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Experiencing the Beyond
Experiencing the dimension that lies beyond our empirical grasp of the world has always been a challenge for human beings, for it can expose the limitations of our agency. Such experience, while potentially terrifying, can also furnish a basis for religious faith or hope of a better future. The intercultural essays in this volume analyze ways of dealing with the beyond, including magic, religion, myth, and all-promising utopias.
The Art of Language
This volume explores different ideas of what language does and what is done with language, considering different ways in which hospitality and humanity are expressed, knowledge is constructed, and asking about more integrative ways in keeping languages relevant.
The Integration of Language and Society
The volume explores the integration of language and society as reflected in the grammar of a language. Each language bears an imprint of the society that speaks it; language reflects speakers' relationships with each other, their beliefs, and their ways of viewing the world, as well as other aspects of their social environment, their means of subsistence, and even geographical features of the areas in which the language is spoken. The chapters in this book draw on data from the languages of Australia and New Guinea (Dyirbal and Idi), South America (Chamacoco, Ayoreo, Murui, and Tariana), Asia (Japanese, Brokpa, and Dzongkha), and Africa (Iraqw) to examine the ways in which the grammar of a l...
Mala guerra
La guerra del Chaco (Paraguay - Bolivia, 1932-35) ha sido convencionalmente pensada como un conflicto entre Estados modernos que se habría desarrollado sobre un espacio vacío, el desierto verde de los manuales escolares. Una abundante bibliografía se ha ocupado de estudiar y analizar los elementos logísticos, militares, diplomáticos y sociales de la guerra : todo sigue ocurriendo como sí los ejércitos no hubiesen encontrado en su camino más rastro de vida humana que el de algún desertor emboscado. La guerra ha sido retrospectivamente “blanqueada” y las poblaciones indígenas han desaparecido, subrepticiamente, del teatro de batalla. No sólo esta operación ha permitido conforta...
