Fragments of Death, Fables of Identity
Title | Fragments of Death, Fables of Identity PDF eBook |
Author | Eleni Neni K. Panourgia |
Publisher | Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780299145644 |
A reference on all aspects of the regional and international conflict, focusing on the period since the adoption of the Palestinian partition plan in November 1947; the first Arab-Israeli War up to the Israel- PLO Declaration of Principles; and the Israel-Jordon Peace Treaty. Entries of varying length, on political, military and diplomatic events as well as people, institutions, and concepts, contain bibliographies and cross references. Includes a chronology spanning centuries, and a list of abbreviations and acronyms. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Fragments of Death, Fables of Identity. An Athenian Anthropology
Title | Fragments of Death, Fables of Identity. An Athenian Anthropology PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 1995 |
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Artifactual
Title | Artifactual PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Anne Davis |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 243 |
Release | 2023-07-14 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1478024453 |
In Artifactual, Elizabeth Anne Davis explores how Cypriot researchers, scientists, activists, and artists process and reckon with civil and state violence that led to the enduring division of the island, using forensic and documentary materials to retell and recontextualize conflicts between and within the Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot communities. Davis follows forensic archaeologists and anthropologists who attempt to locate, identify, and return to relatives the remains of Cypriots killed in those conflicts. She turns to filmmakers who use archival photographs and footage to come to terms with political violence and its legacies. In both forensic science and documentary filmmaking, the dynamics of secrecy and revelation shape how material remains such as bones and archival images are given meaning. Throughout, Davis demonstrates how Cypriots navigate the tension between an ethics of knowledge, which valorizes truth as a prerequisite for recovery and reconciliation, and the politics of knowledge, which renders evidence as irremediably partial and perpetually falsifiable.
Women and Gender in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia
Title | Women and Gender in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Zirin |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 2121 |
Release | 2015-03-26 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 131745197X |
This is the first comprehensive, multidisciplinary, and multilingual bibliography on "Women and Gender in East Central Europe and the Balkans (Vol. 1)" and "The Lands of the Former Soviet Union (Vol. 2)" over the past millennium. The coverage encompasses the relevant territories of the Russian, Hapsburg, and Ottoman empires, Germany and Greece, and the Jewish and Roma diasporas. Topics range from legal status and marital customs to economic participation and gender roles, plus unparalleled documentation of women writers and artists, and autobiographical works of all kinds. The volumes include approximately 30,000 bibliographic entries on works published through the end of 2000, as well as web sites and unpublished dissertations. Many of the individual entries are annotated with brief descriptions of major works and the tables of contents for collections and anthologies. The entries are cross-referenced and each volume includes indexes.
Athens
Title | Athens PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Llewellyn Smith |
Publisher | Signal Books |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781902669816 |
Michael Llewellyn Smith describes the history and culture of Athens, site of the 2004 Olympic Games and city of monuments enduring, purged and restored. Exploring its streets and squares, he reveals layers of Ancient Greek, Roman and Byzantine history, elegant Bavarian neoclassical buildings, and a modern city of concrete and glass, metro and tram.
Death in the Early Twenty-first Century
Title | Death in the Early Twenty-first Century PDF eBook |
Author | Sébastien Penmellen Boret |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 2017-07-18 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 3319523651 |
Focusing on tradition, technology, and authority, this volume challenges classical understandings that mortuary rites are inherently conservative. The contributors examine innovative and enduring ideas and practices of death, which reflect and constitute changing patterns of social relationships, memorialisation, and the afterlife. This cross-cultural study examines the lived experiences of men and women from societies across the globe with diverse religious heritages and secular value systems. The book demonstrates that mortuary practices are not fixed forms, but rather dynamic processes negotiated by the dying, the bereaved, funeral experts, and public institutions. In addition to offering a new theoretical perspective on the anthropology of death, this work provides a rich resource for readers interested in human responses to mortality: the one certainty of human existence.
Social Matter(s)
Title | Social Matter(s) PDF eBook |
Author | Tryfon Bampilis |
Publisher | LIT Verlag Münster |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 3643902255 |
This book is inspired by material culture studies. Essays center on the idea that matter and materiality are integral dimensions of social life. The diversity of their subjects is reflected in the various approaches that bring together archeology, cultural heritage, artifacts, commodities, the human body, and the study of space. United by a common interest in various social matter(s), and coming from diverse schools of thought and academic traditions, the book is by no means an effort to present a clear, cohesive, collective manifesto. On the contrary, there might be differences in the way each of the contributors discusses materiality, matter, thingness, things, and artifacts. There are varied understandings of the terms and there are references to different sources and schools of thought. (Series: Ethnologie: Forschung und Wissenschaft - Vol. 23)