Search Results - "Myth"

Beyond September 11 an anthology of dissent /

Table of Contents: “…: corporate moralism and the 'war against terrorism' / Dave Whyte -- Markets, regulation and risk : the US Airlines industry and some fallout from September 11 / Steve Tombs -- Dangers of the armed response at home / Mick North -- Terrorism, neighbours and Nuremberg / Herman Schwendinger and Julia Schwendinger -- Pledging allegiance : the revival of prescriptive patriotism / Cecilia O'Leary and Tony Platt -- My fellow Americans : looking black on red Tuesday / Jonathan David Farley -- Neither pure nor vile / Mike Marqusee -- The lion, the witch and the warmonger : 'good', 'evil' and the shattering of imperial myth / Howard Davis -- Beyond September 11 : certainties and doubts / Barbara Hudson -- Could Osama Bin Laden have been a woman? …”
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Roman Catholicism in fantastic film essays on belief, spectacle, ritual and imagery /

Table of Contents: “…"When the saints go marching in": saints, money and the global marketplace in Danny Boyle's Millions / John Regan -- Blasphemy in the name of fantasy: the films of Terry Gilliam in a Catholic context / Christopher McKittrick -- Sacramentality between Catholicism and the New Age in The lord of the rings / Em McAvan -- "The devil made me do it": Catholicism, verisimilitude and the reception of horror films / Rick Pieto -- "The power of Christ compels you": moral spectacle and The exorcist universe / Alexandra Heller-Nicholas -- Our Lady of Fatima and Marian Myth in Portuguese cinema / Paulo Cunha and Daniel Ribas -- Uncanny Catholicism. …”
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Crimes against women

Table of Contents: “…The laws governing crimes against women constituting Obligatio Erga Omnes / Farhad Malekian -- The human rights design: a critique of "universality" in a patriarchal world / Ruchi Anand -- Ethical and meta-ethical approaches to violence against women / Angèle Kremer-Marietti -- The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (2002): the impact of the coalition of women's groups / Cenap Cakmak -- Rape and other sexual violence against women and girls in armed conflict: legal aspects / Eileen Servidio-Delabre -- Defining rape in conflict-affected areas / Robynn Collins -- Wartime rape in the Congo / Stefan Kirchner -- Imperial Japan and its comfort women / David Wingate Pike -- Women SS-guards in concentration camps in Nazi Germany / Elissa Mailänder Koslov -- Women in prisoners' brothels in Nazi Germany / Brigitte Halbmayr -- The HIV-antidote myth and infant rape in South Africa / Tomoyuki (Tom) Hashimoto -- Rape among the Shona in Zimbabwe / Tyanai Charamba -- Domestic, community and state-sponsored violence in Nigeria / J. …”
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Shifting social imaginaries in the Hellenistic period : narrations, practices, and images /

Table of Contents: “…Nitschke -- The spread of Greek polis institutions in Hellenistic Cappadocia and the peer polity interaction model / Christoph Michels -- Shifting worldviews -- Ceremonies, athletics and the city: some remarks on the social imaginary of the Greek city of the Hellenistic period / Onno van Nijf -- The view from the old world: contemporary perspectives on Hellenistic culture / Andrew Erskine -- The Hellenistic far east: from the oikoumene to the community / Rachel Mairs -- Epilogue: Alexander the Great and Iskander dhu'l-Qarnayn: memory, myth and representation of a conqueror from Iran to south east India through the eyes of travel literature / Omar Coloru.…”
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Philosophy and anthropology : border crossing and transformations /

Table of Contents: “…hybridization, postoccidentalism, postdevelopment and transmodernity / Ivan Marquez -- Philosophical anthropology and philosophy in anthropology / Vaclav Brezina -- The engagement of philosophy and anthropology in the interpretive turn and beyond: towards an anthropology of the contemporary / Heike Kämpf -- Mediation through cognitive dynamics: philosophical anthropology and the conflicts of our time / Piet Strydom -- Philosophy as anthropocentrism: language, life and aporia / Prasenjit Biswas -- Sources of philosophical anthropology -- Kant and anthropology / Ananta Kumar Giri -- Dilthey's theory of knowledge and its potential for anthropological theory / Daniel Šuber -- Malinowski and philosophy / Peter Skalník -- Ground, self, sign: the semiotic theories of charles sanders peirce and their applications in social anthropology / Lars Kjaerholm -- Ricoeur's challenge for a twenty-first century anthropology / Betsy Taylor -- Clifford geertz: the philosophical transformation of anthropology / Gernot Saalmann -- Bakhtin's heritage in anthropology: alterity and dialogue / Marcin Brocki -- The philosophy of slavoj ¿i¿ek and anthropology: the current situation and possible futures / Lars Kjaerholm -- Border crossings between anthropology and buddhist philosophy / Susantha Goonatilake -- Philosophical anthropology at work -- Anthropology of philosophy in africa: the ethnography of critical discourse and intellectual practice / Kai Kresse -- Albinos do not die: belief, philosophy and anthropology / João de Pina-Cabral -- Anthropology, development and the myth of culture / Robert Feleppa -- Notions of friendship in philosophical and anthropological thought -- Heidrun friese -- Afterword the return of philosophical anthropology / Fred Dallmayr.…”
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The "Good War" in American memory / by Bodnar, John E., 1944-

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Challenging Multiculturalism : European Models of Diversity /

Table of Contents: “…. / Nasar Meer and Tariq Modood ; The Dutch Multicultural Myth / Peter Scholten ; Immigrant Integration and Multiculturalism in Belgium / Marco Martiniello ; The Political Dynamics of Multiculturalism in Sweden / Karin Borevi. -- Part III: Multicultural Societies without Multiculturalism?. …”
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Historicizing Fear : Ignorance, Vilification, and Othering /

Table of Contents: “…Chunnu -- How Fear, Once Created and Spread, Is Used for Political Ends -- 8.A Pharmacological Gulf of Tonkin: The Myth of the Addicted Army in Vietnam and the Fear of a Junkie Veteran / Lukasz Kamienski -- 9.The Strategies of Fear, the Commercialization of Society, and the Rise of the Factory System in the Low Countries during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries / Brecht De Smet -- 10.Aliens, Enemy Aliens, and Minors: Anti-Radicalism and the Jewish Left / Jeffrey A. …”
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Challenging Multiculturalism : European Models of Diversity /

Table of Contents: “…. / Nasar Meer and Tariq Modood ; The Dutch Multicultural Myth / Peter Scholten ; Immigrant Integration and Multiculturalism in Belgium / Marco Martiniello ; The Political Dynamics of Multiculturalism in Sweden / Karin Borevi. -- Part III: Multicultural Societies without Multiculturalism?. …”
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Historicizing Fear : Ignorance, Vilification, and Othering /

Table of Contents: “…Chunnu -- How Fear, Once Created and Spread, Is Used for Political Ends -- 8.A Pharmacological Gulf of Tonkin: The Myth of the Addicted Army in Vietnam and the Fear of a Junkie Veteran / Lukasz Kamienski -- 9.The Strategies of Fear, the Commercialization of Society, and the Rise of the Factory System in the Low Countries during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries / Brecht De Smet -- 10.Aliens, Enemy Aliens, and Minors: Anti-Radicalism and the Jewish Left / Jeffrey A. …”
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Sunset limited the Southern Pacific Railroad and the development of the American West, 1850-1930 / by Orsi, Richard J.

Table of Contents: “…Foundations: "These mountains look too ugly and I see too much work ahead": building the Southern Pacific Company, 1850/1930; Men of vision: Southern Pacific leaders, land, agriculture, and the development of California and the West -- Land settlement: "Stand on the rights of the Company and make a square fight of it": land-grant myths, conflicts with government, and squatterism; The Mussel Slough affair; A land of "well-tilled little farms": land-grant development; Promoting the far West: 1860s-1900s -- Water: "The satisfactory supply is yet undiscovered": the Southern Pacific as a pioneer water developer; "A great encouragement for others": private irrigation; "This splendid country is to be reclaimed": public irrigation; "The government is hard to deal with": federal reclamation -- Agriculture: "Evangel train": scientific agriculture; "The damndest railroading you ever heard of": marketing the produce of western farms -- Conservation: "Shall this destruction proceed?"…”
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Red and blue nation? characteristics and causes of America's polarized politics. Vol. 1 /

Table of Contents: “…Dionne Jr. Comments : Myths and realities of religion in politics / Alan Wolfe, Andrew Kohut -- How the mass media divide us / Diana C. …”
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Landscapes of origin in the Americas creation narratives linking ancient places and present communities /

Table of Contents: “…Christenson -- Landscapes as Metaphor : Resources, Language, and Myths of Dynastic Origin on the Pacific Coast from the Santa Valley (Peru) to Manabi (Ecuador) / Patricia J. …”
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Writing Tangier

Table of Contents: “…Coury -- Tangier that was: the confessions of Samuel Pepys (1683) / Karim Bejjit -- Tangier, ville-mythe dans le discours romanesque de deux écrivains tangérois (M. …”
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Landscapes of origin in the Americas creation narratives linking ancient places and present communities /

Table of Contents: “…Christenson -- Landscapes as Metaphor : Resources, Language, and Myths of Dynastic Origin on the Pacific Coast from the Santa Valley (Peru) to Manabi (Ecuador) / Patricia J. …”
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Writing Tangier

Table of Contents: “…Coury -- Tangier that was: the confessions of Samuel Pepys (1683) / Karim Bejjit -- Tangier, ville-mythe dans le discours romanesque de deux écrivains tangérois (M. …”
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Sunset limited the Southern Pacific Railroad and the development of the American West, 1850-1930 / by Orsi, Richard J.

Table of Contents: “…Foundations: "These mountains look too ugly and I see too much work ahead": building the Southern Pacific Company, 1850/1930; Men of vision: Southern Pacific leaders, land, agriculture, and the development of California and the West -- Land settlement: "Stand on the rights of the Company and make a square fight of it": land-grant myths, conflicts with government, and squatterism; The Mussel Slough affair; A land of "well-tilled little farms": land-grant development; Promoting the far West: 1860s-1900s -- Water: "The satisfactory supply is yet undiscovered": the Southern Pacific as a pioneer water developer; "A great encouragement for others": private irrigation; "This splendid country is to be reclaimed": public irrigation; "The government is hard to deal with": federal reclamation -- Agriculture: "Evangel train": scientific agriculture; "The damndest railroading you ever heard of": marketing the produce of western farms -- Conservation: "Shall this destruction proceed?"…”
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Red and blue nation? characteristics and causes of America's polarized politics. Vol. 1 /

Table of Contents: “…Dionne Jr. Comments : Myths and realities of religion in politics / Alan Wolfe, Andrew Kohut -- How the mass media divide us / Diana C. …”
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Civil-military relations in today's China swimming in a new sea /

Table of Contents: “…Social trends in China : implications for the Pople's Liberation Army / Tony Saich -- The impact of social changes on the PLA : a Chinese military perspective / Xiaobing Li -- The new military elite : generational profile and contradictory trends / Cheng Li -- The fourth-generation leaders and the new military elite / Yu bin -- The PLA and the provinces : military district and local issues / Zhiyue Bo -- The political implications of PLA professionalism / Lyman Miller -- Unravelling the myths about political commissars / You Ji -- Searching for a twenty-first-century officer corps / Thomas J. …”
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Boomers and beyond reconsidering the role of libraries /

Table of Contents: “…Jureller -- Old dogs, new tricks : the myths and the realities / Stephen Abram -- Musings on challenges for librarians in 2040 / Pauline Rothstein.…”
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