Cultural Sitings – serie
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15 produkter
Rediscovering History
Culture, Politics, and the Psyche
Inbunden, 1994
1127 kr
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A Stanford University Press classic.
Prehistories of the Future
The Primitivist Project and the Culture of Modernism
Inbunden, 1995
1318 kr
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A Stanford University Press classic.
Prehistories of the Future
The Primitivist Project and the Culture of Modernism
Häftad, 1995
441 kr
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A Stanford University Press classic.
Enlightenment, Passion, Modernity
Historical Essays in European Thought and Culture
Av Mark Micale, Robert L. Dietle
Inbunden, 2000
1137 kr
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During the 1970s and 1980s, the study of intellectual and cultural history was often denigrated for its alleged elitist and canonical nature. Today, the situation has changed dramatically. Enriched by the methods and insights of such neighboring areas of inquiry as social history, the history of …
Museums and Memory
Häftad, 2000
343 kr
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Museums today are more than familiar cultural institutions and showplaces of accumulated objects; they are the sites of interaction between personal and collective identities, between memory and history. The essays in this volume consider museums from personal experience and historical study, and …
AlterNatives
Black Feminism in the Postimperial Nation
Inbunden, 2002
1368 kr
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Are the conflicts that accompany the growth of postcolonial ethnic, cultural, and religious diasporas undermining the political culture of first-world nations? AlterNatives explains why the hope of a harmonious, fully consensual society is misguided. Ranu Samantrai argues that the proliferation of …
AlterNatives
Black Feminism in the Postimperial Nation
Häftad, 2002
330 kr
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Are the conflicts that accompany the growth of postcolonial ethnic, cultural, and religious diasporas undermining the political culture of first-world nations? AlterNatives explains why the hope of a harmonious, fully consensual society is misguided. Ranu Samantrai argues that the proliferation of …
Mind of Modernism
Medicine, Psychology, and the Cultural Arts in Europe and America, 1880-1940
Inbunden, 2003
1753 kr
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This vanguard collection of original and in-depth essays explores the intricate interplay of the aesthetic and psychological domains during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and considers the reasons why a common Modernist project took shape when and in the circumstances that it …
How to Write the History of the New World
Histories, Epistemologies, and Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Häftad, 2002
454 kr
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In the mid-eighteenth century, the French naturalist Buffon contended that the New World was in fact geologically new—that it had recently emerged from the waters—and that dangerous miasmas had caused all organic life on the continents to degenerate. In the "dispute of the New World" many …
Virgin, the King, and the Royal Slaves of El Cobre
Negotiating Freedom in Colonial Cuba, 1670-1780
Häftad, 2002
429 kr
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This book tells the extraordinary story of a village of peasants and miners in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Cuba who were slaves belonging to the king of Spain and whose local patroness was a miraculous image of the Virgin of Charity of El Cobre. In reconstructing this history, the book …
Mind of Modernism
Medicine, Psychology, and the Cultural Arts in Europe and America, 1880-1940
Häftad, 2003
429 kr
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This vanguard collection of original and in-depth essays explores the intricate interplay of the aesthetic and psychological domains during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and considers the reasons why a common Modernist project took shape when and in the circumstances that it …
Taking Wrongs Seriously
Apologies and Reconciliation
Av Elazar Barkan, Alexander Karn
Inbunden, 2006
1589 kr
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Since the end of the Cold War, and particularly during the last fifteen years, the human need to amend immoral wrongs has been expressed in political discourse as a propensity to apologize for acts of past injustice. Can apology, by bringing closure to conflicts and by opening new possibilities for …
Taking Wrongs Seriously
Apologies and Reconciliation
Av Elazar Barkan, Alexander Karn
Häftad, 2006
247 kr
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Since the end of the Cold War, and particularly during the last fifteen years, the human need to amend immoral wrongs has been expressed in political discourse as a propensity to apologize for acts of past injustice. Can apology, by bringing closure to conflicts and by opening new possibilities for …
Arab Jews
A Postcolonial Reading of Nationalism, Religion, and Ethnicity
Inbunden, 2006
872 kr
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This book is about the social history of the Arab Jews—Jews living in Arab countries—against the backdrop of Zionist nationalism. By using the term "Arab Jews" (rather than "Mizrahim," which literally means "Orientals") the book challenges the binary opposition between Arabs and Jews in Zionist …
Trauma and Memory
Reading, Healing, and Making Law
Av Austin Sarat, Nadav Davidovitch m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
786 kr
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Trauma and Memory explores different dimensions of trauma, both its relationship to the social sphere and to group identity, in order to open up new approaches to trauma from a healing perspective. The book's specific focus is doubly unique: first, because of its interest in the tension between …
