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  • The Inconstancy of the Indian Soul

    The Encounter of Catholics and Cannibals in 16-century Brazil

    Series Libro 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. ... Leer más

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    Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind

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    Series 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 ... Leer más

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  • Aztecs

    An Interpretation

    Series 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 ... Leer más

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  • Treatise on the Gods

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Pagans in the Promised Land

    Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery

    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. ... Leer más

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  • From Shame to Sin

    de 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. ... Leer más

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  • THE INEQUALITY OF HUMAN RACES

    The rise and fall of civilisations

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Natural Symbols

    Explorations in Cosmology

    Series 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 ... Leer más

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  • Ritual and Belief

    Readings in the Anthropology of Religion

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Ishi Means Man

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    Thomas Merton's thought-provoking book is a series of essays about various Amerindian cultures. ... Leer más

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  • The Gift of Thanks

    The Roots and Rituals of Gratitude

    "A scholarly, many-angled examination of what gratitude is and how it functions in our lives" from the bestselling author of The Rituals of Dinner ( The New York Times).Known as an "anthropologist of everyday life," Margaret Visser has won numerous awards for illuminating the unexpected meanings of everyday objects and rituals. Now she turns her keen eye to another custom so ubiquitous that it ... Leer más

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