Flapjacks And Feudalism

Flapjacks and Feudalism: Social Mobility and Class in The Archers is an excavation into the family and class politics found in the clans of the residents of Ambridge, in BBC Radio 4’s The Archers.

Flapjacks and Feudalism: Social Mobility and Class in The Archers is an excavation into the family and class politics found in the clans of the residents of Ambridge, in BBC Radio 4’s The Archers.

Fandom Culture and The Archers looks beyond the popular success of the Archers to explore how the program, and the themes it discusses, are used in teaching, learning, research and professional settings, and how the Academic Archers fandom helps shape these real life impacts.

How do people make sense of their world in the face of the breakneck speed of contemporary social change? Through the lives and narratives of eight women, The Melodrama of Mobility chronicles South Korea's experience of just such dizzyingly rapid development. Abelmann captures the mood, feeling, and language of a generation and an era while providing a rare window on the personal and social struggles of South Korean modernity. Drawing also from television soap operas and films, she argues that a melodramatic sensibility speaks to South Korea's transformation because it preserves the tension and ambivalence of daily life in unsettled times. The melodramatic mode helps people to wonder: Can individuals be blamed for their social fates? How should we live? Who can say who is good or bad? By combining the ethnographic tools of anthropology, an engagement with prevailing sociological questions, and a literary approach to personal narratives, The Melodrama of Mobility offers a rich portrait of the experience of compressed modernity in the non-West.

The book is for those who live and breathe astrology, traditional Chinese medicine, Feng Shui, I Ching, Qigong, and are trying to understand the collisions of their lives and the movements of destiny. Contents: fundamental principles of the Chinese metaphysics; rules of using the Chinese calendar for making Ba Zi horoscope; human types of personality for all elements and Zodiac cycle animals; prediction of crucial life events; compatibility and auspicious days for important beginnings; a set of health-improving exercises for 24 seasons; detailed description of 28 constellations and their influence on human life purpose; characteristics of 24 seasons with recommendations for the appropriate way of living; description of 10 Heavenly Stems and 12 Zodiac cycle animals and their influence on human health and life events; tips for healthy lifestyle according to seasonal cycles; nutrition plan according to the date of birth; auspicious date selection Jian Chu; a table of life activity; identification of karmic traces and condition of chakras with Lo-Shu Grid numerology.