Verging On Extra Vagance
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Al Maqr Z S Al Abar An Al Ba Ar
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Author : Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2022-10-31
Al Maqr Z S Al Abar An Al Ba Ar written by Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-31 with History categories.
Al-Maqrīzī's al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar was completed in 1441. This volume, edited by Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila, covers the history of the Sasanian period and the conquest. It also includes the complete text of ʿAhd Ardašīr, here translated for the first time into English.
Verging On Extra Vagance
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Author : James A. Boon
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2021-06-08
Verging On Extra Vagance written by James A. Boon and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-08 with Social Science categories.
In this book, James Boon ranges through history and around the globe in a series of provocative reflections on the limitations, attractions, and ambiguities of cultural interpretation. The book reflects the unusual keyword of its title, extra-vagance, a term Thoreau used to refer to thought that skirts traditional boundaries. Boon follows Thoreau's lead by broaching subjects as diverse as Balinese ritual, Montaigne, Chaucer, Tarzan, Perry Mason, opera, and the ideas of Jacques Derrida, Ruth Benedict, Kenneth Burke, and Mary Douglas. He makes creative and often playful leaps among eclectic texts and rituals that do not hold single, fixed meanings, but numerous, changing, and exceedingly specific ones. Boon opens by exploring links between ritual and reading, focusing on commentaries about the seclusion of menstruating women in Native American culture, trance dances in Bali, and circumcision (or lack of it) in contrasting religions. He considers the ironies of "first-person ethnography" by telling stories from his own fieldwork, reflecting on ethnological museums, and making seriocomic connections between Mark Twain and Marcel Mauss. In expansive discussions that touch on Manhattan and Sri Lanka, the Louvre and the "World of Coca-Cola" museum, willfully obscure academic theory and shamelessly commercial show business, Boon underlines the inadequacies of simple ideologies and pat generalizations. The book is a profound and eloquent exploration of cultural comparison by one of America's most original and innovative anthropologists.
Rembrandt His Life His Work And His Time
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Author : Emile Michel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894
Rembrandt His Life His Work And His Time written by Emile Michel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1894 with categories.
Fanaticism
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Author : Gilbert Vale
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1835
Fanaticism written by Gilbert Vale and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1835 with Adultery categories.
The Portfolio
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Author : Philip Gilbert Hamerton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1873
The Portfolio written by Philip Gilbert Hamerton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1873 with Art categories.
An artistic periodical.
Extravagance
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Author : Gary Krist
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2002-09-24
Extravagance written by Gary Krist and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-09-24 with Fiction categories.
William Tobias Merrick, an energetic young man from the provinces, travels to the big city in a time of great optimism and ferment, hoping to make his mark on a frenzied, money-crazed society obsessed with the promise of new technologies. The city in question is London in the 1690s; but it is also New York in the 1990s. The new technologies are diving bells, pneumatic winches, and "sucking-worm" drainage engines; but they are also wireless telecommunication devices, patented biotechnology processes, and revolutionary electronic Internet routers. Only the sense of unlimited possibility remains the same throughout. Unfolding simultaneously in two distant--but remarkably similar--periods of history, Extravagance is a comic, pictaresque novel of financial mania, the story of a world gripped by a terminal case of irrational exuberance. Navigating the perils of both eras is a single cast of characters: Will himself, a young man on the make, eager to do whatever it takes to make his fortune; Will's uncle (and sponsor) Gilbert Hawking, a shrewd businessman with one foot in the Old Economy and one in the New; Benjamin Fletcher, the developer of a pioneering new technology destined to set the world on fire; and Theodore Witherspoon, the cheerfully unscrupulous wizard of the financial markets who promises to make them all wealthy beyond their dreams. Meanwhile, Will's aspirations are complicated by his pursuit of Ben Fletcher's sister, Eliza, the gorgeous and disconcertingly aggressive woman who is as desirable as she is elusive. Can Will succeed in his efforts to win both Eliza and the fortune that her brother's new technology seems likely to bring him? And can he make it all happen before the general euphoria of the age reaches its inevitable climax? Extravagance is a uniquely conceived work of high comic entertainment -- an ultra-smart time machine of a novel that proves that both love and greed are timeless.
Other Others
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Author : Steven Shankman
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 2011-01-02
Other Others written by Steven Shankman and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
In literary and cultural studies today, the term "the Other" appears to have largely lost its moorings in the primacy of the intersubjective encounter, focusing rather on the social construction of the Other. For Emmanuel Levinas, in contrast, the Other is precisely that which eludes construction and categorization. In a study that ranges from literature of ancient China, Greece, and Israel to modern Egypt, Italy, West Africa, and America, Steven Shankman tests Levinas's ideas by reading literary works from outside the Judeo-Christian orbit for figurations equivalent to Levinas's notion of the Other. He also places ethics at the center of intercultural—or, in his words, "transcultural"—comparative literature. In contemporary literary and cultural studies, it is often assumed that culture has the last word. However, as Levinas insists—and as Shankman argues throughout this book—it is ethics that is the "presupposition of all Culture," that is situated "before Culture."
A Review Of The Principal Characters Of The Irish House Of Commons
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Author : John Robert Scott
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1789
A Review Of The Principal Characters Of The Irish House Of Commons written by John Robert Scott and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1789 with categories.
Green Is For Grief
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Author : Margaret Dunlop
language : en
Publisher: Lapwing Publications
Release Date : 2008-01-01
Green Is For Grief written by Margaret Dunlop and has been published by Lapwing Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-01 with Armagh (Northern Ireland : County) categories.
Social And Cultural Anthropology The Key Concepts
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Author : Nigel Rapport
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-07-11
Social And Cultural Anthropology The Key Concepts written by Nigel Rapport and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-11 with Social Science categories.
Social and Cultural Anthropology: the Key Concepts is an easy to use A-Z guide to the central concepts that students are likely to encounter in this field. Now fully updated, this third edition includes entries on: Material Culture Environment Human Rights Hybridity Alterity Cosmopolitanism Ethnography Applied Anthropology Gender Cybernetics With full cross-referencing and revised further reading to point students towards the latest writings in Social and Cultural Anthropology, this is a superb reference resource for anyone studying or teaching in this area.