Author: Benson Latin American CollectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 974
Book Description
Bibliographic Guide to Latin American Studies
Author: Benson Latin American CollectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 974
Book Description
Divination on stage
Author: Folke GernertPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110695758
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Magicians, necromancers and astrologers are assiduous characters in the European golden age theatre. This book deals with dramatic characters who act as physiognomists or palm readers in the fictional world and analyses the fictionalisation of physiognomic lore as a practice of divination in early modern Romance theatre from Pietro Aretino and Giordano Bruno to Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca and Thomas Corneille.
Urban Transformations in the Late Antique West: Materials, Agents, and Models
Author: André CarneiroPublisher: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra / Coimbra University Press
ISBN: 989261898X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
This volume is the fruit of a highly productive international research gathering academic and professional (field- and museum) colleagues to discuss new results and approaches, recent finds and alternative theoretical assessments of the period of transition and transformation of classical towns in Late Antiquity. Experts from an array of modern countries attended and presented to help compare and contrast critically archaeologies of diverse regions and to debate the qualities of the archaeology and the current modes of study. While a number of papers inevitably focused on evidence available for both Spain and Portugal, we were delighted to have a spread of contributions that extended the picture to other territories in the Late Roman West and Mediterranean. The emphasis was very much on the images presented by archaeology (rescue and research works, recent and past), but textual data were also brought into play by various contributors.
In Search of the Afropolitan
Author: Eva Rask KnudsenPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 9781783483532
Category : African diaspora in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A dissemination of the figure of the 'Afropolitan' from a critical literary angle. It attempts to explore a field of study which lacks a comprehensive literary approach to ways of being Afropolitan in the 21st century.
Spanish in the United States
Author: Ana RocaPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110804972
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
This collection of original papers presents current research on linguistic aspects of the Spanish used in the United States. The authors examine such topics as language maintenance and language shift, language choice, the bilingual's discourse patterns, varieties of Spanish used in the United States, and oral proficiency testing of bilingual speakers. In view of the fact that Hispanics constitute the largest linguistic minority in the United States, the pioneering work in the area of sociolinguistic issues in the U.S. Spanish presented here is of great importance.
Medieval Spain
Author: R. CollinsPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1403919771
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
This volume of essays contains contributions from a very wide range of British, American and Spanish scholars. Its primary concern is the relationships between the various ethnic, cultural, regional and religious communities that co-existed in the Iberian peninsula in the later Middle Ages. Conflicts and mutual interactions between them are here explored in a range of both historical and literary studies, to expose something of the rich diversity of the cultural life of later medieval Spain.
Genealogies for the Present in Cultural Anthropology
Author: Bruce M. KnauftPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136661271
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
In the wake of tensions between modern and postmodern sensibilities, what larger directions now emerge in cultural anthropology? In this major work, Bruce Knauft takes stock of important recent initiatives in cultural and critical theory. By combining critical reviews and ethnographic engagements with fresh readings of major figures and approaches, the work develops a larger vantage point for considering the dispersing influence of practice theories, postmodernism, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, modern/post-positive feminism, and multicultural criticisms.
Watunna
Author: Marc de CivrieuxPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292715899
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Originally published in Spanish in 1970, Watunna is the epic history and creation stories of the Makiritare, or Yekuana, people living along the northern bank of the Upper Orinoco River of Venezuela, a region of mountains and virgin forest virtually unexplored even to the present. The first English edition of this book was published in 1980 to rave reviews. This edition contains a new foreword by David Guss, as well as Mediata, a detailed myth that recounts the origins of shamanism.
From Primitive to Postcolonial in Melanesia and Anthropology
Author: Bruce M. KnauftPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472066872
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
A prominent scholar surveys the special place of Melanesia in our understanding of human cultural variation
Shamanism, History, and the State
Author: Nicholas ThomasPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472084012
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Nine case studies of shamanic practice in widely different cultures