Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 231 p. — (East Asian Popular Culture). This book studies how the increase of visual representation of mixed-race Koreans formulates a particular racial project in contemporary South Korean media. It explores the moments of ruptures and disjuncture that biracial bodies bring to the formation of neoliberal multiculturalism, a South Korean national...
Institut für Sexualforschung. Wien: Leipzig: Verl. für Kulturforschung. 944 S., zahlr. Ill.; 1929. 600dpi (text layer). Mit dem»Bilderlexikon der Erotik «gab das Wiener Institut für Sexualforschung zwischen 1928 und 1931 ein Nachschlagewerk heraus, das in vier schweren Quartbänden und mehr als 4 000 Artikeln erstmals das erreichte Wissen über die menschliche Sexualität und ihre...
Institut für Sexualforschung. Wien: Leipzig: Verl. für Kulturforschung. 877 S., zahlr. Ill. 1931. 600dpi (text layer). Mit dem»Bilderlexikon der Erotik «gab das Wiener Institut für Sexualforschung zwischen 1928 und 1931 ein Nachschlagewerk heraus, das in vier schweren Quartbänden und mehr als 4 000 Artikeln erstmals das erreichte Wissen über die menschliche Sexualität und ihre...
Crown Publishers, 2015. — 355 p. Rain is elemental, mysterious, precious, destructive. It is the subject of countless poems and paintings; the top of the weather report; the source of the world's water. Yet this is the first book to tell the story of rain. Cynthia Barnett's Rain begins four billion years ago with the torrents that filled the oceans, and builds to the storms of...
Institut für Sexualforschung. Wien: Leipzig: Verl. für Kulturforschung. 942 S., zahlr. Ill.; 1928. 600dpi (text layer). Mit dem»Bilderlexikon der Erotik «gab das Wiener Institut für Sexualforschung zwischen 1928 und 1931 ein Nachschlagewerk heraus, das in vier schweren Quartbänden und mehr als 4 000 Artikeln erstmals das erreichte Wissen über die menschliche Sexualität und ihre...
Monograph. — University of Massachusetts Press, 1982. — 256 p. The following essays have in common a concern with early Germanic culture. Although they deal severally with various manifestations of this culture, a central thesis runs through all of them. Most simply put, it is that Germanic culture was dominated by its conception of its own past. This is neither surprising nor...
Cambridge University Press, 1974. — 600 p. Fifty years ago the classical education still enjoyed an exceptional measure of public esteem. That training in taste and accuracy of thought, that lucid if somewhat factitious understanding of human institutions and human nature, which a close acquaintance with the Greek and Roman authors could give, were considered to fit the young...
Brill, 2020. — 784 p. In World History as the History of Foundations, 3000 BCE to 1500 CE , Michael Borgolte investigates the origins and development of foundations from Antiquity to the end of the Middle Ages. In his survey foundations emerge not as mere legal institutions, but rather as “total social phenomena” which touch upon manifold aspects, including politics, the...
Ithaca, New York. Cornell University Press, 1997. — х, 246 p. — ISBN 0-8014-3491-2; ISBN 0-8014-8492-8 The aim of this collection of twelve essays is to discuss and illustrate some of the main varieties of cultural history which have emerged since the questioning of what might be called its 'classic' form, exemplifi ed in the work of Jacob Burckhardt and Johan Huizinga. This...
Torino: Codice edizioni, 2004. — x + 145 p. — ISBN: 88-7578-001-3. La parola cultura ha molti significati. Vogliamo usare quello più generale: l'accumulo globale di conoscenze e di innovazioni, derivante dalla somma di contributi individuali·trasmessi attraverso le generazioni e diffusi al nostro gruppo sociale, che influenza e cambia continuamente la nostra vita. Questo...
Springer, 2015. — 345 p. — ISBN10: 3662442310; ISBN13: 978-3662442319. Frauen sind in den letzten Jahrhunderten – ganz bevorzugt in den letzten Jahrzehnten – kulturgeschichtlich viel intensiver und origineller tätig gewesen, als dies gemeinhin wahrgenommen wird. Was genau die kulturhistorischen Dimensionen des „Frau-Seins sind, wird vom Autor differenziert betrachtet und...
London: McCorquodale & Co., Limited, 1890. - 128 p. ASIN: 1462259863 Although tradition has not informed us whether our first parents made any marked change in their scanty garments on the death of their near relatives, it is certain that the fashion of wearing mourning and the institution of funereal ceremonies and rites are of the most remote antiquity. Herodotus tells us...
Michigan State University Press, 2013. - 221 p. Rites of Riddance and Substitution Ancient Types and Soteriologies Th e Sulfurous and Sublime Economies of Blood Th e Damnation of Christ’s Soul Anthropologies of the Scapegoat Th e Goat and the Idol A Figure in Flux Early Modern Texts of Persecution A Latent History of the Modern World Th e Plowbeam and the Loom Katharma and...
University of Toronto Press, 2016. — 285 p. — ISBN: 1442650605, 1442628537. From our first ABCs to the Book of Revelation's statement that Jesus is "the Alpha and Omega," we see the world through our letters. More than just a way of writing, the alphabet is a powerful concept that has shaped Western civilization and our daily lives. In The Letter and the Cosmos, Laurence de...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 416 p. This volume explores the pervasive influence exerted by some prehistoric monuments on European social life over thousands of years, and reveals how they can act as a node linking people through time, possessing huge ideological and political significance. Through the advancement of theoretical approaches and scientific methodologies,...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001. — 256 p. — ISBN10: 0521650240; ISBN13: 978-0521650243. What is memory? Without memory we lose our sense of identity, reasoning, even our ability to perform simple physical tasks. Yet it is elusive and difficult to define, and throughout the ages philosophers and psychologists have used metaphors as a way of understanding it. This...
Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell. — 2009. — 616 p. — ISBN10: 140519278X; ISBN13: 978-1405192781. From the early Sumerian clay tablet through to the emergence of the electronic text, this Companion provides a continuous and coherent account of the history of the book. Makes use of illustrative examples and case studies of well-known texts. Written by a group of expert contributors....
Reaktion Books, 1999. — 365 p. A much-needed contribution to the expanding interest in the history of travel and travel writing, Voyages and Visions is the first attempt to sketch a cultural history of travel from the sixteenth century to the present day. The essays address the theme of travel as a historical, literary and imaginative process, focusing on significant episodes...
Berlin: Kiepenheuer; Wien: Phaidon, 1932. — 392 S. Mit über 200 Bildern. Dieses Werk, das sich nicht an Gelehrte, sondern an bildungsbedürftige Laien wendet, verzichtet auf erschöpfende — das heißt: auch die Geduld des Lesers erschöpfende Vollständigkeit. Information ist der Hauptzweck dieses Buches, daneben hat es aber auch, wie wir nicht leugnen können, eine moralische...
University of Chicago Press, 2019. — 336 p. The 1974 fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman, staged in the young nation of Zaire and dubbed the Rumble in the Jungle, was arguably the biggest sporting event of the twentieth century. The bout between an ascendant undefeated champ and an outspoken master trying to reclaim the throne was a true multimedia spectacle. A...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 367 p. This book is the first to trace the origins and significance of positivism on a global scale. Taking their cues from Auguste Comte and John Stuart Mill, positivists pioneered a universal, experience-based culture of scientific inquiry for studying nature and society — a new science that would enlighten all of humankind. Positivists envisaged...
Springer, 2000. — 268 p. Drawing on Kent Flannery's forty years of cross-cultural research in the area, the contributors to this collection reflect the current diversity of contemporary approaches to the study of cultural evolutionary processes. Collectively the volume expresses the richness of the issues being investigated by comparative theorists interested in long-term...
The University of Michigan Press, 2001. — 338 p. This distinctive collection explores the construction of genealogies — in both the biological sense of procreation and the metaphorical sense of heritage and cultural patrimony. Focusing specifically on the discourses that inform such genealogies, Generation and Degeneration moves from Greco-Roman times to the recent past to...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 472 p. Timekeeping is an essential activity in the modern world, and we take it for granted that our lives our shaped by the hours of the day. Yet what seems so ordinary today is actually the extraordinary outcome of centuries of technical innovation and circulation of ideas about time. Shaping the Day is a pathbreaking study of the practice of...
University Press of Florida, 2018. — 353 p. — (Cultural Heritage Studies). — ISBN10: 0813056632, 13 978-0813056630. During Fidel Castro's rule, Cuban revolutionaries coopted and reinterpreted the previous bourgeois national narrative of Cuba, aligning it with revolutionary ideology through the use of heritage and public symbols. By changing uses of the past in the present, they...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 456 p. The concept expressed by the Roman term fama, although strictly linked to the activity of speaking, recalls a more complex form of collective communication that puts diverse information and opinions into circulation by "word of mouth", covering the spreading of rumours, expression of common anxieties, and sharing of opinions about peers,...
Brepols Publishers, 2002. — 373 p. Fear is a topic that appeals to a wide audience and is particularly of interest today. In the modern world, we fear war and terrorism, economic recession, and environmental degradation: these fears make up a great portion of the fabric of our daily lives. This is a volume of essays on fear and its representations in the Middle Ages and...
University of Texas Press, 2019. — 184 p. Trail of Footprints offers an intimate glimpse into the commission, circulation, and use of indigenous maps from colonial Mexico. A collection of sixty largely unpublished maps from the late sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries and made in the southern region of Oaxaca anchors an analysis of the way ethnically diverse societies...
Jonathan Cape, 2018. — 224 p. The tale of how the hero Theseus killed the Minotaur, finding his way out of the labyrinth using Ariadne’s ball of red thread, is one of the most intriguing, suggestive and persistent of all myths, and the labyrinth – the beautiful, confounding and terrifying building created for the half-man, half-bull monster – is one of the foundational symbols...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 320 p. — (Canto Classics). — ISBN: 978-1-107-60467-4. Many of the traditions which we think of as very ancient in their origins were not in fact sanctioned by long usage over the centuries, but were invented comparatively recently. This book explores examples of this process of invention - the creation of Welsh and Scottish...
Rochester, Vermont: Park Street Press. — 2010. — 192 p. ISBN10: 1594773939; ISBN13: 978-1594773938. An illustrated cultural history of drug use from its roots in animal intoxication to its future in designer neurochemicals. Featuring artwork from the upcoming High Society exhibition at the Wellcome Collection in London, one of the world’s greatest medical history collections....
Brepols Publishers, 2018. — 382 p. The North has long attracted attention, not simply as a circumpolar geographical location, but also as an ideological space, a place that is "made" through the understanding, imagination, and interactions of both insiders and outsiders. The envisioning of the North brings it into being, and it is from this starting point that this volume...
Yale University Press, 2015. — 384 p. Exploring a chapter not yet probed in the cultural history of the West, The Strait Gate demonstrates how doors, gates, and related technologies such as the key and the lock have shaped the way we perceive and navigate the domestic and urban spaces that surround us in our everyday lives. Jütte reveals how doors have served as sites of power,...
University of Virginia Press, 2012. — 393 p. In a comparative and interdisciplinary analysis of modern and postmodern literature, film, art, and visual culture, Monika Kaup examines the twentieth century’s recovery of the baroque within a hemispheric framework embracing North America, Latin America, and U.S. Latino/a culture. As neobaroque comes to the forefront of New World...
Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., Inc., Publishers, 2009. — viii, 385 p. : ill. The idea of the complete annihilation of all life is a powerful and culturally universal concept. As human societies around the globe have produced creation myths, so too have they created narratives concerning the apocalyptic destruction of their worlds. This book explores the idea of the...
Cambridge University Press, 2000. - 1120 p. ISBN: 978-0-521-40214-9 Ranging from the eating habits of our prehistoric ancestors to food-related policy issues we face today, this work covers the full spectrum of foods that have been hunted, gathered, cultivated, and domesticated; their nutritional makeup and uses; and their impact on cultures and demography.
Cambridge University Press, 2000. - 1040 p. ISBN: 978-0-521-59128-7 An undertaking without parallel or precedent, this monumental volume encapsulates much of what is known of the history of food and nutrition. It constitutes a vast and essential chapter in the history of human health and culture. Ranging from the eating habits of our prehistoric ancestors to food-related policy...
Stanford University Press, 1999. — 360 p. — (Writing Science). Toward the end of the nineteenth century, the hegemony of the printed word was shattered by the arrival of new media technologies that offered novel ways of communicating and storing data. Previously, writing had operated by way of symbolic mediation — all data had to pass through the needle's eye of the written...
Methodological study book. — Kaunas: Vytautas Magnus university; Vilnius: Versus aureus, 2014. — 256 p.: illustr., fig., tabl., bibliogr. — ISBN: 9786094670312 This methodological study book reveals the features of Lithuanian ethnic culture, analyzes the stages of development and the most significant tendencies of Lithuanian art, theatre and literature of the 20th century and...
3. Auflage. — München: C.H. Beck, 2004. — 126 S. — ISBN: 3-406-49467-6. In unserer Lebenswelt verschwinden mehr Dinge - und das mit ihnen verbundene Stück Leben - als neu hinzukommen, und wir vergessen überdies, was uns entschwindet. Das können ganz unspektakuläre Dinge sein, eine bestimmte Bewegung, eine Geste der Höflichkeit, eine von der Not erfundene Speise, Markenartikel...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 615 p. There is a rich body of encyclopaedic writing which survives from the two millennia before the Enlightenment. This book sheds new light on that material. It traces the development of traditions of knowledge-ordering which stretched back to Pliny and Varro and others in the classical world. It works with a broad concept of...
Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, 2015. — 200 p. Cultures of Death and Dying in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: An Introduction. Mia Korpiola and Anu Lahtinen. The Remembrance of the Deceased in the Traditional Polish Culture of the Middle Ages. Beata Wojciechowska. Deviant Burials: Societal Exclusion of Dead Outlaws in Medieval Norway. Anne Irene Riisøy. Parental...
Doubleday, 2015. — 384 p. Missoula, Montana is a typical college town, home to a highly regarded state university whose beloved football team inspires a passionately loyal fan base. Between January 2008 and May 2012, hundreds of students reported sexual assaults to the local police. Few of the cases were properly handled by either the university or local authorities. In this,...
Springer, 2021. — 279 S. Dieses Werk gibt einen Überblick über die Geschichte des Zählens, sowohl in mathematischen oder philosophischen als auch soziokulturellen Zusammenhängen. Die Frage "Warum und wie zählen wir eigentlich?" wird vielfältig untersucht und beantwortet. Bewusst kurz und unterhaltsam soll das Buch auch Anwendungen zeigen - im Alltag, in der Wissenschaft oder...
Princeton University Press, 2015. — 685 p. — ISBN10: 0691180938, ISBN13: 978-0691180939. The Greek philosopher Diogenes said that when he died his body should be tossed over the city walls for beasts to scavenge. Why should he or anyone else care what became of his corpse? In The Work of the Dead, acclaimed cultural historian Thomas Laqueur examines why humanity has universally...
Innsbruk: Innsbruck University Press, 2013. — 414 s. Vorstellungen vom Leben und Wesen der Tiere, emotionale Beziehungen zum Tier, aber auch die Tiernutzung werden in diesem Buch im Rahmen jenes Kulturzusammenhangs, der aus der Vorgeschichte über die frühen Kulturen des Alten Orients und Ägyptens bis zur griechisch-römischen Antike reicht, diachron und vergleichend dargestellt....
Springer, 2008. — 182 p. — ISBN: 8847008166. Il dado, il filo, la chiave, l’anello, lo specchio, il bottone e la sfera sono cose semplici che incontriamo quotidianamente, ma di cui spesso ci dimentichiamo, perché la cultura contemporanea sempre più si lascia ammaliare dalla complessità dei sistemi e dalla leggerezza delle realtà virtuali. Questo saggio, facendo il controcanto...
Da Capo Press, 2008. — 348 p. Herodotus is known as the Father of History, but he was much more than that. Informed by his own travels, his historical work digresses more than it chronicles, with tales of the lands and peoples he visited. As Michael Ondaatje once famously suggested, "What you find in him are the cul-de-sacs within the sweep of history". In The Way of Herodotus...
Riga: Löffler, 1931. – 59 S.: Ill. - (Abhandlungen der Herder-Gesellschaft und des Herder-Instituts zu Riga, 4. Band, Nr. 4). Der Bäcker. Zur Entstehung des Bäckeramtes. Einrichtungen und Bräuche im Bäckeramt. Volkstümliche Namen für den Bäcker. Die Sprache des Bäckers. Das Brot. Typische Brotformen. Namen der Teile und Struktureigenheiten des Brotes. Namen landesüblicher...
Continuum, 2000. - 546 p. - (The Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism 2). Hailed as the best scholarship in its field, this survey traces apocalypticism's role in Western history from its origins to the close of the third millennium.Continuum congratulates Bernard McGinn on being the recipient of the 1999 Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award
Foreword by Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson — Weiser Books, 2019. — 256 p. "The North" is simultaneously a location, a direction, and a mystical concept. Although this concept has ancient roots in mythology, folklore, and fairy tales, it continues to resonate today within modern culture. McIntosh leads readers, chapter by chapter, through the magical and spiritual history of the North,...
Basic Books, 2013. — 352 p. Genius. The word connotes an almost unworldly power: the power to create, to grasp universal secrets, even to destroy. As renowned intellectual historian Darrin McMahon explains in Divine Fury , the concept of genius can be traced back to antiquity, when men of great insight were thought to be advised by demons. The modern idea of genius emerged in...
Basic Books, 2013. — 352 p. Genius. The word connotes an almost unworldly power: the power to create, to grasp universal secrets, even to destroy. As renowned intellectual historian Darrin McMahon explains in Divine Fury , the concept of genius can be traced back to antiquity, when men of great insight were thought to be advised by demons. The modern idea of genius emerged in...
London: J. M. Watkins, 1919. — 153 p. The notion that the physical body of man is as it were the exteriorization of an invisible subtle embodiment of the life of the mind is a very ancient belief. Conjectures concerning it vary with every stage of culture and differ within every stage. But the underlying conception invariably holds its ground, and makes good its claim to be one...
Yale University Press, 2017. — 352 p. Now reissued in an updated paperback edition, this groundbreaking account of the Medieval Revival movement examines the ways in which the style of the medieval period was re-established in post-Enlightenment England - from Walpole and Scott, Pugin, Ruskin, and Tennyson to Pound, Tolkien, and Rowling. The style of the medieval period, which...
Routledge, 2004. — 224 p. — ISBN10: 0415948134; ISBN13: 9780415948135. Time-Warping in Tenochtitlan Anthropologists and Alcoholics After Fifteen of Twenty Drinks Bodies and Memories Alla en el Rancho Grande Death-Wish Aesthetics Spousal Assault Rituals, Then and Now The Pedro Infante Generation Thirsty Urban normads
Übersetzung aus dem Ukrainischen Übersetzerin Oksana Brokert. — Saarbrücken, Deutschland / Germany: AV Akademikerverlag, 2016. — 68 s. — ISBN: 978-3-330-50679-4. Михайличенко О.В. Українское народоведение: очерки об Украине и украинцах / Перевод на немецкий язык: Оксана Брокерт. — Саарбрюккен, Германия: AV Akademikerverlag, 2016. — 68 p. — ISBN: 978-3-330-50679-4. Die Struktur...
Princeton University Press, 2008. — 216 p. Black--favorite color of priests and penitents, artists and ascetics, fashion designers and fascists--has always stood for powerfully opposed ideas: authority and humility, sin and holiness, rebellion and conformity, wealth and poverty, good and bad. In this beautiful and richly illustrated book, the acclaimed author of Blue now tells...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. — 275 p. The Adventure of the Human Intellect presents the latest scholarship on the beginnings of intellectual history on a broad scope, encompassing ten eminent ancient or early civilizations from both the Old and New Worlds. - Borrows themes from The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man (1946), updating an old topic with a new approach and up-to-date...
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. — 624 p. — ISBN10: 0300088752; ISBN13: 978-0300088755 In 1909, F.T. Marinetti published his incendiary Futurist Manifesto, proclaiming, “We stand on the last promontory of the centuries!” and “There, on the earth, the earliest dawn!” Intent on delivering Italy from “its fetid cancer of professors, archaeologists, tour guides, and...
Praeger Publishers, 2007. — 196 p. Sex sells, they say, but even today it is considered forbidden or sinful by many in the Western world. This book is an account of the ways in which sexual pleasure has been devalued and demonized in the West by the historical forces of Christendom. It tells the story of how sex came to be regarded by societies throughout the ages as perverse,...
London: Routledge, 2006. — 584 p. — ISBN10: 0415323592; ISBN13: 978-0415323598. Following on from his highly acclaimed first publication, Peter Rietbergen’s excellent second edition brings the reader up to date with Europe’s current cultural trends. Rietbergen examines the many varied cultural building blocks of Europe, their importance in the continent’s cultural identity, and...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 692 p. Generations of Feeling is the first book to provide a comprehensive history of emotions in pre- and early modern Western Europe. Charting the varieties, transformations and constants of human sentiments over the course of eleven centuries, Barbara H. Rosenwein explores the feelings expressed in a wide range of 'emotional communities'...
Granary Books, 2000. — 580 p. A collection for the general reader and the specialist, A Book of the Book is an accessible and erudite set of readings on the book as a mythic and material object. These texts comprise a vivid exploration of the poetics of the book, a multifaceted study nurtured by the literary and ethnographic scope of its editors' vision, that argues...
Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. — 102 p. — ISBN10: 0195144619; ISBN13: 978-0195144611. From the sex-free paradise of the Shakers to the worker's paradise of Marx, utopian ideas seem to have two things in common--they all are wonderfully plausible at the start and they all end up as disasters. In Visions of Utopia, three leading cultural critics--Edward...
Piper, 1996. - 601 p. In German. Translation: Harald Stadler, Thorsten Schmidt Originatitel: Forbidden Knowledge; 1996 Taboo is a study of the norms of impermissibility in various historical epochs. Mit dem Verlust der Unschuld bei Adam und Eva fing alles an. Was dürfen Menschen wissen, was sollte Tabu bleiben? Gibt es überhaupt Dinge, von denen wir nicht wissen sollten? Die...
Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2009. — 413 p. Featuring twenty one newly-commissioned essays, A Companion to the Global Renaissance: English Literature and Culture in the Era of Expansion demonstrates how today's globalization is the result of a complex and lengthy historical process that had its roots in England's mercantile and cross-cultural interactions of the sixteenth and...
Bern – Berlin – Bruxelles – Frankfurt am Main – New York – Oxford – Wien: Peter Lang, 2017. — xiv+ 337 p. — ISBN: 978-3-0343-2203-4 ; ISBN: 978-1-78707-394-4; ISBN: 978-1-78707-395-1; ISBN: 978-1-78707-396-8. From Orientalism to Cultural Capital presents a fascinating account of the wave of Russophilia that pervaded British literary culture in the early twentieth century. The...
Walker Publishing Company, 2006. — 336 p. Throughout human history, certain drinks have done much more than simply quench our thirst. As Tom Standage relates with easy authority and charm, six of them - beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea and cola - have had a surprisingly pervasive influence on the course of history during pivotal epochs. From humankind's adoption of agriculture...
Continuum, 2000. — 522 p. — (The Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism 3). Hailed as the best scholarship in its field, this survey traces apocalypticism's role in Western history from its origins to the close of the third millennium. Continuum congratulates Stephen J. Stein on being the recipient of the 1999 Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award
Harvard University Press, 2013. — 320 p. A seventeenth-century English traveler to the Eastern Mediterranean would have faced a problem in writing about this unfamiliar place: how to describe its inhabitants in a way his countrymen would understand? In an age when a European education meant mastering the Classical literature of Greece and Rome, he would naturally turn to...
Warszawa: W drukarni F. Csernaka; Wydawnictwo "Głosu", 1896. — 442 s. Badania rozwoju mitologji, filozofji, wiary, mowy, sztuki i zwyczajów. Sir Edward Burnett Tylor (ur. 2 października 1832, zm. 2 stycznia 1917) – angielski archeolog, antropolog i etnolog, od 1871 członek Royal Society, w latach 1896-1909 profesor antropologii społecznej Balliol College w Oksfordzie. Pochodził...
Warszawa: W drukarni F. Csernaka; Wydawnictwo "Głosu", 1898. — 426 s. Badania rozwoju mitologji, filozofji, wiary, mowy, sztuki i zwyczajów. Sir Edward Burnett Tylor (ur. 2 października 1832, zm. 2 stycznia 1917) – angielski archeolog, antropolog i etnolog, od 1871 członek Royal Society, w latach 1896-1909 profesor antropologii społecznej Balliol College w Oksfordzie. Pochodził...
Prospect Books, 2011. — 58 p. Most ram lambs are castrated in the first weeks of life, using rubber rings to constrict the blood-supply to the testes which then atrophy. Tis is painless and usually trouble-free. Some breeds, of hill lamb for example, do not respond well to this method of treatment and are castrated somewhat later in life using the Burdizzo clamp. Tis is not a...
Shanghai Press, 2023, 317 p., ISBN: 978-1-93836-899-9. Are you curious about the diversified views in “Contention of the Hundred Schools of Thought”? What's the origin of the Chinese zodiac signs? Or the history of the Chinese tea culture that is popular around the world? As one of the few ancient civilizations in the world, China features a multidimensional cultural deposit in...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. — 240 p. — ISBN10: 0192852116; ISBN13: 978-0192852113. Never before has time obsessed humanity as much as now. The more accurately we measure it, the more it worries us. Although we complain that it passes too quickly, we seldom question its fundamental characteristics or the methods we use to measure it. Having grown so accustomed to the...
Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse, 168, 5. Abhandlung. Wien: In Kommission bei A. Hölder, 1911, 26p. Julius von Wiesner's pioneering study of the oldest specimens of rag paper of Central Asian origin was conducted soon after the discovery of large collections of manuscripts found in Dunhuang. This work, important for philology, codicology and...
Editor: Dorothy Ko, JaHyun Kim Haboush, Joan R. Piggott. University ofCalifornia Press, 2003. - 350 p. ISBN: 0-520-23105-8. The collective work explores the position and role of women in the Japanese society of the Nara (VIII century) and Edo (XVII-XIX centuries), as well as in China and Korea in the Middle Ages. The Patriarchal Family Paradigm in Eighth-Century Japan. Hiroko...
Scarecrow Press, 2010. — 719 p. The Historical A-Z Dictionary of Latin American Literature and Theater provides users with an accessible single-volume reference tool covering Portuguese-speaking Brazil and the 16 Spanish-speaking countries of continental Latin America (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua,...
Praha: Grada, 2002. - 323 s. - ISBN: 80-247-0345-9 Předmětem výkladu je minulost. Šest kapitol zahrnuje minulost, která začíná starověkým Řeckem a uzavírá se osvícenstvím s jeho projektem moderní doby. Minulostí se nezabýváme jenom proto, abychom věděli, "jak to vlastně bylo", ale ptáme se ve filosofii podstatnějším způsobem, to jest tážeme se po přítomnosti minulého v našem...
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