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Among the Toraja of highland Sulawesi, Indonesia, mortuary rituals are great performances. Bellowing water buffalo and squealing pigs for sacrifice, colorful displays of ritual architecture, and formal processions of gift-bearing guests set the scene for complex dramas about status, human value, and ties to ancestors, followers, and kin. To ......
Status Politics and the American Temperance Movement
The important role of the Temperance movement throughout American history is analyzed as clashes and conflicts between rival social systems, cultures, and status groups. Sometimes the ''dry'' is winning the classic battle for prestige and political power. Sometimes, as in today's society, he is losing.This significant contribution to the theory of ......
Alice Fulton's writing has been characterized by The New Yorker as ''electrifying,'' and the poet herself, according to Publishers Weekly, ''may be Dickinson's postmodern heir.''
''Arrington gives readers as good a picture as they are likely to get of the man who assumed leadership of the major part of the Mormon church when Joseph Smith was assassinated in 1844, led its members west, and built a church empire in Utah.''--R. Laurence Moore, New York Times Book Review ''A considerable achievement that will doubtless stand ......
New Perspectives on Administrative Theory and Practice
''This volume makes a special contribution to organizational analysis by developing the community element's influence on action and outcomes in organizational settings. To understand the volume is to understand what is meant by the community element and to appreciate its influence on organizational behavior. . . . The issues are whether or not ......
John L. Lewis (1880-1969), who ruled the United Mine Workers for four decades beginning in 1919, defied presidents, challenged Congress, and kept American political life in an uproar. Drawing upon previously untapped resources in the UMW archives and upon oral histories by major figures of the 1930s and 1940s, the authors have created a remarkable ......
The Progressives' Achievement in American Civilization, 1889-1920
Ministers of Reform vividly depicts the spiritual odyssey of an entire generation and shows how Protestant roots and a common ''climate of creativity'' nurtured a host of Progressive leaders from all walks of life. Crunden demonstrates that the same spirit of nnovation and moral rectitude so typical of the era's politics also characterized its ......
The Many and the Few recounts the dramatic ''inside'' story of one of the pivotal strikes in American history. For six weeks in 1937, workers at General Motors' Flint, Michigan, plant refused to budge from their sit-down strike. That action changed the course of industrial and labor history, when General Motors finally agreed to recognize the ......
A perennial choice for courses on antebellum America, Jacksonian America continues to be a popular classroom text with scholars of the period, even among those who bridle at Pessen's iconoclastic views of Old Hickory and his ''inegalitarian society.''''Probably no other single volume will be so useful for undergraduates seeking a lively and ......
