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Materializing Culture Serie de eBooks

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  • Object Worlds in Ancient Egypt

    Material Biographies Past and Present

    de Lynn Meskell ...
    Series series Materializing Culture
    Egypt looms large in the Western imagination. Whether it is our attraction to pharaonic art, the pyramids or practices of mummification, Egypts unique understanding of materiality speaks to us across space and time. Is it because the ancient Egyptians fetishized material objects that we find their culture captivating today? And what exactly do Egyptian remains tell us about biography, embodiment, ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

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  • Toni Morrison's 'Beloved'

    Origins

    de Justine Tally ...
    Series series Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature
    This work expands the scope of Morrison’s project to examine the ways and means of memory in the preservation of belief systems passed down from the earliest civilizations (both the Classical Greek and the Ancient Egyptian) as a challenge to the sterility of modernity. Moreover, this research explores the author’s specific use of Foucauldian theory as a vehicle for her narrative, which reclaims ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • Investigating Culture

    An Experiential Introduction to Anthropology

    de Carol Delaney ...
    The third edition of Investigating Culture: An Experiential Introduction to Anthropology, the highly praised innovative approach to introducing aspects of cultural anthropology to students, features a series of revisions, updates, and new material.Offers a refreshing alternative to introductory anthropology texts by challenging students to think in new ways and apply cultural learnings to their ... Leer más

    $39.00 USD

  • A History of Writing

    de Steven Roger Fischer ...
    Series series Globalities
    From the earliest scratches on stone and bone to the languages of computers and the internet, A History of Writing offers an investigation into the origin and development of writing throughout the world. Illustrated with numerous examples, this book offers a global overview in a form that everyone can follow. The author also reveals his own discoveries made since the early 1980s, making it a ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Dancing Fear and Desire

    Race, Sexuality, and Imperial Politics in Middle Eastern Dance

    de Stavros Stavrou Karayanni ...
    Series series Cultural Studies
    Throughout centuries of European colonial domination, the bodies of Middle Eastern dancers, male and female, move sumptuously and seductively across the pages of Western travel journals, evoking desire and derision, admiration and disdain, allure and revulsion. This profound ambivalence forms the axis of an investigation into Middle Eastern dance—an investigation that extends to contemporary belly ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Maat, The Moral Ideal in Ancient Egypt

    A Study in Classical African Ethics

    de Maulana Karenga ...
    Series series African Studies
    This work is a critical examination of Maat, the moral ideal in ancient Egypt. It seeks to present Maat in the language of modern moral discourse while at the same time preserving and building on its distinctiveness as a moral ideal capable of inspiring and maintaining ethical philosophic reflection. The effort here is one of both interpretation and transmission of an ethical tradition, a project ... Leer más

    $84.99 USD

  • Archaeology and the Senses

    Human Experience, Memory, and Affect

    de Yannis Hamilakis ...
    This book is an exciting new look at how archaeology has dealt with the bodily senses and offers an argument for how the discipline can offer a richer glimpse into the human sensory experience. Yannis Hamilakis shows how, despite its intensely physical engagement with the material traces of the past, archaeology has mostly neglected multi-sensory experience, instead prioritising isolated vision ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • The Ethical Condition

    Essays on Action, Person & Value

    de Michael Lambek ...
    Written over a thirty-year span, Michael Lambek's essays in this collection point with definitive force toward a single central truth: ethics is intrinsic to social life. As he shows through rich ethnographic accounts and multiple theoretical traditions, our human condition is at heart an ethical one—we may not always be good or just, but we are always subject to their criteria. Detailing Lambek's ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Materiality

    de Lynn Meskell, Michael Rowlands, Fred R. Myers, Matthew Engelke ...
    Throughout history and across social and cultural contexts, most systems of belief—whether religious or secular—have ascribed wisdom to those who see reality as that which transcends the merely material. Yet, as the studies collected here show, the immaterial is not easily separated from the material. Humans are defined, to an extraordinary degree, by their expressions of immaterial ideals through ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • The Sacred In-Between: The Mediating Roles of Architecture

    de Thomas Barrie ...
    The sacred place was, and still is, an intermediate zone created in the belief that it has the ability to co-join the religious aspirants to their gods. An essential means of understanding this sacred architecture is through the recognition of its role as an ‘in-between’ place. Establishing the contexts, approaches and understandings of architecture through the lens of the mediating roles often ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • The Ancient Egyptian Family

    Kinship and Social Structure

    de Troy D. Allen ...
    Series series African Studies
    Scholars in Egyptology have often debated the following question: was the ancient Egyptian society organized along patrilineal or matrilineal lines? In taking a fresh and innovative look at the ancient Egyptian family, Allen attempts to solve this long-standing puzzle. Allen argues that the matrilineal nature of the ancient Egyptian family and social organization provides us with the key to ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • Melancholic Modalities

    Affect, Islam, and Turkish Classical Musicians

    de Denise Gill ...
    Today, teachers and performers of Turkish classical music intentionally cultivate melancholies, despite these affects being typically dismissed as remnants of the Ottoman Empire. Melancholic Modalities is the first in-depth historical and ethnographic study of the practices socialized by musicians who enthusiastically teach and perform a present-day genre substantially rooted in the musics of the ... Leer más

    $34.19 USD