Predictable Pleasures

Author : Lauren A. Wynne
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496221087
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Predictable Pleasures written by Lauren A. Wynne and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pursuit of balance pervades everyday life in rural Yucatán, Mexico, from the delicate negotiations between a farmer and the neighbor who wants to buy his beans to the careful addition of sour orange juice to a rich plate of eggs fried in lard. Based on intensive fieldwork in one indigenous Yucatecan community, Predictable Pleasures explores the desire for balance in this region and the many ways it manifests in human interactions with food. As shifting social conditions, especially a decline in agriculture and a deepening reliance on regional tourism, transform the manners in which people work and eat, residents of this community grapple with new ways of surviving and finding pleasure. Lauren A. Wynne examines the convergence of food and balance through deep analysis of what locals describe as acts of care. Drawing together rich ethnographic data on how people produce, exchange, consume, and talk about food, this book posits food as an accessible, pleasurable, and deeply important means by which people in rural Yucatán make clear what matters to them, finding balance in a world that seems increasingly imbalanced. Unlike many studies of globalization that point to the dissolution of local social bonds and practices, Predictable Pleasures presents an array of enduring values and practices, tracing their longevity to the material constraints of life in rural Yucatán, the deep historical and cosmological significance of food in this region, and the stubborn nature of bodily habits and tastes.

Author : Stephen Copley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521441137
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of the Picturesque written by Stephen Copley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-03-10 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century ways of looking at landscape, in theory and practice.

Author : Jostein Gripsrud
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136968970
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Relocating Television written by Jostein Gripsrud and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over half a century, television has been the most central medium in Western democracies – the political, social and cultural centrepiece of the public sphere. Television has therefore rarely been studied in isolation from its socio-cultural and political context; there is always something important at stake when the forms and functions of television are on the agenda. The digitisation of television concerns the production, contents, distribution and reception of the medium, but also its position in the overall, largely digitised media system and public sphere where the internet plays a decisive role. The articles in this comprehensive collection are written by some of the world’s most prominent scholars in the field of media, communication and cultural studies, including critical film and television studies. Relocating Television offers readers an insight into studying television alongside the internet, participatory media and other technocultural phenomena such as DVDs, user-generated content and everyday digital media production. It also focuses on more specific programmes and phenomena, including The Wire, MSN, amateur footage in TV news, Bollywoodization of TV news, YouTube, fan sites tied to e.g. Grey's Anatomy and X Factor. Relocating Television will be highly beneficial to both students and academics across a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses including media, communication and cultural studies, and television and film studies.

Author : Tejvan Pettinger
Publisher : Cassell
ISBN 13 : 1788400348
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Would Keynes Do? written by Tejvan Pettinger and published by Cassell. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered what Adam Smith would have to say about you playing the lottery? Or whether Jeremy Bentham could cure your hangover (through economics)? Ever pondered over what Milton Friedman might get you for Christmas? By comparing and contrasting what the greatest economists of all time would have to say about 40 questions from your everyday life, What Would Keynes Do? will help you get to grips with all the important economic theories in an original and thought-provoking way. Includes such puzzling conundrums as: -Should I park in an illegal parking space and risk a fine? -Should I go to University or start working straight away? -Should I leave my children all my wealth after my death or spread it out throughout my life? -Should I ever commit a crime? -If I enjoy drinking beer, how much should I drink? -Is it OK to be selfish? -Should I vote for a political party which promises to raise taxes?

Author : Lauren A. Wynne
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496221109
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Predictable Pleasures written by Lauren A. Wynne and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-05 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pursuit of balance pervades everyday life in rural Yucatán, Mexico, from the delicate negotiations between a farmer and the neighbor who wants to buy his beans to the careful addition of sour orange juice to a rich plate of eggs fried in lard. Based on intensive fieldwork in one indigenous Yucatecan community, Predictable Pleasures explores the desire for balance in this region and the many ways it manifests in human interactions with food. As shifting social conditions, especially a decline in agriculture and a deepening reliance on regional tourism, transform the manners in which people work and eat, residents of this community grapple with new ways of surviving and finding pleasure. Lauren A. Wynne examines the convergence of food and balance through deep analysis of what locals describe as acts of care. Drawing together rich ethnographic data on how people produce, exchange, consume, and talk about food, this book posits food as an accessible, pleasurable, and deeply important means by which people in rural Yucatán make clear what matters to them, finding balance in a world that seems increasingly imbalanced. Unlike many studies of globalization that point to the dissolution of local social bonds and practices, Predictable Pleasures presents an array of enduring values and practices, tracing their longevity to the material constraints of life in rural Yucatán, the deep historical and cosmological significance of food in this region, and the stubborn nature of bodily habits and tastes.

Author : Robert Nozick
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0671725017
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Examined Life written by Robert Nozick and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1990-12-15 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of topics of everyday importance in the Socratic tradition.

Author : Tim Mehigan
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1571139028
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to the Works of J. M. Coetzee written by Tim Mehigan and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New essays providing critical views of Coetzee's major works for the scholar and the general reader. J. M. Coetzee is perhaps the most critically acclaimed bestselling author of imaginative fiction writing in English today. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003 and is the first writer to have been awarded two BookerPrizes. The present volume makes critical views of this important writer accessible to the general reader as well as the scholar, discussing Coetzee's main works in chronological order and introducing the dominant themes in the academic discussion of his oeuvre. The volume highlights Coetzee's exceptionally nuanced approach to writing as both an exacting craft and a challenging moral-ethical undertaking. It discusses Coetzee's complex relation to apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa, the land of his birth, and evaluates his complicated responses to the literary canon. Coetzee emerges as both a modernist and a highly self-aware postmodernist - a champion of the truths of aliterary enterprise conducted unrelentingly in the mode of self-confession. Contributors: Chris Ackerley, Derek Attridge, Carrol Clarkson, Simone Drichel, Johan Geertsema, David James, Michelle Kelly, Sue Kossew, MikeMarais, James Meffan, Tim Mehigan, Chris Prentice, Engelhard Weigl, Kim L. Worthington. Tim Mehigan is Professor of Languages in the Department of Languages and Cultures at the University of Otago, New Zealand and Honorary Professor in the Department of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland, Australia.

Author : Robert J. Zatorre
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197558283
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Perception to Pleasure written by Robert J. Zatorre and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Our species has been making music most likely for as long as we've been human. It seems to be an indelible a part of us. The oldest known musical instruments date back to the upper paleolithic period, some 40,000 years ago. Among the most intriguing of these are delicate bone flutes, seen in Figure 1.1, found in what is now southern Germany. (Conard et al. 2009). These discoveries testify to the advanced technology that our ancestors applied to create music: the finger holes are carefully bevelled to allow the musician's fingers to make a tight seal; and the distances between the holes appear to have been precisely measured, perhaps to correspond to a specific musical scale. This time period corresponds to the last glaciation episode in the northern hemisphere -- life could not have been easy for people living at that time. Yet time, energy, and the skills of craftworkers were expended for making abstract sounds "of the least use ... to daily habits of life". So, music must have been very meaningful and important for them. Why would that be?"--

Author : J. P. Bary
Publisher : Neon Press
ISBN 13 : 0985840021
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Persistent Observer's Guide to Wine written by J. P. Bary and published by Neon Press. This book was released on 2012-12-12 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While most introductory wine books treat the subject of wine as a curriculum to be presented in more or less detail (from the mind numbing "complete" guides to misleadingly "simple" ones), this book keeps the focus on the reader and the challenges faced by ordinary consumers when they try to understand wine. Through a series of ten engaging conversations, the author coaches the reader through the steps needed to become a consummate wine consumer, concentrating on common stumbling blocks, pitfalls and sources of confusion. Instead of presenting a curriculum in a categorical fashion, this witty, fast-paced book shows you why learning to trust your own instincts is more important than studying diagrams of the tongue or pouring over aroma wheels when you're learning how to taste wine. It explains how and why labels, ratings and marketing ploys can mislead you and what the most persistent misconceptions are about serving and storing wine. You'll learn how to make excellent pairings with little fuss (it's not really about food), how to read between reviewers lines, and how to converse with sommeliers and retailers and discover whether they are trying to help you or giving you the run around. Without giving you any tables, charts or listings of regions and producers, or requiring you to memorize a glossary of definitions before you can understand what the author is saying, this book communicates all the essential skills you need to fall in love with wine and become a very savvy consumer. Filled with unique insights and down-to-earth, practical wine advice, you need to read this book so you can understand what the others are really trying to say.

Author : Clifford H. Edwards
Publisher : R&L Education
ISBN 13 : 1607099861
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democratic Discipline in Learning Communities written by Clifford H. Edwards and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2011-01-16 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes in detail the attributes of learning communities and how these characteristics help students acquire a sense of moral responsibility and commitment to fellow students. Clifford H. Edwards provides an account of how schools fail to satisfy student needs and thus promote discipline problems. Special attention is given to children's need for self-direction and how empowering them can promote more responsible learning involvement. There is also a focus on the factors that motivate learning and those that do not and how teachers can help their students become more intrinsically interested in school learning. Constructivist learning theory is presented as the most accepted explanation of how children learn and how it articulates with the learning community approach to education. The inquiry learning strategy is given as the most effective way to apply constructivist learning theory in classrooms. Appropriate relationships and effective communications are presented as essential components of learning communities and how they accentuate the effectiveness of this learning orientation. Democratic discipline within learning communities is described in detail.