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Given the scope of its content, the book would have benefited from an introductory chapter from the editor. The breadth of regional, chronological and methodological coverage presented together in a single volume is the key strength of the book, and the editor should be congratulated for soliciting additional contributions from beyond the conference attendees. Although this is the only chapter in the volume that deals with heritage that falls within the traditional remit of maritime archaeology - specifically boats - she embeds her study of a traditional craft into a broader narrative. [Extracted from the article]

I shared my first Instagram photo in 2012 of my then-husband playing a ukulele on our front porch, filtered with a vintage glow like an old polaroid left in the sun too long. This latter point embodies the authors' concluding (and aptly titled) seventh chapter, "From the Instagram of Everything to the Everything of Instagram", which brings this disparately segmented book together to reinforce the platform's power as a near-ubiquitous political, economic, socio-cultural and aesthetic force that has reshaped how contemporary digital communication and cultures are globally practised and made. Instagram: visual social media cultures: by Tama Leaver, Tim Highfield, and Crystal Abidin, Cambridge, Polity, 2020, 264 pp., €18.10 (paper), ISBN: 9781509534395. [Extracted from the article]

I Home Feelings i is a noteworthy, interdisciplinary study about Canadians "in the making" along the frontier during the first half of the twentieth century. In a short, post-1945 conclusion, Mason discusses the federal state's involvement in adult education in the pursuit of a democratization that would lessen radical tendencies. Between 1930 and 1936, Mason shows how Frontier College employed counter-literacy to oppose the "red threat" evident in magazines such as the I Relief Camp Worker i . [Extracted from the article]

First, this case study of the Anindilyakwa-speaking people of Groote Eylant takes up the critique of narratives of modernisation, particularly the "evangelical script" of literacy, conversion and civilisation that suggests Indigenous societies emerge out of orality and cast aside traditions when they encounter the power of literacy. Indigenous Textual Cultures: Reading and Writing in the Age of Global Empire: Edited by Tony Ballantyne, Lachy Paterson and Angela Wanhalla. Laura Rademaker's chapter, 'Going off Script: Aboriginal Rejection and Repurposing of English Literacies', acknowledges and draws on a tradition of Australian research that documents the long Aboriginal tradition of using writing to demand rights. [Extracted from the article]

On Taungurung Land: Sharing History and Culture: By Uncle Roy Patterson and Jennifer Jones. Equally, many New Zealand historians need to resume comparative studies with Australian race relations history, as some younger practitioners are currently doing, to help both nations build fairer and stronger multicultural societies, especially at a time when New Zealand is finally discarding the limitations of its colonial past by making the teaching of an honest and full New Zealand history compulsory in all of its schools. As someone who has worked on land settlement by white settlers and its impact upon the indigenous people of Aotearoa/New Zealand for a long time it has been interesting, if more than a little distressing, to read about the same subject in our nearest neighbouring country. [Extracted from the article]

The book review discusses the edited volume "Community Still Matters: Uyghur Culture and Society in Central Asian Context," which is dedicated to Prof. Ildikó Bellér-Hann, a foundational scholar in Uyghur studies. The volume includes twenty essays by foreign and Uyghur scholars, covering a range of disciplines such as anthropology, history, literature, and political science. The essays explore the ties that bind Uyghur communities and their interactions, focusing on topics such as historical figures, oral history, gender, community rituals, literature, and Chinese governmental white papers on Xinjiang. The volume emphasizes the importance of deep immersion in community knowledge, fieldwork, and literary study. [Extracted from the article]

by Andrew Witt, pp. 428, £23.15, (paper), ISBN 978-0-262-54300-2, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (2021)By Tony CrillyReported by Author [Extracted from the article]

A Review of Lyn Spillman's What is Cultural Sociology? Furthermore, by avoiding a thick description of the debates, Spillman naturalizes particular theoretical positions that are included in the book as core knowledge, while other sides of the debate are not explicated. Without these, readers will be unable to chart the epistemological debates that structure cultural sociology and the processes of meaning outlined in the book. It was then that Marx, Weber, Durkheim, and Simmel, Spillman says, kickstarted the study of culture in sociology, and finally Berger and Luckmann ([8]) who brought it back into the fold after several decades of neglect. [Extracted from the article]

It appears that infants can distinguish precisely between small numbers such as one, two and three; they can also distinguish in an approximate way between large and small quantities as long as they are sufficiently different (e.g. quantities of 8 and 16 are seen as different; 8 and 12 not so), but they have no precise understanding of numbers more than three. It appears that formal number systems were originally developed to refer to very concrete and material quantities in the real world (e.g. the number of fingers on my hand, which is five - no more, no less), overcoming the fuzzy quantity perceptions that people are born with in relation to numbers greater than three. We show in our paper how that pseudo-objective number scheme was sustained by the political rationality of the concrete decisions it produced, rather than by the accuracy of the numbers themselves. [Extracted from the article]

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For the readers of I Acta Borealia i Hansen needs no further introduction, being one of the leading scholars specialized in Northern Scandinavia and historic Sámi-Norse interaction. My expectations for I The Sámi, State Subjugation and Strategic Interaction i are also shaped by the appealing format of the book, the quality of paper and the pleasing cover. " Birkarlar and Sámi - Inter-Cultural Contacts Beyond State Control: Reconsidering the Standing of External Tradesmen (birkarlar) in Medieval Sámi Societies.". [Extracted from the article]

Jaishree Misra occupies a significant seat in the gallery of Indo-Anglian writers. Her first novel Ancient Promises has garnered her wide popularity and critical acclaim. The novel Ancient Promises spins around the life of Janaki or Janu, who at a younger age was trapped in a love less marriage. Janu's displacement or transplantations to different places, whether it is Delhi, Kerala or London had a significant effect on her life and each of her journeys after her marriage, culminating in her migration to London had contributed much in shaping Janu into a bold woman. The paper tries to look into the significance of the metaphors of mobility, like travel or migration and their association with the concept of place. The paper strives to investigate how the 'places' affected, shaped and defined Janu's life and how the metaphors of mobility are intertwined in the plot and its significance in the story. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Yoruba, predominantly of southwest Nigeria, comes with a long history of deep cultural consciousness and identity defined by the omoluabi essence - a sense of, commitment to, and pride in pristine and honorable conduct, individually and corporately. This paper interrogates the different, yet intricately linked perspectives articulated in Encyclopedia of the Yoruba on the cosmology, culture, and sociology of the Yoruba; the impact of modernity on its being; and the basis of the resilience of much of its wider cultural forms in different spatial and temporal contexts. It notes that the basic outline of the Yoruba culture predates its contact with the West, and is indeed comparable to the best of the latter in significant respects. A more autochthonous existence for the Yoruba, predicated upon this uniquely profound and composite cultural essence, within the Nigerian federation, has limitless possibilities for social cohesion and advancement of the development agenda. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Marisol Quevedo Rerucha's book, "Beyond the Surface of Restorative Practices: Building a Culture of Equity, Connection, and Healing," offers a comprehensive guide to implementing restorative practices in educational settings. Rerucha emphasizes the importance of building trusting and relational environments to address systemic oppression, gender discrimination, racism, and other inequities. The book provides practical strategies for developing and implementing a whole-school restorative strategic plan, including guidelines, agreements, and resources. Rerucha's approach is principled and based on her lived experiences as a Chicana teacher, principal, mother, and strategic leader. The book also includes contributions from other scholars on active listening, trauma, and restorative practices in the classroom. Overall, Rerucha's book is a valuable resource for educators and others interested in creating a more equitable and healing environment. [Extracted from the article]

A review of the book "Look for Me and I'll Be Gone: Stories," by John Edgar Wideman, is presented.

Solimar Otero, I Archives of Conjure: Stories of the Dead in Afrolatinx Cultures i . (Paper US$ 30.00) Solimar Otero's latest book is not an easy one to read, even for scholars of Cuba and Brazil like myself. [Extracted from the article]

Here, Koikari disrupts depoliticized ties between the marginalized people of the Tohoku region and indigenous Hawaiians, critiquing the erasures of Japanese and Western imperialism in the romanticized tropes of "paradise" and "healing." Moreover, Koikari highlights the proliferation of language that reinforces connections between manhood and the military through the resurrection of an ostensible martial "inheritance", namely, I bushido i . Moreover, Koikari underscores the ways in which exhortations to take responsibility for recovery and risk containment are couched in national(ist) terms that uncritically hark back to the troubling language and mindsets of imperial and wartime Japan while repackaging Japan's military as primarily a humanitarian entity. [Extracted from the article]

As for where I The Quantified Self i should be placed on the bookshelf, its most natural neighbor happens to be Greengard's ([9]) I Internet of Things i , as Lupton quotes the book several times. One of the frames, "Scholarship as Conversation" helps to understand why Lupton, Greengard, and Alter ultimately came up short. Lupton, Greengard, and Alter are providing readers with a snapshot of the conversation, but do not expect their readers to sustain the conversation beyond the pages of their book. If a reader I only i reads one of these books, they are missing out on the work that has come before and will come after Lupton, Greengard, and Alter. [Extracted from the article]

I The Embodied Child: Reading in Children's Literature and Culture i is a timely and engaging collection of essays arising from the International Research Society for Children's Literature (IRSCL) 2015 congress. These essays support the argument that our understanding of how individual texts and reading/viewing experiences construct children as readers and interpreters deserves further study and discussion. Overall, however, the impression is of a well-shaped contribution that fulfils the intention to provide a broad overview and the beginning of a move toward posthuman readings of children's literature and culture. [Extracted from the article]

This paper aspires to evince the cultural consciousness of the African writer Chinua Achebe by depicting the dilemmatic outlook of Igbo young man in dual cultures in his second novel 'No Longer at Ease' (1960). Most of the postcolonial writers serve as a spokesperson of their culture to protect their roots and preserve the magnificent traditional past of their country. Likewise Achebe, a Nigerian novelist, being a pioneer in African writings in English, focuses on submitting the values of African culture differently. He felt that the western world literature misrepresents with depth and intensity that Africans are barbarous and uncivilized. Most of the European writings portray African culture as a mysterious symbol of primitivism, cannibalism, savagery and tribalism, to the extent of being inhuman. He thus, wanted to talk about African culture as a benign and noble culture through his writings. Achebe aims to furnish a new insight of African culture. Achebe's No Longer at Ease reveals the enormity of African culture by demystifying the different cultural manifestations. The integrated patterns of African culture represent the total way of Africans' life. The modern African life which reflects the conflicts of Igbo reveals the religious bigotry and colonized sufferings of the Igbo people. In this novel, Achebe reveals the traditions, customs, language complexities, beliefs, taboos, codes, rituals and religious conflict of the African people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Using the feminist qualified by the sociological critical framework, this paper demonstrates how the psychological disposition of the characters in Ama Ata Aidoo's Changes: A Love Story exhibits the mentality of urban-dwellers, revealing some western culture contact and conflict with traditional African culture. Consequently, it also attempts to analyse how Aidoo artistically exploits the disorganization of social life and the disintegration and erosion of traditional values in post- colonial Africa extrapolating from Ghana for the amelioration of women's condition. Esi and Opokuya the two middle class modern educate African women are compared and contrasted in this work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Wole Soyinka is a prolific Nigerian dramatist, poet, novelist, autobiographer, scriptwriter and critic. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, he is in the forefront of African writers today, along with Chinua Achebe and Ngugi Wa Thiang'o. His works reveal the major conflict in the post-colonial concepts like domination, suppression, and search for identity. This paper is an attempt to bring out how his play 'The Lion and the Jewel' characterized by culture conflict, rude comedy and love, where the old culture represented by the uneducated people in Ilunjunle, led by Baroka, Sidi and the rest, conflict with the new culture led by Wole Soyinka, The Lion and the Jewel, domination, suppression, culture, identity Lakunle, who is educated, school teacher by profession is influenced by the western ways. The central idea of this study is to show of how Soyinka through his themes, plot and characters finds out the conflict between the cultures, further the study concludes by proving to the world thoughts and condition of culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]