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  • Haunting Experiences

    Ghosts in Contemporary Folklore

    by Diane Goldstein, Sylvia Grider, Jeannie Banks Thomas ...
    Ghosts and other supernatural phenomena are widely represented throughout modern culture. They can be found in any number of entertainment, commercial, and other contexts, but popular media or commodified representations of ghosts can be quite different from the beliefs people hold about them, based on tradition or direct experience. Personal belief and cultural tradition on the one hand, and ... Read more

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  • The Soul of a Folklorist

    Historical Moments, Political Representation, and the Weight of Social Responsibility

    by Ann K. Ferrell, Diane E. Goldstein ...
    Series series Activist Encounters in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    In the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, the US saw a growing awareness of representational politics following the civil rights, women's, gay and lesbian, antiwar, and environmental justice movements, and, like most fields, folklore became increasingly cognizant of these cultural and political shifts. The Soul of a Folklorist chronicles the growing pains folklorists felt as the field engaged in these new and ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Behind the Mask

    Vernacular Culture in the Time of COVID

    Edited by Ben Bridges, Ross Brillhart, Diane E. Goldstein ...
    Vernacular responses have been crucial for communities seeking creative ways to cope with the coronavirus pandemic. With most people locked down and separated from the normal ebb and flow of life for an extended period of time, COVID-19 inspired community and creativity, adaptation and flexibility, traditional knowledge, resistance, and dynamism. Removing people from assumed norms and daily lives, ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • The Quantum World

    Quantum Physics for Everyone

    by Kenneth W. Ford, Diane Goldstein ...
    As Kenneth W. Ford shows us in The Quantum World, the laws governing the very small and the very swift defy common sense and stretch our minds to the limit. Drawing on a deep familiarity with the discoveries of the twentieth century, Ford gives an appealing account of quantum physics that will help the serious reader make sense of a science that, for all its successes, remains mysterious. In order ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Stigmatized Vernacular

    Where Reflexivity Meets Untellability

    Edited by Diane E. Goldstein, Amy Shuman ...
    Series series Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    Reflections on the challenge of studying and discussing subjects society rejects, reviles, or considers unspeakable.As part of this multilayered conversation about stigma, this volume discusses the relationship between the stigmatized individual and our role as researchers. Here we address our own perspectives as researchers struggling with stigma issues and tellability, as well as scholarly ... Read more

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  • "The Touch of Civilization"

    Comparing American and Russian Internal Colonization

    by Steven Sabol ...
    The Touch of Civilization is a comparative history of the United States and Russia during their efforts to colonize and assimilate two indigenous groups of people within their national borders: the Sioux of the Great Plains and the Kazakhs of the Eurasian Steppe. In the revealing juxtaposition of these two cases author Steven Sabol elucidates previously unexplored connections between the state ... Read more

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  • Mixtec Evangelicals

    Globalization, Migration, and Religious Change in a Oaxacan Indigenous Group

    by Mary I. O'Connor ...
    Mixtec Evangelicals is a comparative ethnography of four Mixtec communities in Oaxaca, detailing the process by which economic migration and religious conversion combine to change the social and cultural makeup of predominantly folk-Catholic communities. The book describes the effects on the home communities of the Mixtecs who travel to northern Mexico and the United States in search of wage labor ... Read more

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  • Tales of Canyonlands Cowboys

    by Richard Negri ...
    Before Canyonlands was a national park, before tourists discovered the wildness and wonder of the Maze and the Land of Standing Rocks, before the San Rafael Desert became a hive of the mineral exploration, the lands west of the Colorado and Green Rivers to the San Rafael Swell and from the Book Cliffs and San Rafael River south to the dirty Devil River and the Henry Mountains were pastures for the ... Read more

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  • Facing the Center

    Toward an Identity Politics of One-to-One Mentoring

    by Harry C. Denny ...
    In the diversity of their clients as well as their professional and student staff, writing centers present a complicated set of relationships that inevitably affect the instruction they offer. In Facing the Center, Harry Denny unpacks the identity matrices that enrich teachable moments, and he explores the pedagogical dynamics and implications of identity within the writing center.The face of the ... Read more

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  • Healing Logics

    Culture and Medicine in Modern Health Belief Systems

    by Erika Brady ...
    Scholars in folklore and anthropology are more directly involved in various aspects of medicine—such as medical education, clinical pastoral care, and negotiation of transcultural issues—than ever before. Old models of investigation that artificially isolated "folk medicine," "complementary and alternative medicine," and "biomedicine" as mutually exclusive have proven too limited in exploring the ... Read more

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  • Landscaping on the New Frontier

    Waterwise Design for the Intermountain West

    by Susan E. Meyer, Roger K. Kjelgren, Darrel G. Morrison, William A. Varga, Bettina Schultz ...
    A practical volume for the home or business owner on landscaping with native, drought-tolerant plants in the Rocky Mountain West. Filled with color illustrations, photos, and design sketches, over 100 native species are described, while practical tips on landscape design, water-wise irrigation, and keeping down the weeds are provided.In this book you will learn how to use natural landscapes to ... Read more

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  • On Being Human

    Folklore of Mormon Missionaries

    by William Wilson ...
    A collection of narratives, humorous stories, and songs from Mormon missionaries that has become a classic study of narrative folklore. The 64th annual Faculty Honor Lecture, in the Humanities, Utah State University. ... Read more

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