Ethics and Literary Practice
| Ethics and Literary Practice |
| Autore | Newton Adam Zachary |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
| Soggetto topico | Philosophy |
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Adorno
aesthetics affect African-American literature Afro-Caribbean literature alterity Alterity American philosophy analogy Anthropocene attention Being Biblical Hebrew classical Greek compassion contingency Czeslaw Miłosz Dante Alighieri decoloniality dialectics emergence Emersonian perfectionism Emmanuel Levinas empathy enlarged thinking entre deux ethics Ethics ethics and literature etymology gendered violence genocide German Empire Glissant Heidegger Hélène Cixous human rights indigenous writers Israeli literature Israelis and Palestinians Jacques Derrida judgment Kafka language poetry Levinas literary form literature metaphor metonymy Michael Palmer mimesis moral perfectionism n/a narrative ethics neorealism non-linguistic turn orthography paracritical pedagogy philosophy Plato po-ethics poetics poetry politics porosity postcritical Primo Levi prosody Proust racism Ralph Waldo Emerson reading recognition redress refugees representation responsibility romanticism Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney's Human Rights Lecture sensus communis Shakespeare Simon Critchley skepticism sonic rhetorics space Stanley Cavell Teresa Brennan the individual the other the Other the reversible vov time Timm tragedy vulnerability Weil |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910557379203321 |
Newton Adam Zachary
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| Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Holy harlots [[electronic resource] ] : femininity, sexuality, and black magic in Brazil / / Kelly E. Hayes
| Holy harlots [[electronic resource] ] : femininity, sexuality, and black magic in Brazil / / Kelly E. Hayes |
| Autore | Hayes Kelly E. <1968-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley [Calif.], : University of California Press, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (309 p.) |
| Disciplina | 306.6/996121140981 |
| Soggetto topico |
Pomba-Gira
Afro-Brazilian cults - Brazil |
| Soggetto non controllato |
afro brazilian
anthropology black magic brazil contemporary brazil controversial figures femininity feminism gender politics gender studies gendered violence magic modern history morality mystical nonfiction pomba gira prostitution religious figures religious practices rio de janeiro rituals sex politics sexuality social marginality social science spirits spirituality superstitious urban brazil world religions |
| ISBN |
0-520-94943-9
1-283-27809-X 9786613278098 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Wicked women and femmes fatales -- Pomba Gira and the religious imagination -- Life on the margins -- Sexuality, morality, and the logic of gender -- Becoming a zelador -- Spiritual defenders and protectors -- Maria Molambo's revenge -- If God is all good, then only the devil can combat evil -- Balancing human and spirit worlds. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787592603321 |
Hayes Kelly E. <1968->
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| Berkeley [Calif.], : University of California Press, 2011 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Life and words [[electronic resource] ] : violence and the descent into the ordinary / / Veena Das ; foreword by Stanley Cavell
| Life and words [[electronic resource] ] : violence and the descent into the ordinary / / Veena Das ; foreword by Stanley Cavell |
| Autore | Das Veena |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
| Disciplina | 303.60954 |
| Collana | A Philip E. Lilienthal book in Asian studies |
| Soggetto topico |
Riots - India - History - 20th century
Sikhs - Crimes against - India Suffering - India Violence - India |
| Soggetto non controllato |
1947
1984 anthropologists anthropology case studies collective violence contemporary thought critical analysis ethnographers ethnography fieldwork gender studies gendered violence historical history of violence human condition india indira gandhi interdisciplinary massacre of sikhs men and women nonfiction partition of india philosophical political theory sectarian conflict social science understanding violence violent cultures violent societies |
| ISBN |
9786612358401
1-282-35840-5 0-520-93953-0 1-4294-1914-8 1-60129-532-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- 1. The Event and the Everyday -- 2. The Figure of the Abducted Woman: The Citizen as Sexed -- 3. Language and Body: Transactions in the Construction of Pain -- 4. The Act of Witnessing: Violence, Gender, and Subjectivity -- 5. Boundaries, Violence, and the Work of Time -- 6. Thinking of Time and Subjectivity -- 7. In the Region of Rumor -- 8. The Force of the Local -- 9. The Signature of the State: The Paradox of Illegibility -- 10. Three Portraits of Grief and Mourning -- 11. Revisiting Trauma, Testimony, and Political Community -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784412003321 |
Das Veena
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2007 | ||
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Wayward women : sexuality and agency in a New Guinea society / / Holly Wardlow
| Wayward women : sexuality and agency in a New Guinea society / / Holly Wardlow |
| Autore | Wardlow Holly |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (297 pages) |
| Disciplina | 305.409956/1 |
| Soggetto topico |
Women, Huli - Sexual behavior - Papua New Guinea - Tari District
Women, Huli - Papua New Guinea - Tari District - Social conditions Women, Huli - Papua New Guinea - Tari District - Economic conditions Bride price - Papua New Guinea - Tari District Courtship - Papua New Guinea - Tari District |
| Soggetto non controllato |
anthropologists
bridewealth capitalist economy contemporary papua new guinea court cases ethnography female agency gender issues gender studies gendered violence huli women marriage modern world new guinea society nonfiction papua new guinea passenger women personal experiences prostitution rape sex workers sexuality social institutions socioeconomic factors transactional sex village law women and families women womens roles |
| ISBN |
9786612771903
1-4237-5552-9 1-282-77190-6 0-520-93897-6 1-59875-943-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. "Tari is a jelas place": The Fieldwork Setting -- 2. "To finish my anger": Body and Agency among Huli Women -- 3. "I am not the daughter of a pig!": The Changing Dynamics of Bridewealth -- 4. "You, I don't even count you": Becoming a Pasinja Meri -- 5. "Eating her own vagina": Passenger Women and Sexuality -- 6. "When the pig and the bamboo knife are ready": The Huli Dawe Anda -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783668203321 |
Wardlow Holly
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| Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2006 | ||
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Why America's top pundits are wrong [[electronic resource] ] : anthropologists talk back / / edited by Catherine Besteman and Hugh Gusterson
| Why America's top pundits are wrong [[electronic resource] ] : anthropologists talk back / / edited by Catherine Besteman and Hugh Gusterson |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , c2005 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (292 pages) |
| Disciplina | 302.23 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
BestemanCatherine Lowe
GustersonHugh |
| Collana | California series in public anthropology |
| Soggetto topico |
Mass media and anthropology
Communication - Social aspects Communication in anthropology Communication - Political aspects Specialists Common fallacies |
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america
american foreign policy anthology anthropologists anthropology biology contemporary world controversial topics democratic dinesh dsouza essay collection ethnic violence fieldwork gendered violence globalization history and sociology humanistic modern critique nonfiction essays political thought poverty pundits race issues robert kaplan samuel huntington social issues social justice social science thomas friedman under scrutiny welfare yugoslavia |
| ISBN |
1-4175-7368-6
1-282-76316-4 1-59875-008-9 9786612763168 0-520-93848-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Seven Deadly Sins Of Samuel Huntington -- 3. Samuel Huntington, Meet The Nuer: Kinship, Local Knowledge, And The Clash Of Civilizations -- 4. Haunted By The Imaginations Of The Past: Robert Kaplan's Balkan Ghosts -- 5. Why I Disagree With Robert Kaplan -- 6. Globalization And Thomas Friedman -- 7. On The Lexus And The Olive Tree, By Thomas L. Friedman -- 8. Extrastate Globalization Of The Illicit -- 9. Class Politics And Scavenger Anthropology In Dinesh D'Souza's Virtue Of Prosperity -- 10. Sex On The Brain: A Natural History Of Rape And The Dubious Doctrines Of Evolutionary Psychology -- 11. Anthropology And The Bell Curve -- Notes -- Suggested Further Reading -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783133303321 |
| Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , c2005 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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