This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and ...impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1975.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and ...impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1951.
This highly accessible portrayal of a post-apartheid
neighborhood in transition analyzes the relationship between
identity, migration, and place. Since it was founded in
1894, amidst Johannesburg's ...transformation from a mining town into
the largest city in southern Africa, Hillbrow has been a community
of migrants. As the "city of gold" accumulated wealth on the backs
of migrant laborers from southern Africa, Jewish Eastern Europeans
who had fled pogroms joined other Europeans and white South
Africans in this emerging suburb. After World War II, Hillbrow
became a landscape of high-rises that lured western and southern
Europeans seeking prosperity in South Africa's booming economy. By
the 1980s, Hillbrow housed some of the most vibrant and visible
queer spaces on the continent while also attracting thousands of
Indian and Black South Africans who defied apartheid laws to live
near the city center. Filling the void for a book about migration
within the Global South, The Roads to Hillbrow explores
how one South African neighborhood transformed from a white suburb
under apartheid into a "grey zone" during the 1970s and 1980s to
become a "port of entry" for people from at least twenty-five
African countries. The Roads to Hillbrow explores the
diverse experiences of domestic and transnational migrants who have
made their way to this South African community following war,
economic dislocation, and the social trauma of apartheid. Authors
Ron Nerio and Jean Halley weave sociology, history, memoir, and
queer studies with stories drawn from more than 100 interviews.
Topics cover the search for employment, options for housing,
support for unaccompanied minors, possibilities for queer
expression, the creation of safe parks for children, and the
challenges of living without documents. Current residents of
Hillbrow also discuss how they cope with inequality, xenophobia,
high levels of crime, and the harsh economic impacts of COVID-19.
Many of the book's interviewees arrived in Hillbrow seeking not
only to gain better futures for themselves but also to support
family members in rural parts of South Africa or in their countries
of origin. Some immerse themselves in justice work, while others
develop LGBTQ+ support networks, join religious and community
groups, or engage in artistic expression. By emphasizing the
disparate voices of migrants and people who work with migrants,
this book shows how the people of Hillbrow form connections and
adapt to adversity.
Wehali defines itself as the ritual centre of the island of Timor. As a ritual centre, Wehali continues to be the residence of a figure of traditional authority on whom, in the 18th century, the ...Dutch conferred the title of Kaiser (Keizer) and to whom the Portuguese gave the title of Emperor (Imperador).
Diverse processes of democratic participation - and exclusion - are closely bound by ritual acts and complexes. This collection is the result of collaborations and conversations between international ...researchers who have focused on the use of those cultural resources identifiable as “ritual” as they reassemble democracy. The main question integrating the collection concerns the ways in which the performative qualities of ritual resources achieve their potential as forms of personal and political empowerment in our changing and challenging world.
The Greek philosopher Diogenes said that when he died his body should be tossed over the city walls for beasts to scavenge. Why should he or anyone else care what became of his corpse? InThe Work of ...the Dead, acclaimed cultural historian Thomas Laqueur examines why humanity has universally rejected Diogenes's argument. No culture has been indifferent to mortal remains. Even in our supposedly disenchanted scientific age, the dead body still matters-for individuals, communities, and nations. A remarkably ambitious history,The Work of the Deadoffers a compelling and richly detailed account of how and why the living have cared for the dead, from antiquity to the twentieth century.
The book draws on a vast range of sources-from mortuary archaeology, medical tracts, letters, songs, poems, and novels to painting and landscapes in order to recover the work that the dead do for the living: making human communities that connect the past and the future. Laqueur shows how the churchyard became the dominant resting place of the dead during the Middle Ages and why the cemetery largely supplanted it during the modern period. He traces how and why since the nineteenth century we have come to gather the names of the dead on great lists and memorials and why being buried without a name has become so disturbing. And finally, he tells how modern cremation, begun as a fantasy of stripping death of its history, ultimately failed-and how even the ashes of the victims of the Holocaust have been preserved in culture.
A fascinating chronicle of how we shape the dead and are in turn shaped by them, this is a landmark work of cultural history.
Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.
Photographer O. N. Pruitt (1891-1967) was, for some 40 years, the de facto documentarian of Lowndes County, Mississippi, and its county seat, Columbus - known to locals as 'Possum Town.' His body of ...work recalls many FSA photographers, but Pruitt was not an outsider with an agenda; he was a community member with intimate knowledge of the town and its residents. From formal portraits to candid images of events in the moment, Pruitt's documentary of a specific yet representative southern town offers viewers today an invitation to meditate on the interrelations of photography, community, race, and historical memory. Columbus native Berkley Hudson was photographed by Pruitt, and for more than three decades he has considered and curated Pruitt's expansive archive, both as a scholar of media and visual journalism and as a community member. This stunning book presents Pruitt's photography as never before.
Eating and drinking — vital to all human beings — were of central importance to Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Culinary Shakespeare, the first collection devoted solely to the study of food and ...drink in Shakespeare’s plays, reframes questions about cuisine, eating, and meals in early modern drama. As a result, Shakespearean scenes that have long been identified as important and influential by scholars can now be considered in terms of another revealing cultural marker — that of culinary dynamics.
