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The Culture of Animals in Antiquity
The Culture of Animals in Antiquity provides students and researchers with well-chosen and clearly presented ancient sources in translation, some well-known, others undoubtedly unfamiliar, but all central to a key area of study in ancient history: the part played by animals in the cultures of the ancient Mediterranean. It brings new ideas to bear on the wealth of evidence – literary, historical and archaeological – which we possess for the experiences and roles of animals in the ancient world. Offering a broad picture of ancient cultures in the Mediterranean as part of a wider ecosystem, the volume is on an ambitious scale. It covers a broad span of time, from the sacred animals of dynastic Egypt to the imagery of the lamb in early Christianity, and of region, from the fallow deer introduced and bred in Roman Britain to the Asiatic lioness and her cubs brought as a gift by the Elamites to the Great King of Persia. This sourcebook is essential for anyone wishing to understand the role of animals in the ancient world and support learning for one of the fastest growing disciplines in Classics.
Livro da Escada de Maomé
O estudo do Livro da Escada de Maomé torna-se paradigmático e sua tradução para o Português é, antes, um convite à reflexão sobre as raízes culturais do Ocidente, à luz da influência cultural da Península Ibérica medieval, da qual este idioma é um dos herdeiros. Além disso, esse estudo permite, sem dúvida, estabelecer nexos entre o medievalismo e a contemporaneidade que são de grande importância para compreender e encontrar respostas para os atuais conflitos entre as culturas ocidental e islâmica.
Alquimias do Audiovisual
Em Alquimias do Audiovisual, Natália Aly pratica a movimentação entre o passado e o presente, adentrando "os pormenores do audiovisual com base no seu passado remoto para contextualizar e realizar novos desdobramentos no presente". Transmutação é a palavra de ordem, diante das analogias entre a ciência hermética ou arte da alquimia nas experimentações do audiovisual. Disso resulta uma concepção do audiovisual que também não fica reduzido aos limites de seu desenvolvimento estritamente a partir da revolução industrial. Seus germens frutificaram em gradações temporais antes desse limite.
Kongo Graphic Writing and Other Narratives of the Sign
Written symbols, religious objects, oral traditions, and body language have long been integrated into the Kongo system of graphic writing of the Bakongo people in Central Africa as well as their Cuban descendants. This book provides a significant overview of the social, religious, and historical contexts in which the Kongo kingdom developed and spread to the Caribbean.
Knowledge Management Lessons Learned
Text surveys recent applications and innovations in knowledge management (KM). Demonstrates KM in practice; revealing what has been learned, what works, and what doesn't. DLC: Knowledge management.
Gender, Science, and Authority in Women’s Travel Writing
Gender, Science, and Authority in Women’s Travel Writing: Literary Perspectives on the Discourse of Natural History analyzes the interrelations among authority, gender and the scientific discipline of natural history in the works of transatlantic women travelers from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Michelle Medeiros sheds new light on our understanding of the literary perspectives of the discourse of natural history and how these viewpoints had a surprising impact in areas that went beyond scientific fields. This book advances the study of travel writing and gender in new directions by bringing together Latin American, European, and American women travelers who actively engag...
Memory’s Turn
The first book to trace Brazil's reckoning with dictatorship through the collision of politics and cultural production.
Kudiyattam Theatre and the Actor's Consciousness
This book explores the training methods, performance and aesthetics of Kudiyattam, the oldest existing theatre from in the world. It brings together for the first time a comprehensive analysis of the psycho-physical techniques employed by the actors in Kerala of this temple theatre form. The book offers an in-depth analysis of pakarnnattam, a unique acting technique that helps the actor to perform multiple characters in a single dramatic situation. This multiple transformational acting technique is highly relevant to enhance the actor¿s abilities such as imagination, spontaneity and improvisation. The book employs a range of theoretical models developed from performance studies, gender theo...
African Futures
"The essays in this collection are written to make readers (re)consider what is possible in Africa. The essays shake the tree of received wisdom and received categories, and hone in on the complexities of life under ecological and economic constraints. Yet, throughout this volume, people do not emerge as victims, but rather as inventors, engineers, scientists, planners, writers, artists, and activists, or as children, mothers, fathers, friends, or lovers - all as future-makers. It is precisely through agents such as these that Africa is futuring: rethinking, living, confronting, imagining, and relating in the light of its many emerging tomorrows"--
July's People
For years, it has been what is called a 'deteriorating situation'. Now all over South Africa the cities are battlegrounds. The members of the Smales family - liberal whites - are rescued from the terror by their servant, July, who leads them to refuge in his native village. What happens to the Smaleses and to July - the shifts in character and relationships - gives us an unforgettable look into the terrifying, tacit understandings and misunderstandings between blacks and whites.
