Authors:Chon A. Noriega, Eric R. Avila, Karen Mary Davalos, C
Publisher: UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Publications
Keywords: aztlan, anthology, series, vol, studies, chicano, reader
Number of Pages: 656
Published: 2001-11-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0895510979
ISBN-13: 9780895510976
This anthology brings together twenty ground-breaking essays from Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, the journal of record in the field. Spanning thirty years, these essays shaped the development of Chicano studies and testify to its broad disciplinary and thematic range. The anthology documents four major strands in Chicano scholarship and is divided into sections accordingly: Decolonizing the Territory, Performing Politics, Configuring Identities, and Remapping the World. Each section is introduced by one of the co-editors, five Chicano and Chicana academics who teach introductory cour
Author: James Bradley Wells
Publisher: Center for Hellenic Studies
Keywords: style, hellenic, studies, epinician, study, verbal, art, ethnographic, pindar
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 2010-02-28
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0674036271
ISBN-13: 9780674036277
In Pindar’s Verbal Art, James Bradley Wells argues that the victory song is a traditional art form that appealed to a popular audience and served exclusive elite interests through the inclusive appeal of entertainment, popular instruction, and laughter. This is the first study of Pindar’s language that applies performance as a method for the ethnographic description and interpretation of entextualized records of verbal art. In Mikhail Bakhtin’s terms, Pindar’s Verbal Art is a sociological stylistics of epinician language and demonstrates that Pindar’s is a highly dialogical form of
Author: GÃsli Sigurdsson
Publisher: Center for Hellenic Studies
Keywords: oral, parry, milman, collection, literature, publications, discourse, icelandic, saga, tradition, medieval, method
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2004-06-30
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 067401457X
ISBN-13: 9780674014572
This work explores the role of orality in shaping and evaluating medieval Icelandic literature. Applying field studies of oral cultures in modern times to this distinguished medieval literature, Gísli Sigurðsson asks how it would alter our reading of medieval Icelandic sagas if it were assumed they had grown out of a tradition of oral storytelling, similar to that observed in living cultures. Sigurðsson examines how orally trained lawspeakers regarded the emergent written culture, especially in light of the fact that the writing down of the law in the early twelfth century undermined
Authors:Alexander T.J. Lennon (editor), Larry Diamond, Franc
Publisher: Center for Strategic and International Studies
Keywords: support, promotion, strategy, security, democracy
Number of Pages: 140
Published: 2009-03-10
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0892065672
ISBN-13: 9780892065677
Democracy promotion in some form has been central to U.S. foreign policy since the country s inception, yet recent setbacks require reevaluating: What role, if any, should democracy have in U.S. security strategy and public diplomacy today? Extensive interviews with former national security advisers, senior diplomats and policymakers, strategic thinkers, and democracy experts, along with in-depth explorations of alternative strategies by Larry Diamond, Francis Fukuyama, and Michael McFaul, all enhanced by an elite, bipartisan advisory committee, have found the following: § The conso
Author: Zbigniew Brzezinski
Publisher: Center for Strategic & International Studies
Keywords: csis, significant, issues, series, russia, europe, triad, living, china, geostrategic
Number of Pages: 88
Published: 2000-12-18
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 089206384X
ISBN-13: 9780892063840
Global stability in the early twenty-first century will be conditioned largely by how the United States handles its relations with China, Europe, and Russia--the "geostrategic triad". Thus, the United States needs a well-defined strategy to manage the two "Eurasian power triangles": the United States, Japan, and China, and the United States, Europe, and Russia. With this work, Brzezinski offers a comprehensive geostrategic road map for such U.S. engagement.
Author: Vladimir Milov
Publisher: Center for Strategic and International Studies
Keywords: factor, energy, west, russia
Number of Pages: 24
Published: 2008-08-15
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0892065443
ISBN-13: 9780892065448
The future of energy relations between Russia and the West can hardly be separated from the global energy environment. Recent nationalist trends in Russian politics make it very hard to imagine that Russia will abandon a tempting "energy egoism" path (egoism is traditionally central to the Russian nationalist vision of the world) as resource nationalism becomes the dominant policy trend among the group of energy-rich countries. The only event with the potential to change that attitude is the true re-democratization of Russia, followed by the transfer of power to a more internationally responsi
Authors:Bates Gill, Matthew Oresman,
Publisher: Center for Strategic & Intl. Studies
Keywords: csis, report, west, journey, new, china
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2003-08-30
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 089206434X
ISBN-13: 9780892064342
One of the most intriguing developments in Central Asia over the past decade has been China’s renewed attention to and diplomacy in the region. The authors make recommendations for U.S. policy in the region.
