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Speaking into the Air
A History of the Idea of Communication
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Communication plays a vital and unique role in society-often blamed for problems when it breaks down and at the same time heralded as a panacea for human relations. A sweeping history of communication, Speaking Into the Air illuminates our expectations of communication as both historically specific...
Subject to Death
Life and Loss in a Buddhist World
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
If any anthropologist living today can illuminate our dim understanding of death’s enigma, it is Robert Desjarlais. With Subject to Death, Desjarlais provides an intimate, philosophical account of death and mourning practices among Hyolmo Buddhists, an ethnically Tibetan Buddhist people from Nepal....
Islam and World History
The Ventures of Marshall Hodgson
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2018
Published in 1974, Marshall Hodgson’s The Venture of Islam was a watershed moment in the study of Islam. By locating the history of Islamic societies in a global perspective, Hodgson challenged the orientalist paradigms that had stunted the development of Islamic studies and provided an alternative...
The Inspector Barlach Mysteries
The Judge and His Hangman and Suspicion
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
This volume offers bracing new translations of two precursors to the modern detective novel by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, whose genre-bending mysteries recall the work of Alain Robbe-Grillet and anticipate the postmodern fictions of Paul Auster and other contemporary neo-noir novelists. Both mysteries...
The Art of Creative Research
A Field Guide for Writers
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
All writers conduct research. For some this means poring over records and combing, archives but for many creative writers research happens in the everyday world—when they scribble an observation on the subway, when they travel to get the feel for a city, or when they strike up a conversation with...
Lifeworlds
Essays in Existential Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2012
Michael Jackson’s Lifeworlds is a masterful collection of essays, the culmination of a career aimed at understanding the relationship between anthropology and philosophy. Seeking the truths that are found in the interstices between examiner and examined, world and word, and body and mind, and taking...
The Unrepentant Renaissance
From Petrarch to Shakespeare to Milton
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Who during the Renaissance could have dissented from the values of reason and restraint, patience and humility, rejection of the worldly and the physical? These widely articulated values were part of the inherited Christian tradition and were reinforced by key elements in the Renaissance, especially...
by Robert von Hallberg
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
The authority of poetry varies from one period to another, from one culture to another. For Robert von Hallberg, the authority of lyric poetry has three sources: religious affirmation, the social institutions of those who speak the idioms from which particular poems are made, and the extraordinary...
Forms of Attention
Botticelli and Hamlet
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Sir Frank Kermode, the British scholar, instructor, and author, was an inspired critic. Forms of Attention is based on a series of three lectures he gave on canon formation, or how we choose what art to value. The essay on Botticelli traces the artist’s sudden popularity in the nineteenth century...
Writing Abroad
A Guide for Travelers
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
“Tell me all about your trip!” It’s a request that follows travelers as they head out into the world, and one of the first things they hear when they return. When we leave our homes to explore the wider world, we feel compelled to capture the experiences and bring the story home. But for those...
The Wandering Mind
What the Brain Does When You're Not Looking
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
If we’ve done our job well—and, let’s be honest, if we're lucky—you’ll read to the end of this description. Most likely, however, you won’t. Somewhere in the middle of the next paragraph, your mind will wander off. Minds wander. That’s just how it is.
That may be bad news for me,...
Scenescapes
How Qualities of Place Shape Social Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2016
Let’s set the scene: there’s a regular on his barstool, beer in hand. He’s watching a young couple execute a complicated series of moves on the dance floor, while at the table in the corner the DJ adjusts his headphones and slips a new beat into the mix. These are all experiences created by...
by Nina Auerbach
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Nina Auerbach shows how every age embraces the vampire it needs, and gets the vampire it deserves. Working with a wide range of texts, as well as movies and television, Auerbach locates vampires at the heart of our national experience and uses them as a lens for viewing the last two hundred years...
by R. W. B. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2009
Intellectual history is viewed in this book as a series of "great conversations"—dramatic dialogues in which a culture's spokesmen wrestle with the leading questions of their times. In nineteenth-century America the great argument centered about De Crèvecoeur's "new man," the...