The Other Face of the Moon
Title | The Other Face of the Moon PDF eBook |
Author | Claude Lévi-Strauss |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 101 |
Release | 2013-03-05 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0674075188 |
Gathering for the first time all of Claude Lévi-Strauss’s writings on Japanese civilization, The Other Face of the Moon forms a sustained meditation into the French anthropologist’s dictum that to understand one’s own culture, one must regard it from the point of view of another. Exposure to Japanese art was influential in Lévi-Strauss’s early intellectual growth, and between 1977 and 1988 he visited the country five times. The essays, lectures, and interviews of this volume, written between 1979 and 2001, are the product of these journeys. They investigate an astonishing range of subjects—among them Japan’s founding myths, Noh and Kabuki theater, the distinctiveness of the Japanese musical scale, the artisanship of Jomon pottery, and the relationship between Japanese graphic arts and cuisine. For Lévi-Strauss, Japan occupied a unique place among world cultures. Molded in the ancient past by Chinese influences, it had more recently incorporated much from Europe and the United States. But the substance of these borrowings was so carefully assimilated that Japanese culture never lost its specificity. As though viewed from the hidden side of the moon, Asia, Europe, and America all find, in Japan, images of themselves profoundly transformed. As in Lévi-Strauss’s classic ethnography Tristes Tropiques, this new English translation presents the voice of one of France’s most public intellectuals at its most personal.
Faces of the Moon
Title | Faces of the Moon PDF eBook |
Author | Bob Crelin |
Publisher | Charlesbridge |
Pages | 37 |
Release | 2009-07-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 160734288X |
Describes the moon's phases as it orbits the Earth every twenty-nine days using rhyming text and cut-outs that illustrate each phase.
The Moon's Other Face
Title | The Moon's Other Face PDF eBook |
Author | Irene Bard Gramling |
Publisher | |
Pages | 63 |
Release | 1960 |
Genre | |
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Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen's Magazine
Title | Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen's Magazine PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 610 |
Release | 1926 |
Genre | Labor unions |
ISBN |
Moon-Face, and Other Stories
Title | Moon-Face, and Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Jack London |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Pages | 190 |
Release | 2022-10-12 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 3368307681 |
Reproduction of the original.
Moon-face and Other Stories
Title | Moon-face and Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Jack London |
Publisher | IndyPublish.com |
Pages | 572 |
Release | 1906 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
JACK LONDON (1876-1916), American novelist, born in San Francisco, the son of an itinerant astrologer and a spiritualist mother. He grew up in poverty, scratching a living in various legal and illegal ways -robbing the oyster beds, working in a canning factory and a jute mill, serving aged 17 as a common sailor, and taking part in the Klondike gold rush of 1897. This various experience provided the material for his works, and made him a socialist. "The son of the Wolf" (1900), the first of his collections of tales, is based upon life in the Far North, as is the book that brought him recognition, "The Call of the Wild" (1903), which tells the story of the dog Buck, who, after his master ́s death, is lured back to the primitive world to lead a wolf pack. Many other tales of struggle, travel, and adventure followed, including "The Sea-Wolf" (1904), "White Fang" (1906), "South Sea Tales" (1911), and "Jerry of the South Seas" (1917). One of London ́s most interesting novels is the semi-autobiographical "Martin Eden" (1909). He also wrote socialist treatises, autobiographical essays, and a good deal of journalism.
Arthur's Home Magazine
Title | Arthur's Home Magazine PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 708 |
Release | 1870 |
Genre | American literature |
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