A World on the Wane

A World on the Wane PDF Author: C. Levi-Strauss
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ISBN: 9781258832216
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 452

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This is a new release of the original 1961 edition.

A World on the Wane

A World on the Wane PDF Author: C. Levi-Strauss
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ISBN: 9781258832216
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 452

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Book Description
This is a new release of the original 1961 edition.

A World on the Wane

A World on the Wane PDF Author: C. Levi-Strauss
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ISBN: 9781104837280
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 454

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With A Brief Account Of General Sully's Indian Expedition In 1864, Bearing Upon Events Occurring In My Captivity.

Tristes Tropiques

Tristes Tropiques PDF Author: Claude Levi-Strauss
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101575603
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 448

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"A magical masterpiece."—Robert Ardrey. A chronicle of the author's search for a civilization "reduced to its most basic expression."

Works and Lives

Works and Lives PDF Author: Clifford Geertz
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804717472
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 172

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The illusion that ethnography is a matter of sorting strange and irregular facts into familiar and orderly categories—this is magic, that is technology—has long since been exploded. What it is instead, however, is less clear. That it might be a kind of writing, putting things to paper, has now and then occurred to those engaged in producing it, consuming it, or both. But the examination of it as such has been impeded by several considerations, none of them very reasonable. One of these, especially weighty among the producers, has been simply that it is an unanthropological sort of thing to do. What a proper ethnographer ought properly to be doing is going out to places, coming back with information about how people live there, and making that information available to the professional community in practical form, not lounging about in libraries reflecting on literary questions. Excessive concern, which in practice usually means any concern at all, with how ethnographic texts are constructed seems like an unhealthy self-absorption—time wasting at best, hypochondriacal at worst. The advantage of shifting at least part of our attention from the fascinations of field work, which have held us so long in thrall, to those of writing is not only that this difficulty will become more clearly understood, but also that we shall learn to read with a more percipient eye. A hundred and fifteen years (if we date our profession, as conventionally, from Tylor) of asseverational prose and literary innocence is long enough.

No One's World

No One's World PDF Author: Charles Kupchan
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0199739390
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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Argues that as China, India, Brazil and other emerging powers rise, the founding ideals of the West will not continue to spread, and that in the near future, Europe and the United States will need to fashion a new consensus with these powers on issues of legitimacy, sovereignty and governance.

Matters of Belonging

Matters of Belonging PDF Author: Wayne Modest
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ISBN: 9789088907784
Category : Belonging (Social psychology)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This publication examines creative and collaborative practices within ethnographic and world cultures museums across Europe as part of their responses to ongoing public and scholarly critique.

World Out of Balance

World Out of Balance PDF Author: Stephen G. Brooks
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691137841
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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Introduction -- Realism, balance-of-power theory, and the counterbalancing constraint -- Realism, balance-of-threat theory, and the "soft balancing" constraint -- Liberalism, globalization, and constraints derived from economic interdependence -- Institutionalism and the constraint of reputation -- Constructivism and the constraint of legitimacy -- A new agenda

New American Furniture

New American Furniture PDF Author: Edward S. Cooke
Publisher: MFA Publications
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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Artwork by Edward Cooke Jr.

The Lost Metal

The Lost Metal PDF Author: Brandon Sanderson
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 0765391201
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 544

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Return to #1 New York Times bestseller Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn world of Scadrial as its second era, which began with The Alloy of Law, comes to its earth-shattering conclusion in The Lost Metal. For years, frontier lawman turned big-city senator Waxillium Ladrian has hunted the shadowy organization the Set—with his late uncle and his sister among their leaders—since they started kidnapping people with the power of Allomancy in their bloodlines. When Detective Marasi Colms and her partner Wayne find stockpiled weapons bound for the Outer City of Bilming, this opens a new lead. Conflict between Elendel and the Outer Cities only favors the Set, and their tendrils now reach to the Elendel Senate—whose corruption Wax and Steris have sought to expose—and Bilming is even more entangled. After Wax discovers a new type of explosive that can unleash unprecedented destruction and realizes that the Set must already have it, an immortal kandra serving Scadrial’s god, Harmony, reveals that Bilming has fallen under the influence of another god: Trell, worshipped by the Set. And Trell isn’t the only factor at play from the larger Cosmere—Marasi is recruited by offworlders with strange abilities who claim their goal is to protect Scadrial...at any cost. Wax must choose whether to set aside his rocky relationship with God and once again become the Sword that Harmony has groomed him to be. If no one steps forward to be the hero Scadrial needs, the planet and its millions of people will come to a sudden and calamitous ruin. Other Tor books by Brandon Sanderson The Cosmere The Stormlight Archive The Way of Kings Words of Radiance Edgedancer (novella) Oathbringer Dawnshard (novella) Rhythm of War The Mistborn Saga The Original Trilogy Mistborn The Well of Ascension The Hero of Ages Wax and Wayne The Alloy of Law Shadows of Self The Bands of Mourning The Lost Metal Other Cosmere novels Elantris Warbreaker Tress of the Emerald Sea Yumi and the Nightmare Painter The Sunlit Man Collection Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection The Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians series Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians The Scrivener's Bones The Knights of Crystallia The Shattered Lens The Dark Talent Bastille vs. the Evil Librarians (with Janci Patterson) Other novels The Rithmatist Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England Other books by Brandon Sanderson The Reckoners Steelheart Firefight Calamity Skyward Skyward Starsight Cytonic Skyward Flight (with Janci Patterson) Defiant At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Wax & Wane

Wax & Wane PDF Author: Lawrence Dagstine
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781944286033
Category : Witches
Languages : en
Pages : 450

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Whether wicked or whimsical, few folkloric figures are as iconic as the witch. Wax & Wane: A Gathering of Witch Tales serves up 30 spellbinding stories of witches that are enchanting and terrifying, amusing and enticing. Classic or eclectic, fantastical or historical, these witch tales are a literary incantation to delight any fans of witches and witchcraft.