EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

Book Catalog of the Oriental Institute Library  University of Chicago

Download or read book Catalog of the Oriental Institute Library University of Chicago written by University of Chicago. Oriental Institute. Library and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Du culte des dieux f  tiches  ou  Parall  le de l ancienne religion de l Egypte avec la religion actuelle de Nigritie

Download or read book Du culte des dieux f tiches ou Parall le de l ancienne religion de l Egypte avec la religion actuelle de Nigritie written by Charles de Brosses and published by . This book was released on 1760 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Du culte des dieux f  tiches

Download or read book Du culte des dieux f tiches written by Charles de Brosses and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Du Culte Des Dieux F  tiches  Ou Parall  le de L Ancienne Religion de L   gypte Avec la Religion Actuelle de Nigritie      Primary Source Edition

Download or read book Du Culte Des Dieux F tiches Ou Parall le de L Ancienne Religion de L gypte Avec la Religion Actuelle de Nigritie Primary Source Edition written by Charles de Brosses and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ Du Culte Des Dieux FEtiches, Ou ParallEle De L'ancienne Religion De L'Egypte Avec La Religion Actuelle De Nigritie Charles de Brosses s.n., 1760

Book Du Culte des dieux f  tiches  ou Parall  le de l ancienne religion de l Egypte avec la religion actuelle de la Nigritie   Par le pr  sident Ch  de Brosses

Download or read book Du Culte des dieux f tiches ou Parall le de l ancienne religion de l Egypte avec la religion actuelle de la Nigritie Par le pr sident Ch de Brosses written by and published by . This book was released on 1760 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Returns of Fetishism

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rosalind C. Morris
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2017-07-26
  • ISBN : 022646475X
  • Pages : 442 pages

Download or read book The Returns of Fetishism written by Rosalind C. Morris and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-07-26 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fetishism (supposing that it existed)": a preface to the translation of Charles de Brosses's Transgression / Rosalind C. Morris -- Introduction: fetishism, figurism, and myths of enlightenment / Daniel H. Leonard -- A note on the translation / Daniel H. Leonard -- On the worship of fetish gods; or, a parallel of the ancient religion of Egypt with the present religion of Nigritia / Charles de Brosses ; translated by Daniel H. Leonard -- After De Brosses: fetishism, translation, comparativism, critique / Rosalind C. Morris -- A fetiche is a fetiche: no knowledge without difference of the word: rereading De Brosses -- Excursus: recontextualizing De Brosses, with Pietz in and out of Africa -- Re Kant and the good fetishists among us -- Hegel: back to the heart of darkness -- Fetishism against itself; or, Marx's two fetishisms -- The great fetish; or, the fetishism of the one -- Freud and the return to the dark continent: the other fetish -- Conjuncture: Freud and Marx, via Lacan -- Anthropology's fetishism: the custodianship of reality -- Fetishism reanimated: surrealism, ethnography, and the war against decay -- Deconstruction's fetish: undecidable, or the mark of Hegel -- Rehistoricizing generalized fetishism: the era of objects -- Anthropological redux: the reality of fetishism -- The fetish is dead, long live fetishism

Book Curatorial Things

    Book Details:
  • Author : Beatrice Von Bismarck
  • Publisher : National Geographic Books
  • Release : 2020-03-31
  • ISBN : 3956792807
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Curatorial Things written by Beatrice Von Bismarck and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considerations of thingness, intertwining transdisciplinary discourses, transcultural perspectives, and methods of practice-theory. The meaning, function, and status of things have changed decisively over the past two decades. This development can be traced back to a growing skepticism since the second half of the twentieth century that culture can be presented through things. The questioning of thingness is an integral part of presentation and has informed and shaped the social relevance of the field of the curatorial. Immanent to presentation as a mode of being (public) in the world, the curatorial has the potential to address, visualize, and question the central effects of the changing status and function of things. The presentational mode has played a generative role, vitally participating in the mobilization of things through its aesthetic, semantic, social, and, not least, economic dimensions. Intertwining transdisciplinary discourses, transcultural perspectives, and methods of practice-theory, the anthology Curatorial Things is a new orientation of the analysis of things. Contributors Arjun Appadurai, Annette Bhagwati, Beatrice von Bismarck, Bill Brown, Sabeth Buchmann, Clémentine Deliss, André Lepecki, Maria Lind, Sven Lütticken, Florian Malzacher, Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer, Sarah Pierce, Peter J. Schneemann, Jana Scholze, Kavita Singh, Lucy Steeds, Leire Vergara, Katharina Weinstock, Judith Welter

Book Du culte des dieux f  tiches

Download or read book Du culte des dieux f tiches written by Charles de Brosses and published by Gregg Revivals. This book was released on 1972 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chardin

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pierre Rosenberg
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1979
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 423 pages

Download or read book Chardin written by Pierre Rosenberg and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Letters to Miranda and Canova on the Abduction of Antiquities from Rome and Athens

Download or read book Letters to Miranda and Canova on the Abduction of Antiquities from Rome and Athens written by Quatremère de Quincy (M., Antoine-Chrysostome) and published by J Paul Getty Museum Publications. This book was released on 2012 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quatremére de Quincy, the most famous art critic at the end of the Enlightenment, published two sets of letters about the role of museums. He first implored them to return works of art to their original settings but later argued in favor of the museum as a place where artworks can be safely stored and made available for artists to study. Immensely contraversial and influential since they were written two centuries ago, Quatremére's texts sum up the most bewildering moment of the debate on museums: did the new institution inauguate the death of art, or bring it to its perfection? This volume offers the first English translation of the letters, as well as an extensive introduction that reveals their content, the reason for their intellectual success, and how they enlarge contemporary disputes about cultural property, national claims and universal beauty.

Book Along an African Border

Download or read book Along an African Border written by Sonia Silva and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The divination baskets of south Central Africa are woven for a specific purpose. The baskets, known as lipele, contain sixty or so small articles, from seeds, claws, and minuscule horns to wooden carvings. Each article has its own name and symbolic meaning, and collectively they are known as jipelo. For the Luvale and related peoples, the lipele is more than a container of souvenirs; it is a tool, a source of crucial information from the ancestral past and advice for the future. In Along an African Border, anthropologist Sónia Silva examines how Angolan refugees living in Zambia use these divination baskets to cope with daily life in a new land. Silva documents the special processes involved in weaving the baskets and transforming them into oracles. She speaks with diviners who make their living interpreting lipele messages and speaks also with their knowledge-seeking clients. To the Luvale, these baskets are capable of thinking, hearing, judging, and responding. They communicate by means of jipelo articles drawn in configurations, interact with persons and other objects, punish wrongdoers, assist people in need, and, much like humans, go through a life course that is marked with an initiation ceremony and a special burial. The lipele functions in a state between object and person. Notably absent from lipele divination is any discussion or representation in the form of symbolic objects of the violence in Angola or the Luvale's relocation struggles—instead, the consultation focuses on age-old personal issues of illness, reproduction, and death. As Silva demonstrates in this sophisticated and richly illustrated ethnography, lipele help people maintain their links to kin and tradition in a world of transience and uncertainty.

Book Reification

    Book Details:
  • Author : Timothy Bewes
  • Publisher : Verso Books
  • Release : 2020-05-05
  • ISBN : 1789608295
  • Pages : 415 pages

Download or read book Reification written by Timothy Bewes and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the concepts which have emerged to describe the effects of capitalism on the human world, none is more graphic or easily grasped than "reification"-the process by which men and women are turned into objects, things. Arising out of Marx's account of commodity fetishism, the concept of reification offers an unrivalled tool with which to explain the real consequences of the power of capital on consciousness itself. Symptoms of reification are proliferating around us-from the branding of goods and services to racial and sexual stereotypes, all forms of religious faith, the growth of nationalism, and recent concepts like "spin" and "globalization." At such a time, the term ought to enjoy greater critical currency than ever. Recent thinkers, however, have expressed deep reservations about the concept, and the term has become marginalized in the humanities and social societies. Eschewing this trend, Timothy Bewes opens up a new formulation of the concept, claiming that, in the highly reflective age of "late capitalism," reification is best understood as a form of social and cultural anxiety: further, that such an understanding returns the concept to its origins in the work of Georg Lukcs. Drawing upon writers including Kierkegaard, Herman Melville, Proust and Flannery O'Connor, he outlines a theory of reification which promises to unite politics with truth, art with experience, and philosophy with real life.

Book Christian Moderns

    Book Details:
  • Author : Webb Keane
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2007-01-03
  • ISBN : 0520939212
  • Pages : 339 pages

Download or read book Christian Moderns written by Webb Keane and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-01-03 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across much of the postcolonial world, Christianity has often become inseparable from ideas and practices linking the concept of modernity to that of human emancipation. To explore these links, Webb Keane undertakes a rich ethnographic study of the century-long encounter, from the colonial Dutch East Indies to post-independence Indonesia, among Calvinist missionaries, their converts, and those who resist conversion. Keane's analysis of their struggles over such things as prayers, offerings, and the value of money challenges familiar notions about agency. Through its exploration of language, materiality, and morality, this book illuminates a wide range of debates in social and cultural theory. It demonstrates the crucial place of Christianity in semiotic ideologies of modernity and sheds new light on the importance of religion in colonial and postcolonial histories.

Book Reification

    Book Details:
  • Author : Axel Honneth
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2008-01-28
  • ISBN : 019988644X
  • Pages : 181 pages

Download or read book Reification written by Axel Honneth and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-28 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these original and imaginative essays, delivered as the Tanner Lectures at the University of California, Berkeley in 2005, the distinguished third-generation Frankfurt School philosopher Axel Honneth attempts to rescue the concept of reification by recasting it in terms of the philosophy of recognition he has been developing over the past two decades.

Book The Drums of Affliction

Download or read book The Drums of Affliction written by V. W. Turner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of the Ndembu of Zambia, ritual is examined under two aspects: as a regulator of social relations over time and as a system of symbols. Social life is thereby given direction and meaning. An extended case-study of a series of ritual performances in the life of a single village community is analysed in order to estimate the effects of participation in these symbolic events on its component groups and personalities.

Book Fetishism as Cultural Discourse

Download or read book Fetishism as Cultural Discourse written by Emily S. Apter and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: