ilość książek w kategorii: 43664
From the Margins of Hindu Marriage: Essays on Gender, Religion, and Culture
ISBN: 9780195081176 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This collection of essays explores the meanings of marriage in South Asian Hindu culture. Through the perspective of gender, it describes local practices, attitudes, ritual symbols and religious sensibilities as they impact on religion, gender and social life in the Hindu world.
This collection of essays explores the meanings of marriage in South Asian Hindu culture. Through the perspective of gender, it describes local practi...
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542,68 zł |
From the Margins of Hindu Marriage: Essays on Gender, Religion, and Culture
ISBN: 9780195081183 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Providing a unique and intimate view of Hindu marriage, the essays in this collection explore points at which the margins of marriage are traversed or transgressed. Rather than focus on normative expectations within marriage, they examine times in which norms are tested or rejected. Using stories, songs, and narrated accounts, the essays treat such topics as widowhood, adultery, levirate, divorce, and suttee, as well as the subversion of marriage by devotion to deities and by alternative constructions of conjugal duty and marital experience.
Providing a unique and intimate view of Hindu marriage, the essays in this collection explore points at which the margins of marriage are traversed or...
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181,80 zł |
History and Memory in African-American Culture
ISBN: 9780195083965 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. As Nathan Huggins once stated, altering American history to account fully for the nation's black voices would change the tone and meaning--the frame and the substance--of the entire story. Rather than a sort of Pilgrim's Progress tale of bold ascent and triumph, American history with the black parts told in full would be transmuted into an existential tragedy, closer, Huggins said, to Sartre's No Exit than to the vision of life in Bunyan. The relation between memory and history has received increasing attention both from historians and from literary critics. In this...
As Nathan Huggins once stated, altering American history to account fully for the nation's black voices would change the tone and meaning--the frame a...
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725,54 zł |
Good News: Social Ethics and the Press
ISBN: 9780195084320 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Mass media ethics and the classical liberal ideal of the autonomous individual are historically linked and professionally dominant--yet the authors of this work feel this is intrinsically flawed. They show how recent research in philosophy and social science--together with a longer tradition in theological inquiry--insist that community, mutuality, and relationship are fundamental to a full concept of personhood. The authors argue that "persons-in-community" provides a more defensible grounding for journalists' professional moral decision-making in crucial areas such as truthtelling, privacy,...
Mass media ethics and the classical liberal ideal of the autonomous individual are historically linked and professionally dominant--yet the authors of...
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430,53 zł |
Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation
ISBN: 9780195084511 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. From John Hope Franklin, America's foremost African American historian, comes this groundbreaking analysis of slave resistance and escape. A sweeping panorama of plantation life before the Civil War, this book reveals that slaves frequently rebelled against their masters and ran away from their plantations whenever they could.
For generations, important aspects about slave life on the plantations of the American South have remained shrouded. Historians thought, for instance, that slaves were generally pliant and resigned to their roles as human chattel, and that racial violence... From John Hope Franklin, America's foremost African American historian, comes this groundbreaking analysis of slave resistance and escape. A sweeping ...
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103,77 zł |
Anthropology, Space, and Geographic Information Systems
ISBN: 9780195085754 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Major advances in the use of geographic information systems have been made in both anthropology and archaeology. Yet there are few published discussions of these new applications and their use in solving complex problems. This book explores these techniques, showing how they have been successfully deployed to pursue research previously considered too difficult--or impossible--to undertake. Among the projects described here are studies of land degradation in the Peruvian Amazon, settlement patterns in the Pacific northwest, ethnic distribution within the Los Angeles garment industry, and...
Major advances in the use of geographic information systems have been made in both anthropology and archaeology. Yet there are few published discussio...
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489,05 zł |
Violence Against the Press: Policing the Public Sphere in U.S. History
ISBN: 9780195086980 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The most comprehensive study of violence against U.S. journalists from the American Revolution to the present, this text takes an innovative approach to free speech issues, tracing violence against the press throughout American history to discuss the changing structures and cultures of the media and their relation to the public sphere. Maintaining that violence has been an integral part of the culture of public expression in this country since earliest times, this provocative survey presents and elucidates the notion that violent reactions to writers and publishers, rather than occurring...
The most comprehensive study of violence against U.S. journalists from the American Revolution to the present, this text takes an innovative approach ...
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675,68 zł |
Authority and Sexuality in Early Modern Burgundy (1550-1730)
ISBN: 9780195089073 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A sociocultural analysis of the relationships among law, religion, and sexual morality in Burgundy during the Catholic Reformation, this book is divided into two, interrelated parts: the world of prescription and the world of practice. The first part examines the construction of authority, focusing primarily upon Burgundy's dominant elite legal community. The second part of the book examines the deployment of authority, and its appropriation by French men and women. The new moral order focused on sexuality and the imposition of this order involved a legal contest over the disposition of...
A sociocultural analysis of the relationships among law, religion, and sexual morality in Burgundy during the Catholic Reformation, this book is divid...
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159,85 zł |
The Mother Town: Civic Ritual, Symbol, and Experience in the Borders of Scotland
ISBN: 9780195090321 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Horses with riders trailed by foot processionals, silver bands and pipe bands, furling medieval banners, lavish costumes, and singers and actors--the "Common Riding" is an elaborate, little-studied ritual phenomenon of the border towns of Scotland. In this vividly written and insightful analysis, Gwen Kennedy Neville uses this civic ceremony as a window for glimpsing the process of ritual, symbol, and experience in the development of the concept of "the town" in Western culture. Based on extensive fieldwork in the town of Selkirk, The Mother Town looks at the Common Riding in...
Horses with riders trailed by foot processionals, silver bands and pipe bands, furling medieval banners, lavish costumes, and singers and actors--the ...
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220,80 zł |
Spiral of Cynicism: The Press and the Public Good
ISBN: 9780195090642 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Why do some citizens vote while others do not? Why does less than half of the American voting public routinely show up at the polls? Why is it that the vast majority of political issues affecting our day-to-day lives fail to generate either public interest or understanding? These questions have troubled political scientists for decades. Here, Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Joseph N. Cappella provide the first conclusive evidence to date that it is indeed the manner in which the print and broadcast media cover political events and issues that fuels voter non-participation.
This book... Why do some citizens vote while others do not? Why does less than half of the American voting public routinely show up at the polls? Why is it that th...
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174,48 zł |
Commercial Culture: The Media System and the Public Interest
ISBN: 9780195090987 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. American mass media are the world's most diverse, rich and free. But their dazzling resources, variety, and influence cannot be rated by the envy they arouse in other countries. Their failures are commonly excused on the grounds that they are creatures of the market, that they give people what they want. This book focusses not on the glories of the media, but on what is wrong with them and why, and how they may be made better. This powerful critique of American mass communications highlights four trends that together sound an urgent call for reform: the blurring of distinctions among...
American mass media are the world's most diverse, rich and free. But their dazzling resources, variety, and influence cannot be rated by the envy they...
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376,89 zł |
Honoring the Ancestors: An African Cultural Interpretation of Black Religion and Literature
ISBN: 9780195091045 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Donald Matthews affirms once and for all the African foundation of African-American religious practice. His analysis of the methods employed by historians, social scientists, and literary critics in the study of African-American religion and the Negro spiritual leads him to develop a methodology that encompasses contemporary scholarship without compromising the integrity of African-American religion and culture. Because the Negro spiritual is the earliest extant body of African-American folk religious narration, Matthews believes that it holds the key to understanding African-American...
Donald Matthews affirms once and for all the African foundation of African-American religious practice. His analysis of the methods employed by histor...
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469,54 zł |
Elijah's Violin and Other Jewish Fairy Tales
ISBN: 9780195092004 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. With this collection, Howard Schwartz retells 36 Jewish fairy tales that are at once otherworldly and earthy, pious and playful. Drawn from sources as diverse as Morocco and India, Spain and Eastern Europe, Babylon and Egypt, the stories are characterized by their infusion of traditional Jewish characters with the archetypal forms found in all fairy tales, or by their treatment of Jewish religious themes. The book combines the playfulness of fairy tales with the author's depth of knowledge of the historical origins of the tales. Throughout one can find the quests and riddles of the...
With this collection, Howard Schwartz retells 36 Jewish fairy tales that are at once otherworldly and earthy, pious and playful. Drawn from sources as...
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135,47 zł |
Telecommunications, Mass Media, and Democracy: The Battle for the Control of U.S. Broadcasting, 1928-1935
ISBN: 9780195093940 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This work shows in detail the emergence and consolidation of U.S. commercial broadcasting economically, politically, and ideologically. This process was met by organized opposition and a general level of public antipathy that has been almost entirely overlooked by previous scholarship. McChesney highlights the activities and arguments of this early broadcast reform movement of the 1930s. The reformers argued that commercial broadcasting was inimical to the communication requirements of a democratic society and that the only solution was to have a dominant role for nonprofit and noncommercial...
This work shows in detail the emergence and consolidation of U.S. commercial broadcasting economically, politically, and ideologically. This process w...
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215,93 zł |
Telling Our Selves: Ethnicity & Discourse in Southwestern Alaska
ISBN: 9780195094763 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In this book, Chase Hensel examines how Yup'ik Eskimos and non-natives construct and maintain gender and ethnic identities through strategic talk about hunting, fishing, and processing. Although ethnicity is overtly constructed in terms of either/or categories, the discourse of Bethel residents suggests that their actual concern is less with whether one is native or non-native, than with how native one is in a given context. In the interweaving of subsistence practices and subsistence discourse, ethnicity is constantly recreated.
In this book, Chase Hensel examines how Yup'ik Eskimos and non-natives construct and maintain gender and ethnic identities through strategic talk abou...
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479,29 zł |
A Language of Our Own: The Genesis of Michif, the Mixed Cree-French Language of the Canadian Métis
ISBN: 9780195097122 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Michif language -- spoken by descendants of French Canadian fur traders and Cree Indians in western Canada -- is considered an "impossible language" since it uses French for nouns and Cree for verbs, and comprises two different sets of grammatical rules. Bakker uses historical research and fieldwork data to present the first detailed analysis of this language and how it came into being.
The Michif language -- spoken by descendants of French Canadian fur traders and Cree Indians in western Canada -- is considered an "impossible languag...
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415,91 zł |
The Rise of the Image, the Fall of the Word
ISBN: 9780195098297 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. For decades educators and cultural critics have deplored the corrosive effects of electronic media on the national consciousness. The average American reads less often, writes less well. And, numbed by the frenetic image-bombardment of music videos, commercials and sound bites, we may also, it is argued, think less profoundly. But wait. Is it just possible that some good might arise from the ashes of the printed word?
Most emphatically yes, argues Mitchell Stephens, who asserts that the moving image is likely to make our thoughts not more feeble but more robust. Through a fascinating... For decades educators and cultural critics have deplored the corrosive effects of electronic media on the national consciousness. The average American...
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312,20 zł |
Divergent Paths: How Culture & Institutions Have Shaped North American Growth
ISBN: 9780195098662 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Why are some countries without an apparent abundance of natural resources, such as Japan, economic success stories, while other languish in the doldrums of slow growth. In this comprehensive look at North American economic history, Marc Egnal argues that culture and institutions play an integral role in determining economic outcome. He focuses his examination on the eight colonies of the North, five colonies of the South (which together made up the original thirteen states), and French Canada. Using census data, diaries, travelers' accounts, and current scholarship, Egnal systematically...
Why are some countries without an apparent abundance of natural resources, such as Japan, economic success stories, while other languish in the doldru...
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489,05 zł |
Rise of the Bourgeoisie, Demise of Empire: Ottoman Westernization and Social Change
ISBN: 9780195099256 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. What are the causes of imperial decline? This work studies the Ottoman empire in the 18th and 19th centuries to argue that the Ottoman imperial decline resulted from a combination of Ottoman internal dynamics with external influences. Specifically, it contends that the split within the Ottoman social structure across ethno-religious lines interacted with the effects of war and commerce with the West to produce a bifurcated Ottoman bourgeoisie. This bourgeoisie, divided into disparate commercial and bureaucratic elements, was able to challenge the sultan but was ultimately unable to salvage...
What are the causes of imperial decline? This work studies the Ottoman empire in the 18th and 19th centuries to argue that the Ottoman imperial declin...
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615,83 zł |
The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas about White People, 1830-1925
ISBN: 9780195100457 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. How did African-American slaves view their white masters? As demons, deities or another race entirely? When nineteenth-century white Americans proclaimed their innate superiority, did blacks agree? If not, why not? How did blacks assess the status of the white race? Mia Bay traces African-American perceptions of whites between 1830 and 1925 to depict America's shifting attitudes about race in a period that saw slavery, emancipation, Reconstruction, and urban migration. Much has been written about how the whites of this time viewed blacks, and about how blacks viewed themselves. By...
How did African-American slaves view their white masters? As demons, deities or another race entirely? When nineteenth-century white Americans proclai...
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391,52 zł |