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Public Health
This important book makes a significant contribution to the emergent body of public health knowledge by examining debates around the social context of health, including key socio-economic, environmental and cultural factors
Those for Whom the Lamp Shines
In Those for Whom the Lamp Shines, Vince L. Bantu uses the rich body of anti-Chalcedonian literature to explore how the peoples of Egypt, both inside and outside the Coptic Church, came to understand their identity as Egyptians. Working across a comparative spectrum of traditions and communities in late antiquity, at the intersection of religious and other social forms of identity, Bantu shows that it was the dissenting doctrines of the Coptic Church that played the crucial role in conceptualizing Egypt and being Egyptian. Based on the study of neglected Coptic and Syriac texts, Those for Whom the Lamp Shines offers the only sustained treatment of ethnic and religious self-understanding in Africa’s oldest Christian church.
Constructing Communities in Vergil's Aeneid
Constructing Communities in Vergil's Aeneid: Cultural Memory, Identity, and Ideology presents a new examination of memory, ethnic identity, and politics within the fictional world of this Roman epic, drawing previously unexplored connections between Vergil’s characters, settings, and narrative and the political context of the early Roman Empire. This book investigates how the Aeneid’s fictive ethnic communities—the Trojans, Carthaginians, Latins, and Arcadians who populate its poetic world—are shown to have identities, myths, and cultural memories of their own. And much like their real-life Roman counterparts, they engage in the politics of the past in such contexts as royal iconogra...
Ethno-symbolism and Nationalism
Provides a concise explanation of an ethno-symbolic approach to the study of nations and nationalism and simultaneously embodies a general statement of Anthony D Smith’s contribution to this approach and its application to the central issues of nations and nationalism.
Nationalism and Modernism
The first major study in over three decades to explore the essential arguments of all the major theoretical interpretations of nationalism, from the modernist approaches of Gellner, Nairn, Breuilly, Giddens and Hobsbawm to the alternative paradigms of van den Bergh and Geertz, Armstrong and Smith himself. In a style accessible to the student and the general reader Smith traces the changing view of this hotly discussed topic within the current political, cultural and socioeconomic arena. He also analyses the contributions of such historians, sociologists and political scientists as Seton-Watson, Reynolds, Hastings, Horowitz and Brass. The survey concludes with an analysis of post-modern approaches to national identity, gender and nation, making it indispensable reading to all those interested in gaining full and authoritative knowledge of nationalism.
Nationalism and Ethnosymbolism
Ethnosymbolism offers a distinct and innovative approach to the study of nations and nationalism. It focuses on the role of ethnic myths, historical memories, symbols and traditions in the creation and maintenance of the collective identity of modern nations. This book explores the different aspects of the ethnosymbolic approach to the study of ethnicity, nationality and nationalism.Nationalism and Ethnosymbolism first introduces the main theoretical considerations that have arisen in nationalism studies in the past two decades. It then presents a collection of case studies covering music and poetry, ethnosymbolism in antiquity, and a wide variety of nations and regions. Areas discussed include Eastern Europe and Russia, the Middle East, the Far East and India, Africa, and the Americas.Overall the book offers a defence of the methodology of ethnosymbolism and a demonstration of its explanatory power.
Chronicles of the Zulhan Empire
On the verge of a cultural and political revolution, the Zulhan Empire faces a war it has never seen before. It has to battle an enemy that has no code, no morals and no purpose other than destruction. The champions leading them are the Knights of the church who bear the light of the Almighty Zulha. Two of the Knights, Sebastian and Seibzehn, need to set aside their differences and work together in order to save the empire from an impending doom.
Ontbijten met Lucian
Lucian Freud behoort tot de belangrijkste en beroemdste schilders van zijn tijd. Maar zijn hartstochtelijke leven als kunstenaar en zijn kleurrijke privéleven hield hij graag achter een muur van geheimzinnigheid verborgen. In dit opmerkelijke boek wordt die muur voor het eerst geslecht. Tien jaar lang behoorde Geordie Greig tot een select groepje vrienden dat geregeld met Lucian Freud ontbeet bij Clarke's in Londen. Een ouderwetse salon, met Freud als middelpunt. Voor het eerst vertelt Freud vrijmoedig over kunst en over zijn persoonlijk leven. Over hoe hij David Hockney schilderde, met paarden sliep, hoe hij ontkwam aan de gangstertweeling Kray en hoe hij koningin Elizabeth portretteerde. ...
