This volume introduces the geographical setting of Central Asia and follows its history from the palaeolithic era to the rise of the Mongol empire in the thirteenth century. Distinguished international scholars discuss chronologically the varying historical achievements of the disparate population groups in the region.
Food, Cuisine, and Cultural Competency for Culinary, Hospitality, and Nutrition Professionals comprehensively covers unique food traditions as they apply to health. The text explores the critical importance of cultural sensitivity and competency in today's work setting, addresses health literacy issues of diverse client bases, and helps readers identify customer communication techniques that enable professionals to establish trust with clients of ethnicity not their own. Written and peer reviewed by experts in the culture discussed, each chapter in this groundbreaking text covers a distinct region or culture and discusses the various contexts that contribute to nutrition and health: lifestyles, eating patterns, ethnic foods, menu planning, communication (verbal and non-verbal), and more. This book is consistent with The American Dietetic Association’s Cultural Competence Strategic Plan.
Hearing History is a long-needed introduction to the basic tenets of what is variously termed historical acoustemology, auditory culture, or aural history. Gathering twenty-one of the fields most important writings, this volume will deepen and broaden our understanding of changing perceptions of sound and hearing and the ongoing education of our senses. The essays stimulate thinking on key questions: What is aural history? Why has vision tended to triumph over hearing in historical accounts? How might we begin to reclaim the sounds of the past? With theoretical and practical essays on the history of sound and hearing in Europe and the United States, the book draws on historical approaches ranging from empiricism to postmodernism. Some essays show the historian of technology at work, others highlight how With theoretical and practical essays on the history of sound and hearing in Europe and the United States, the book draws on historical approaches ranging from empiricism to postmodernism. Some essays show the historian of technology at work, others highlight how military, social, intellectual, and cultural historians have tackled historical acoustemologies. Investigating soundscapes that include a Puritan meetinghouse in colonial New England, the belfries of a French village at the close of the Old Regime, the court hall of Elizabeth I, and a Civil War battlefield, the essays vary just as widely in their topics, which include noise as a marker of social and cultural differences, the privileging of music as the sound of art, the persistence of Aristotelian ideas of sound into the seventeenth century, developments in sound related to medical practice, the advent of sound-recording technology, and noise pollution.
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Preface Marlene Brant Castellano -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Carol Williams -- 1. Aboriginal Women and Work across the 49th Parallel: Historical Antecedents and New Challenges Joa -- 2. Making a Living: Anishinaabe Women in Michigan's Changing Economy Alice Littlefield -- 3. Procuring Passage: Southern Australian Aboriginal Women and the Early Maritime Industry of Sealin -- 4. The Contours of Agency: Women's Work, Race, and Queensland's Indentured Labor Trade Tracey Baniva -- 5. From "Superabundance" to Dependency: Women Agriculturalists and the Negotiation of Colonialism a- -- 6. "We Were Real Skookum Women": The shishalh Economy and the Logging Industry on the Pacific Northw -- 7. Unraveling the Narratives of Nostalgia: Navajo Weavers and Globalization Kathy M'Closkey -- 8. Labor and Leisure in the "Enchanted Summer Land": Anishinaabe Women's Work and the Growth of Wisc -- 9. Nimble Fingers and Strong Backs: First Nations and Métis Women in Fur Trade and Rural Economies S -- 10. Northfork Mono Women's Agricultural Work, "Productive Coexistence," and Social Well-Being in tha -- 11. Diverted Mothering among American Indian Domestic Servants, 1920-1940 Margaret D. Jacobs -- 12. Charity or Industry? American Indian Women and Work Relief in the New Deal Era Colleen O'Neill -- 13. "An Indian Teacher among Indians": Native Women As Federal Employees Cathleen D. Cahill -- 14. "Assaulting the Ears of Government": The Indian Homemakers' Clubs and the Maori Women's Welfare -- 15. Politically Purposeful Work: Ojibwe Women's Labor and Leadership in Postwar Minneapolis Brenda J -- 16. Maori Sovereignty, Black Feminism, and the New Zealand Trade Union Movement Cybèle Locke -- 17. Beading Lesson Beth H. Piatote -- Contributors -- Index.
Up to World War II and beyond, the British ruled over a vast empire. Modern western attitudes towards the imperial past tend either towards nostalgia for British power or revulsion at what seem to be the abuses of that power. The Cambridge Illustrated History of the British Empire adopts neither of these approaches. It aims to create historical understanding about the British empire on the assumption that such understanding is important for any informed appreciation of the modern world. Through striking illustration and a text written by leading experts, this book examines the experience of colonialism in North America, India, Africa, Australia, and the Caribbean, as well as the impact of the empire on Britain itself. Emphasis is placed on social and cultural history, including slavery, trade, religion, art, and the movement of ideas. How did the British rule their empire? Who benefited economically from the empire? And who lost?