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71. Publications & Writing
Black Rhythms of Peru: Reviving African Musical Heritage in the Black Pacific
In the late 1950s to 1970s, an Afro-Peruvian revival brought the forgotten music and dances of Peru’s African musical heritage to Lima’s theatrical stages. The revival conjured newly imagined links to the past in order to celebrate—and to some extent recreate—Black cultur…
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72. Publications & Writing
Blood and Culture: Youth, Right-Wing Extremism, and National Belonging in Contemporary Germany
Over the past decade, immigration and globalization have significantly altered Europe's cultural and ethnic landscape, foregrounding questions of national belonging. In Blood and Culture, 2000 IDRF Fellow Cynthia Miller-Idriss provides a rich ethnographic analysis of how patterns…
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73. Publications & Writing
Blood and the Brain
Authored by DPDF 2009 Cultures & Histories of the Human Sciences co-Director, Emily Martin. In everyday Euro-American understandings, blood is both vital and dangerous to the brain. Why, then, are there virtually no illustrations of the brain in contemporary neuroscience that inc…
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74. Publications & Writing
Blues Empress in Black Chattanooga: Bessie Smith and the Emerging Urban South
As one of the first African American vocalists to be recorded, Bessie Smith is a prominent figure in American popular culture and African American history. Mellon Mays Fellow Michelle R. Scott uses Smith's life as a lens to investigate broad issues in history, including industria…
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75. Publications & Writing
Bombs and Bandwidth: The Emerging Relationship between Information Technology and Security
The third in the Social Science Research Council series After September 11, this volume explores new IT-related threats and power structures emerging around IT in the post–September 11 era, from privacy and surveillance to new social movements, cyber crime, and terrorism. Spons…
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76. Publications & Writing
Born Again in Balaka: Pentecostal versus Catholic Narratives of Religious Transformation in Rural Malawi
Publication by DPDF 2009 "Revitalizing Development Studies" Fellow Nicolette D. Manglos. Pentecostal membership and born-again conversion have been growing in popularity across Africa. Yet despite the many explanations posited for their growth, few studies have attended to the l…
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77. Publications & Writing
Boundaries of Contagion: How Ethnic Politics Have Shaped Government Responses to AIDS
Why have governments responded to the HIV/AIDS pandemic in such different ways? During the past quarter century, international agencies and donors have disseminated vast resources and a set of best practice recommendations to policymakers around the globe. Yet the governments of…
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78. Publications & Writing
Bridging Islands: Venture Companies and the Future of Japanese and American Industries
In Bridging Islands, SSRC-Abe Fellow Robert Kneller argues that without vibrant new high technology companies, Japanese industry will decline inexorably. The innovative strength of the world’s two largest economies, the United States and Japan, are based on two different forms…
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79. Publications & Writing
Broadband Adoption in Low-Income Communities
The social function of the Internet has changed dramatically in recent years. What was, until recently, a supplement to other channels of information and communication has become increasingly a basic requirement of social and economic inclusion. Educational systems, employers, an…
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80. Publications & Writing
Brokerage in the Sacred Sphere: Religious Leaders as Community Problem Solvers in Rural Malawi
Publication by DPDF 2009 "Revitalizing Development Studies" Fellow Nicolette D. Manglos. Religious leaders in Sub-Saharan Africa do not just deal with the spiritual needs of members but are also heavily engaged in dealing with social problems and material needs. Although true el…
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