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Blood Sacrifice and the Nation: Totem Rituals and the American Flag
ISBN: 9780521623452 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The authors argue that American patriotism is a civil religion organized around a sacred flag, whose followers engage in periodic blood sacrifice of their own children to unify the group. Using an anthropological theory, this groundbreaking book presents and explains the ritual sacrifices and regeneration that constitute American nationalism, the factors making particular elections or wars successful or unsuccessful rituals, the role of the mass media in the process, and the sense of malaise that has pervaded American society during the post-World War II period.
The authors argue that American patriotism is a civil religion organized around a sacred flag, whose followers engage in periodic blood sacrifice of t...
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523,27 zł |
On Weathering: The Life of Buildings in Time
ISBN: 9780262631440 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. On Weathering illustrates the complex nature of the architectural project by taking into account its temporality, linking technical problems of maintenance and decay with a focused consideration of their philosophical and ethical implications.In a clear and direct account supplemented by many photographs commissioned for this book, Mostafavi and Leatherbarrow examine buildings and other projects from Alberti to Le Corbusier to show that the continual refinishing of the building by natural forces adds to, rather than detracts from, architectural meaning. Their central discovery, that... On Weathering illustrates the complex nature of the architectural project by taking into account its temporality, linking technical problems of mai... |
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163,30 zł |