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Cambridge University Press Language in Use PreIntermediate New Edition Class Audio CDs 2
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Cambridge University Press Metaphor Metonymy the Body and the Environment
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Cambridge University Press The State of Resistance
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Cambridge University Press The State of Resistance
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Cambridge University Press Language as Hope
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Cambridge University Press The Political Life of Memory
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Cambridge University Press The Cultural Politics of Art in Iran
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Cambridge University Press The Social Contract
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Cambridge University Press Beings and Beasts
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Cambridge University Press The Fabric of War
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Cambridge University Press Antifascist Humanism and the Politics of Cultural
Book SynopsisA study of German traditions of cultural renewal from their origins in antifascist activism in German exile communities in Europe and Latin America during World War II to their failure during the emerging Cold War in occupied Germany and the early German Democratic Republic.Trade Review'Agocs has written a timely overview of the original 'antifa' cultural movements of the 1930s and 1940s in Europe and the Americas. Alarmed by the rise of Nazism and Italian Fascism, groups and intellectuals ranging from communists to liberals organized as exiles to counter the threat of fascism by promoting 'cultural humanism', based on ideas of the freedom of thought and religion and progressive Enlightenment views. Writers, artists, and intellectuals ranging from Thomas Mann to German communists who had fled to Mexico City published broadsides; organized under the sponsorship of the German Communist Party, the Free Germany movement, and through a variety of activities; and hoped to convey another, better Germany than the country that existed under the Third Reich. … Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.' M. Deshmukh, Choice'… Andreas Agocs has written an empirically focused, analytically wide-ranging study of the Cultural League for the Democratic Renewal of Germany (Kulturbund), a self-consciously antifascist organization that surfaced amid the ruins of Nazism in 1945.' Sean A. Forner, The American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction: antifascist humanism and the dual legacies of Weimar; Part I. Defending the 'Other Germany': 1. The humanist front: antifascism and culture wars, 1934–9; 2. 'Otra Alemanias': antifascist humanism in the diasporam, 1939–44; 3. The 'other Germany' from below: antifascist committees and national renewal in 1945; Part II. Contesting 'Other Germanies': 4. Antifascism as renewal and restoration: the cultural League for the democratic renewal of Germany, 1945–6; 5. Humanism with a socialist face: Sovietization and 'ideological coordination' of the Kulturbund, 1946–7; 6. The limits of humanism: cultural renewal and the outbreak of the Cold War, 1947–8; 7. Mass organization and memory: antifascist humanism in divided Germany, 1948 and beyond; Conclusion: from the Saar to Salamis.
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Cambridge University Press Music and Protest in 1968 Music since 1900
Book SynopsisMusic was integral to the profound cultural, social and political changes that swept the globe in 1968. This collection of essays offers new perspectives on the role that music played in the events of that year, which included protests against the ongoing Vietnam War, the May riots in France and the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. From underground folk music in Japan to antiauthoritarian music in Scandinavia and Germany, Music and Protest in 1968 explores music's key role as a means of socio-political dissent not just in the US and the UK but in Asia, North and South America, Europe and Africa. Contributors extend the understanding of musical protest far beyond a narrow view of the 'protest song' to explore how politics and social protest played out in many genres, including experimental and avant-garde music, free jazz, rock, popular song, and film and theatre music.Trade Review'… detailed and convincing.' The Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsIntroduction Beate Kutschke; 1. Expressive revolutions: '1968' and music in The Netherlands Robert Adlington; 2. Music as plea for political action: the presence of musicians in Italian protest movements around 1968 Gianmario Borio; 3. 'This is my country': American popular music and political engagement in '1968' Sarah Hill; 4. Spontaneity and Black consciousness: South Africans imagining musical and political freedom in 1960s Europe Carol Muller; 5. Vietnamese popular song in '1968': war, protest and sentimentalism Barley Norton; 6. Music and protest in Japan: the rise of underground folk song in '1968' Tôru Mitsui; 7. 'There is no revolution without song': 'new song' in Latin America Jan Fairley; 8. 'The power of music': antiauthoritarian music movements in Scandinavia in '1968' Alf Björnberg; 9. British rock: the short '1968', and the long Allan Moore; 10. '1968' and the experimental revolution in Britain Virginia Anderson; 11. Antiauthoritarian revolt by musical means on both sides of the Berlin Wall Beate Kutschke; 12. '1968' - the emergence of a protest culture in the popular music of the Eastern Bloc? Rüdiger Ritter; 13. Gendering '1968': womanhood in model works of the People's Republic of China and movie musicals of Hong Kong Hon-Lun Yang; 14. A revolution in sheep's wool stockings: early music and '1968' Kailan Rubinoff; 15. Music and May 1968 in France: practices, roles, representations Eric Drott.
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Cambridge University Press Real Money and Romanticism 85 Cambridge Studies in Romanticism Series Number 85
Book SynopsisReal Money and Romanticism interprets poetry and fiction by Sir Walter Scott, John Keats, and Charles Dickens in the context of changes in the British monetary system and in the broader economy during the early nineteenth century. In this period modern systems of paper money and intellectual property became established; Matthew Rowlinson describes the consequent changes in relations between writers and publishers and shows how a new conception of material artefacts as the bearers of abstract value shaped Romantic conceptions of character, material culture, and labor. A fresh and radically different contribution to the growing field of inquiry into the 'economics' of literature, this is an ingenious and challenging reading of Romantic discourse from the point of view of monetary theory and history.Trade Review'Real Money and Romanticism raises questions that will be hard for economists and Romantic scholars alike to ignore.' Romantic CirclesTable of ContentsIntroduction: real money; 1. 'The Scotch hate gold': British identity and paper money; 2. Curiosities and the money form in the Waverley novels; Notes on the text of the Waverley novels; 3. Keats in the hidden abode of production; 4. Reading capital with Little Nell; 5. 'To exist in a kind of allegory'; Appendix: copyright and authorial labor in eighteenth-century Britain.
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Cambridge University Press The Best Are Leaving
Book SynopsisClair Wills's The Best Are Leaving is an important and wide-ranging study of representations of Irish emigrant culture and of Irish immigrants in Britain in post-war Europe. It analyses stereotypes of the Irish across a range of discourses, including official documents; sociological texts; documentary fiction and memoir; and Irish realist fiction, drama, and film.Trade Review'Sharp and illuminating … [Wills'] study is deeply impressive in the scope of its learning and the range of its sympathies.' Sunday Business Post'A fine study of an absorbing subject.' Irish Mail on Sunday'… Wills has written a thoughtful, open-minded and lucid book that shows that the 'great silence' which enveloped commentary on the Irish language in independent Ireland often characterized the emigrant experience too. One of the most moving and beautiful aspects of this compelling narrative is Wills's account of her own mother and of her attempts to negotiate for her family between two exacting cultures. She succeeded magnificently - and one outcome is this valuable and necessary book.' Breac'[This] book … brings to the forefront an often overlooked era in twentieth-century Irish culture … [the author shows us] that this period of departure and radical social change deserves the same rigorous engagement that so frequently attends to global political concerns and earlier twentieth-century periods in Ireland … Wills' focus brings insight and originality born from top-notch research throughout the book.' Maria McGarrity, Irish Literary SupplementTable of Contents1. The best are leaving: fitness, marriage, and the crisis of the national family; 2. Pink witch: women, modernity, and urbanisation; 3. British paddies: realism and the Irish immigrant; 4. The vanishing Irish: assimilation, ethnicisation, and literary caricature; 5. Clay is the flesh: looking at manual labour.
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Cambridge University Press Reframing Visual Social Science
Book SynopsisInsights into culture and society can be acquired by observing, analyzing and theorizing visible behavior of people and material products of culture. This book provides scholars, students, artists and professionals with a systematic and analytical presentation and discussion of methods and techniques to visually study and communicate culture and society.Trade Review'A remarkably readable, yet highly scholarly exposure of approaches to research that open up the riches of contemporary and historical sources of visual culture. This book will be of great value to anyone involved at the cutting edge of carrying out visual research. They will find in it practical guidance, critical scholarship and encouragement to go further into this exciting field of study.' Catherine Burke, University of Cambridge'Reframing Visual Social Science offers a fresh, powerful and theoretically sophisticated perspective on the visual turn that's been reshaping social research for the past fifteen years. Focusing on the seam between visual evidence and visual representation, Pauwels examines a cluster of contrasting points of view that can discourage or distort visual approaches to the social sciences. Rather than pushing these contradictions aside, however, Pauwels embraces them as opportunities for systematic analysis. Through a combination of case studies and theoretical essays, he articulates that analysis as a comprehensive framework for understanding materials and research practices that are all too often treated sui generis - including photographic field work, ethnographic film, the analysis of found photographs, participatory media projects, and image-rich research reporting. The result is a path-breaking book that links existing treatments of visual social research with new possibilities and perspectives and has a great deal to offer both beginning and mature scholars.' Jon Wagner, Professor Emeritus, School of Education, University of California, DavisTable of ContentsPart I. Remodelling Visual Social Science: 1. Prologue and outline: (re)framing visual social science?; 2. An integrated framework for conducting and assessing visual social research; Part II. The Visual Researcher as Collector and Interpreter: 3. Researching 'found' or 'pre-existing' visual materials; 4. A visual and multimodal model for analyzing online environments; Part III. The Visual Researcher as Producer, Facilitator and Communicator: 5. The mimetic mode: from exploratory to systematic visual data production; 6. Visual elicitation techniques, respondent-generated image production and 'participatory' visual activism; 7. The 'visual essay' as a scholarly format: art meets (social) science?; 8. Social scientific filmmaking and multimedia production: key features and debates; Part IV. Applications/Case Studies: 9. Family photography as a social practice: from the analogue to the digital networked world; 10. A visual study of corporate culture: the workplace as metaphor; 11. Health communication in South Africa: a visual study of posters, billboards and grassroots media; Part V. Visual Research in a Wider Perspective: 12. Ethics of visual research in the offline and online world; 13. A meta-disciplinary framework for producing and assessing visual representations; 14. Advancing visual research: pending issues and future directions.
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Cambridge University Press Cultural Evolution
Book SynopsisWritten for a non-specialist audience, Cultural Evolution presents and tests a theory that helps explain the causes of the changes in people's motivations that have led to the rise of environmentalist parties, gender equality, and same sex marriage - and the reaction that led to Brexit and the election of Trump.Trade Review'This book is the product of an extremely ambitious project - ambitious in terms of the broad scope of the various aspects of society that its theoretical insights purport to explain, but also in terms of the range of the social science disciplines that are swept up and integrated into this 'Evolutionary Modernization theory'. One could even regard this enterprise as striving towards what would be the equivalent of 'unified field theory' in physics. What Chutzpah! And what a burden of proof such an ambitious enterprise would face. Remarkably, Inglehart succeeds in this demanding task, the ultimate product of which I regard as one of the most important works in the social sciences in decades.' Richard Gunther, Ohio State University'Cultural Evolution culminates a remarkably productive half-century's exploration of cultural change by Ronald F. Inglehart. This renowned scholar now extends the reach of his theory to global history, while honing his concepts to dissect, for example, the emergence of right-wing populism and LGBTQ activism. This is Inglehart at his most ambitious and most astute. It is a powerful book.' Robert D. Putnam, Harvard University, Massachusetts'Cultural Evolution is an intellectual tour-de-force. Drawing on insights from years of research in societies representing ninety percent of the world's population, the renowned political scientist Ronald F. Inglehart traces the most important changes taking place across the globe - the shift from Materialist to Postmaterialist values. His brilliant new Evolutionary Modernization theory explains changes in religion, conflict, gender equality, democracy, happiness, among other phenomena, through the same parsimonious scientific lens. It is a fantastic read for anyone interested in understanding the dynamics of culture change.' Michele Gelfand, University of Maryland'This timely book will certainly become one of the most significant books of the first part of this century - every library should have a copy.' J. S. Taylor, Choice'Inglehart is one of the last great postwar exponents of modernization theory, which sees economic development as leading to shifts in society toward liberal democracy.' G. John Ikenberry, Foreign Affairs'Cultural Evolution may be one of the three greatest books ever written in the category 'Optimistic Accounts of Change in Public Opinion.' … Life may generally be short, harsh, and exploitive, but the values transitions documented by Inglehart suggest that there are viable avenues for social improvement.' Samuel Cohn, American Journal of Sociology'Inglehart seeks to reach beyond the scholarly audience. To do so, he eschews presenting the daunting array of statistical estimates that are the norm for such analyses. Instead, the extensive evidence is presented through well crafted figures that are self-sufficient in conveying the hypothesis at hand, the array of nations being examined, and the results obtained. Further, he eschews 'academes' for clarity. The result is a spare, accessible, masterful, and elegant book.' George E. Marcus, Political Science QuarterlyTable of ContentsIntroduction: overview of this book; 1. Evolutionary modernization and cultural change; 2. The rise of postmaterialist values in the West and the World; 3. Global cultural patterns; 4. The end of secularization?; 5. Cultural change, slow and fast: the distinctive trajectory of norms governing gender equality and sexual orientation; 6. The feminization of society and declining willingness to fight for one's country: the individual-level component of the long peace; 7. Development and democracy; 8. The changing roots of happiness; 9. The silent revolution in reverse: the rise of Trump and the authoritarian populist parties; 10. The coming of artificial intelligence society.
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Cambridge University Press Acculturation
Book SynopsisAcculturation is the process of group and individual changes in culture and behaviour that result from intercultural contact. This Element presents variations in the meanings of the concept and a survey of empirical work with indigenous, immigrant and ethnocultural peoples around the globe that employed both qualitative and quantitative methods.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Acculturation; 3. General acculturation framework; 4. Adaptation to acculturation; 5. Assessment of acculturation and adaptation; 6. Empirical research on acculturation; 7. Conclusion.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Future Presence
Book SynopsisTrade Review“With Future Presence, Peter Rubin gets at the heart of why everyone – not just gamers, technophiles, or sci-fi fans – should be excited about Virtual Reality and how it will change their lives.” — Shuhei Yoshida, President of Worldwide Studios at PlayStation “A cool, smart take on virtual reality. Peter Rubin approaches a deliriously infinite topic not only with brain, but with heart.” — Jaron Lanier, author of Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality and godfather of VR “This book is like talking to your smartest, funniest friend about technology over drinks at your local bar. And you might need a drink to ready your body—because the future is now.” — Aisha Tyler, director, actor, podcaster, and New York Times bestselling author of Self-Inflicted Wounds
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McGraw-Hill Education - Europe On Being Different Diversity and Multiculturalism
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J.P.Tarcher,U.S./Perigee Bks.,U.S. Shining Affliction
Book SynopsisRogers pulls us with disarming directness into her treatment, during her psychiatric internship, of a severely traumatized five-year-old boy. The touching appeal of the interactions between them then propel us into the frightening core of Rogers'' book--her own rapid decline into psychosis and institutionalization. This was triggered by the child''s expression of his horrifying fears and her own initial therapist''s rejection of her. Only the ministrations of a second unusually gifted psychoanalyst helped Rogers reassemble her shattered psyche. The multifaceted, two-way healing that occurred between the young intern struggling for emotional truth and the untreatable child finally enabled Rogers to recall the searing pain and frustration she experienced and challenge some of modern psychotherapy''s basic tenets. Although mostly straightforward enough, Rogers leaves curiously unexamined the aborted relationship with her first, rejecting therapist, which makes her account jarringly incomp
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Penguin Books Ltd Poems Protest and a Dream
Book SynopsisA bilingual edition of writings by Latin America''s finest baroque poetSor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1648-1695) wrote her most famous prose work, La Respuesta a Sor Filotea, in 1691 in response to her bishop''s injunction against her intellectual pursuits. A passionate and subversive defense of the rights of women to study, to teach, and to write, it predates by almost a century and a half serious writings on any continent about the position and education of women. Also included in this wide-ranging selection is a new translation of Sor Juana''s masterpiece, the epistemological poem Primero Sueno, as well as revealing autobiographical sonnets, reverential religious poetry, secular love poems (which have excited speculation through three centuries), playful verses, and lyrical tributes to New World culture that are among the earliest writings celebrating the people and the customs of this hemisphere. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been Table of ContentsTRANSLATOR'S NOTEINTRODUCTIONSUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READINGA NOTE ON THE TEXTRESPONSE TO THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS POETESS SOR FILOTEA DE LA CRUZFIRST I DREAMROMANCESPrologue to the ReaderIn Reply to a Gentleman from Peru While by Grace I Am Inspired REDONDILLASA Philosophical SatireEPIGRAMSSatiric ReproachWhich RevealsA Much-Needed EyewashA Bit of Moral AdviceDemonstration to a SergeantDECIMAS She Assures that She Will Hold a Secret Accompanying a RingA Modest GiftShe Describes in DetailSONNETS She Attempts to Minimize the PraiseShe Laments Her FortuneBetter DeathSpiritedly, She Considers the ChoiceShe Distrusts, as Disguised CrueltyOne of Five Burlesque SonnetsShe Answers SuspicionsWhich Recounts How Fantasy Contents ItselfShe Resolves the QuestionVILLANCICOFragment from "Santa Catarina"THEATER, SACRED AND PROFANELoa for El Divino NarcisoFragment from Los Empenos de Una Casa NOTES
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Penguin Putnam Inc Citizens of the Green Room
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Oxford University Press Inc A Long Long Way
Book SynopsisThe American cinema is one of the great myth-making machines of the last century and has been used to craft defining narratives of race. Films like Birth of a Nation and Gone with the Wind have promoted racist stereotypes and films like Get Out and BlacKkKlansman have worked to tear those same stereotypes down. Greg Garrett's new book suggests that looking to religious traditions can help us discern and correct our nationalnarratives of race and ultimately lead to reconciliation in a meaningful and lasting way.Trade ReviewThis book's dust jacket describes the author's method: "Greg Garrett brings [to bear] his signature brand of theologically motivated cultural criticism." ... The present volume looks at the representation of African Americans in six films: The Birth of a Nation (1915), Casablanca (1943), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), Do the Right Thing (1989), Crash (2004), and Get Out (2017). Garrett's "theologically motivated cultural criticism" amounts to a well-written, sensible description of each film, followed by an extended theological reflection. ... Garrett is not that interested in conversing with film scholars who write about race. Instead his framework is theological: "Love is the most important force in the universe, the power that animates it, and the power that animates us" (p. 104) * S. C. Dillon, CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction: A Long, Long Way The Birth of a Nation: Seeing the Other as Subhuman Best Supporting Actors: Casablanca, Friendship, and the Beloved Community "That's the Glory of Love": Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and the Power of Love Do the Right Thing: Together Are We Going to Live? Crashing into Each Other: Crash as Multicultural Post-9/11 Fable Get Out: Black Bodies Matter Conclusion: Remembrance, Contrition, and Hope
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Oxford University Press Insane Acquaintances
Book SynopsisInsane Acquaintances explores a range of exhibitions, organisations and institutions that mediated and promoted modernism in Britain. In a series of case studies on subjects ranging from the first Postimpressionist exhibition in London in 1910, the teaching of modernist art in schools, the decoration and design of the modernist home, the International Surrealist exhibition in London in 1936 and the Festival of Britain in 1951, Insane Acquaintances charts some of the ways in which modernism not only sought to improve the quality of art but also the quality of art''s reception in Britain. It also provides an institutional history of some of the groups and organisations that fostered modernist art in Britain during that period.Table of ContentsList of figures List of colour plates Acknowledgements 1:Revolutionising 'Bird's Custard Isle' 2:Postimpressionism (TM) 3:'A revolution of incalculable effect': modernism and the teaching of art in schools 4:'But is it possible to live in such a motley setting?': the modernist interior in Britain 5:'A Transformed World': Herbert Read, British surrealism and the institutionalisation of modernism 6:Conclusion: 'Half-Baked if you like': modernist afterlives in Britain, 1945-1951 Bibliography Index
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University of Chicago Press Black Studies Rap the Academy Paper Black
Book SynopsisIn this explosive book, Houston Baker takes stock of the current state of Black Studies in the university and outlines its responsibilities to the newest form of black urban expressionrap. A frank, polemical essay, Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy is an uninhibited defense of Black Studies and an extended commentary on the importance of rap. Written in the midst of the political correctness wars and in the aftermath of the Los Angeles riots, Baker's meditation on the academy and black urban expression has generated much controversy and comment from both ends of the political spectrum.
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University of Chicago Press Culture Genre Literary Vocation Selected Essays
Book SynopsisThis work charts the important and often overlooked connection between literary culture and authors' careers. Bell revisits issues of genre with an eye toward the unexpected details of authors' lives.
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The University of Chicago Press American Allegory Lindy Hop and the Racial
Book SynopsisSituates dance within a larger Chicago landscape of segregated social practices. Delving into two Chicago dance worlds, lindy hop and steppin', the author uses a combination of participant observation and interviews to bring to the surface the racial tension that surrounds white use of black cultural forms.Trade Review"In American Allegory, Black Hawk Hancock has written a rich and intricately detailed ethnography of the distinct worlds of lindy hop and steppin'. Here, readers are offered a guide to the ways in which cultural expressions have come to occupy separate racial and spatial realms and how this apparent segregation of race, culture, and identity is practiced in the United States today." (Andrew Deener, author of Venice: A Contested Bohemia in Los Angeles)"
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The University of Chicago Press Art Culture and Cuisine
Book SynopsisExamines cooking through the dual lens of archaeology and art history. The book describes prehistoric eating in ancient Turkey; traditions of the great civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece and Rome; and rituals of the Middle Ages and the Late Gothic International period.
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University of Chicago Press On the Future of History Postmodernist Challenge
Book SynopsisAnswering questions on the history of postmodernity, Ernst Breisach provides a comprehensive overview of postmodernism and its complex relationship to history and historiography.
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The University of Chicago Press Indiscretion Finitude the Naming of God
Book SynopsisReinterpreting premodern approaches to God's ineffability and postmodern approaches to the mystery of the human subject, this text argues that interest in mystical theological traditions is best understood in relation to contemporary philosophy's emphasis on the idea of human finitude/mortality.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations of Main Texts Cited Introduction: Finitude and the Naming of God 1: The Deaths of God in Hegel: Overcoming Finitude and Religious Representation 2: The Temporal Experience of Consciousness: Hegel's Difference of Consciousness and Heidegger's Ontological Difference 3: The Naming of God in Hegel's Speculative Proposition: The Circle of Language and Annulment of the Singular 4: The Mortal Difference: Death and the Possibility of Existence in Heidegger 5: Transcending Negation: The Causal Nothing and Ecstatic Being in Pseudo-Dionysius's Theology 6: The Naming of God and the Possibility of Impossibility: Marion and Derrida between the Theology and Phenomenology of the Gift Conclusion: The Apophatic Analogy Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press Habitations of Modernity Essays in the Wake of
Book SynopsisIn Habitations of modernity Dipesh Chakrabarty explores the complexities of modernism in India and seeks principles of humaneness grounded in everyday life that may elude grand political theories. These issues are pursued in a series of closely linked cultural essays.Trade Review"Habltations of Modernity forms at once an original look at daily life practices in India and a stringent critique of colonial and postcolonial history. Chakrabarty refuses to map the paradoxes of modern India according to coordinates of the modern and the traditional, the public and the private, or the secular and the religious. The result is a richly poetic work that raises numerous and compelling questions for practical politics." - David Lloyd, coeditor of The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital
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The University of Chicago Press A Thousand Screenplays The French Imagination in
Book SynopsisIn 1991, French public television held an amateur screenwriting contest. Although the contestants wrote about life in France, their concerns and struggles held a distinctly universal ring. Sabine Chalvon-Demersay offers a clear, if still developing, photograph of the contemporary imagination.
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The University of Chicago Press Modernity Its Malcontents Ritual and Power in
Book SynopsisWhat role does ritual play in the lives of modern Africans? How are traditional cultural forms deployed by people seeking empowerment in a world where modernity has failed to deliver. In this collection of essays, the authors address such concepts as modernity, ritual, power and history.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction Jean and John Comaroff Part I: (Re)visions of Power, Ritual (Trans)formations Chapter 2: Narratives of Power, Images of Wealth: The Ritual Economy of Bori in the Market Adeline Masquelier Chapter 3: Chewa Visions and Revisions of Power: Transformations of the Nyau Dance in Central Malawi Deborah Kaspin Chapter 4: Government by Seduction: History and the Tropes of "Mounting" in Oyo-Yoruba Religion J. Lorand Matory Part II: Moral Economics, Modern Politics, Mystical Struggles Chapter 5: The Moral Economy of Witchcraft: An Essay in Comparative History Ralph A. Austen Chapter 6: Attinga Revisited: Yoruba Witchcraft and the Cocoa Economy, 1950-1951 Andrew Apter Chapter 7: Bloodhounds Who Have No Friends: Witchcraft and Locality in the Nigerian Popular Press Misty L. Bastian Chapter 8: "Open the Wombs!": The Symbolic Politics of Modern Ngoni Witchfinding Mark Auslander Chapter 9: Black Stomachs, Beautiful Stones: Soul-eating among Hausa in Niger Pamela G. Schmoll
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The University of Chicago Press Beyond Progress An Interpretive Odyssey to the
Book SynopsisThis analysis of the future of the human community suggest that new social and political identities and regional associations will be needed to solve global problems. It shows how such mutualism will require a change in the way institutions interact on local, national and international levels.
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University of Chicago Press Performances
Book SynopsisThroughout this text the author shows his awareness that the actual past remains fundamentally irreplicable. He asserts all histories to be culturally crafted artifacts, commensurate with folk tales, stage plays, or films.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes to the Reader Prelude: Ethnograpy on My Mind Making a Present out of the Past: History's Anthropology A Poetric for Histories Sharks that Walk on the Land The Face of Battle: Valparaiso, 1814 Presenting the Past: History's Theatre The Theatricality of History Making and the Paradoxes of Acting Possessing Tahiti Hollywood Makes History Inventing Others Returning to the Past Its Own Present: History's Empowering Force Songlines and Seaways Anzac Day School at War Postlude: Soliloquy in San Giacomo References
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The University of Chicago Press Rethinking Therapeutic Culture
Book SynopsisOffering both an extended history and a series of critical interventions organized around keywords like pain, privacy, and narcissism, this volume offers a more nuanced, empirically grounded picture of therapeutic culture than the one popularized by critics. It will change the way we've been taught to see the landscape of therapy and self-help.Trade Review"Engaging and thought-provoking, the seventeen essays included here do a fine job of suggesting that the therapeutic is indeed best understood as a uniquely American culture-one where institutions and individuals come together to shape values and ideals. Rethinking Therapeutic Culture strikes exactly the right tone to raise cogent questions about the meaning and context of therapeutics in the twenty-first century." (Wendy Kline, author of Bodies of Knowledge: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Women's Health in the Second Wave)
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The University of Chicago Press Pattys Got a Gun
Book SynopsisReconsidering Patricia Hearst's story, this book recreates the atmosphere of uncertainty of mid-1970s America. It paints a portrait of a nation confused and frightened by the upheavals of 1960s liberalism and beginning to tip over into what would become Reagan-era conservatism, with its invocations of individual responsibility and the heroic.Trade Review"In an era traumatized by defeat in Vietnam, betrayal in Washington, stagflation, and shockingly violent crimes, the saga of Patty Hearst - kidnapped heiress turned carbine-toting bank robber - was perhaps the most shocking tale of all. William Graebner's rich retelling uses Hearst's story to probe one of the central preoccupations of the seventies: the nature of personal identity. What happened to Hearst fascinated, and continues to fascinate, because it raised the question of what any of us might become in the face of extraordinary circumstances." - Thomas Hine, author The Great Funk: Falling Apart and Coming Together (on a Shag Rug) in the Seventies"
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The University of Chicago Press Unrequited Conquests Love Empire in the
Book SynopsisArgues that love poetry in the Renaissance was not simply a reflection of the times but a means of cultural transformation. Using poetic examples and historical documentation, this book rewrites the relations between the Renaissance and colonial Latin America, and between poetry and history.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note on Editions and Translations Introduction: The Unrequitedness of Conquest 1. The Columbian First Person 2. "For Love of Pau-Brasil": Objectification in Colonial Brazil 3. Love Poetry in the World 4. The Imperial Sidney 5. Huaca, Love, and Conquest: The Inca Garcilaso de la Vega Epilogue Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press In the Shadow of Marriage Gender Justice in an
Book SynopsisA comparison between the traditional customary legal system and the colonial common law of courts and magistrates in Botswana. This study shows how the structure of both legal institutions is based on power and gender relations which heavily favour males, and which block women's access to law.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface 1: Academic Narratives: Models and Methods in the Search for Meanings 2: The Gendered Dynamics of Households: Managing Resources, Procreation, and Marriage 3: Diverging Families: Social Stratification, Procreation, and Marriage 4: Pregnancy and Marriage: The World of Negotiation and Dispute 5: The Gendered World of Marriage: Claims of Desertion and Neglect 6: Untying the Knot: Public Dissolution and Division of Property 7: Final Partings: Institutional Encounters and the Shifting Boundaries of Law 8: Reconfiguring Law: A Differentiating Perspective App. A: Procreative Relationships and Marriage in Three Families App. B: Text for Teko Mere's Hearing App. C: Text for Nyana Segethsho's Hearing App. D: Text for the Kgosidintsis' Hearing App. E: Text for the Makokas' Hearing App. F: Text for Mmathari's and Tshotego's Hearing Notes References Index
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The University of Chicago Press In the Shadow of Marriage Gender and Justice in
Book SynopsisA comparison between the traditional customary legal system and the colonial common law of courts and magistrates in Botswana. This study shows how the structure of both legal institutions is based on power and gender relations which heavily favour males, and which block women's access to law.
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The University of Chicago Press Governing Sound
Book SynopsisCalypso music is an integral part of Trinidad's national identity. But in a nation as diverse as Trinidad, why is it that calypso has emerged as the emblematic music? This book examines conditions that have enabled calypso to be valorized, contested, and targeted as a field of cultural politics in Trinidad.Trade Review"Interrogating all the mythologies of the nation-state, authorship, individual and collective agency, Governing Sound is the first effort at bringing key concepts of Foucauldian thought to bear on an ethnomusicological topic. This book will be received as a milestone in ethnomusicology." - Veit Erlmann, University of Texas at Austin"
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The University of Chicago Press The Great Brain Suck
Book SynopsisMore and more information is pumped into our media-saturated world every day, yet Americans seem to know less and less. In a society where who you are is defined by what you buy, and where we prefer to experience reality by watching it on TV, this title argues something has gone wrong.Trade Review"Witty, acerbic, and brilliant. Halton takes on truly basic philosophical issues, but unlike the great majority of cultural critics today, he is philosophically prepared and highly competent to do so. Halton's extraordinary work is nearly unique among current writers in its relevance, incisiveness, and philosophical power." - Bruce Wilshire, Rutgers University"
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The University of Chicago Press The Lost Promise of Patriotism
Book SynopsisJonathan Hansen tells the story of a group of American intellectuals who believed the solution to the crisis of American identity leading up to World War I lay in rethinking the meaning of liberalism.
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The University of Chicago Press Sambia Sexual Culture
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays on the sexual culture of the Sambia of Papua New Guinea examines: fetish and fantasy; ritual nose-bleeding; the role of homoerotic insemination; the role of the father and mother in the process of identity formation; and the creation of a third sex in nature and culture.
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The University of Chicago Press Doing Style Youth and Mass Mediation in South
Book SynopsisIn Doing Style, Constantine V. Nakassis explores the world of youth and mass media in South India, where what Tamil youth call style anchors their day-to-day lives and media worlds. Through intimate ethnographic descriptions of college life in Tamil Nadu, Nakassis explores the complex ways that acts and objects of style such as brand fashion, English slang, and film representations express the multiple desires and anxieties of this generation, who live in the shadow of the promise of global modernity. As Nakassis shows, while signs of the global, modern world are everywhere in post-liberalization India, for most of these young people this world is still very distanta paradox that results in youth's profound sense of being in between. This in-betweenness manifests itself in the ambivalent quality of style, the ways in which stylish objects are necessarily marked as counterfeit, mixed, or ironical. In order to show how this in-betweenness materializes in particular media, Nakassis ex
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The University of Chicago Press Foucault and the Kamasutra The Courtesan the
Book SynopsisThe Kamasutra is best known in the West for its scandalous celebration of unbridled sensuality. Yet, there is much, much more to it; embedded in the text is a vision of the city founded on art and aesthetic pleasure. In Foucault and the Kamasutra, Sanjay K. Gautam lays out the nature and origin of this iconic Indian text and engages in the first serious reading of its relationship with Foucault. Gautam shows how closely intertwined the history of erotics in Indian culture is with the history of theater-aesthetics grounded in the discourse of love, and Foucault provides the framework for opening up an intellectual horizon of Indian thought. To do this, Gautam looks to the history of three inglorious characters in classical India: the courtesan and her two closest male companionsher patron, the dandy consort; and her teacher and advisor, the dandy guru. Foucault's distinction between erotic arts and the science of sexuality drives Gautam's exploration of the courtesan as a symbol of b
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The University of Chicago Press At Stake Monsters the Rhetoric of Fear in
Book SynopsisThe media uses variations of the word monster to describe unthinkable acts of violence. This work explores the social construction of monstrousness in public discourse - tabloids, television, magazines, sermons, and poular fiction - arguing that the monster serves as a moralizing function.
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University of Chicago Press Restless Nation
Book SynopsisIn this work, the author discovers that the American character is full of paradoxes. He states that this elusive national character can be found in Americans' faith in moving. He portrays this character through the lives of America's famous and not-so-famous nomads, and facts and statistics.Trade Review"Jasper's thesis... is strong and tantalizing. He does not restrict himself to a single discipline or line of argument, but dazzles readers with a stunning combination of literary critique, cultural analysis and economic estimation." - Publishers Weekly "Jasper travels across the American psyche to explore our unique infatuation with movement and personal reinvention.... To the author, this undergirds the cult of individualism as well as conservative, antigovernment politics in America.... The fluidity contributes to the dynamism of U.S. society but ensures a weak sense of community.... Restless Nation is an engaging essay on why we move so much." - Library Journal
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