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Listening to Old Voices
Patrick Mullen examines how elderly people use folk traditions to engage others and pass on their wisdom and knowledge to succeeding generations. Based on interviews with nine people in their seventies and eighties who live in rural Virginia, North Carolina, and southern Ohio, this book shows how folklore enriches people's lives. Mullen places the folklore - local legends, jokes, personal-experience narratives, family history, folk medicine, planting signs, foodways, wood carving, belief systems, customs, folk architecture - within the context of the individuals' life stories and the culture of their local communities. The analysis concentrates on recurring themes in each person's folklore and the rhetorical strategies the storytellers use to interest listeners and assure that their traditions will be passed on.
My Kinsfolk
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From Doha to Cancún
This paper brings together articles relating to key issues of trade liberalisation under negotiation in the Doha Development Round. The focus is on the likely direction and outcome of negotiations on each issue and how the proposed outcomes could affect developing countries. Published as part of the Secretariat's efforts to prepare developing countries for multilateral trade negotiations, this title aims to bring fresh perspectives to the negotiations in Geneva.
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1998 Santiago Summit
Documents the wide range of inputs from non-governmental and other sectors to the Summit of the Americas II held in April 1998. Chronicles the contributions of civil society organizations to the planning process for the Summit, while evaluating the progress on implementation of Summit initiatives from Miami through Santiago. Discusses issues from free trade and economic integration, to corruption, drug trafficking, and the elimination of poverty and discrimination. The 64 contributions and eight letters reveal how the emerging architecture of cooperation has made this process the primary vehicle of inter-American relations.
