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Between 1921 and 1965 Irish and Scottish migrants continued to seek new homes abroad. Using the personal accounts of these migrants from letters, interviews, questionnaires, and shipboard journals, together with more traditional documentary sources such as immigration files and maritime records, this book examines the experience of migration and settlement in North America and Australasia.
Group identity. --- Emigration and immigration --- Irish --- Scots --- Scotch --- Scottish people --- British --- Ethnology --- Irishmen (Irish people) --- Collective identity --- Community identity --- Cultural identity --- Social identity --- Identity (Psychology) --- Social psychology --- Collective memory --- Social aspects. --- Social life and customs --- Scotland --- Ireland --- Irish Free State --- Caledonia --- Scotia --- Schotland --- Sŭkʻotʻŭllandŭ --- Ecosse --- Škotska --- Great Britain --- History --- Australasia. --- Australia. --- Canada. --- Ellis Island Museum. --- Irish migrants. --- New Zealand. --- North America. --- Scottish migrants. --- collective experiences. --- collective memory. --- diasporic approaches. --- emigration. --- ethnic identities. --- individual memory. --- migrant encounters. --- migrant groups. --- national identities. --- shared experiences. --- transnational approaches.
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This important study upsets the popular assumption that human relations in small-scale societies are based on shared experience. In a theoretically innovative account of the lives of the Korowai of West Papua, Indonesia, Rupert Stasch shows that in this society, people organize their connections to each another around otherness. Analyzing the Korowai people's famous "tree house" dwellings, their patterns of living far apart, and their practices of kinship, marriage, and childbearing and rearing, Stasch argues that the Korowai actively make relations not out of what they have in common, but out of what divides them. Society of Others, the first anthropological book about the Korowai, offers a picture of Korowai lives sharply at odds with stereotypes of "tribal" societies.
Ethnopsychology --- Mourning customs --- Kinship --- Ethnology --- Cross-cultural psychology --- Ethnic groups --- Ethnic psychology --- Folk-psychology --- Indigenous peoples --- National psychology --- Psychological anthropology --- Psychology, Cross-cultural --- Psychology, Ethnic --- Psychology, National --- Psychology, Racial --- Race psychology --- Psychology --- National characteristics --- Manners and customs --- Rites and ceremonies --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Clans --- Consanguinity --- Families --- Kin recognition --- Papua (Indonesia) --- Tanah Papua (Indonesia) --- West New Guinea (Indonesia) --- Provinsi Papua (Indonesia) --- Papua Province (Indonesia) --- Province of Papua (Indonesia) --- Irian Jaya (Indonesia) --- Irian Jaya Barat (Indonesia) --- Social life and customs. --- anthropology. --- attachment. --- avoidance. --- child rearing. --- childbearing. --- contact and separation. --- creation of belonging. --- death. --- disruption. --- ethnography. --- family. --- human relations. --- indonesia. --- indonesian culture. --- indonesian society. --- kin. --- kinship. --- korowai of west papua. --- living far apart. --- marriage. --- mourning. --- otherness. --- place ownership. --- relatives. --- shared experiences. --- small scale societies. --- social organization. --- social ties. --- sociality. --- spatial margins. --- tragedy. --- tree house dwellings. --- trial society.
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Volunteering improves inner character, builds community, cures poverty, and prevents crime. We've all heard this kind of empowerment talk from nonprofit and government-sponsored civic programs. But what do these programs really accomplish? In Making Volunteers, Nina Eliasoph offers an in-depth, humorous, wrenching, and at times uplifting look inside youth and adult civic programs. She reveals an urgent need for policy reforms in order to improve these organizations and shows that while volunteers learn important lessons, they are not always the lessons that empowerment programs aim to teach. With short-term funding and a dizzy mix of mandates from multiple sponsors, community programs develop a complex web of intimacy, governance, and civic life. Eliasoph describes the at-risk youth served by such programs, the college-bound volunteers who hope to feel selfless inspiration and plump up their resumés, and what happens when the two groups are expected to bond instantly through short-term projects. She looks at adult "plug-in" volunteers who, working in after-school programs and limited by time, hope to become like beloved aunties to youth. Eliasoph indicates that adult volunteers can provide grassroots support but they can also undermine the family-like warmth created by paid organizers. Exploring contradictions between the democratic rhetoric of empowerment programs and the bureaucratic hurdles that volunteers learn to navigate, the book demonstrates that empowerment projects work best with less precarious funding, more careful planning, and mandatory training, reflection, and long-term commitments from volunteers. Based on participant research inside civic and community organizations, Making Volunteers illustrates what these programs can and cannot achieve, and how to make them more effective.
Community development --- Volunteer workers in community development --- Young volunteers in community development --- Voluntarism --- Community development personnel --- Youth volunteers in community development --- Voluntary action --- Volunteer work --- Volunteering --- Volunteerism --- National service --- Associations, institutions, etc. --- Community House. --- Snowy Prairie. --- adult volunteers. --- bad habits. --- bureaucracy. --- celebrating diversity. --- civic association. --- civic engagement projects. --- civic programs. --- civic skills. --- civic volunteering. --- comfort. --- community empowerment. --- community programs. --- community service. --- crime prevention. --- cultural cleansing. --- cultural diversity. --- cultural preservation. --- cultural tradition. --- culture. --- democracy. --- desires. --- disadvantaged youth. --- distant others. --- distinct cultures. --- diversity. --- divided society. --- empowerment programs. --- empowerment projects. --- empowerment talk. --- everyday routines. --- family-like attachments. --- family. --- food. --- future potential. --- historical transformations. --- hopelessness. --- inequality. --- inspiring volunteers. --- intimacy. --- local grassroots support. --- loyalty. --- mismatched time frames. --- mixers. --- multicultural community. --- multiculturalism. --- needs. --- needy volunteers. --- non-disadvantaged youth. --- nonprofit organization. --- paid organizers. --- plug-in volunteers. --- political engagement. --- politics. --- potentials. --- poverty. --- predictable routines. --- protectors. --- public events. --- safety. --- shared experiences. --- short-term bonds. --- short-term volunteering. --- social diversity. --- social divisions. --- sociological lessons. --- state agency. --- temporal disconnections. --- temporal leapfrog. --- timing. --- transforming volunteers. --- unique cultures. --- unmet needs. --- volunteer coordination. --- volunteer expertise. --- volunteer work. --- volunteering. --- youth participants. --- youth program participants. --- youth programs. --- youth volunteers.
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A bold new religious history of the late antique and medieval Middle East that places ordinary Christians at the center of the storyIn the second half of the first millennium CE, the Christian Middle East fractured irreparably into competing churches and Arabs conquered the region, setting in motion a process that would lead to its eventual conversion to Islam. Jack Tannous argues that key to understanding these dramatic religious transformations are ordinary religious believers, often called "the simple" in late antique and medieval sources. Largely agrarian and illiterate, these Christians outnumbered Muslims well into the era of the Crusades, and yet they have typically been invisible in our understanding of the Middle East's history.What did it mean for Christian communities to break apart over theological disagreements that most people could not understand? How does our view of the rise of Islam change if we take seriously the fact that Muslims remained a demographic minority for much of the Middle Ages? In addressing these and other questions, Tannous provides a sweeping reinterpretation of the religious history of the medieval Middle East.This provocative book draws on a wealth of Greek, Syriac, and Arabic sources to recast these conquered lands as largely Christian ones whose growing Muslim populations are properly understood as converting away from and in competition with the non-Muslim communities around them.
Middle East --- Moyen Orient --- Religion --- 28 <5-011> --- 28 <5-011> Christelijke kerken, secten. Kristelijke kerken--(algemeen)--Nabije-Oosten. Midden-Oosten --- 28 <5-011> Les diverses Eglises chretiennes:--general--Nabije-Oosten. Midden-Oosten --- Christelijke kerken, secten. Kristelijke kerken--(algemeen)--Nabije-Oosten. Midden-Oosten --- Les diverses Eglises chretiennes:--general--Nabije-Oosten. Midden-Oosten --- Christians-Middle East-History. --- Middle East-Church history. --- Middle East-Religion-History-To 1500. --- RELIGION / Christianity / History. --- Abbasid Baghdad. --- Arab Muslim immigrants. --- Arab conquerors. --- Arab conquests. --- Arab encampments. --- Arabic. --- Chalcedonians. --- Christian Middle East. --- Christian authorities. --- Christian beliefs. --- Christian communities. --- Christian community. --- Christian confession. --- Christian doctrines. --- Christian education. --- Christian history. --- Christian identity. --- Christian leaders. --- Christian literature. --- Christian message. --- Christian movements. --- Christian schools. --- Christian tradition. --- Christianity. --- Christians. --- Christian–Muslim interaction. --- Christian–Muslim relations. --- Church of the East. --- Eucharist. --- Islam. --- Islamic history. --- Islamic tradition. --- Jacob of Edessa. --- Jews. --- Miaphysite church. --- Miaphysite. --- Miaphysites. --- Middle Ages. --- Middle East. --- Middle Eastern Christian. --- Muhammad. --- Muslim habitation. --- Muslim rule. --- Muslim tradition. --- Muslims. --- Prophet. --- Qenneshre. --- Roman Middle East. --- Roman Syria. --- Roman state. --- Syria. --- Syriac language. --- basic education. --- canons. --- church leaders. --- clergy. --- community formation. --- confessional allegiance. --- confessional indifference. --- continuities. --- cultural institutions. --- debate. --- doctrinal difference. --- doctrinal theology. --- educational institutions. --- family connections. --- garrison cities. --- intercultural exchange. --- learned philosophers. --- literacy. --- material benefits. --- medieval Middle East. --- military upheaval. --- monasteries. --- non-Muslims. --- political discontinuity. --- political power. --- post-Chalcedonian. --- religious believers. --- religious claims. --- religious competition. --- religious conversion. --- religious difference. --- religious diversity. --- religious dynamics. --- religious framework. --- religious minority. --- religious motivation. --- religious questions. --- religious tradition. --- religious traditions. --- rival churches. --- sacraments. --- salaf. --- shared experiences. --- shared settings. --- simple Christians. --- simple Muslims. --- simple believer. --- simple believers. --- simple faith. --- simplicity. --- theological literacy. --- theological speculation. --- translations. --- violence.
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