Dr. Michael Kearney (1937–2009) focused his life's work on the study of class, ethnicity, migration, and the theory and ethnography of transnational communities and processes. The Winds of Ixtepeji, his first major publication, is a sociopsychological exploration into the world view and social organization of a Zapotec mountain town called Ixtepeji in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. The main topic is how the Ixtepejanos perceive reality as potentially dangerous: perilous beings abiding in the air and friends and family possessed by envy pose constant threats to self-esteem and interpersonal relationships. Such perceptions affect, and in turn are affected by, the conduct of village life—a life that centers on hard work and a struggle to survive in a harsh environment. Ixtepejanos, who believe they are abandoned to their existence, are also aware of an idealized vision of another world, glimpsed in magazines, movies, and trips to the city. This other world—forever unattainable—is one of unlimited wealth and power, of security and happiness. In an attempt to adjust to their own deficient world, Ixtepejanos repress their desire for better conditions, drink to create a more ideal environment, and disparage themselves—acts that only intensify a barely tolerable existence. Although world view is the prevailing focus of Kearney's cognitive study, other salient features of the cultural and social systems are effectively dealt with and interrelated, including politics, economics, and religion.  Title of related interest from Waveland Press: Chinas, La Zandunga: Of Fieldwork and Friendship in Southern Mexico (ISBN 9780881336801).

The Winds of Ixtepeji: World View and Society in a Zapotec Town

Politics & Social Sciences

Kearney, Michael

Sociology

holt,rinehart,and winston inc

Palliative care physician Michael Kearney proposes a new model which integrates the Western medical model of pain relief with the ancient holistic approach, termed 'Asklepian healing,' which involves working with the patient's own healing potential to relieve suffering.

A Place of Healing: Working with Suffering in Living and Dying

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Alternative Medicine

Oxford University Press

Bereft of any comprehensive analysis and subject to little if any sustained debate, the tangential location of the prohibition of propaganda for war in the discourse of international law has resulted in a situation where state conduct in this area too often appears to be acting in a legal vacuum. In proposing a more robust role for international law in responding to what is a matter of widespread public concern, the book analyses the context in which international law first came to be concerned with propaganda for war in the years following the First World War. With the establishment of the United Nations and the corresponding development of international human rights law, the issue of the prohibition of propaganda for war in both human rights law and international criminal law became a highly significant, yet frequently divisive matter during the Cold War. Drawing on primary materials from the League of Nations to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, this book makes the case for the revitalization of a provision of international law which can be fundamental to the prevention of war. The book examines international human rights law, the travaux préparatoires to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, communications between the Human Rights Committee and states parties to the Covenant, state practice, and international criminal law. Drawing on the manner by which international tribunals from Nuremberg to The Hague have approached the matter of individual criminal responsibility for 'incitement to crimes of an international dimension', the book proposes that 'direct and public incitement to aggression' be included as a crime in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

The Prohibition of Propaganda for War in International Law

History

Military

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám in English Verse, Edward Fitzgerald: The Text of the Fourth Edition, Followed by That of the First; With Notes Showing the ... Persian Original; And a Biographical Preface

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám in English Verse, Edward Fitzgerald: The Text of the Fourth Edition, Followed by That of the First; With Notes Showing the ... Persian Original; and a Biographical Preface

Khayyām, Omar

FitzGerald, Edward

Franklin Classics

Over the last two decades, economic, political, and social life in Latin America has been transformed by the region's accelerated integration into the global economy. Although this transformation has tended to exacerbate various inequities, new forms of popular expression and action challenging the contemporary structures of capital and power have

Capital, Power, And Inequality In Latin America

Kirk, John

Harris, Richard L.

Halebsky, Sandor

Dore, Elizabeth W

Routledge

The concept of ?peasant? has been constructed from residual images of pre-industrial European and colonial rural society. Spurred by Romantic sensibilities and modern nationalist imaginations, the images the word peasant brings to mind are anachronisms that do not reflect the ways in which rural people live today. In this path-breaking book, Michae

Reconceptualizing The Peasantry: Anthropology In Global Perspective

Social Sciences

Drawing on his own case studies as a hospice doctor, the author describes the art of dying with dignity, wholeness, and acceptance and explores the ways other cultures have dealt with death. 12,500 first printing.

MORTALLY WOUNDED: Stories of Soul Pain, Death, and Healing

Parenting & Relationships

Scribner

A hospice doctor recounts the different ways he has seen people die, explaining the importance of finding or restoring peace and psychological wholeness that can ease the pain of death and drawing on quotations from great thinkers to back his cause. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

Mortally Wounded: Stories of Soul Pain Death and Healing

North American Coasts: Reading on Evolution, Processes & Policy

Science & Math

Stevenson, J. Court

Earth Sciences

Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co.

The concept of peasant” has been constructed from residual images of pre-industrial European and colonial rural society. Spurred by Romantic sensibilities and modern nationalist imaginations, the images the word peasant brings to mind are anachronisms that do not reflect the ways in which rural people live today. In this path-breaking book, Michael Kearney shows how the concept has been outdistanced by contemporary history. He situates the peasantry within the current social context of the transnational and postCold War nation-state and clears the way for alternative theoretical views. Reconceptualizing the Peasantry looks at rural society in general and considers the problematic distinction between rural and urban. Most definitions of and debates about peasants have focused on their presumed social, economic, cultural, and political characteristics, but Kearney articulates the way in which peasants define themselves in a rapidly changing world. In the process, he develops ethnographic and political forms of representation that correspond to contemporary postpeasant identities. Moving beyond a reconsideration of peasantry, the book situates anthropology in global context, showing how the discipline reconstructs itself and its subjects according to changing circumstances.

Reconceptualizing The Peasantry: Anthropology In Global Perspective (Critical Essays in Anthropology)

Westview Press

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