocrats in Europe ordered tableware from Canton. The book tells the fascinating story of how porcelain became a vehicle for the transmission and assimilation of artistic symbols, themes, and designs across vast distances-from Japan and Java to Egypt and England. It not only illustrates how porcelain influenced local artistic traditions but also shows how it became deeply intertwined with religion, economics, politics and social identity. Bringing together many strands of history in an engaging narrative studded with fascinating vignettes, this is a history of cross-cultural exchagne focused on an exceptional commodity that illuminates the emergence of what is arguably the first genuinely global culture.