Author : Børge Bakken
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 10,65 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780198295235
"...richly documented and pathbreaking..."--Choice
Author : Bøorge Bakken
Publisher :
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 23,36 MB
Release : 1994
Category : China
ISBN : 9788257001131
Author : Sacha Cody
Publisher : Springer
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 29,74 MB
Release : 2019-02-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9811337950
This book is an important contribution to our understanding of food in China through an ethnographic case study of an alternative food movement in Shanghai and the surrounding countryside. Cody examines a group of middle-class urban residents who move to the countryside to establish small-scale and independent organic farms. The book explores the complex relationships movement protagonists have with customers in the city, rural neighbours in the countryside, volunteers on their farms, intellectuals involved in rural reconstruction initiatives as well as the organic items they produce. In doing so, Cody provides valuable insights into the urban/rural dichotomy and questions of morality in China today. This book speaks to several concerns associated with the accelerated modernization China and other Asian nations are experiencing, including food safety and class relations. It will appeal to scholars and practitioners across a range of fields including anthropology, food studies, rural development and China Studies.
Author : Lothar von Falkenhausen
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 33,34 MB
Release : 2006-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1938770455
Winner of the 2009 Society for American Archaeology Book Award Chinese Society in the Age of Confucius is based on the most up-to-date archaeological discoveries. It introduces new data, as well as new ways to think about them - modes of analysis that, while familiar to archaeological practitioners in the West and in Japan, are herein applied to evidence from the Chinese Bronze Age for the first time. The treatment of social stratification, clan and lineage organisation, as well as gender and ethnic differences will be of interest to those involved in the general or comparative analysis of grand themes in the Social Sciences.
Author : Rebecca Langlands
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 24,42 MB
Release : 2018-09-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 1107040604
"The well-known mythographer Marina Warner has described the process of reading fairy tales and folktales as 'tasting the dragon's blood' - a magical and transformative process by which one's ears are opened to the voices of the past and of other worlds. Roman exempla, which constitute a national story-telling tradition, are very different in many ways from the dream-like fantasies of fairy-tales and other narrative folk traditions that have been the subject of Warner's studies. In (supposedly) true stories from history, battle-hardened warriors, noble maidens and honourable sons of the soil face impossible dangers, take terrible decisions and sacrifice their lives, their limbs and even their own children for the sake of justice, discipline and the Roman community. Yet for the ancient Romans too, hearing the blood-soaked stories of their ancestral heroes was an intimate and potent experience, and this 'taste of the hero's blood' had an intoxicating effect similar to the blood of Warner's dragon: evoking other worlds, shaping understanding of their own world"--
Author : Arif Dirlik
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 17,94 MB
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317259106
This book offers historical and comparative analyses of changes in agrarian society forced by the globalization of capitalism, and the implications of these changes for human welfare globally. The book gives special attention to recent economic development and urbanization in the People s Republic of China which have had a major impact on contemporary transformations globally. Case studies from South and Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America in turn place these transformations in a comparative global perspective. The contributors include distinguished scholars from the UN, PRC, India, Zimbabwe, and Latin America who are also active in policy issues."
Author : Rebecca Langlands
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 49,29 MB
Release : 2018-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1108640443
This ground-breaking study conveys the thrill and moral power of the ancient Roman story-world and its ancestral tales of bloody heroism. Its account of 'exemplary ethics' explores how and what Romans learnt from these moral exempla, arguing that they disseminated widely not only core values such as courage and loyalty, but also key ethical debates and controversies which are still relevant for us today. Exemplary ethics encouraged controversial thinking, creative imitation, and a critical perspective on moral issues, and it plays an important role in Western philosophical thought. The model of exemplary ethics developed here is based on a comprehensive survey of Latin literature, and its innovative approach also synthesizes methodologies from disciplines such as contemporary philosophy, educational theory, and cultural memory studies. It offers a new and robust framework for the study of Roman exempla that will also be valuable for the study of moral exempla in other settings.
Author : William Marvin Alexander
Publisher : Holt McDougal
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 27,16 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Education
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Page : 466 pages
File Size : 24,70 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN :
Author : Presbyterian Historical Society
Publisher :
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 37,36 MB
Release : 1906
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