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37 produkter
Fieldwork
Häftad, 1987
312 kr
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Fieldwork deals with the practical, mechanical, ethical, and theoretical aspects of collecting data. Jackson discusses how fieldworkers define their role, how they relate to others in the field, and how they go about recording for later use what occurred in their presence. This treatment offers an …
Disorderly Conduct
Inbunden, 1992
535 kr
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This gathering of essays by the maverick social observer Bruce Jacksonwill stir memories, give insights, and provoke strong reactions. Selectionsrange freely over a wide spectrum of American social conditions, publicpolicy, and crime and punishment issues from the mid-1960s to the present.The …
Inside the Wire
Photographs from Texas and Arkansas Prisons
Inbunden, 2013
582 kr
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As recently as the 1970s, many inmates in southern prisons lived and worked on prison farms that were not only modeled after the American slave plantation, but even occupied lands that literally were slave plantations before the Civil War, and on which working and living conditions had not changed …
Negro and His Folklore in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals
Häftad, 1967
428 kr
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In the eyes of many white Americans, North and South, the Negro did not have a culture until the Emancipation Proclamation. With few exceptions, serious collecting of Negro folklore by whites did not begin until the Civil War—and it was to be another four decades before black Americans would begin …
In This Timeless Time
Living and Dying on Death Row in America
Av Diane Christian, Bruce Jackson
E-bok, 2012
357 kr
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In this stark and powerful book, Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian explore life on Death Row in Texas and in other states, as well as the convoluted and arbitrary judicial processes that populate all Death Rows. They document the capriciousness of capital punishment and capture the day-to-day …
Wake Up Dead Man
Hard Labor and Southern Blues
Häftad, 1999
608 kr
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Making it in Hell, says Bruce Jackson, is the spirit behind the sixty-five work songs gathered in this eloquent dispatch from a brutal era of prison life in the Deep South. Through engagingly documented song arrangements and profiles of their singers, Jackson shows how such pieces as "Hammer Ring," …
Ways of the Hand
A Photographer's Memoir
Häftad, 2022
326 kr
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A visual and narrative memoir of a lifetime's encounters with 112 trendsetters, musicians, politicians, writers, and ordinary people by a noted folklorist-photographer.Honorable Mention, for the 2022 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Photography Category Rocker Rod Stewart, Jackson …
Voices from Death Row
Av Bruce Jackson, Diane Christian
Inbunden, 2022
1324 kr
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A searing, personal look at conditions on Texas's Death Row—told in the words of the prisoners themselves.Voices from Death Row is considered a classic work on the strange "living limbo" inhabited by condemned men in Texas, who await resolution of their sentence in execution, death by other causes, …
Voices from Death Row
Av Bruce Jackson, Diane Christian
Häftad, 2022
375 kr
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A searing, personal look at conditions on Texas's Death Row—told in the words of the prisoners themselves.Voices from Death Row is considered a classic work on the strange "living limbo" inhabited by condemned men in Texas, who await resolution of their sentence in execution, death by other causes, …
Story Is True, Second Edition
The Art and Meaning of Telling Stories
Häftad, 2023
464 kr
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Delves into the meaning of stories, their tellers, and those who experience them.In The Story Is True, folklorist, filmmaker, and professor of English Bruce Jackson explores the ways we use the stories that become a central part of our public and private lives. Describing and explaining how stories …
Story Is True, Second Edition
The Art and Meaning of Telling Stories
Inbunden, 2022
1479 kr
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Delves into the meaning of stories, their tellers, and those who experience them.In The Story Is True, folklorist, filmmaker, and professor of English Bruce Jackson explores the ways we use the stories that become a central part of our public and private lives. Describing and explaining how stories …
Folklore Matters
Incursions in the Field, 1965–2021
Häftad, 2024
456 kr
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Celebrates over a half-century of the work of one of America's greatest folklorists.Folklore Matters gathers over a half-century of articles, memoirs, field studies, and more by master folklorist Bruce Jackson. Jackson's wide-ranging view of what makes up folklore, his affection for his subjects, …
Folklore Matters
Incursions in the Field, 1965–2021
Inbunden, 2024
1324 kr
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Celebrates over a half-century of the work of one of America's greatest folklorists.Folklore Matters gathers over a half-century of articles, memoirs, field studies, and more by master folklorist Bruce Jackson. Jackson's wide-ranging view of what makes up folklore, his affection for his subjects, …
Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me
African American Narrative Poetry from Oral Tradition
Häftad, 2024
430 kr
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The classic work on African American toasts, the predecessor of rap.Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me celebrates the African American oral tradition of toasting, one of the key roots of contemporary rap. Jackson was among the few to appreciate the profane energy and beauty of this rhymed …
Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me
African American Narrative Poetry from Oral Tradition
Inbunden, 2024
1834 kr
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The classic work on African American toasts, the predecessor of rap.Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me celebrates the African American oral tradition of toasting, one of the key roots of contemporary rap. Jackson was among the few to appreciate the profane energy and beauty of this rhymed …
Life and Death of Buffalo's Great Northern Grain Elevator
1897-2023
Häftad, 2024
421 kr
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A stunning visual memorial to Buffalo's architectural and industrial history.Archer Daniels Midland got lucky the night of December 11, 2021: a fierce winter wind took out a third of the brick wall of Buffalo's Great Northern Grain Elevator. ADM had wanted to demolish the building since 1993, but …
In This Timeless Time, Enhanced Ebook
Living and Dying on Death Row in America
Av Diane Christian, Bruce Jackson
E-bok, 2012
535 kr
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In this stark and powerful book, Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian explore life on Death Row in Texas and in other states, as well as the convoluted and arbitrary judicial processes that populate all Death Rows. They document the capriciousness of capital punishment and capture the day-to-day …
Pictures from a Drawer
Prison and the Art of Portraiture
Häftad, 2009
453 kr
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A remarkable collection of prison "portraiture" photos
Thom Jons
E-bok, 2022
173 kr
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What is universal reality? Is this world interested in a realistic vision of what life is like beyond death? Is our world curious about how an understanding of a realistic presentation of heaven might impact our lives in this age of alternative truth, unreality, entrenched self-interest, and …
Never Far from Home
My Journey from Brooklyn to Hip Hop, Microsoft, and the Law
Ljudbok, 2023
298 kr
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Microsoft’s associate general counsel shares a story that is “as nuanced as it is hopeful” (Hakeem Jeffries, House Minority Leader) about his rise from childhood poverty in pre-gentrified New York City to a stellar career at the top of the technology and music industries in this stirring true story …
Never Far from Home
My Journey from Brooklyn to Hip Hop, Microsoft, and the Law
Häftad, 2024
255 kr
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Microsoft’s associate general counsel shares a story that is “as nuanced as it is hopeful” (Hakeem Jeffries, House Minority Leader) about his rise from childhood poverty in pre-gentrified New York City to a stellar career at the top of the technology and music industries in this stirring true story …
Never Far from Home
My Journey from Brooklyn to Hip Hop, Microsoft, and the Law
E-bok, 2023
186 kr
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Microsoft’s associate general counsel shares a story that is “as nuanced as it is hopeful” (Hakeem Jeffries, House Minority Leader) about his rise from childhood poverty in pre-gentrified New York City to a stellar career at the top of the technology and music industries in this stirring true story …
Leslie Fiedler
Kind of a Conversation
Av Bruce Jackson, Diane Christian
Häftad, 2026
348 kr
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Fascinating conversations with a leading twentieth century literary critic, author, and cultural gadfly.Author and gadfly Leslie Fiedler was one of the best-known names in twentieth-century literary criticism. He promoted postwar American literature to a large, general audience. He was particularly …
