This essay invokes Toni Morrison's notion of "discredited knowledges" to ruminate on Black religions among the enslaved in nineteenth century, a period replete with revolution and "emancipation." It considers slave narrative as site both material immaterial reality order evidence significance biography for taking seriously revering knowledges discredited by master class, particular attention de...

This paper, based on published, archival and field ethnographic materials, considers the state of ritual ceremonial sphere ethnic culture under conditions natural social cataclysms example Trans-Kama Udmurts living in Republic Bashkortostan Perm Krai, who didnt undergo baptism preserved their traditional religious rites. It is shown that calendar agrarian ceremonies implied rituals aimed at pre...

The experience of a successful adolescent learner will be described from the student’s perspective about learning the video game Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) through selected passages from a phenomenological interview. The question driving this investigation is, “Why did she sustain engagement in learning?” The importance of this question came out of the need for background on how to create an ...

Although the discussions in the Netherlands on ritual circumcision of girls, ritual circumcision of boys and hymen construction started more than ten years ago, these discussions about rituals of blood are not connected and offer a range of very diverging views. The significance of this article is to make clear that these diverging views and separated discussions fail to make distinctions. As a...