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8 produkter
Crossroads
Time & Space / Tradition & Modernity in Hispanic Worlds
Inbunden, 2019
1896 kr
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Crossroads! Intersections physical and/or metaphorical demand processes of consideration, determination, decision and commitment. Stasis is no longer an option where convergence is poised before the unknown. Where categories such as gender, culture, ethnicity, socio-economic status, philosophy and …
Death & Dying in Hispanic Worlds
The Nexus of Religions, Cultural Traditions, and the Arts
Inbunden, 2020
1896 kr
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The dispassionate intellectual examination of the concepts of death & dying contrasts dramatically with the emotive grieving process experienced by those who mourn. Death & dying are binary concepts in human cultures. Cultural differences reveal their mutual exclusiveness in philosophical outlook, …
Sustenance for the Body & Soul
Food & Drink in Amerindian, Spanish and Latin American Worlds
Inbunden, 2021
1952 kr
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The food-secure and/or privileged worldwide no longer eat and drink simply to maintain life itself. They have the advantage and choice to regard "sustenance" not just as fuel for the body/machine but as a source of pleasure and entertainment for the mind/intellect. This enhanced concept of …
Rites, Rituals & Religions
Amerindian, Spanish, Latin American & Latino Worlds
Häftad, 2023
954 kr
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Philosophers have contemplated the meaning of life, the who & the why, since nascent self-consciousness of the evolving hominid species. Yet practical efforts, i.e., control of life, have always transcended the philosophical: how to dominate what happens to the physical body itself, how to control …
Body, Subject & Subjected
The Representation of the Body Itself, Illness, Injury, Treatment and Death in Spain and Indigenous and Hispanic American Art and Literature
Inbunden, 2016
2180 kr
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Hominids have always been obsessed with representing their own bodies. The first "selfies" were prehistoric negative hand images and human stick figures, followed by stone and ceramic representations of the human figure. Thousands of years later, moving via historic art and literature to …
Insult to Injury
Violence in Spanish, Hispanic American and Latino Art and Literature
Inbunden, 2016
2180 kr
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The stark reality of all life, from the biology of the food chain incorporating all living beings to the social stratification and hierarchies of human cultures, revolves around violence -- physical or psychological. That unavoidable, black-and-white, worldview of survival of the fittest with …
S/He
Sex & Gender in Hispanic Cultures
Inbunden, 2017
1965 kr
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Hierarchies and disparities based on sex and gender have characterized nearly all hominid societies over almost the entire world of cultures since time immemorial. Nearly without exception, those disparities have created a hierarchy of male over female. Languages reflect that. For example, in the …
Family, Friends and Foes
Human Dynamics in Hispanic Worlds
Inbunden, 2018
2180 kr
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Jigsaw puzzles' notorious complexity and mega-multiple, amorphously-shaped pieces provide an appropriate metaphor for the navigating and maneuvering necessary throughout all aspects of human dynamics. Involvement comprises not only efforts by an individual personally trying to fit together a life …
