The Urban Primitive
Title | The Urban Primitive PDF eBook |
Author | Raven Kaldera |
Publisher | Llewellyn Worldwide |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 9780738702599 |
In this alternative guide to Magick for Pagan city folk, the authors include practical recommendations not found anywhere else in a tone that is humorous and irreverent but full of serious information.
Body Style
Title | Body Style PDF eBook |
Author | Therèsa M. Winge |
Publisher | Berg |
Pages | 159 |
Release | 2013-08-15 |
Genre | Design |
ISBN | 1847887376 |
Body Style reveals the subcultural body as a site for understanding subcultural identity, resistance, agency, and fashion. Analyzed, theorized, politicized, and sensationalized, the subcultural body functions as a framework where individuals build a sense of self and subcultural identity. Drawing on specific subcultural examples and interviews with members, Body Style explores the subcultural body and its style within global culture. Body Style is the result of over twelve years of research examining these intersections within specific urban subcultures, including Urban Tribals, Modern Primitives, Punks, Cybers, Industrials, Skaters, and others. Divided into three main sections on subcultural body history, subcultural body identity and subcultural body styles, this book will be of particular interest to students of dress and fashion as well as those coming to subculture from sociology and cultural studies.
Gone Primitive
Title | Gone Primitive PDF eBook |
Author | Marianna Torgovnick |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 350 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780226808321 |
In this acclaimed book, Torgovnick explores the obsessions, fears, and longings that have produced Western views of the primitive. Crossing an extraordinary range of fields (anthropology, psychology, literature, art, and popular culture),Gone Primitivewill engage not just specialists but anyone who has ever worn Native American jewelry, thrilled to Indiana Jones, or considered buying an African mask. "A superb book; and--in a way that goes beyond what being good as a book usually implies--it is a kind of gift to its own culture, a guide to the perplexed. It is lucid, usually fair, laced with a certain feminist mockery and animated by some surprising sympathies."--Arthur C. Danto, New York Times Book Review "An impassioned exploration of the deep waters beneath Western primitivism. . . . Torgovnick's readings are deliberately, rewardingly provocative."--Scott L. Malcomson,Voice Literary Supplement
The Circle Within
Title | The Circle Within PDF eBook |
Author | Dianne Sylvan |
Publisher | Llewellyn Worldwide |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 2012-12-08 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 073871836X |
COVR Award Winner The Circle Within is your guide to creating a personal spiritual practice for daily life. The first section is a thoughtful examination of Wiccan ethics and philosophy that explores how to truly live Wicca. The second section includes devotional prayers and rituals that provide inspiration for group or solitary practice. Topics in this Wicca book include: cultivating an ongoing personal relationship with deity, ethics and standards of behavior, concepts of sacred space, elements of a daily practice, tuning into the Wheel of the Year and the elements, and creating meaningful personal Pagan rituals. Move beyond the basics of Wicca and enter the sacred space of the circle within.
Youth in Revolutionary Russia
Title | Youth in Revolutionary Russia PDF eBook |
Author | Anne E. Gorsuch |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 2000-10-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780253337665 |
What were the consequences if prerevolutionary and "bourgeois" culture and social relations could not be transformed into new socialist forms of behavior and belief?".
Social Justice and the City
Title | Social Justice and the City PDF eBook |
Author | David Harvey |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 2010-04-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0820336041 |
Throughout his distinguished and influential career, David Harvey has defined and redefined the relationship between politics, capitalism, and the social aspects of geographical theory. Laying out Harvey's position that geography could not remain objective in the face of urban poverty and associated ills, Social Justice and the City is perhaps the most widely cited work in the field. Harvey analyzes core issues in city planning and policy--employment and housing location, zoning, transport costs, concentrations of poverty--asking in each case about the relationship between social justice and space. How, for example, do built-in assumptions about planning reinforce existing distributions of income? Rather than leading him to liberal, technocratic solutions, Harvey's line of inquiry pushes him in the direction of a "revolutionary geography," one that transcends the structural limitations of existing approaches to space. Harvey's emphasis on rigorous thought and theoretical innovation gives the volume an enduring appeal. This is a book that raises big questions, and for that reason geographers and other social scientists regularly return to it.
The New Boundaries between Bodies and Technologies
Title | The New Boundaries between Bodies and Technologies PDF eBook |
Author | Ivan Varga |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 2009-03-26 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1443808539 |
The new boundaries between bodies and technologies constitute one of the most important developments in the last fifty years. Through technologies we not only change the relations between a natural given, the body, and a human-made artefact -- the technology but also change the ways we experience the world. How close are we to a world in which the abilities of machines are indistinguishable from those of the species that invented them? Our encounters with the new technologies change the cognitive processes and influences the modes of processing information. Moreover, it raises the question of the nature of human beings. Traversing body as emotive- being- in- the world and body as location culturally and socially constructed, there is a third dimension: the dimension of technological. Are we able to use these new dimension as a creative interface between the emotional brain, the acting body, and ICTS? In answering these questions, the book explores the action of bodies in technology, that is, how the sense of our bodies and of our orientation in the world are affected by information and communication technologies. It contributes therefore to the world-wide discussion and debates on the impact of technology, especially information technology, on the lives of human beings in the age of globalization, in particular to the present thinking of the relationship between technology and embodiment.