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UNINA9910464886903321 |
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Autore |
Smelser Neil J |
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Titolo |
The odyssey experience [[electronic resource] ] : physical, social, psychological, and spiritual journeys / / Neil J. Smelser |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2009 |
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1-282-77254-6 |
9786612772542 |
0-520-94342-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (287 p.) |
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Insight |
Introspection |
Life change events |
Vision quests |
Pilgrims and pilgrimages |
Voyages and travels |
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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 (p. 221-248) and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1. The Essentials of the Experience -- 2. Autobiographical Roots: Some Personal Odysseys -- 3. Religious Foundations and Their Derivatives -- 4. Secularized and Commercialized Odysseys -- 5. Some Miscellaneous, More or Less Invented Experiences -- 6. Some Coercive Odyssey Experiences -- 7. Additional Theoretical Reflections -- References -- Index |
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This bold and innovative book traces the phenomenon of the "odyssey" experience as it shapes, informs, and defines our lives. Drawing on an astonishing range of examples, Neil J. Smelser focuses on how such experiences enhance our lives and provide us with meaning and dignity. The odyssey experience, as Smelser advances it, is generic, widespread, and recurring. It is a finite period of disengagement from |
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the routines of life and immersion into a simpler, transitory, often collective, usually intense period of involvement that culminates in some kind of regeneration. By examining a variety of topics as part of a larger, overarching phenomenon, Smelser transforms their study from the particular to the comparative. The Odyssey Experience thus reaches beyond a simple description of where and how transformations occur in daily life to offer a profound explanation for why they are there. |
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UNINA9910460944003321 |
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Titolo |
The Atlantic region to Confederation : a history / / edited by Phillip A. Buckner and John G. Reid ; Eric Leinberger, cartographer ; Graeme Wynn, cartographic editor ; Mitchell A. McNutt, picture editor |
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Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2005 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (526 p.) |
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HISTORY / Canada / Pre-Confederation (to 1867) |
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Atlantic Provinces History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER ONE. Early Societies -- CHAPTER TWO. The Sixteenth Century -- CHAPTER THREE. 1600-1650 -- CHAPTER FOUR. 2650-1686 -- CHAPTER FIVE. 1686-1720 -- CHAPTER SIX. 1720-1744 -- CHAPTER SEVEN. 1744-1763 -- CHAPTER EIGHT. 2763-1783 -- CHAPTER NINE. 1783-1800 -- CHAPTER TEN. 1800-1810 -- CHAPTER ELEVEN. 1810-1820 -- CHAPTER TWELVE. The 1820s -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN. The 1830s -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN. The 1840s Decade of Tribulation -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN. The 1850s -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN. The 1860s -- Notes -- Illustration Credits -- Contributors -- Index |
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Nearly thirty years ago W.S. MacNutt published the first general history of the Atlantic provinces before Confederation. An outstanding scholarly achievement, that history inspired much of the enormous growth of research and writing on Atlantic Canada in the succeeding decades. Now a new effort is required, to convey the state of our knowledge in the 1990s. Many of the themes important to today's historians, notably those relating to social class, gender, and ethnicity, have been fully developed only since 1970. Important advances have been made in our understanding of regional economic developments and their implications for social, cultural, and political life.This book is intended to fill the need for an up-to-date overview of emerging regional themes and issues. Each of the sixteen chapters, written by a distinguished scholar, covers a specific chronological period and has been carefully integrated into the whole. The history begins with the evolution of Native cultures and the impact of the arrival of Europeans on those cultures, and continues to the formation of Confederation. The goal has been to provide a synthesis that not only incorporates the most recent scholarship but is accessible to the general reader. The book re-assesses many old themes from a new perspective, and seeks to broaden the focus of regional history to include those groups whom the traditional historiography ignored or marginalized. |
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