Political struggle at the local level is out of fashion. In today’s increasingly “globalized” world, appeals to the local can often appear parochial and tradition-bound. Determining whether effective political responses ...

Alan Lomax's career was long, almost seventy years, and his interests many and varied. He achieved so much in those seventy years that it is impossible for any short account of his life and work to be comprehensive. ...

Every society up to now has attempted to give an answer to a few fundamental questions: Who are we as a collectivity? What are we for one another? Where and in what are we? What do we want; what do we desire; what are ...