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Belarusian Book Heritage in the Collections of the National Library of Belarus . . 26

I. Handwritten Heritage of Belarus . . 33
1. Handwritten Books . . 40

II. Belarusian Old Printed Editions (Printed Book of XVI - XVIII Centuries) . . 97
1. Publications in Cyrillic Script . . 104
2. Cyrillic Books in Civil Russian Alphabet . . 134
3. Publications in Roman Type . . 140
   Nesvizh Editions of XVIII Century . . 188
   Grodno Editions of XVIII Century . . 192
   Mogilev Editions of XVIII Century . . 196
   Suprasl Editions of XVIII Century . . 200
   Polotsk Editions of XVIII Century . . 204
4. Albaruthenica [Books on Belarus Published Abroad] . . 216
   History, Chronicles . . 216
   Belorusistika . . 236
   Genealogy Publications . . 240

III. Rare and Valuable Publications . . 249
1. Rare Publications of XIX - Early XX Century . . 256
2. Book Monuments of Inter-War Period (1918-1941) . . 296

IV. Cartographic and Graphic Publications . . 313
1. Maps . . 320
2. Print Graphics . . 342
3. Postcards . . 354

V. Belarusian Provenances . . 363
1. Gift Inscriptions . . 370
2. Possessory Inscriptions, Ex-librises, Super Ex-librises, Stamps . . 378
3. Bindings . . 410

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION . . 1

Chapter 1 Developing Research Selves: The Desire, Opportunity, and Preparation to Do a Study . . 15
Chapter 2 Becoming Independent of the Sponsor . . 33
Chapter 3 Gaining Allies, Overcoming Antagonists, Being Tested . . 47
Chapter 4 Personal Selves . . 63
Chapter 5 Understanding the Elderly as a Consequence of My Mothering Role . . 81
Chapter 6 Being a Woman, a Wife, 33 years old, a Jew and a Potential Member . . 93
Chapter 7 Being an American, an Academic, a Sociologist/Anthropologist/ Gerontologist, Dancer and Daughter . . 123
Chapter 8 Situational Selves: Being a Worker, Being Temporary . . 143
Chapter 9 Being a "Volunteer" (Neither a Volunteer nor a Hired Worker) and Being Sick . . 167
Chapter 10 Being a Neighbor, a Friend, a Homemaker, a Hostess and a Leaver . . 179
Chapter 11 Theoretical Conclusions . . 205

EPILOGUE . . 209
BIBLIOGRAPHY . . 213
INDEX . . 221

Acknowledgements . . vii
1 Introduction: Turning practice into theory . . 1
2 The peculiarities of oral history . . 18
3 Self . . 33
4 Subjectivity and intersubjectivity . . 54
5 Memory . . 78
6 Narrative . . 106
7 Performance . . 130
8 Power and empowerment . . 153

Glossary of terms and concepts . . 175
Notes . . 178
Guide to further reading . . 202
Index . . 209

Contributors . . ix
Acknowledgments . . xi

Introduction: Transatlantic Perspectives on Capital Punishment: National Identity, the Death Penalty, and the Prospects for Abolition . . 1

PART I: WHAT IS A PENALTY OF DEATH: CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN CONTEXT

1 The Green, Green Grass of Home: Capital Punishment and the Penal System from a Long-Term Perspective . . 17
2 Did Anyone Die Here?: Legal Personalities, the Supermax, and the Politics of Abolition . . 47
3 Capital Punishment as Homeowner's Insurance: The Rise of the Homeowner Citizen and the Fate of Ultimate Sanctions in Both Europe and the United States . . 78

PART II: ON THE MEANING OF DEATH AND PAIN IN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES: VIEWING, WITNESSING, UNDERSTANDING

4 The Witnessing of Judgment: Between Error, Mercy, and Vindictiveness . . 109
5 Unframing the Death Penalty: Transatlantic Discourse on the Possibility of Abolition and the Execution of Saddam Hussein . . 126
6 Executions and the Debate over Abolition in France and the United States . . 150

PART III: ABOLITIONIST DISCOURSES, ABOLITIONIST STRATEGIES, ABOLITIONIST DILEMMAS: TRANSATLANTIC PERSPECTIVES

7 Civilized Rebels: Death-Penalty Abolition in Europe as Cause, Mark of Distinction, and Political Strategy . . 173
8 The Death of Dignity . . 204
9 Sovereignty and the Unnecessary Penalty of Death: European and United States Perspectives . . 236
10 European Policy on the Death Penalty . . 268
11 The Long Shadow of the Death Penalty: Mass Incarceration, Capital Punishment, and Penal Policy in the United States . . 292

Index . . 323

Preface . . v
Acknowledgments . . vii
About the Authors . . ix

1 What Is Ethics? . . 1
2 Historical Development of Ethical Reasoning . . 21
3 Understanding Ethics . . 41
4 Ethical Schools . . 59
5 Unethical Themes in Criminal Justice . . 75
6 Abuse of Authority and Power . . 93
7 Lying and Deception . . 111
8 Prejudice and Discrimination . . 137
9 Ethics and the Present Criminal Justice System . . 165
10 Ethics and Criminal Prosecutions . . 181
11 Ethics and the Police . . 203
12 Ethics and Corrections . . 221
13 Ethical Issues Involving Victims' Services . . 239

References . . 265
Index . . 275

List of illustrations . . x
Notes on contributors . . xi
Preface . . xiv
Acknowledgements . . xvi

1 Beyond de-Westernizing communication research: an introduction . . 1

PART A - Eurocentrism in communication research: the problem and its contributing factors . . 19

2 De-Westernizing communication: strategies for neutralizing cultural myths . . 1
3 Emerging global divides in media and communication theory: European universalism versus non-Western reactions . . 28
4 Globalizing media and communication studies: thoughts on the translocal and the modern . . 50
5 Orientalism, Occidentalism and communication research . . 58

PART B - The promises of focusing on the particular . . 77

6 "De-Westernizing" communication studies in Chinese societies? . . 79
7 To Westernize or not: that's NOT the question . . 93
8 Pitfalls of cross-cultural analysis: Chinese wenyi film and melodrama . . 99

PART C - From cultural specificity to cultural generality: the possibility of universal universality . . 117

9 The geography of theory and the place of knowledge: pivots, peripheries and waiting rooms . . 119
10 Journeys to the West: the making of Asian modernities . . 137
11 Moving beyond the dichotomy of communication studies: boundary wisdom as the key . . 157
12 Beyond ethnocentrism in communication theory: towards a culture-centric approach . . 172
13 Reconceptualizing de-Westernization: science of meaning as an alternative . . 189

PART D - Opportunities, limitations, and implications for future research . . 205

14 Whither Eurocentrism? Media, culture and nativism in our time . . 207
15 The production of Asian theories of communication: contexts and challenges . . 222
16 The definition and types of alternative discourses . . 238
17 After the fall of the Tower of Babel: culture-commensurability as a point of departure . . 254

Index . . 276