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 Patrick Vinton Kirch, "How Chiefs Became Kings: Divine Kingship and the Rise of Archaic States in Ancient Hawai'i" English | 2019 | ISBN: 0520303393, 0520267257 | PDF | pages: 286 | 3.6 mb In How Chiefs Became Kings, Patrick Vinton Kirch addresses a central problem in anthropological archaeology: the emergence of "archaic states" whose distinctive feature was divine kingship. Kirch takes as his focus the Hawaiian archipelago, commonly regarded as the archetype of a complex chiefdom. Integrating anthropology, linguistics, archaeology, traditional history, and theory, and drawing on significant contributions from his own four decades of research, Kirch argues that Hawaiian polities had become states before the time of Captain Cook's voyage (1778-1779). The status of most archaic states is inferred from the archaeological record. But Kirch shows that because Hawai`i's kingdoms were established relatively recently, they could be observed and recorded by Cook and other European voyagers. Substantive and provocative, this book makes a major contribution to the literature of precontact Hawai`i and illuminates Hawai`i's importance in the global theory and literature about divine kingship, archaic states, and sociopolitical evolution.  Hiking Northern Arizona by Falcon Guides English | February 3, 2021 | ISBN: 149305337X | 304 pages | PDF | 25 Mb This guide has completely updated information for 120 hikes in northern Arizona, including the Grand Canyon, with different routes suggested for each season. From short strolls to overnight desert adventures, this book contains new, easy-to-read maps, beautiful black and white photos, up-to-date trail information, routes for beginners and experts, anecdotal narratives, and wildlife descriptions along popular trails as well as those less traveled.  A & E Kirk, "Hex Boys In Disguise: YA Paranormal Urban Fantasy Thriller" English | 2019 | ISBN: 1946285188 | EPUB | pages: 386 | 1.2 mb Have you ever wondered what really happened to the Hex Boys when Aurora wasn't around? If their plans really went as smoothly as they claimed? Now is your chance to find out. HEX BOYS IN DISGUISE is a collection of the Boys' Mission Reports from THE DIVINICUS NEX CHRONICLES Book 3. Enjoy DEMONS IN DISGUISE from the Hex Boys' point of view!  He Was Some Kind of a Man: Masculinities in the B Western By Roderick McGillis 2009 | 222 Pages | ISBN: 1554580595 | PDF | 2 MB He Was Some Kind of a Man: Masculinities in the B Western explores the construction and representation of masculinity in low-budget western movies made from the 1930s to the early 1950s. These films contained some of the mid-twentieth-century's most familiar names, especially for youngsters: cowboys such as Roy Rogers, Hopalong Cassidy, and Red Ryder. The first serious study of a body of films that was central to the youth of two generations, He Was Some Kind of a Man combines the author's childhood fascination with this genre with an interdisciplinary scholarly exploration of the films influence on modern views of masculinity. McGillis argues that the masculinity offered by these films is less one-dimensional than it is plural, perhaps contrary to expectations. Their deeply conservative values are edged with transgressive desire, and they construct a male figure who does not fit into binary categories, such as insider/outsider or masculine/feminine. Particularly relevant is the author's discussion of George W. Bush as a cowboy and how his aspirations to cowboy ideals continue to shape American policy. This engagingly written book will appeal to the general reader interested in film, westerns, and contemporary culture as well as to scholars in film studies, gender studies, children's literature, and auto/biography.  Michael Hopkinson, "Green Against Green: The Irish Civil War" English | 2004 | pages: 352 | ISBN: 0717137600 | EPUB | 0,5 mb "It will be indispensable reading for those who wish to understand the bloody birth of independent Ireland." -Michael Laffan, Irish Historical Studies.  H.D.F. Kitto, "Greek Tragedy" English | 2011 | ISBN: 0415610192б 1138834785 | EPUB | pages: 360 | 2.3 mb Why did Aeschylus characterize differently from Sophocles? Why did Sophocles introduce the third actor? Why did Euripides not make better Descriptions? So asks H.D.F Kitto in his acclaimed study of Greek tragedy, available for the first time in Routledge Classics.  Grain and Fire: A History of Baking in the American South by Rebecca Sharpless English | ISBN: 146966836X | 344 pages | EPUB | 30 May 2022 | 15 Mb While a luscious layer cake may exemplify the towering glory of southern baking, like everything about the American South, baking is far more complicated than it seems. Rebecca Sharpless here weaves a brilliant chronicle, vast in perspective and entertaining in detail, revealing how three global food traditions―Indigenous American, European, and African―collided with and merged in the economies, cultures, and foodways of the South to create what we know as the southern baking tradition.  Bhaswati Bhattacharya, "Globalising Everyday Consumption in India: History and Ethnography " English | ISBN: 0367178524 | 2021 | 246 pages | PDF | 49 MB This book brings together historical and ethnographic perspectives on Indian consumer identities.
 Krista Mcqueeney, "Girls, Aggression, and Intersectionality: Transforming the Discourse of "Mean Girls" in the United States " English | ISBN: 1138059315 | 2018 | 218 pages | PDF | 1485 KB From media images of "mean girls" to the disproportionate punishment of Black, Latina and/or queer girls in schools and the justice system, female aggression has become a public concern. Scholars, educators, policymakers and parents are scrambling to respond to the perceived upsurge in girls' bullying, peer pressure, and aggression/violence.
 Emily F. Henderson, "Gender, Definitional Politics and 'Live' Knowledge Production: Contesting Concepts at Conferences " English | ISBN: 0367136651 | 2019 | 220 pages | PDF | 969 KB Waking up to the reactivity of concepts, to their myriad possibilities for signification, to the range and strength of affective responses they provoke, can happen at any time, in any place. Conceptual contestations shake up the comfortably consolidated foundations of sociological knowledge production, but they also have consequences for the ways in which lives are understood, researched and legislated for. This book is dedicated to exploring the definitional politics which surround the concept of gender in 'live' knowledge production. While conferences remain an under-researched phenomenon, this volume places conference knowledge production under the spotlight; conferences, in particular national women's studies association conferences in the UK, the US and India, are explored as sites where definitional politics play out. The cumulative theorisation of 'live' conceptual knowledge production that is developed throughout the book draws on established constructs such as performativity, citationality, intersectionality, materiality and events, but works with them in combination in a new, unique way. The book as a whole calls for more attention to be paid to conceptual knowledge production, so as to make more space for potentially transformative conceptual change. |
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