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  • The Inconstancy of the Indian Soul

    The Encounter of Catholics and Cannibals in 16-century Brazil

    di Eduardo Viveiros de Castro ...
    Serie eBook 41 - Paradigm ;
    In the mid-sixteenth century, Jesuit missionaries working in what is now Brazil were struck by what they called the inconstancy of the people they met, the indigenous Tupi-speaking tribes of the Atlantic coast. Though the Indians appeared eager to receive the Gospel, they also had a tendency to forget the missionaries’ lessons and “revert” to their natural state of war, cannibalism, and polygamy. ... Altre info

    11,12 €

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  • The Need for Roots

    Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind

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    Serie series Routledge Classics
    Hailed by Andre Gide as the patron saint of all outsiders, Simone Weil's short life was ample testimony to her beliefs. In 1942 she fled France along with her family, going firstly to America. She then moved back to London in order to work with de Gaulle. Published posthumously The Need for Roots was a direct result of this collaboration. Its purpose was to help rebuild France after the war. In ... Altre info

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  • The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race

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  • Aztecs

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    di Inga Clendinnen ...
    Serie series Canto Classics
    In 1521, the city of Tenochtitlan, magnificent centre of the Aztec empire, fell to the Spaniards and their Indian allies. Inga Clendinnen's account of the Aztecs recreates the culture of that city in its last unthreatened years. It provides a vividly dramatic analysis of Aztec ceremony as performance art, binding the key experiences and concerns of social existence in the late imperial city to the ... Altre info

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  • Treatise on the Gods

    di H.L. Mencken ...
    "I am quite convinced that all religions, at bottom, are pretty much alike. On the surface they may seem to differ greatly, but what appears on the surface is not always religion. Go beneath it, and one finds invariably the same sense of helplessness before the cosmic mysteries, and the same pathetic attempt to resolve it by appealing to higher powers."--from Treatise on the GodsH. L. Mencken is ... Altre info

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  • Pagans in the Promised Land

    Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery

    di Steven Newcomb ...
    Pagans in the Promised Land provides a unique, well-researched challenge to U.S. federal Indian law and policy. It attacks the presumption that American Indian nations are legitimately subject to the plenary power of the United States. ... Altre info

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  • From Shame to Sin

    di Kyle Harper ...
    The transformation of the Roman world from polytheistic to Christian is one of the most sweeping ideological changes of premodern history. At the center was sex. Kyle Harper examines how Christianity changed the ethics of sexual behavior from shame to sin, and shows how the roots of modern sexuality are grounded in an ancient religious revolution. ... Altre info

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  • THE INEQUALITY OF HUMAN RACES

    The rise and fall of civilisations

    di Arthur De Gobineau ...
    Essai sur l'inégalité des races humaines (An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races) (1853–1855) by Joseph Arthur Comte de Gobineau was intended as a work of philosophical enquiry into decline and degeneration. It is today considered as one of the earliest examples of scientific racism. Expanding upon Boulainvilliers' use of ethnography to defend the Ancien Regime against the claims of the ... Altre info

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  • Natural Symbols

    Explorations in Cosmology

    di Professor Mary Douglas, Mary Douglas ...
    Serie series Routledge Classics
    One of the most important works of modern anthropology. Written against the backdrop of the student uprisings of the late 1960s, the book took seriously the revolutionary fervour of the times, but instead of seeking to destroy the rituals and symbols that can govern and oppress, Mary Douglas saw instead that if transformation were needed, it could only be made possible through better understanding ... Altre info

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  • Ritual and Belief

    Readings in the Anthropology of Religion

    Rivisto da David Hicks ...
    Ritual and Belief: Readings in the Anthropology of Religion is a collection of 41 readings in religion, magic, and witchcraft. The choice of readings is eclectic: no single anthropological approach or theoretical perspective dominates the text. Theoretical significance, scholarly eminence of the author, and inherent interest provide the principal criteria, and each reading complements its ... Altre info

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  • Ishi Means Man

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    di Thomas Merton ...
    Thomas Merton's thought-provoking book is a series of essays about various Amerindian cultures. ... Altre info

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  • The Fate of Empires

    Being an Inquiry Into the Stability of Civilisation

    di Arthur Hubbard ...
    Join Arthur Hubbard on an immersive journey into the history of civilization. Written over a century ago, this book is still just as relevant today. Indeed, it was featured in a 2012 documentary titled "Four Horsemen" about civilization and economics.The book is relatively short and divided into two main parts. The first lays ground to the elements of the rise of civilization. It raises questions ... Altre info

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