wyszukanych pozycji: 33
Folklore: The Basics
ISBN: 9781138774940 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Folklore: The Basics is an engaging guide to the practice and interpretation of folklore. Taking examples from around the world, it explores the role of folklore in expressing fundamental human needs, desires, and anxieties that often are often not revealed through other means. Providing a clear framework for approaching the study of folklore, it introduces the reader to methodologies for identifying, documenting, interpreting and applying key information about folklore and its relevance to modern life. From the Brothers Grimm to Internet Memes, it addresses such topics as: ...Folklore: The Basics is an engaging guide to the practice and interpretation of folklore. Taking examples from around the world, it explor... |
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479,45 zł |
Killing Tradition: Inside Hunting and Animal Rights Controversies
ISBN: 9780813125282 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Across the country and around the world, people avidly engage in the cultural practice of hunting. Children are taken on rite-of-passage hunting trips, where relationships are cemented and legacies are passed on from one generation to another. Meals are prepared from hunted game, often consisting of regionally specific dishes that reflect a community's heritage and character. Deer antlers and bear skins are hung on living room walls, decorations and relics of a hunter's most impressive kills. Only 5 percent of Americans are hunters, but that group has a substantial presence in the cultural... Across the country and around the world, people avidly engage in the cultural practice of hunting. Children are taken on rite-of-passage hunting tr... |
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161,51 zł |
Encyclopedia of American Folklife
ISBN: 9780765680525 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 414 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. American folklife is steeped in world cultures, or invented as new culture, always evolving, yet often practiced as it was created many years or even centuries ago. This fascinating encyclopedia explores the rich and varied cultural traditions of folklife in America - from barn raisings to the Internet, tattoos, and Zydeco - through expressions that include ritual, custom, crafts, architecture, food, clothing, and art. Featuring more than 350 A-Z entries, "Encyclopedia of American Folklife" is wide-ranging and inclusive. Entries cover major cities and urban centers; new and established...
American folklife is steeped in world cultures, or invented as new culture, always evolving, yet often practiced as it was created many years or even ...
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757,10 zł |
Jews at Home: The Domestication of Identity
ISBN: 9781904113461 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. For a Jew, describing a place as 'home' conveys connotations of heritage as well as of residence. Additionally, feeling 'at home' suggests a sense of comfort in one's social surroundings. The questions at the heart of this volume are: what things make a home 'Jewish', materially and emotionally, and what is it that makes Jews feel 'at home' in their environment? The material dimensions are explored through a study of the symbolic and ritual objects that convey Jewishness and a consideration of other items that may be used to express Jewish identity in the home-something that the introduction...
For a Jew, describing a place as 'home' conveys connotations of heritage as well as of residence. Additionally, feeling 'at home' suggests a sense of ...
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145,85 zł |
Carver's Art-Pa
ISBN: 9780813108636 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Chains carved from a single block of wood, cages whittled with wooden balls rattling inside -- all "made with just a pocketknife" -- are among our most enduring folk designs. Who makes them and why? what is their history? what do they mean for their makers, for their viewers, for our society? Simon J. Bronner portrays four wood carvers in southern Indiana, men who had been transplanted from the rural landscapes of their youth to industrial towns. After retiring, they took up a skill they remembered from childhood. Bronner discusses how creativity helped these men adjust to change and how... Chains carved from a single block of wood, cages whittled with wooden balls rattling inside -- all "made with just a pocketknife" -- are among our ... |
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116,09 zł |
Contexts of Folklore: Festschrift for Dan Ben-Amos on His Eighty-Fifth Birthday
ISBN: 9781433156489 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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726,80 zł |
Folklore: The Basics
ISBN: 9781138774957 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Folklore: The Basics is an engaging guide to the practice and interpretation of folklore. Taking examples from around the world, it explores the role of folklore in expressing fundamental human needs, desires, and anxieties that often are often not revealed through other means. Providing a clear framework for approaching the study of folklore, it introduces the reader to methodologies for identifying, documenting, interpreting and applying key information about folklore and its relevance to modern life. From the Brothers Grimm to Internet Memes, it addresses such topics as: ...Folklore: The Basics is an engaging guide to the practice and interpretation of folklore. Taking examples from around the world, it explor... |
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100,89 zł |
Jewishness: Expression, Identity and Representation
ISBN: 9781904113454 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. The Jewish Cultural Studies series offers a contemporary view of Jewish culture around the globe. Multidisciplinary, multi-focused, and eclectic, it covers the cultural practices of secular Jews as well as of religious Jews of all persuasions, and from historical as well as contemporary perspectives. It also considers the range of institutions that represent and respond to Jewishness, including museums, the media, synagogues, and schools. More than a series on Jewish ideas, it uncovers ideas of being Jewish. This volume proposes that the idea of 'Jewish', or what people think of as...
The Jewish Cultural Studies series offers a contemporary view of Jewish culture around the globe. Multidisciplinary, multi-focused, and eclectic, it c...
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145,85 zł |
Revisioning Ritual: Jewish Traditions in Transition
ISBN: 9781904113478 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Often overlooked as routine or even dismissed as odd customs, ritual in its many guises demands attention as a central strategy for embodying experience. Like other groups, Jews rely on ritual to provide an inventory of social meanings and a context for negotiating the challenges of everyday life. Ritual for Jews has historically carried special meanings for conveying what is Jewish about Jewishness. It is not enough, however, simply to document customs: for a full understanding of ritual and its meaning for participants we need to analyse how ritual expressions such as liturgies, holidays,...
Often overlooked as routine or even dismissed as odd customs, ritual in its many guises demands attention as a central strategy for embodying experien...
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157,53 zł |
Explaining Traditions: Folk Behavior in Modern Culture
ISBN: 9780813165868 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 546 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Why do humans hold onto traditions? Many pundits predicted that modernization and the rise of a mass culture would displace traditions, especially in America, but cultural practices still bear out the importance of rituals and customs in the development of identity, heritage, and community. In Explaining Traditions: Folk Behavior in Modern Culture, Simon J. Bronner discusses the underlying reasons for the continuing significance of traditions, delving into their social and psychological roles in everyday life, from old-time crafts to folk creativity on the Internet. Challenging... Why do humans hold onto traditions? Many pundits predicted that modernization and the rise of a mass culture would displace traditions, especially ... |
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161,51 zł |
Campus Traditions: Folklore from the Old-Time College to the Modern Mega-University
ISBN: 9781617036163 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. From their beginnings, campuses emerged as hotbeds of traditions and folklore. American college students inhabit a culture with its own slang, stories, humor, beliefs, rituals, and pranks. Simon J. Bronner takes a long, engaging look at American campus life and how it is shaped by students and at the same time shapes the values of all who pass through it. The archetypes of absent-minded profs, fumbling jocks, and curve-setting dweebs are the stuff of legend and humor, along with the all-nighters, tailgating parties, and initiations that mark campus tradition--and student identities.... From their beginnings, campuses emerged as hotbeds of traditions and folklore. American college students inhabit a culture with its own slang, stor... |
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185,69 zł |
Americanness: Inquiries into the Thought and Culture of the United States
ISBN: 9781138320987 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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186,70 zł |
The Practice of Folklore: Essays Toward a Theory of Tradition
ISBN: 9781496822635 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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211,07 zł |
Manly Traditions: The Folk Roots of American Masculinities
ISBN: 9780253217813 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Take this test. You think today s sensitive, caring man is: (a) a myth, (b) an oxymoron, or (c) a moron. No matter whether you laugh at this bit of folk humor, its wide circulation bespeaks a modern predicament for American men. Men s "manly" traditions have been shaken in an age of "sensitivity." Some observers have even referred to a crisis of masculinity for a new generation of boys. In Manly Traditions, established scholars in the fields of folklore, men s studies, and gender studies identify the folkloric roots of what it means to be a man in America. In a lively volume they... Take this test. You think today s sensitive, caring man is: (a) a myth, (b) an oxymoron, or (c) a moron. No matter whether you laugh at this bit of... |
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121,09 zł |
Explaining Traditions : Folk Behavior in Modern Culture
ISBN: 9780813134062 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 546 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Why do humans hold onto traditions? Many pundits predicted that modernization and the rise of a mass culture would displace traditions, especially in America, but cultural practices still bear out the importance of rituals and customs in the development of identity, heritage, and community. In Explaining Traditions: Folk Behavior in Modern Culture, Simon J. Bronner discusses the underlying reasons for the continuing significance of traditions, delving into their social and psychological roles in everyday life, from old-time crafts to folk creativity on the Internet. Challenging... Why do humans hold onto traditions? Many pundits predicted that modernization and the rise of a mass culture would displace traditions, especially ... |
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317,98 zł |
Grasping Things: Folk Material Culture and Mass Society in America
ISBN: 9780813191423 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. America stocks its shelves with mass-produced goods but fills its imagination with handmade folk objects. In Pennsylvania, the "back to the city" housing movement causes a conflict of cultures. In Indiana, an old tradition of butchering turtles for church picnics evokes both pride and loathing among residents. In New York, folk-art exhibits raise choruses of adoration and protest. These are a few of the examples Simon Bronner uses to illustrate the ways Americans physically and mentally grasp things. Bronner moves beyond the usual discussions of form and variety in America's folk material... America stocks its shelves with mass-produced goods but fills its imagination with handmade folk objects. In Pennsylvania, the "back to the city" h... |
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116,09 zł |
American Folklore Studies (P)
ISBN: 9780700603138 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Folklore. Washington Irving and Mark Twain used it in their fiction; Sigmund Freud and William James incorporated it into their work; Henry Ford and Franklin Roosevelt promoted it. Their efforts were set against the background of folklorists who brought collections of traditional tales, songs, and crafts to the attention of a modernizing society. The ideas of these folklorists influenced how Americans thought about the character of their society and the directions it was taking. Here for the first time is a history of American folkloristic ideas and the figures who shaped them. Simon...
Folklore. Washington Irving and Mark Twain used it in their fiction; Sigmund Freud and William James incorporated it into their work; Henry Ford and F...
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169,83 zł |
Jewish Cultural Studies
ISBN: 9780814348284 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 478 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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550,35 zł |
The Practice of Folklore: Essays Toward a Theory of Tradition
ISBN: 9781496822628 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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649,87 zł |
Americanness: Inquiries into the Thought and Culture of the United States
ISBN: 9781138320994 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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681,40 zł |