Maya

Identity, Gender, and Poverty

Most studies of the so-called tribal communities in India stress their social, economic, and political differences from communities that are organized on the basis of caste. It was this apparent contrast between tribal and caste lifestyle and, moreover, the paucity of material on tribal groups, that motivated the author to undertake this study of a poor "tribal" community, the Girasia, in northwestern India. While carrying out her fieldwork, the author soon became aware that the traditional tribe-caste categories needed to be revised; in fact, she found them more often than not to be constructs by outsiders, mostly academic. Of greater importance for an understanding of the Girasia was the wider and more complex issue of self-perception and identification by others that must be seen in the context of their poverty as well as in the strategic and shifting use of kinship, gender and class relations in the region.

Silhouettes of Time

These intriguing tales by Maya Mitra Das take us on wildly imaginative journeys to exotic and sometimes alien landscapesand introduce us to infinitely curious moments in time, space and memory.Maya's poetry and fiction have appeared in numerous anthologies. This is her firstcollection of short stories.

Harlequin Presents April 2014 - Bundle 2 of 2

Harlequin Presents brings you four new titles for one great price! Escape with these four stories by USA TODAY bestselling authors. This Presents bundle includes Seduced by the Sultan by USA TODAY bestselling author Sharon Kendrick, Secrets of a Bollywood Marriage by USA TODAY bestselling author Susanna Carr, What the Greek's Money Can't Buy by USA TODAY bestselling author Maya Blake and The Sicilian's Unexpected Duty by USA TODAY bestselling author Michelle Smart. Look for 8 new exciting stories every month from Harlequin Presents!

A Beautiful Mistake...

The internal conflict leads the central female character in a roller-coaster ride into her past when she came in contact with Aditya through a wrong phone call. Being a middle-class girl, she couldn’t fly in the teeth of moral scruples imposed by society, of course. The reminiscences take her to the various ordeals underwent by her as a girl from the typical Punjabi background who aspired to marry a Baniya guy. Moreover, she was Papa’s “good girl.” How could she say she loves a guy other than the one chosen by him? Find out the role played by destiny to bind the sweethearts into wedlock. Wait . . . Does it really work for long? Does the lovers actually live happy ever after? The story tells about Mansi who, amidst the untold joys of her wedded life, feels forlorn. She has a loving husband she yearned and fought for. What then causes her many sleepless nights? The bubble of life may vanish any day. Why not leave a footprint on the intellectual world? She is torn between her liabilities as a mother and wife on one hand and her thirst for self-realization on the other. Should she sacrifice her quest for self-identity at the altar of nuptial happiness? Will the soul mates be reevaluating their special relationship or drift apart due to their separate sets of egos? A question faced by innumerable couples in the turbulent urban life . . .

Fitoterapi Sistem Organ: Pandangan Dunia Barat terhadap Obat Herbal Global

Pandangan Dunia Barat terhadap obat herbal memiliki nilai strategis yang tinggi, mengingat hal ini akan meningkatkan nilai tambah obat herbal. Apabila komoditas botani ini sudah mendapat rekomendasi dari pihak barat, eksistensi obat herbal akan setaraf dengan obat konvensional (obat sintetis). Dengan memahami buku ini, kita bisa mengevaluasi posisi obat herbal dan memahami munculnya sederetan pekerjaan rumah untuk meningkatkan kualitas obat herbal agar bisa digunakan di klinik dan rumah sakit. masih memandang sebelah mata tentang obat herbal? baca selengkapnya dalam buku [Penerbit Deepublish, Deepublish, Obat Herbal]

Indian Media in a Globalised World

This book explores the transformation of Indian media in the context of two major developments: globalisation (which Sociologist Anthony Giddens terms as being ‘revolutionary’) and advances in communication technologies. It is rich in empirical details of how the Indian media has evolved in the past two decades, particularly in the context of potential to transform, construct and nurture particular identities in response to globalisation. The study of the transformation of Indian media is significant because not only has globalisation allowed access to a host of things hitherto represented as ‘foreign’ to Indian culture by the media, but it has also opened the floodgates for foreign media. Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, this book looks at the role of media in purveying political, economic and cultural identities, the current definitions of ‘we’, ‘they’, and the ‘other’, and how the ‘other’ is perceived in contemporary India. The discussions cover all forms of media, that is, newspaper, films, radio, television and online media, along with media policy and other economic challenges facing the media.

Critical Journeys

Through an 'ethnography of ethnographers', this volume explores the varied ways in which anthropologists become and remain attracted to the discipline. The contributors reflect on the initial preconceptions, assumptions and expectations of themselves as young anthropologists, and on the ways in which early decisions are made about fieldwork and about the selection of field locations. They question how fieldworkers come to understand what anthropology is, both as a profession and as a personal experience, through their commitments in the field, in academic departments and in contexts where their 'specialist knowledge' is called upon and applied. They discuss the nature of reflexivity that emerges out of anthropological practices, and the ways in which this reflexivity affects ethnographic practices. Providing reflections on fieldwork in such diverse places as Alaska, Melanesia, New York and India, the volume critically reflects on the field as a culturally constructed site, with blurred boundaries that allow the personal and the professional to permeate each other. It addresses the 'politics of location' that shape the anthropologists' involvement in 'the field', in teaching rooms, in development projects and in activist engagements. The journeys described extend beyond 'the field' and into inter-disciplinary projects, commissions, colleges and personal spheres. These original and critical contributions provide fascinating insights into the relationship between anthropologists and the nature of the discipline.

Berkreasi dengan Sedotan (ed. Revisi)

Buku Ajar Kebidanan Kegawatdaruratan Maternal dan Neonatal

Kesehatan ibu dan anak merupakan indikator penting dalam mengukur derajat kesehatan suatu Negara, dimana status kesehatan ibu dan anak dapat dilihat dari angka kematian ibu. Tenaga kesehatan yang kompeten sangat diperlukan untuk melakukan deteksi, penanganan awal dan rujukan kasus-kasus kegawatdaruratan maternal dan neonatal. Oleh karena itu, diperlukan kesamaaan persepsi dan pengertian dari semua pihak mengenai pentingnya dan peran berbagai aspek tersebut dalam penanganan masalah kematian ibu sehingga strategi untuk mengatasinya harus merupakan intregrasi menyeluruh dari berbagai aspek. [Penerbit Deepublish, Deepublish, Kebidanan, Kesehatan]

Acts of Passion

The first volume to focus exclusively on lesbian performance work, Acts of Passion: Sexuality, Gender, and Performance draws on the experiences and expertise of a wide range of lesbian practitioners and theorists to explore the impact and influences of sexuality and gender on performance. It examines essays, dialogues, and performance texts from theater directors, performers, theorists, playwrights, and performance writers against social and cultural constructs and performance theories to produce a diverse and challenging portrait of lesbian live performance art. The book’s penetrating scope covers drag queens, lesbian vampires, representations of lesbian sex, solo artists, the art of collaboration, lesbian aesthetics, and lesbian playwrights writing straight and illustrates why live performance is one of the most dynamic forums in which women can create, control, and produce their work without artistic constraint. Acts of Passion explodes binary definitions of gender and sexuality by destabilizing familiar notions of the ‘real’and creating new production values and aesthetics in the process. The relationships between experience and expression, sexuality and cultural placing, context and artistic control, representation and self-representation become clearer as the book discusses: the manner in which women are represented as absent in the signifying system of patriarchal society how questions of purity, ‘authenticity,’and self-definition complicate the field of representation the power of lesbian dance performance to make the lesbian body culturally visible several ‘new wave’performers--creating work, getting seen, showing flesh, doing politics, and making money the projections, preconceptions, expectations, and general baggage attached to the performing lesbian body what the term ‘lesbian playwright’means within contemporary culture ‘It’s Queer Up North’--a British National Arts Organization the arguments for and against mainstreaming lesbian performance Anyone interested in theater and performance, cultural studies, gender issues, and the politics of ‘positive representation’--whether playwright, performer, director, writer, academic, student, or theatre goer--will find Acts of Passion a powerful step in wrenching the power of representation away from the dominant culture. Defiant, saucy, sexy, and smart, the contributors appropriate their own spaces, identities, crafts, and languages, both within this book and without.

99% Lulus UN SD 2012

Untuk menghadapi UN dibutuhkan strategi yang tepat. Tidak cukup hanya dengan menguasai materi pelajaran, diperlukan juga latihan mengerjakan soal-soal yang pernah muncul di ujian sebelumnya. Buku 99% Lulus UN SD 2012 merupakan solusi bagi siswa dalam menghadapi UN SD 2012. Setiap soal di buku ini dibahas secara lengkap dan mudah dipahami. Dilengkapi taktik menyelesaikan soal dengan mudah dan cepat. Selain itu, juga dilengkapi Ujian Saringan Masuk SMP RSBI 2012. Selamat menghadapi UN SD 2012 dan USM SMP RSBI 2012. Semoga sukses! -CMedia-

Good governance (kepemerintahan yang baik) dalam rangka otonomi daerah: Membangun sistem manajemen kinerja guna meningkatkan produktivitas menuju good governance (kepemerintahan yang baik)

Restructuring the system in the government to create good governance in the implementation of regional autonomy in Indonesia.

Pemahaman dan penguatan budaya masyarakat di daerah perbatasan

Social life and customs of people in Tanjungpinang, Kepulauan Riau, a border area between Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore.

Wish You Were Here

Penulis : Ismi Damayanti Hal : 331 ISBN : 978-602-6967-23-7 SINOPSIS : Rumah tangga yang terbentuk karena suatu kesalahpahaman semata. Sisi Adelline Verinesia, menjadi seorang istri yang bahkan tak ia duga sebelumnya. Digo Emelire fernando adalah pria yang melenyapkan Sisi dalam menelusuri arti cinta, arti pengorbanan, dan arti ketulusan. Berbagai kekerasan dan kekasaran tak membuat cinta Sisi tersulutkan bahkan semakin besar. Kedilemaan yang Digo rasakan membuatnya tenggelam dalam kegelapan cinta, dalam artian lain, terlalu dibutakan cinta. Ia lebih mementingkan hati orang yang sempat mengkhianatinya dibandingkan dengan memperhatikan hati istrinya yang jelas menabur cinta yang tulus untuknya. Penyesalan besar menghampirinya membuatnya merasakan apa cinta sejati itu? Dan siapa cinta sejatinya itu? Kehidupan rumah tangga yang memberikan berbagai pelajaran hidup... -Wish You Were Here-

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