Your email was sent successfully. Check your inbox.

An error occurred while sending the email. Please try again.

Proceed reservation?

Export
Filter
  • BSZ  (17)
  • Damousi, Joy  (6)
  • Barber, Karin  (5)
  • Genovese, Eugene D.
  • ebrary, Inc
  • Cambridge : Cambridge University Press  (17)
  • Amsterdam : J. Benjamins
Datasource
Material
Language
  • 1
    Language: English
    Series Statement: Cambridge histories online
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Cambridge world history of violence
    DDC: 303.6
    Keywords: Violence History ; Ethnic conflict History ; Social conflict History ; War History ; World history ; Gewalt
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 2
    ISBN: 9781316341247
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XVII, 739 Seiten)
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Bunnefeld, Jan-Heinrich [Rezension von: Fagan, G.G., Fibiger, L., Hudson, M. & Trundle, M. (eds), The Cambridge world history of violence, volume 1, The prehistoric and ancient worlds] 2020
    Series Statement: Cambridge histories online
    Series Statement: The Cambridge world history of violence
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Cambridge world history of violence ; Volume 1: The prehistoric and ancient worlds
    Angaben zur Quelle: Volume 1
    DDC: 303.6
    Keywords: Violence ; History ; Ethnic conflict ; History ; Social conflict ; History ; War ; History ; World history ; Gewalt ; Geschichte Anfänge-500
    Abstract: The first in a four-volume set, The Cambridge World History of Violence, volume I provides a comprehensive examination of violence in prehistory and the ancient world. Covering the period through to the end of classical antiquity, the chapters take a global perspective spanning sub-Saharan Africa, the Near East, Europe, India, China, Japan and Central America. Unlike many previous works, this book does not focus only on warfare but examines violence as a broader phenomenon. The historical approach complements, and in some cases critiques, previous research on the anthropology and psychology of violence in the human story. Written by a team of contributors who are experts in each of their respective fields, this volume will be of particular interest to anyone fascinated by archaeology and the ancient world.
    URL: Volltext  (lizenzpflichtig)
    URL: Volltext  (lizenzpflichtig)
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 3
    ISBN: 9781316661291
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XIV, 708 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Cambridge histories online
    Series Statement: The Cambridge world history of violence
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Cambridge world history of violence ; Volume 2: 500-1500 CE
    Angaben zur Quelle: Volume 2
    DDC: 303.6
    Keywords: Violence ; History ; Ethnic conflict ; History ; Social conflict ; History ; War ; History ; World history ; Gewalt ; Geschichte 500-1500
    Abstract: Violence permeated much of social life across the vast geographical space of the European, American, Asian and Islamic lands and through the broad sweep of what is often termed the Middle Millennium (roughly 500 to 1500). Focusing on four contexts in which violence occurred across this huge area, the contributors to this volume explore the formation of centralised polities through war and conquest; institution building and ideological expression by these same polities; control of extensive trade networks; and the emergence and dominance of religious ecumenes. Attention is also given to the idea of how theories of violence are relevant to the specific historical circumstances discussed in the volume's chapters. A final section on the depiction of violence, both visual and literary, demonstrates the ubiquity of societal efforts to confront meanings of violence during this longue durée.
    URL: Volltext  (lizenzpflichtig)
    URL: Volltext  (lizenzpflichtig)
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 4
    ISBN: 9781316585023
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XIV, 680 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Cambridge histories online
    Series Statement: The Cambridge world history of violence
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Cambridge world history of violence ; Volume 4: 1800 to the present
    Angaben zur Quelle: Volume 4
    DDC: 303.6
    Keywords: Violence ; History ; Ethnic conflict ; History ; Social conflict ; History ; War ; History ; World history ; Gewalt ; Geschichte 1800-2020
    Abstract: This book explores one of the most intractable problems of human existence - our propensity to inflict violence. It provides readers with case studies of political, social, economic, religious, structural and interpersonal violence from across the entire globe since 1800. It also examines the changing representations of violence in diverse media and the cultural significance of its commemoration. Together, the chapters provide in-depth understanding of the ways that humans have perpetrated violence, justified its use, attempted to contain its spread and narrated the stories of its impacts. Readers also gain insight into the mechanisms by which the parameters about the acceptable limits to and locations of violence have dramatically altered over the course of a few decades. Leading experts from around the world have pooled their knowledge to provide concise, authoritative examinations of the complex phenomenon of human violence. Annotated bibliographies provide overviews of the shape of the research field.
    URL: Volltext  (lizenzpflichtig)
    URL: Volltext  (lizenzpflichtig)
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 5
    ISBN: 9781316340592
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XV, 716 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Cambridge histories online
    Series Statement: The Cambridge world history of violence
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Cambridge world history of violence ; Volume 3: 1500-1800 CE
    Angaben zur Quelle: Volume 3
    DDC: 303.6
    Keywords: Violence ; History ; Ethnic conflict ; History ; Social conflict ; History ; War ; History ; World history ; Gewalt ; Geschichte 1500-1800
    Abstract: In the period from 1500 to 1800 the problem of violence necessitated asking fundamental questions and formulating answers about the most basic forms of human organisation and interactions. Violence spoke to critical issues such as the problem of civility in society, the nature of political sovereignty and the power of the state, the legitimacy of conquest and subjugation, the possibilities of popular resistance, and the manifestations of ethnic and racial unrest. It also provided the raw material for profound meditations on humanity and for examining our relationship to the divine and natural worlds. The third volume of The Cambridge World History of Violence examines a world in which global empires were consolidated and expanded, and in which civilisations for the first time linked to each other by trans-oceanic contacts and a sophisticated world trade system.
    URL: Volltext  (lizenzpflichtig)
    URL: Volltext  (lizenzpflichtig)
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 6
    Book
    Book
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107624474 , 9781107016897
    Language: English
    Pages: X, 201 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: New approaches to African history 11
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Barber, Karin 1949- A history of African popular cultured
    DDC: 306.096
    RVK:
    RVK:
    RVK:
    RVK:
    Keywords: Geschichte ; Alltagskultur ; Geschichtswissenschaft ; Afrika
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 7
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139061766
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 201 pages)
    Series Statement: New approaches to African history 11
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.0967
    RVK:
    RVK:
    RVK:
    RVK:
    Keywords: Geschichte ; Popular culture History ; Volkskultur ; Subsaharisches Afrika ; Subsaharisches Afrika ; Volkskultur ; Geschichte
    Abstract: Popular culture in Africa is the product of everyday life: the unofficial, the non-canonical. And it is the dynamism of this culture that makes Africa what it is. In this book, Karin Barber offers a journey through the history of music, theatre, fiction, song, dance, poetry, and film from the seventeenth century to the present day. From satires created by those living in West African coastal towns in the era of the slave trade, to the poetry and fiction of townships and mine compounds in South Africa, and from today's East African streets where Swahili hip hop artists gather to the juggernaut of the Nollywood film industry, this book weaves together a wealth of sites and scenes of cultural production. In doing so, it provides an ideal text for students and researchers seeking to learn more about the diversity, specificity and vibrancy of popular cultural forms in African history
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jan 2018)
    URL: Volltext  (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
    URL: Volltext  (lizenzpflichtig)
    URL: Volltext  (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
    URL: Volltext  (lizenzpflichtig)
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 8
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316481189
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxxii, 275 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies on the American South
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.3/620975
    Keywords: Geschichte 1830-1860 ; Slavery / Southern States / History / 19th century ; Plantation owners / Southern States / History / 19th century ; Paternalism / Southern States / History / 19th century ; Slaves / Southern States / Social conditions / 19th century ; Plantation workers / Southern States / History / 19th century ; Whites / Southern States / Social conditions / 19th century ; Plantagenbesitzer ; Gesellschaftsleben ; Sklaverei ; Alltag ; USA Südstaaten ; USA Südstaaten ; Plantagenbesitzer ; Sklaverei ; Alltag ; Gesellschaftsleben ; Geschichte 1830-1860
    Abstract: This book examines the home and leisure life of planters in the antebellum American South. Based on a lifetime of research by the late Eugene Genovese (1930–2012), with an introduction and epilogue by Douglas Ambrose, The Sweetness of Life presents a penetrating study of slaveholders and their families in both intimate and domestic settings: at home; attending the theatre; going on vacations to spas and springs; throwing parties; hunting; gambling; drinking and entertaining guests, completing a comprehensive portrait of the slaveholders and the world that they built with slaves. Genovese subtly but powerfully demonstrates how much politics, economics, and religion shaped, informed, and made possible these leisure activities. A fascinating investigation of a little-studied aspect of planter life, The Sweetness of Life broadens our understanding of the world that the slaveholders and their slaves made; a tragic world of both 'sweetness' and slavery
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Sep 2017)
    URL: Volltext  (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
    URL: Volltext  (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
    URL: Volltext  (lizenzpflichtig)
    URL: Volltext  (lizenzpflichtig)
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 9
    ISBN: 9781316336847
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 261 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.88/9309409045
    RVK:
    Keywords: Einwanderer ; Geschichte ; Gesellschaft ; Weltkrieg (1939-1945) ; Greeks / Australia / Social conditions ; Immigrants / Australia / Social conditions ; Greeks / Migrations ; World War, 1939-1945 / Influence ; Memory / Social aspects / Australia ; Families / Australia ; Intergenerational relations / Australia ; Transnationalism / Social aspects / Australia ; Kollektives Gedächtnis ; Generationsbeziehung ; Psychisches Trauma ; Griechischer Bürgerkrieg ; Zweiter Weltkrieg ; Griechischer Einwanderer ; Australien ; Griechenland ; Greece / History / Civil War, 1944-1949 / Influence ; Australia / Ethnic relations ; Australien ; Australien ; Griechischer Einwanderer ; Zweiter Weltkrieg ; Griechischer Bürgerkrieg ; Kollektives Gedächtnis ; Psychisches Trauma ; Generationsbeziehung
    Abstract: In an engaging and original contribution to the field of memory studies, Joy Damousi considers the enduring impact of war on family memory in the Greek diaspora. Focusing on Australia's Greek immigrants in the aftermath of the Second World War and the Greek Civil War, the book explores the concept of remembrance within the larger context of migration to show how intergenerational experience of war and trauma transcend both place and nation. Drawing from the most recent research in memory, trauma and transnationalism, Memory and Migration in the Shadow of War deals with the continuities and discontinuities of war stories, assimilation in modern Australia, politics and activism, child migration and memories of mothers and children in war. Damousi sheds new light on aspects of forgotten memory and silence within families and communities, and in particular the ways in which past experience of violence and tragedy is both negotiated and processed
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Greek war stories in Australia : continuities and discontinuities -- 2. Assimilation in modern Australia -- 3. War stories and the migration generation -- 4. Politics and activism -- 5. The Greek Civil War and child migration to Australia -- 6. Remembering the "Paidomazoma" : memories of mothers and children in war -- 7. Legacies : second generation Greek-Australians -- 8. The shadow of war -- Conclusion
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Nov 2015)
    URL: Volltext  (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
    URL: Volltext  (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
    URL: Volltext  (lizenzpflichtig)
    URL: Volltext  (lizenzpflichtig)
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 10
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511994753 , 1139161601 , 9780511994753 , 9781139161602
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (252 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Genovese, Eugene D Fatal Self-Deception : Slaveholding Paternalism in the Old South
    DDC: 306.3/620975
    Keywords: Plantation owners History 19th century ; Paternalism History 19th century ; Slaves Social conditions 19th century ; Plantation workers History 19th century ; Whites Social conditions 19th century ; Slavery History 19th century ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Slavery ; Paternalism ; Plantation owners ; Plantation workers ; Slavery ; Slaves ; Social conditions ; Whites ; Social conditions ; History ; Southern States
    Abstract: 3 Strangers within the GatesSundry White Servants; Governesses and Tutors; Hired Laborers; Overseers and Their Families; 4 Loyal and Loving Slaves; Masterful Forbearance; Mutual Dependency and Manipulation; Souls; Grief and Money; Tests of Faith; Dangerous Wishes; 5 The Blacks' Best and Most Faithful Friend; A Stagnant Race; Black Incapacity; Black Thoughts, According to White Critics; Views of Emancipation; News from Africa; The Fate of the Indians; The Specter of Barbarism; 6 Guardians of a Helpless Race; Vindication from the Free States; Abolitionism Indicted for Racism.
    Abstract: Cover; Fatal Self-Deception Slaveholding Paternalism in the Old South; Advance Praise for Fatal Self-Deception; Title; Copyright; For Deborah Ann Symonds Gifted Scholar and Wonderful Friend and For her partner, Melissa Cano, and their children, Sarah and Sam; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Manuscript Collections; Introduction; 1 "Boisterous Passions"; Edmund Burke's Cautionary Tale; Morals; Apprehensive Parents; Young Gentlemen in Fields and Stores; Weighed in the Balances; 2 The Complete Household; Paternal Authority; Property in Man?; Household Problems; Slave Sales.
    Abstract: Discusses how slaveholders perpetuated and rationalized a romanticized version of life on the plantation
    Abstract: Persistent Fears of Black ExterminationWhite Recognition of Black Achievement; An Incongruity; 7 Devotion unto Death; Armed Slaves: Friends or Foes?; Concern for White Women; Mounting Crises; Body Servants in War and Propaganda; The Confederacy Opts for Black Troops; Notes; Introduction; 1. "Boisterous Passions"; 2. The Complete Household; 3. Strangers within the Gates; 4. Loyal and Loving Slaves; 5. The Blacks' Best and Most Faithful Friend; 6. Guardians of a Helpless Race; 7. Devotion unto Death; Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
    URL: Volltext  (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
    URL: Volltext  (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
    URL: Volltext  (lizenzpflichtig)
    URL: Volltext  (lizenzpflichtig)
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 11
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 1282818147 , 9780521199070 , 9781282818149 , 9780511917448
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xvi, 345 p) , ill
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in comparative politics
    Parallel Title: Print version Immigration and Conflict in Europe
    DDC: 304.8/4
    Keywords: Immigrants Cultural assimilation ; Ethnic conflict ; Europe Ethnic relations ; Europe Race relations ; Europe Emigration and immigration ; Electronic book ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift
    Abstract: Explains why we observe clashes between immigrants and natives and between immigrants and state actors in some locations
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; Part I General Introduction and Theoretical Framework; 1 Introduction; 2 A Theory of Immigrant Conflict; Part II Introduction to Part II; 3 Patterns of Immigrant Conflict in Great Britain; 4 Dynamics of Racist Violence; Part III Introduction to Part III; Previewing the Cases; Addressing Competing Explanations; 5 Immigrant-Native Conflict in Two London Boroughs; 6 Two Faces of Immigrant Conflict in Two Midlands Cities; Part IV Introduction to Part IV
    Description / Table of Contents: 7 Economic Integration, Political Exclusion, and Immigrant Conflict in Germany8 Immigration and Conflict across Countries; 9 Conclusion; Appendix A Coding Large-Scale Instances of Immigrant-Native and Immigrant-State Violence; Appendix B Data and Variables: Immigrant Turnout; Sample Used in Models; Dependent Variables; Independent Variables; References; Index
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    URL: Volltext  (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
    URL: Volltext  (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
    URL: Volltext  (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
    URL: Volltext  (lizenzpflichtig)
    URL: Volltext  (lizenzpflichtig)
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 12
    ISBN: 0521897009 , 0521721814 , 1281903922 , 9781281903921 , 9780511438011 , 9780521897006 , 9780521721813
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xv, 314 p)
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version Slavery in White and Black : Class and Race in the Southern Slaveholders' New World Order
    DDC: 306.3/620775
    RVK:
    RVK:
    Keywords: Capitalism History 19th century ; Slavery and the church History 19th century ; Industrialization Social aspects 19th century ; Labor History 19th century ; Slavery Justification ; Working class Social conditions 19th century ; Slavery Moral and ethical aspects 19th century ; History ; Southern States Intellectual life 19th century
    Abstract: This book asks to what extent Southern slaveholders believed the doctrine that enslavement was the best possible condition for all labor
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Manuscript Collections Cited; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 The Impending Collapse of Capitalism; 2 Hewers of Wood, Drawers of Water; 3 Travelers to the South, Southerners Abroad; 4 The Squaring of Circles; 5 The Appeal to Social Theory; 6 Perceptions and Realities; Afterword; Index
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    URL: Volltext  (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
    URL: Volltext  (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
    URL: Volltext  (lizenzpflichtig)
    URL: Volltext  (lizenzpflichtig)
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 13
    ISBN: 9780521866606 , 9780521685580 , 052186660X , 0521685583
    Language: English
    Pages: X, 310 S. , graph. Darst.
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2009 Online-Ressource ebrary online Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Edition: [S.l.] Ebrary
    Series Statement: Structural analysis in the social sciences 30
    Series Statement: Structural analysis in the social sciences
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Kilduff, Martin, 1949 - Interpersonal networks in organizations
    DDC: 302.35
    RVK:
    RVK:
    RVK:
    Keywords: Self-perception ; Social perception ; Social networks ; Organizational behavior Social aspects ; Power (Social sciences) ; Organizational behavior Social aspects ; Social networks ; Self-perception ; Social perception ; Power (Social sciences) ; Organisationsphsychologie ; Soziales Netzwerk ; Organisationskultur ; Organisationspsychologie ; Soziales Netzwerk ; Organisationsverhalten ; Soziale Wahrnehmung ; Soziales Netzwerk
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 14
    ISBN: 9780521837873 , 0521837871
    Language: English
    Pages: ix, 276 p
    Series Statement: New departures in anthropology 5
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 398
    RVK:
    RVK:
    Keywords: Oral tradition ; Folklore ; Oral tradition ; Folklore ; Mündliche Überlieferung ; Schriftlichkeit ; Afrika ; Afrika ; Afrika ; Schriftlichkeit ; Afrika ; Mündliche Überlieferung
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 15
    ISBN: 9780511619656
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (ix, 276 pages)
    Series Statement: New departures in anthropology
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 302.2
    RVK:
    RVK:
    Keywords: Oral tradition ; Folklore ; Oral tradition / Africa ; Folklore / Africa ; Schriftlichkeit ; Mündliche Überlieferung ; Afrika ; Afrika ; Afrika ; Schriftlichkeit ; Afrika ; Mündliche Überlieferung
    Abstract: What can texts - both written and oral - tell us about the societies that produce them? How are texts constituted in different cultures, and how do they shape societies and individuals? How can we understand the people who compose them? Drawing on examples from Africa and other countries, this original study sets out to answer these questions, by exploring textuality from a variety of angles. Topics covered include the importance of genre, the ways in which oral genres transcend the here-and-now, and the complex relationship between texts and the material world. Barber considers the ways in which personhood is evoked, both in oral poetry and in written diaries and letters, discusses the audience's role in creating the meaning of texts, and shows textual creativity to be a universal human capacity expressed in myriad forms. Engaging and thought-provoking, this book will be welcomed by anyone interested in anthropology, literature and cultural studies
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Anthropology and text -- 2. Genre, society and history -- 3. The constitution of oral texts -- 4. Text and personhood -- 5. Audiences and publics -- 6. The private -- 7. Textual fields and popular creativity
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
    URL: Volltext  (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
    URL: Volltext  (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
    URL: Volltext  (lizenzpflichtig)
    URL: Volltext  (lizenzpflichtig)
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 16
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511378742 , 9780511378744
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 276 pages)
    Series Statement: New departures in anthropology
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Barber, Karin Anthropology of texts, persons and publics
    DDC: 398
    Keywords: Oral tradition ; Folklore ; Oral tradition ; Folklore ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Folklore & Mythology ; Folklore ; Oral tradition ; Africa ; Electronic book
    Abstract: "What can texts - both written and oral - tells us about the societies that produce them? How are texts constituted in different cultures, and how do they shape societies and individuals? How can we understand the people who compose them? Drawing on examples from all over the world, this survey sets out to answer these questions, by exploring textuality from a variety of angles. Topics covered include the importance of genre, the ways in which oral genres transcend the here-and-now, and the complex relationship between texts and the material world. The book considers the ways in which personhood is evoked, both in oral poetry and in written diaries and letters, discusses the audience's role in creating the meaning of texts, and shows textual creativity to be a universal human capacity expressed in myriad forms. This book will be welcomed by anyone interested in anthropology, literature and cultural studies."--Jacket
    Abstract: 1. Anthropology and text -- 2. Genre, society and history -- 3. The constitution of oral texts -- 4. Text and personhood -- 5. Audiences and publics -- 6. The private -- 7. Textual fields and popular creativity.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , English
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 17
    ISBN: 0521850657 , 0521615623
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiii, 828 p) , 24 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version The Mind of the Master Class : History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders' Worldview
    DDC: 306.3/62/0975
    Keywords: Slavery Political aspects ; History ; Slavery Justification ; Slavery Moral and ethical aspects ; History ; Slaveholders Intellectual life ; Slaveholders Religious life ; Slaveholders Social life and customs ; Southern States Social life and customs 1775-1865 ; Southern States Religious life and customs ; Southern States Intellectual life ; Southern States History ; Philosophy
    Abstract: The Mind of the Master Class tells of America's greatest historical tragedy
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Prologue; PART ONE CRADLED IN THE STORMS OF REVOLUTION; 1 "That Terrible Tragedy"; 2 The Age of Revolution through Slaveholding Eyes; 3 "The Purest Sons of Freedom"; Entr'acte; PART TWO THE INESCAPABLE PAST; 4 History as Moral and Political Instruction; 5 The Slaveholders' Quest for a History of the Common People; 6 World History and the Politics of Slavery; 7 History as the Story of Freedom; PART THREE ANCIENT LEGACIES, MEDIEVAL SENSIBILITY, MODERN MEN; 8 In the Shadow of Antiquity
    Description / Table of Contents: 9 Coming to Terms with the Middle Ages10 The Chivalry; 11 Chivalric Slave Masters; 12 Chivalric Politics; PART FOUR A CHRISTIAN PEOPLE DEFEND THE FAITH; 13 A Christian People; 14 Unity and Diversity among the Faithful; 15 War over the Good Book; 16 Slavery; 17 The Holy Spirit in the Word of God; 18 Jerusalem and Athens - Against Paris; 19 Serpent in the Garden; 20 Theopolitics; Coda; PART FIVE AT THE RUBICON; 21 Between Individualism and Corporatism; 22 Past and Future Caesars; Epilogue; Supplementary References; Index
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 719-792) and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    URL: Volltext  (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
    URL: Volltext  (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
    URL: Volltext  (lizenzpflichtig)
    URL: Volltext  (lizenzpflichtig)
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
Close ⊗
This website uses cookies and the analysis tool Matomo. More information can be found here...