Gypsies in Madrid: Sex, Gender and the Performance of Identity

This book tells the remarkable story of the friendship between Liria Hernandez, a Roma woman from Madrid, and Paloma Gay y Blasco, a non-Roma anthropologist.

How to Read Ethnography is an essential guide to approaching anthropological texts. It helps students to cultivate the skills they need to critically examine and understand how ethnographies are built up, as well as to think anthropologically and develop an anthropological imagination of their own. The authors reveal how ethnographically-informed anthropology plays a distinctive and valuable role in comprehending the complexity of the world we live in. This fully revised second edition includes fresh excerpts from key texts for analysis and comparison along with lucid explanations. In addition to concerns with argument, authority, and the relationship between theory and data, the book engages with the purpose, value, and accountability of ethnographic texts, as well as with their reception and usage. A brand new chapter looks at the kinds of collaboration between informants/consultants and anthropologists that go into the making of ethnographic writing.

An outstanding series' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWA Bill Slider Mystery Inspector Bill Slider is approached by Jay Paloma, a gay erotic dancer, who has received letters threatening his life. A few days later Paloma's battered body is found in the apartment he shared with barmaid and prostitute Busty Parnell - Slider is teamed with young black female detective Tony Hart. Their investigation delves into the seedy underside of London's nightlife, and will lead them into some curious byways and cul-de-sacs.Praise for the Bill Slider series:"The books work so well because the author manages to infuse them with a warmth and wit that lingers on after the last page is turned." YORKSHIRE POST"This is an excellent, solidly professional police story: well-written, with well-drawn characters and a neatly dovetailed plot." EVENING STANDARD"...the charm oozed by Bill, who is a normal person with personal problems struggling to survive in a cruel world through humour and wit...a unique novel that gives readers a glimpse of an England rarely seen in this sub-genre." HARRIET KLAUSNER"Confident and lucid" SEATTLE TIMES

Film director Paul Bartel enjoyed flouting the expectations of audiences and critics with his amusing movies about murder, greed and transgressive sex. Strange stories that aroused laughter, he felt, carried the potential to disorient viewers and problematize their beliefs about American culture and its values. Among his best-remembered features are Death Race 2000 (1975), Eating Raoul (1982) and Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills (1989).The first book-length study of its sort, The Life and Films of Paul Bartel provides readers with a detailed biography tracing Bartel's emergence as an independent low-budget auteur whose work aroused admiration from figures like Steven Spielberg, Jim Jarmusch and Brian De Palma. It considers the manner in which his experience as a gay man motivated him to introduce subversive subject matter into his work, too.Readers will also find interviews with several people who knew Bartel, including Roger Corman, Joe Dante and John Waters, and critical material that considers the thematic and technical aspects of each film.

DescriptionThe Elegance of the Hedgehog is a novel by the French novelist and philosophy teacher Muriel Barbery. The book follows events in the life of a concierge, Renée Michel, whose deliberately concealed intelligence is uncovered by an unstable but intellectually precocious girl named Paloma Josse.

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Under pinnsvinets ikke akkurat gjestmilde og innbydende overflate finnes et ømt, smidig, elegant, tilpasningsdyktig og klokt vesen. Pinnsvinet er i dette tilfellet Reneé, en 54 år gammel enke og en av de få gjenværende portnerkonene i Paris. Totalt usjarmerende og uinteressant, mener hun om seg selv; redd for å få sparken, selv etter 27 år, dersom beboerne i luksusleilighetene oppdager at hun har kunnskaper mer enn de fleste. Reneé dyrker derfor - i smug - sin kjærlighet til litteratur og musikk, kunst og filosofi. Utad bruker hun piggene for alt de er verd, og er påpasselig med påminnelser om at hun er enkel, diskret og ubetydelig. Den første som mistenker at Reneé ikke er helt den hun utgir seg for, er 12 år gamle Paloma, datter i en av snobbefamiliene, som fra å ville ta livet av seg, finner mer og mer mening med verden i sine samtaler med Reneé. Fremfor alt er det den nye beboeren, Kakuro, en styrtrik japansk industrimagnat, som får Reneé til å tre ut av pinnsvindrakten.

Metamaterials offer the possibility to control and manipulate electromagnetic radiation. Spoof surface plasmon metamaterials are the focus of this Element of the Metamaterials Series. The fundamentals of spoof surface plasmons are reviewed, and advances on plasmonic metamaterials based on spoof plasmons are presented. Spoof surface plasmon metamaterials on a wide range of geometries are discussed: from planar platforms to waveguides and localized modes, including cylindrical structures, grooves, wedges, dominos or conformal surface plasmons in ultrathin platforms. The Element closes with a review of recent advances and applications such as Terahertz sensing or integrated devices and circuits.

This book highlights the views of accountability of INGO leaders and assesses the challenges they face in implementing organizational accountability . The author draws on over 150 interviews with executives about accountability and uses empirical evidence to propose an Accountability Puzzle that shows how definitions, audiences, practices, and signals about accountability are interconnected and interdependent; INGO accountability is incomplete without all the pieces assembled. Nevertheless, more accountability is not always the answer and can hinder leaders' responsiveness to stakeholder demands. This book will make an important contribution to NGO literature by offering a greater understanding of that accountability means for those in charge of these transnational organizations.

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From the racial defamation and mocking tone of "Mexican" restaurants geared toward the Anglo customer to the high-end Latin-inspired eateries with Anglo chefs who give the impression that the food was something unattended or poorly handled that they "discovered" or "rescued" from actual Latinos, the dilemma of how to make ethical choices in food production and consumption is always as close as the kitchen recipe, coffee pot, or table grape.In Food Fight!: Millennial Mestizaje Meets the Culinary Marketplace author Paloma Martinez-Cruz takes us on a Chicanx gastronomic journey that is powerful and humorous. Martinez-Cruz tackles head on the real-world politics of food production from the exploitation of farmworkers to the appropriation of Latinx bodies and culture, and takes us right into transformative eateries that offer homegrown, mestiza consciousness.The hard-hitting essays in Food Fight! bring a mestiza critique to today's pressing discussions of labeling, identity, and imaging in marketing and dining. Not just about food, restaurants, and coffee, this volume employs a decolonial approach and engaging voice to interrogate ways that mestizo, Indigenous, and Latinx peoples are objectified in mainstream ideology and imaginary.

It's time to throw away the diet book and start living intuitively. In our increasingly busy world, how to be healthy has become more and more confusing and our relationship with food is ever-changing and often complex. We're bombarded with so many messages that it's causing a disconnect between us and what true health really is: a connection to our body's innate wisdom. In other words, our intuition.This six-week guide introduces the concept that by using our intuition, we can become experts on ourselves and, in turn, learn how to best navigate our own health and happiness. Each week is broken down into steps, giving you the tools and techniques to make the right food and health choices for you. Through celebrating food, encouraging kindness and embracing a positive body image, Holistic Nutritionist and Life Coach, Pandoma Paloma takes you on a journey to reconnect with your body and transform your life.

In Dream Design Live, decorator Paloma Contreras goes beyond interior design to show readers how to inhabit their homes in fulfilling and beautiful ways. Divided into three sections, this hardworking book proves that the most appealing interiors are also the most personal ones. Contreras takes readers through the design process and encourages them to seek inspiration from the approach that works best for them. From thinking creatively to improve both your home and your life, to showing you how to turn your dreams into realities, the author reveals how you can take the welcoming space you've just created and spend meaningful time there pursuing the activities you love. With stunning photography and accessible-yet-elegant tips, Dream Design Live fuses interior decorating advice with lifestyle recommendations and demonstrates how living a happy and satisfying life starts at home.

This illustrated modern parable has wisdom for realizing world peace in our time--let us start the dance!