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Return To Laughter
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Author : Elenore Smith Bowen
language : en
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Release Date : 2020-03-05
Return To Laughter written by Elenore Smith Bowen and has been published by Pickle Partners Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-05 with History categories.
This classic of anthropological literature is a dramatic, revealing account of an anthropologist’s first year in the field with a remote African tribe. Simply as a work of ethnographic interest, Return to Laughter provides deep insights into the culture of West Africa—me subtle web of its tribal life and the power of the institution of witchcraft. However, the author’s fictional approach gives the book its lasting appeal. She focuses on the human dimension of anthropology, recounting her personal triumphs and failures and documenting the profound changes she undergoes. As a result, her story becomes at once highly personal and universally recognizable. She has vividly brought to life the classic narrative of an outsider caught up and deeply involved in an utterly alien culture. “The first introspective account ever published of what it’s like to be a field worker among a primitive people.”—Margaret Mead
Return To Laughter
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Author : Laura Bohannan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964
Return To Laughter written by Laura Bohannan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with categories.
Return To Laughter
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Author : Elenore Smith Bowen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964
Return To Laughter written by Elenore Smith Bowen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with categories.
Return To Laughter
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Author : Laura Bohannan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1956
Return To Laughter written by Laura Bohannan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1956 with Africa, West categories.
Return To Laughter
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Author : Elenore Smith Bowen (pseud.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964
Return To Laughter written by Elenore Smith Bowen (pseud.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with Africa, West categories.
The Book Of Laughter And Forgetting
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Author : Milan Kundera
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2020-11-09
The Book Of Laughter And Forgetting written by Milan Kundera and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-09 with Fiction categories.
'A masterpiece' (Salman Rushdie) by the author of modern classic The Unbearable Lightness of Being. 'It took the temperature of the age as no other book did. It was the great novel of the end of European Communism: a novel of ideas and eroticism, the surreal and the naturalistic.' Howard Jacobson 'One is torn between profound pleasure in the novel's execution and wonder at the pain that inspired it.' Ian McEwan One freezing day in 1948, Klement Gottwald addresses Prague, wearing his comrade Clementis' fur cap - and Communist Czechoslovakia is born. But after being hanged for treason, Clementis is airbrushed out of propaganda photographs. All that remains is a bare wall, and his cap. So begins an unforgettable voyage through seven narratives, interspersed with luminous meditations on politics, philosophy, music and history. A dissident seeks his first lover - now a Party loyalist - to persuade her to return his romantic letters. A married couple manages their ménage-à-trois as Mother moves in. A clandestine horoscope writer is questioned. An émigré widow struggles to reconstruct memories of her late husband, before finding herself on an island of children. A butcher's wife embarks on an affair with a poetic student. And one man prepares to cross the border . . . What readers are saying: 'Kundera embrace politics, sex, philosophy and history, with a seen-it-all cynicism that nevertheless manages to be fascinating and even uplifting ... It was addictive and fun, sexy and cool, easy to read, and made me feel brighter, switched on, and more alive.' 'You must read this novel. Can't tell you about it, you just have to do it yourself. Its bonkers-brilliant! Phantasmagoric originality like this comes very seldom in a reader's so-sweet life.' 'Kundera's unique writing style comes as a revelation ... This holds a special place in my reading history as the one book that I instantly began re-reading as soon as I finished it.' 'Absolutely enchanted me. It's such an unique novel. It speaks of so many things, from communism and regimes to love and art. For me personally, it is a perfect book.' 'I am not going to spoil the story here, but while the story is not supernatural in any way, it takes on a fantastical flavor, full of mysteries and strange emotions ... It is obvious that Kundera has thought a lot about life, about the meaning of life, and lets the reader in on his secrets.' 'Such a unique writer, Kundera! What a way he has to shine the brightest light on the deepest corners of human psyche.'
Look Back With Laughter
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Author : JEAN. GEMMELL
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
Look Back With Laughter written by JEAN. GEMMELL and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with categories.
Laughter
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Author : Anca Parvulescu
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2010-08-27
Laughter written by Anca Parvulescu and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-27 with Philosophy categories.
Uncovering an archive of laughter, from the forbidden giggle to the explosive guffaw. Most of our theories of laughter are not concerned with laughter. Rather, their focus is the laughable object, whether conceived of as the comic, the humorous, jokes, the grotesque, the ridiculous, or the ludicrous. In Laughter, Anca Parvulescu proposes a return to the materiality of the burst of laughter itself. She sets out to uncover an archive of laughter, inviting us to follow its rhythms and listen to its tones. Historically, laughter—especially the passionate burst of laughter—has often been a faux pas. Manuals for conduct, abetted by philosophical treatises and literary and visual texts, warned against it, offering special injunctions to ladies to avoid jollity that was too boisterous. Returning laughter to the history of the passions, Parvulescu anchors it at the point where the history of the grimacing face meets the history of noise. In the civilizing process that leads to laughter's “falling into disrepute,” as Nietzsche famously put it, we can see the formless, contorted face in laughter being slowly corrected into a calm, social smile. How did the twentieth century laugh? Parvulescu points to a gallery of twentieth-century laughers and friends of laughter, arguing that it is through Georges Bataille that the century laughed its most distinct laugh. In Bataille's wake, laughter becomes the passion at the heart of poststructuralism. Looking back at the century from this vantage point, Parvulescu revisits four of its most challenging projects: modernism, the philosophical avant-gardes, feminism, and cinema. The result is an overview of the twentieth century as seen through the laughs that burst at some of its most convoluted junctures.
Return To Laughter
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Author : Elenore Smith Bowen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964
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Return To Laughter A Semi Fictitious Account Of The Author S Experiences In Africa
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Author : Elenore Smith BOWEN (pseud.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1954
Return To Laughter A Semi Fictitious Account Of The Author S Experiences In Africa written by Elenore Smith BOWEN (pseud.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1954 with categories.