Israel Apartment Books

By Aleida Assmann & Jan Assmann (Hg.)

ISBN-10: 3770537521

ISBN-13: 9783770537525

By Simon Goldhill

ISBN-10: 0521663172

ISBN-13: 9780521663175

Those in particular commissioned essays open up a desirable and novel point of view on a vital period of Western tradition. within the moment century CE the Roman empire ruled the Mediterranean, yet Greek tradition maintained its large status. whilst, Christianity and Judaism have been vying for fans opposed to the lures of such an elite cultural lifestyles. This publication seems at how writers in Greek from all parts of Empire society answered to their political place, to highbrow authority, to non secular and social pressures.

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By Robert Launay

ISBN-10: 0511558058

ISBN-13: 9780511558054

ISBN-10: 0521040310

ISBN-13: 9780521040310

ISBN-10: 0521241790

ISBN-13: 9780521241793

The be aware dyula skill 'trader' within the Manding language. it's also the identify of convinced Manding-speaking ethnic minorities in components of northern Ivory Coast, who, for hundreds of years ahead of the arrival of colonial rule, loved a digital buying and selling monopoly over the neighborhood sector. within the first a part of this booklet Robert Launay describes Dyula groups sooner than the twentieth-century colonial interval: he discusses the nearby symbiosis among Dyula investors and Senufo farmers; the association of Dyula job; and the department of the groups into fairly small extended family wards with excessive premiums of in-marriage. the second one half examines the ways that either groups have tailored to the new lack of their buying and selling monopoly, and the techniques they've got hired, reminiscent of emigration, the assimilation of Western schooling and the adoption of latest occupations, to carve out a brand new financial area of interest for themselves. As an account of the incorporation of 'traditional' group right into a sleek city, the booklet can be of curiosity to anthropologists and others involved in improvement and modernisation in Africa and the 3rd international.

By Christopher Breu

ISBN-10: 0816688915

ISBN-13: 9780816688913

ISBN-10: 0816689466

ISBN-13: 9780816689460

By Boris Wiseman

ISBN-10: 0521608678

ISBN-13: 9780521608671

ISBN-10: 0521846307

ISBN-13: 9780521846301

Claude Lévi-Strauss is likely one of the significant thinkers of the fashionable age. considered as a vital determine within the improvement of structuralism, his writings are studied throughout quite a lot of disciplines, together with anthropology, philosophy and literary reports. The Cambridge spouse to Lévi-Strauss offers a big reassessment of his paintings and effect. The fifteen specially-commissioned essays during this quantity have interaction with the controversies that experience surrounded his rules, and so they probe the hid impacts and clichés that experience obscured a real figuring out of his paintings. The participants are specialists drawn from a few fields, demonstrating the sturdiness and significance of Lévi-Strauss's paintings within the academy. Written for college kids and researchers alike, those incisive, jargon-free essays can be crucial analyzing for anyone who needs to achieve a deeper figuring out of this significant philosopher.

By Pierre Bourdieu

ISBN-10: 0226067475

ISBN-13: 9780226067476

ISBN-10: 0226067513

ISBN-13: 9780226067513

During the last 4 many years, French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu produced some of the most creative and refined our bodies of social idea of the postwar period. whilst he died in 2002, he used to be thought of to be the main influential sociologist on the planet and a philosopher on a par with Foucault and L?vi-Strauss—a public highbrow as vital to his iteration as Sartre used to be to his.Sketch for a Self-Analysis is the final word final result of Bourdieu’s lifelong preoccupation with reflexivity. Vehemently now not an autobiography, this distinct publication is in its place an software of Bourdieu’s theories to his personal existence and highbrow trajectory; alongside how it bargains compelling and intimate insights into crucial French intellectuals of the time—including Foucault, Sartre, Aron, Althusser, and de Beauvoir—as good as Bourdieu’s personal formative stories at boarding college and his ethical outrage on the colonial warfare in Algeria.

By André Habisch, René Schmidpeter

ISBN-10: 3319282859

ISBN-13: 9783319282855

ISBN-10: 3319282875

ISBN-13: 9783319282879

This ebook presents a multidisciplinary method of company Social accountability. whereas for many years a in basic terms mathematical-technical orientation ruled the company curriculum, this e-book provides CSR and sustainability as a enterprise notion embedded in its cultural and religious context. It firstly ways useful knowledge from diversified cultural and spiritual traditions as a resource of religious capital for sustainable enterprise practices. as a result, it hyperlinks present CSR techniques and the most recent pondering in CSR with long-standing cultural and non secular wisdom, selling a extra accomplished view on sustainability administration and its implementation at enterprise corporations. The e-book collects and unites viewpoints from a variety of cultural and spiritual contexts, delivering a accomplished advisor for overseas and globally lively businesses.

By Theodore G. Th. Pigeaud Ph. D. (auth.)

ISBN-10: 9401181519

ISBN-13: 9789401181518

ISBN-10: 9401187762

ISBN-13: 9789401187763

By Ian Kuijt

ISBN-10: 0306471663

ISBN-13: 9780306471667

Drawing on either the result of fresh archaeological study and anthropological idea, prime specialists synthesize present considering at the nature of and edition inside Neolithic social preparations. The authors examine archaeological info inside of a number of methodological and theoretical views to reconstruct key facets of formality practices, hard work association, and collective social identification on the scale of the loved ones, neighborhood, and region.

By Victor Li

In fresh years the concept that of 'the primitive' has been the topic of sturdy feedback; it's been tested, unpacked, and proven to suggest little greater than a development or projection worthy for setting up the modernity of the West. The time period 'primitive' maintains, despite the fact that, to seem in modern serious and cultural discourse, begging the query: Why does primitivism retain reappearing even after it's been exposed as a latest myth?

In The Neo-primitivist Turn, Victor Li argues that this contentious time period used to be by no means thoroughly banished and that it has in reality reappeared lower than new theoretical guises. An idealized notion of 'the primitive,' he contends, has come to operate because the final signal of alterity. Li specializes in the works of theorists like Jean Baudrillard, Jean-François Lyotard, Marianna Torgovnick, Marshall Sahlins, and Jürgen Habermas with a view to show that primitivism is still a robust presence even in these works usually considered as serious of the concept that. supplying shut readings of the ways that the premodern or primitive is strategically deployed in modern severe writings, Li's interdisciplinary examine is a well timed and forceful intervention into present debates at the politics and ethics of otherness, the issues of cultural relativism, and the vicissitudes of modernity.