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Sport as Symbol

Images of the Athlete in Art, Literature and Song

By: Mari Womack

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Sport as Symbol

Images of the Athlete in Art, Literature and Song

By: Mari Womack

Upon first consideration, sport and art seem to occupy separate, even opposing, realms--sport, associated with physical prowess, and art, with the highest reaches of the human mind. But because sport is such a powerful metaphor for so many human experiences, it has found its way into artistic traditions all over the world. Part One of this book provides a basic understanding of sport as symbol. Part Two gives attention to animals as adversaries and traces the origins of sporting art back to the hunt. Part Three considers humans competing against humans in combat sports, ball games, stick-and-ball games, and racquet sports, as well as in warfare. Part Four concentrates on contesting with oneself in races and sports of grace and beauty such as gymnastics, figure skating and ice dancing. The book concludes with a discussion of the athlete's relationships to society.

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McFarland

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0786415797

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9780786415793

Symbols and Meaning

A Concise Introduction

By: Mari Womack

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Symbols and Meaning

A Concise Introduction

By: Mari Womack

Womack offers a concise and easy-to-read overview of the power and meaning of symbols in all human societies. She describes how symbols_images, words, or behaviors with multi-layered meanings_are mechanism of communication. She demonstrates how we experience the power of symbols in all aspects of human life: birth, death, love, sexual desire, and the need for food and shelter. Womack investigates the use of symbols in the language of religion, healing, politics, social organization and control, popular culture, psychology, philosophy, semiotics, magic and expressive culture, including art, aesthetics, literature, theater, sports, and music. The author's eclectic, anthropological approach incorporates the social, conceptual and psychological dynamics of symbols. Her new book is an essential introductory textbook for courses that define fundamental concepts in religion, cultural anthropology, communication, and art.

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171

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Rowman Altamira

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ISBN 10

0759114889

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9780759114883

The Anthropology of Health and Healing

By: Mari Womack

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The Anthropology of Health and Healing

By: Mari Womack

The Anthropology of Health and Healing provides the first holistic approach to the study of medical anthropology. Over the past two decades, medical anthropology has been the most rapidly growing subfield in anthropology, and a number of medical anthropology texts have been published, focusing primarily on public policy and health care delivery systems. Yet while anthropologists have researched topics related to medical anthropology for more than one hundred years, here Mari Womack thoroughly surveys this richly diverse field and provides an integrated approach that links together the biological, psychological, social, communicative, epidemiological, philosophical, historical, and developmental factors that shape health and healing. Book jacket.

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388

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0759110441

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9780759110441

Shifting Boundaries of the Firm

Japanese Company - Japanese Labour

By: Mari Sako,Professor of International Business Mari Sako

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Shifting Boundaries of the Firm

Japanese Company - Japanese Labour

By: Mari Sako,Professor of International Business Mari Sako

This in-depth exploration of the organizational strategies of Japanese corporate management and union leaders considers the issue of the 'organizational boundaries' which arise from the restructuring following mergers, acquisitions, outsourcing and spin-offs.

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304

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Oxford University Press on Demand

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0199268169

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9780199268160

Price, Quality and Trust

Inter-firm Relations in Britain and Japan

By: Mari Sako

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Inter-firm Relations in Britain and Japan

By: Mari Sako

The management of buyer-supplier relations has come to be regarded as a key to achieving manufacturing competitiveness, particularly in sectors facing global competition based on both price and quality. This book is a theoretical and empirical exploration of the link between the type of buyer-supplier relations and corporate performance. Dr Sako examines how British and Japanese companies in the electronics industry manage their relationships with buyers and suppliers, the empirical study comprising a three-way comparison of a Japanese customer company, a British customer company, and a Japanese company in Britain, and an analysis of 36 supplier companies in Britain and Japan. Variations of the companies' business practices are assessed in terms of technology, the nature of market competition, the national legal framework, financial structures, employment systems, and the mode of entrepreneurship. The author identifies two distinct approaches in the two countries - the arm's-length contractual relation (ACR) in Britain, and the obligational contractual relation (OCR) in Japan - and argues that the trust and interdependence present in the latter can be a powerful springboard from which to achieve corporate success.

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286

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Cambridge University Press

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0521413869

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9780521413862

Are Skills the Answer?

The Political Economy of Skill Creation in Advanced Industrial Countries

By: Colin Crouch,David Finegold,Mari Sako

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Are Skills the Answer?

The Political Economy of Skill Creation in Advanced Industrial Countries

By: Colin Crouch,David Finegold,Mari Sako

This study of vocational education in advanced industrial countries contributes to two different areas of debate. The first is the study of the diversity of institutional forms taken by modern capitalism. The second theme is that of vocational education and training in its own right.

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Oxford University Press

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0199241112

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9780199241118

Symbols and Meaning

A Concise Introduction

By: Mari Womack

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A Concise Introduction

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Rowman Altamira

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0759103224

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9780759103221

Sport as Symbol

Images of the Athlete in Art, Literature and Song

By: Mari Womack

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Images of the Athlete in Art, Literature and Song

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Book's by Mari Womack

Sport as Symbol

Sport as Symbol

Symbols and Meaning

Symbols and Meaning

The Anthropology of Health and Healing

The Anthropology of Health and Healing

Shifting Boundaries of the Firm

Shifting Boundaries of the Firm

Price, Quality and Trust

Price, Quality and Trust

Are Skills the Answer?

Are Skills the Answer?

Symbols and Meaning

Symbols and Meaning

Sport as Symbol

Sport as Symbol

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