Mexican American folk and religious healing, often referred to as curanderismo, has been a vital part of life in the Mexico-U.S. border region for centuries. A hybrid tradition made up primarily of indigenous and Iberian Catholic pharmacopeias, rituals, and notions of the self, curanderismo treats the sick person with a variety of healing modalities including herbal remedies, intercessory prayer, body massage, and energy manipulation. Curanderos, “healers,” embrace a holistic understanding of the patient, including body, soul, and community.
Border Medicine examines the ongoing evolution of Mexican American religious healing from the end of the nineteenth century to the present. Illuminating the ways in which curanderismo has had an impact not only on the health and culture of the borderlands but also far beyond, the book tracks its expansion from Mexican American communities to Anglo and multiethnic contexts. While many healers treat Mexican and Mexican American clientele, a significant number of curanderos have worked with patients from other ethnic groups as well, especially those involved in North American metaphysical religions like spiritualism, mesmerism, New Thought, New Age, and energy-based alternative medicines. Hendrickson explores this point of contact as an experience of transcultural exchange.
Drawing on historical archives, colonial-era medical texts and accounts, early ethnographies of the region, newspaper articles, memoirs, and contemporary healing guidebooks as well as interviews with contemporary healers, Border Medicine demonstrates the notable and ongoing influence of Mexican Americans on cultural and religious practices in the United States, especially in the American West.
Автор: David Greven Название: Queering The Terminator: Sexuality and Cyborg Cinema ISBN: 1501322346 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501322341 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 20592.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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The Terminator film series is an unlikely site of queer affiliation. The entire premise revolves around both heterosexual intercourse and the woman's pregnancy and giving birth. It is precisely the Terminator's indifference to both that signifies it as an unimaginably inhuman monstrosity. Indeed, the films' overarching contention that humanity must be saved, rooted as it is in a particular story about pregnancy and birth that exclusively focuses on the heterosexual couple and the family, would appear to put it at odds with the political stances of contemporary queer theory. Yet, as this book argues, there is considerable queer interest in the Terminator mythos.
The films provide a framework for interpreting shifting gender codes and the emergence of queer sexuality over the period of three decades. Significantly, the series emerges in the Reagan 80s, which marked a decisive break with the sexual fluidity of the 70s. As a franchise and on the individual basis of each film, The Terminator series combines both radical and reactionary elements. Each film reflects the struggles over gender and sexuality specific to its release. At the same time, the series foregrounds the intersection of technology and gender that has become a definitive aspect of contemporary experience. A narrative organized around a conservative view of female sexuality and the family, the Terminator myth is nevertheless a richly suggestive narrative for queer theory and gender studies.
Автор: Patterson Jennifer Название: Queering Sexual Violence - Radical Voices from Within the An ISBN: 1626012733 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781626012738 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 3619.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Taylor Yvette, Snowdon Ria Название: Queering Religion ISBN: 041584388X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415843881 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22968.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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This collection considers how religious identity interplays with other forms and contexts of identity, specifically those related to sexual identity. It asks how these intersections are formed, negotiated and resisted across time and places, including the UK, Europe, North America, Australia, and the Global South. Questions around 'queer' engagements in same-sex marriages, civil partnerships and other practices (e.g. adoption) have created a number of provoking stances and policy provisions - but what remains unanswered is how people experience and situate themselves within sometimes competing, or 'contradictory', moments as 'religious queers' who may be tasked with 'queering religion'. Additionally, the presumed paradoxes of 'marriage', queer sexuality, religion and youth combine to generate a noteworthy generational absence. This leads to questions about where 'religious queers' reside, resist and relate experiences of intersecting religious and sexual lives.
In looking at interconnectedness, this collection offers international contributions which bridge the 'contradictions' in queering religion and in making visible 'religious queers.' It provides insight into older and younger people's understandings of religiosity, queer cultures, and religious groups. A small but active religious minority in the US has received much attention for its anti-gay political activity; much less attention has been paid to the more positive, supportive role that religious-based groups play in e.g. providing housing, education and political advocacy for queer youth. Queer methodologies and intersectional approaches offer a lens both theoretically and methodologically to uncover the salience of related social divisions and identities. This collection is both innovative and sensitive to 'blended' identities and their various enactments.
Автор: Xianlin Song; Youzhong Sun Название: Transcultural Encounters in Knowledge Production and Consumption ISBN: 981104919X ISBN-13(EAN): 9789811049194 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 13974.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Introduction: Transcultural Encounters in Knowledge Production.- Part I Creative encounters.- Chapter 1 Transcultural Affinities: In Praise of Wang Zuoliang.- Chapter 2 Hsiung's Cultural Translation of Peking Opera Wang Baochuan.- Chapter 3 British-Chinese Cultural Encounters and Negotiations: Issues of Culture and Identity in William Empson's 'China Works'.- Chapter 4 Exposed: China, photography and the art of Hedda Hammer Morison 1933-46.- Chapter 5 ...from a thatched hut: Exploring Transcultural Composition.- Part II Encounters in the globalized space.- Chapter 6 Traditional Chinese Educational Thoughts to International Learners of Chinese: Perceptions and Attribution.- Chapter 7 Asian Students Abroad: Missing the Boat of Adaptation?.- Chapter 8 Understanding China: Challenges to Australian Governments.- Chapter 9 Towards civic pluralism: the 'Internet of Things', enriched experiences and collective placemaking.- Chapter 10 Taming the Paradox between Facts and Control: Media Discourse on Natural Disaster in Chinese media.
Автор: Hofmann Bettina, Mueller Monika Название: Performing Ethnicity, Performing Gender: Transcultural Perspectives ISBN: 1138682683 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138682689 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 23734.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This collection reflects the ubiquity, diversity, and (historical) locatedness of ethnicity and gender by presenting contributions by an array of international scholars who focus on the representation of these crucial categories of identity across various media, including literature, film, documentary, and (music) video performance.
Описание: this volume explores theoretical discourses in which religion is used to legitimize political violence. It examines the ways in which Christianity and Islam are utilized for political ends, in particular how violence is used (or abused) as an expedient to justify political action. This research focuses on premodern as well as contemporary discourses in the Middle East and Latin America, identifying patterns frequently used to justify the deployment of violence in both hegemonic and anti-hegemonic discourses. In addition, it explores how premodern arguments and authorities are utilized and transformed in order to legitimize contemporary violence as well as the ways in which the use of religion as a means to justify violence alters the nature of conflicts that are not otherwise explicitly religious. It argues that most past and present conflicts, even if the discourses about them are conducted in religious terms, have origins other than religion and/or blend religion with other causes, namely socio-economic and political injustice and inequality. Understanding the use and abuse of religion to justify violence is a prerequisite to discerning the nature of a conflict and might thus contribute to conflict resolution.
Автор: Matthew Ball; Thomas Crofts; Angela Dwyer Название: Queering Criminology ISBN: 1137513330 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137513335 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 12577.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This volume draws together both theoretical and empirical contributions reflecting on, and developing, the growing scholarship being produced at the intersection of `queer` and `criminology`. The contributions each highlight how such scholarship is essential to achieving greater social and criminal justice for LGBTIQ communities.
Автор: Paul Baker; Giuseppe Balirano Название: Queering Masculinities in Language and Culture ISBN: 1349953261 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349953264 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 12577.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This innovative work examines new and emerging forms of gender hybridisation in relation to complex socialisation and immigration contexts including the role of EU institutions in ascertaining asylum seekers` sexual orientation, and the European laws on gender policy.
Автор: Armstrong, Lecturer In French Adrian Название: The multilingual muse: transcultural poe ISBN: 1781885494 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781781885499 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 22760.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Carl Fischer Название: Queering the Chilean Way ISBN: 1137563850 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137563859 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 11878.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book examines and critiques the fact that Chile’s claims to economic exceptionalism have been embodied, often quite aggressively, in a heterosexual, and primarily male, ideal. Despite the many shifts Chilean economics and politics have undergone over the past fifty years, the country’s view of itself as a “model” in contrast to other Latin American countries has remained constant. By deploying an artistic, literary, and cinematic archive of queer figures from this period, this book draws parallels among the exceptionalisms of Chile’s economic discourse, the subjects deemed most (and least) apt to embody it, and the maneuvers of its cultural production between local and global ideas of gender and politics to delineate its place in the world. Queering the Chilean Way thus sheds light on the sexual, economic, and aesthetic dimensions of exceptionalism—at its heart, a discourse of exclusion that often comprises a major element of nationalism—in Chile and throughout the Americas.
Автор: Quero Название: Queering Migrations Towards, From, and Beyond Asia ISBN: 1137447729 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137447722 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 13974.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The book explores migration and queerness as they relate to ethnic/racial identity constructions, immigration processes and legal status, the formation of trans/national and trans/cultural partnerships, and friendships. It explores the roles that religious identities/values/worldviews play in the fortification/critique of queer migrant identities.
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