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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, ...

Unfitting Stories

Edited by Angela D. Henderson, Carla Paterson, Connie Canam, and Valerie Raoul
Subjects: Psychology, Ethnography

Unfitting Stories: Narrative Approaches to Disease, Disability, and Trauma illustrates how stories about ill health and suffering have been produced and received from a variety of perspectives. Bringing ...

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 ...

A Kindly Scrutiny of Human Nature

Edited by Richard J. Preston
Subjects: 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 ...

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 ...

Moving Together

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

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 ...