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The Blood Contingent

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Author : Stephen B. Neufeld
language : en
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Release Date : 2017-04-15

The Blood Contingent written by Stephen B. Neufeld and has been published by University of New Mexico Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-15 with History categories.

This innovative social and cultural history explores the daily lives of the lowest echelons in president Porfirio Díaz’s army through the decades leading up to the 1910 Revolution. The author shows how life in the barracks—not just combat and drill but also leisure, vice, and intimacy—reveals the basic power relations that made Mexico into a modern society. The Porfirian regime sought to control and direct violence, to impose scientific hygiene and patriotic zeal, and to build an army to rival that of the European powers. The barracks community enacted these objectives in times of war or peace, but never perfectly, and never as expected. The fault lines within the process of creating the ideal army echoed the challenges of constructing an ideal society. This insightful history of life, love, and war in turn-of-the-century Mexico sheds useful light on the troubled state of the Mexican military more than a century later.

Contingent Encounters

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Author : Dan DiPiero
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2022-08-31

Contingent Encounters written by Dan DiPiero and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-31 with Music categories.

Contingent Encounters offers a sustained comparative study of improvisation as it appears between music and everyday life. Drawing on work in musicology, cultural studies, and critical improvisation studies, as well as his own performing experience, Dan DiPiero argues that comparing improvisation across domains calls into question how improvisation is typically recognized. By comparing the music of Eric Dolphy, Norwegian free improvisers, Mr. K, and the Ingrid Laubrock/Kris Davis duo with improvised activities in everyday life (such as walking, baking, working, and listening), DiPiero concludes that improvisation appears as a function of any encounter between subjects, objects, and environments. Bringing contingency into conversation with the utopian strain of critical improvisation studies, DiPiero shows how particular social investments cause improvisation to be associated with relative freedom, risk-taking, and unpredictability in both scholarship and public discourse. Taking seriously the claim that improvisation is the same thing as living, Contingent Encounters overturns long-standing assumptions about the aesthetic and political implications of this notoriously slippery term.

Blood On The Hills

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Author : David Jay Bercuson
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2002-01-01

Blood On The Hills written by David Jay Bercuson and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-01-01 with History categories.

Covering training, manning, equipment, and combat efforts, this is first full non-offical history of the Canadian Army's operations from the summer of 1950 to the ceasefire of 1953.

An Essay On The Learning Of Contingent Remainders And Executory Devises

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Author : Charles Fearne
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1794

An Essay On The Learning Of Contingent Remainders And Executory Devises written by Charles Fearne and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1794 with Executory interests categories.

An Essay On The Learning Of Contingent Remainders And Executory Devices

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Author : Charles Fearne
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1801

An Essay On The Learning Of Contingent Remainders And Executory Devices written by Charles Fearne and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1801 with Executory interests categories.

Contingent Lives

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Author : Caroline H. Bledsoe
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2010-11-15

Contingent Lives written by Caroline H. Bledsoe and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-15 with Social Science categories.

Most women in the West use contraceptives in order to avoid having children. But in rural Gambia and other parts of sub-Saharan Africa, many women use contraceptives for the opposite reason—to have as many children as possible. Using ethnographic and demographic data from a three-year study in rural Gambia, Contingent Lives explains this seemingly counterintuitive fact by juxtaposing two very different understandings of the life course: one is a linear, Western model that equates aging and the ability to reproduce with the passage of time, the other a Gambian model that views aging as contingent on the cumulative physical, social, and spiritual hardships of personal history, especially obstetric trauma. Viewing each of these two models from the perspective of the other, Caroline Bledsoe produces fresh understandings of the classical anthropological subjects of reproduction, time, and aging as culturally shaped within women's conjugal lives. Her insights will be welcomed by scholars of anthropology and demography as well as by those working in public health, development studies, gerontology, and the history of medicine.

Contingent Kinship

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Author : Kathryn A. Mariner
language : en
Publisher: University of California Press
Release Date : 2019-04-30

Contingent Kinship written by Kathryn A. Mariner and has been published by University of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-30 with Social Science categories.

Based on ethnographic fieldwork at a small Chicago adoption agency specializing in transracial adoption, Contingent Kinship charts the entanglement of institutional structures and ideologies of family, race, and class to argue that adoption is powerfully implicated in the question of who can have a future in the twenty-first-century United States. With a unique focus on the role that social workers and other professionals play in mediating relationships between expectant mothers and prospective adopters, Kathryn A. Mariner develops the concept of “intimate speculation,” a complex assemblage of investment, observation, and anticipation that shapes the adoption process into an elaborate mechanism for creating, dissolving, and exchanging imagined futures. Shifting the emphasis from adoption’s outcome to its conditions of possibility, this insightful ethnography places the practice of domestic adoption within a temporal, economic, and affective framework in order to interrogate the social inequality and power dynamics that render adoption—and the families it produces—possible.