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Published: 01 January 1997
DOI: 10.1215/9780822379683-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7968-3
Published: 12 May 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373155-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7315-5
... on his early involvement in collecting, as a clerk at a record store, beginning to collect jazz and avant-garde music, recalling in multiple anecdotes his adventures acquiring prized LPs. The piece ends with a comparison of several kinds of collector, from the “amassing” record buyer to the “connoisseur...
Published: 12 May 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373155-010
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7315-5
... on his early involvement in collecting, as a clerk at a record store, beginning to collect jazz and avant-garde music, recalling in multiple anecdotes his adventures acquiring prized LPs. The piece ends with a comparison of several kinds of collector, from the “amassing” record buyer to the “connoisseur...
Book: Living a Feminist Life
Published: 13 January 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373377-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7337-7
... This chapter explores how the histories that lead us to feminism are the histories that leave us fragile. It offers an account of how feminism begins with a sense of things—as being wrong—and how we acquire knowledge through making sense of what does not at first make sense. It discusses how...
Published: 22 July 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374244-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7424-4
... In a close reading of David Mitchell’s Ghostwritten that uses Benedict Anderson’s formal categories, this chapter examines what happens to the novel form when the novelistic imagination goes global and acquires a networked orientation, when it is no longer analogous to imagining a nation...
Published: 04 August 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822372707-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7270-7
... ideas, acquire potential and meet their limits. Cutting, sawing, and suturing are examples of potential and limit, both for the ethnographer and for the patient whose deeply intimate transformation was witnessed. operating room surgical practice gender theory clinical ethnography ...
Series: Narrating Native Histories
Published: 08 April 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375692-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7569-2
... practices and forced inter-American diasporas experienced by previous generations. It also examines the cultural placement of slaves into the households of their Castilian masters, arguing that the label indio acquired meaning in relation to masters with their own sets of expectations and in relation...
Published: 17 March 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373391-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7339-1
... and philosophy, the chapter shows how the impossible philosophical activity of inventing a new political order will silently shape the course of exploration in the Laws and in much of colonialist thought after Plato. Suddenly, philosophical nomos acquires a paradigmatic and, if the accusations Badiou levels...
Published: 12 October 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374978-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7497-8
..., religious family of illustrious ancestry but relatively modest means. In an unpublished memoir the author tells of her childhood passion for reading popular Urdu novels. She identified with female characters who retained the traditional feminine virtues while also acquiring modern educations and pursuing...
Book: Hitchcock à la Carte
Published: 25 February 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822376026-001
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7602-6
... during his American career—and as a catalyst to acquire a Hollywood contract. The sketched outline of his frame is still a globally recognized logotype. This performance mode, Hitchcock playing “Hitchcock,” generated an emphasis on corporeal matters and food culture as signatures for the work in many...
Published: 14 April 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822372974-008
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7297-4
... of righteousness. Ultimately, women perform religious labor to produce holy Black womanhood. Navigating the webs of spiritual, social, and organizational relationships calls for women to acquire and hone a wide range of skills across material and immaterial realms, to carry out the demanding labor of faith. ...
Published: 29 April 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374510-009
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7451-0
... then exported to markets in West and Central Africa, such textiles are misperceived as authentically “African,” yet the global circuits in which the fabric travels reveal that it does not carry one unitary meaning but instead acquires multiple inflections as it moves through different local cultural contexts...
Book: Dalit Studies
Published: 29 April 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374312-010
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7431-2
... be acquired. Electoral politics and affirmative action help caste to remain a force. While promising its beneficiaries economic mobility, affirmative action mandates that they brandish their social inferiority to qualify for benefits. Though only a minority of Dalits practice polluting occupations, all Dalits...
Series: Narrating Native Histories
Published: 11 November 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373759-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7375-9
... growing more common across Peru’s Andean region during this period. He composed legal documents for indigenous peasants and helped them acquire formal status for their rural communities. He was elected as the personero legal (legal representative) for Concepción, and local hacendados tried to annul his...
Published: 16 September 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373711-014
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7371-1
... Shaka McGlotten employs the notion of “black data” to explore how black queers trouble the invisible or taken-for-granted operations of states and corporations that seek to acquire and store detailed dossiers of citizen-consumers. Thus, for McGlotten, “black data” also evokes hidden...
Series: ANIMA
Published: 01 January 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7382-7
... their own radiation measurements. Because the body’s senses cannot detect radiation directly, they had to seize the means of perception by acquiring equipment such as Geiger counters. In order to make meaningful use of this equipment, they then began to familiarize themselves with aspects of nuclear...
Series: ANIMA
Published: 01 January 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373827-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7382-7
... radiation measurements. Because the body’s senses cannot detect radiation directly, they had to seize the means of perception by acquiring equipment such as Geiger counters. In order to make meaningful use of this equipment, they then began to familiarize themselves with aspects of nuclear science. Some...
Book: Living a Feminist Life
Published: 13 January 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373377-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7337-7
... This chapter explores how the histories that lead us to feminism are the histories that leave us fragile. It offers an account of how feminism begins with a sense of things—as being wrong—and how we acquire knowledge through making sense of what does not at first make sense. It discusses how...
Published: 22 July 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7424-4
... the novelistic imagination goes global and acquires a networked orientation, when it is no longer analogous to imagining a nation. In a series of random but fateful encounters between eight key protagonists and two spectral entities, Mitchell creates an apocalyptic phantasmagoria of our end-of-the-millennium...
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Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-083
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... After the Pulacayo silver mine was rediscovered in 1833, Aniceto Arce acquired it in 1856, and it became the foremost holding of his Huanchaca Company. While serving as Bolivian president (1888–92), Arce established railroad connections between Pulacayo and Antofagasta on the Chilean coast...
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