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  • The Florida Folklife Reader

    by Tina Bucuvalas, Katherine Borland, Brent Cantrell, Martha Ellen Davis, Stavros K. Frangos, Gregory Hansen, Joyce M. Jackson, Ormond H. Loomis, Jerrilyn McGregory, Martha Nelson0, Laurie K. Sommers1, Robert L. Stone2, Stephen Stuempfle3, Anna Lomax Wood4 ...
    Florida is blessed with a semitropical climate, beautiful inland areas, and over a thousand miles of warm seas and sandy beaches. And Floridians are every bit as colorful and diverse as the tropical foliage. The interaction between Florida's people and its environment has created distinctive mixes of traditional life unlike those anywhere else in America.Florida's cultural foundation includes ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

  • Theorizing Folklore from the Margins

    Critical and Ethical Approaches

    by Solimar Otero, Mintzi Auanda Martínez-Rivera, Rachel V. González-Martin, Juan Eduardo Wolf, Miriam Melton-Villanueva, Sheila Bock, Rhonda R. Dass, Cheikh Tidiane Lo, Katherine Borland0, Itzel Guadalupe Garcia1, Mabel Cuesta2, Gloria M. Colom Braña3, Martin A. Tsang4, Alexander Fernández5, Xóchitl Chávez6, Cory W. Thorne7, Phyllis M. May-Machunda8 ...
    Series series Activist Encounters in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    The study of folklore has historically focused on the daily life and culture of regular people, such as artisans, storytellers, and craftspeople. But what can folklore reveal about strategies of belonging, survival, and reinvention in moments of crisis?The experience of living in hostile conditions for cultural, social, political, or economic reasons has redefined communities in crisis. The ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Emerging Perspectives in the Study of Folklore and Performance

    by Erica Acevedo-Ontiveros, Katherine Borland, Kit Danowski, Lisa Gabbert, Lisa Gilman, Sarah M. Gordon, Gregory Hansen, Sverker Hyltén-Cavallius, Eric Mayer-García, celia meredith, Pris Nasrat, Sabra Webber ...
    Just over half a century ago, the rise in what became known as the "performance turn" in folklore studies led to the diffusion of performance as both a lens and a key concept across a wide range of humanistic disciplines. Now, it's time to take stock of the myriad ways in which performance and folklore studies have developed along both parallel and intersecting paths.Emerging Perspectives in the ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Performing Environmentalisms

    Expressive Culture and Ecological Change

    by John Holmes McDowell, Rebecca Dirksen, Aaron S. Allen, Eduardo S Brondizio, Assefa Tefera Dibaba, Mary Hufford, Mark Pedelty0, Jennifer C. Post1, Chie Sakakibara2, Jeff Todd Titon3, Rory Turner4, Lois Wilcken5 ...
    Performing Environmentalisms examines the existential challenge of the twenty-first century: improving the prospects for maintaining life on our planet. The contributors focus on the strategic use of traditional artistic expression--storytelling and songs, crafted objects, and ceremonies and rituals--performed during the social turmoil provoked by environmental degradation and ecological collapse. ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

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  • The Circulation of Children

    Kinship, Adoption, and Morality in Andean Peru

    by Jessaca B. Leinaweaver, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    In this vivid ethnography, Jessaca B. Leinaweaver explores “child circulation,” informal arrangements in which indigenous Andean children are sent by their parents to live in other households. At first glance, child circulation appears tantamount to child abandonment. When seen in that light, the practice is a violation of international norms regarding children’s rights, guidelines that the ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Tacit Subjects

    Belonging and Same-Sex Desire among Dominican Immigrant Men

    by Carlos Ulises Decena ...
    Tacit Subjects is a pioneering analysis of how gay immigrant men of color negotiate race, sexuality, and power in their daily lives. Drawing on ethnographic research with Dominicans in New York City, Carlos Ulises Decena explains that while the men who shared their life stories with him may self-identify as gay, they are not the liberated figures of traditional gay migration narratives. Decena ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • A Contested Caribbean Indigeneity

    Language, Social Practice, and Identity within Puerto Rican Taíno Activism

    by Sherina Feliciano-Santos ...
    Series series Critical Caribbean Studies
    A Contested Caribbean Indigeneity is an in-depth analysis of the debates surrounding Taíno/Boricua activism in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean diaspora in New York City. Drawing on in-depth ethnographic research, media analysis, and historical documents, the book explores the varied experiences and motivations of Taíno/Boricua activists as well as the alternative fonts of authority they draw on to ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Behind the Mask

    Gender Hybridity in a Zapotec Community

    by Alfredo Mirandé ...
    The image of biologically male people dancing while dressed in the traditional, colorful attire of Zapotec, Juchiteca, females stands in sharp contrast to the prevailing view of Mexico as the land of charros, machismo, and unbridled ranchero masculinity. These indigenous people are called los muxes, and they are neither man nor woman, but rather a hybrid third gender.After seeing a video of a muxe ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Transmovimientos

    Latinx Queer Migrations, Bodies, and Spaces

    Edited by Eddy Francisco Alvarez Jr., Magda García, Ellie D. Hernandez ...
    Series series Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
    2022 International Latino Book Award Finalist for Best LGBTQ Studies BookWithin a trans-embodied framework, this anthology identifies transmovimientos as the creative force or social mechanism through which queer, trans, and gender nonconforming Latinx communities navigate their location and calibrate their consciousness. This anthology unveils a critical perspective with the emphasis on queer, ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Sounds of Crossing

    Music, Migration, and the Aural Poetics of Huapango Arribeño

    by Alex E. Chávez ...
    Series series Refiguring American Music
    In Sounds of Crossing Alex E. Chávez explores the contemporary politics of Mexican migrant cultural expression manifest in the sounds and poetics of huapango arribeño, a musical genre originating from north-central Mexico. Following the resonance of huapango's improvisational performance within the lives of audiences, musicians, and himself—from New Year's festivities in the highlands of ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Chicana Feminisms

    A Critical Reader

    by Stanley Fish ...
    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    Chicana Feminisms presents new essays on Chicana feminist thought by scholars, creative writers, and artists. This volume moves the field of Chicana feminist theory forward by examining feminist creative expression, the politics of representation, and the realities of Chicana life. Drawing on anthropology, folklore, history, literature, and psychology, the distinguished contributors combine ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Global Issues in Contemporary Hispanic Women's Writing

    Shaping Gender, the Environment, and Politics

    Edited by Estrella Cibreiro, Francisca López ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
    This collection explores the contributions of Hispanic women writers to ongoing Western debates on gender, power, ethics, and the environment, offering a wide range of essays that specifically portray the ways in which contemporary writers focus on issues of global impact in a deliberate and purposeful manner. The contributors analyze texts pertaining to all literary genres, examining a myriad of ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD