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... In the countryside of central Cuba, African-inspired feasts conjoin West African, Kongo, and Catholic sources in a complex musical, theatrical, and affective praise style that prizes new shapes and new fates. This is an ethnographic encounter with the problem of mutually affirmed social...

... Inspired by botany and Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of the “rhizome/rhizomatic,” which emphasizes the creative, underground, multiple, and sometimes contradictory, Jafari S. Allen proposes “black/queer rhizomes.” The rhizome is the mode of propagation and sustenance for plants. Allen draws...

... This chapter includes a selection of Johnnetta Betsch Cole's commencement speeches, which capture a synthesis of the sage wisdom and inspiring advice that she offers to new graduates. In her 1996 speech at Emory University, she offers lessons learned from anthropology to help graduates...

... of Osama bin Laden and the nation’s response to the news. McMullen frames Butler’s thoughts with her own theory of the improvisative, an idea inspired by Butler’s thinking but with a focus on the potential for agency. performance performativity gender freedom repetition ...

... This chapter presents a category of “mathematical style,” drawing inspiration from a paper by the mathematician Claude Chevalley published in 1935 in the Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale. Comparisons are made with other notions of styles of scientific thinking, such as that developed by Ian...

... Chapter 1 interrogates dominant food politics from the perspective of the ocean and marine food production. It argues that Bourdieu’s concept of habitus can be retooled to include the affects and feelings inspired by the sea. Between the indifference of the ocean evidenced in literature...

... inspired the development of mobile money services. This chapter provides an account of airtime as a form of money, and considers the regulations and risks around mobile money. mobile phone airtime mobile money regulation risk ...

... Helene, trying to inspire Hettie after memoir rejection, sends inspiring quotes. Hettie takes job teaching at Sing Sing prison. Memoir revision is accepted by E. P. Dutton, praised by young readers. Helene’s brother Jack dies. Hettie reports March on Washington for abortion rights. In August...

... to historical extractivism that inspires this aggressive government reaction. extractivism mining conflicts referendum farmer communities Peru ...

... The chapter traces the lives of three female welfarists—Savitri Devi Mukherji, Crystal Rogers, and Rukmini Devi—working in India during World War II to answer the question of why moral attention to the animal in India inspires such antagonistic sentiment. The chapter argues that both Hindu...

..., in which they speculate, based on their stay in the city in the 1970s, on how the technology of holography might be used to record and preserve Venice's aesthetic heritage. They also speculate on how the technology's deployment of diffraction might provide inspiration for controlling water wave action...

... and a sophisticated inspiration for new ways of thinking about how cash payments and markets may be linked with things like sociality and solidarity. socialism money markets sociality southern Africa ...

..., and on the value of gratitude and hospitality. The chapter describes one particular workshop that Rosemarie and Vincent led at a Council Grove retreat in the 1990s. It also discusses the work of playwright George H. Bass as an inspiration for Rosemarie and Rachel’s vision of a deeply multicultural, genre-mixing...