Культурология
5677 кн.
As a theory, sociobiology is opposed to socio-ecology, a discipline hampered since its birth. The indictment of the ideological intentions of the first has obscured the notion that the growing domination of the image of the “selfish gene” has obstructed the necessary rise of the second. For 40 years, a terrible force of inertia has thus frozen the global analysis of socio-ecological interactions outside the theoretical bias externally imposed on social sciences by so-called “behavioral ecology”,...
| Автор | Sejin Park |
The new 12th edition of Scholastic Journalism is fully revised and updated to encompass the complete range of cross platform multimedia writing and design to bring this classic into the convergence age. Incorporates cross platform writing and design into each chapter to bring this classic high school journalism text into the digital age Delves into the collaborative and multimedia/new media opportunities and changes that are defining the industry and journalism education as traditional media...
| Автор | Sherri Taylor A. |
The Times has the most famous letters page of any newspaper. This selection spanning the years 1914-1918 shows precisely why. While many letters relate to issues around the Great War, there is room for a myriad of subjects concerning the great British public of the time which capture the mood of the nation at this key period in British history.Since 1914 the Times’ Letters page has taken the temperature of the British way of life and provided a window on the national character. This series of...
| Автор | James Owen |
Po latach zapomnienia rodzima słowiańska wiara przeżywa swój renesans. Nie jest to jednak tendencja wyłącznie polska, gdyż wzrost zainteresowania religiami pogańskimi (etnicznymi) i neopogańskimi odnotowywany jest w wielu krajach europejskich. Współcześnie do najaktywniejszych formacji neopogańskich w Polsce zaliczamy: „Rodzimą Wiarę” (dawniej „Zrzeszenie Rodzimej Wiary”) oraz „Rodzimy Kościół Polski”. Ruchy te wpisane są do rejestru kościołów i związków wyznaniowych Ministerstwa Spraw...
| Автор | Piotr Gulak |
"Książka Piotra Siudy i Anny Koralewskiej to próba wyjaśnienia fenomenu seriali anime w kontekście popularności, jaką cieszą się w samej Japonii, ale przede wszystkim w świecie Zachodu, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem Polski. Popularność ta przekłada się na wytworzenie się specyficznej subkultury fanów, którzy aktywnie włączają się w promocję poszczególnych seriali oraz w ich jakościowe oblicze, tłumacząc we własnym zakresie ścieżki dialogowe i tworząc napisy do filmów (często z pogwałceniem...
| Автор | Piotr Siuda |
A co, jeśli spojrzałbyś na swoje życie inaczej niż zwykle? A co, jeśli zadałbyś sam sobie kilka pomocnych pytań? Trzymasz w ręku książkę pełną takich pytań. Czy odważysz się je zadać? Pytania mają na celu zachęcić czytelnika do spojrzenia na swoje życie z innej strony. Znalezienie odpowiedzi nie jest tutaj priorytetem. Natomiast zadawanie sobie pytań wytrąci czytającego z jego utartych szlaków myślowych i podważy przyjęte przez niego konkluzje. Każdy kolejny rozdział porusza różne...
| Автор | Beata Jusik |
Ze wstępu: Aby czytelnikom dać możność ocenienia, jakie myśli, dążenia i przekonania przejawiają się w przysłowiach ludu wśród nas od wieków zamieszkałego, co od nas do swych tradycji przejął i przyswoił, a co nawzajem do naszych przylgnęło pamiątek, postanowiliśmy je przetłumaczyć. Przysłowia żydowskie mało się nadają do przekładu; są one przeplatane mnóstwem wyrażeń hebrajskich i innych, odnoszących się do obrządków religijnych lub zwyczajów; w przekładzie naszym oddaliśmy myśl każdego...
| Автор | Samuel Adalberg |
Antologia przekładów kilkudziesięciu tekstów dotyczących rozmaitych aspektów badań nad pamięcią. Redaktorzy i tłumacze dobrali je w taki sposób, by publikacja w pełni odzwierciedlała różnorodność zagadnień podejmowanych w ramach memory studies. Materiały zostały zgrupowane w dziewięciu działach tematycznych, ukazujących problem pamięci kulturowej w kontekście antropologii ciała, rzeczy, mediów, przestrzeni, a także różnych odmian antropologii społecznej i historycznej. Wybrano teksty autorstwa...
| Автор | Коллектив авторов |
O niniejszym dziełku: „Roku 1669 zabrał się Potocki do spisywania i tłumaczenia sentencji i przypowieści polskich i łacińskich; niebawem przerwał pracę, choć jej nigdy zupełnie nie porzucił; r. 1688 wrócił do niej i popierał ją odtąd stale i systematycznie aż do końca życia; wynikiem tej pracy był ów właśnie foliant. Stanowi on prawdziwy skarb i dla ocenienia duchowej fizjognomii poety – który tu złożył, nie obawiając się niepowołanego oka, wyznania swe religijne, polityczne i literackie – i dla...
| Автор | Aleksander Brückner |
Malaysian psychiatric services and policy show some similar developments to those of the West. Yet much of the rhetoric that has informed these changes internationally have yet to be fully embraced in a modern, industrialised nation seeking to develop services congruent with the complex and rich diversity of ethnicity, culture and geography in the region. The relevance of this unique and extensive ethnographic study is that it captures the fascinating and otherwise lost voices of Malaysian...
| Автор | Sara Ashencaen Crabtree |
African Friends and Money Matters grew out of frustrations that Westerners experience when they travel and work in Africa. Africans have just as many frustrations relating to Westerners in their midst. Each manages money, time, and relationships in very different ways, often creating friction and misunderstanding. This book deals with everyday life in Africa, showing the underlying logic of African economic systems and behavior. Two new chapters in this second edition emphasize personal...
| Автор | David E. Maranz |
How people make sense of illness is, in part, culturally determined. Existing community beliefs and presuppositions are organized as cultural models, which “make meaning” of new situations such as the HIV/AIDS epidemic. These cultural constructions can also contribute to the spread of the epidemic. This volume examines the meaning and cultural contexts of HIV/AIDS in Nepal, where AIDS is relatively new and rapidly growing. Until now little has been known about how Nepalis understand the illness...
| Автор | David K. Beine |
This collection brings together fifteen chapters written by scholars specializing in disciplines ranging from anthropology and sociology to literature, film, and performance studies. These scholars analyze complex questions about how the body is lived and imagined as a locus of meaning-making in contemporary Japan. Exploring such topics as mind-body dualism, aging and illness, spirit possession, beauty, performance, and gender, this collection addresses the wide array of socio-cultural and...
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Elroy Bode’s books on nature and life have made him a favorite of readers and critics. Here he explores his home city of El Paso, the land and people of Central Texas, and his roles as teacher, father, and writer. These sharply observed, beautifully written pieces find the universal in the particular — a young boy in a barbershop, plaza life, a young couple in Smokey’s Barbecue. <i><b>In a Special Light</b></i> discovers pleasure in the lives...
| Автор | Elroy Bode |
The third of five books in the groundbreaking new series <i>The Human Equation Toolkit</i>. <br><br>In Books 1 and 2 of The Human Equation Toolkit series, mime Wayne Constantineau and scholar Eric McLuhan explore the four postures and the four modes of action. They show how the postures (standing, lying down, kneeling, sitting) combine with the modes of action (isometric pressure, displacement, configuration, articulation) to provide the basis of all developments in...
| Автор | Wayne Constantineau |
There’s a revolution going on, as ever-accelerating developments in digital information technologies change nearly every aspect of how we live, work, play, do business and engage in politics. Share and share alike—the numbers say it all as billions of people worldwide flock to online media and use social networks to discover and spread news and information. In the process, ever-growing networks of “ordinary people” are using these powerful new tools to...
| Автор | Rory O'Connor C. |
Niedzviekci's previous book, «Hello, I’m Special,» received much critical recognition and praise. It is now in its third printing, having sold over 10,000 copies. Publications that critically examine pop culture, fame, and digital life will be likely to review this title or publish an interview with Niedzviecki. Niedzviecki's new book will find an audience with readers seeking to understand their place in today's internet-saturated, fame-obsessed society. Niedzviecki...
| Автор | Hal Niedzviecki |
Misunderstood: one thing foreigners never want to be! But Africans and Westerners, interpreting the world through different cultural lenses, misunderstand each other with alarming regularity. This is sometimes funny, sometimes scandalous, but always damages credibility. This book is designed to promote cultural competence among Westerners working in Africa and among Africans living in the West. Cultural competence—knowing what one needs to know to act in a manner acceptable in a society—is the...
| Автор | Debbi DiGennaro |
Includes Assessment Tool for Analyzing Your Leadership Style and Becoming a Better Leader In The Five Roles of a Master Herder, Linda Kohanov adapts horse-inspired insights into powerful tools for developing collaborative leadership and managing change. Over thousands of years, Kohanov writes, “master herders” of nomadic herding cultures developed a multi-faceted, socially intelligent form of leadership combining the five roles of Dominant, Leader, Sentinel, Nurturer /...
| Автор | Linda Kohanov |
Botswana has been portrayed as a major case of exception in Africa—as an oasis of peace and harmony with an enduring parliamentary democracy, blessed with remarkable diamond-driven economic growth. Whereas the “failure” of other states on the continent is often attributed to the prevalence of indigenous political ideas and structures, the author argues that Botswana’s apparent success is not the result of Western ideas and practices of government having replaced indigenous ideas and...
| Автор | Ørnulf Gulbrandsen |
The state of Yucatán has its own distinct culinary tradition, and local people are constantly thinking and talking about food. They use it as a vehicle for social relations but also to distinguish themselves from “Mexicans.” This book examines the politics surrounding regional cuisine, as the author argues that Yucatecan gastronomy has been created and promoted in an effort to affirm the identity of a regional people and to oppose the hegemonic force of central Mexican cultural icons and forms....
| Автор | Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz |
Despite its immense significance and ubiquity in our everyday lives, the complex workings of trust are poorly understood and theorized. This volume explores trust and mistrust amidst locally situated scenes of sociality and intimacy. Because intimacy has often been taken for granted as the foundation of trust relations, the ethnographies presented here challenge us to think about dangerous intimacies, marked by mistrust, as well as forms of trust that cohere through non-intimate forms of...
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If piety, faith, and conviction constitute one side of the religious coin, then imperfection, uncertainty, and ambivalence constitute the other. Yet, scholars tend to separate these two domains and place experiences of inadequacy in everyday religious life – such as a wavering commitment, religious negligence or weakness in faith – outside the domain of religion ‘proper.’ Straying from the Straight Path breaks with this tendency by examining how self-perceived failure is, in many cases, part...
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In what ways did Europeans interact with the diversity of people they encountered on other continents in the context of colonial expansion, and with the peasant or ethnic ‘Other’ at home? How did anthropologists and ethnologists make sense of the mosaic of people and societies during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when their disciplines were progressively being established in academia? By assessing the diversity of European intellectual histories within sociocultural anthropology, this...
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