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Author : Mary Rack
Release : 2005-03-20
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Ethnic Distinctions, Local Meanings by : Mary Rack
Download or read book Ethnic Distinctions, Local Meanings written by Mary Rack. This book was released on 2005-03-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explores what characterises a a ~good lifea (TM) and how this idea has been affected by globalisation and neoliberalism.
Author : Daniel Rueda Garrido
Release : 2023-11-25
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 430/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Forms of Life by : Daniel Rueda Garrido
Download or read book Forms of Life written by Daniel Rueda Garrido. This book was released on 2023-11-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working from the phenomenological tradition, the author takes the “form of life” as the central ontological unit. We are our form of life, but as a transcendental-immanent notion. This is not directly equivalent to culture or society, but to the realisation in the world of an image of the human being shared by a given community. The question explored is the following: If the form of life is what gives us being, what role does language play? Topics explored include the concepts of propaganda and ideology. and how these terms always refer to what others say and do, never to our own actions and discourses. The central part of the book is devoted to an analysis of language itself, including propaganda, emotions, dispositions, and racism and racist discourses. The book also analyses Vladimir Putin’s speeches on the occasion of the Russian war in Ukraine, the elements of their propaganda, and the justifying elements that are part of their ethical discourse, whereby actions taken or to be taken are justified as good because they are necessary from their ontological principle.
Author : Wendy James
Release : 2020-08-19
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 342/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Qualities of Time by : Wendy James
Download or read book The Qualities of Time written by Wendy James. This book was released on 2020-08-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the relevance of classical ideas in the anthropology of time tothe way we understand history, participate in the events around us, and experienceour lives. Time is not just an abstract principle we live by or a local cultural construct: it is shaped, punctuated, organized, and suffered in complex ways by real people negotiating their lives and relations with others. Space may be opened up for politics, violence or revolutionary change within the framework of ceremonial markers of social time: holy days, festivals and carnivals. People create and recreate patterns in the way they imagine the past, present and future at such moments, through material objects, language, symbolic action and bodily experience. The rhythms of social life, including periodic episodes of sacred or special time, interact with 'historical events' in strange ways. They are fundamental not only to the human condition but to the making andremembering of history, as well as to what we recognize as the unexpected or abnormal. The Qualities of Time brings anthropologists and archaeologists together in a new conversation about the 'patterns' of our understanding and experience of time. The authors reflect on how we should interpret evidence about the distant past, andhow far the structuring of social time is a human universal. They also consider whether anthropology itself has been so oriented to the present it has still to develop ways of dealing with temporality. The interactions of time-structures, ceremonials, and specific historical events, including violence inspired by the millennium, are interrogated. The experience of individuals who feel the times are for them 'out of joint' is also examined. By combining socio-cultural, philosophical and historical approaches, thisthought-provoking book moves anthropological debates about time's qualities wellbeyond existing studies.This book explores the relevance of classical ideas in the anthropology of time toth
Author : Joanne N. Smith Finley
Release : 2013-09-12
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis The Art of Symbolic Resistance by : Joanne N. Smith Finley
Download or read book The Art of Symbolic Resistance written by Joanne N. Smith Finley. This book was released on 2013-09-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the background of the Ürümchi riots (July 2009), this book provides a longitudinal study of contemporary Uyghur identities and Uyghur-Han relations. Previous studies considered China’s Uyghurs from the perspective of the majority Han (state or people). Conversely, The Art of Symbolic Resistance considers Uyghur identities from a local perspective, based on interviews conducted with group members over nearly twenty years. Smith Finley rejects assertions that the Uyghur ethnic group is a ‘creation of the Chinese state’, suggesting that contemporary Uyghur identities involve a complex interplay between long-standing intra-group socio-cultural commonalities and a more recently evolved sense of common enmity towards the Han. This book advances the discipline in three senses: from a focus on sporadic violent opposition to one on everyday symbolic resistance; from state to ‘local’ representations; and from a conceptualisation of Uyghurs as ‘victim’ to one of ‘creative agent’.
Author : Thomas Mullaney
Release : 2012-02-15
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 757/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Critical Han Studies by : Thomas Mullaney
Download or read book Critical Han Studies written by Thomas Mullaney. This book was released on 2012-02-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constituting over ninety percent of China's population, Han is not only the largest ethnonational group in that country but also one of the largest categories of human identity in world history. In this pathbreaking volume, a multidisciplinary group of scholars examine this ambiguous identity, one that shares features with, but cannot be subsumed under, existing notions of ethnicity, culture, race, nationality, and civilization.
