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Culture
Culture is an umbrella term which encompasses the social behavior and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups.Humans acquire culture through the learning processes of enculturation and socialization, which is shown by the diversity of cultures across societies. A cultural norm codifies acceptable conduct in society; it serves as a guideline for behavior, dress, language, and demeanor in a situation, which serves as a template for expectations in a social group. Accepting only a monoculture in a social group can bear risks, just as …
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DDN: Dundurn Press · 16 July 2024 English
As Udonwa grows, her hidden family history changes her forever.Let me tell you a story. It’s about a war. This war is not the type fought with guns and machetes. …
smile. “Yes, our father is right. In our Igbo culture, a suitor must go along with one or two or even … traditional ways was a means of preserving our Igbo culture. I remembered asking Grandpa on one occasion why …
UCP: University of Calgary Press · 15 July 2024 English
Family secrets thaw in spring mud. Invisible Lives delivers poetic meditations collaged with pop culture and impossibly colliding landscapes. The prairies of Alberta collapse into the sinkholes of northern …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English
Resistant Practices in Communities of Sound explores the ways that sonic practices (speaking, listening, recording, etc.) serve as forms of aesthetic and political dissent throughout the literary, artistic, and academic …
the Canadian government to respect Indigenous culture and sovereignty, there is still a large power gapIntroductIon … more to Black and Indigenous or- ature and oral culture than they do to the Western oral tradition or the … children through replacing their traditional oral culture and knowledge with a print-based, Western education … its place within the literary canon and popular culture; its historical roots; the role of sound in composition … stereotype designated by twentieth-century popular culture; one that is lodged in my psyche as a white, …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English
Western modernity is characterized by instrumental relations between humans and nature, as well as between humans themselves, that have caused irreversible environmental and social exploitation and degradation. Many policy documents, …
consequences). They apply independently of history, culture, or collective and individual socialization. But …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 French
Les catholiques en Nouvelle-France ont transmis et modifié, voire réinventé les modes d’expression associés à la Réforme catholique à la française. Regards sur l’âme en Nouvelle-France explore la manière dont …
or British imperial expansion, colonial life, culture, language, law, science, religion, and the environment … Terre-Neuve, les provinces maritimes, etc.), de la culture, de la langue, du droit, des sciences, de la religion … Nouvelle-France, auraient pu se nourrir d’une culture et d’une tradition, manifestent avec une force …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English
An Accidental History of Canada explores accidents, their causes, consequences, and afterlife, in colonial, Indigenous, and urban contexts, from the 1630s to the 1970s. These investigations make plain that accidents …
bridge workers were not passive victims, but a culture of masculinity, shared by management and labour … History: An Introduction,” 1–16. 21 Witmore, Culture of Accidents, 6. 22 Beck, Risk Society; Giddens … McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006. Witmore, Michael. Culture of Accidents: Unexpected Knowledges in Early Modern … lives of all workers. While drawing on Finnish culture and language, these migrant-settler socialists …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English
The Poetics of Translation challenges our pragmatic understanding of translation through the discipline’s use in contemporary innovative writing practices, highlighting translation’s ability to create meaning, celebrate uncertainty, and interpret rather …
and having a similar position as poet in my own culture, I could write my own biogra- phy and poetics, …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English
Friendless or Forsaken? is the story of child emigration agencies operating in North West England from 1860 to 1935. The book traces the imperial relationships, transnational economy, religious networks and …
the region’s history, and how the vast popular culture emerging around British Home Children in Canada … in the Victorian mind: Irish immi- gration, the culture of poverty and homelessness on the streets, and …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English
From 1650 to 1750 the provision of medical care for injured seamen in the Royal Navy underwent a major transformation, shifting from care provided by civilians in private homes to …
Madeline C. Burghardt 51 Strange Trips Science, Culture, and the Regulation of Drugs Lucas Richert 52 …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 9 July 2024 English
From Trench Town to the top of the world — one man's inspiring fight for meaning, dignity, and respect. Tiga’s Tale chronicles the remarkable life of world champion boxer Barrington …
spirituality and love of reli- gion rooted in a culture of resistance and hope, which may help to explain … lots of factors that contributed to Jamaica’s culture of violence, most of them deeply engrained rem- … different flights were all White, which was a bit of culture shock for us. After all, we had never seen a White …