1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910480785803321

Autore

Curtis Greg <1950->

Titolo

Moving beyond busy : focusing school change on why, what, and how / / Greg Curtis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, Indiana : , : Solution Tree Press, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

1-947604-58-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (160 pages)

Disciplina

371.207

Soggetti

School improvement programs - United States

Educational change - United States

Education - Aims and objectives - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



2.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991001447829707536

Autore

Jaumann, Herbert

Titolo

Handbuch Gelehrtenkultur der Frühen Neuzeit / Herbert Jaumann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, c2004-

ISBN

3110160692 (v. 1)

Descrizione fisica

v. <1> ; 25 cm.

Soggetti

Europa Intellettuali Biografia Dizionari

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

vol. 1. Bio-bibliographisches Repertorium

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910973199103321

Autore

Taussig Michael T

Titolo

The devil and commodity fetishism in South America / / Michael T. Taussig

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill [N.C.], : University of North Carolina Press, c2010

ISBN

979-88-908861-6-3

979-88-9313-455-1

1-4696-0423-X

0-8078-9841-4

Edizione

[30th anniversary ed. /]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (315 p.)

Disciplina

330.98003

338.9

Soggetti

Economic development - Social aspects

Plantations - Colombia - Cauca River Valley

Tin mines and mining - Bolivia

Superstition

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. [267]-287) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface to the Thirtieth Anniversary Edition; Preface; PART I: Fetishism: The Master Trope; 1 Fetishism and Dialectical Deconstruction; 2 The Devil and Commodity Fetishism; PART II: The Plantations of the Cauca Valley, Colombia; 3 Slave Religion and the Rise of the Free Peasantry; 4 Owners and Fences; 5 The Devil and the Cosmogenesis of Capitalism; 6 Pollution, Contradiction, and Salvation; 7 The Baptism of Money and the Secret of Capital; PART III: The Bolivian Tin Mines; 8 The Devil in the Mines; 9 The Worship of Nature; 10 The Problem of Evil

11 The Iconography of Nature and Conquest 12 The Transformation of Mining and Mining Mythology; 13 Peasant Rites of Production; 14 Mining Magic: The Mediation of Commodity Fetishism; Conclusion; The Sun Gives without Receiving: A Reinterpretation of the Devil Stories; Bibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

In this classic book, Michael Taussig explores the social significance of the devil in the folklore of contemporary plantation workers and miners in South America. Grounding his analysis in Marxist theory, Taussig finds that the fetishization of evil, in the image of the devil, mediates the conflict between precapitalist and capitalist modes of objectifying the human condition. He links traditional narratives of the devil-pact, in which the soul is bartered for illusory or transitory power, with the way in which production in capitalist economies causes workers to become alienated from the com