Territory Of Desire
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Territory Of Desire
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Author : Ananya Jahanara Kabir
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2009
Territory Of Desire written by Ananya Jahanara Kabir and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
A result of territorial disputes between India and Pakistan since 1947, exacerbated by armed freedom movements since 1989, the ongoing conflict over Kashmir is consistently in the news. Taking a unique multidisciplinary approach, Territory of Desire asks how, and why, Kashmir came to be so intensely desired within Indian, Pakistani, and Kashmiri nationalistic imaginations.
Territory Of Desire Hb
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Author : Ananya Jahanara Kabir
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Territory Of Desire Hb written by Ananya Jahanara Kabir and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with categories.
The Valley Of Kashm R
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Author : Sir Walter Roper Lawrence
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1895
The Valley Of Kashm R written by Sir Walter Roper Lawrence and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1895 with Anthropology categories.
Hi Stories Of Desire
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Author : Rajeev Kumaramkandath
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-02-20
Hi Stories Of Desire written by Rajeev Kumaramkandath and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-20 with History categories.
Draws upon multi-disciplinary frameworks of analysis to provide an account of the making of sexual cultures in modern India.
The Botany Of Desire
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Author : Michael Pollan
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2001-06-12
The Botany Of Desire written by Michael Pollan and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-06-12 with Nature categories.
The book that helped make Michael Pollan, the New York Times bestselling author of Cooked and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, one of the most trusted food experts in America In 1637, one Dutchman paid as much for a single tulip bulb as the going price of a town house in Amsterdam. Three and a half centuries later, Amsterdam is once again the mecca for people who care passionately about one particular plant—though this time the obsessions revolves around the intoxicating effects of marijuana rather than the visual beauty of the tulip. How could flowers, of all things, become such objects of desire that they can drive men to financial ruin? In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan argues that the answer lies at the heart of the intimately reciprocal relationship between people and plants. In telling the stories of four familiar plant species that are deeply woven into the fabric of our lives, Pollan illustrates how they evolved to satisfy humankinds’s most basic yearnings—and by doing so made themselves indispensable. For, just as we’ve benefited from these plants, the plants, in the grand co-evolutionary scheme that Pollan evokes so brilliantly, have done well by us. The sweetness of apples, for example, induced the early Americans to spread the species, giving the tree a whole new continent in which to blossom. So who is really domesticating whom? Weaving fascinating anecdotes and accessible science into gorgeous prose, Pollan takes us on an absorbing journey that will change the way we think about our place in nature.
Allegories Of Desire
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Author : Susan Blakely Klein
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-10-26
Allegories Of Desire written by Susan Blakely Klein and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
One of the more intriguing developments within medieval Japanese literature is the incorporation into the teaching of waka poetry of the practices of initiation ceremonies and secret transmissions found in esoteric Buddhism. The main figure in this development was the obscure thirteenth-century poet Fujiwara Tameaki, grandson of the famous poet Fujiwara Teika and a priest in a tantric Buddhist sect. Tameaki’s commentaries and teachings transformed secular texts such as the Tales of Ise and poetry anthologies such as the Kokin waka shu into complex allegories of Buddhist enlightenment. These commentaries were transmitted to his students during elaborate initiation ceremonies. In later periods, Tameaki’s specific ideas fell out of vogue, but the habit of interpreting poetry allegorically continued. This book examines the contents of these commentaries as well as the qualities of the texts they addressed that lent themselves to an allegorical interpretation; the political, economic, and religious developments of the Kamakura period that encouraged the development of this method of interpretation; and the possible motives of the participants in this school of interpretation. Through analyses of six esoteric commentaries, Susan Blakeley Klein presents examples of this interpretive method and discusses its influence on subsequent texts, both elite and popular.
Dealing In Desire
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Author : Kimberly Kay Hoang
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2015-02-11
Dealing In Desire written by Kimberly Kay Hoang and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-11 with Social Science categories.
This captivating ethnography explores Vietnam’s sex industry as the country ascends the global and regional stage. Over the course of five years, author Kimberly Kay Hoang worked at four exclusive Saigon hostess bars catering to diverse clientele: wealthy local Vietnamese and Asian businessmen, Viet Kieus (ethnic Vietnamese living abroad), Western businessmen, and Western budget-tourists. Dealing in Desire takes an in-depth and often personal look at both the sex workers and their clients to show how Vietnamese high finance and benevolent giving are connected to the intimate spheres of the informal economy. For the domestic super-elite who use the levers of political power to channel foreign capital into real estate and manufacturing projects, conspicuous consumption is a means of projecting an image of Asian ascendancy to potential investors. For Viet Kieus and Westerners who bring remittances into the local economy, personal relationships with local sex workers reinforce their ideas of Asia’s rise and Western decline, while simultaneously bolstering their diminished masculinity. Dealing in Desire illuminates Ho Chi Minh City’s sex industry as not just a microcosm of the global economy, but a critical space where dreams and deals are traded.
Tropics Of Desire
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Author : Jose Quiroga
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2000-11
Tropics Of Desire written by Jose Quiroga and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-11 with Health & Fitness categories.
From its sweaty beats to the pulsating music on the streets, Latin/o America is perceived in the United States as the land of heat, the toy store for Western sex. It is the territory of magical fantasy and of revolutionary threat, where topography is the travel guide of desire, directing imperial voyeurs to the exhibition of the flesh. Jose Quiroga flips the stereotype upside down: he shows how Latin/o American lesbians and gay men have consistently eschewed notions of sexual identity for a politics of intervention. In Tropics of Desire, Quiroga reads hesitant Mexican poets as sex-positive voices, he questions how outing and identity politics can fall prey to the manipulations of the state, and explores how invisibility has been used as a tactical tool in opposition to the universal imperative to come out. Drawing on diverse cultural examples such as the performance of bolero and salsa, film, literature, and correspondence, and influenced by masters like Roland Barthes, Walter Benjamin and a rich tradition of Latin American stylists, Quiroga argues for a politics that denies biological determinism and cannibalizes cultural stereotypes for the sake of political action.
Transmutations Of Desire
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Author : Qiancheng Li
language : en
Publisher: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Release Date : 2020-11-15
Transmutations Of Desire written by Qiancheng Li and has been published by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
In the West, love occupies center stage in the modern age, whether in art, intellectual life, or the economic life. We may observe a similar development in China, on its own impetus, which has resulted in this characteristic of modernity--this feature of modern life has been securely and unambiguously established, not the least facilitated by the thriving of literature about qing, whether in traditional or modern forms. Qiancheng Li concentrates on the nuances of a similar trend manifested in the Chinese context. The emphasis is on critical readings of the texts that have shaped this trend, including important Ming- and Qing-dynasty works of drama, Buddhist texts and other religious/philosophical works, in all their subtlety and evocative power. "The power of qing or strong emotion is a major theme in late imperial Chinese literature--some writers asserting that it can transcend even life itself. Qiancheng Li surveys a number of seventeenth-century philosophical, religious, and literary texts to elucidate the metaphysical aspects of emotional attachment and of sexual desire in particular. Through his broad and penetrating reading, Li demonstrates incontrovertibly how, to seventeenth-century writers, qing and religion were inextricably linked. To those writers, qing could bring enlightenment, and certainly Li’s study enlightens its readers to new levels of complexity in major literary works of that period. Transmutations of Desire sets a major new milestone in the study of traditional Chinese culture."--Robert E. Hegel, Washington University in St. Louis
Report Of The United States Indian Inspector For The Indian Territory To The Secretary Of The Interior
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Author : United States
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1903
Report Of The United States Indian Inspector For The Indian Territory To The Secretary Of The Interior written by United States and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1903 with Indians of North America categories.