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The Jews

History, Memory, and the Present

By: Pierre Vidal-Naquet

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The Jews

History, Memory, and the Present

By: Pierre Vidal-Naquet

The highly publicized obscenity trial of Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness (1928) is generally recognized as the crystallizing moment in the construction of a visible modern English lesbian culture, marking a great divide between innocence and deviance, private and public, New Woman and Modern Lesbian. Yet despite unreserved agreement on the importance of this cultural moment, previous studies often reductively distort our reading of the formation of early twentieth-century lesbian identity, either by neglecting to examine in detail the developments leading up to the ban or by framing events in too broad a context against other cultural phenomena. Fashioning Sapphism locates the novelist Radclyffe Hall and other prominent lesbians--including the pioneer in women's policing, Mary Allen, the artist Gluck, and the writer Bryher--within English modernity through the multiple sites of law, sexology, fashion, and literary and visual representation, thus tracing the emergence of a modern English lesbian subculture in the first two decades of the twentieth century. Drawing on extensive new archival research, the book interrogates anew a range of myths long accepted without question (and still in circulation) concerning, to cite only a few, the extent of homophobia in the 1920s, the strategic deployment of sexology against sexual minorities, and the rigidity of certain cultural codes to denote lesbianism in public culture.

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Columbia University Press

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0231102097

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The Black Hunter

Forms of Thought and Forms of Society in the Greek World

By: Pierre Vidal-Naquet

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The Black Hunter

Forms of Thought and Forms of Society in the Greek World

By: Pierre Vidal-Naquet

The black hunter travels through the mountains and forests of Greek mythology. Taking its title from this mythological figure, this book approaches the Greek world by charting the elaborate system of contradictions which pervaded Greek society and culture - wild yet cultivated, real yet imaginary.

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0801859514

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9780801859519

Nymfarum domus

Les pavements de la maison des nymphes à Néapolis (Nabeul, Tunisie) et leur lecture

By: Jean-Pierre Darmon

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Nymfarum domus

Les pavements de la maison des nymphes à Néapolis (Nabeul, Tunisie) et leur lecture

By: Jean-Pierre Darmon

Naeapolis-Nymfarum domus": fold. leaf in pocket.

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BRILL

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9004295542

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9789004295544

Assassins of Memory

Essays on the Denial of the Holocaust

By: Pierre Vidal-Naquet

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Assassins of Memory

Essays on the Denial of the Holocaust

By: Pierre Vidal-Naquet

A collection of articles, most of them published previously. Pp. 143-191 contain the endnotes to the articles. Contents:

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Columbia University Press

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0231074581

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9780231074582

Gathering Of Human Intelligence In Counter-Insurgency Warfare:

The French Experience During The Battle Of Algiers (January-October 1957)

By: Major Hervé Pierre

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Gathering Of Human Intelligence In Counter-Insurgency Warfare:

The French Experience During The Battle Of Algiers (January-October 1957)

By: Major Hervé Pierre

If in a short-term perspective the battle of Algiers was an operational success since the terrorist attacks ended by the of fall 1957, the different methods used to gather intelligence proved to be strategically counterproductive and left an open wound on the French Society. In 1956, both internal and international political situations favored the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN). In August, during a clandestine meeting in the Soummam valley (Kabylie), the FLN decided to direct the fighting against the European population in urban areas. Such an intensification of the conflict was aimed at winning a decisive battle: bringing the terror to Algiers was perceived as the last step before the independence. Facing a paralysis of regular courses of action, the French reacted to the terrorist wave by giving the military extraordinary police powers. Jacques Massu’s 10th Para Division implemented radical methods. From 20 January to 31 March 1957, it succeeded in disorganizing the whole insurgency (first battle). However, the tactical victory against terrorism was as blatant as it proved to be short-lived. Facing a resuming tactical threat, General Massu entrusted Colonel Yves Godard with the AOR of Algiers (second battle). If the first battle was fought using bloody swords, the second one, based on infiltration and disinformation operations, proved to be a surgical operation using scalpels. On 8 October 1957, the battle of Algiers ended. In a blurred conflict that belonged neither to police operations nor to conventional war, the legal black hole ineluctably led to the temptation of committing illegal acts. Paul Aussarresses and Yves Godard embodied the two opposite approaches that are distinguishable during the battle. Pushing the justification of illegal violence to the limit, Aussarresses represents the dark face of COIN operations while Godard repeatedly stated that there was no need to use torture.

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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178625347X

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The Cuisine of Sacrifice Among the Greeks

By: Marcel Detienne,Jean-Pierre Vernant

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The Cuisine of Sacrifice Among the Greeks

By: Marcel Detienne,Jean-Pierre Vernant

For the Greeks, the sharing of cooked meats was the fundamental communal act, so that to become vegetarian was a way of refusing society. It follows that the roasting or cooking of meat was a political act, as the division of portions asserted a social order. And the only proper manner of preparing meat for consumption, according to the Greeks, was blood sacrifice. The fundamental myth is that of Prometheus, who introduced sacrifice and, in the process, both joined us to and separated us from the gods—and ambiguous relation that recurs in marriage and in the growing of grain. Thus we can understand why the ascetic man refuses both women and meat, and why Greek women celebrated the festival of grain-giving Demeter with instruments of butchery. The ambiguity coded in the consumption of meat generated a mythology of the "other"—werewolves, Scythians, Ethiopians, and other "monsters." The study of the sacrificial consumption of meat thus leads into exotic territory and to unexpected findings. In The Cuisine of Sacrifice, the contributors—all scholars affiliated with the Center for Comparative Studies of Ancient Societies in Paris—apply methods from structural anthropology, comparative religion, and philology to a diversity of topics: the relation of political power to sacrificial practice; the Promethean myth as the foundation story of sacrificial practice; representations of sacrifice found on Greek vases; the technique and anatomy of sacrifice; the interaction of image, language, and ritual; the position of women in sacrificial custom and the female ritual of the Thesmophoria; the mythical status of wolves in Greece and their relation to the sacrifice of domesticated animals; the role and significance of food-related ritual in Homer and Hesiod; ancient Greek perceptions of Scythian sacrificial rites; and remnants of sacrificial ritual in modern Greek practices.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226143538

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9780226143538

The Field of Cultural Production

Essays on Art and Literature

By: Pierre Bourdieu

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The Field of Cultural Production

Essays on Art and Literature

By: Pierre Bourdieu

Analysis of art, literature and aesthetics

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Columbia University Press

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0231082878

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9780231082877

Aspects sociaux et économiques de la vie religieuse dans l'Anatolie gréco-romaine

By: Pierre Debord

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Aspects sociaux et économiques de la vie religieuse dans l'Anatolie gréco-romaine

By: Pierre Debord

Preliminary material -- INTRODUCTION -- SANCTUAIRES, COMMUNICATIONS ET COMMERCE -- LES SANCTUAIRES A VOCATION THÉRAPEUTIQUE -- APPENDICE I -- INTRODUCTION -- LE CLERGÉ -- LE PERSONNEL SUBALTERNE -- APPENDICE II -- APPENDICE III -- L'ÉVOLUTION DU DOMAINE SACRÉ A L'ÉPOQUE GRÉCO-ROMAINE -- STRUCTURES AGRAIRES ET TERMINOLOGIE -- APPENDICE IV -- INTRODUCTION -- LE «BUDGET» DES SANCTUAIRES -- L'ACCUMULATION DES RICHESSES -- APPENDICE V -- INTRODUCTION -- L'ADMINISTRATION DES SANCTUAIRES -- L'ATTITUDE DU POUVOIR TEMPOREL -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES - INTRODUCTION -- NOTES - PREMIÈRE PARTIE -- NOTES - DEUXIÈME PARTIE -- NOTES - TROISIÈME PARTIE -- NOTES - QUATRIÈME PARTIE -- NOTES - CINQUIÈME PARTIE -- INDEX ANAL YTIQUE -- II. INDEX PAR MATIÈRES -- INDEX DES PRINCIPAUX MOTS GRECS -- ÉTUDES PRÉLIMINAIRES AUX RELIGIONS ORIENTALES DANS L'EMPIRE ROMAIN.

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900429645X

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The Practice of Everyday Life

Living and cooking. Volume 2

By: Michel de Certeau,Pierre Mayol

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The Practice of Everyday Life

Living and cooking. Volume 2

By: Michel de Certeau,Pierre Mayol

Volume 1 considers the uses to which social representation and modes of social behavior are put by individuals and groups, describing the tactics available to the common man for reclaiming his own autonomy from the all-pervasive forces of commerce, politics, and culture. Volume 2 is based on on microhistories that move from the private sphere (of dwelling, cooking, and homemaking) to the public (the experience of living in a neighborhood). Delves into the subtle tactics of resistance and private practices that make living a subversive art.

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U of Minnesota Press

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0816628769

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9780816628766

Endangered Excellence

On the Political Philosophy of Aristotle

By: Pierre Pellegrin

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Endangered Excellence

On the Political Philosophy of Aristotle

By: Pierre Pellegrin

In Endangered Excellence, Pierre Pellegrin provides a fresh interpretation of Aristotle's Politics, revealing the extent to which Aristotle diverged from other ancient writers on politics, and the extent to which many of his positions resemble modern attitudes in political philosophy. Pellegrin highlights a number of strikingly original positions in his thought. Aristotle took humans to be inherently political, for example, even as he believed this characteristic developed more completely in men than in women, and in Greeks more than in barbarians. He maintained a nuanced and flexible conception of the way that cities ought to develop their constitutions, one that would be responsive to their particular social and historical contexts. Realist enough to recognize that virtuous men are rare and that class conflict is inevitable, Aristotle envisioned a political system that would be resilient in navigating the choppy waters of civic life. With this original approach to Aristotle's Politics, and incorporating key developments in European and English-language scholarship on the subject, Pellegrin demonstrates Aristotle's important and often unrecognized innovations in understanding political life.

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State University of New York Press

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1438479581

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The Jews

History, Memory, and the Present

By: Pierre Vidal-Naquet

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History, Memory, and the Present

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The Penguin Atlas of Diasporas

By: Gérard Chaliand,Jean-Pierre Rageau

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The Penguin Atlas of Diasporas

By: Gérard Chaliand,Jean-Pierre Rageau

Examines displaced cultures throughout the world, including Jewish, African, Irish, Armenian, and Palestinian diasporas.

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The Black Hunter

Forms of Thought and Forms of Society in the Greek World

By: Pierre Vidal-Naquet

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Forms of Thought and Forms of Society in the Greek World

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Mortals and Immortals

Collected Essays

By: Jean Pierre Vernant

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Mortals and Immortals

Collected Essays

By: Jean Pierre Vernant

Jean-Pierre Vernant has profoundly transformed our perceptions of ancient Greece. Published in 1991, this collection of nineteen essays probes deeply into themes of enduring interest--death, the body, the soul, the individual, and relations between mortals and immortals; the mask, the mirror, the image, and the imagination; the self and the other, and, more broadly, the concept of otherness itself, or "alterity.

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The Jews

The Jews

The Black Hunter

The Black Hunter

Nymfarum domus

Nymfarum domus

Assassins of Memory

Assassins of Memory

Gathering Of Human Intelligence In Counter-Insurgency Warfare:

Gathering Of Human Intelligence In Counter-Insurgency Warfare:

The Cuisine of Sacrifice Among the Greeks

The Cuisine of Sacrifice Among the Greeks

The Field of Cultural Production

The Field of Cultural Production

Aspects sociaux et économiques de la vie religieuse dans l'Anatolie gréco-romaine

Aspects sociaux et économiques de la vie religieuse dans l'Anatolie gréco-romaine

The Practice of Everyday Life

The Practice of Everyday Life

Endangered Excellence

Endangered Excellence

The Jews

The Jews

The Penguin Atlas of Diasporas

The Penguin Atlas of Diasporas

The Black Hunter

The Black Hunter

Mortals and Immortals

Mortals and Immortals

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