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The author examines the Islamic institutions of South Africa over 200 years, from the first European colony in the 17th century through British colonialism and apartheid. He argues that the Imams' sermons function as symbols of the Word of God and as venues for interpretation of the Qu'ran.

This work presents a definitive book on accompaniment, as well as the author's personal and often humorous look behind the scenes at the world of dance. It emphasizes the link between music and ballet technique, and the necessity of communication between dance teachers and their accompanists.

Exiled Cuban scholars write on the question of defining who the Cubans are, what constitutes their national identity, and how they might define themselves as Cubans with respect to their distant island culture. The perspectives include the fields of history, political science, art and music.

This expanded edition contains new text, sketches and photographs that describe 32 new poses and lifts, along with new information about strengthening exercises and balance points. It is adaptable to instruction based on the Royal Academy of Dancing and the Cecchetti methods.

A provocative summary, analysis and evaluation of political, economic and cultural developments in Cuba since the revolution. In addition, the book also looks at the international relations of Cuba in the tumultous decade following the collapse of the Soviet Union.

The essays in this work present geographically and chronologically diverse case studies which highlight the dynamics of the temporary chieftancy and the development of permanent, hereditary chiefdoms.

Penelope Scambly Schott has researched facts and woven them into this poem. She cites her sources and points out fact from fiction. The poems take the reader directly into the mind and heart of a strong woman, who is extraordinary partly because she thinks she is ordinary.

Drawing comparisons between two literary movements for social justice, this text explores the link between the Irish Renaissance that began in the 1880s and the African-American movement of the 1920s known as the Harlem Renaissance.

Combining biographical material with literary and psychological analysis, this text focuses on Camus' distinctions between love and sex alongside his evolving concepts of masculinity and femininity, the relationships between sexuality and social class, and his complex relationship with his mother.

This volume makes available to western readers the writings of one of Egypt's important intellectual secularist voices and leading opponent of the Islamist political trend. The book discusses topics including the development religion and the relationship between religion and politics.

This work tells the story of Operation Bootstrap - conceived and implemented by Teodoro Moscoso - which engineered Puerto Rico's ""economic miracle"" of the 1940s and 50s. The text contains extensive interviews with Moscoso himself and sets the events in political and historical context.

Nancy Shawcross places Barthes' thought on photography in the context of his developing ideas about semiology, tracking origins, rejections and departures. She shows Barthes' affinities with and distinction from, other theorists of photography.

A collection of essays that examines the ways in which Muslims and Christians worldwide have encountered one another over 1400 years, and how they are engaged today, enlightening current interpolitical, intersocial, and intereconomic relationships.

Relying on previously unused documents, this is a history of the Timucua Indians of Florida, from the first contact with Europeans, to their exile in Cuba in 1763 and their final eradication. It examines their culture, language, political structures, and the meanings of their placenames and titles.

The second half of the nineteenth century saw in newly industrialized England the creation of a "e;domestic ideology"e; that drew a sharp line between domestic woman and public man. Though never the dominant reality, this demarcation of men's and women's spheres ordered people's values and justified the existing social structure. Out of this context sprang a women's movement that celebrated its female identity, its campaigns "e;concerned as much with promoting that optimistic self-image as with a simple call for equality with men."e;Levine traces the changing face of a half century of England's feminist movement, the personalities who dominated it, its pressing issues, and the tactics employed in the fight. Political themes common to the specific protests, she finds, included women's moral superiority, a close-knit sense of a supportive female community, and a conscious woman-centeredness of interests. Along the way, Levine puts to rest many inaccuracies and assumptions that have dogged the history of presuffragette feminism, causing it to be discredited or dismissed. She refutes, for example, the judgement that the movement served only the needs of bourgeois women, and she warns against the pitfall of defining feminism by the standards of a male politics whose practices make comparisons inadequate and unsuitable. Levine has organized her study with an eye to the breadth of concerns that characterized England's nineteenth-century feminism: women's entry into education and the professions; trade unionism, working conditions, equal pay; suffrage and other political and property rights for women; marriage and morality issues-prostitution, incest, venereal disease, wife abuse, pornography, and equal rights to divorce.