Tag: Outsiders

Free Download Lauren Miller Griffith, "In Search of Legitimacy: How Outsiders Become Part of the Afro-Brazilian Capoeira Tradition "
English | ISBN: 1785330632 | 2016 | 248 pages | PDF | 981 KB
Every year, countless young adults from affluent, Western nations travel to Brazil to train in capoeira, the dance/martial art form that is one of the most visible strands of the Afro-Brazilian cultural tradition. In Search of Legitimacy explores why "first world" men and women leave behind their jobs, families, and friends to pursue a strenuous training regimen in a historically disparaged and marginalized practice. Using the concept of apprenticeship pilgrimage―studying with a local master at a historical point of origin―the author examines how non-Brazilian capoeiristas learn their art and claim legitimacy while navigating the complexities of wealth disparity, racial discrimination, and cultural appropriation.

Free Download Markus Bell, "Outsiders: Memories of Migration to and from North Korea "
English | ISBN: 1800732295 | 2021 | 212 pages | PDF | 38 MB
In this unique and insightful book, Markus Bell explores the hidden histories of the men, women, and children who traveled from Japan to the world’s most secretive state―North Korea. Through vivid ethnographic details and interviews with North Korean escapees, Outsiders: Memories of Migration to and from North Korea reveals the driving forces that propelled thousands of ordinary people to risk it all in Kim Il-Sung’s "Worker’s Paradise", only to escape back to Japan half a century later.

Free Download Jacqueline Waldren, "Insiders and Outsiders: Paradise and Reality in Mallorca "
English | ISBN: 1571818898 | | 292 pages | PDF | 5 MB
The indigenous population of Deià has lived side by side with increasing numbers of foreigners over the past century, and what has occurred there over this period offers an example of how the population of one Mediterranean village has gained full advantage from the economic opportunities opened up by foreign investments, without losing the fabric of social relations, the meaning and values of their culture. Deià has been able to continue as a community with its own symbolic boundaries and identity, not in spite of the outsiders (some of whom are well-known literary personalities, artists and musicians) but because of their presence. This study shows how, under the impact of wars, migration, national politics, global economic and technological developments and especially tourism, the categories of Insider and Outsider are contracted and expanded, and reinterpreted to fit the constantly changing "reality" of the society; they assume different meanings at different times. The conflicts and resulting compromises over a hundred-year period have provided a sense of history that allows each group to define, develop, adapt and sustain their sense of belonging to their own communities.

Free Download Gamblers, Fraudsters, Dreamers & Spies: The Outsiders Who Shaped Modern Japan by Robert Whiting
English | May 28, 2024 | ISBN: 4805317981 | 384 pages | PDF | 8.98 Mb
"Bob Whiting came to the city as a stranger in a strange land in 1962 and stayed for five decades-he knows the dark alleys, the good whisky bars, the crooked politicians and the crooks, the baseball players, the bookies…better than anyone alive." -Jake Adelstein, author of Tokyo Vice

Free Download Gamblers, Fraudsters, Dreamers & Spies: The Outsiders Who Shaped Modern Japan by Robert Whiting
English | May 28th, 2024 | ISBN: 4805317981 | 384 pages | True EPUB | 7.03 MB
"Bob Whiting came to the city as a stranger in a strange land in 1962 and stayed for five decades-he knows the dark alleys, the good whisky bars, the crooked politicians and the crooks, the baseball players, the bookies…better than anyone alive." -Jake Adelstein, author of Tokyo Vice

Free Download Michaela Soyer, "The Price of Freedom: Criminalization and the Management of Outsiders in Germany and the United States"
English | ISBN: 0520394259 | 2023 | 214 pages | PDF | 873 KB
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visitwww.luminosoa.orgto learn more.

Free Download Tomorrow Perhaps the Future: Writers, Outsiders, and the Spanish Civil War by Sarah Watling
English | May 9, 2023 | ISBN: 0593319664 | 467 pages | PDF | 19 Mb
An extraordinary account of the women artists and activists whose determination to live-and to create-with courage and conviction took them as far as the Spanish Civil War