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Author: Richard Terdiman Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 150171760X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 405
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This book is about memory—about how the past persists into the present, and about how this persistence has been understood over the past two centuries. Since the French Revolution, memory has been the source of an intense disquiet. Fundamental cultural theories have sought to understand it, and have striven to represent its stresses.
Author: Richard Terdiman Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 150171760X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 405
Book Description
This book is about memory—about how the past persists into the present, and about how this persistence has been understood over the past two centuries. Since the French Revolution, memory has been the source of an intense disquiet. Fundamental cultural theories have sought to understand it, and have striven to represent its stresses.
Author: Romila Thapar Publisher: ISBN: 9780857426444 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 0
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Pt. I. History and the public. 1. Interpretations of early Indian history ; Historical perspectives of nation-building ; 3. Of histories and identities ; 4. In defence of history ; 5. Writing history textbooks: a memoir ; 6. Glimpses of a possible history from below: early India -- pt. II. Concerning religion and history. 7. Communalism: a historical perspective ; 8. Religion and the secularizing of Indian society ; 9. Syndicated Hinduism -- pt. III. Debates. 10. Which of us are Aryans ; 11. Dating the epics ; 12. The epic of the Bharatas ; 13. The Ramayana syndrome ; 14. In defence of the variant ; 15. Historical memory without history ; 16. The many narratives of Somanatha -- pt. IV. Our women-then and now. 17. Women in the Indian past ; 18. Becoming a Sati - the problematic widow ; 19. Rape within a cycle of violence.
Author: Ian Hodder Publisher: Pen and Sword ISBN: 1473819547 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 357
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This updated edition of Professor Ian Hodders original and classic work on the role which anthropology must play in the interpretation of the archaeological record.There has long been a need for archaeologists and anthropologists to correlate their ideas and methods for interpreting the material culture of past civilisations. Archaeological interpretation of the past is inevitably based on the ideas and experiences of the present and the use of such ethnographic analogy has been widely adapted and criticised, not least in Britain.In this challenging study, Ian Hodder questions the assumptions, values and methods which have been too readily accepted. At the same time, he shows how anthropology can be applied to archaeology. He examines the criteria for the proper use of analogy and, in particular, emphasises the need to consider the meaning and interpretation of material cultures within the total social and cultural contexts. He discusses anthropological models of refuse deposits, technology and production, subsistence, settlement, burial, trade exchange, art form and ritual; he then considers their application to comparable archaeological data.Throughout, Professor Hodder emphasises the need for a truly scientific approach and a critical self-awareness by archaeologists, who should be prepared to study their own social and cultural context, not least their own attitudes to the present-day material world.
Author: Traci Harding Publisher: HarperCollins Australia ISBN: 1460708105 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 359
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The long-awaited prequel to Traci Harding's much-loved Ancient Future series In Ancient Wales, Gwion Bach, a simple woodsman, becomes enchanted by the fey beauty Creirwy during a brush with the Sons of the Long Knives. He earns Creirwy's trust, and tthat of her mother, the goddess Keridwen, and is offered an apprenticeship at their castell in Llyn Tegid. As Gwion discovers an enchanting new world of magic, the goddess is busy brewing a potion of prophetic insight and esoteric wisdom, destined for her monstrous son. However, an ill-timed accident provides an unexpected result. What transpires is an unforgettable shapeshifting battle that will spark rebellion and threaten to bring the downfall of all the kingdoms of Cymru. In this thrilling and epic adventure spanning generations, Traci Harding finally reveals the origins of the Ancient Future series and how Gwion Bach rose from humble beginnings to become Taliesin, grand merlin and magician. PRAISE FOR THE ANCIENT FUTURE 'A stunning achievement of world-class fantasy' KYLIE CHAN
Author: Jason Epstein Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393103773 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 203
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"An irresistible book about Grub Street, authorship and the literary marketplace."—Washington Post Book World Jason Epstein has led arguably the most creative career in book publishing during the past half-century. He founded Anchor Books and launched the quality paperback revolution, cofounded the New York Review of Books, and created of the Library of America, the prestigious publisher of American classics, and The Reader's Catalog, the precursor of online bookselling. In this short book he discusses the severe crisis facing the book business today—a crisis that affects writers and readers as well as publishers—and looks ahead to the radically transformed industry that will revolutionize the idea of the book as profoundly as the introduction of movable type did five centuries ago.
Author: Sabine Hildebrandt Publisher: Berghahn Books ISBN: 1789207851 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 411
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Following decades of silence about the involvement of doctors, medical researchers and other health professionals in the Holocaust and other National Socialist (Nazi) crimes, scholars in recent years have produced a growing body of research that reveals the pervasive extent of that complicity. This interdisciplinary collection of studies presents documentation of the critical role medicine played in realizing the policies of Hitler’s regime. It traces the history of Nazi medicine from its roots in the racial theories of the 1920s, through its manifestations during the Nazi period, on to legacies and continuities from the postwar years to the present.
Author: Justine Tjallinks Publisher: Nhp Publishing ISBN: 9789187815454 Category : Photography, Artistic Languages : en Pages : 0
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Justine Tjallinks is a rapidly rising photographer, who uses less conventional models to capture scenes that are often other-worldly and full of mystique.
Author: Richard Terdiman Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 9780801481321 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 416
Book Description
This book is about memory--about how the past persists into the present, and about how this persistence has been understood over the past two centuries. Since the French Revolution, memory has been the source of an intense disquiet. Fundamental cultural theories have sought to understand it, and have striven to represent its stresses.
Author: Stephen Kendrick Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan ISBN: 9780333493717 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 218
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The British Sociological Association held a conference on the theme "Sociology and History". In 1964, E.H. Carr had called for an open frontier between the disciplines. This book examines the traffic across this frontier and in particular, what might be called the sociological uses of history.
Author: Richard Terdiman
Author: Richard Terdiman
Author: Romila Thapar
Author: Ian Hodder
Author: Traci Harding
Author: Jason Epstein
Author: Eugène Ionesco
Author: Sabine Hildebrandt
Author: Justine Tjallinks
Author: Richard Terdiman
Author: Stephen Kendrick