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• Introduction
• 1. Preparing the Festival
• 2. Staging the Festival
• 3. Representing the Festival
• Conclusions
• Selected Bibliography
• Index.

"The 1720 Imperial Circumcision Celebrations in Istanbul offers the first holistic examination of an Ottoman public festival through an in-depth inquiry into different components of the 1720 event. Through a critical and combined analysis of the hitherto unknown archival sources along with the textual and pictorial narratives on the topic, the book vividly illustrates the festival's organizational details and preparations, its complex rites (related to consumption, exchange, competition), and its representation in court-commissioned illustrated festival books (sūrnāmes). To analyze all these phases in a holistic manner, the book employs an interdisciplinary approach by using the methodological tools of history, art history, and performance studies and thus, provides a new methodological and conceptual framework for the study of Ottoman celebrations"-- Provided by publisher.

"The 2018/19 Indonesian elections were among the most divisive elections in Indonesian history, where identity politics and ethno-religious sentiments were prevalent not just during the 2019 presidential election, but also during the 2018 regional executive elections as well. Contributors to this edited volume analysed the dynamics between identity politics, national, and local politics and produce findings and insights that will inform prospective readers regarding the future of identity politics and how it may affect Indonesian politics for the intermediate future. This book is an up-to-date study addressing contemporary Indonesian politics that should be read by Indonesian Studies and more broadly Southeast Asian Studies specialists. It is also a useful reference for those studying Electoral Politics, Religion and Politics, and Comparative Politics"-- Provided by publisher

"A study for students of Indigenous and linguistic disciplines that demonstrates the significant relationship between a clearly defined theory of worldview and the logics of decolonization for Indigenous thought and praxis"-- Provided by publisher.

• 1. Art and Identity Production
• 2. Curios and Artefacts: the legacy of QAC
• 3. The ATSI Art Studio: the development of an Indigenous method
• 4. The Studio and Artists Today
• 5. Disciplining the Artist
• 6. Value Creation and the Market
• 7. Content Analysis Part I: Indexical Elements
• 8. Content Analysis Part II: Cultural Content
• 9. Conclusions.
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art explores the effects of Queensland government policies on urban First Nation artists. While such art has often been misinterpreted as derivative lesser copies of 'true' Indigenous works, this book unveils new histories and understandings about the mixed legacy left for Queensland Indigenous artists. Gretchen Stolte uses rich ethnographic detail to illuminate how both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists understand and express their heritage. She specifically focuses on artwork at the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art studio in the Tropical North Queensland College of Technical and Further Education (TNQT TAFE), Cairns. Stolte's ethnography further develops methodologies in art history and anthropology by identifying additional methods for understanding how art is produced and meaning is created.
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• The problem with voting in America
• Measuring accessible elections
• Why studying voting laws in not enough
• Accessible elections and voter turnout
• Accessible elections to help poor people
• Voting rights, election administration, and turnout for racial minorities
• Accessible elections and campaign mobilization
• Conclusion: how the states can help Americans vote.

Recent years have witnessed widespread changes in state voting and registration laws. These include same day registration, automatic voter registration, early voting, mail voting, and no-excuse absentee voting where people mail in their ballots. Most research on these voting reforms has downplayed their effects, showing that they generally benefit educated, older, and more affluent people. This book shows the positive effects that these reforms have on overall voter turnout, and among voters of disadvantaged groups. Specifically, it emphasizes the ways that state governments are making it easier to participate in elections in an effort to strengthen democratic government. In Accessible Elections, Michael Ritter and Caroline J. Tolbert explore the wide variation from state to state in convenience voting methods and provide new empirical analysis of the beneficial effects of these policies, not only in boosting participation rates overall, but in increasing voter turnout for disadvantaged groups. The authors measure both convenience methods and implementation of the laws, and explore how elections are conducted across the fifty states, where average turnout has varied more than 25 percentage points over the past four decades. The authors also draw on national voter files with millions of cases and vote histories of the same individuals over time in order to show the real effects of election reform and to make a case for how state governments can modernize their electoral practices, increase voter turnout, and make the experience of voting more accessible and equitable. Ritter and Tolbert assert that in the wake of covid-19 and efforts to maintain social distancing, early voting and absentee/mail voting are of particular importance to avoid election-day crowds and ensure equitable elections in states with large populations. With important implications for the 2020 general election and beyond, Accessible Elections underscores how state governments can modernize their electoral procedures to increase voter turnout, address inequalities, and influence campaign and party mobilization strategies.
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• The problem with voting in America
• Measuring accessible elections
• Why studying voting laws in not enough
• Accessible elections and voter turnout
• Accessible elections to help poor people
• Voting rights, election administration, and turnout for racial minorities
• Accessible elections and campaign mobilization
• Conclusion: how the states can help Americans vote.

"In the wake of the 2020 covid-19 public health crisis, U.S. governors have taken on a new leadership role. Under federalism, state governments have led the fight to limit the spread of the disease with policies ranging from banning large gatherings, to closing schools, restaurants and bars, and non-essential businesses-profoundly changing daily routines and the economy. But before the health crisis state governments were leading the way in making it easier to vote in elections in an effort to strengthen democratic government. This book explores the wide variation across states in convenience voting methods-absentee/mail voting, in-person early voting, same day registration-and provides new empirical analysis of the beneficial effects of these policies, not only in increasing voter turnout overall, but for disadvantaged groups"-- Provided by publisher.

• El Vacío: trauma, narrative, and the boundaries of coherence
• Dialogic memory and the uneven terrain of justice
• Disruption and agency in the public sphere
• Sites of memory, erasure, and belonging
• Nunca más and the intersections of genocide, loss, and survival
• On the limits of witnessing, on the boundaries of time.

"Acts of Repair explores how ordinary people grapple with political violence in Argentina, a nation home to survivors of multiple genocides and periods of violence, including the Holocaust, the political repression of the 1976-1983 dictatorship, and the 1994 AMIA bombing. Despite efforts for accountability, the terrain of justice has been uneven and, in many cases, impunity remains. How can citizens respond to such ongoing trauma? Within frameworks of transitional justice, what does this tell us about the possibility of recovery and repair? Turning to the lived experience of survivors and family members of victims of genocide and violence, Natasha Zaretsky argues for the ongoing significance of cultural memory as a response to trauma and injustice, as revealed through testimonies and public protests. Even if such repair may be inevitably liminal and incomplete, their acts seeking such repair also yield spaces for transformation and agency critical to personal and political recovery"-- Provided by publisher.

• Burden, cost, and epidemiology of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease
• Pathogenesis of acute rheumatic fever
• Clinical evaluation and diagnosis of acute rheumatic fever
• Management of acute rheumatic fever
• Clinical evaluation and diagnosis of rheumatic heart disease
• Medical management of rheumatic heart disease
• Catheter-based investigation and treatment of rheumatic heart disease
• Surgical management of rheumatic heart disease
• Rheumatic heart disease in pregnancy
• Primordial and primary prevention prevention of ARF and RHD
• Secondary prevention of ARF and RHD
• Control programmes, registries, and access to care
• Rheumatic heart disease screening
• Group A streptococcal vaccine
• Advocacy and education
• Acute complications and Emergencies of ARF and RHD.

Acute Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease is a concise, yet comprehensive, clinical resource highlighting must-know information on rheumatic heart disease and acute rheumatic fever from a global perspective. Covering the major issues dominating the field, this practical resource presents sufficient detail for a deep and thorough understanding of the latest treatment options, potential complications, and disease management strategies to improve patient outcomes. Divided into four distinct sections for ease of navigation: Acute Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatic Heart Disease, Population-Based Strategies for Disease Control, and Acute and Emergency Presentations. International editors and chapter authors ensure a truly global perspective. Covers all clinical aspects, including epidemiology, pathophysiology, clinical features, diagnosis, management, and treatment. Includes key topics on population-based measures for disease control for effective primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention. Consolidates today's available information and guidance into a single, convenient resource.

• List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction, Andy Hamilton and Lara Pearson
• SECTION 1: THE POSITIVE VALUE OF IMPERFECTION
• 1. The Aesthetics of Imperfection: The Finished Work, and Process Versus Product, Andy Hamilton
• 2. Taking Aim at Imperfection , David Lloyd
• 3. The Aesthetics of Imperfection, John Tilbury
• 4. Reflections on the Value of Imperfection in Crafts Through the Japanese Philosophy of Wabi-Sabi, Vasiliki Tsaknaki
• 5. Built from the Root, Ever-changing at the Bloom: The Role of Imperfection in Systems of Musical Phonology, Morphology, and Syntax, Nate Wooley
• 6. Imperfect World, Linda Catlin Smith
• SECTION 2: SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXT
• 7. A Socially Situated Approach to Aesthetics: Games and Challenges in Karnatak Music, Lara Pearson
• 8. A Social Aesthetics of Imperfection: Spontaneity and Meaning in Pop on the Streets of China, Samuel Horlor
• 9. Age, Process, and Self-Raising Flour, Cara Stacey
• 10. Learning Music Aesthetics Through Imperfection: The Transmission of Shakuhachi Music, Kiku Day
• SECTION 3: COMPOSITION V. IMPROVISATION
• 11. The Inter-Dependence of Composition and Improvisation, Rohan De Saram
• 12. Improvising Beyond Hamilton's Aesthetics of Imperfection, Louise Gibbs
• 13. Better Than Perfect: Dave Brubeck and The Aesthetics of Imperfection, Darius Brubeck
• 14. The Aesthetics of Imperfection in Jazz and Free Improvisation, Trevor Barre
• 15. Decisions, Revisions, Intentions and Integrity: A Subjective Understanding of Composition and Improvisation, Paul Edis
• 16. A Literary Aesthetic of Perfection and Imperfection, Rebecca Wallbank
• SECTION 4: INTERPRETATION AND FREEDOM
• 17. Embracing Serendipity in Classical Performance, Stephanie Cant
• 18. That is Not Freedom, That is Taking License: The Pitfalls in Performing Morton Feldman's Graph Scores, John Snijders
• 19. Expanding the Ideal: Systemic Music as a Dialogue of Becoming, Kris Tiner
• SECTION 5: RISK, DISRUPTION AND FAILURE
• 20. Live Coding and Failure, Shelly Knotts
• 21. The Aesthetics of Failure, Claire Zakiewicz
• 22. The Mistake as Material, Corey Mwamba
• 23. The Aesthetics of Imperfection: Mistakes, and Hearing What You Intend, Enrico Pieranunzi
• 24. Risk in Improvisation and in Comedy, Donnchadh O'Conaill
• 25. Risk, Failure and Courage: Improvisation and Stand-Up Comedy, Victor Dura-Vila
• 26. Inciting Uncertainty, Mike Baggetta
• 27. Championing Risk and Discovery: Satoko Fujii and the Experimental Composition Improvisation Continuum, Alister Spence
• SECTION 6: COLLABORATION IN PERFORMANCE
• 28. Imperfect Unity and Productive Frictions: Ethics and Aesthetics of Play in Dance Improvisation, Annie Kloppenberg
• 29. Cross Purposes: Imperfect Interactions When Improvising With Others, Graeme B. Wilson
• 30. An Audience for Free Jazz: Joe McPhee Interviewed, Joe McPhee
• 31. Is Love Too Strong a Term?The Dissolution of Distinction Between Aesthetics and Sociality in a Moving Orchestra, Jim Denley
• SECTION 7: THE INSTRUMENTAL IMPULSE
• 32. The Instrumental Impulse: Developing a Free Improvisation Vocabulary for Alternative Keyboard Instruments, Adam Fairhall
• 33. Rarely Heard, Small Unwanted Sounds Form the Focus, Dave Brown aka Candlesnuffer
• 34. The Disagreeable Subject of Varese's Father: In Conversation With David Brown, Reuben Lewis
• 35. The Necks on the Aesthetics of Imperfection, Chris Abrahams, Lloyd Swanton, Tony Buck
• 36. 'Stardust': Seeing and Imagining What isn't There, Martin Mayes
• SECTION 8: FINISHED AND UNFINISHED WORK
• 37. Architecture of Imperfection: Unfinished Sketches and Burke's Sublime, Elizabeth Baldwin Gray
• 38. Still Water Moves, Philip G. Robinson
• 39. Notating Perfection? Beethoven and the Late String Quartets, Rachel Stroud Index.
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The aesthetics of imperfection emphasises spontaneity, disruption, process and energy over formal perfection and is often ignored by many commentators or seen only in improvisation. This comprehensive collection is the first time imperfection has been explored across all kinds of musical performance, whether improvisation or interpretation of compositions. Covering music, visual art, dance, comedy, architecture and design, it addresses the meaning, experience, and value of improvisation and spontaneous creation across different artistic media. A distinctive feature of the volume is that it brings together contributions from theoreticians and practitioners, presenting a wider range of perspectives on the issues involved. Contributors look at performance and practice across Western and non-Western musical, artistic and craft forms. Composers and non-performing artists offer a perspective on what is 'imperfect' or improvisatory within their work, contributing further dimensions to the discourse. The Aesthetics of Imperfection in Music and the Arts features 39 chapters organised into eight sections and written by a diverse group of scholars and performers. They consider divergent definitions of aesthetics, employing both 18th-century philosophy and more recent socially and historically situated conceptions making this an essential, up-to-date resource for anyone working on either side of the perfection-imperfection debate.
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• 1. Introduction
• 2. The tone of encounters: Strangers, anxiety and everyday exclusivism
• 2. Interactional affection: Suspicion and sustainability of voluntary cooperation
• 3. Emotional labour: Leadership, dependency and everyday work relations 4 Ethical qualia: Role ethics and the moral transformation of young Chinese migrants
• 5. Speaking with affect: Speech capital, situationa-- affect and daily (mis)communication Conclusion Bibliography Index.
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Against the background of China's rapidly growing, and sometimes highly controversial, activities in Africa, this book is among the first of its kind to systematically document Sino-African interactions at the everyday level. Based on sixteen months of ethnographic fieldwork at two contrasting sites in Lusaka, Zambia-a Chinese state-sponsored educational farm and a private Chinese family farm-Di Wu focuses on daily interactions among Chinese migrants and their Zambian hosts. Daily communicative events, e.g. banquets, market negotiations, work-place disputes, and various social encounters across a range of settings are used to trace the essential role that emotion/affect plays in forming and reproducing social relations and group identities among Chinese migrants. Wu suggests that affective encounters in everyday situations-as well as failed attempts to generate affect-should not be overlooked in order to fully appreciate Sino-African interactions. Deeply researched and with rich ethnographic detail, this book will be relevant to scholars of anthropology, international development, and others interested in Sino-African relations.
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"What are the possibilities for understanding the role of performance in emerging theories such as affect, new materialism, posthumanism and post-qualitative research? Building on the idea that the power of theatre and performance lies in its ability to move beyond its own influence and traditional research paradigms, this edited text is concerned with not only the methods but also the theoretics of affect and performance. The chapters include work that models theoretical practices in the writing, and demonstrates how theorising affect and its qualitative research methods is itself a performative practice"-- Provided by publisher.

The intense bonds among the king and his family, friends, lovers, and entourage are the most enticing and intriguing aspects of Alexander the Great's life. The affective ties of the protagonists of Alexander's Empire nurtured the interest of the ancient authors, as well as the audience, in the personal life of the most famous men and women of the time. These relations echoed through time in art and literature, to become paradigm of positive or negative, human behavior. 0By rejecting the perception of the Macedonian monarchy as a positivist king-army based system, and by looking for other political and social structures Elizabeth Carney has played a crucial role in prompting the current re-appraisal of the Macedonian monarchy. Her volumes on Women and Monarchy in Ancient Macedonia (University of Oklahoma Press, 2000), Olympias: Mother of Alexander the Great (Routledge, 2006), Arsinoe of Egypt and Macedon: A Royal Life. (Oxford University Press, 2013) have been game-changers in the field and has offered the academic world a completely new perspective on the network of relationships surrounding the exercise of power. By examining Macedonian and Hellenistic dynastic behavior and relations, she has shown the political yet tragic, heroic thus human side, thus connecting Hellenistic political and social history.