Pages 23-24: Must Read, Must See, Must Hear

Weaving A Future:
Tourism, Cloth, and Culture on an Andean Island
by Elayne Zorn, Assoc. Prof. of Anthropology
University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 0877459169

The people of Taquile Island on the Peruvian side of beautiful Lake Titicaca are renowned for the hand-woven textiles that they both wear and sell to outsiders. One thousand seven hundred Quechua-speaking peasant farmers, who depend on potatoes and the fish from the lake, host the 40,000 tourists who visit their island each year. Yet only twenty-five years ago, few tourists had even heard of Taquile. In Weaving a Future: Tourism, Cloth, and Culture on an Andean Island, Elayne Zorn documents the remarkable transformation of the isolated rocky island into a community-controlled enterprise that now provides a model for indigenous communities worldwide. This ethnography—set in Peru, Washington, D.C., and New York City—shows why and how cloth remains central to Andean society and how the marketing of textiles provided the experience and money for Taquilean initiatives in controlling tourism.

Friend to Sea and Soil
by Ryan Burkhart, Director, Flying Horse Editions
200 editions printed

Using 36 color plates of whimsical images, the artist explores notion of the landscape from an aerial point of view. Friend to Sea and Soil is playful and compelling due to the artist’s exploration of abstract shape and form, and its relation to the landscape we see when we are flying in an airplane high above the earth. The book is handbound in Canapetta.

New Undergraduate Research Journal

During the Fall 2004 semester, founding editor Associate Professor Alejandro Brice, the Office of Undergraduate Studies, and UCF’s Texts and Technology Ph.D. program worked to produce the university’s first undergraduate research journal. This multidisciplinary, faculty-mentored journal, will collect and distribute student research online.

This URJ has the potential to become a valuable research asset for the university and the surrounding community. Everyone—from academics, to local companies and the general public—will have access to both current and archived research articles collected in the journal.

UCF’s journal follows a tradition of undergraduate scholarship found in many other schools, including Berkley, Clemson, and Harvard. Successful undergraduate journals, at universities such as these, were analyzed to shape the direction of UCF’s journal. The URJ Executive Board determined five guiding principles for the UCF online journal:

• It should be an interactive, dynamic website that allows students and faculty to update online information automatically,
• A database should collect manuscripts and index, cross-reference, and retrieve research easily,
• A style guide, adapted from the UCF Graduate Studies Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Manual, should be imposed to standardize writing conventions,
• Submission information, forms, and faculty mentor information will be accessible online, and
• A rolling publication system will allow for flexibility in publishing special issues and rolling out new editions.

Using these guidelines, the journal was designed and the prototype version was launched in October of 2004. The journal is currently soliciting manuscripts for its inaugural edition. Articles will be available for the public to read starting this spring.

Want to know more?
Journal Website: www.ejournal.ucf.edu
Alejandro Brice, editor, ejournaleditor@mail.ucf.edu

How the Body Shapes the Mind
by Shaun Gallagher, Chair of Philosophy
Oxford UP
ISBN: 0199271941

This book offers a fascinating examination of the role played by the body in perception and in the development and practice of thinking. Shaun Gallagher uses the concepts of body image and body schema to address a range of philosophical questions about cognition, drawing on recent work in developmental psychology, brain research, and studies of unusual pathologies. Truly interdisciplinary, the book will reward academics and professionals in philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and beyond.

Lawrence Durrell and the Greek World
Edited by Anna Lillios, Assoc. Prof. of English
Associated University Presses
ISBN: 1575910764

The essays in this volume represent attempts at understanding Lawrence Durrell’s work, by means of the Greece that he creates as part of his fictional and poetic universe. One of the great writers of the twentieth century, Durrell’s novels, poetry, and essays reflect his passionate love affair with the Greek world, both ancient and modern.

Queering Medieval Genres
by Tison Pugh, Asst. Prof. of English
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 1403964327

Queering Medieval Genres examines the ways in which homosexuality disrupts expectations of sexual normativity in medieval literature, notably in the works of 12th century Franco-Latin poets Marbod of Rennes, Baudri of Bourgueil, and Hildebert of Lavardin, as well as in the 14th century English works of Geoffrey Chaucer and the anonymous author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

Legitimizing Modernity in Islam: Muslim modus vivendi and Western Modernity by Husain Kassim, Assoc. Prof. of Philosophy
Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN: 077346235X

This book discusses how to construct modernity in Islam. By finding specific categories from within the sharia law, Kassim argues that a space can be created for modernity, without changing Islam’s religious orientation. Husain Kassim employs the ideas of Western modernity from Kant through Habermas and recent French theory (Levinas, Derrida, etc.). He shows how fundamental features, such as the concepts of justice, freedom, human rights, secularization, the individual and his/her place in society, gender relations, banking and financial transactions, and so on, can be accommodated in the Muslim ethos by way of ethical discourse.

Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth: Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum America
by Sean Patrick Adams, Prof. of History
Johns Hopkins UP
ISBN: 080187968X

In Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth Sean Patrick Adams examines the divergent paths the coal industries in Virginia and Pennsylvania took, from the late eighteenth century through the Civil War. In both cases, Adams finds, state economic policies played a major role. Using coal as a barometer of economic change, this book addresses longstanding questions about North-South economic divergence and the role of state government in America’s industrial development. It provides new insights for both political and economic historians of nineteenth-century America.

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Spring 2005

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