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Sexuality and Eroticism Among Males in Moslem Societies
Here is the first major work published about sexuality and eroticism between males in Islamic society. Through narratives, analytic essays, descriptions, and academic treatises, Sexuality and Eroticism Among Males in Moslem Societies provides a revealing and most fascinating look into what is--for most Westerners--still a very hidden, very foreign culture. Until now there has existed a lack of solid information about sexuality in Islamic society, but this volume portrays very clearly the relationship between same-sex eroticism and the ideal of the man as penetrator. As a result, Sexuality and Eroticism Among Males in Moslem Societies illuminates not only homosexuality but the whole sexual cu...
The Spirit of '68
In virtually all corners of the Western world, 1968 witnessed a highly unusual sequence of popular rebellions. In Italy, France, Spain, Vietnam, the United States, West Germany, Czechoslovakia, Mexico, and elsewhere, millions of individuals took matters into their own hands to counter imperialism, capitalism, autocracy, bureaucracy, and all forms of hierarchical thinking. Recent reinterpretations have sought to play down any real challenge to the socio-political status quo in these events, but Gerd-Rainer Horn's book offers a spirited counterblast. 1968, he argues, opened up the possibility that economic and political elites on both sides of the Iron Curtain could be toppled from their posit...
Odori
Questo libro ripercorre gli odori in tutti i loro possibili risvolti fra sacro, profano e magico, alla ricerca dell'essenza di un senso proibito...Questo libro ripercorre gli odori in tutti i loro possibili risvolti fra sacro, profano e magico, alla ricerca dell'essenza di un senso , un po' schiacciato dal prevalere delle merci, delle immagini e dei suoni.Dedicato a un ritorno dell'odore e del "profumo corrosivo della vita", quindi della memoria e delle emozioni profumate, questo libro è un invito a imparare ad annusare e a immaginare con l'olfatto tutti gli spazi della nostra vita.
Feuds and State Formation, 1550–1700
This book re-evaluates the role of local agency and provides a new perspective to the political, social and cultural history of state formation, taking a microhistorical approach and through close analysis of archival sources between 1550 to 1700. The backcountry of the Republic of Genoa is a laboratory for gauging the weight and significance of two elements which, according to Charles Tilly and other scholars, have characterized the construction of the modern state: judicial administration and fiscal extraction. The instruments employed in this respect were arbitration and compensation. Interactions between center and periphery occurred within a stratified and discontinuous fabric of fluid ...
The Life and Work of Ernesto De Martino
The Life and Work of Ernesto de Martino introduces one of the 20th century’s key thinkers in religious studies and demonstrates that the discipline was animated by a tension between the fear of the apocalypse and the desire for civilizational rebirth.
Feeding the City
Every day in Mumbai 5,000 dabbawalas (literally translated as "those who carry boxes") distribute a staggering 200,000 home-cooked lunchboxes to the city's workers and students. Giving employment and status to thousands of largely illiterate villagers from Mumbai's hinterland, this co-operative has been in operation since the late nineteenth century. It provides one of the most efficient delivery networks in the world: only one lunch in six million goes astray. Feeding the City is an ethnographic study of the fascinating inner workings of Mumbai's dabbawalas. Cultural anthropologist Sara Roncaglia explains how they cater to the various dietary requirements of a diverse and increasingly global city, where the preparation and consumption of food is pervaded with religious and cultural significance. Developing the idea of "gastrosemantics" - a language with which to discuss the broader implications of cooking and eating - Roncaglia's study helps us to rethink our relationship to food at a local and global level.
Sicily on Screen
With its physical beauty and kaleidoscopic cultural background, Sicily has long been a source of inspiration for filmmakers. Twelve new essays by international scholars--and additional writings from directors Roberta Torre, Giovanna Taviani, and Costanza Quatriglio--seek to offset the near-absence of scholarship focusing on the relationship between the Mediterranean island and cinema. Touching on class relations, immigration, gender and poverty, the essays examine how Sicily is depicted in fiction, satire and documentaries. Situated between North and South, East and West, innovation and tradition, authenticity and displacement, Sicily acts as a microcosm of the world, a place to explore numerous narratives and develop intercultural dialogue. It is also the center of cinematographic discussions and events such as the Taormina Film Festival and the SalinaDocFest. The volume presents Sicily almost as a character and creator in its own right.
Alle due sponde della cortina di ferro. Le culture del dissenso e la definizione dell’identità europea nel secondo Novecento tra Italia, Francia e URSS (1956-1991)
Il volume restituisce un quadro complesso delle diverse forme di cultura del dissenso che dagli anni Cinquanta in poi interessano l’Ovest e l’Est europeo, come l’area francoitaliana e quella slavo-orientale (Russia, Bielorussia e Ucraina Sovietiche). Queste aree risultano contraddistinte dalla nascita di forme di contestazione nei confronti dell’establishment culturale e politico che si manifestano in modo antitetico (e con conseguenze diverse) sia in rapporto agli eventi storici che segnano il periodo 1956-1991, sia al tipo di stato in cui tali forme si diffondono. In una prospettiva analitica che privilegia la descrizione della nascita e dello sviluppo dei fenomeni controculturali, si propone per la prima volta un “atlante del dissenso”, propedeutico alla comprensione di un periodo nevralgico della storia europea, caratterizzato, dalla fine della Seconda Guerra Mondiale in poi, dall’asse che separa l’Europa occidentale da quella orientale, compresa nella sfera di influenza del blocco sovietico.
