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  • Humans, among Other Classical Animals

    Serie serien Postclassical Interventions
    We are living in a moment of environmental and existential crisis that demands a response. Why then study Classics now? From the European assimilation and destruction of the New World to our present environmental destruction of our shared world, Humans, among Other Classical Animals explores in encounters an answer by demonstrating how the Classics have been implicated in the structures of thought ... Les mer

    815,00 kr

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  • The houses of history

    A critical reader in history and theory, second edition

    The houses of history is a clear, jargon-free introduction to the major theoretical approaches employed by historians. This innovative critical reader provides accessible introductions to fourteen schools of thought, from the empiricist to the postcolonial, including chapters on Marxist history, Freud and psychohistory, the Annales, historical sociology, narrative, gender, public history and the ... Les mer

    219,69 kr

  • Beyond Nature and Culture

    Oversatt av Janet Lloyd ...
    "Gives to anthropological reflection a new starting point and will become the compulsory reference for all our debates in the years to come." —Claude Lévi-Strauss, on the French editionBeyond Nature and Culture has been a major influence in European intellectual life since its French publication in 2005. Here, finally, it is brought to English-language readers. At its heart is a question central ... Les mer

    105,00 kr eller gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Dying Words

    Endangered Languages and What They Have to Tell Us

    Serie Bok 22 - The Language Library
    The next century will see more than half of the world’s 6,000 languages become extinct, and most of these will disappear without being adequately recorded. Written by one of the leading figures in language documentation, this fascinating book explores what humanity stands to lose as a result.Explores the unique philosophy, knowledge, and cultural assumptions of languages, and their impact on our ... Les mer

    409,09 kr

  • Imperial Eyes

    Travel Writing and Transculturation

    Updated and expanded throughout with new illustrations and new material, this is the long- awaited second edition of a highly acclaimed and interdisciplinary book which quickly established itself as a seminal text in its field. ... Les mer

    546,96 kr

  • A History of Language

    Serie serien Globalities
    It is tempting to take the tremendous rate of contemporary linguistic change for granted. What is required, in fact, is a radical reinterpretation of what language is. Steven Roger Fischer begins his book with an examination of the modes of communication used by dolphins, birds and primates as the first contexts in which the concept of ‘language’ might be applied. As he charts the history of ... Les mer

    185,88 kr

  • A History of Language

    It is tempting to take the tremendous rate of contemporary linguistic change for granted. What is required, in fact, is a radical reinterpretation of what language is. Steven Roger Fischer charts the history of language from the times of Homo erectus, Neanderthal humans and Homo sapiens through to the nineteenth century, when the science of linguistics was developed, as he analyses the emergence ... Les mer

    185,88 kr

  • A Foot in the River

    Why Our Lives Change -- and the Limits of Evolution

    We are a weird species. Like other species, we have a culture. But by comparison with other species, we are strangely unstable: human cultures self-transform, diverge, and multiply with bewildering speed. They vary, radically and rapidly, from time to time and place to place. And the way we live -- our manners, morals, habits, experiences, relationships, technology, values -- seems to be changing ... Les mer

    111,06 kr

  • Hume

    A Very Short Introduction

    Serie serien Very Short Introductions
    David Hume, philosopher, historian, economist, librarian, and essayist, was one of the great figures of the European Enlightenment. Unlike some of his famous contemporaries, however, he was not dogmatically committed to idealised conceptions of reason, liberty, and progress. Instead, Hume was a sceptic whose arguments questioned the reach and authority of human rationality, and who put the ... Les mer

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  • Inventing 'Easter Island'

    av Beverley Haun ...
    Easter Island, or Rapa Nui as it is known to its inhabitants, is located in the Pacific Ocean, 3600 kilometres west of South America. Annexed by Chile in 1888, the island has been a source of fascination for the world beyond the island since the first visit by Europeans in 1722 due to its intriguing statues and complex history. Inventing 'Easter Island' examines narrative strategies and visual ... Les mer

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  • Nation and Narration

    Redigert av Homi K. Bhabha ...
    Bhabha, in his preface, writes 'Nations, like narratives, lose their origins in the myths of time and only fully encounter their horizons in the mind's eye'.From this seemingly impossibly metaphorical beginning, this volume confronts the realities of the concept of nationhood as it is lived and the profound ambivalence of language as it is written. From Gillian Beer's reading of Virginia Woolf, ... Les mer

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  • In Praise of the Garrulous

    av Allan Cameron ...
    “This is a book about language and above all about the value and essentiality of language in our lives. It might therefore be called a book on the “ecology” of language, because human language is in danger of being permanently damaged by the way modern technology has developed over the last century, and this will affect not only our competence in organising ourselves socially and politically, but ... Les mer

    105,00 kr