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Book From Land to Mouth

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul Sillitoe
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2010-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300142269
  • Pages : 597 pages

Download or read book From Land to Mouth written by Paul Sillitoe and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After 35 years of research in the New Guinea Highlands, esteemed anthropologist Paul Sillitoe offers a comparison of the apparently incomparable: our capitalist economy to the subsistence-cum-exchange order of the Wola people in the Was Valley. This is a seminal work intent on reinstating certain core values in anthropological scholarship.

Book From Land to Mouth

Download or read book From Land to Mouth written by Brewster Kneen and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of how the global food system functions. Enables readers to begin to create localized, sustainable food systgems built on justice and community.

Book A Mouth Is Always Muzzled

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  • Author : Natalie Hopkinson
  • Publisher : The New Press
  • Release : 2018-02-06
  • ISBN : 1620971259
  • Pages : 208 pages

Download or read book A Mouth Is Always Muzzled written by Natalie Hopkinson and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award “A deeply felt and passionately expressed manifesto.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred) A meditation in the spirit of John Berger and bell hooks on art as protest, contemplation, and beauty in politically perilous times As people consider how to respond to a resurgence of racist, xenophobic populism, A Mouth Is Always Muzzled tells an extraordinary story of the ways art brings hope in perilous times. Weaving disparate topics from sugar and British colonialism to attacks on free speech and Facebook activism and traveling a jagged path across the Americas, Africa, India, and Europe, Natalie Hopkinson, former culture writer for the Washington Post and The Root, argues that art is where the future is negotiated. Part post-colonial manifesto, part history of British Caribbean, part exploration of art in the modern world, A Mouth Is Always Muzzled is a dazzling analysis of the insistent role of art in contemporary politics and life. In crafted, well-honed prose, Hopkinson knits narratives of culture warriors: painter Bernadette Persaud, poet Ruel Johnson, historian Walter Rodney, novelist John Berger, and provocative African American artist Kara Walker, whose homage to the sugar trade Sugar Sphinx electrified American audiences. A Mouth Is Always Muzzled is a moving meditation documenting the artistic legacy generated in response to white supremacy, brutality, domination, and oppression. In the tradition of Paul Gilroy, it is a cri de coeur for the significance of politically bold—even dangerous—art to all people and nations.

Book Hand to Mouth

Download or read book Hand to Mouth written by Linda Tirado and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The real-life Nickel and Dimed—the author of the wildly popular “Poverty Thoughts” essay tells what it’s like to be working poor in America. ONE OF THE FIVE MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS OF THE YEAR--Esquire “DEVASTATINGLY SMART AND FUNNY. I am the author of Nickel and Dimed, which tells the story of my own brief attempt, as a semi-undercover journalist, to survive on low-wage retail and service jobs. TIRADO IS THE REAL THING.”—Barbara Ehrenreich, from the Foreword As the haves and have-nots grow more separate and unequal in America, the working poor don’t get heard from much. Now they have a voice—and it’s forthright, funny, and just a little bit furious. Here, Linda Tirado tells what it’s like, day after day, to work, eat, shop, raise kids, and keep a roof over your head without enough money. She also answers questions often asked about those who live on or near minimum wage: Why don’t they get better jobs? Why don’t they make better choices? Why do they smoke cigarettes and have ugly lawns? Why don’t they borrow from their parents? Enlightening and entertaining, Hand to Mouth opens up a new and much-needed dialogue between the people who just don’t have it and the people who just don’t get it.

Book Narrative of the Arctic Land Expedition to the Mouth of the Great Fish River

Download or read book Narrative of the Arctic Land Expedition to the Mouth of the Great Fish River written by Sir George Back and published by Philadelphia : E.L. Carey & A. Hart. This book was released on 1836 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Narrative of the Arctic Land Expedition to the Mouth of the Great Fish River and Along the Shores of the Artic Ocean  in the Years 1833  1834  and 1835

Download or read book Narrative of the Arctic Land Expedition to the Mouth of the Great Fish River and Along the Shores of the Artic Ocean in the Years 1833 1834 and 1835 written by Sir George Back and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book No Useless Mouth

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  • Author : Rachel B. Herrmann
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2019-11-15
  • ISBN : 1501716123
  • Pages : 217 pages

Download or read book No Useless Mouth written by Rachel B. Herrmann and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rachel B. Herrmann's No Useless Mouth is truly a breath of fresh air in the way it aligns food and hunger as the focal point of a new lens to reexamine the American Revolution. Her careful scrutiny, inclusive approach, and broad synthesis―all based on extensive archival research―produced a monograph simultaneously rich, audacious, insightful, lively, and provocative."―The Journal of American History In the era of the American Revolution, the rituals of diplomacy between the British, Patriots, and Native Americans featured gifts of food, ceremonial feasts, and a shared experience of hunger. When diplomacy failed, Native Americans could destroy food stores and cut off supply chains in order to assert authority. Black colonists also stole and destroyed food to ward off hunger and carve out tenuous spaces of freedom. Hunger was a means of power and a weapon of war. In No Useless Mouth, Rachel B. Herrmann argues that Native Americans and formerly enslaved black colonists ultimately lost the battle against hunger and the larger struggle for power because white British and United States officials curtailed the abilities of men and women to fight hunger on their own terms. By describing three interrelated behaviors—food diplomacy, victual imperialism, and victual warfare—the book shows that, during this tumultuous period, hunger prevention efforts offered strategies to claim power, maintain communities, and keep rival societies at bay. Herrmann shows how Native Americans, free blacks, and enslaved peoples were "useful mouths"—not mere supplicants for food, without rights or power—who used hunger for cooperation and violence, and took steps to circumvent starvation. Her wide-ranging research on black Loyalists, Iroquois, Cherokee, Creek, and Western Confederacy Indians demonstrates that hunger creation and prevention were tools of diplomacy and warfare available to all people involved in the American Revolution. Placing hunger at the center of these struggles foregrounds the contingency and plurality of power in the British Atlantic during the Revolutionary Era. Thanks to generous funding from Cardiff University, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.

Book Zipper Mouth

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  • Author : Laurie Weeks
  • Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 1558617485
  • Pages : 170 pages

Download or read book Zipper Mouth written by Laurie Weeks and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2011 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF A 2012 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD Selected by Dave Eggers for Best American Nonrequired Reading In this extraordinary debut novel, Laurie Weeks captures the freedom and longing of life on the edge in New York City. Ranting letters to Judy Davis and Sylvia Plath, an unrequited fixation on a straight best friend, exalted nightclub epiphanies, devastating morning-after hangovers--Zipper Mouth chronicles the exuberance and mortification of a junkie, and transcends the chaos of everyday life.

Book From Land to Mouth

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 575 pages

Download or read book From Land to Mouth written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Botany of Desire

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  • Author : Michael Pollan
  • Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
  • Release : 2002-05-28
  • ISBN : 0375760393
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book The Botany of Desire written by Michael Pollan and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2002-05-28 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Pollan shines a light on our own nature as well as on our implication in the natural world.” —The New York Times “A wry, informed pastoral.” —The New Yorker The book that helped make Michael Pollan, the New York Times bestselling author of How to Change Your Mind, Cooked and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, one of the most trusted food experts in America Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers’ genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship. He masterfully links four fundamental human desires—sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control—with the plants that satisfy them: the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato. In telling the stories of four familiar species, Pollan illustrates how the plants have evolved to satisfy humankind’s most basic yearnings. And just as we’ve benefited from these plants, we have also done well by them. So who is really domesticating whom?

Book From Land to Mouth

Download or read book From Land to Mouth written by Brewster Kneen and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Class book of geography

Download or read book Class book of geography written by William Lawson (F.R.G.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Contributions to Biology

Download or read book Contributions to Biology written by Hopkins Marine Station and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprints from various scientific periodicals.

Book Contributions to Biology from the Hopkins Seaside Laboratory

Download or read book Contributions to Biology from the Hopkins Seaside Laboratory written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings of the Engineers  Club of Philadelphia

Download or read book Proceedings of the Engineers Club of Philadelphia written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of the Engineers  Club of Philadelphia and Affiliated Societies

Download or read book Journal of the Engineers Club of Philadelphia and Affiliated Societies written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Amazon Sweet Sea

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nigel J. H. Smith
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 0292777701
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book Amazon Sweet Sea written by Nigel J. H. Smith and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author explores how human use of the Amazon estuary's natural resources has been affected by technological change, rapid urban growth, and accelerated market integration. He shows how human intervention in the estuary has actually diversified agriculture and helped save floodplain forests from wanton destruction.