wyszukanych pozycji: 4
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Staircase to Heaven: Existential Encounters of Jewish Savants with Death
ISBN: 9781036409166 / Angielski / Twarda / 2024 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Is there anyone who does not imagine the moment of their death? Who is unaware of their steady march to the endline? By suppressing and denying death, Westerners overlook the positive side of death anxiety. This ethnography fills this lacuna by describing a colorful and rich "death culture" among survivors of Holocaust and war who endure their last palpitations of life in a Tel Aviv old-age home. Unable to suppress the consciousness of end-of-life, the protagonists climb a "staircase to heaven" among different fields of existence. Resourcefully they transform their anxiety and suffering into...
Is there anyone who does not imagine the moment of their death? Who is unaware of their steady march to the endline? By suppressing and denying death,...
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cena:
363,01 |
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The Theatrical Spectaculum: An Anthropological Theory
ISBN: 9783030281304 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
cena:
342,14 |
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The Theatrical Spectaculum: An Anthropological Theory
ISBN: 9783030281274 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
cena:
342,14 |
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Aesthetics of Sorrow: The Wailing Culture of Yemenite Jewish Women
ISBN: 9780814334768 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 450 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) The term "wailing culture" includes an array of women's behaviors and beliefs following the death of a member of their ethnic group and is typical of Jewish life in Yemeni culture. Central to the practice is wailing itself-a special artistic genre that combines speech with sobbing into moving lyrical poetry that explores the meaning of death and loss. In Aesthetics of Sorrow: The Wailing Culture of Yemenite Jewish Women, Tova Gamliel decodes the cultural and psychological meanings of this practice in an ethnography based on her anthropological research among Yemenite Jewish... The term "wailing culture" includes an array of women's behaviors and beliefs following the death of a member of their ethnic group and is typical ... |
cena:
233,17 |