Tag: Strangers

Free Download Bernhard Zeller, "Neighbours and strangers: Local societies in early medieval Europe "
English | ISBN: 1526139812 | 2020 | 304 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This book explores social cohesion in rural settlements in western Europe from 700-1050, asking to what extent settlements, or districts, constituted units of social organisation. It focuses on the interactions, interconnections and networks of people who lived side by side – neighbours. Drawing evidence from most of the current western European countries, the book Descriptions and interrogates the very different practices of this wide range of regions in a systematically comparative framework. It considers the variety of local responses to the supra-local agents of landlords and rulers and the impact, such as it was, of those agents on the small-scale residential group. It also assesses the impact on local societies of the values, instructions and demands of the wider literate world of Christianity, as delivered by local priests.

Free Download Daniel J. Monti Jr., "Engaging Strangers: Civil Rites, Civic Capitalism, and Public Order in Boston"
English | ISBN: 1611475910 | 2012 | 302 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Partisans on both the left and right wings of America’s theory class and political spectrum believe we’re in trouble, big trouble. The economy is limping along. Inequality has reached unprecedented levels. And we seem to be on the verge of being overwhelmed by immigrants who don’t look and act anything like our grandparents did much less the men and women who founded our country. Angry, scared, disengaged and distrustful when we aren’t openly antagonistic toward each other, Americans can’t figure out who we are as a people and openly fret about our best days being behind us. To make matters worse, our political system, the one place we’re supposed to be able to work on behalf of a broader public good with people who aren’t like us, appears even more broken than these other parts of our culture.

Free Download Arpan Roy, "Relative Strangers: Romani Kinship and Palestinian Difference "
English | ISBN: 1487558716 | 2025 | 192 pages | EPUB | 1435 KB
Examining how memory, intergenerational transmission, and kinship work together, Relative Strangers sheds light on Romani life in Palestine. Arpan Roy presents an ethnographic portrait of Dom Romani communities living between Palestine and Jordan, zooming in on everyday life in working-class neighborhoods, and under conditions of perpetual war and instability.

Free Download Anaïs Ménard, "Integrating Strangers: Sherbro Identity and The Politics of Reciprocity along the Sierra Leonean Coast "
English | ISBN: 1800738404 | 2023 | 298 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Drawing on an ethnography of Sherbro coastal communities in Sierra Leone, this book analyses the politics and practice of identity through the lens of the reciprocal relations that exist between socio-ethnic groups. Anaïs Ménard examines the implications of the social arrangement that binds landlords and strangers in a frontier region, the Freetown Peninsula, characterized by high degrees of individual mobility and social interactions. She showcases the processes by which Sherbro identity emerged as a flexible category of practice, allowing individuals the possibility to claim multiple origins and perform ethnic crossovers while remaining Sherbro.

Free Download Talk to Strangers: How Everyday, Random Encounters Can Expand Your Business, Career, Income, and Life by David Topus, Tantor Audio
English | July 10, 2020 | ISBN: B08C6HQCMC | 4 hours and 39 minutes | MP3 128 Kbps | 383 Mb
Connect to the world around you and realize the enormous potential in talking to strangers.
Every day, random encounters really can change lives, when you make them happen the right way and leverage the connection at the other end. Talk to Strangers explains how to stand out and tap the potential of others by taking notice of who is standing alongside you on the bank line, the latte pickup point, or the ticket counter at the airport. David Topus’ life-changing message is that we should "always connect", which means going beyond online relationships and engaging in the random, real-life interactions that have unlimited potential to supercharge businesses, accelerate careers, and enrich your life.
In Talk to Strangers, you will discover

Free Download The Necessity of Strangers: The Intriguing Truth About Insight, Innovation, and Success by Alan Gregerman, David DeVries, Gildan Media
English | July 27, 2020 | ISBN: B08DHKZQBT | 6 hours and 30 minutes | MP3 128 Kbps | 536 Mb
A counterintuitive approach to fostering greater innovation, collaboration, and engagement.
Most of us assume our success relies on a network of friends and close contacts. But innovative thinking requires a steady stream of fresh ideas and new possibilities, which strangers are more likely to introduce. Our survival instincts naturally cause us to look upon strangers with suspicion and distrust, but in The Necessity of Strangers, Alan Gregerman offers the provocative idea that engaging with strangers is an opportunity, not a threat, and that engaging with the right strangers is essential to unlocking our real potential. The Necessity of Strangers reveals how strangers challenge us to think differently about ourselves and the problems we face. This book:
Shows how strangers can help us innovate better, get the most out of each other, and achieve genuine collaboration.Presents principles for developing a "stranger-centric" mindset to develop new markets and stronger customer relationships, leverage the full potential of partnerships, and become more effective leaders.Includes practical guidance and a toolkit for being more open, creating new ideas that matter, finding the right strangers in all walks of life, and tapping the real brilliance in yourself.To stay competitive, you and your business need access to more new ideas, insights, and perspectives than ever before. The Necessity of Strangers offers an essential guide to discovering the most exciting opportunities you haven’t met yet.

Free Download Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia (Audiobook)
English | September 14, 2021 | ASIN: B097J1QBPW | M4B@128 kbps | 12h 4m | 690 MB
Author: George Makari | Narrator: Paul Heitsch
A startling work of historical sleuthing and synthesis, Of Fear and Strangers reveals the forgotten histories of xenophobia – and what they mean for us today.
By 2016, it was impossible to ignore an international resurgence of xenophobia. What had happened? Looking for clues, psychiatrist and historian George Makari started out in search of the idea’s origins. To his astonishment, he discovered an unfolding series of never-told stories. While a fear and hatred of strangers may be ancient, he found that the notion of a dangerous bias called "xenophobia" arose not so long ago.

Free Download Magdalena Holdar, "Fluxus As a Network of Friends, Strangers, and Things: The Agency of Chance Collaborations "
English | ISBN: 9004512217 | 2022 | 210 pages | PDF | 21 MB
At the same time whimsical and thought-provoking, Fluxus explored everyday life as an object of art. Behind mundane materials and activities, we find a large network of Fluxus artists who worked together for decades to create and share their art. This publication builds on archival materials that expose the nature of the artists’ working relationships, and methods for collaboration and circulation of artworks. It traces both people and things, exploring how the network expanded and was made solid, from Fluxus’s conception in the 1960s, to the 1990s, when it had eventually left its stealth flight under art history’s radar.

Free Download Ronn Pineo, "Ecuador and the United States: Useful Strangers"
English | 2007 | ISBN: 0820329703 | PDF | pages: 277 | 1.5 mb
This history of relations between Ecuador and the United States is a revealing case study of how a small, determined country has exploited its marginal status when dealing with a global superpower. Ranging from Ecuador’s struggle for independence in the 1820s and 1830s to the present day, the book examines the misunderstandings, tensions, and-from the U.S. perspective-often unintended consequences that have sometimes arisen in relations between the two countries.

Free Download Sergei Kan, "Strangers to Relatives: The Adoption and Naming of Anthropologists in Native North America"
English | 2001 | pages: 279 | ISBN: 0803227469, 0803277970 | PDF | 0,8 mb
Strangers to Relatives is an intimate and illuminating look at a typical but misunderstood part of anthropological fieldwork in North America: the adoption and naming of anthropologists by Native families and communities. Adoption and naming have long been a common way for Native peoples in Canada and the United States to deal with strangers who are not enemies. For over a century, adoption and naming have also served as an important means for many Native American and First Nation communities to become connected to the anthropologists visiting and writing about them.