Author: Robert Muponde
Publisher: James Currey
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Yvonne Vera's Nehanda (1993) signalled the presence of a new and remarkable writer. Four subsequent novels have confirmed that she was the most important African novelist to emerge during the 1990s. Critics from Zimbabwe, South Africa, Britain, the Caribbean and the United States demonstrate through a diversity of theoretical approaches the originality of her work. Yvonne Vera's dense and poetic writing records public and private experiences of moments in Zimbabwe's history through the consciousness of her central women characters. What sets her apart from most authors is her ability to handle the most difficult subjects and confront taboos. North America: African Books Collective; Zimbabwe: Weaver Press
Sign and Taboo
Author: Robert Muponde
Publisher: James Currey
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Yvonne Vera's Nehanda (1993) signalled the presence of a new and remarkable writer. Four subsequent novels have confirmed that she was the most important African novelist to emerge during the 1990s. Critics from Zimbabwe, South Africa, Britain, the Caribbean and the United States demonstrate through a diversity of theoretical approaches the originality of her work. Yvonne Vera's dense and poetic writing records public and private experiences of moments in Zimbabwe's history through the consciousness of her central women characters. What sets her apart from most authors is her ability to handle the most difficult subjects and confront taboos. North America: African Books Collective; Zimbabwe: Weaver Press
Publisher: James Currey
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Yvonne Vera's Nehanda (1993) signalled the presence of a new and remarkable writer. Four subsequent novels have confirmed that she was the most important African novelist to emerge during the 1990s. Critics from Zimbabwe, South Africa, Britain, the Caribbean and the United States demonstrate through a diversity of theoretical approaches the originality of her work. Yvonne Vera's dense and poetic writing records public and private experiences of moments in Zimbabwe's history through the consciousness of her central women characters. What sets her apart from most authors is her ability to handle the most difficult subjects and confront taboos. North America: African Books Collective; Zimbabwe: Weaver Press
Taboo in Sign Languages
Author: Donna Jo Napoli
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009291963
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Taboo topics in deaf communities include those found in spoken languages, as well as ones particular to deaf experiences, both in how deaf people relate to hearing people and how deaf people interact with other deaf people. These topics can help linguists understand better the consequences of field method choices and lead them to adopt better ones.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009291963
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Taboo topics in deaf communities include those found in spoken languages, as well as ones particular to deaf experiences, both in how deaf people relate to hearing people and how deaf people interact with other deaf people. These topics can help linguists understand better the consequences of field method choices and lead them to adopt better ones.
Taboo
Author: Jon Entine
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 0786724501
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
In virtually every sport in which they are given opportunity to compete, people of African descent dominate. East Africans own every distance running record. Professional sports in the Americas are dominated by men and women of West African descent. Why have blacks come to dominate sports? Are they somehow physically better? And why are we so uncomfortable when we discuss this? Drawing on the latest scientific research, journalist Jon Entine makes an irrefutable case for black athletic superiority. We learn how scientists have used numerous, bogus "scientific" methods to prove that blacks were either more or less superior physically, and how racist scientists have often equated physical prowess with intellectual deficiency. Entine recalls the long, hard road to integration, both on the field and in society. And he shows why it isn't just being black that matters—it makes a huge difference as to where in Africa your ancestors are from.Equal parts sports, science and examination of why this topic is so sensitive, Taboois a book that will spark national debate.
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 0786724501
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
In virtually every sport in which they are given opportunity to compete, people of African descent dominate. East Africans own every distance running record. Professional sports in the Americas are dominated by men and women of West African descent. Why have blacks come to dominate sports? Are they somehow physically better? And why are we so uncomfortable when we discuss this? Drawing on the latest scientific research, journalist Jon Entine makes an irrefutable case for black athletic superiority. We learn how scientists have used numerous, bogus "scientific" methods to prove that blacks were either more or less superior physically, and how racist scientists have often equated physical prowess with intellectual deficiency. Entine recalls the long, hard road to integration, both on the field and in society. And he shows why it isn't just being black that matters—it makes a huge difference as to where in Africa your ancestors are from.Equal parts sports, science and examination of why this topic is so sensitive, Taboois a book that will spark national debate.
Taboo, Personal and Collective Representations
Author: Elizabeth Brodersen
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351039881
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Taboo, Personal and Collective Representations examines the symbolic nature of taboo, asking what is the purpose of a taboo and how does it vary cross-culturally? The book focuses on the concept of taboo as an in-between, organizing principle which separates and differentiates stages through a ritual process of separation of order as clean/blessed from disorder as polluted/disassociated. This book uses an interdisciplinary approach which compares the anthropological, ethnological, sociological, and depth psychological perspectives of renowned scholars in their examination of taboos. Unconscious/conscious taboos influence how we perceive transitional, indeterminate states across margins in the maturation and individuation processes. The book argues that a taboo embodies the perilous, symbolic meaning of such a rite of passage and that its emotional value and intensity in the form of symptomology varies across cultures. Taboo, Personal and Collective Representations will be of great interest to researchers, academics and post-graduate students in the fields of anthropology, ethnology, origins of religion, race, gender, and depth psychology.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351039881
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Taboo, Personal and Collective Representations examines the symbolic nature of taboo, asking what is the purpose of a taboo and how does it vary cross-culturally? The book focuses on the concept of taboo as an in-between, organizing principle which separates and differentiates stages through a ritual process of separation of order as clean/blessed from disorder as polluted/disassociated. This book uses an interdisciplinary approach which compares the anthropological, ethnological, sociological, and depth psychological perspectives of renowned scholars in their examination of taboos. Unconscious/conscious taboos influence how we perceive transitional, indeterminate states across margins in the maturation and individuation processes. The book argues that a taboo embodies the perilous, symbolic meaning of such a rite of passage and that its emotional value and intensity in the form of symptomology varies across cultures. Taboo, Personal and Collective Representations will be of great interest to researchers, academics and post-graduate students in the fields of anthropology, ethnology, origins of religion, race, gender, and depth psychology.
The Oxford Handbook of Taboo Words and Language
Author: Keith Allan
Publisher:
ISBN: 0198808194
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
This volume brings together experts from a wide range of disciplines to define and describe taboo words and language and to investigate the reasons and beliefs behind them. It examines topics such as impoliteness, swearing, censorship, taboo in deaf communities, translation of tabooed words, and the use of taboo in banter and comedy.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0198808194
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
This volume brings together experts from a wide range of disciplines to define and describe taboo words and language and to investigate the reasons and beliefs behind them. It examines topics such as impoliteness, swearing, censorship, taboo in deaf communities, translation of tabooed words, and the use of taboo in banter and comedy.
This Book Is Taboo
Author: Randall Eggert
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781524925710
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781524925710
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Taboo
Author: Franz Steiner
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136543333
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
Scholars have been trying to explain taboo customs ever since Captain Cook discovered them in Polynesia over 200 years ago. The subject has been treated at length, but none of the theories has more than a limited validity, so numerous are the taboos recorded and so diverse the societies in which they occur. This book contains chapters on: · Taboo as a Victorian invention · The complicated taboos in the Pentateuch · Taboos in Polynesia Originally published in 1956.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136543333
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
Scholars have been trying to explain taboo customs ever since Captain Cook discovered them in Polynesia over 200 years ago. The subject has been treated at length, but none of the theories has more than a limited validity, so numerous are the taboos recorded and so diverse the societies in which they occur. This book contains chapters on: · Taboo as a Victorian invention · The complicated taboos in the Pentateuch · Taboos in Polynesia Originally published in 1956.
Fallin' Up
Author: Taboo
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439192081
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
A founding member of the Black Eyed Peas shares the inspiring story of his rise from the streets of East L.A. to the heights of international fame.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439192081
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
A founding member of the Black Eyed Peas shares the inspiring story of his rise from the streets of East L.A. to the heights of international fame.
Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Philosophical Society of Adelaide, South Australia
Author: Royal Society of South Australia
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1052
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1052
Book Description
Trade and Taboo
Author: Sarah Bond
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472130080
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
Applies new methodological approaches to the study of ancient history
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472130080
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
Applies new methodological approaches to the study of ancient history