Bryony Randall explores the twin concepts of daily time and of everyday life through the writing of several major modernist authors. The book begins with a contextualising chapter on the ...psychologists William James and Henri Bergson. It goes on to devote chapters to Dorothy Richardson, Gertrude Stein, H. D. and Virginia Woolf. These experimental writers, she argues, reveal everyday life and daily time as rich and strange, not simply a banal backdrop to more important events. Moreover, Randall argues that paying attention to the everyday and daily time can be politically empowering and subversive. The specific social and cultural context of the early twentieth century is one in which the concept of daily time is particularly strongly challenged. By examining Modernism's engagement with or manifestation of this notion of daily time, she reveals a highly original perspective on their concerns and complexities.
An elaborate and pervasive set of practices, calledguanxi, underlies everyday social relationships in contemporary China. Obtaining and changing job assignments, buying certain foods and consumer ...items, getting into good hospitals, buying train tickets, obtaining housing, even doing business-all such tasks call for the skillful and strategic giving of gifts and cultivating of obligation, indebtedness, and reciprocity. Mayfair Mei-hui Yang's close scrutiny of this phenomenon serves as a window to view facets of a much broader and more complex cultural, historical, and political formation. Using rich and varied ethnographic examples ofguanxistemming from her fieldwork in China in the 1980s and 1990s, the author shows how this "gift economy" operates in the larger context of the socialist state redistributive economy.
This book uses the rich epigraphic evidence left behind by the municipal freedmen and freedwomen of communities in Roman Italy (liberti publici) to explore social and economic mobility among the ...lower classes in Ancient Roman society.
Nā Hoʻonanea o ka Manawa Kihe, John Waile Heremana Isaac; Bennett, Kilika; Nogelmeier, Puakea
12/2023
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"He mea hoomanao no na hana oia au i hala, a he mea hoi e poina
ole ai i na mamo o keia la a mau aku." A memorial for the events of
the past, and something to ensure that the children of today and
...forever more will never forget. -Kaʻohuhaʻaheoinākuahiwiʻekolu, Ka
Hoku o Hawaii Nā Hoʻonanea o ka Manawa, translated as Pleasurable
Pastimes, is a delightful collection of tales and descriptions of
life in the northern region of Kona on the island of Hawaiʻi. These
moʻolelo (stories) from the arid land known as Kekaha Wai ʻOle O
Nā Kona contain the name, location, and nature of hundreds of wahi
pana (storied sites) and extensive listings of moon phases,
calendrics, counting methods, and plant names-all of which make
this assembly a treasury of local knowledge and cultural traditions
that extend far beyond the region. Beginning on September 13, 1923,
a series of articles titled Na Hoonanea o ka Manawa appeared weekly
in Ka Hoku o Hawaii, a Hilo-based Hawaiian-language newspaper of
Hawaiʻi's territorial period, until its closure on August 28,
1924.The author of the series, J. W. H. Isaac Kihe, writing under
the name Ka ʻOhu Haʻaheo I Nā Kuahiwi ʻEkolu, was a knowledgeable
and prolific contributor to Ka Hoku o Hawaii. Proud of his heritage
and concerned about the possible erasure of the cultural knowledge
and practices of his homeland, Kihe believed that by documenting
and disseminating this information through the press, he could help
circumvent its loss and provide an invaluable resource for the
people of his time and for generations to come. One hundred years
later, this book presents the complete collection of scanned
articles alongside thoughtful English translations by Kilika
Bennett and Puakea Nogelmeier, as well as indexes of the named
places, people, winds, rains, plants, and animals. In a time when
many are looking to remember, relearn, revive, and reintegrate
Native Hawaiian knowledge, traditions, and resource management
practices, this republication of Kihe's work is a much-needed
contribution.
Because history matters Sherry Sufi
Review (Institute of Public Affairs (Australia) : 1997),
12/2021, Letnik:
73, Številka:
4
Journal Article
Taking the Humanities more seriously in Western nations including Australia would help preserve our identity, values, and way of life, argues IPA Senior Fellow Sherry Sufi.
Because history matters Sherry Sufi
Review (Institute of Public Affairs (Australia) : 1997),
12/2021, Letnik:
73, Številka:
4
Journal Article
Taking the Humanities more seriously in Western nations including Australia would help preserve our identity, values, and way of life, argues IPA Senior Fellow Sherry Sufi.
