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UNINA9910463320903321 |
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Titolo |
National myths : constructed pasts, contested presents / / edited by Gerard Bouchard |
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Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
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0-203-09711-4 |
1-136-22110-7 |
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[First edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (321 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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National characteristics |
Mythology |
Ethnicity |
Group identity |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
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Cover; TitleInformation; TitlePage; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The small nation with a big dream: Québec national myths (eighteenth-twentieth centuries); 2 National imaginaries in a globalizing age: The case of English Canada; 3 The myth(s) that will not die: American National Exceptionalism; 4 Ethnic myths as national identity in Brazil; 5 Understanding Mexico's master myth: A case for theory; 6 1066 and all that: Myths of the English; 7 Polish mythology and the traps of messianic martyrology |
8 Myths and national identity choices in post-communist Russia9 Myth and the postnational polity: The case of the European Union; 10 Transforming myths, contested narratives: The reshaping of mnemonic traditions in Israeli culture; 11 War room stories and the rainbow nation: Competing narratives in contemporary South African literature; 12 Gender, Nehanda, and the myth of nationhood in the making of Zimbabwe; 13 War, myths, and national identity formation: Chinese attitudes toward Japan; 14 Lineages and lessons (for national myth |
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formation) of Japan's postwar national myths |
15 Myths of the nation, cultural recognition, and personal law in India16 National myths: An overview; Index |
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National myths are now seriously questioned in a number of societies. In the West, for instance, a number of factors have combined to destabilise the symbolic foundation of nations and collective identities. As a result, the diagnosis of a deep cultural crisis has become commonplace. Indeed, who today has not heard about the erosion of common values or the undermining of social cohesion? But to efficiently address this issue, do we know enough about the nature and role of myths in modern and postmodern societies?Against this background, National Myths: Constructed Pasts, Co |
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UNINA9910786465903321 |
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Autore |
Binsbergen Wim M. J. van. |
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Religious change in Zambia : exploratory studies / / Wim M.J. van Binsbergen |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Oxon [England] : , : Routledge, , 2009 |
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1-136-13474-3 |
0-203-03763-4 |
1-283-84100-2 |
1-136-13466-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (447 p.) |
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Monographs from the African Studies Centre, Leiden |
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306.6096894 |
306/.6/096894 |
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Zambia Religion |
Zambia History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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First published in 1979 by In de Knipscheer, Kegan Paul. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Religious change in Zambia Exploratory studies; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Preface and acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Introduction: Towards a theory of religious change in Central Africa1; The background of the present studies; Possible anthropological |
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contributions to the study of Central African religious change; Evolving models of Central African religion and religious change; Towards a Marxist theory of Central African religious change; Conclusion; Chapter 2Possession and mediumship in Zambia: towards a comparative approach; Introduction |
Religion and society: some theoretical considerationsPreliminaries to a comparative approach to Zambian possession and mediumship; Conclusion; Chapter 3Explorations in the history and sociology of territorial cults in Zambia; The territorial cult in the Zambian context; Shrines, ecology and the community; Chiefs and shrines in Zambia's history; Conclusion; Chapter 4Religious change and the problem of evil in western Zambia; Introduction; Dominant aspects of village religion in the nineteenth century; Descriptive overview of modern religious innovations |
Themes of religious change: towards an interpretative synthesisThe overall process of religious change; Conclusion; Chapter 5Regional and non-regional cults of affliction in western Zambia; Introduction; Non-regional cults of affliction; Regional cults of affliction in western Zambia: general characteristics; The development of Nzila and Bituma as regional cults; Conclusion; Chapter 6 Ritual, class and urban-rural relations; Introduction; Local rural society as the referent of ritual symbolism; The Bituma cult in town: what is its referent?; The cultural aspect of urban-rural relations |
The dominant orientation in religious studies, and a possible alternativeCulture among an urban ethnic minority; The argument extended to the rural areas; The historical dimension; Conclusion; Chapter 7 Cults of affliction in town, and the articulation of modes of production; Introduction; Bituma as a cult of affliction and as an urban cult; Interpretation: (a) Current non-Marxist approaches; Interpretation: (b) Marxist approaches; Conclusion; Chapter 8 Religious innovation and political conflict in Zambia: the Lumpa rising; The Lumpa problem; The background of religious innovation in Zambia |
Lumpa and its development in rural north-east ZambiaReligion and the state in modern Zambia: the problem of legitimation; Conclusion; Postscript; Notes; Bibliography; Archival materials consulted; Notes to plates; Author index; Subject index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Published in 1981, Religious Change in Zambia is a valuable contribution to the field of Middle East Studies. |
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