Book Description
Anthropology has a long history of the "other," yet we can look right here at home for the strangeness we seek. We often neglect to ask the questions that reveal our own culture's underlying value and beliefs. In this volume, we bring the American culture into focus. For students to understand the full impact of ethnography, to experience cultural relativity and to gain a foundation to build informed comparisons, students need a firm grasp of their own culture--and need to use this volume. The Third Edition consists of 19 essays written by anthropologists and other scholars using an ethnographic perspective. The essays enable students to understand themselves better by focusing on their own culture and seeing it from a new perspective. This collection gives anthropology a comparative perspective that provides a reflective lens, a mirror, for understanding ourselves and the world in which we live.
Customer Reviews:
Great condition, prompt delivery.......2005-09-23
Book was in great condition and the service was very promt in delivery.
Book Description
Published just in time for graduation day, this inspiring collection of commencement addresses celebrates the value of education, and its crucial place in the weaving of our social fabric. By turns playful and profound, Graduation Day includes speeches from Jodi Foster, Russell Baker, Alice Walker, Robert Redford, Bill Clinton, Ann Richards, Toni Morrison, and others. This unique anthology will be well cherished long after graduation day.
Customer Reviews:
Not too bad, but not the best.......2007-04-08
A commencement speech is suppose to take care of the needs of the graduates, not the near or long term expediency of the speakers. There are too many speeches in this book that are plainly the PR for the speakers. I have no objections to speakers speaking the things that are dear and near to their hearts. What I think the speakers should have done is to put their own wants aside and consider what the best is for the graduating seniors and use that as a starting point for composing their speeches.
With this said, there are a few good ones in this book: The speeches by Ted Turner, Madeleine Albright, Ronald Regan, and especially Ross Perot.
The best book so far on graduation speeches is "Graduation Moments."
What a great idea!.......1998-10-03
I laughed, I cried! There is so much in this book! Good advice, humor, perfect not just for grads but for kids just heading off to college who wonder just what they can expect. pretty motivating and inspirational. Great collection!
Fun and inspiring.......1998-09-09
A funny and uplifting collection by interesting people. There were plenty of times I laughed out loud and felt inspired. I only wish I'd had one of these folks speak at my graduation!
Book Description
America's greatest motivational speakers reveal their secrets of success in this one-of-a-kind collection of interviews. Author Michael Jeffreys interviewed fifteen of the top leaders in the speaking world, including Anthony Robbins, Wayne Dyer, Barbara De Angelis, and Jack Canfield. These charismatic communicators share their personal triumphs, passions, and pearls of wisdom that have molded their lives.Here is some of what you will learn from
Success Secrets of the Motivational Superstars:
the way to conquer fear is to face it head on
giving up is not an option
personal growth never stops
About the AuthorMichael Jeffreys is also the author of Selling with Magic and Speaking with Magic. A successful speaker and writer, he has worked with corporations such as Ford and Xerox to inspire and teach their top managers. He lives in Los Angeles.
Customer Reviews:
The most helpful book I've read on the subject!.......2005-08-07
I recently got back into the training field after a long absence and found that my skills were not only rusty, but perhaps had never been developed as much as they could have. I went searching for information and came across this book. It was the first of many books I purchased on the subject, and is by far the best. Other books had great detail on how to prepare a presentation, but were lacking on what it means to entertain and engage an audience. This book gives specific examples the types of things these speakers do to engage and entertain their audiences--and covers a wide range of styles, from Tony Robbins to Barbara DeAngelis, which I found especially useful because I can relate to some types more than others.
Michael Jefferys' style is easy to read, entertaining and well laid out. His range of speaker styles means that everyone will find someone they can relate to.
After finishing this book, I successfully applied what I learned to my training. In fact, I am now rereading much of it so that I can take this excellent information to a deeper level and further polish my skills.
Behind Every Great Speaker There's A Book!.......2005-05-23
I started speaking publicly when I was 16 but it wasn't until I purchased Success Secrets of The Motivational Superstars on March 18, 1997, that I increased my stakes as a speaker. This one book helped me develop a deeper appreciation and understanding for what speakers do.
THIS BOOK HAS IN DEPTH PERSONAL INTERVIEWS
Michael Jeffreys deserves a standing ovation for interviewing some of the speaking industries leading speakers. He covers in depth personal interviews with three of my mentors Mark Victor Hansen, Brian Tracy and Les Brown. He could have stopped there but he also includes Leo Buscaglia, Art Linkletter, Jack Canfield, Patricia Fripp and many, many more.
JEFFREYS BOOK TEACHES YOU HOW TO LEVERAGE THEIR EXPERIENCE
If you want to learn how to overcome obstacles and see the specific step by step formulas that some of the speakers apply you need this book like a car needs a steering wheel. You will be guided through such things as what to do when you blow it, identifying your unique differentiating factors, how to give your audience ideas they can put to use within 24 hours, the Walt Disney philosophy, Les Brown's number one quality and a few hundred other techniques, ideas and things to avoid.
IF YOU WERE MY STUDENT THIS WOULD BE REQUIRED READING!
Failing to apply the lessons you learn in this book could be disastrous to your speaking career. All that I have shared above only gives you a birds eye view of this wonderful book.
NeilWoody.......2004-01-13
This book is a gem that is filled with ideas from many of THE BEST speakers in the world. What a great resource! It is my favorite book now for ideas on how to be more "impactful" in my message to the audience. This reminds me of one of my other classic favorites, Think and Grow Rich. I'm ordering another copy for a friend today!
New #1On Speaking: Battle Tested Stuff.......2001-03-14
I have read and reviewed 30+ books on public speaking. It is the best. This can be read as a success motivational book or as the best ways to develop public speaking skills. Either way it is a spectacular book. It may be a long time before I find a better book on public speaking.
The game plan for this book is profoundly astute. These interviews(the best motivational speakers) are brilliant and well done. Mr. Jeffreys does not brag about his access to the super successful-he just goes after the meat and delivers it in a very direct style. The author commits to only interview motivational speakers famous through speaking. Bravo! He excludes anybody becoming famous and then becoming a motivational speaker. This assures you: The book is battle tested stuff. Each (30 page + or -) chapter on the fifteen speakers are standalone pieces that can be read in any order. Each chapter has an excellent summary list of secrets for review or rereading.
A layout technique that greatly improves the books readability is: Mr. Jeffreys comments are the full width of the page, but when he is paraphrasing or quoting one of the interviewed Superstars the left and right margins are slightly smaller. If you don't care, it does not slowdown the reading, but when you do care just check the margins. Not being a slave to an exact quote and telling the story as Jeffreys sees it makes this book very readable. Jeffreys appears constantly faithful to the intent of the superstar. Not once does he preach or challenge the superstar's thoughts. I found no author clues to his favorite speaker or preferred techniques.
Book is full of speech improvement techniques. It encourages a high level of enthusiasm and to aggressively experiment with audience participation. Book provides a convincing case for being exactly the person and speaker you want to be and not compare yourself to other successful speakers as there is lots of room for new speakers that are authentic and original. Excellent advice on finding coaching that helps you be you and not someone else even if they do not have strong speaking experience.
It shows persistence in providing motivation without being preachy. The critical role of self esteem-a major problem for Americans-is discussed. Great advice on creating and maintaining your personality on and off the podium. It is full of business advice for the speaking for money person. The strongest point for me was market your topic not you as a person.
The first chapter on Tony Robbins is surprisingly good. Apparently Robbins is the most financially successful motivational speaker of all time, Jeffreys strips away all the clutter and low class appeal of Tony Robbins to give the secrets of success that can be applied more broadly with out becoming like the shop worn, over exposed Tony Robbins.But this is a great chapter.
Some superstars have been so over exposed that their enthusiasm seems shallow and insincere, yet enthusiasm and humor are so critical to successful speaking there is still a lot to be learned from each of these superstar speakers. Their most commonly sighted defense against the over exposed speaker being a turn off is to know your subject better than anybody else and be current and relevant to the audience. Many of the superstars have examples to constantly test yourself for being the same person before and after a speech as you are in the speech. Many make the point that: While you may perform with the benefit of acting techniques, you must be only one character-- the real you.
The second chapter on Dyer. He borrows from the Eastern religions with out any reference. Dyer seems afraid he will alienate the Western religion oriented person. Why be concerned? Eastern religions are twice as old as Christianity and contributed richly. Dyer may want to give the impression they are Dyer generated insights but the reader could be alerted that he is drawing on a vast amount of revered literature from the East. It was one of my favorite chapters.
Brian Tracy reveals a fanatic for a detailed plan, and think positive no mater what. Tracy takes positive thinking to an obsessive level. He would replace positive thinking by positive knowing.
Art Linkletter was famous before he started relying on speaking as his dominant source of income. Why he violates the rule of only writing on those that first became famous through speaking is never explained. It is clear that he likes Linkletter and shows him to be on of the down to earth famous people of all time. Linkletter confesses fame is the easiest way to be a full time money making speaker. Second to fame the most important factor is to practice and practice. Third is to take an intense interest in each individual when ever possible.
Leo Buscaglia different than many other speakers cares so much about making a personalized connection that he is uniquely approachable after a speech. It is noted that his 13 books have sold 18 million copies and "Loving Each Other" was one of the better selling books of the 1980's. It is interesting that the last chapter is on this great contributor to the study of: "how to be a better you."
Easy to read book for aspiring Trainers and ToastMasters.......1999-02-03
I really liked this easy to read book about
different motivational superstars such as
Tony Robbins.
You will learn his strategies and be able to
apply them to Training of human resources
or even becoming a Certified ToastMaster.
You get to read about the 14 other interesting
celebrity speakers and learn exactly what they
do to cajole, inspire, teach and motivate audiences.
Book Description
As new towns and cities spread across the American frontier in the nineteenth century, itinerant artists soon followed, documenting these growing urban centers by drawing aerial perspectives, also known as bird's eye views. Commissioned by land speculators, local businesses, civic organizations, and individual citizens, these renderings fostered both civic pride and local commerce. The use of color lithography, a recent invention popularized by such prominent publishers as Currier & Ives, allowed the inexpensive reproduction of the highest-quality drawings, so that a bird's eye view was within the financial budget of even the smallest towns. These extraordinarily detailed lithographs eventually numbered in the thousands and now serve as a rich pictorial record of North America as it stood a century ago.
This sequel to our highly acclaimed title An Atlas of Rare City Maps collects over 100 views dating between 1835 and 1902, showing the streets, buildings, churches, bridges, waterways, and surrounding countryside of North American towns, ranging from burgeoning metropolitan centers to small logging towns and mining camps. Baltimore, Brooklyn, Denver, Indianapolis, Memphis, Montreal, New Orleans, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Syracuse, and Washington are just a few of the cities presented in this collection. The exquisite color and fine detail of these bird's eye views have been reproduced in all their original glory; also included is an introduction by John W. Reps providing a background on the artistic process and on urban development in the nineteenth century.
Customer Reviews:
Both Relevant and Beautiful.......2007-01-17
This is a book of graphics. In fact, I would use it as a coffee table book if it were not so precious to me.
It is an archive of drawn, etched and printed aerial perspectives.
It is great for design and compositional predecence in both urban and small town planning. If you are designing a small town and you wish for it to grow, this book would be an useful reference, as it graphically depicts the beginnings of many major U.S. cities.
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The last, and potentially most meaningful, bit of education your college throws your way comes at the very moment you're least likely to hear and comprehend it, let alone contemplate and cogitate on it. No, it's not in that 8 a.m. lecture class or evening seminar, but out among your fellow graduates on commencement day. There you are, resplendent in your cap and gown, ostensibly listening to someone famous and wise, but more likely awash in the exhilarations, fears, and hangovers of graduation. When you stride proudly into the sunset with your diploma, it's unlikely that you'll carry with you any of that carefully honed commencement address.
And that's a shame. Commencement speeches, historically, contain more nuggets of wisdom and insight than most spoken words you're likely to have heard or likely to hear. So we owe Peter J. Smith a considerable amount of gratitude for culling the best of the myriad observations and admonitions that have been aired at graduations over the last 25 years. The result is a remarkable anthology, replete with perspicacious bits that transcend the years, and imbued with historical markers that reflect the social and political changes of the past quarter century. It's a volume destined to be popular as a commencement gift and treasured as a reference tool for social scholars.
Smith includes highlights from such speakers as Art Buchwald, Isaac Asimov, George Plimpton, and Madeleine L'Engle in the 1970s, up through the Dalai Lama, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Andy Rooney, and Madeleine Albright in the 1990s. You can compare the 1977 speeches of Studs Turkel and Shirley Chisholm, the 1990 speeches of Desmond Tutu and Gary Larson, the 1993 remarks of Jodie Foster and Ronald Reagan, the 1995 addresses of Annette Bening and Ann Richards, and the 1999 presentations of Alan Greenspan and Mumia Abu-Jamal. You can track the cultural shift of issues and values through the wit and exhortations of the speakers. And, if you read these snippets of sagacity in a quiet moment when you can concentrate and reflect, you might actually be able to absorb some of the acumen that was deflected by your mortarboard during your own commencement. --Stephanie Gold
Book Description
In this beguiling anthology of more than 200 excerpts from the best commencement addresses given during the last twenty-five years, editor Peter J. Smith proves that, in the right hands, the graduation speech is thriving.
Far from being a tired truism, the commencement address can be a thoughtful, heartfelt epistle, a dispatch from the front lines of adulthood to the fresh recruits of the newly graduated. In Onward! Twenty-Five Years of Advice, Exhortation, and Inspiration from America's Best Commencement Speeches, Smith has culled what the best minds (and hearts) have imparted to college graduates and in the process has created both a remarkable social history and a stirring celebration of the human spirit.
Arranged by year (and introduced with a recap of each year's cultural trends and events), the excerpts in Onward! spring from people with a wide array of talent, experience, and perspective: presidents and novelists, actors and news anchors, scientists and comedians. Their wisdom -- much of it surprising, all of it compelling -- will inform, delight, and inspire.
"We live in an age in which men have walked on the moon, have harnessed the vast power of nuclear energy, and have created enormous material wealth and riches. Yet our age is marked by ethical retardation, and by the passive tolerance of racism and poverty." -- VERNON JORDAN, 1976
"I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are." -- TONI MORRISON, 1979
"The best thing you can give yourselves for graduation is the gift of possibility. And the best thing you can give each other is the pledge to go on protecting that gift in each other as long as you live." -- PAUL NEWMAN, 1990
"Do not let people make you cynical. And do not think for a minute that you can have a good, full life if you don't care about what happens to the other people who share this nation and this planet with you." -- BILL CLINTON, 1995
"In all things in life, choose your conscience, and trust your instincts and lead your lives without regrets. It is simply easier that way." -- DAVID HALBERSTAM, 1996
Full of equal measures of common sense and goodwill, Onward! is the ideal companion with which to begin one's journey into adulthood.
Customer Reviews:
truly inspired.......2000-05-25
This was extremely interesting and diverse; there's something in here for everyone. We bought this for our 22-year-old son who just graduated from Purdue, but I found myself reading it long into the night. A real accomplishment, full of wisdom.
truly inspired.......2000-05-25
This was extremely interesting and diverse; there's something in here for everyone. We bought this for our 22-year-old son who just graduated from Purdue, but I found myself reading it long into the night. A real accomplishment, full of wisdom.
truly inspired.......2000-05-25
This was extremely interesting and diverse; there's something in here for everyone. We bought this for our 22-year-old son who just graduated from Purdue, but I found myself reading it long into the night. A real accomplishment, full of wisdom.
Perfect gift for the thinking grad.......2000-05-22
Compilations only work if well edited - and this one is. Brilliant novelist Smith brings his wit and originality to this anthology of the best graduation orations of recent years, creating a book which is no mere collection of speeches, but rather a thumbnail history of contemporary American thought and history. Let someone else buy that CD player, because this is the gift your grad should have.
excellent.......2000-05-22
I loved this book. It's both inspirational and educational and the speeches are chosen with great care. Five stars all the way
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The origins and multiple meanings of Grant Wood's indelible portrait.
Is there anyone who has not seen the sturdy Iowa farmer with his pitchfork and his thin-lipped wife or daughter? Ever since it met the public eye in 1930, the work titled American Gothic has elicited admiration, disgust, reverence, and ridicule—and has been reproduced hundreds of thousands of times, in every medium. Painted by a self-proclaimed "bohemian" who studied in Paris, the image was first seen as a critique of Midwestern Puritanism and what H. L. Mencken called "the booboisie." During the Depression, it came to represent endurance in hard times through the quintessential American values of thrift, work, and faith. Later, in television, advertising, politics, and popular culture, American Gothic evolved into parody—all the while remaining a lodestar by which one might measure closeness to or distance from the American heartland.
With broad perspective, acute insight, and humor, Steven Biel explores the strangely enduring life of America's most popular painting. 30 illustrations and 8 pages of color.
Customer Reviews:
Interesting assemblage of facts.......2007-03-10
I was excited to read this book because I have long considered American Gothic to be one of my favorite paintings. While there are other works that may stir me more emotionally, or I might find more artistically astounding, I like American Gothic because of its back-story and its humor. The figures seem so stern and judgmental, yet the models were just playing a role. Grant Wood had seen the American Gothic house in Iowa and tried to imagine what kind of people would live there.
In some ways it is less the painting itself, but rather all of the stories and history that surround the work that make it so interesting. This is the story that Steven Biel tells in his book. He starts with the house itself, and then explains the other ideas that influenced the work, the initial reception, subsequent interpretations, and the work's eventual status as an American icon. What is enjoyable about the book is that it provides lots of interesting factoids about the painting. What is disappointing is how little the book seemed to hold together as one narrative. With as much material as Biel had to work with, I didn't find American Gothic to be a particularly compelling read. It seemed short and disjointed, and was easy to put down. It was fun to find out so much about the painting, but in the end I found it unsatisfying.
essay book.......2006-05-05
This is one of those books to use when you have to do an essay/report about Grant wood.
Exhaustively researched, and yet seriously lacking.......2005-12-27
American Gothic the book is as enigmatic as the painting it purports to chronicle. The author while quite well versed in literature and history, shows a definite lack of chops when it comes to Art History.
At times the book reads like a drunken pointless ramble by a highly educated man. You hang on and try to make order out of the meanderings, but in the end there is no point. Which is a shame considering the deluge of cultural minutiae thrown at you.
Minutiae that often has no real connection to the painting in even a tangential fashion.
This book is a discussion of how a painting can be used as a cultural weapon, and how that weapon can and does change hands over time. It's all a matter of perspective and the way a static object that is somewhat enigmatic can reside on one side of the fence today, and the other side tomorrow. After 172 pages Mr. Biel seems incapable of nailing down the crux of the situation.
It's pointed out repeatedly that Grant Wood's American Gothic couple has countenances that defy interpretation, yet there is not one word of mention in relating it to the Mona Lisa, and the age old question of what she is thinking. The dust jacket photo shows American Gothic hanging next to the Mona Lisa, so obviously SOMEBODY thought of this connection. Maybe the Dust Jacket Art Director should have proof read the book....
Mr. Biel talks about how the use of the word 'heartland' was used by both sides in the last presidential election.... not that this has spit to do with Grant Wood's painting.
And yet he's managed to fill 172 pages in discussing ONE painting without even so much as noticing that the woman's apron/dress is billboard flat. Mind you this is a rural/farm setting.... such blatant lack of fecundity/sexuality doesn't strike you as a tad weird Mr. Biel???
How about the snake like wisp of hair pointed up at her right ear?? Or the way she's not so happy, and has her gaze fixed on something off to the right of the picture frame, and out of our field of vision. Looks more like the 'thousand yard stare' than anything else. And how her dress/apron pattern echoes the drapery pattern in the 'Gothic' window... and what does that say???
If you ask me, this old maid is worldly weary of dear old Dad scaring off all the suitors with his hay fork and psycho gaze. She's either gonna bust loose, and be free somewhere else, or she's going to stay under Dad's oppressive thumb and be an old maid for the rest of her life. Judging by her weak chin, she's probably not quite up to the task... which has probably lead to her predicament in the first place.
Are we going to talk about this sort of stuff?? Noooooooooo... we're going to talk about campaign slogans in 2004.... sigh. Please, spare me.....
Mr. Biel also discusses at length how American Gothic has been parodied over the years... and yet not once does he broach the subject of how other paintings such as the Mona Lisa, or Rockwell's Freedom From Want paintings are also parodied in similar fashion.
American Gothic the book is painfully well researched, and yet oh so lacking. In my opinion this is one book that really needed a co-writer.
It's worth reading, just don't read it thinking you're getting the whole picture.
Review of "American Gothic: A Life of America's Most Famous Painting".......2005-12-02
Steven Biel's "American Gothic: A Life of America's Most Famous Painting" is amusing, informative and anecdotal. This book provides a broad view of one of America's most well known paintings, Grant Wood's American Gothic. The painting has become a part of America's cultural identity.
In the first chapter, Biel discusses Grant Wood driving by the house in Eldon, Iowa, and stopping the car to get out and sketch. He elaborates on how Wood imagined the home's inhabitants. In the second chapter Biel examines the response of the painting from Iowa's citizens. The views of the citizens ranged from those who hated it because they thought it was a cruel caricature and to the rest of the country who enjoyed it for the same reasons. Biel discusses how some were offended by the age difference of the couple. The third chapter discusses the painting on display throughout the nation, and the response it received. The fourth chapter examines parodies created as a result of the painting, stretching from Barbie and Ken to the nations Presidents and First Ladies.
Biel shows just how deeply this image has worked its way into the American consciousness. Biel provides a thorough analysis of the painting American Gothic. He provides an extensive history to a painting most Americans instantaneously recognize but whose artist, they can rarely name.
It's Not What You Expected In a Famous Painting........2005-11-14
The mis-matched couple in the painting with the dour expressions are slightly off center on the cover (must have been at the Art Institute of Chicago), the way I usually hang my paintings. I was asked by the librarian in Giles County if the picture she was hanging was level. I told her she had asked the wrong person, as all my pictures are leaning. All these years, I thought this was a real farm couple, though most of the Tennessee farmers I knew as a child were fat as they had the food and milk the rest of us had to scrounge for; oh, I know it is hard, never-ending work on the farm, but...
Written by a historian, we get a different view of the actual painting and how it was done, as a pretense on life in Iowa, considered backward from the rest of the country. He actually made a road trip to find the house with the Gothic window (thus, the name, not for the pose). From the side, it could be any house in rural Alabama with the exception of that window. Actually, the real house had two gothic windows in each of the two bedrooms. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974 and was declared a historic site by the state of Iowa in 1991. Now, that is funnier than the picture itself, to put such an ordinary, low-class structure in such an elevated status. We have those signs on old brick buildings all over town. That historic business has gotten out of hand. Who choose those with the markers and on what basis? Some of ours in Knoxville 'hit the dust' marker and all.
At 'A Century of Progress' fair in Chicago, more prints of 'American Gothic' were sold than even 'Whistler's Mother,' the main attraction. This fake-posed (like the song "You Don't Send Me Flowers" by Neil Diamond and Barbra Streisand pieced together was never intended as a duet) with the painter's own sister using family heirlooms and his dentist who was sketched at his office. They appear together for a showing of the painting after Wood's death at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Many parodies have been made of this pose using real and ficitonal people holding different things. Most don't have the Gothic window after which the painting is named. It's been the subject of newspaper cartoons and some of Johnny Carson's ribald humor on his late-night television talk show. The only thing I really appreciated about this book was getting to see the rundown, crude old house used, as it is so different from the painting and the unhappy 'couple' -- never a spot you'd think would become a historic site. Perhaps, that was Wood's joke on the American people!
Book Description
This practical volume addresses teachers' most immediate and constant wish—to engage students in meaningful learning. Written by teachers affiliated with the National Writing Project, this engrossing collection presents examples of classroom-based community studies projects that showcase teachers' reflective practice in action, models for professional growth, collaborative staff development programs, and much more.
Features:
• Replicable projects emphasizing approaches to doing research and writing that are both engaging for students and academically rigorous.
• Comprehensive curricular models for building energetic, public connections between the classroom and the larger community.
• Chapters that connect the standards-based classroom work to teacher professional development and to emerging trends in American Studies and literacy instruction.
Customer Reviews:
Short, readable essays make case for community engagement.......2005-05-04
Writing America: Classroom Literacy and Public Engagement by Sarah Robbins and Mimi Dyer provides guidelines and practical examples for the classroom teacher interested in engaging students in the community. This series of short, highly readable essays make the case for engaging students in researching, writing, and reflecting about their communities and their own place in those communities. Classroom teachers and college professors describe in specific detail, hands-on, personal, and innovative projects they developed with their students. The best, including: Sylvia Martinez' "Discovering the Power of My Place", LeeAnn Lands', "A City Too Busy To Reflect?", and Peggy Corbett's "History Happened Here" provide examples of student writing, and explain the successes as well as challenges of these projects. Writing America invites classroom teachers to try new strategies, and encourages them to continue to keep instruction relevant in their students' lives, and to use the classroom to help build, and rebuild American community.
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Argillite: Art of the Haida
Leslie Drew , and
Doug Wilson
Manufacturer: Hancock House Pub Ltd
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Good depth,beautiful pictures,historical,cultural and econmi.......1999-10-27
This is a great book. Covers argillite carving from a number of perspectives. Has interviews with some well known carvers and presents their point of view. Gives soome of the cultural perspective though it does not particularly present the Haida view. Some beautiful examples.
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Mestizaje Upside-Down: Aesthetic Politics in Modern Bolivia (Illuminations: Cultural Formations of the Americas)
Javier C. Sanjins , and
Javier Sanjines C.
Manufacturer: University of Pittsburgh Press
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Mestizaje-the process of cultural, ethnic, and racial mixing of Spanish and indigenous peoples-has been central to the creation of modern national identity in Bolivia and much of Latin America. Though it originally carried negative connotations, by the mid-twentieth century it had come to symbolize a national unity that transcended racial divides.
In Mestizaje Upside-Down, Javier Sanjinés C. contends that the concept is not a true merging of equals, but representative of a fundamentally Western perspective that excludes indigenous ways of viewing the world. In this sophisticated study, he reveals how modernity in Bolivia has depended on a perception, forged during the colonial era, that local cultures need to be uplifted.
Sanjinés traces the rise of mestizaje as a defining feature of Bolivian modernism through the political struggles and upheavals of the twentieth century. He then turns this concept on its head by demonstrating how the dominant discussion of mestizaje has been resisted and transformed by indigenous thinkers and activists. Rather than focusing solely on political events, Sanjinés grounds his argument in an examination of fiction, political essays, journalism, and visual art.
The introduction of a visual dimension to the dialogue allows Sanjinés to offer a fresh view of twentieth-century essays on the formation of the nation-state. He offers a decisive alternative to Ángel Rama's and Antonio Cornejo-Polar's tradition of Latin American literary studies, positing that there is a limitation to the social relevance of the lettered tradition that has dominated the field.
Building upon the thoughts and theories of the indigenous intellectual and activist Felipe Quispe, "El Mallku," Sanjinés suggests that Quispe is providing a new set of epistemic assumptions in which cultural studies and the social sciences are revealed to be complicit with the ideologies of modernity. The result is a unique and masterly overview of Bolivian culture, identity, and politics.
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