Clarity Cut And Culture
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Clarity Cut And Culture
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Author : Susan Falls
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2014
Clarity Cut And Culture written by Susan Falls and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS categories.
"Images of diamonds appear everywhere in American culture. And everyone who has a diamond has a story to tell about it. Our stories about diamonds not only reveal what we do with these tiny stones, but also suggest how we create value, meaning, and identity through our interactions with material culture in general.Things become meaningful through our interactions with them, but how do people go about making meaning? What can we learn from an ethnography about the production of identity, creation of kinship, and use of diamonds in understanding selves and social relationships? By what means do people positioned within a globalized political-economy and a compelling universe of advertising interact locally with these tiny polished rocks?This book draws on 12 months of fieldwork with diamond consumers in New York City as well as an analysis of the iconic De Beers campaign that promised romance, status, and glamour to anyone who bought a diamond to show that this thematic pool is just one resource among many that diamond owners draw upon to engage with their own stones. The volume highlights the important roles that memory, context, and circumstance also play in shaping how people interpret and then use objects in making personal worlds. It shows that besides operating as subjects in an ad-burdened universe, consumers are highly creative, idiosyncratic, and theatrical agents"--
The Anthropology Of Resource Extraction
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Author : Lorenzo D'Angelo
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2022-01-13
The Anthropology Of Resource Extraction written by Lorenzo D'Angelo and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-13 with Technology & Engineering categories.
This book offers an overview of the key debates in the burgeoning anthropological literature on resource extraction. Resources play a crucial role in the contemporary economy and society, are required in the production of a vast range of consumer products and are at the core of geopolitical strategies and environmental concerns for the future of humanity. Scholars have widely debated the economic and sociological aspects of resource management in our societies, offering interesting and useful abstractions. However, anthropologists offer different and fresh perspectives – sometimes complementary and at other times alternative to these abstractions – based on field researches conducted in close contact with those actors (individuals as well as groups and institutions) that manipulate, anticipate, fight for, or resist the extractive processes in many creative ways. Thus, while addressing questions such as: "What characterizes the anthropology of resource extraction?", "What topics in the context of resource extraction have anthropologists studied?", and "What approaches and insights have emerged from this?", this book synthesizes and analyses a range of anthropological debates about the ways in which different actors extract, use, manage, and think about resources. This comprehensive volume will serve as a key reading for scholars and students within the social sciences working on resource extraction and those with an interest in natural resources, environment, capitalism, and globalization. It will also be a useful resource for practitioners within mining and development.
The Imperfects
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Author : Amy Meyerson
language : en
Publisher: Harlequin
Release Date : 2020-05-05
The Imperfects written by Amy Meyerson and has been published by Harlequin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-05 with Fiction categories.
A priceless inheritance leads an imperfect family on a life-changing pursuit of the truth in a “compassionate, thoughtful, and surprisingly moving” novel (Booklist). Estranged siblings Beck, Ashley and Jake Miller are forced to reunite when their eccentric matriarch, Helen, passes away. But in between airing old resentments, they find a secret inheritance hidden among her possessions: the Florentine Diamond, a 137-carat yellow gemstone that went missing from the Austrian Empire a century ago. Desperate to learn how one of the world’s most elusive diamonds ended up in Helen’s bedroom, the Millers suddenly realize how little they know about their grandmother. As they race to determine whether they are the rightful heirs to the diamond and the fortune it promises, they uncover a past more tragic and powerful than they ever could have imagined. Inspired by the true story of the real, still-missing Florentine Diamond, The Imperfects illuminates the sacrifices we make for family, and how discovering our past can be the key to a better the future.
In Search Of Lost Futures
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Author : Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-02-16
In Search Of Lost Futures written by Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-16 with Social Science categories.
In Search of Lost Futures asks how imaginations might be activated through practices of autoethnography, multimodality, and deep interdisciplinarity—each of which has the power to break down methodological silos, cultivate novel research sensibilities, and inspire researchers to question what is known about ethnographic process, representation, reflexivity, audience, and intervention within and beyond the academy. By blurring the boundaries between the past, present, and future; between absence and presence; between the possible and the impossible; and between fantasy and reality, In Search of Lost Futures pushes the boundaries of ethnographic engagement. It reveals how researchers on the cutting edge of the discipline are studying absence and grief and employing street performance, museum exhibit, anticipation, or simulated reality to research and intervene in the possible, the impossible, and the uncertain.
White Gold
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Author : Susan Falls
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2017
White Gold written by Susan Falls and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Family & Relationships categories.
Women have shared breast milk for eons, but in White Gold, Susan Falls shows how the meanings of capitalism, technology, motherhood, and risk can be understood against the backdrop of an emerging practice in which donors and recipients of breast milk are connected through social media in the southern United States. Drawing on her own experience as a participant, Falls describes the sharing community. She also presents narratives from donors, doulas, medical professionals, and recipients to provide a holistic ethnographic account. Situating her subject within cross-cultural comparisons of historically shifting attitudes about breast milk, Falls shows how sharing "white gold"--seen as a scarce, valuable, even mysterious substance--is a mode of enacting parenthood, gender, and political values. Though breast milk is increasingly being commodified, Falls argues that sharing is a powerful and empowering practice. Far from uniform, participants may be like-minded about parenting but not other issues, so their acquaintanceships add new textures to the body politic. In this interdisciplinary account, White Gold shows how sharing simultaneously reproduces the capitalist values that it disrupts while encouraging community-making between strangers.
Back To The 30s
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Author : Jeremy Rayner
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-11-19
Back To The 30s written by Jeremy Rayner and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-19 with Social Science categories.
The essays in this volume address the question: what does it mean to understand the contemporary moment in light of the 1930s? In the aftermath of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, and facing a dramatic rise of right wing, authoritarian politics across the globe, the events of the 1930s have acquired a renewed relevance. Contributions from a diverse, interdisciplinary group of scholars address the relationship between these historical moments in various geographical contexts, from Asia-Pacific to Europe to the Americas, while probing an array of thematic questions—the meaning of populism and fascism, the contradictions of constitutional liberalism and “militant democracy,” long cycles and crisis tendencies in capitalism, the gendering and racialization of right wing movements, and the cultural and class politics of emancipatory struggles. Uncovering continuity as well as change and repetition in the midst of transition, Back to the 30s? enriches our ability to use the past to evaluate the challenges, dangers, and promises of the present.
An Anthropology Of Learning
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Author : Cathrine Hasse
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-12-05
An Anthropology Of Learning written by Cathrine Hasse and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-05 with Education categories.
This book has one explicit purpose: to present a new theory of cultural learning in organisations which combines practice-based learning with cultural models - a cognitive anthropological schema theory of taken-for-granted connections - tied to the everyday meaningful use of artefacts. The understanding of culture as emerging in a process of learning open up for new understandings, which is useful for researchers, practitioners and students interested in dynamic studies of culture and cultural studies of organisations. The new approach goes beyond culture as a static, essentialist entity and open for our possibility to learn in organisations across national cultures, across ethnicity and across the apparently insurmountable local educational differences which makes it difficult for people to communicate working together in an increasingly globalized world. The empirical examples are mainly drawn from organisations of education and science which are melting-pots of cultural encounters.
Healthy Leadership For Thriving Organizations
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Author : Justin A. Irving
language : en
Publisher: Baker Books
Release Date : 2023-12-19
Healthy Leadership For Thriving Organizations written by Justin A. Irving and has been published by Baker Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-19 with Religion categories.
The devastating effects of toxic work environments are top news. Everyone seems to understand that healthy organizations nurture flourishing individuals and societies--what Jesus desires for all. How can Christian business and ministry leaders create a positive organizational culture and identity? Justin Irving has spent twenty years studying, teaching, and reflecting on organizational leadership. Drawing wisdom from the Bible, contemporary leadership theory, and the insights of over two hundred executive leaders, Irving provides a theological framework that makes human flourishing the driving motivation for leading organizations well. He helps readers invest in their own growth to become leaders who motivate, inspire, and nurture. But he broadens the view to help readers see how different levels of leadership--the dynamics and interdependence of teams and of the whole organization--work together. He then offers practical insights on building teams, culture, and effective communication and on navigating the storms of crisis and change.
Build The Culture Advantage
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Author : Tim Kuppler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Build The Culture Advantage written by Tim Kuppler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Communication in organizations categories.
Cultural Clarity
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Author : Andrew Fox
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-05-31
Cultural Clarity written by Andrew Fox and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-31 with categories.
Executive leaders are making organizational culture a top priority. Getting it right increases productivity, enhances problem solving through collaboration, hires new members that culturally fit, offers ways for current members to culturally adapt, and creates an environment of success where the work of each member makes a difference.Organizational culture is not what you do but how you do it. This book helps executive leaders understand and develop their own unique organizational culture by interacting with the written material. It can be used in different organizations: corporations/businesses, education/schools, and churches/non-profits. Though each organization in different, the dimensions of each one are identical: vision, mission, and core values. Discovering the unique characteristics of your organization within these dimensions brings clarity to your leadership, members, customers, clients, suppliers, volunteers, and much more.Understanding and developing organizational culture will save you 150% of the cost in replacing good people who leave you for another organization. Getting it right keeps the "river in the riverbed" in executive and team meetings. It guides assessments, evaluations, job performances, the use of technology, promotions, advancement and much more.Cultural organization is the adhesive that holds everything together.In four distinct sections, this book will engage you with questions and offer solutions to your organization. Part one gives you a brief history of how executive leadership has prioritized cultural organization from the 1800's to today. Part two demonstrates why organizational culture as your competitive advantage by examining your hiring, onboarding, and adapting practices. Part three journeys through the process of a job interview all the way to a job offer by measuring cultural indicators and the agility of your organization. Finally, part four acknowledges the type of executive leadership that fully embraces importance of organization culture: servant leadership.After reading this book, the organization called Cultural Clarity will help you understand and develop your organization within the workplace.