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Persuasions and Performances
The Play of Tropes in Culture
Häftad, 1986
415 kr
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"This is a rich and stimulating collection of articles." —Journal of Ritual StudiesThe importance of the figurative imagination in human interaction is the focus of these seminal essays by cultural anthropologist James W. Fernandez.
Bwiti
An Ethnography of the Religious Imagination in Africa
E-bok, 2019
2140 kr
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We cannot, the author argues, adequately understand the religious imagination without knowing the historical, social, and cultural matrices from which it arises. Accordingly, his book explores the Fang culture of Gabon as a set of contexts from which emerges the Bwiti religion. In addition to …
Belmonte De Los Caballeros
Anthropology and History in an Aragonese Community
Av Carmelo Lison-Tolosana, James W Fernandez
Häftad, 2014
1173 kr
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Spain's most productive, creative, and highly regarded anthropologist, Carmelo Lison-Tolosana was born in the small Aragonese community he calls Belmonte." This work reflects both his deep knowledge of the village and the objectivity of his professional training. Originally published in 1983. The …
Belmonte De Los Caballeros
Anthropology and History in an Aragonese Community
Av Carmelo Lison-Tolosana, James W Fernandez
Inbunden, 2016
1588 kr
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Spain's most productive, creative, and highly regarded anthropologist, Carmelo Lison-Tolosana was born in the small Aragonese community he calls Belmonte." This work reflects both his deep knowledge of the village and the objectivity of his professional training. Originally published in 1983. The …
Bwiti
An Ethnography of the Religious Imagination in Africa
Häftad, 2019
2760 kr
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We cannot, the author argues, adequately understand the religious imagination without knowing the historical, social, and cultural matrices from which it arises. Accordingly, his book explores the Fang culture of Gabon as a set of contexts from which emerges the Bwiti religion. In addition to …
Bwiti
An Ethnography of the Religious Imagination in Africa
Inbunden, 2019
3529 kr
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We cannot, the author argues, adequately understand the religious imagination without knowing the historical, social, and cultural matrices from which it arises. Accordingly, his book explores the Fang culture of Gabon as a set of contexts from which emerges the Bwiti religion. In addition to …
Belmonte De Los Caballeros
Anthropology and History in an Aragonese Community
Av Carmelo Lison-Tolosana, James W Fernandez
E-bok, 2014
856 kr
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Spain's most productive, creative, and highly regarded anthropologist, Carmelo Lison-Tolosana was born in the small Aragonese community he calls Belmonte."e; This work reflects both his deep knowledge of the village and the objectivity of his professional training.Originally published in …
Tropological Thought and Action
Essays on the Poetics of Imagination
Av Marko Živković, Jamin Pelkey m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1921 kr
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From twilight in the Himalayas to dream worlds in the Serbian state, this book provides a unique collection of anthropological and cross-cultural inquiry into the power of rhetorical tropes and their relevance to the formation and analysis of social thought and action through a series of …
