1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990002564960403321

Autore

Keeney, Ralph L.

Titolo

Decisions with Multiple Objectives : Preferences and Value Tradeoffs / Ralph L. Keeney, Howard Raiffa

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : John Wiley, 1976

ISBN

0471465100

Descrizione fisica

xxviii, 569 p. ; 24 cm

Disciplina

658

Locazione

MAS

Collocazione

MXVIII-D-13

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452959003321

Autore

Chajes Jeffrey Howard

Titolo

Between worlds [[electronic resource] ] : dybbuks, exorcists, and early modern Judaism / / J.H. Chajes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2003

ISBN

1-283-88994-3

0-8122-0155-8

Descrizione fisica

278 p

Collana

Jewish Culture and Contexts

Jewish culture and contexts

Disciplina

296.3/16

Soggetti

Dybbuk

Spirit possession

Exorcism

Mysticism - Judaism

Spiritual life - Judaism

Future life - Judaism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese



Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-265) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Emergence o/Dybbuk Possession -- Chapter 2. The Emergence o/Dybbuk Possession -- Chapter 3. The Task of the Exorcist -- Chapter 4. Dybbuk Possession and Women's Religiosity -- Chapter 5. Skeptics and Storytellers -- Arrival -- Appendix: Spirit Possession Narratives from Early Modern Jewish Sources -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments

Sommario/riassunto

After a nearly two-thousand-year interlude, and just as Christian Europe was in the throes of the great Witch Hunt and what historians have referred to as "The Age of the Demoniac," accounts of spirit possession began to proliferate in the Jewish world. Concentrated at first in the Near East but spreading rapidly westward, spirit possession, both benevolent and malevolent, emerged as perhaps the most characteristic form of religiosity in early modern Jewish society.Adopting a comparative historical approach, J. H. Chajes uncovers this strain of Jewish belief to which scant attention has been paid. Informed by recent research in historical anthropology, Between Worlds provides fascinating descriptions of the cases of possession as well as analysis of the magical techniques deployed by rabbinic exorcists to expel the ghostly intruders.Seeking to understand the phenomenon of spirit possession in its full complexity, Chajes delves into its ideational framework-chiefly the doctrine of reincarnation-while exploring its relation to contemporary Christian and Islamic analogues. Regarding spirit possession as a form of religious expression open to-and even dominated by-women, Chajes initiates a major reassessment of women in the history of Jewish mysticism. In a concluding section he examines the reception history of the great Hebrew accounts of spirit possession, focusing on the deployment of these "ghost stories" in the battle against incipient skepticism in the turbulent Jewish community of seventeenth-century Amsterdam.Exploring a phenomenon that bridged learned and ignorant, rich and poor, men and women, Jews and Gentiles, Between Worlds maps for the first time a prominent feature of the early modern Jewish religious landscape, as "idian as it was portentous: the nexus of the living and the dead.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910337739203321

Autore

Progovac Ljiljana

Titolo

A Critical Introduction to Language Evolution : Current Controversies and Future Prospects / / by Ljiljana Progovac

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019

ISBN

3-030-03235-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIV, 86 p. 17 illus.)

Collana

Expert Briefs, , 2511-0594

Disciplina

417.7

Soggetti

Historical linguistics

Syntax

Linguistics

Anthropological linguistics

Cognitive grammar

Language History

Popular Science in Linguistics

Linguistic Anthropology

Cognitive Linguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Editor introduction; Helen Aristar-Dry -- 1. Introduction to Divergent Views -- 2. Sudden (Saltationist) Approaches to Language Evolution -- 3. Gradualist Approaches to Language Evolution -- 4. Putting it all Together: The Language-Brain-Genes Loop.

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides a critical introduction to the current views and controversies regarding language evolution. It sheds new light on hot topics such as: How ancient is language? Did Neanderthals have some form of language? Did language evolve gradually and incrementally, through stages, or suddenly, in one leap, in all its complexity? Does language evolution involve natural selection or not? This book is essential reading for scholars and students interested in language evolution, especially those in the fields of linguistics, psychology, biology, anthropology, and neuroscience. .