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Music Traditions, Cultures, and Contexts

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

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 ...

NFB Kids

By Brian J. Low
Subjects: History, Ethnography, Cultural Studies, Film & Media, Social Science, Sociology, Canadian History
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

Imagine a society that exists solely in cinema — this book explores exactly that.
Using a half-century of films from the archival collection of the National Film Board, NFB Kids: Portrayals of Children ...

Bountiful Island

By David Damas
Subjects: Social Science, Anthropology, Ethnography

In Bountiful Island a major Arctic scholar turns his eye on Micronesia: the small and isolated atoll of Pingelap in Micronesia lies in a moist climatic belt which encourages abundant plant life, including ...

Bird-Bent Grass

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

EcCentric Visions

By Gaile McGregor
Subjects: Social Science, Anthropology, Ethnography, Literary Criticism, Cultural Studies

What this book represents is, quite literally, a “slice” of (white) Australian life. By noting the patterns and parallels that emerge in a random sampling of social phenomena of widely varying types, ...

Ecologies of the Moving Image

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

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 ...