1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911104496203321

Autore

McGarry Molly

Titolo

Ghosts of futures past : spiritualism and the cultural politics of nineteenth-century America / / Molly McGarry

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2008

ISBN

9786612359309

9781282359307

1282359304

9780520934061

0520934067

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (285 p.)

Disciplina

133.90973/09034

Soggetti

Spiritualism - United States - History - 19th century

Religion and culture - United States - History - 19th century

United States Religion 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Simpson, imprint in humanities"--P. facing t.p.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Mourning, media, and the cultural politics of conjuring the dead -- Indian guides : haunted subjects and the politics of vanishing -- Spectral sexualities : free love, moral panic, and the making of U.S. obscenity law -- Mediomania : the spirit of science in a culture of belief and doubt -- Secular subjects : a queer genealogy of untimely sexualities.

Sommario/riassunto

Ghosts of Futures Past guides readers through the uncanny world of nineteenth-century American spiritualism. More than an occult parlor game, this was a new religion, which channeled the voices of the dead, linked present with past, and conjured new worldly and otherworldly futures. Tracing the persistence of magic in an emergent culture of secularism, Molly McGarry brings a once marginalized practice to the center of American cultural history. Spiritualism provided an alchemical combination of science and magic that called into question the very categories of male and female, material and immaterial, self and other, living and dead. Dissolving the boundaries between them opened Spiritualist practitioners to other voices and, in turn, allowed them to



imagine new social worlds and forge diverse political affinities.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911095984003321

Autore

Hernández-León Rubén

Titolo

Metropolitan migrants : the migration of urban Mexicans to the United States / / Ruben Hernandez-Leon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008

ISBN

9786612360732

9781282360730

1282360736

9780520942462

0520942469

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Disciplina

973.00468/72

Soggetti

Mexicans - United States

Structural adjustment (Economic policy) - Mexico - Monterrey

Mexicans - Texas - Houston

United States Emigration and immigration Economic aspects Case studies

Monterrey (Mexico) Economic conditions

Monterrey (Mexico) Emigration and immigration

Houston (Tex.) Emigration and immigration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-245) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Maps of Monterrey and Houston -- Chapter 1. The Migration of Urban Mexicans to the United States -- Chapter 2. Urban-Industrial Development in Mexico, 1940-2005 -- Chapter 3. Restructuring and International Migration in a Mexican Urban Neighborhood -- Chapter 4. The Monterrey-Houston Connection -- Chapter 5. The Migration Industry in the Monterrey-Houston Connection -- Chapter 6. Metropolitan Migrants -- Methodological Appendix -- Notes --



Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Challenging many common perceptions, this is the first book fully dedicated to understanding a major new phenomenon-the large numbers of skilled urban workers who are now coming across the border from Mexico's cities. Based on a ten-year, on-the-ground study of one working-class neighborhood in Monterrey, Mexico's industrial powerhouse and third-largest city, Metropolitan Migrants explores the ways in which Mexico's economic restructuring and the industrial modernization of the past three decades have pushed a new flow of migrants toward cities such as Houston, Texas, the global capital of the oil industry. Weaving together rich details of everyday life with a lucid analysis of Mexico's political economy, Rubén Hernández-León deftly traces the effects of restructuring on the lives of the working class, from the national level to the kitchen table.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911150194903321

Titolo

American anthropology, 1971-1995 : papers from the American anthropologist / / edited and with an introduction by Regna Darnell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Arlington, VA, : American Anthropological Association

Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2002

ISBN

1-280-42421-4

9786610424214

0-8032-0643-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (825 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DarnellRegna

Disciplina

001

301.0973

Soggetti

Anthropology

Indians of North America

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copyright; Table of Contents; Editor's Introduction; Ritual, Sanctity, and Cybernetics; Brazilian Racial Terms: Some Aspects of



Meaning and Learning; The Potlatch: A Structural Analysis; Prejudice and Its Intellectual Effect in American Anthropology: An Ethnographic Report; On Key Symbols; Sheep in Navajo Culture and Social Organization; Verbal Art as Performance; World Picture, Anthropological Frame; The Anthropologist as Expert Witness; Whatever Happened to the Id?; Linguistic Knowledge and Cultural Knowledge: Some Doubts and Speculations

Tibetan Fraternal Polyandry: A Test of Sociobiological Theory The Golden Marshalltown: A Parable for the Archeology of the 1980's; Types Distinct from Our Own: Franz Boas on Jewish Identity and Assimilation; Other Times, Other Customs: The Anthropology of History; Anti Anti-Relativism; Hominoid Evolution and Hominoid Origins; Culture as Consensus: A Theory of Culture and Informant Accuracy; A Discourse-Centered Approach to Language and Culture; Knowledge, Power, and the Individual in Subarctic Hunting Societies; Theories of Social Honor

Kalapalo Biography: Psychology and Language in a South American Oral History The Making of the Maori: Culture Invention and Its Logic; Facing Power-Old Insights, New Questions; Evolution of the Human Capacity for Beliefs; Art, Science, or Politics? The Crisis in Hunter-Gatherer Studies; Empowering Place: Multilocality and Multivocality; ''Our Ancestors the Gauls'': Archaeology, Ethnic Nationalism, and the Manipulation of Celtic Identity in Modern Europe; How Native Is a ''Native'' Anthropologist?; Archaeology, Anthropology, and the Culture Concept

Sommario/riassunto

American anthropology in the late twentieth century interrogated and depicted the worlds of others, past and present, in subtle and incisive ways while increasingly questioning its own authority to do so. Marxist, symbolic, and structuralist thought shaped the fieldwork and conclusions of many researchers around the globe. Practicing anthropology blossomed and grew rapidly as a subdiscipline in its own right. There emerged a keener appreciation of both the history of the discipline and the histories of those studied. Archaeologists witnessed a resurgence of interest in the concept of culture.