How ritualized public ceremonies affirm or challenge cultural identities associated with the American SouthW. J. Cash's 1941 observation that “there are many Souths and many cultural traditions among them” is certainly validated by this book. Although the Civil War and its “lost cause” tradition continues to serve as a cultural root paradigm in celebrations, both uniting and dividing loyalties, southerners also embrace a panoply of public rituals—parades, ...

L’agriculture est entrée dans une phase de transition accélérée en faveur de nouveaux modèles agricoles viables, durables et socialement responsables. Elle se retrouve au cœur des enjeux sociétaux majeurs de ce XXIème siècle : l’environnement et le climat, le numérique, la souveraineté alimentaire et la santé, la protection de l’eau et le développement des énergies renouvelables, des biomatériaux et encore de l’agroforesterie ou de l’agriculture urbaine. C’est donc tout un écosystème liant...

Congregations and faith-based organizations have become key participants in America’s welfare revolution. Recent legislation has expanded the social welfare role of religious communities, thus revealing a pervasive lack of faith in purely economic responses to poverty.Charitable Choices is an ethnographic study of faith-based poverty relief in 30 congregations in the rural south. Drawing on in-depth interviews and fieldwork in Mississippi faith communities, it exami...

In their introduction, the editors of New Ways of Doing Business assert that in retrospect, it will be apparent that today's government, that of the early years of the 21st century, 'was undergoing its most significant transformation since the decade of the 1930's when direct government-delivered services grew significantly as part of the New Deal.' This newest volume in the IBM Endowment for the Business of Government series is an invaluable guide to navigating the sometimes controversial...

In this rich collection of essays, editors Dale McConkey and Peter Augustine Lawler explore the contributions that religious faith and morality can make to a civil society. Though the level of religious expression has remained high in the United States, the shift from traditional religious beliefs to a far more individualized style of faith has led many to contend that no faith commitment, collective or personal, should contribute to the vibrancy of a civil democratic society. Challenging ...

Through the fall of Anastasio Somoza, the rise of the Sandinistas, and the contra war, the United States and Nicaragua seemed destined to repeat the mistakes made by the U.S. and Cuba forty years before. The 1990 election in Nicaragua broke the pattern. Robert Pastor was a major US policymaker in the critical period leading up to and following the Sandinista Revolution of 1979. A decade later after writing the first edition of this book, he organized the International Mission led by Jimmy ...

Winner of the 2025 James Mooney Award from the Southern Anthropological SocietyTo inhabitants of the Gulf Coast region of Louisiana, food is much more than nourishment. The acts of gathering, preparing, and sharing food are ways to raise children, bond with friends, and build community. In Bayou Harvest: Subsistence Practice in Coastal Louisiana, Helen A. Regis and Shana Walton examine how coastal residents deploy self-reliance and care for each other thro...

Published in 1997, this is a translation of the Intnerarium Peregrinorum et Gesta Regis Ricardi, 'The Itenerary of the Pilgrims and the deeds of King Richard,’ based on the edition produced in 1864 by William Stubbs as volume 1 of his chronicles and memorials of the reign of King Richard I. This Chronicle is the most comprehensive and complete account of the Third Crusade, covering virtually all the events of the crusade in roughly chronological order, and adding priceless details...

Loin d’aborder uniquement les métiers et les formations en milieu scolaire, l’orientation doit de plus en plus composer avec le renouvellement de questions classiques (faut-il promouvoir le remplissage des filières, au risque de reproduire leur composition sociale ? Doit-on inciter les élèves à anticiper leur professionnalisation, et soumettre ainsi le système éducatif aux évolutions projetées des marchés du travail ?) comme avec l’émergence d’interrogations plus récentes en matière d’inég...

La pauvreté peut se définir comme un état susceptible d’évoluer au gré de la conjoncture économique comme des accidents de la vie qui peuvent rompre un équilibre souvent fragile et faire basculer des ménages dans la pauvreté. Pour permettre d’en sortir et de s’en sortir, l’éducation des enfants et des jeunes en état de pauvreté doit se développer malgré la pauvreté. Suffit-il dès lors d’accéder à un espace protégé et dédié pour laisser la pauvreté à la porte de l’école et se consacrer aux ...

Éducation au développement durable, transition écologique, urgence climatique, préservation de la biodiversité, anthropocène, soutenabilité, durabilité... Autant de notions et d’approches qui relèvent de contextes et de sphères de production de savoirs différents – et que nous avons tendance à confondre. Ce 10e volume de la collection propose 6 contributions qui cherchent à poser les termes du débat et du positionnement d’une éducation à la transition écologique au sein du système scolaire...

This is a translation of the Itinerarium Peregrinorum et Gesta Regis Ricardi, a contemporary chronicle of the Third Crusade, 1187-1192. Told from the viewpoint of the European crusaders, it recounts the fall of the crusader kingdom of Jerusalem to Saladin in 1187 and the subsequent expeditions to recover it, led by the Emperor Frederick I, King Philip II of France and King Richard I of England, the Lionheart". This is the most comprehensive account of the crusade. Much of the account is fr...