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Charlie D. Hankin. Break and Flow: Hip-Hop Poetics in the Americas. New World Studies. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2023. x, 276 pp.
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Get PDF“Marketing and Outreach: Connecting to Our Communities” is the theme of this issue of the OLA Quarterly. As we continue to shape what our library services look like post-pandemic, we are also finding a need to connect or reconnect with communities we serve. In a world transformed by the COVID-19 pandemic, libraries have emerged as resilient institutions, evolving to meet the changing needs of their communities. As we navigate the post-pandemic landscape, libraries are redefining their roles and focusing on marketing and outreach strategies that connect them more intimately with the diverse communities they serve
Report on the Stone Beads, Debitage and Raw Materials from the 2007 and 2008 Excavation Seasons at Pattanam, Kerala
No full textThis article examines stone beads and production debris from the 2007-2008 excavations at the site of Pattanam in South India. An analysis of finished beads and debitage indicates that the bead assemblage at Pattanam is distinct from other bead production sites in southern India, namely Arikamedu and Kodumanal. Bead producers at Pattanam focused largely on agate, carnelian, and chalcedony materials, with beads having been manufactured using the “pecking” method. Scholar Peter Francis, Jr., had previously argued that there were two technological traditions of stone bead production in South India, which were associated with two different cultural/ethnic groups. Evidence from Pattanam challenges this assertion, arguing that different ethnic groups did not exclusively work with particular raw materials or manufacturing methods
El once antes del once
Get PDFHay muchas maneras de narrar, muchos modos de simbolizar, muchos modos de imaginar y sentir. Así debe ser. Yo he elegido, y me ha elegido, pensar mi espacio-tiempo como ciudadana latinoamericana a quien durante la infancia y adolescencia le tocó ver y vivenciar varias dictaduras latinoamericanas y sus procesos transicionales a las democracias.Hay muchas maneras de narrar, muchos modos de simbolizar, muchos modos de imaginar y sentir. Así debe ser. Yo he elegido, y me ha elegido, pensar mi espacio-tiempo como ciudadana latinoamericana a quien durante la infancia y adolescencia le tocó ver y vivenciar varias dictaduras latinoamericanas y sus procesos transicionales a las democracias
Strong Contrasts: Beadwork from the Okavango
No full textWith its black and white contrasts and interplay of positive and negative spaces, the beadwork of the Mbukushu and Yei of Botswana brings to mind the geometric designs of Op Art. In some pieces the pattern creates an almost three-dimensional effect. Because of their attractiveness and rarity, such works now fetch considerable prices on the art market. However, it is always difficult to distinguish between the works of the two peoples, whose style was also decisively influenced by a third people, the Tawana. Rudolf Pöch’s Tawana collection at the Weltmuseum Wien is used to demonstrate the mutual influence of the material culture of three peoples living in close proximity at the beginning of the 20th century
Hagiographic Bandit Slippages: Gaucho Gil in Music and Prose
Get PDFThis article examines representations of the Argentine folk saint Gauchito Gil in music and prose as Gil veneration spreads from the Argentine littoral to more urban and para-urban spaces. The movement in space and through genres reflects the play between the hegemonic and the vernacular and the closing of the frontier. First, the article considers Gauchito devotion as a subculture and analyses the production and maintenance of that subculture through chamamés. I argue that Orlando Van Bredam’s novella, El retobado: vida, pasión y muerte del Gauchito Gil, is a textualization of the vernacular devotion practiced by Gil devotees and slips between the novelistic and hagiographic modes. Building from Emilio Willems suggestion that marginal urban neighborhoods constitute an “anonymous frontier,” I then examine the mapping of Gil worship into urban spaces in cumbia villera and stories by Mariana Enríquez. Finally, I address the increasing institutionalization of Gauchito devotion.Este artículo examina representaciones del santo vernáculo argentino Gauchito Gil en música y prosa y el movimiento de su veneración desde el litoral argentino hacia espacios urbanos y periurbanos. Este desplazamiento tanto en el espacio como en los géneros refleja la interacción entre lo hegemónico y lo vernáculo, así como el cierre de la frontera. El artículo considera el culto del Gauchito como una subcultura y analiza la producción y preservación de dicha subcultura a través de chamamé. Sostenemos que la novela corta El retobado: vida, pasión y muerte del Gauchito Gil de Orlando Van Bredam es una textualización de la devoción vernácula practicada por los devotos al culto del Gauchito, y se desliza entre los modos novelescos y hagiográficos. Partiendo del planteamiento de Emilio Willems de que los barrios marginales urbanos son una “frontera anónima,” Examinamos cómo el culto de Gil se incorpora en el espacio urbano en la cumbia villera y en los cuentos de Mariana Enríquez. Finalmente, abordamos la curiosa ausencia del Guachito en El guacho Martín Fierro, la reescritura villera de Martín Fierro por Oscar Fariña, considerando su omisión de la epopeya como un síntoma de la institucionalización del culto del Gauchito
Flexibility in Outreach: Developing a Student Commons Space on an Auxiliary Campus
Get PDFWhen COVID-19 shut down college libraries across the country, Central Oregon Community College (COCC) was no exception. In the ensuing scramble to close all in-person services and spaces during finals week, COCC library staff also were faced with closing the doors on a location that had not yet opened: a space that was almost 10 years in the making on an auxiliary campus. COVID taught librarians a lot about how flexible we can be and the value of delivering highly accessible remote service options. We also learned the value of our physical spaces and that an open door can literally and figuratively guide students to our services, especially on an outlying community college campus where nontraditional students already experience significant barriers finding, navigating, and using library resources. This article chronicles the development of the library space on one of COCC’s satellite campuses, how that development stalled and evolved in the wake of COVID, and the role this space plays in COCC library’s strategic outreach efforts moving forward
Making Space, Engaging Students: How One Department Built Outreach into Our Community of Practice
Get PDFReed College is a small liberal arts college located in Portland, Oregon. Students work and study on a mostly residential campus and the library has historically been the heart of academic and campus life. This relationship was disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic as Reed shifted to online learning and library staff worked remotely. After more than a year, students and library staff returned to campus but other disruptions impacted student use of services and physical library space. A major seismic renovation closed a large section of the library. During this 18-month renovation, almost 40 percent of library seating and assigned desks were unavailable for student use. These major disruptions meant that both incoming and some upper-level students had no established relationship to the library beyond virtual interactions. It became evident there was a need to re-engage and re-energize students’ relationship with all aspects of library spaces and services