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43 produkter
Dream Cultures
Explorations in the Comparative History of Dreaming
Av David Shulman, Guy G. Stroumsa
Inbunden, 1999
2929 kr
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This volume offers a comparative, cross-cultural history of dreams. The authors examine a wide range of texts concerning dreams, from a variety of religious contexts (from China, India, the Americas, classical Greek and Roman antiquity, early Christianity, and medieval Judaism and Islam). Taken …
God on the Hill
Temple Poems from Tirupati
Av David Shulman, Velcheru Narayana Rao m. fl.
E-bok, 2005
431 kr
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The devotional poems of Annamayya (15th century) are perhaps the most accessible and universal achievement of classical Telugu literature, one of the major literatures of pre-modern India. Annamayya effectively created and popularized a new genre, the short padam song, which spread throughout the …
Untying the Knot
On Riddles and Other Enigmatic Modes
Av Galit Hasan-Rokem, David Shulman
Inbunden, 1997
3970 kr
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Untying the Knot collects eighteen previously unpublished essays on the riddle--a genre of discourse found in virtually every human culture. Hasan-Rokem and Shulman have drawn these essays from a variety of cultural perspectives and disciplines; linguists, anthropologists, folklorists, and religion …
God Inside-Out
Siva's Game of Dice
Av Don Handelman, David Shulman
Inbunden, 1997
1371 kr
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This book offers a new exploration of the mythology of the Hindu god Siva, who spends his time playing dice with his wife, to whom he habitually loses. The result of the game is our world, which turns the god inside-out and changes his internal composition. Hindus maintain that Siva is perpetually …
God Inside-Out
Siva's Game of Dice
Av Don Handelman, David Shulman
Häftad, 1997
1685 kr
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This book offers a new exploration of the mythology of the Hindu god Siva, who spends his time playing dice with his wife, to whom he habitually loses. The result of the game is our world, which turns the god inside-out and changes his internal composition. Hindus maintain that Siva is perpetually …
Untying the Knot
On Riddles and Other Enigmatic Modes
Av Galit Hasan-Rokem, David Shulman
Häftad, 1997
1429 kr
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Untying the Knot collects eighteen previously unpublished essays on the riddle--a genre of discourse found in virtually every human culture. Hasan-Rokem and Shulman have drawn these essays from a variety of cultural perspectives and disciplines; linguists, anthropologists, folklorists, and religion …
Self and Self-Transformation in the History of Religions
Av David Shulman, Guy G Stroumsa
Inbunden, 2002
3085 kr
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This book brings together scholars of a variety of the world's major civilisations to focus on the universal theme of inner transformation. The idea of the self is a cultural formation like any other, and models and conceptions of the inner world of the person vary widely from one civilisation to …
Self and Self-Transformations in the History of Religions
Av David Shulman, Guy G. Stroumsa
Häftad, 2002
1253 kr
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This book brings together scholars of a variety of the world's major civilizations to focus on the universal theme of inner transformation. The idea of the "self" is a cultural formation like any other, and models and conceptions of the inner world of the person vary widely from one civilization to …
Self and Self-Transformations in the History of Religions
Av Guy G. Stroumsa, David Shulman
E-bok, 2002
679 kr
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This book brings together scholars of a variety of the world''s major civilizations to focus on the universal theme of inner transformation. The idea of the "self" is a cultural formation like any other, and models and conceptions of the inner world of the person vary widely from one civilization …
Dream Cultures
Explorations in the Comparative History of Dreaming
Av Guy G. Stroumsa, David Shulman
E-bok, 1999
1907 kr
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This volume offers a comparative, cross-cultural history of dreams. The essays examine a wide range of texts concerning dreams, as culled from a rich variety of religious contexts: China, India, the Americas, classical Greek and Roman antiquity, early Christianity, and medieval Judaism and Islam. …
God Inside Out
Siva's Game of Dice
Av David Shulman, Don Handelman
E-bok, 1997
935 kr
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This book offers a new exploration of the mythology of the Hindu god Siva, who spends his time playing dice with his wife, to whom he habitually loses. The result of the game is our world, which turns the god inside-out and changes his internal composition. Hindus maintain that Siva is perpetually …
Untying the Knot
On Riddles and Other Enigmatic Modes
Av David Shulman, Galit Hasan-Rokem
E-bok, 1996
696 kr
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This book collects eighteen previously unpublished essays on the riddle--a genre of discourse found in virtually every human culture. Hasan-Rokem and Shulman have drawn these essays from a variety of cultural perspectives and disciplines; linguists, anthropologists, folklorists, and religion and …
God on the Hill
Temple Poems from Tirupati
Av David Shulman, Velcheru Narayana Rao m. fl.
E-bok, 2005
485 kr
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The devotional poems of Annamayya (15th century) are perhaps the most accessible and universal achievement of classical Telugu literature, one of the major literatures of pre-modern India. Annamayya effectively created and popularized a new genre, the short padam song, which spread throughout the …
Innovations and Turning Points
Toward a History of Kāvya Literature
Av Yigal Bronner, David Shulman m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
1143 kr
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This volume is the first attempt to offer a panoramic historical overview of South Asian classical poetry, especially in Sanskrit. Many of the essays in this volume are the first serious studies of the great masterpieces of South Asian literature. Moreover, the book as a whole captures the …
Srinatha
The Poet who Made Gods and Kings
Av Velcheru Narayana Rao, David Shulman
Inbunden, 2012
2494 kr
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David Shulman and Velcheru Narayana Rao offer a groundbreaking cultural biography of Srinatha, arguably the most creative figure in the thousand-year history of Telugu literature. This fourteenth- and fifteenth-century poet revolutionized the classical tradition and effectively created the …
Srinatha
The Poet who Made Gods and Kings
Av David Shulman, Velcheru Narayana Rao
E-bok, 2012
450 kr
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David Shulman and Velcheru Narayana Rao offer a groundbreaking cultural biography of Srinatha, arguably the most creative figure in the thousand-year history of Telugu literature. Their study, which includes extensive translations of Srinatha''s major works, shows the poet''s place in a great …
Srinatha
The Poet who Made Gods and Kings
Av Velcheru Narayana Rao, David Shulman
Häftad, 2012
879 kr
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David Shulman and Velcheru Narayana Rao offer a groundbreaking cultural biography of Srinatha, arguably the most creative figure in the thousand-year history of Telugu literature. This fourteenth- and fifteenth-century poet revolutionized the classical tradition and effectively created the …
Self and Society
A Symbolic Interactionist Social Psychology
Häftad, 2010
2030 kr
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Self and Society is a clearly written, up-to-date, and authoritative introduction to the symbolic interactionist perspective in social psychology and in sociology as a whole. Filled with examples, this book has been used not only in the classroom, but also cited in literature as an authoritative …
Freedom and Despair
Notes from the South Hebron Hills
Inbunden, 2018
501 kr
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Lately, it seems as if we wake up to a new atrocity each day. Every morning is now a ritual of scrolling through our Twitter feeds or scanning our newspapers for the latest updates on fresh horrors around the globe. Despite the countless protests we attend, the phone calls we make, or the streets …
Freedom and Despair
Notes from the South Hebron Hills
Häftad, 2018
194 kr
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Lately, it seems as if we wake up to a new atrocity each day. Every morning is now a ritual of scrolling through our Twitter feeds or scanning our newspapers for the latest updates on fresh horrors around the globe. Despite the countless protests we attend, the phone calls we make, or the streets …
Spring, Heat, Rains
A South Indian Diary
E-bok, 2009
543 kr
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“Rocks. Goats. Dry shrubs. Buffaloes. Thorns. A fallen tamarind tree.” Such were the sights that greeted David Shulman on his arrival in the South Indian state of Andhra Pradesh in the spring of 2006. An expert on South Indian languages and cultures, Shulman knew the region well, but from the …
When God is a Customer
Telugu Courtesan Songs by Ksetrayya and Others
Av A. K. Ramanujan, Velcheru Narayana Rao m. fl.
Häftad, 1994
321 kr
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How is it that this woman's breasts glimmer so clearly through her saree? Can't you guess, my friends? What are they but rays from the crescents left by the nails of her lover pressing her in his passion, rays now luminous as the moonlight of a summer night? These South Indian devotional poems show …
Poem at the Right Moment
Remembered Verses from Premodern South India
Av Velcheru Narayana Rao, David Shulman
Häftad, 1998
399 kr
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A Poem at the Right Moment collects, and preserves, poems—called catus—that have circulated orally for centuries in South India. The poems are remarkable for their wit and precision, their lyrical insight on the commonplace, their fascination with sensual experience, and their exploration of the …
Classical Telugu Poetry
Häftad, 2020
203 kr
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The classical tradition in Telugu, the mellifluous language of Andhra Pradesh in southern India, is one of the richest yet least explored of all South Asian literatures. In this volume, Velcheru Narayana Rao and David Shulman have brought together mythological, religious, and secular texts by …
Poem at the Right Moment
Remembered Verses from Premodern South India
Av Velcheru Narayana Rao, David Shulman
Inbunden, 1998
938 kr
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A Poem at the Right Moment collects, and preserves, poems—called catus—that have circulated orally for centuries in South India. The poems are remarkable for their wit and precision, their lyrical insight on the commonplace, their fascination with sensual experience, and their exploration of the …
Classical Telugu Poetry
An Anthology
E-bok, 2002
1553 kr
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This groundbreaking anthology opens a window on a thousand years of classical poetry in Telugu, the mellifluous language of Andhra Pradesh in southern India. The classical tradition in Telugu is one of the richest yet least explored of all South Asian literatures. This authoritative volume, the …
More than Real
A History of the Imagination in South India
Inbunden, 2012
596 kr
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From the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, the major cultures of southern India underwent a revolution in sensibility reminiscent of what had occurred in Renaissance Italy. During this time, the imagination came to be recognized as the defining feature of human beings. More than Real draws our …
Tamil
A Biography
Inbunden, 2016
331 kr
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Spoken by eighty million people in South Asia and a diaspora that stretches across the globe, Tamil is one of the great world languages, and one of the few ancient languages that survives as a mother tongue for so many speakers. David Shulman presents a comprehensive cultural history of …
From Hire to Liar
The Role of Deception in the Workplace
Inbunden, 2006
1698 kr
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"There are always clients to please, rules to subvert, difficult tasks to perform, work to shirk, and upward mobility to seek.... Most people with work experience have encountered at least some version of exaggerated resumes, exploitative bosses, self-interested shirking, collusion against disliked …
From Hire to Liar
The Role of Deception in the Workplace
Häftad, 2006
415 kr
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"There are always clients to please, rules to subvert, difficult tasks to perform, work to shirk, and upward mobility to seek.... Most people with work experience have encountered at least some version of exaggerated resumes, exploitative bosses, self-interested shirking, collusion against disliked …
