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Demanding the Cherokee Nation examines nineteenth-century Cherokee political rhetoric to address an enigma in American Indian history: the contradiction between the sovereignty of Indian nations and the political weakness of Indian communities. Making use of a rich collection of petitions, appeals, newspaper editorials, and other public records, Andrew Denson describes the ways in which Cherokees represented their people and their nation to non-Indians after their forced removal to Indian Territory in the 1830s. He argues that Cherokee writings on nationhood document a decades-long effort by tribal leaders to find a new model for American Indian relations in which Indian nations could coexist with a modernizing United States.

Modern men and women go about their lives without really knowing why. Why do we work for such a long time every day? Why are we so obsessed with technology? Why do we continuously construct scandals? Why do we finish one war only to fight another?. If we had to explain these things, we would say ""it just makes sense"" or ""it's necessary"" or ""it's what good (or bad) people do"". But when we say that the war against terrorism is necessary and rational we use a rhetoric of good and evil, of friends and enemies, of honor, conscience, loyalty, of civilization and primeval chaos. These rhetorics

Psychologism in Logic: Bacon to Bolzano -- Between Leibniz and Mill: Kant's Logic and the Rhetoric of Psychologism -- Psychologism and Non-Classical Approaches in Traditional Logic -- The Concept of 'Psychologism' in Frege and Husserl -- Psychologism and Sociologism in Early Twentieth-Century German-Speaking Philosophy -- The Space of Sings: C.S. Peirce's Critique of Psychologism -- Quinean Dreams or, Prospects for a Scientific Epistemology -- Late froms of Psychologism and Antipsychologism -- Propositions and the Objects of Thought -- The Concepts of Truth and Knowledge in Psychologism -- Psychologism Revisited in Logic, Metaphysics, and Epistemology -- Why There is Nothing Rather Than Something: Quine on Behaviorism, Meaning, and Indeterminacy -- Cognitive Illusions and the Welcome Psychologism of Logicist Artificial Intelligence.

Based on 250 life-story interviews in seven European Union countries, Biography and social exclusion in Europe: analyses personal struggles against social exclusion to illuminate local milieus and changing welfare regimes and contexts; points to challenging new agendas for European politics and welfare, beyond the rhetoric of communitarianism and the New Deal; vividly illustrates the lived experience and environmental complexity working for and against structural processes of social exclusion; refashions the interpretive tradition as a teaching and research tool linking macro and micro realities. · · Students, academic teachers and professional trainers, practitioners, politicians, policy makers and researchers in applied and comparative welfare fields will all benefit from reading this book

Incomplete modernity: rethinking the May Fourth intellectual project /Leo Ou-fan Lee --The canonization of May Fourth /Rudolf G. Wagner --Literary historiography in early twentieth-century China (1904-1928): constructions of a cultural memory /Milena Doleželová-Velingerová --The end of the past: rewriting Chinese literary history in the early republic /Stephen Owen --The rhetoric of retrospection: May Fourth literary history and the Ming-Qing woman writer /Ellen Widmer --Root literature in the 1980's: May Fourth as a double burden /Catherine Vance Yeh --Return to go: fictional innovation in the late Qing and the late twentieth century /David Der-wei Wang --Neither Renaissance nor Enlightenment: a historian's reflections on the May Fourth movement /Ying-shi Yü.

In this original and readable book, Charles Stafford describes the Chinese fascination with separation and reunion. Drawing on his field studies in Taiwan and mainland China, he gives a vivid account of raucous festivals of reunion, elaborate rituals for the sending-off of gods (and daughters), poetic moments of leave-takings between friends, and bitter political rhetoric about Chinese national unity. The idioms and practices of separation and reunion - which are woven into the fabric of daily life - help people to explain the passions aroused by the possibility of national division. In this book, the discussion of everyday rituals leads into a unique and accessible general introduction to Chinese and Taiwanese society and culture

"Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples" approaches this complex subject from two directions: first, the existing framework of international law, both actual and potential, as embodied in the relevant provisions of international conventions and the case law of international tribunals; and second, specific issues that arise between indigenous peoples in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Scandinavia, India, and Australia and the states which exercise jurisdiction in their homelands. This book, by a leading authority on children's rights, is a major contribution to an area of international law that attracts more attention each year, and that many human rights advocates see as a critical testing ground for the genuineness of states' humanitarian rhetoric.

Francis Bacon (1561–1626) is one of the most important figures of the early modern era. His plan for scientific reform played a central role in the birth of the new science. The essays in this volume offer a comprehensive survey of his writings on science, including his classifications of sciences, his theory of knowledge and of forms, his speculative philosophy, his idea of cooperative scientific research and the providential aspects of Baconian science. There are also essays on Bacon's theory of rhetoric and history as well as on his moral and political philosophy and on his legacy. Throughout, the contributors aim to place Bacon in his historical context.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Social Movements and the Politics of Difference -- 2. A Multicultural America: Living in a Sea of Diversity -- 3. Racial and Ethnic Complexities in American Life: Implications for African Americans -- 4. Whose Rights Shall We Promote? -- 5. Five Faces of Oppression -- 6. Contemporary Chicano Struggles -- 7. Dominant Culture: El Deseo por un Alma Pobre (The Desire for an Impoverished Soul) -- 8. Korean American Dilemma: Violence, Vengeance, Vision -- 9. White Privilege: The Rhetoric and the Facts -- 10. Dialogue and Diversity: Communication across Groups -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- About the Contributors.

Post-colonial, post-modern and feminist critiques have challenged the ways we theorise and practice development. Development is not just the conclusion of economic logic; its histories reveal a legacy of contested power, illuminating the contemporary battlefields of knowledge. These essays explore the language of development, its rhetoric and meaning within different political and institutional contexts. The contested ideas behind world development are explained, with illustrative material, sensitive to place and time, chiefly drawn from Asia, Africa and Latin America. This book examines the power of development to imagine new worlds and to constantly reinvent itself as the solution to problems of national and global disorder

What impact has deconstruction had on the way we read American culture? And how is American culture itself peculiarly deconstructive? To address these questions, this volume brings together some of the most provocative thinkers associated with deconstruction, among them Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler, and Avital Ronnel. Ranging across a wide field, from the ethics of reading to the rhetoric of performance, the contributors offer provocative insights into a new sense of the political. The America of the volume's title turns out to be the place where the politics and poetics of responsibility meet. It is also the place where we confront the tension between difference and profound otherness.

Combining symbolic interpretation, discourse analysis, semiotics, history, political economy, and gender studies, the author examines the power of ritual to produce social transformation and explores how children are made to adults through initiation rites. Taking girls' passage into womenhood as her topic, she considers dramatic structure, costume, song, ritual space, and the discourse, rhetoric, and poetics of ceremonial performance. Based on nearly twenty years of research among the Okiek of Kenya, the book demonstrates how representations of the central themes of initiation - gender relations and cultural identity - probe the tensions and contradictions between men and women, young and old, and the Okiek and their neighbours. (DÜI-Hff)

Main description: Russell Hanson discovers in the history of democratic rhetoric in the United States a series of essential contests" over the meaning of democracy that have occurred in periods of political and socio-economic change.Originally published in 1985.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Part 1: Leftist movements in Afghanistan. - 17 S. - (Reports / American Universities Field Staff : Asia; 1979/No. 44); Part 2: The accidental coup, of Taraki in Blunderland. - 16 S. - (Reports / American Universities Field Staff : Asia; 1979/No. 45); Part 3: Rhetoric and reforms, or promises! Promises! - 14 S. - (Reports / American Universities Field Staff : Asia; 1980/No. 23); Part 4: Foreign policy and the economy. - 10 S. - (Reports / American Universities Field Staff : Asia; 1980/No. 27); Part 5: Repressions, or security through terror purges I-IV. - 15 S. - (Reports / American Universities Field Staff : Asia; 1980/No. 28); Part 6: Repressions, or security through terror. - 11 S. - (Reports / American Universities Field Staff : Asia; 1980/No. 29)

What would the impact be on Indigenous practitioners’ viewpoints if they had access to resources pertinent to Indigenous education and make the information they learn from these resources relevant to their community? How can a teacher push through problematic rhetoric and obstacles when committing to Indigenous youth’s education? This article presents these questions, showing how a group of Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho educators dialogued about education and teaching. When these educators dedicated time to discuss Indigenous education resources, they were able to lean toward in community-based inquiry and dream about curriculum that centered Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho beliefs.