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The Astrolabe

An ancient instrument for solving problems of location and distance, as well as time

Astrolábon órganon is the word used in Ptolemaeus Syntaxis 5.1 to describe a form of armillary sphere consisting of both fixed and rotating rings for determining the ecliptic co-ordinates of stars. Also called astrolabe were two-dimensional representations of the celestial sphere: over fixed disks with a representation of the horizon of the earth (in each case for a specific geographic latitude) and its parallels up to the zenith lies a rotating representation of the heavens (called ‘spider’ or ‘net’) with zodiac and indicators for some of the brightest stars. On the back is an indicator (‘alidade’) with visor plates for calculating the height of the stars. The astrolabe allows its user to determine the hours of day and night, the positions of stars, and the height and depth of objects on earth (mountains, buildings, wells). The oldest extant descriptions of the flat, planispheric astrolabe come from Iohannes Philoponus, 6th century AD, and (in Syrian) from Severus Sebokht, c. 660 AD. Indirect references may date back as early as Theon (4th cent.). Between the 8th and the 9th centuries the Arabs appropriated the knowledge of the astrolabe. At the end of the 10th century and again in the 12th century, they passed it on to Western Europe, where astrolabes were constructed up until the 17th cent. Today, one Byzantine astrolabe (from 1062) is extant, as are some 750 Arabic-Islamic astrolabes and approximately the same number of European astrolabes.

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Hybrid Identities: Theoretical and Empirical Examinations

Edited by Keri E. Iyall Smith and Patricia Leavy, Stonehill College, Easton, U.S.A.

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Publication year: 2008


Series:	Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 12
ISBN-13 (i)The ISBN (International Standard Book Number) has been changed from 10 to 13 digits on 1 January 2007:	978 90 04 17039 1
ISBN-10:	90 04 17039 1

Cover:	Hardback
Number of pages:	xii, 412 pp.

List price:	€ 99.00 / US$ 147.00

Table of contents

Part I. Theoretical Study of Hybridity
1. An Introduction to Theoretical Examinations of Hybridity
By Keri E. Iyall Smith
2. Hybridity, Transnationalism and Identity in the US-Mexican Borderlands
By Patrick Gun Cuninghame
3. DuBois and Diasporic Identity: The Veil and the Unveiling Project
By Judith R. Blau and Eric S. Brown
4. Disturbingly Hybrid or Distressingly Patriarchal?
By Fabienne Darling-Wolf
5. Gender and the Hybrid Identity: On Passing Through
By Salvador Vidal-Ortiz
6. Bridging the Theoretical Gap: The Diasporized Hybrid in Sociological Theory
By Melissa F. Weiner and Bedelia Nicola Richards
7. Geoculture and Popular Culture: Carnivals, Diasporas and Hybridities in the Americas
By Keith Nurse
8. The Internal Colony Hybrid: Reformulating Structure, Culture, and Agency
By Roderick Bush
Part II. Empirical Studies on Hybrid Identities
9. An Introduction to Empirical Examinations of Hybridity
By Patricia Leavy
10. Conquest, Colonization, and Borderland Identities: The World of Ethnic Mexicans in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, 1900-1930
By Trinidad Gonzales
11. Neither Black nor White Enough—and Beyond Black or White: The Lived Experiences of African American Women at Predominantly White Colleges
By Sharlene Hesse-Biber and Emily Brooke Barko
12. Creating Place from Conflicted Space: Bi/Multi Racial Māori Women’s Inclusion within New Zealand Mental Health Services
By Tess Moeke-Maxwell
13. Women Occupying the Hybrid Space: Second Generation Korean American Women Negotiating Choices Regarding Work and Family
By Helen Kim
14. Hybrid Identities in the Diaspora: Second Generation West Indians in Brooklyn
By Bedelia Nicola Richards
15. Hybridized Korean Identities: The Making of Korean Americans and Joseonjok
By Helene K. Lee
16. One Plus One Equals Three: Legal Hybridity in Aotearoa/New Zealand
By Alex Frame and Paul Meredith
17. Occupying Third Space: Hybridity and Identity Matrices in the Multiracial Experience
By David L. Brunsma and Daniel J. Delgado

List of Figures
Figure 17.1: The Racial Identities of Black-White Multiracials
Figure 17.2: Variation Across the Various Spaces

Readership

Those interested in theoretical and empirical examinations of cross-cultural life and identity in the social sciences, humanities, or cultural studies.

About the author(s)

Keri E. Iyall Smith, Ph.D. (2003) in Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Suffolk University. She is the author of The State and Indigenous Movements and articles on hybridity, human rights, globalization, and indigenous peoples. Patricia Leavy, Ph.D. (2002) in Sociology, Boston College, is Associate Professor of Sociology and Chairperson of Sociology and Criminology at Stonehill College. She is the author of Iconic Events: Media, Politics and Power in Retelling History, Method Meets Art: Arts Based Research Practice and coauthor and co-editor of several research methods books.

Combining theoretical and empirical pieces, this book explores the emerging theoretical work seeking to describe hybrid identities while also illustrating the application of these theories in empirical research.The sociological perspective of this volume sets it apart. Hybrid identities continue to be predominant in minority or immigrant communities, but these are not the only sites of hybridity in the globalized world. Given a compressed world and a constrained state, identities for all individuals and collective selves are becoming more complex. The hybrid identity allows for the perpetuation of the local, in the context of the global. This book presents studies of types of hybrid identities: transnational, double consciousness, gender, diaspora, the third space, and the internal colony.

Contributors include: Keri E. Iyall Smith, Patrick Gun Cuninghame, Judith R. Blau, Eric S. Brown, Fabienne Darling-Wolf, Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, Melissa F. Weiner, Bedelia Nicola Richards, Keith Nurse, Roderick Bush, Patricia Leavy, Trinidad Gonzales, Sharlene Hesse-Biber, Emily Brooke Barko, Tess Moeke-Maxwell, Helen Kim, Bedelia Nicola Richards, Helene K. Lee, Alex Frame, Paul Meredith, David L. Brunsma and Daniel J. Delgado.

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