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In this groundbreaking book, Garth Myers argues for a re-visioning of how cities in Africa are discussed and written about. Touching on a diverse range of examples, from Zanzibar to Nairobi, Cape Town to Mogadishu, Kinshasa to Dakar, Myers uses original research and a close reading of works by other scholars, writers, and artists to encourage us to engage with the vibrancy and complexity of African cities.

Cities and towns --- Sociology, Urban --- Urbanization --- Social science --- Sociology --- Urban. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban --- #SBIB:39A4 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- #SBIB:316.334.5U20 --- Urban sociology --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Sociologie van stad (buurt, wijk, community, stadsvernieuwing) --- Social geography --- Economic geography --- Africa --- Villes --- Sociologie urbaine --- Urbanisation --- Planification urbaine --- Afrique --- Cities and towns - Africa --- Sociology, Urban - Africa --- Urbanization - Africa

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A young Lutheran girl grows up on Long Island, New York. She aspires to be a doctor, and is on the fast track to marriage and the conventional happily-ever-after. But, as the Yiddish saying goes, "Man plans, and God laughs." Meet Andrea Myers, whose coming-of-age at Brandeis, conversion to Judaism, and awakening sexual identity make for a rich and well-timed life in the rabbinate. In The Choosing, Myers fuses heartwarming anecdotes with rabbinic insights and generous dollops of humor to describe what it means to survive and flourish on your own terms. Portioned around the cycle of the Jewish year, with stories connected to each of the holidays, Myers draws on her unique path to the rabbinate--leaving behind her Christian upbringing, coming out as a lesbian, discovering Judaism in college, moving to Israel, converting, and returning to New York to become a rabbi, partner, and parent. Myers relates tales of new beginnings, of reinventing oneself, and finding oneself. Whether it's a Sicilian grandmother attempting to bake hamantaschen on Purim for her Jewish granddaughter, or an American in Jerusalem saving a chicken from slaughter during a Rosh Hashanah ritual, Myers keeps readers entertained as she reflects that spirituality, goodness, and morality can and do take many forms. Readers will enthusiastically embrace stories of doors closing and windows opening, of family and community, of integration and transformation. These captivating narratives will resonate and, in the author's words, "reach across coasts, continents, and generations."

Jewish converts from Christianity --- Lesbian rabbis --- Converts from Christianity to Judaism --- Rabbis --- Myers, Andrea, --- United States

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The internment of civilian and military prisoners became an increasingly common feature of conflicts in the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. Prison camps, though often hastily constructed and just as quickly destroyed, have left their marks in the archaeological record. Due to both their temporary nature and their often sensitive political contexts, places of internment present a unique challenge to archaeologists and heritage managers.   As archaeologists have begun to explore the material remains of internment using a range of methods, these interdisciplinary studies have demonstrated the potential to connect individual memories and historical debates to the fragmentary material remains.   Archaeologies of Internment brings together in one volume a range of methodological and theoretical approaches to this developing field. The contributions are geographically and temporally diverse, ranging from Second World War internment in Europe and the USA to prison islands of the Greek Civil War, South African labor camps, and the secret detention centers of the Argentinean Junta and the East German Stasi.   These studies have powerful social, cultural, political, and emotive implications, particularly in societies in which historical narratives of oppression and genocide have themselves been suppressed. By repopulating the historical narratives with individuals and grounding them in the material remains, it is hoped that they might become, at least in some cases, archaeologies of liberation.

Caucasus -- Civilization. --- Caucasus -- Ethnic relations. --- Caucasus -- History. --- Archaeology --- Archaeology and history --- Material culture --- Concentration camps --- Prisoner-of-war camps --- Imprisonment --- War and society --- Anthropology --- Social Welfare & Social Work --- History & Archaeology --- Social Sciences --- Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency --- Social & Cultural Anthropology --- Social aspects --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Archaeology. --- Archeology --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Social sciences. --- Cultural heritage. --- Social Sciences. --- Cultural Heritage. --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- History --- Antiquities --- Cultural heritage --- Cultural patrimony --- Cultural resources --- Heritage property --- National heritage --- National patrimony --- National treasure --- Patrimony, Cultural --- Treasure, National --- Property --- World Heritage areas

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For black women in antebellum Charleston, freedom was not a static legal category but a fragile and contingent experience. In this deeply researched social history, Amrita Chakrabarti Myers analyzes the ways in which black women in Charleston acquired, defined, and defended their own vision of freedom. Drawing on legislative and judicial materials, probate data, tax lists, church records, family papers, and more, Myers creates detailed portraits of individual women while exploring how black female Charlestonians sought to create a fuller freedom by improving their financial, social, an

African American women --- Freedmen --- History --- Social conditions --- Charleston (S.C.) --- Race relations --- Ex-slaves --- Freed slaves --- Afro-American women --- Women, African American --- Women, Negro --- City of Charleston (S.C.) --- Slaves --- Women --- Charles-Town (S.C.) --- Freedpersons --- Freed persons --- Ex-enslaved persons --- Freed enslaved persons --- Enslaved persons

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Frederic William Henry Myers (1843-1901) was a classical scholar who in mid-career turned to the investigation of psychic phenomena. After studying, and later teaching, Classics at Trinity College, Cambridge he resigned his lectureship in 1869, became an inspector of schools, and campaigned for women's higher education. With the encouragement of former colleagues he began a scientific investigation of spiritualism and related phenomena, and in 1882 he helped to found the Society for Psychical Research. This two-volume work, first published posthumously in 1903, contains the fullest statement of Myers' influential theory of the 'subliminal self', which he developed by combining his research into psychic phenomena with his in-depth reading about the latest advances in psychology and related fields. His deeply intellectual approach is evident throughout the book, which analyses a huge amount of interesting data. Volume 1 introduces his theory and discusses dreams and sensory automation.

Parapsychology. --- Personality. --- Immortality. --- Life after death --- Eschatology --- Future life --- Immortalism --- Personal identity --- Personality psychology --- Personality theory --- Personality traits --- Personology --- Traits, Personality --- Psychology --- Individuality --- Persons --- Self --- Temperament --- Metaphysics (Parapsychology) --- Paranormal phenomena --- Parapsychology --- Psi (Parapsychology) --- Psychic phenomena --- Psychical research --- Occultism