Culture Keepers-Florida
Author: Deborah Johnson-Simon
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2006-07-21
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 1467811637
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Deborah Johnson-Simon
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2006-07-21
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 1467811637
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Janet Mancini Billson
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 1995-03-15
Total Pages: 510
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Brings new and seldom heard voices to the feminist debate Janet Mancini Billson lets you listen to the voices of women of color, native women, and rural and immigrant women. She shows us the dilemmas they face working to preserve the positive parts of their culture that provide identity and closeness among generations, while casting off the negative parts of their heritage that may hold them back. Provides an alternative to the middle class, white, North American mainstream that has until now dominated our perceptions of women.
Author: Will Fellows
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2005-08-26
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 0299196836
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From large cities to rural communities, gay men have long been impassioned pioneers as keepers of culture: rescuing and restoring decrepit buildings, revitalizing blighted neighborhoods, saving artifacts and documents of historical significance. A Passion to Preserve explores this authentic and complex dimension of gay men’s lives by profiling early and contemporary preservationists from throughout the United States, highlighting contributions to the larger culture that gays are exceptionally inclined to make.
Author: American Library Association. Black Caucus
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The 49 papers presented in this volume are evidence of the research, scholarship, and professional nature of the offerings of the third National Conference of African American Librarians, sponsored by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. The papers are arranged into nine tracks and Pre-Conference topics: I: Library Connections: An International Information Exchange"; "Pre-Conference II: Globally Connecting the Stories for Children and Young Adults"; "Making Global Connections and the Information Superhighway"; "Making Global Connections in Library and Information Science Education"; "Making Global Connections in Collection Development and Archives"; "Making Global Connections in Public Library Services"; "Making Global Connections in Academic Library Services";"Making Global Connections in Law Librarianship"; "Making Global Connections in Recruitment and Professional Development"; "Making Global Connections with Authors and Publishers"; "Making Global Connections"; and "Contributed Papers." Topics include mentoring library students; academic library development; cooperative cataloging; information networks; equity and the Internet; public health connections; recruitment of African American librarians and faculty; preservation and archival collection development; fundraising; library instruction; the concept of Black librarianship; linking librarians with at-risk students; serials management; residencies as career launching pads; finding legal information on the Web; dealing with diversity; multiculturalism; church libraries; and customer service. (Includes an index.) (AEF)
Author: Robert T. Anderson
Publisher: Baker Academic
Published: 2001-12-01
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780801045479
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Keepers describes the remarkable history and survival of the Samaritans and the unique oppression and grace that have shaped their culture and religion. It is a history whose antagonists have included Jews, Christians, and Muslims, and it has contributed to arguments between Roman Catholics and Protestants over the text of the Bible. The threads of the story disappear at times into Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, but ultimately succeed in affirming the unique Samaritan identity. Popularly associated with phrases like "The Lost Ten Tribes of Israel" and "The Good Samaritan," many are surprised to learn that the Samaritans have a rich history and culture that includes a contemporary chapter. This history is illuminated by stories in the Hebrew Bible and documents from Persian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, and Islamic sources.
Author: Frank Salomon
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2004-10-29
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780822333906
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Breaks new ground with a close ethnography of one Andean village where villagers, surprisingly, have conserved a set of ancient, knowledge-encoded cords to the present day.
Author: Virginia D. Nazarea
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2005-05-01
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 0816544921
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Farmers and gardeners have long appreciated a wide variety of plants and have nurtured them for meals, healing, and exchange. But diversity too often has been surrendered to monocultures of fields and spirits, predisposing much of modern agriculture to uniformity and, consequently, vulnerability. Today it is primarily at the individual level—such as growing and saving a strange old bean variety or a curious-looking gourd—that any lasting conservation actually takes place. As scientists grapple with the erosion of genetic diversity of crops and their wild relatives, old-timey farmers and gardeners continue to save, propagate, and pass on folk varieties and heirloom seeds. Virginia Nazarea focuses on the role of these seedsavers in the perpetuation of diversity. She thoughtfully examines the framework of scientific conservation and argues for the merits of everyday conservation—one that is beyond programmatic design. Whether considering small-scale rice and sweet potato farmers in the Philippines or participants in the Southern Seed Legacy and Introduced Germplasm from Vietnam in the American South, she explores roads not necessarily less traveled but certainly less recognized in the conservation of biodiversity. Through characters and stories that offer a wealth of insights about human nature and society, Heirloom Seeds and Their Keepers helps readers more fully understand why biodiversity persists when there are so many pressures for it not to. The key, Nazarea explains, is in the sovereign spaces seedsavers inhabit and create, where memories counter a culture of forgetting and abandonment engendered by modernity. A book about theory as much as practice, it profiles these individuals, who march to their own beat in a world where diversity is increasingly devalued as the predictability of mass production becomes the norm. Heirloom Seeds and Their Keepers offers a much-needed, scientifically researched perspective on the contribution of seedsaving that illustrates its critical significance to the preservation of both cultural knowledge and crop diversity around the world. It opens new conversations between anthropology and biology, and between researchers and practitioners, as it honors conservation as a way of life.
Author: David de la Pena
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 2017-12-07
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 1610918479
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How can we design places that fulfill urgent needs of the community, achieve environmental justice, and inspire long-term stewardship? By bringing community members to the table with designers to collectively create vibrant, important places in cities and neighborhoods. For decades, participatory design practices have helped enliven neighborhoods and promote cultural understanding. Yet, many designers still rely on the same techniques that were developed in the 1950s and 60s. These approaches offer predictability, but hold waning promise for addressing current and future design challenges. Design as Democracy is written to reinvigorate democratic design, providing inspiration, techniques, and case stories for a wide range of contexts. Edited by six leading practitioners and academics in the field of participatory design, with nearly 50 contributors from around the world, it offers fresh insights for creating meaningful dialogue between designers and communities and for transforming places with justice and democracy in mind.
Author: University of California, Los Angeles. American Indian Studies Center
Publisher: Los Angeles, CA : UCLA American Indian Studies Center
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →KEEPERS OF THE MORNING STAR is the first major anthology of Native women's contemporary theater bringing together works from established and new playwrights. This collection, representing a rich diversity of Native communities, showcases the exciting range of Native women's theater today from the dynamic fusion of storytelling, ceremony, music and dance to the bold experimentation of poetic stream of consciousness and Native agitprop. Drama. Native American Studies.