General Bibliography Research Articles

DOUGLAS GRAY, Later Medieval English Literature.

DOUGLAS GRAY’s latest book covers the period from the death of Chaucer to the earlier sixteenth century, quite like James Simpson’s 2002 volume in the Oxford English Literary History; but the two books are very different. Whereas Simpson’s has an overall historical argument, as its title Reform and Cultural Revolution declares, Gray’s sets out to do no more, and no less, than to persuade readers of the riches and variety to be found in the English and Scottish writings of the period. The author himself is one of those ‘literary students with antiquarian tastes’ to whom he alludes; and his voracious reading extends beyond the literary to include, not only the Paston Letters, but also such other practical texts as the ‘Vulgaria’—collections of passages in English for schoolboys to translate into Latin, of whose ‘vivid colloquial English’ Gray gives an appreciative account (pp. 88–90). This very big, wide-ranging book is divided, after a long Introduction to the period as a whole, into four sections devoted respectively to English prose, English verse, Scottish writings, and drama. The text is entirely without footnotes and there is no general bibliography, but each chapter ends with a selective list of References and Further Reading, arranged in accordance with the order followed in the preceding text. This arrangement produces a pleasingly uncluttered page, but it will make it difficult for readers to follow up many of Gray’s references: where, for instance, are they to find Dante’s account of his mother’s death (p. 62)?

Bibliografía sobre John Dewey: Filosofía de la Educación

In this article the autor selects the J. Dewey's original writings and the most important bibliography about his educational thought. Before his writings and before the general bibliography are a brief biography, and introduction to his philosophical thought, his main philosophical works and some monographic studies about his philosophical conception. His tehoric/philosophical educational thought and his educational writings are the first essence of this deweyian bibliography. In the last section ar classified in seven paragraphs all books and articles about the educational thought of J. Dewey: general studies and repertoires; foundatios of his educational theory; philosophy and education; his influence in the educational world; monographic studides; relations with the philosophical systems; and others.

Los retos de la diferencia: Los actores de la multiculturalidad entre México y Colombia

Difference and identity are the organizing issues in this book, the product of an odd research project to which several institutions in Mexico, Colombia, and France contributed. The book includes 17 articles organized in five parts. The topics under which this uneven collection is grouped include the politics of difference, alterity, and belonging. These show the specific approaches to the basic questions of construction of identity and alterity: How is identity constructed? What are the key elements that form the features of identity? What is alterity? The comparative perspective takes examples from both Colombia and Mexico and from a variety of regions and social actors.The goal of the book is to expand the conceptual framework of identity construction. It is an admirable goal, yet the book becomes excessively jargony and the specific cases are so microscopically detailed that general overall conclusions become hard to make. Furthermore, the concept of alterity is constructed from the traditional perspective of established discourse, mostly in the words of white European male academics, notably Fredrik Barth, whose work on ethnic groups is used as the cornerstone of this work (p. 16). However, there are plenty of case studies on indigenous populations, specific minority ethnicities, and social movements. The variety of authors, places, and perspectives adds to the scope of the studies.All the contributors try to show how historical and social structures of domination are constructed. However, the historical perspective is extremely short; hardly any case study looks before the 1980s at the earliest. Within this immediate perspective, the value of the book lies in its contribution in illuminating the mechanics and interconnections of identity studies and religious studies, another key issue in this collection.The concept of difference receives special mention in reference to indigenous societies and their struggles in Veracruz, Mexico; Nariño, Colombia; the Mexican Huasteca; and Quiyanamo, Colombia, among other locations. There are chapters on forms of social struggle among Indian populations in the Mexican and Colombian Pacific. In contrast to the very specific and short-term studies of most chapters, Kali Argyriadis and Renée de la Torre attempt to trace both Aztec and Yoruba rituals in contemporary Santería in Havana, Veracruz, and Guadalajara. Without mentioning any specific case study, their article focuses mostly on the growing network of practitioners and the shift of leadership positions from Cuban to African dominance.Students in Mexico and the United States would have a hard time using this book due to its broad focus, jargony language, and lack of a general bibliography. However, specialists on the topic of indigenous identity might find it useful and worth reading.

The Greenwood encyclopedia of Asian American literature

Preface Acknowledgments Guide to Related Topics Alphabetical List of Entries General Bibliography Advisory Board Editor and Contributors

Bibliographic work of Ivan Franjo Jukić and the end of cultural history. Bibliographies as a source for the history of books and cultural history

Bosnian Franciscan Ivan Franjo Jukić (1818-1857) died a hundred and fifty years ago. He was one of the most prominent figures in the 19th century cultural life of Bosnia and Herzegovina, credited with the development of a wide-ranging set of aspects of cultural life in Bosnia and Herzegovina, organised in the unpropitious conditions of the Turkish occupation. Among other things, he studied the non-religious cultural history of Bosnia and Herzegovina and, in particular, the literary work of his Franciscan predecessors who were active in pastoral work for many years on the entire Croatian cultural territory and, in some periods, outside this territory. Preaching in the tongue of the people, they contributed greatly to the standardisation of the Croatian language and to the development and use of bosanica as a specific form of the Croatian Cyrillic script. Jukić was one of the first, if not the first Croatian student of this script. The study of bosanica was an inspiration to him to collect and bibliographically describe books written in this script and, also, books written in the Latin script. Thus emerged the core of his text, Bosnian Literature, which is in fact a general bibliography of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was the first book to set as a criterion the secular and not the religious borders of Bosnia. The text was published in two installments in the first literary journal in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosanski prijatelj, started and edited by Jukić.The paper is to commemorate the anniversary of his death. It provides an insight into the results of the bibliographic, cultural and historic study of Jukić’s text. The bibliographic study focuses on the bibliographic structure, bibliographic descriptions and on the criteria applied in the selection of the material. The bibliographic features are analysed as part of the cultural and historic context, in the synchronic and diachronic sense of the word. The method applied in the contextualised bibliographic analysis provides background for the study of some of Jukić’s less well known standpoints, relevant for the criteria employed in the selection of the materials for the national retrospective bibliography.The need to approach the matter from cultural and historic aspects is in correspondence with Jukić’s devout support of the Illyrian movement. This movement promoted the unity of the Southern Slavs, calling them all Illyrians and regarding them as basically a single people speaking the same language. As one of its focuses, the movement also promoted bibliographic work. Tracing back this orientation leads us to its source, the German Romanticism, which relied on the common language for the building of unity of the disunited German lands, and promoted the primacy of culture over the primacy of politics. With the German people this unity was successful, whereas the political reality, in part shaped by bloody wars, was a vivid proof of the failure of the Illyrian, and later, of the Southern Slavic idea. The course of research done for this paper was greatly affected by this historical fact, especially evident in the criteria for the selection of the bibliographic material.Starting off with the Illyrians’ understanding of what ”the regional’’ denotes, Jukić not only accepted the identification of the Illyrians and the Southern Slavs as one and the same entity, but he also treated Bosnia’s Muslims as the ”glorious Illyrian people’’, not only territorially but also ethnically. Students of the cultural and political history of Bosnia did not agree with Jukić’s arguments, and the cultural and historical processes proved him wrong by developing in directions that Jukić could not have foreseen or expected. The outcome of the Turkish siege of Bosnia was, namely, in the identification of the religious with the national. So it happened that Jukić, as a Catholic, is thought of as a Croatian culturalist and bibliographer, and a member of the Croatian ethnic group, irrespective of the fact that, territorially speaking, he belongs to Bosnia and Herzegovina and is a member of that state’s cultural elite.A bibliographic analysis makes up the core of the paper, and the core is framed by a methodologically immanent, modern cultural and historical context. Furthermore, inspired by Jukić’s Illyrian orientation, the analysis is also evaluated briefly from the point of view of the post-modern cultural and historic constructivism.

Fait de langues: Revue de linguistique n o 23–24: Les langues austronésiennes (review)

Reviewed by: Fait de langues: Revue de linguistique no 23–24: Les langues austronésiennes Paul Geraghty Elizabeth Zeitoun, ed. 2004. Fait de langues: Revue de linguistique no 23–24: Les langues austronésiennes. Paris: OPHRYS, avec le concours du Centre National du Livre et du CNRS. 473 pp. + 2 pp. advertisements, 2 pp. maps. €53,00 (France), €63,00 (elsewhere), paper. In this collection, Elizabeth Zeitoun, well known for her work on Formosan languages, gathers together 25 papers in an attempt to “give an overview of current linguistic research in Austronesian languages” (7) to a francophone audience. It is therefore not, nor does it claim to be, an encyclopedic work on the Austronesian language family in the tradition of Tryon (1995). All the papers are in French, six—those by Reid and Liao, Ross, Starosta, Hsin, Austin, and Radetzky—having been translated and adapted from the English by the compiler/editor herself (designated “scientific director”) with the assistance of a number of colleagues. Two of these—Reid and Liao, and Ross—had previously appeared in the Taiwanese journal Language and Linguistics. Wisely, example sentences in translated articles retain their English translations in addition to the French. Authors are a mixture of those well known to anglophone Austronesianists (Laurent Sagart, Lawrence Reid, Malcolm Ross, the late Stanley Starosta, Alexander Adelaar, Jean-Claude Rivierre, Françoise Ozanne-Rivierre, Claire Moyse-Faurie, Isabelle Bril, Jean-Michel Charpentier) and a number of less well-known authors. All articles have been subjected to two reviews and revised accordingly. The book is divided into four sections: geography, history, and typology (7 papers); grammatical studies (12); ethnolinguistics (2); and sociolinguistics (4). Areas covered are Austronesian (4), Taiwan (6), Philippines (3), Malagasy (4), Malay (1), Indonesia (1), Oceanic (1), Vanuatu (1), New Caledonia (2), Polynesia (1), Pacific pidgins (1); understandably, then, there is a francophone bias, with virtually no input from Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, or Micronesia, but rather surprisingly nothing at all from French Polynesia either. These papers are preceded by a general introduction by Zeitoun, and followed by a general bibliography, a list of abstracts in both French and English, and a list of the hundred-odd Austronesian language names that are mentioned in the book, arranged geographically. The first section (geography, history, and typology) begins with a paper by the editor outlining the geographic spread and the history of the Austronesian languages, and discussing their internal relationships. This is a useful introduction, but there are a few inaccuracies: Chamorro and Palauan are assigned to Western Austronesian on linguistic grounds, not geographic (12), Nauru is missing from the list of Micronesian nations, Fiji is wrongly included in Polynesia (14), and it is not true to say (19) that Proto-Austronesian (PAN) final consonants were lost in Proto-Oceanic. This introduction is followed by Laurent Sagart arguing that the Sino-Tibetan family is related to Austronesian, both descending from a language spoken by millet and rice farmers in the Huang He Valley of northern China around 8000 bp; I found the morphological evidence here particularly persuasive. [End Page 470] There then follow three articles on typology: Elizabeth Zeitoun with a broad overview of the Formosan languages, Lawrence Reid and Hsiu-chuan Liao concentrating on the syntactic structures of Philippine languages, and Malcolm Ross on morphosyntactic features of “canonic” Oceanic languages. Stanley Starosta then gives his own take on transitivity and ergativity in nine geographically scattered Austronesian languages, while Nicolas Ossart surveys Austronesian numeral systems, his conclusion regarding reconstruction paralleling—or foreshadowing?—Sagart’s (2004:413–22) intriguing claim that the PAn system was, at least partially, quinary. While this is a useful summary of numeral systems, the author’s assertion (113) that none of the languages surveyed—and, by implication, no Austronesian language—has a specific word for ‘hundred’ or ‘thousand’ is patently mistaken: Futunan, for example, has the words lelau and afe (Moyse-Faurie 1993), and indeed there are Austronesian languages that have specific words for multiples of ten up to 1010 (Harrison and Jackson 1984). In the second section (grammatical studies, meaning ‘grammatical’ in its broadest sense) K. Alexander Adelaar leads off with a fascinating analysis of seventeenth...

The Facts On File companion to British poetry: 17th and 18th centuries

The Facts On File Companion to British Poetry: 17th and 18th Centuries is an encyclopedic guide to British poetry from 1600 to 1800. With more than 400 entries ranging in length from 300 to more than 2,500 words, this new and extensive resource covers some of the finest and most popular poetry in the English language. Appendixes include a general bibliography and a glossary of poetic terms. Coverage includes: major poems, such as Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, The Flea, Paradise Lost, and The Rape of the Lock; poets, from the Puritan period up to the beginnings of the Romantic Age, including Aphra Behn, John Donne, John Dryden, Thomas Gray, George Herbert, Ben Jonson, John Milton, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, and Lady Mary Worth; and, important themes, topics, and movements, such as carpe diem, Cavalier poets, Metaphysical poets, Sons of Ben, and more.

Juan Bautista de Anza: Basque Explorer in the New World, 1693-1740 (review)

2 1 6 Southwestern Historical QuarterlyOctober tions to the listings. Instead, the individual citations are very "bibliographic," providing only the full reference in proper style of notation for each item, leaving to the user the task of determining content from the title alone. The categorization of citations is divided into three major parts: first, a general bibliography of historiographical items; second, an historical section that is subdivided into ten chronological eras from the colonial period to the present; and third, a topical categorization of subjects including—among others—economics, family, education , culture, folklore, music, and religion. Cross listing of pertinent citations between these sections, however, spares the user from having to worry about failing to find items diat have multiple significances. Although there is no subject or title index for die book, an onomastic index by autiior's name at the end of the volume helps the user access the three sections. The compilers freely admit diat a volume such as this (whose purpose is to help users find sources), in reality, cannot be absolutely comprehensive in any ultimate sense. That is indeed the case for this volume. Such, however, is most certainly not due to any shortcomings on the part of the compilers, but rather because of the ambitious nature of the volume and the prodigious amount of material that constitutes the extant corpus of scholarly literature on the Hispanic heritage ofTexas. Commendably, Professors Glasrud and De León invite users to furnish diem with any missing citations by providing their personal contact information. As well, the compilers have particularly enhanced the utility of this volume by embracing a broad, interdisciplinary view of the topic, thus permitting the listing of a variety of citations from across the scholarly literature of the social sciences and the humanities. This handy volume will undoubtedly become an indispensable title on the personal bookshelf of anyone interested in die history of Texas and the southwestern United States, while also becoming a staple in the reference collections of every library in the region. Austin CollegeLight Townsend Cummins Juan Bautista de Anza: Basque Explorer in the New World, 1693-1740. By Donald T. Garate. (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2003. Pp. xxii+323. Preface, acknowledgments, maps, illustrations, chart, appendix, notes, glossary, bibliography , index. ISBN: 0-87417-505-4. $39.95, cloth.) While historians of northern New Spain encounter Basques on a regular basis, we have yet to systematically study the importance of this ethnic group in the Spanish colonial project and in the networks they used to dominate die administration of the northern provinces. Donald Garate leads die way in changing our understanding of this important community, having previously published articles about Basque naming practices and about Juan Bautista de Anza, father of the better-known eighteenth-century explorer of California and the subject of this book. Garate's approach firmly places the Anza family within the larger context of Basque history, challenging our perspective ofAnza as a Spanish conquistador. More narrative than analytical, Garate spins a readable tale about the life and 2oo8 Book Reviews217 times ofJuan Bautista de Anza. The book might rub some historians the wrong way, as the author admits that this "biography is written in a 'story' form" (pp. xix), which includes recreating conversations and a story about the tears Anza's mother shed when he left for the New World (p. 53). While these narrative devices reach beyond typical historical analysis, Garate's work is well documented widi sources from archives in Mexico, Spain, the Basque Country, Britain, and the United States; transcriptions and facsimiles of documents in the text and appendices should prove useful for further research. As a biography, the story of Anza's life unfolds chronologically from his childhood in Guipúzcoa to his transAtlantic move to Sonora, where other members of the Anza family were well established by the late seventeenth century. The bulk of the book covers Anza's military career, both in Sonora and in the presidios ofJanos and Fronteras, through which he became involved in a series of campaigns against the Apaches, dating from the 1720s through the 1730s. Garate's is a well-documented account, and his knowledge of euskera, the Basque...

Novas ocorrências e registros notáveis sobre distribuição de aves em Santa Catarina, sul do Brasil

New occurrences and noteworthy records on distribution of birds in Santa Catarina, southern Brazil. Most ornithological fi eldworks in the state of Santa Catarina concentrate on the eastern half of state, while the mid- dle-west lacks information. Between March 2000 and May 2002 a bird inventory was made in the infl uence areas of the hydroelectric power plants of Machadinho and Barra Grande, along the right banks of the Uruguai and Pelotas rivers, on Santa Catarina State territory. We carried out ad libitum surveys, point count sampling, and capture with mist nets. We present seventy-two note- worthy records for Santa Catarina, including three new occurrences for the state (Cypseloides senex, Polioptila dumicola e Procacicus solitarius),three species whose available information was only in general bibliography (Amazona pretrei, Ramphastos toco e Capsiempis fl aveola), four whose records are the fi rst in the last 40 years (Megascops sanctaecatarinae,Macropsalis forcipata Phyllomyias virescens e Corytops delalandi), and 63 species fi rst cited for the eastern section of the Uruguai river valley

More than Darwin: an encyclopedia of the people and places of the evolution-creationism controversy

Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Appendix 1: A Guide to the Sites of the Scopes Trial General Bibliography About the Authors Index

Encyclopedia of society and culture in the ancient world

The four-volume Encyclopedia of Society and Culture in the Ancient World offers comprehensive coverage of the ancient world, from prehistory to the fall of Rome, including Western and non-Western cultures and civilizations. An introduction outlines the key milestones in the development of human society, from the peoples of the Ice Age whose way of life was so vastly different from ours to the citizens of Greece and Rome whom we easily recognize from history books. The 69 signed entries - including 14 on topics with more in-depth coverage - provide readers with an overview of the various ways in which people lived in the past.Each entry explores a specific topic across the entire world, beginning with an introduction that outlines the major developments in chronological sequence, followed by subsections on the following centers of civilization: Africa, Egypt, the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific, Europe, Greece, Rome, and the Americas. Each entry concludes with a list of see also references to related entries, followed by a further reading list of books, articles, and Web sites on the topic. Primary source documents, sidebars, and more than 250 black-and-white photographs and maps supplement the text. A glossary, general bibliography, chronology by region, and comprehensive index make this set an easy-to-use and essential reference for high school and college students, researchers, and general readers alike.

Slavic folklore: a handbook

Slavic folklore has great cultural significance and international influence. Written for students and general readers, this book offers a brief but thorough introduction to Slavic folklore. Included are explanations of the different types of Slavic folklore, the role of Slavic folklore in literature and popular culture, and the state of criticism and scholarship on this field of interest. The volume provides numerous examples and cites print and electronic sources for further reading. The people of Eastern Europe have a long and rich cultural history. Central to that history are the folktales, traditions, and customs of the region. Some elements of Slavic folklore, such as vampire legends and Easter eggs, are well known, while others are more obscure. And when the Slavs came to America, they brought much of their folklore to the new world, where it continues to flourish today. This book is a short but thorough introduction to Slavic folklore. Written expressly for students and general readers, it systematically overviews Slavic folklore. It discusses the many different types of folklore and summarizes scholarship and research on the subject. It provides a wide range of texts and examples from the Slavic folk tradition and explores the role of Slavic folklore in literature and popular culture. The volume cites numerous print and electronic sources and closes with a glossary and selected, general bibliography. Literature students will enjoy learning about Slavic tales and customs, while students in social studies classes will learn more about the culture of Eastern Europe.

Philosophical Letters; Or, Letters regarding the English Nation

In his Philosophical Letters, Voltaire provides a pungent and often satirical assessment of the religion, politics, science, and arts of the England he observed during his nearly three-year exile. In addition to the Letters, this edition provides a translation of Voltaire's Proposal for a Letter about the English, a general Introduction, chronology, notes, and bibliography.

Globalization: the key concepts

Preface Introduction 1. Disembedding 2. Acceleration 3. Standardization 4. Interconnectedness 5. Movement 6. Mixing 7. Vulnerability 8. Reembedding Questions for essays and class discussion Annotated bibliography for further reading General bibliography Index

Great events from history: the 20th century, 1901-1940

Events from History: The 20th Century (1901-1940) organizes coverage of world events chronologically for in-depth understanding in historical context. Continuing the series Great Events from History, these volumes bring up the world's most important events and developments from 1901 through 1940. Its scope and coverage - the 1,036 chronologically arranged essays cover the world's most important events and developments in the forty years that included World War I and led up to World War II, from 1901 through 1940 - an average of 26 events per year. The period witnessed not only the War but also the Depression, the passage of Social Security, the rise of the Nazi regime, the invention of the airplane and the first solo crossings of the Atlantic, the development of the quantum physics and television, the discovery of King Tutankhamen's tomb and Machu Picchu, the expansion of voting rights to women, the proliferation of the automobile and the first freeway, the construction of the Empire State Building, and the flowering of African American literature and arts in the Harlem Renaissance. Lengthy essays (2-3 oversize pages apiece) pay particular attention to broad coverage of Canada, Africa, Asia, and Latin America. While the emphasis of the set is on political and military events that transformed whole nations and continents - with the focus on U.S. and European core curriculum events - the range of subject matter is impressively diverse. Much emphasis is given to important events in the arts, sciences, business, human rights, SStial political and military events. The text of each essay is divided into these sections: Summary of Event, devoted to a chronological description of the facts of the event; Significance, assessing the event's historical impact; Further Reading, an annotated list of sources for further study; and See also, cross-references to other essays within this Events set. Every essay has an annotated, up-to-date bibliography. It is lavishly illustrated and supplemented with sidebars that quote from key primary source documents. Arrangement is chronological (not regional) to facilitate student comparison of and access to simultaneous events across the globe. It is rounded out with copious appendixes: chronological list of the essays, general Bibliography, a list of essential Internet databases and Web sites. Category, Geographical, Personage, and Subject indexes provide multiple access points.

Thematic guide to biblical literature

The Bible has had a tremendous influence on world history and culture, but it is largely unfamiliar to many students. This book relates the Bible to a wide range of literary works commonly read by students and thus helps students understand these texts as well as the cultural and historical contexts surrounding them. Included are chapters on 20 themes, such as creation, family and friends, love and marriage, the hero, war, and death and the afterlife. Each chapter discusses the biblical significance of the theme, provides scriptural quotations and citations, and explores the biblical presence of the theme in literary works often read by students. Each chapter cites works for further reading, and the volume closes with a selected, general bibliography.

The Origin and Development of the Christian Liturgy According to Cultural Epochs: Political, Cultural, and Ecclesial Backgrounds: History of the Liturgy (review)

Reviewed by: The Origin and Development of the Christian Liturgy According to Cultural Epochs: Political, Cultural, and Ecclesial Backgrounds: History of the Liturgy Maxwell E. Johnson The Origin and Development of the Christian Liturgy According to Cultural Epochs: Political, Cultural, and Ecclesial Backgrounds: History of the Liturgy. By Attila Miklósházy. 5 volumes. (Lewiston, New York: The Edwin Mellen Press. 2006. Pp. xx, 1174. Vol. 1: $119.95. Vol. 2: $139.95. Vol. 3: $119.95.Vol. 4: $129.95.Vol. 5: $149.95.) Written by the Hungarian Jesuit teacher and bishop Attila Miklósházy, known especially for his 2001 publication Benedicamus Domino! The Theological Foundation of the Liturgical Renewal (Ottawa: Novalis, 2001), this massive five-volume collection of liturgical materials, called by the author, a "compilation and thesaurus of liturgical data from the origin and of development of Christian worship" (Vol. 1, p. iii), is truly remarkable on several levels. First, Miklósházy always presents texts in context, taking note of how the overall political, cultural, and ecclesial contexts are not only shaped by the liturgy but how the liturgy is itself shaped by those contexts. Second, in addition to the general bibliography offered at the beginning of the first volume (pp. xi-xvii), each historical section and topic covered in each volume contains more specific additional and helpful bibliographies. Third, Miklósházy provides a veritable wealth of short biographical and liturgical source entries, as well as lists and charts of various liturgical rites and important events in the overall historical contexts of each period studied. And, finally, each volume has its own helpful index thus making each volume an independent study: Volume 1 treats the "antecedents" of Christian worship in Judaism and paganism as well as the New Testament; Volume 2 is concerned with the Patristic period up to the year 800; Volume 3 covers the eighth through the fifteenth centuries; Volume 4 offers an overview of the period from the sixteenth-century Reformations through the Romanticism of the nineteenth century; and Volume 5 offers a study of contemporary liturgical renewal, especially in Roman Catholicism. [End Page 875] Written especially "for the use of those, priests and laypeople, who want to know how the present Christian liturgy has arrived at the point where it is today" (Vol. 1, p. vii), this work does provide a helpful outline of that story. Those expecting an historical narrative, however, will find instead a collection of very expensive ($600 plus!) lecture notes, many of which will certainly serve the teacher in the preparation of lectures on various periods of liturgical history as well as charts and lists that may also serve as suitable handouts for students in classes in liturgical history. But as a narrative history, priests and laypeople, teachers and students alike, would be better served by studies such as the recent Oxford History of Christian Worship, edited by Geoffrey Wainwright and Karen Westerfield-Tucker (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), and/or Frank Senn, Christian Liturgy: Catholic and Evangelical (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1997), which does not appear in Miklósházy's general bibliography, and his more recent The People's Work: A Social History of the Liturgy (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2006). Because I received only Volumes 1-3 of this work I cannot comment on Miklósházy's treatment of liturgical history from the Reformation period to the present, and, as such, my comments are limited necessarily to his presentation of liturgy in the patristic and medieval/Renaissance periods. And here I cannot but be rather critical. While I find his treatment of Greco-Roman religion helpful, Miklósházy has not sufficiently integrated his own bibliography, with entries by Lawrence Hoffman and Paul Bradshaw, into his presentation of Jewish liturgy, and does not cite the important studies of Joseph Heinemann or Ruth Langer. Similarly, with regard both to Jewish and New Testament worship, the author tends to assume anachronistically that Jewish liturgy in the time of Jesus was relatively stable and that there is a kind of mono-linear link between the Birkhat ha-mazon and the early Eucharistic prayer, and even here one looks in vain for the scholarship of the likes of...

Human Evolution and Its Relevance for Genetic Epidemiology

The invitation to write the prefatory article to this volume of the Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics inspired me to collect some thoughts, a few involving ideas that are not new, but perhaps worth resurrecting in light of recent observations made with the data emerging from the Human Genome Diversity Project (HGDP). Data from the many relevant studies based on the HGDP have been made public, as was originally the hope and plan of the project. Here I try to give a short summary of the evolution of modern humans, a unique species in many respects but of special interest to readers of this volume, and a few thoughts on the general rates of evolution that might be relevant to medical genetics and genetic epidemiology. I have made no attempt to give a general bibliography, not even of results from the HGDP, since most authors' conclusions are still unpublished. Citations are limited to very few general concepts and articles discussed in this preface.

Imagined Communities: Women's History and the History of Gender in Mexico

Imagined Communities:Women's History and the History of Gender in Mexico María Teresa Fernández-Aceves (bio) The purpose of this paper is not to discuss all, or a large part, of what has been done in the Mexican women and gender historiography since the mid-1970s. My aim instead is to pinpoint the trends in the national academic culture, the most important developments of women's and gender history, mainly in Mexico, recent publications, research policies, and finally, the difficulties in doing transnational history. In twentieth-century Mexico, trained historians from different academic settings—public and private universities as well as federal and state research centers—have applied diverse perspectives from Marxism to the diverse approaches of the Annales School. In the late 1960s, Luis González y González proposed the development of regional history and microhistory in his study of San José de Gracia, a rural town in western Mexico.1 For González, microhistory referred to the local historical experience that was representative of, or more importantly a contrasting variant of, national narratives. This perspective stimulated and consolidated regional studies of different states, localities, and the revolutionary experience. Recently, Mexican historiography has moved from structural to cultural analyses incorporating the new French cultural history, promoted by Roger Chartier and the proposals of Michel de Certeau about everyday life; the Italian school of microhistory led by Carlo Ginzburg; the German historical sociology of Norbert Elias; and Benedict Anderson's study of nations and nationalism in Imagined Communities.2 However, social history, with its emphasis on structure and class analysis, remains important. Most Mexican historiography, however, has neglected women and gender. Those who do this work still comprise a small academic ghetto. During the second feminist wave in the 1970s and 1980s some feminist scholars emerged to work in periods from the colony through the Revolution of 1910. They have looked at issues of marriage, sexuality, labor, education, and politics. As elsewhere in the first stages of women's history, Mexican historians have concentrated on demonstrating that women have been historical actors and have raised questions about the traditional periodization that leaves them out.3 In 1987, Julia Tuñón Pablos wrote Mujeres en la historia de México, the first comprehensive and synthetic narrative that incorporated women from Prehispanic times to the twentieth century.4 By using a traditional periodization, Tuñón plotted the different roles ascribed to women and the changing feminine representations and practices. At [End Page 200] the same time, Carmen Ramos Escandón edited Presencia y transparencia: la mujer en la historia de México, another global vision of women in Mexican history. General bibliographies, like El álbum de la mujer, were compiled. In the 1980s, more extensive studies examined convents, sexuality, and education in colonial Mexico; women's culture, roles, and representations; female labor force participation; women and the law in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; women and the Mexican Revolution; and the Mexican woman suffrage campaigns in the 1920s and 1950s.5 In the 1990s, as elsewhere, there has been a move from women's history to gender history. However, a gender perspective in Mexico is still identified mostly with women. Women's and gender history in Mexico have been recognized as historical fields, but the growing literature has not been incorporated into other, more mainstream historical approaches. Most of the time, these studies are read only by specialists on gender. In contrast to the Mexican and feminist historians, Mexicanist scholars from the Anglo world have drawn more upon the linguistic turn.6 Thus, their work is more embedded in feminist theory and poststructuralism. In the United States, these fields have not only been recognized but also incorporated into the academy. Unlike North American and British feminist scholars, Mexican feminist scholars tend to combine French social history perspectives—private life, everyday life, sexuality, and work—with Anglophone approaches to cultural history and discourse analysis. They cite Michèlle Perrot's, Georges Duby's, and Phillipe Ariès's multivolume works on women's and private life histories; French cultural history; Mexican and Italian microhistory; Norbert Elias's configuration and civilizing processes concepts; and E. P. Thompson's history from...

Oxford anthology of the Brazilian short story

The Oxford Anthology of the Brazilian Short Story contains a selection of short stories by the best-known authors in Brazilian literature from the late nineteenth century to the present. With few exceptions, these stories have appeared in English translation, although widely separated in time and often published in obscure journals. Here they are united in a coherent edition representing Brazil's modern, vibrant literature and culture. J.M. Machado de Assis, who first perfected the genre, wrote at least sixty stories considered to be masterpieces of world literature. Ten of his stories are included here, and are accompanied by strong and diverse representations of the contemporary story in Brazil, featuring nine stories by Clarice Lispector and seven by Joao Guimaraes Rosa. The remaining 34 authors include Mario de Andrade, Graciliano Ramos, Osman Lins, Dalton Trevisan, and other major names whose stories in translation exhibit profound artistry. The anthology is divided into four major periods, Tropical Belle-Epoque, Modernism, Modernism at Mid-Century, and Contemporary Views. There is a general introduction to Brazilian literary culture and introductions to each of the four sections, with descriptions of the authors and a general bibliography on Brazil and Brazilian literature in English. It includes stories of innovation (Mario de Andrade), psychological suspense (Graciliano Ramos), satire and perversion (Dalton Trevisan), altered realities and perceptions (Murilo Rubiao), repression and sexuality (Hilda Hilst, Autran Dourado), myth (Nelida Pinon), urban life (Lygia Fagundes Telles, Rubem Fonescal), the oral tale (Jorge Amado, Rachel de Queiroz) and other overarching themes and issues of Brazilian culture. The anthology concludes with a haunting story set in the opera theater in Manaus by one of Brazil's most recently successful writers, Milton Hatoum.