Moving Together

Edited by Allana C. Lindgren, Batia Boe Stolar, and Clara Sacchetti
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Performing Arts, Ethnography

Moving Together: Dance and Pluralism in Canada explores how dance intersects with the shifting concerns of pluralism in a variety of racial and ethnic communities across Canada.

Focusing on the twentieth ...

This Is Not a Hoax

By Heather Jessup
Subjects: Indigenous Studies, Art, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Ethnography

This Is Not a Hoax shows how the work of some contemporary artists and writers intentionally disrupts the curatorial and authorial practices of the country’s most respected cultural institutions: art ...

Bird-Bent Grass

By Kathleen Venema
Subjects: Family & Relationships, Ethnography, Biography & Autobiography, Life Writing
Series: Life Writing

Bird-Bent Grass chronicles an extraordinary mother–daughter relationship that spans distance, time, and, eventually, debilitating illness. Personal, familial, and political narratives unfold through ...

Ecologies of the Moving Image

By Adrian J. Ivakhiv
Subjects: Environmental Studies, Cultural Studies, Ethnography, Film & Media
Series: Environmental Humanities

Moving images take us on mental and emotional journeys, over the course of which we and our worlds undergo change. This is the premise of Ecologies of the Moving Image, which accounts for the ways cinematic ...

Fields in Motion

Edited by Dena Davida
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Performing Arts, Ethnography

Fields in Motion: Ethnography in the Worlds of Dance examines the deeper meanings and resonances of artistic dance in contemporary culture.

The book comprises four sections: methods and methodologies, ...

Ecologies of Affect

Edited by Tonya K. Davidson, Ondine Park, and Rob Shields
Subjects: Social Science, Urban Studies, Cultural Studies, Ethnography
Series: Environmental Humanities

Ecologies of Affect offers a synthetic introduction to the felt dynamics of cities and the character of places. The contributors capture the significance of affects including desire, nostalgia, memory, ...

Travel and Religion in Antiquity

Edited by Philip A. Harland
Subjects: Religion, Ethnography
Series: Studies in Christianity and Judaism

Travel and Religion in Antiquity considers the importance of issues relating to travel for our understanding of religious and cultural life among Jews, Christians, and others in the ancient world, particularly ...

Music Traditions, Cultures, and Contexts

Edited by Robin Elliott & Gordon E. Smith
Subjects: Music, Ethnography, Indigenous Studies

Music Traditions, Cultures, and Contexts is a tribute to the ethnomusicologist Beverley Diamond in recognition of her outstanding scholarly accomplishments. The volume includes essays by leading ethnomusicologists ...

A Kindly Scrutiny of Human Nature

Edited by Richard J. Preston
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Social Science, Anthropology, Ethnography

A Kindly Scrutiny of Human Nature is a collection of essays honouring Richard (Dick) Slobodin, one of the great anthropologists of the Canadian North.

A short biography is followed by essays describing ...

Persistence of the Gift

By Mike Evans
Subjects: Ethnography, Social Science, Anthropology, Political Science, Business & Economics, Economics

Tonga, the South Pacific island kingdom located east of Fiji and south of Samoa, is one of the world’s few remaining constitutional monarchies. Although Tonga has long been linked to the world system ...