Professor of Anthropology James Howe's Books

Foreign Bodies

Performance, Art, and Symbolic Anthropology

By: A. David Napier,Professor of Medical Anthropology A David Napier

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Foreign Bodies

Performance, Art, and Symbolic Anthropology

By: A. David Napier,Professor of Medical Anthropology A David Napier

An understanding of what is foreign is typically based on a radical differentiation between the self and that which we call the "other". In five wide-ranging essays, Napier examines a different process. He explores the ways in which the foreign becomes literally and metaphorically embodied as a part of one's cultural identity rather than as something outside of it. Preclassical Greece, Baroque Italy and Western post-modernism are among the artistic domains Napier considers, while the symbolic terrain ranges from Balinese cosmography to body symbolism in biomedicine. In each instance, Napier argues that assimilation is most successful when a culture is confident enough about itself to engage its core cultural images in a symbolic dialogue with those foreign images it perceives as most alien." (résumé éditeur)

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Univ of California Press

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0520065832

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9780520065833

The Dissolution of Place

Architecture, Identity, and the Body

By: Professor Shelton Waldrep

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The Dissolution of Place

Architecture, Identity, and the Body

By: Professor Shelton Waldrep

Postmodern architecture - with its return to ornamentality, historical quotation, and low-culture kitsch - has long been seen as a critical and popular anodyne to the worst aspects of modernist architecture: glass boxes built in urban locales as so many interchangeable, generic anti-architectural cubes and slabs. This book extends this debate beyond the modernist/postmodernist rivalry to situate postmodernism as an already superseded concept that has been upended by deconstructionist and virtual architecture as well as the continued turn toward the use of theming in much new public and corporate space. It investigates architecture on the margins of postmodernism -- those places where both architecture and postmodernism begin to break down and to reveal new forms and new relationships. The book examines in detail not only a wide range of architectural phenomena such as theme parks, casinos, specific modernist and postmodernist buildings, but also interrogates architecture in relation to identity, specifically Native American and gay male identities, as they are reflected in new notions of the built environment. In dealing specifically with the intersection between postmodern architecture and virtual and filmic definitions of space, as well as with theming, and gender and racial identities, this book provides provides ground-breaking insights not only into postmodern architecture, but into spatial thinking in general.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1472404327

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9781472404329

The Politics of Language : Conflict, Identity, and Cultural Pluralism in Comparative Perspective

Conflict, Identity, and Cultural Pluralism in Comparative Perspective

By: Carol L. Schmid Professor of Sociology Guilford Technical Community College

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The Politics of Language : Conflict, Identity, and Cultural Pluralism in Comparative Perspective

Conflict, Identity, and Cultural Pluralism in Comparative Perspective

By: Carol L. Schmid Professor of Sociology Guilford Technical Community College

Important aspects of the history of language in the United States remain shrouded in myth and legend. The notion of "one nation, one language" is part of the idealized history of the United States, although in its short history it has probably been host to more bilingual people than any other country in the world. Language is more than a means of communication. It brings into play an entire range of experiences and attitudes toward life. Furthermore, language is a potent symbolic issue because it links power and political claims of ownership with psychological demands for group worth. How people belonging to different language and cultural communities live together in the same political community and how political and structural tensions arise to divide them along language lines, are questions addressed in The Politics of Language. This book analyzes the historical background and recent controversy over language in the United States and compares it to two official multilingual societies: Canada and Switzerland. It's accessibility as a survey of this topic makes it ideal for courses in linguistics, political science, and sociology.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195350219

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Foreign Bodies

Foreign Bodies

The Dissolution of Place

The Dissolution of Place

The Politics of Language : Conflict, Identity, and Cultural Pluralism in Comparative Perspective

The Politics of Language : Conflict, Identity, and Cultural Pluralism in Comparative Perspective

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