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A Cross-Cultural Dialogue on Health Care Ethics

Edited by Harold Coward & Pinit Ratanakul
Subjects: Ethnography, Philosophy, Ethics

The ethical theories employed in health care today assume, in the main, a modern Western philosophical framework. Yet the diversity of cultural and religious assumptions regarding human nature, health ...

Asian Canadian Writing Beyond Autoethnography

By Christl Verduyn
Edited by Eleanor Ty
Subjects: Ethnography, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

Asian Canadian Writing Beyond Autoethnography explores some of the latest developments in the literary and cultural practices of Canadians of Asian heritage. While earlier work by ethnic, multicultural, ...

Ecologies of Affect

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

Minds of Our Own

Edited by Francine Descarries, Margrit Eichler, Meg Luxton, and Wendy Robbins
Subjects: Social Science, Women’s Studies, Ethnography, Education

This book of personal essays by over forty women and men who founded women’s studies in Canada and Québec explores feminist activism on campus in the pivotal decade of 1966-76. The essays document ...

Persistence of the Gift

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

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 ...

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 ...

This Spot of Ground

By Carol B. Duncan
Subjects: Social Science, Women’s Studies, Ethnography, Emigration & Immigration, Religion

This Spot of Ground: Spiritual Baptists in Toronto represents the first detailed exploration of an African-Caribbean religion in the context of contemporary migration to Canada. Toronto is home to Canadas ...

This Is Not a Hoax

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

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 ...