1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450218703321

Autore

Ricketts Edward Flanders <1897-1948.>

Titolo

Breaking through [[electronic resource] ] : essays, journals, and travelogues of Edward F. Ricketts / / edited by Katharine A. Rodger ; foreword by Susan F. Beegel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2006

ISBN

1-282-35899-5

1-4237-8961-X

9786612358999

0-520-93266-8

1-60129-387-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (369 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

RodgerKatharine A <1974-> (Katharine Anne)

Disciplina

578.77/092

Soggetti

Marine invertebrates - Pacific Coast (U.S.)

Marine invertebrates - Mexico - California, Gulf of

Teleology

Electronic books.

Pacific Coast (U.S.) Description and travel

California, Gulf of (Mexico) Description and travel

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-345) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Editor's Note -- Introduction -- 1. Foreword to the 1925 Pacific Biological Laboratories Catalog -- 2. "Zoological Introduction" to Between Pacific Tides -- 3. "The Philosophy of 'Breaking Through'" -- 4. "A Spiritual Morphology of Poetry" -- 5. "Essay on Non-teleological Thinking" -- 6. "Verbatim Transcription of Notes of Gulf of California Trip, March-April 1940" -- 7. "Thesis and Materials for a Script on Mexico" -- 8. "Outline and Conspectus" for a Book on the Mandated Islands -- 9. "Transcript of Summer 1945 and 1946 Notes Based on Trips to the Outer Shores, West Coast of Vancouver Island, Queen Charlotte Islands, and So On" -- 10. "Investigator Blames Industry, Nature for Shortage" -- Epilogue -- Living at the Lab with My Father --



Early Days: Nicknames and Such -- Works Cited -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Trailblazing marine biologist, visionary conservationist, deep ecology philosopher, Edward F. Ricketts (1897-1948) has reached legendary status in the California mythos. A true polymath and a thinker ahead of his time, Ricketts was a scientist who worked in passionate collaboration with many of his friends-artists, writers, and influential intellectual figures-including, perhaps most famously, John Steinbeck, who once said that Ricketts's mind "had no horizons." This unprecedented collection, featuring previously unpublished pieces as well as others available for the first time in their original form, reflects the wide scope of Ricketts's scientific, philosophical, and literary interests during the years he lived and worked on Cannery Row in Monterey, California. These writings, which together illuminate the evolution of Ricketts's unique, holistic approach to science, include "Verbatim transcription of notes on the Gulf of California trip," the basic manuscript for Steinbeck's and Ricketts's Log from the Sea of Cortez; the essays "The Philosophy of Breaking Through" and "A Spiritual Morphology of Poetry;" several shorter pieces on topics including collecting invertebrates and the impact of modernization on Mexican village life; and more. An engaging critical biography and a number of rare photographs offer a new and richly detailed view of Ricketts's life.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465538803321

Autore

Douglas Mary <1921-2007.>

Titolo

Leviticus as literature [[electronic resource] /] / Mary Douglas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2000

ISBN

0-19-924419-7

0-19-151838-7

1-282-05293-4

9786612052934

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (299 p.)

Disciplina

222.1306

222/.1306

Soggetti

Theological anthropology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 1999.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-264) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; 1. The Ancient Religion; Chronology and the Writing; Reconstructing the Primordial Religion; 2. Two Styles of Thought; Analogical versus Rational-Instrumental Thinking; From Analogic to Dialogic; Social Basis of the Greek Breakthrough; Greek and Chinese Science; Imperatives in Leviticus; 3. Two Styles of Writing; The Language of Feeling; Containing and Covering; Mount Sinai; 4. Mountain, Tabernacle, Body in Leviticus 1-7; Logic of the Body; Forbidden Items; Entrails and Legs; The Inmost Being; The Doctrine of Remainders

5. The Totally Reformed ReligionDeuteronomy and Leviticus; The Central Sanctuary; No Cult of the Dead; Deuteronomy's Legislation; 6. Oracles Support Divine Justice; Divination and Sacrifice; Knowing When to Make a Private Sacrifice; Plausibility of Oracles; Priestly Divination; Inadvertent Sin; Sacrilege; Juridical Uses of the Oath; 7. Land Animals, Pure and Impure; Land Animals Under the Covenant; The Two Texts; Interpretations of Uncleanness/Impurity; Sacred Contagion; 8. Other Living Beings; God's Care for his Creation; Translating Swarming as Teeming; Leaven and Honey as Teeming Life

Translating AbominationCreatures that Swarm in the Air; Competition



in the Holiness Stakes; Conclusion; 9. Atonement for Sick Bodies; Loss of Vital Fluids; Leprosy; Reproductive Disorders; 10. The Two Screens; Leviticus a Projection of the Tabernacle; Fire for Fire, Burning for Burning; The Curser Cursed; Scandal of Talion; The Language of Oracles; 11. Inside the House/Book of God; Macro markers; The Outer Court; The Sanctuary; Atonement; Pedimental Composition; 12. Inside the Holy of Holies; The Great Proclamation of Liberty; Reading Leviticus through Genesis: Covering

Reading Scapegoat and Scapebird through GenesisReferences; Index of Bible References; General Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

This first full-scale account of Leviticus by a world renowned anthropologist presents the biblical work as a literary masterpiece. Seen in an anthropological perspective Leviticus has a mystical structure which plots the book into three parts corresponding to the three parts of the desert tabernacle, both corresponding to the parts of Mount Sinai. This completely new reading transforms the interpretation of the purity laws. The pig and other forbidden animals are not abhorrent,they command the same respect due to all God's creatures. Boldly challenging several traditions of Bible criticism, M