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They All Want Magic: Curanderas and Folk Healing
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Elizabeth De La Portilla
Curanderas - traditional healers in Mexican culture - bridge the gaps between multiple planes of existence - spiritual and material, modern and pre-modern - dispensing medicinal herbs, prayers, and instruction. Elizabeth de la Portilla writes of the world and practices of San Antonio curanderas. As a scholar, an ethnographer, and a curandera in ...
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English is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas
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Coco Fusco
Essays, performance scripts, and interviews by one of America's emerging art critics.
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Negotiating Bilingual and Bicultural Identities: Japanese Returnees Betwixt Two Worlds
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Yasuko Kanno
An examination of the changing linguistic and cultural identities of bilingual students through the narratives of four Japanese returnees (kikokushijo) as they spent their adolescent years in North America and then returned to Japan to attend university. As adolescents, these students were polarized toward one language and culture over the other, ...
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Culture and Difference: Critical Perspectives on the Bicultural Experience in the United States
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Antonia Darder
The yearning to remember who we are is not easily detected in the qualitative dimensions of focus groups and ethnographic research methods; nor is it easily measured in standard quantified scientific inquiry. It is deeply rooted, obscured by layer upon layer of human efforts to survive the impact of historical amnesia induced by the dominant ...
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The Irish Writer and the World
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The Irish Writer and the World is a major new book by one of Ireland's most prominent scholars and cultural commentators. Declan Kiberd, author of the award-winning Irish Classics and Inventing Ireland, here synthesises the themes that have occupied him throughout his career as a leading critic of Irish literature and culture. Kiberd argues that ...
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Blood Mysteries
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Reflections of a Khmer Soul
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Navy Phim
In a lyrical journey of self-acceptance, the author questions and comes to term with the Killing Fields and other genocides. She explores what it means to be a child of the Killing Fields raised in the United States.
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Acculturation and Parent-Child Relationships: Measurement and Development
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Marc H Bornstein (Editor), Linda R Cote (Editor)
Although many researchers agree on a general definition of acculturation, the conceptualization and measurement of acculturation remain controversial. To address the issues, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) sponsored a conference that brought together scholars who work to define and develop assessments of ...
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Beyond Biculturalism: The Politics of an Indigenous Minority
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Dominic O'Sullivan
This book is a critical analysis of New Zealand's indigenous Mā ori public policy. O'Sullivan argues that biculturalism inevitably makes Mā ori the junior partner in a colonial relationship that obstructs aspirations to self-determination. The political situation of Mā ori is compared to that of Native Americans and Aboriginal ...
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The New Bilingualism: An American Dilemma
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Martin Ridge (Editor), Annenberg School of Communications
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Canadiens, Canadians, and Quebecois
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Bruce W Hodgins
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Beyond Two Solitudes
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Donald Smith, Dr. Charles Phillips (Translator)
Answering the anti-Quebec rhetoric of Diane Francis, Barbara Amiel, and others, this book demonstrates to Quebecers and English Canadians alike that English Canada has a rich and unique culture, and concludes with a vibrant plea for a new Canada based on the recognition of three peoples or nations--English, French (Quebec, Acadia, French Canada) ...
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Roots of Disunity
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Governing the Island of Montreal: Language Differences and Metropolitan Politics
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Estado, etnicidad y biculturalismo
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Trudeau and the End of a Canadian Dream
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Guy Laforest, Michelle Weinroth (Translator), Paul Leduc Browne (Translator)
In Trudeau and the End of a Canadian Dream Guy Laforest argues that Trudeau's constitutional reforms destroyed the dualistic vision of the Canadian federation developed in Quebec throughout the twentieth century.
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Culture and Identity Politics in Northern Ireland
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Civilization and culture have traditionally been regarded as mutually exclusive concepts. In this comparative case study of Northern Ireland, Mairead Nic Craith explores the commitment of unionists to a civic, "culture blind" British state contrasting this with nationalist demands for official recognition of Irish culture. The "cultural turn" in ...
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Ethnicity and Biculturalism
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Kenneth L Chau
"Ethnicity and Biculturalism" focuses on the use of the small group, in varied fields of practice, as a tool for affirming ethnic identity and heritage, simultaneously promoting intercultural acceptance and interdependence among group members. Students of social work will find this a useful book for learning how to help group members of many ...
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The roots of disunity : a look at Canadian political culture
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David V. J. Bell, Lorne Tepperman
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Concepts for Communication and Development in Bilingual-Bicultural Communities
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Florencio Sanchez-Camara (Editor), Felipe Ayala (Editor)
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They All Want Magic: Curanderas and Folk Healing
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Elizabeth De La Portilla, Elizabeth De La Portilla
Curanderas - traditional healers in Mexican culture - bridge the gaps between multiple planes of existence - spiritual and material, modern and pre-modern - dispensing medicinal herbs, prayers, and instruction. Elizabeth de la Portilla writes of the world and practices of San Antonio curanderas. As a scholar, an ethnographer, and a curandera in ...
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Exiles & pioneers : two visions of Canada's future, 1825-1975
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Tom Farley
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Three scales of inequality : perspectives on French-English relations
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Biculturalism and management
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The Tremblay Report
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The Report of the Tremblay Commission was an in-depth examination of the philosophical and moral basis of French-Canadian society. As such, it is essential to any deep understanding of French Canada.
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