The World Wide Web is almost a paradigm case of the way postmodern knowledge works. Among the many congruences between hypertext and postmodernity are the idea of text as "nonlinear, or, more properly as multilinear or multisequential", the conception of "textual openness, intertextuality, and the irrelevance of distinctions between inside and outside a particular text", and the cultivation of ...

This article introduces the “multiply produced film” as a methodology and analytic that highlights asymmetrical dynamics inherent to collaboration. I draw on (auto)ethnographic material from making of Get By (2014), film worker-community solidarity, explore collaboration across race, class, gender in subject matter method. situate multiply within genealogy grafts ontological insights anthropolo...

The Ways of Coping Questionnaire (WCQ) is a widely used measure of coping processes. Despite its use in a variety of populations, there has been concern about the stability and structure of the WCQ across different populations. This study examines the factor structure of the WCQ in a large sample of individuals diagnosed with fibromyalgia. The participants were 501 adults (478 women) who were p...

Pragmatism’s anti-essentialist emphasis on contingency and plurality and its notion of truthas-created (not discovered) have important implications for the interpretation of archaeological data, and for the ‘public presentation’ of archaeological research. This paper will examine a pragmatically oriented project in Brazoria, Texas, USA, in which archaeologists and local citizens (including site...

This paper briefly sets the scene for the articles that follow, introducing some key debates that have characterized the recent practice of historical archaeology. The definition of historical archaeology is explored according to parameters of chronology and methodology, drawing a distinction between New World traditions that define the subject as ‘post-Columbian’ and Old World approaches that ...

Public spaces where culture is co-constructed and performed by a community of people are rich sites for research on identity formation. This thesis explores the poetry slam as a space where poets and audiences co-construct and perform individual and group identities. From a social constructionist approach to identity formation and through the theories and methods of performance studies, the res...

The word healthy can be traced back through Old German to its common origins with the words hale and whole. The word hale brings to mind thoughts of endurance, fitness, strength, and physiologically combined bodily function. Whole draws upon images of integration of mental and physical processes. Whole signals a harmonious interplay between the individual and society. Being healthy, then, is a ...

The study of mission history is seldom reported through imaginative literature, drama in particular, and dreams as a technique to justify conversion into Christianity. This article based on literary work, Kgašane, named after Molobedu kinsman who credited with sowing the seeds Christianity Bolobedu establishment Medingen Mission station Berlin Missionary Society. examines how writer, Makwala, u...

This study was intended to identify the localization and westernization of popular Malaysia music in Malaysia. Malaysian may be classified as classical, folk, syncretic (or acculturated), popular, or contemporary art by Mak Inang, Ulek mayang, Menora are examples vocal, dance, dramatic that arose during pre-colonial era. modern both fundamentally Western-influenced with some local components. T...

This article proposes the living journals method for remotely studying participants, elevating participant agency in data generation process and minimising or completely removing need a researcher to be physically present field. Employing this method, paper describes how was used explore 5-year-old children’s digital practices five families Azerbaijan. Mothers were assigned as ‘proxy’ researche...