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• Introduction : scents, sensory colonialism, and social worlds in Asia / Gwyn McClelland and Hannah Gould
• On a trail of incense : Japan and olfactory thought / Lorenzo Marinucci
• The shifting smellscape of early medieval China : Emperor Wu's strange aromatics / Peter Romaskiewicz
• The poetics of incense in the lives of medieval Chinese officials / Qian Jia
• A whiff of Southeast Asia : tasting durian and kopi / Gaik Cheng Khoo and Jean Duruz
• The aroma of a place in the sunshine : breathing in Japanese history through the fiction of Endō Shūsaku / Gwyn McClelland
• Words that smell : caste and odors in Hindi Dalit autobiographies / Shivani Kapoor
• Love is in the air : a study of Johnnie To's blind detective / Aubrey Tang
• Pregnancy, childbirth, and the smell of vulnerability in Lombok, Indonesia / Saki Tanada
• Harnessing the stenches of waste : human bodies as olfactory environmental sensors in contemporary China / Adam Liebman
• The smell of a corpse : olfactory culture in a Singaporean funeral parlor / Ruth E. Toulson.

"A multidisciplinary collection of essays exploring the interconnections and disjunctures in Asian cultural histories of scent. Examines how scent functions as a category of social and moral boundary-marking and boundary-breaching within, between, and beyond Asian societies"-- Provided by publisher.

"Travel back in time to learn about the artistry on perhaps the world's most iconic traditional garment - the kimono. Experience the rich and vibrant history of this simple yet sophisticated garment and the skill, tradition, symbolism, and art it represents through over 600 images. Displayed on over 100 full-page color images are supreme examples of the kimono, representing the best from the world's private and museum collections. These kimonos were created during arguably its greatest artistic peak, in the period 1905 through 1950, when great Japanese aesthetic traditions were in dynamic conversation with avant-garde art from the West." -- Page 4 of cover

• Introduction: A queen is crowned
• Tensions at the seams : petty politics and sartorial battles
• Queen makers : beauty, power, and the development of a beauty pageant industrial complex
• Philippine lingerie : transnational Filipina beauty labor under US empire
• Beauty regimens : structure, discipline, and needlework in colonial industrial schools and prisons
• "The dream of beauty" : the terno and the Filipina high-fashion system
• Epilogue: Protectionism and preparedness under overlapping empires.

"In Beauty Regimes, Genevieve Clutario reveals how beauty politics in the Philippines created new relationships between colonial institutions, private industries, and diverse social worlds. During the turbulent transition between Spanish, US, and Japanese empires and the anti-colonial nationalist movement in the Philippines, beauty and fashion shaped intertwined projects of imperial expansion and modern nation-building. Beauty and fashion transformed political, economic, social, and cultural power that converged in the Philippines during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The Philippines became both a source and resource of beauty, though not always for Filipinos themselves. This pathbreaking book offers new ways of understanding beauty's central place in the making of imperial and nationalist power."-- Provided by publisher.

"Beer Places is both a road map for craft beer and an academic analysis of craft beer's ties to place. Collected into sections that address authenticity and revitalization, politics and economics, and collectivity and collaboration, this volume blends new research with a series of "postcards": informal conversations and first-person dispatches from the field that transport readers to the spots where pints are shared and networks forged"-- Provided by publisher

• Veiling women's work
• Fashion's fingers: immodest Modistes
• Fasion's voices: "Modistes des Lettres"
• Fashion's eyes: painting in the mirror
• Epilogue: Midinettes in motion.

• Ambiguous bones : dead in the past
• The popular industry of death : from Godzilla to the ending business
• Caring (differently) for the dead
• Preparedness : a biopolitics of making life out of death
• The smell of lonely death and the work of cleaning it up
• De-parting : the handling of remaindered remains
• Automated graves : the precarity and prosthetics of caring for the dead

"With an aging population, declining marriage and childbirth rates, and a rise in single households, more Japanese are living and dying alone. Many dead are no longer buried in traditional ancestral graves where their descendants would tend their spirits and individuals are increasingly taking on mortuary preparation for themselves. In Being Dead Otherwise Anne Allison examines the emergence of new death practices in Japan as the old customs of mortuary care are coming undone. She outlines the new proliferation of industries, services, initiatives, and businesses that offer alternative means for tending to the dead, ranging from automated graves, collective gravesites, and crematoria to one-stop mortuary complexes and robot priests. These new burial and ritual practices provide alternatives to the long-standing traditions of burial and commemoration of the dead. In charting this shifting ecology of death, Allison outlines the potential of these solutions to radically reorient sociality in Japan in ways that will impact how we think about death, identity, tradition, and culture in Japan and beyond"-- Provided by publisher

• Black hair in print advertisements: a historical analysis / Tameka N. Ellington and Talé A. Mitchell
• Analyzing Jacqueline Woodson's brown girl dreaming: the semiotics and meaning-making of Black hair / Annette Lynch and Tameka N. Ellington
• "Don't need a trip to the beauty shop": depictions of Afro-textured hair in children's media / Tameka N. Ellington and Annette Lynch
• Through the eyes of the beholder: stigmas of (dread) locs / Talé A. Mitchell
• I'm free now! The self-esteem and self-schema of African American women wearing natual hair / Tameka N. Ellington
• Hair apparent: an examination of the natural hair movements of the 1960s and the present / Mikaila Brown
• Going natural: Black women's didactic hair culture / Taura Taylor
• The evolution of the natural hair movement in virtual space: an analysis of digital platforms, agency, and impact / Lauren Cross
• Project naptural: a sociocultural initiative for naptural living / Terresa Moses

"Black Hair in a White World is a groundbreaking, serious study of the cultural history, perceptions, and increasing acceptance of Black hair in broader American society. Editor Tameka N. Ellington brings together a varied group of scholars who together make an important contribution to ongoing discussions about race, gender, sociology, and self-expression. The anthology's essays begins with a close analysis of historical and contemporary books, media, and ads, illustrating both positive and negative responses to Black hair. The second section features contributions from diverse scholars and activists who argue that natural Black hair has often been viewed as a problem that must be solved and criticized by those who find natural Black hair unacceptable, unprofessional, and unattractive. The final essays push back against this narrative and describe the emergence of the natural hair movement, which has advocated for increased mainstream acceptance of Black hair"-- Provided by publisher

"Blue jeans may seem suited to every occasion, but their one-size-fits all appearance hides a history of contradictions"-- Provided by publisher

• Historia
• Carnaval de antaño
• Historia fraternidades de Quillacollo
• Los takipayanakus
• Las reinas del carnaval
• Recordados por siempre
• Otros aspectos

• Acknowledgments
• List of abbreviations
• Preface: on Carnival cities and language choices
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Official narratives, origin myths, and tradition invention
• Chapter 2. Regulating, controlling, and sanctioning revelry
• Chapter 3. Downtown: Mobile's "Negro Main Street" and the emergence of the "Fruit Loop"
• Chapter 4. Official "Colored" Mardi Gras and Mobile's Black liberation struggle
• Chapter 5. Queering Mobile's Mardi Gras
• Chapter 6. Carnivalesque bodies: defying the white gaze and respectability politics
• Chapter 7. Plus Ça change?
• Conclusion: Now you do watcha wanna
• Appendix: narrators Index
• Notes
• Bibliography -- Index

"Mobile is simultaneously a typical and unique city in the postwar United States. It was a quintessential boomtown during World War II. That prosperity was followed by a period of rapid urban decline and subsequent attempts at revitalizing (or gentrifying) its downtown area. As in many other US cities, urban renewal, integration, and other socioeconomic developments led to white flight, marginalized the African American population, and set the stage for the development of LGBTQ community building and subculture. Yet these usually segregated segments of society in Mobile converged once a year to create a common identity, that of a Carnival City. Carnival in Alabama looks not only at the people who participated in Mardi Gras organizations divided by race, gender, and/or sexual orientation, but also investigates the experience of "marked bodies" outside of these organizations, or people involved in Carnival through their labor or as audiences (or publics) of the spectacle. It also expands the definition of Mobile's Carnival "tradition" beyond the official pageantry by including street maskers and laborers and neighborhood cookouts. Using archival sources and oral history interviews to investigate and analyze the roles assigned, inaccessible to, or claimed and appropriated by straight-identified African American men and women and people who defied gender and sexuality normativity in the festivities (regardless of their racial identity), this book seeks to understand power dynamics through culture and ritual. By looking at Carnival as an "invented tradition" and as a semiotic system associated with discourses of power, it joins a transnational conversation about the phenomenon"-- Provided by publisher

• Un canular médiatique international
• Une étrange collection de lettres
• Le corpus du cimetière du Père-Lachaise
• Des candidatures internationales
• Une diffusion médiatique virale
• Aux origines médiatiques de la légende : France ou États-Unis
• Et qui ressurgit périodique aux XXe et XXIe siècles
• Une légende bien de son temps
• Le contexte d'un "nouveau journalisme", appuyé sur des réseaux d'informations mondialisés
• Lectures, interprétations et réceptions d'une légende contemporaine
• Le "syndrome de Blanche-Neige"
• Le langage du conte, du symbolisme et de la légende
• "Les usages de l'enchantement" : Blanche Neige au XIXe siècle
• D'autres Blanche-Neige au XXe siècle : les Belles mortes exhibées
• Matière et forme : l'équation du verre et du cercueil ?
• Une "civilisation du verre"
• Des cloches d'observation
• Les châsses reliquaires
• De "vrais" cercueils de verre
• La fabrication industrielle de cercueils en verre
• L'introduction de lucarnes d'observation vitrées
• Le cimetière du Père-Lachaise ou la fascination des tombeaux et des sarcophages
• Le cimetière du Père-Lachaise : un cimetière hors-normes au rayonnement mondial
• Du modèle connu dans le monde entier et qui se visite.
• ... À la "marque" déposée de cimetière, copiée de par le monde
• La tentative d'identification du tombeau de la princesse russe
• Le tombeau Demidoff-Strogonoff
• Le tombeau de Félix de Beaujour
• Fascinations et phobies : une nécro-géographie inquiétante
• Les troublantes hypothèses de Karl-Hans Strobl (1913)
• Les peurs du tombeau
• Le temps, la morale de l'argent et l'horreur ?
• La belle au temps dormant
• Il était une fois "il y a cinq ans"
• 365 jours et 366 nuits : la durée périlleuse
• La morale de l'argent ou l'imaginaire de l'argent qui dort
• Un temps capitaliste
• Time is Money. L'argent qui dort : un trésor caché ?
• Héritages, donations et testaments providentiels
• L'excentricité légendaire des Princesses russes
• L'horreur ou l'impossible promesse de l'aube
• La transfiguration du cercueil au XIXe siècle
• Les métamorphoses du cercueil à Paris
• Les types de cercueils produits en série en région parisienne
• La liberté de choisir son cercueil au XIXe siècle
• Le cercueil comme un écrin de soi
• L'idéal de conservation de corps intacts
• Beautification of the Dead
• Un culte ambigu du cercueil
• Des hommages aux cercueils
• La théâtralité trouble du cercueil
• Quel intérêt à cette légende pour les historien•ne•s
• Un autre type de "micro-événement"
• L'enquête, la démarche indiciaire et le braconnage
• De la distance en histoire
• La distance comme construction culturelle et sociale
• La juste distance de l'historien.ne.

"A l'origine de cet ouvrage, une étrange collection de lettres, écrites entre les années 1890 et les années 1930, et adressées au cimetière du Père-Lachaise. Elles proviennent de Paris, d'Angleterre, d'Autriche, d'Italie, d'Amérique, de Belgique... Leurs auteurs sont soldat, veilleur de nuit, berger, journaliste. Tous expliquent avoir eu vent par la presse qu'une princesse russe (dans les courriers du XIXe) ou une riche héritière américaine (dans ceux reçus dans l'entre-deux guerres), décédée, avait promis sa fortune à celui qui accepterait de tenir compagnie à sa dépouille, pendant un an, dans un caveau de verre... Et si la princesse, ou l'héritière, n'ont jamais existé, les articles de presse, eux, sont réels. Canular ou légende urbaine ? Quoiqu'il en soit, pendant un demi-siècle, l'histoire circule et renaît, preuve flagrante du pouvoir de la presse. L'ouvrage suit le fil de ce "conte" moderne, en retrace le parcours et les métamorphoses, et s'intéresse à ce que cela dit d'un sujet rarement évoqué de manière aussi frontale : le devenir du cadavre dans les sociétés contemporaines, l'aménagement spatial et matériel que symbolise le tombeau et l'attention que nous portons aux morts. La légende du cercueil de verre est ici utilisée comme une voie d'accès à cette "boîte noire" qu'est l'imaginaire occidental contemporain de la "dernière demeure"."--Page 4 of cover.

• Introduction: The city that dreams
• A crypt of the supernatural
• Feminine power and New Orleans' voodoo queen
• America's most haunted city
• Drinking blood in the Big Easy
• Conclusion.

"From its looming above-ground cemeteries to the ghosts believed to haunt its stately homes, New Orleans is a city deeply entwined with death, the undead, and the supernatural. City of the Undead explains how the Big Easy came to be synonymous with the paranormal in the form of ghosts, vampires, and Voodoo Queens. The reasons behind New Orleans's reputation as America's most haunted city are numerous. Its location at the mouth of the Mississippi River grants it a liminal status between water and land, while its stately oaks and Spanish moss create an eerie beauty. The ever-mixing blend of spiritual beliefs from Native American, African, African American, Caribbean, and European cultures resulted in a unique ferment of the paranormal. Elaborate cemeteries and ornate architecture, an extremely high death rate in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and a long history of enslavement and oppression laid the groundwork for a cultural scene friendly to stories of Voodoo, ghosts, and vampires. Robin Roberts explores representations of three specific supernatural figures: the Voodoo Queen, the ghost, and the vampire. Reviewing the historical bases for these figures, she examines nonfiction, fiction, TV and film, and walking tours to discover how stories of the supernatural can bring attention to the injustices that have faced, and continue to face, marginalized groups in the city. City of the Undead shows how these supernatural figures relate to each other, what function they serve in the greater fabric of the city, and why New Orleans developed and continues to cherish its reputation as a site for the supernatural. It's a city that reminds us of the possibility of life after death and assures us that resistance to injustice need not end in the grave"-- Provided by publisher.

• 1. Introduction: changing practices and perception of the body
• 2. A brief history of urns, urnfields and burials in the Urnfield Culture
• 3. Theoretical framework
• 4. The Bronze Age: setting the scene
• 5. The changing Bronze Age body - introduction of case studies
• 6. The treatment of the body: compatibility and divergence
• 7. The construction of graves: coherence and variations
• 8. After the burial: prolonged engagement with the body
• 9. Conclusions: on the nature of change in burial practices.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

This volume offers new insights into the radical shift in attitudes towards death and the dead body that occurred in temperate Bronze Age Europe. Exploring the introduction and eventual dominance of cremation, Marie-Louise Stig Sorenson and Katharina Rebay-Salisbury apply a case-study approach to investigate how this transformation unfolded within local communities located throughout central to northern Europe. They demonstrate the deep link between the living and the dead body, and propose that the introduction of cremation was a significant ontological challenge to traditional ideas about death. In tracing the responses to this challenge, the authors focus on three fields of action: the treatment of the dead body, the construction of a burial place, and ongoing relationships with the dead body after burial. Interrogating cultural change at its most fundamental level, the authors elucidate the fundamental tension between openness towards the 'new' and the conservative pull of the familiar and traditional.
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• Anne Carol et Isabelle Renaudet
• Introduction
• Corps exceptionnels, marginaux ou désocialisés
• Vincent Gourdon, Nathalie Sage Pranchère
• Entre exclusion principielle et volonté de reintegration
• Le devenir funéraire des mort-nés. France, époque moderne-XIe siècle
• Bruno Bertherat
• L'anomie mortuaire de la Morgue. Paris, XIe siècle
• Caractéristiques, limites, évolutions
• Anne Carol
• Le corps des guillotinés. Prévost, 1880
• Isabelle Renaudet
• La seconde vie d'Eva Per6n, de la Belle endormie à l'errance mortuaire
• Situations limites
• Morts de masse, corps absents
• Odile Roynette
• Découvrir, identifier, ensevelir les cadavres des combattants en 1870-1871
• Arme Carol
• Les victimes de catastrophes ferroviaires
• Meudon (1842) et Saint-Mandé (1891)
• Diego Carnevale
• Des cadavres dangereux
• Le cas de la première épidémie de choléra à Naples 1836-1837
• Jean-Marc Dreyfus
• Violences de masse et génocides. Corps disparus et forensic turn
• Régis Bertrand
• L'exhumation, entre transgression et discrétion
• Martin Robert
• La crémation entre essor et marginalité à la fin du XXe siècle
• Une pratique hors normes ?
• Régis Bertrand
• Les inhumations hors des cimetières publics dans la France contemporaine
• Une pratique d'exception ?
• Amandine Malivin
• L'affaire du Muy, et autres profanations nécrophiles.

"Les sociétés européennes ont construit, depuis le XIXe siècle, un régime funéraire qui a placé le corps au centre des soins que les vivants prodiguent aux morts et qui s'articule autour de la tombe et du cimetière. Il arrive pourtant que des corps se voient privés de ces soins ou que leur mise en œuvre soit perturbée, intentionnellement ou pas. Ce livre offre, à travers quelques cas de figures exemplaires, un panorama de ces morts qui dérogent à la norme funéraire. Ces écarts à la norme peuvent procéder du statut marginal ou exceptionnel des morts : mort-nés, criminels exécutés, morts anonymes, icônes politiques; dans d'autres cas, ils peuvent découler des circonstances anomiques où la mort est survenue : temps de guerre, épidémies, catastrophes industrielles ou massacres; l'a-normalité peut enfin se nicher au cœur des pratiques mêmes dont le corps est la cible : nécrophilie, crémation, exhumation, inhumation hors cimetière. Pour chacun de ces cas de figure, les textes réunis ici s'attacheront à montrer en quoi le processus funéraire est suspendu, dévoyé, dégradé voire subverti, et à évaluer l'impact de ces dissidences sur les sensibilités contemporaines ; mais aussi à repérer les efforts, même minimes, pour réparer, rétablir un semblant de normalité dans les funérailles, ainsi qu'à identifier les acteurs impliqués dans les deux cas."--Page 4 of cover.

• Introduction : domesticity under siege / Mark Taylor, Georgina Downey, Terry Meade
• Miasmatical fears / Annmarie Adams
• Domesticity and fear : insects and creepy crawlies / Mark Taylor
• The domestic screen / Terry Meade
• Hoarding disorder, Schwitters's Merzbau and its conflict with domesticity / Judit Pusztaszeri
• Under siege : the wartime home in British art of the London Blitz / Georgina Downey
• Searching for (a) home in the rubble : the Heimkehrer-Flâneur in Wolfgang Staudte's Die Mörder sind unter uns' / Kai-Uwe Werbeck
• 'I have ended up like the house, pretending to be myself' : uncanny heritage house museums / Hannah Lewi
• Suburban horror story / James F. Kerestes

"Theories of the domestic stemming from the 19th century have focused on the home as a place of repose and safety. Under this conception, domestic space is positioned as a refuge which gave rise to theories of 'home as haven'. Organised around four thematic sections, chapters provide approaches to the home which challenge notions of 'haven' and reflect major causes that have played an important role in undermining the modern home. Examples and case studies explore hoarding, hauntings, imprisonment, wartime interior art, the Hanover Merzbau and Wolfgang Staudte's 1946 film Die Mörder sind unter uns ('The Murderers are Among Us')"-- Provided by publisher

• Prologue: The global world of dress in Zambia
• Dress practice as history
• PART 1. Dressing Well. The migration nexus
• Dressing for freedom
• PART 2. Dress and Undress. Dress, undress, body, and nation
• Miniskirts and dangerous dress practice
• The dramaturgy of body politics
• PART 3. Fashionable Transformations. Youth and urban cultures of consumption
• Fashioning demonstrative displays
• Dressing Zambian
• A digital fitting room
• Conclusion.

"Dress Cultures in Zambia Drawing on half-a-century of research in Zambia and regional scholarship, Karen Tranberg Hansen offers a vibrant history of changing dress practices from the late-colonial period to the present day. Exploring how the dressed body serves as the point of contact between personal, local, and global experiences, she argues that dress is just as central to political power as it is to personal style. Questioning the idea that the West led fashion trends elsewhere, Hansen demonstrates how local dress conventions appropriated western dress influences as Zambian and shows how Zambia contributed to global fashions, such as the colourful Chitenge fabric that spread across colonial trading networks. Brought to life with colour illustrations and personal anecdotes, this book spotlights dress not only as an important medium through which Zambian identities are negotiated, but also as a key reflector and driver of history. Karen Tranberg Hansen is Professor Emerita at Northwestern University. Her research focuses on the informal economy, clothing, and consumption. Her previous publications include Distant Companions: Servants and Employers in Zambia, 1900-1985 (1989), African Encounters with Domesticity (1992), Keeping House in Lusaka (1997) and Salaula: The World of Secondhand Clothing and Zambia (2000), which was awarded the Anthony Leeds Prize in Urban Anthropology in 2001, and the Society of Economic Anthropology Book Award in 2003. She is the recipient of several book prizes and awards including the Conrad M. Arensberg Award from the Society for the Anthropology of Work in 1997"-- Provided by publisher.