... This chapter focuses on the ways in which reproduction has become a major site of intervention to cure inherited disability. Connected to the history of the colonial eugenics movement of the 1930s, the emergence of a “heredity drama” in literature exploits the emotions around the revelation of...

... Opening with a discussion of the film Sim Ch’ŏng , which depicts filial piety as a uniquely Korean virtue enabling the cure of blindness, the chapter explores how the relational and interdependent aspects of disability compel family members to attempt to cure disability through spiritual...

... lease their ability to work. They committed their selves. They recognized their subordination and that their existence depended on the pa- noblesse oblige 61 tron s will. This is the condition under which they could become a member of the great family that is the business, that they might benefit...

... by social, religious, legal, communal, and state sanctions. The institutional con- finement of certain women usually single women without obvious 90 Women in Custody family therefore in need of support but therefore also potentially threatening thereby serves the purpose of securing them: in...

.... In one instance I learned through a series of interviews that dbc had a member family that comprised four generations of attendees! The dense sociality mediated by the inter- institutional overlap of church and family relationships provided a context of witness and support for members genealogical...

... wellspring of support as aided by the cross- platforming of latter- day screens. Visit their social media sites, called either TheDargerFamily or Love Times Three, and in addition to updates about the family s well- being (including sonogram pictures in November 2013 for Joe and second wife Vicki s in- utero...

... moments. José R. Oliver demonstrates that a network of po liti cal, spiritual, and familial ties were woven by caciques (leaders) on Hispaniola and Puerto Rico in the early 1500s. Thus, the web of cultural understand- ing into which Spanish colonizers stepped was si mul ta neously more di- verse and more...

... covenant society is one in which the members are bound together by choice, by mutual commitment, more than by chance. A covenant society is one in which the members see their moral obligations as growing out of this commit- ment, so that they not only hold their neighbors to a higher ethical standard of...

... wanted to know the Colombian peasants in person . . . their families . . . their lives . . . their souls, their activities Indeed, he wanted to transform those peasants into modern citizens of the Colombian nation Yet he complained that it was the cultured Colombian elites who would be the major...

... house of Khethukuthula s father for Khethuku- thula s ipasi (engagement party).5 Before they disband, Zabiwe reminds the dancers of their obligation to support the rites of passage of their brothers and friends: there is another ipasi tomorrow, and another the next day. Five consecutive days of...

...: they were subject to the same labor conditions as enslaved men, at the mercy of white male sexual predation, and responsible for caring for their families, their children, and the el derly, and for ritual practices.21 Although the slaveholders strategies to ensure the reproduction of their labor force...

... Hmong to express their allegiance to the United States and re unite with families overseas as well as ease their assimilation into the nation.11 As its title indicates, the bill attempts to link the Hmong alien with the U.S. non- citizen alien, assimilating the international soldier into that of...

... exchanged (irrespective of their use or the presence or absence of a compensation agreement) between nations ( parties to the convention ) must have prior informed consent for the exchange and a certificate of ori- gin for the materials. Fi nally, the signatory nations became bound to a new obligation to...

... PART II Insolvency (46) General Directions Concerning Trials (46) Amended Articles of Incorporation, the Apostolic Faith Mission (46–48) Constitution of Apostolic Faith Mission (49–51) The Support of the Ministry...

... he confronts at age fifty.51 Even if one has a solo show at ps1, he insists, art does not provide economic support for the artist. Art Amnesty conceives of art, then, as both an object and a career. As the installation tracks this expanded life cycle of art s ontology, it moves between staging the...

... also turned into violence. Jesús Guzmán was killed in the line of duty in Veracruz in 1924. In Nayarit, agronomists confronted the Aguirre family, the The Revolutionary Middle Class 199 owners of cotton, tobacco, sugar, and cattle estates who had dominated the region during the Porfirian period. The...

... or her attempts at navigating the challenges of everyday life. Of the ten films in the series, half were about new immigrant families and their strug gles with racial discrimination, societal expectations, learning the En glish language, and economic survival. As suggested by the title of the series...

... forced the richest and most prominent families to emigrate, and with them the talent, wealth, commerce, and agriculture: he pushed away from his Cabinet and principal posts the men who could have represented the rights of their co-citizens, sought the remedy for ills and manifested the true needs of the...

... they really believed us unfit to be trusted to administer the growing wealth of the Islands in a safe and proper way. But if we manifested any incompetency, it was in not foreseeing that they would be bound by no obligations, by honor, or by oath of allegiance, should an opportunity arise for seizing...

...The local custom of people in Wenzhou is to support spirit mediums and access spirits and ghosts. They hold elaborate Buddhist and Daoist rituals, engage in extravagant expenditures, and exhaust their energies. Unconcerned with heavy- duty wastefulness, each year in the first lunar month, they have...